Our Christian profession requires us to let our "light shine before men," that they seeing our good works, may glorify our heavenly Father. The beauty, honour, and power of our holy religion are seen here. When Christians appear as "Living Epistles," to be seen and read of all men, their character is developed—their piety shines forth in attractive lustre—and the light is diffused, and increases. The Church then becomes the blessed instrument of its own enlargement. Its ministers are the "glory of Christ," each aiming to have as his motto—"a burning and a shining light," and its members testifying for truths that concern the dignity and honour of its exalted Head, appear "in the beauty of holiness, like dew from the womb of the morning."

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