The little top What God will do hereafter. ........ in that world where the fulness of his wisdom will be seen! The father takes out his knife and cuts his little boy a stick, or makes him a top-because he is a child; but is this stick or this top any thing to what he will do for that child when he becomes a man, and needs a house? No. But when he comes to build the house for his son, you will see how he will plan it, and build it, and make it very perfect and very complete. So with God. What he gives us here, are only a few play-things, as it were; but when we come to go to him, in his eternal kingdom, what will he not give us? Oh! if you love and obey his son, what wisdom will you not then see? Eye 66 hath not seen, ear hath not heard, nei What God will do hereafter. ther hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which he hath prepared for those who love him." be there, and see and Amen. May you all enjoy it all. LECTURE VI. GOD KNOWS EVERY THING. "Who instructed him?". ISA. xl. 14. St. Paul's Cathedral - Christopher Wren- Shipbuilding-The telescope Wooden man- How we know-How God knows-The bird-The oak-The eye-First proof—God knows what men will do—Saul the king-Cyrus-No low notions of God-Mahomet -The nations-Second proof-God knows what men will think-Third proof-God will judge the world— The Jews-The murdered man- -No concealmentWhat we call knowledge-Real knowledge- How men think—Instruction 1-God not disappointed-The tower-Great plans-Wicked plans-Who disappointed-Instruction 2—God do no injustice-How we do men injustice-Innocent man hanged-We do God injustice Instruction 3-The good rewarded-Joseph -Job-Martyrs-The father-Mother-Daughter— The bright boy-Instruction 4-We ought to be afraid to sin-Day of judgment-what?-Things brought out-God looks deep in the heart - Conclusion. 21 (241) St. Paul's Cathedral Christopher Wren. DID any of these many children present, ever hear of a building called St. Paul's Cathedral? It is in London, and it is very large, very high, and very beautiful. When people wish to have a view of the whole city, they go up to the top and look down. It is so high, that men look like little insects, as they walk along the streets, and the carriages seem no larger than those in the toy-shops. Did you ever hear who planned and built that wonderful building? His name was Christopher Wren; and his name will be known to children who shall live thousands of years after you and I are dead. How could he rear such a building? Because he had seen a thousand buildings before this, and he Ship-building The telescope. had studied the buildings and the plans which other minds in other ages had formed. When a man would build a great ship, he cannot sit down and form the plan of a ship, and then go and put it together. No. He must go to somebody who has seen many ships, and planned many, and who has made it his study for years. And then we think him to be a great man who can build a ship. You have heard of a long tube through which men look when they want to see the stars plainly,—have you not? Can any one of these little boys tell me the name of it? Who can ? 66 Telescope"- that little girl with a brown bonnet on her head, says.-Very well. When a man first made a tele |