gth; lift it up; be not afraid; say unto the
cities; Behold your God! Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand,
and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him." "When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in
his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked
down from the height of his sanctuary, to hear the groaning of the
prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; to declare the
name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem."

These are great privileges for God to confer on such worms as we are.
Yet God has indeed placed them within reach. And if we will but do our
duty here, we are only ripening for infinitely greater privileges and
higher honours. He that is _faithful over a few things_, shall be made
_ruler over many things_. Yes; when all our cities, and the earth
itself, and these heavens shall be "wrapt in consuming fire," we may,
"with the great multitude found faithful," enter that _City, which hath
foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God_. In _that_ City, "THERE
SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE, BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND THE LAMB SHALL BE IN
IT, AND HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM. AND THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE;
AND THEY NEED NO CANDLE, NEITHER LIGHT OF THE SUN; FOR THE LORD GOD
GIVETH THEM LIGHT: AND THEY SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER."

APPENDIX.

The population of New-York city, in 1820, was 123,706. In 1825, it was
166,086: making an increase, in 5 years, of 42,380. Allowing the same
ratio of increase, there is now a population of 185,000. There are in
the city 101 churches, or houses of public worship: Of which 4 are Roman
Catholic, 1 New-Jerusalem, 2 Unitarian, 2 Universalist, 2 Jews'
Synagogues, 15 Baptist, 13 Methodist, 17 Episcopalian, and 34
Presbyterian churches, including the Scotch and Reformed Dutch. The
remainder are Lutheran, Moravian, Friends, German Reformed, and
Independents. The average number of regular attendants is estimated, by
such as have made it a subject of special examination, not to exceed 400
to each house; which makes the number of those statedly attending public
worship 40,400. After deducting 50,000, for children, for the sick, and
for others necessarily absent, there will still remain NINETY-FOUR
THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED, or _more than