the Marche of Brandebourg, for the most part sandy,
nourishes, under an administration favourable to the progress of
agricultural industry, on a surface only one-third that of Cuba, a
population nearly double."--_Humboldt, P. N._, vol. vii. p. 156.

[V] Loudon's Arboretum Britannicum, vol. i., p. 412.

[W] For an interesting account of sugar, see Humboldt, Nova Genera et
Species Plantarum, vol. i., p. 243.

[X] Haselquist's Voyage.

THE SECURITY OF GOD'S PEOPLE:

A SERMON,

By the Venerable C. J. Hoare, M.A.,
_Archdeacon and Prebendary of Winchester._

Romans viii. 28.

"And we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God."

Amongst the observations most frequently heard in the world, is that
made on the undeserved prosperity of the wicked, and the many
seemingly uncalled-for trials of the righteous. Experience will indeed
tell us, that neither of these opposite conditions is uninterrupted;
neither is it all sunshine in the most prosperous worldly lot; nor is
it all gloom--far from it--in the Christian's portion on earth.
Experience will also go further, and will abundantly prove the saying
of the wise man, that "the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
Such success has a tendency first to deceive, then to corrupt, and
lastly to betray men into utter destruction. But the text will lead us
still further; it will teach us, that the trials of the righteous
preserve them--yea, work for good; and that "all things," and,
therefore, even the greatest trials, "work together for good to them
that love God."

The text represents them as workmen. They work together for good;
they are constantly at work for that purpose, whether as instruments
in God's hands, or as in a degree self-moving for that end; they are
constructing as it were a building, or they are laying a foundation;
and that which they lay--that which all things befalling a Christian
are ever laying for him--is a ground for his substantial, necessary,
and eternal benefit. "We know that all things work together for good
to them that love God."

This, then, it will be, with God's blessing, my humble endeavour to
show in the following discourse: first, premising the sense of the
word "good," in all just and reasonable acceptation; next, showing
more fully how all things may be thus said to "work for good to them
that love God;" finally, pointing out some of the many things which
will be found by experience to work