SABBATH, April 27, was a good day for the church here. Eighty testimonies in about an hour were borne at our Sabbath forenoon meeting. The principal object before all minds seemed to be the great impending day and the necessary and immediate work of preparation for its eternal issues. It was a most encouraging season. In the afternoon, to a congregation so large as to scarcely be able to find comfortable seats in the house, Bro. Andrews spoke on the text, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” The more than folly of such a bargain was vividly portrayed. It was shown, 1. That a man to gain the world must barter away his soul; but 2. After he has done this, he is not sure of gaining the world. All he seeks after, may elude his grasp, and he obtain no object of his desire, even in this life; but 3. Even if he does gain all the world, he has then got only three things, summed up by the apostle as follows: “The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.” This is absolutely all the world has to give. 4. When this is all gone, for the world and the lust thereof pass away, and the sinner discovers the woful cheat of which he has been the victim, then he finds that he has nothing to give in exchange for his soul; he has nothing with which to buy it back, or secure a title to eternal life. All is lost. The way to save our life also consists, as set forth by the Saviour, of three things. 1. To deny self. 2. To take up our cross. And 3. To follow him. The first step, self-denial, is the carrying out of the great doctrine of temperance, now engaging our attention as a people, in all its bearings in every department of life. To take up our cross is not simply to bear our testimony in meeting though it includes this, but it has reference to our whole Christian life, exhibiting and sustaining in all our relations, the character of the true Christian. To follow the Saviour, is to ever keep him in view, watch carefully for his footsteps, consider how he would act, were he here in our circumstances, and act accordingly, and to place our feet, as near as we can determine, in the very place where he would place his, if he were traveling the same path. Pursuing this course, we maintain a character exactly the opposite of that sustained by the world, as exhibited in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; and pursuing this course to the end, the promise is sure of endless life and eternal glory at the last. None who listened to the discourse, professors or not, could fail to get new impressions of the infinite folly of seeking the world at the fearful price at which alone it can be obtained, and on the other hand, the wisdom of renouncing this evil world, in favor of the life which is to come. Those already in the way, felt quickened to fresh zeal, and new exertions in the heavenly journey; and those who have not yet started, we trust will be induced to make no longer delay.