Solemnity of the Juncture

Here it will be proper to pause, to look backwards and forwards, and to ascertain your position. There is no more serious moment in your life. You are about to pass a line of demarcation. This step once taken, and you are separated for ever from your former associations. It is irrevocable; for surely you shrink from the thought of its being possible that you should ever withdraw your hand from Jesus Christ. This would be treason and apostasy. Can any words express too strongly the momentous nature ot the proposed engagement! Then this should be a time of tenderness, reflection, and prayer. You will need no prompting to make you shun the conduct of those young professors, who, having been approved by the Church, throw off all burdens of care and go to the Lord’s table, full of worldly thoujrlits and words. It is no light thing, for the first time to take into your hands and lips the emblems of that atoning death, on which your faith rests for salvation.