And now, my believing and prayer-using brethren—so I would style you _all_—it is high time for me to challenge your hearty attention to the joyous and indisputable fact, that your reward for having prayed for your rulers is at hand. Your petition on their behalf has been heard on high, if petition on any national account be ever hearkened to above, or if what we see before us is not the merest coincidence of blindest chance. Open wide your eyes, and read for yourselves the heaven-sent answer to your prayer. Your Sovereign’s will, your senators’ wisdom, have both alike worked marvellously well for you and yours. All their consultations, resolutions, and decrees, in the matter of the suppression of the Indian mutiny, have, up to the present moment, been accompanied by that triple result which you have so often prayed for—“the advancement of God’s glory, the good of his Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions.” Let me somewhat enlarge. God’s _glory_, we do not hesitate to affirm, has been more or less advanced by the conduct and policy of England in and during the warfare which has been recently accomplished in the East. All that we have done in it worthy of praise or remembrance, we have done, so we believe and confess, through Him, through his strength, through his teaching, through his Gospel, through the very circumstances under which He has placed us, and through the very constitutional dispositions which He has given us. All, therefore, that has been done in it worthy of praise or remembrance, do we feel bound to ascribe, purely and simply, to God, as its author and finisher, entering as we did upon every work, every encounter, with these words of humility upon our lips:—“Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name, give glory, for Thy mercy and for Thy truth’s sake;” and checking the thought of pride and self-sufficiency which from time to time rose up within on occasion of our having done well, with the apostolic inquiry and reproof—“Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?”