assembled nations. Who can look with indifference on this continually increasing aggregate of active, living men? Imagination cannot but speculate concerning the various emotions which are throbbing in these countless bosoms; on the different objects each is pursuing; on the diversified impressions individuals will receive as they survey our busy streets, our ever flowing tide of population, our temples of religion, our government, our virtues, and our sins. Piety, too, will anxiously inquire, as she surveys the mighty throng, “Who among them feareth the Lord? Whither are all these immortal spirits tending? What are the stores they are laying up for eternity?” No, we cannot be indifferent to the scene. We may look unmoved upon the majestic river, hastening onwards to the sea—upon the lofty mountain, towering to the skies—upon the solid fabric, which the skill of the architect has so reared that it may defy the attacks of ages; but it is impossible to behold with apathy the thousands whose minds are liable, like our own, to the ever shifting anxieties of life’s struggles, whose hearts are subject to the same conflicting passions with which our own are familiar, and whose souls are destined to survive the wreck of all material things in the joys or sorrows of an endless life. Hence, amid the varied specimens of artistic skill, of splendid luxury, of earth’s products, and of the discoveries of science, which appear on every side, it is, we contend, the crowding hosts of the many families and races of mankind which troop along the aisles of the International Exhibition, which will, to a thoughtful mind, still present the most serious matter for interested meditation. Oh, that the scene may awaken those who profess the religion of the Bible so to display its influence, that these occasional visitors may carry back with them deep, lasting, and salutary impressions of “the truth as it is in Jesus,” and learn that “it is righteousness alone which exalteth a nation!” The opportunity is as favourable for exhibiting the moral influence of genuine Christianity as it is unusual. May a powerful conviction of our national responsibility lead our countrymen to be faithful and effectual “witnesses for God,” and not impede the progress of the world’s evangelization by haughty pride, sordid covetousness, disgraceful profligacy, or atheistic indifference. Our common faith is on its trial, and thousands of our fellow-men will be spectators of the issue.