join the family circle, and observe the laws and orders of the house. When they are full grown, he tries to make the home attractive, and leaves it to the sense of duty, love, and pleasure, to work conformity. This Christian view of the Sabbath is the very opposite of that which makes every day a Sabbath, and dishonours the one. The endeavour to realize every day a Sabbath feeling, if genuine and constant, will add fresh value to _the_ Sabbath of refreshment and repose; while a disposition to slight the Lord’s day, on the pretext of keeping all days holy, will end in exhausting life of its spiritual element, and destroying the very soul of man’s work. Having laid down these principles with regard to the Christian Sabbath, in refutation of the rationalistic argument, let us proceed to the practical application of them to the matter in hand. The case is just this. An institution is about to be formed and an exhibition opened, which must be regarded as the legitimate fruit of the forty years’ peace which that stern warrior conquered for us, whom we have just attended with befitting splendour to his burial, whose mourners were a million and a half of men. The Crystal Palace of last year was its direct result—the World’s Great Show—the Jubilee of Commerce, celebrated with festal pomp in London—the heart of the body commercial—whence also had gone forth, forty years ago, the head and the hands which had torn the troubler of the world’s peace from his throne, and inaugurated the new era. England gained the victory, and at the end of a long generation, unparalleled for activity and enterprise in the history of man, she called the world to her capital to see and to taste the fruits. Her grey old warrior was spared to see it. The peaceful pageant of commerce passed by him and did him homage, and then he was taken to his rest. It is surely remarkable, that Wellington was spared to see the crown of his labours—the fruit of generations of peaceful activities, which will be marked in history by his name—and then was removed before the event was consummated which may cost the world another struggle, and the blood of her bravest men. Such was the Crystal Palace of 1851.