of the Psalmist's prayer: " Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Thy name give glory." But if, as doubtless is the case, it were unreasonable to look for such like sentiments on such an occasion, consider us in our cooler moments, and you will find that as a nation; alas! we do forget, unhappily we do forget. Such all-absorbing interests have our farms and merchandise become, that they serve to-day among our critics as a byword and reproach. More lavishly than ever before the beeves and fatlings have been killed and the Lord's banquet more sumptuously prepared, but take a census of our people and see how many respond to His repeated invitations. Where much is given, much will be exacted. At Abraham's prayer and for the sake of ten just men God would have spared the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha. Are we quite sure the Lord will never find in us proportionate iniquity? Moral degeneracy is sure to follow on our refusal to listen to God's messengers. What a commentary it is on our decaying Christianity that even a civil governor feels called upon to raise his voice in solemn protest! And even such Christianity as we have is in great part so diluted with worldliness and unbelief that on analysis we find the residue but little better than rankest Paganism. Witness the hundreds and thousands of sectarian churches utterly deserted, or, if used at all, frequented for their social rather than their religious attractions. Read the sermons preached therein and learn how very odious Christ's Gospel has become, how popular the gospel of the world and even of
