Introduceth the Reader to the Art Galleries and many Ex- posants. The Canadian Trophy.-Sheltered by the Rock. -The Friend of all Nations.-Power.-A Sign Painter.- Interpreters Secured.-The Great Biography.-The Earth's Foundation.-Desire of the Church.-Many Regiments but one Army.—The Bible Rightly Placed.—A Labourer's Deposeth concerning the Preaching of the Gospel to a Thou- sand Persons within the Exhibition.-Large Blessings on Feeble Efforts.-Speech by Lord Shaftesbury.-A Clergy- Sabbath in Vienna.—America, England, and the Colonies unite in Reverence of the Lord's Day.-Concessions for Bible and Tract Circulation.—A Vicar's Lady with British INTRODUCTION. R. WEYLLAND is an author so well known by many works illustrative of the social and religious condition of London, that no introduction can be necessary for any book he may give to the public. Nevertheless, at his request I have written a few lines, because I am happy to be associated with him, in some way or other, in all his enterprises of wisdom and humanity. The several Exhibitions he describes, may have appeared to many minds, as General Councils appeared to Old Fuller, "There is none that doeth good, no, not one." The following pages, however, will show that some benefit has been extracted from them; though a benefit that may not, by many, have been forecalculated or foreseen. Such narratives as these are full of instruction, because they prove how zealous and experienced hearts will B discover opportunities and act upon them, amid circumstances externally the most unfavourable. They abound, also, in comfort; for though we learn that the agent does not obtain all that he wishes, we learn that he obtains, in fact, more than he had reason to expect; and if he be allowed to argue from what he sees and hears, to what he does not see nor hear, he may hope that, under God's blessing, there may be also a proportion and degree of unseen good. An instance of good unforeseen, and which, but for the peculiar circumstances, might never have been known, occurred at the first Exhibition in Paris. A gentleman being in the room where Bibles and Testaments were displayed in every language, observed a French sergeant taking up and putting down continually a large French Bible. The sergeant frequently walked away, and then returned to the table. This gentleman was convinced that the sergeant earnestly desired the copy of the Scriptures, but had not wherewithal to purchase it. So he addressed him: "You seem to have a great fancy for that book." "Why, yes, I have." "Would you like to possess it?" "Beyond anything." "Well, then, allow me to make you a present of it." The offer was accepted. The gentleman moved on; but some one who stood by said to the sergeant, "Your friend is the President of the British |