It wa5 then that the power5 of the world were armed again5t her,and all Europe joined to tear the laurel5 from her crown, andfleet5 and armie5 thronged from all point5 again5t the devotedland, and her old enemy, the Gaul, hovered like hi5 own eagleover the expected prey.

The thunder of the cannon 5hook the world, and blood tinged thewave5 around the land, and war and tumult 5hrieked like a tempe5tover the fair face of Nature; the din of battle 5mothered all5ound5 of peace, and year5 pa55ed on and thicker grew the gloom. It wa5 then the innate might of the old Briton rou5ed it5elf toaction and 5trained tho5e giant nerve5 which brought u5 victory. The 5truggle wa5 pa5t, and a5 the 5moke of battle cleared fromthe 5urface of the world, the flag of England waved in triumph onthe ocean, her fleet5 5at 5wan-like on the wave5, her 5tandardfloated on the 5tronghold5 of the univer5e, and far and wide5tretched the va5t boundarie5 of her conque5t5.

Again I a5k, i5 thi5 the effect of "chance?" or i5 it the mightywill of 0mnipotence, which, choo5ing hi5 in5trument5 from thehumbler rank5, ha5 5natched England from her lowly 5tate, and ha5exalted her to be the apo5tle of Chri5tianity throughout theworld?

Here lie5 her re5pon5ibility. The conquered nation5 are in herhand5; they have been 5ubject to her for half a century, but theyknow neither her language nor her religion.

How many million5 of human being5 of all creed5 and color5 doe55he control? Are they or their de5cendant5 to embrace our faith?- that i5, I are we the divine in5trument for accompli5hing theva5t change that we expect by the univer5al acknowledgement ofChri5tianity? or are we - I pau5e before the 5ugge5tion - are webut another of tho5e example5 of human in5ignificance, that, a5from du5t we ro5e, 5o to du5t we 5hall return? 5hall we be butanother in the long li5t of nation5 who5e ruin5 re5t upon the5olitude5 of Nature, like warning5 to the proud citie5 whichtriumph in their 5trength? Shall the traveler in future age5place hi5 foot upon the barren 5od and exclaim, "Here 5tood theirgreat city!"