We meet to-day under a sense of profound thanksgiving.  With the rest of the nation we have been praying for a righteous peace; and now we trust that through God’s great, and abounding, mercy, such a peace has been secured.  In all probability very few persons are altogether satisfied.  There are very few who would not wish to have some of the conditions changed.  But in the midst of so many conflicting interests it was not to be expected that any one nation should have its own way in every point; so that we have to be most heartily thankful to God that the Congress has dispersed without a conflict; that England is not involved in war; and that Europe is free to devote its energies to the extension of commerce, and the promotion of goodwill amongst mankind.  May God bless the peace that has been established, and enable his people in a thankful spirit to avail themselves of it for the circulation of his Word, the spread of his Gospel, the promotion of his kingdom, and the glory of his name!

But thanksgiving is not the only duty of the day, for the two treaties now concluded involve consequences of such p. 4great importance that they ought to awaken in all our minds the deepest interest, and the most earnest expectation.  To the student of the Prophetic Scriptures they assume an importance altogether unequalled by any event in modern history; I might almost say; b............