That our citizenship is in heaven is a precious truth. He who is the God of heaven has made good to us the precious privilege, writing our names on the heart of Him who is the Heir of Heaven. Yet, alas! how little heavenly in practice are we, and how daily do we more and more discover this even one to another. The war in the east has caused many a spot of earthly politics to appear on the surface, in some, who seemed quite freed from the politics of this earth. But where, a year or two since, there was no interest in England's arrangements-(What had we to do with the honor of England? Who were we, to be interested in the wisdom of her measures?) -there, in many cases, a back current has washed from the bottom that which the forward current of pure truth had laid in the bed of the stream. Have we seen such feelings as these? " How is our country humbled before the whole world, in the Crimea! " Have we not heard, where the heart has been torn by the thoughts of brothers and kindred dear dying in the Crimea, " What a shame for us that our Government should have shown its inferiority to the French! " etc., etc. Let saints of God look to it that they be not caught by sorrow, where joy did not succeed against them. Be it that the world is unmasking itself, and that he who is a murderer and a liar from the beginning has shown himself in his own colors, and shown what his service really is, still a heavenly man, and man of heaven (be he Russian, Turk, French, or English), has to look down on it all as Christ looks upon it in its connection with God and His testimony, and not as a mere inhabitant of this or that land. T.