gather them out of Assyria, and I will bring them again into the land of Gilead and Lebanon."1 "In that day will I make the Governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood. . . . . And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first. . . . . In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin, and for uncleanness. . . .. And men shall dwell in it (Jerusalem), and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and

in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts." 2 What language can be plainer? Where can room be found for a mere spiritual interpretation ?

From MALACHI, the last of the prophets, we take our final passage-written one hundred years after the return from Babylon: "I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes..... All nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Hosts.” 3 As to the NEW TESTAMENT witness we need not speak at length. Few passages therein have reference to Israel's restoration; still quite enough is said to show

2 Zech. xii. 6, 7; xiii., xiv.

1 Zech. x. 6, 7.

3 Mal. iii. 11, 12.

that the abundant testimony of the prophets must be recognised.

OUR LORD declares, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled;" which clearly implies that Jerusalem shall be, after that, no longer trodden down. Concerning CHRIST it is declared, "The Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end."2 But how is this to be, except a restoration of Israel shall take place? Again, the first sermon preached by an Apostle testifies that David, "being a prophet," knew "that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne."3 And in the second apostolic sermon we read thus, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you; whom the heavens must receive until the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." Then there shall be a "time of refreshing" and "RESTITUTION OF

ALL THINGS " when the Lord Jesus Christ shall come from heaven; and, having come, shall sit upon the throne of David. Thus did the Apostle PETER testify. PAUL also, in no less than three chapters1 of his Epistle to the Romans, dwells upon the Lord's dealings with Israel and the Gentiles, and shows clearly that the many prophecies which went before upon this point have not received accomplishment. "Hath God cast away His people?" he asks. "God forbid " is the reply. . . .. "I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,... that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is My covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.”2

We find evidence enough, then, both in the Old Testament and the New, to prove clearly THAT A DAY OF RESTORATION IS IN STORE FOR ISRAEL; THAT HER TRIBES WILL BE GATHERED AND BROUGHT TO THEIR

OWN LAND, and there be placed in a position of greater blessedness than they have ever yet enjoyed.

Let us now inquire further respecting Israel, seeing they have been so long time scattered over all the earth, WHAT THEIR POSITION IS AT PRESENT; whether there

1 Rom. ix., x., xi. 2 See slso Gal. iii.; Heb xii. ; and Rev. vii.

are any signs of their return to Palestine; and generally how the Lord is dealing with them.

As of old time, so we see them still-without a country, without a city, without a temple, without a king, dispersed among the nations, yet distinct from all. In Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, the Jew is to be found; a marked man; important, yet despised; honourable, yet a by-word and reproach. The Israelitish people dwell alone though they are everywhere. They are not reckoned among the nations. "The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!" In some respects, however, a great change has come over the whole Jewish people. There are signs of life, of nobility, of an effort on behalf of their nationality, which for the past eighteen hundred years has not existed. Though still distinct as ever from the rest of men—the Lord is leading them from their degraded state to fill the highest posts of public confidence. "The number of civic functionaries in FRANCE belonging to the Jewish communion is immensely larger than the proportionate Israelitish population. M. Achille Fould, at Paris, is but the head of a cohort of Jewish notabilities, financiers, and employés,

1 Num. xxiii. 9.

2 Lam. iv. 2.

1 N.B.—Extract from the Prophetical Journal of October, 1862.

who are quite as numerous in the departments as in the capital. At Lyons, Marseilles, and other towns of the South, a large number of the higher government officials are Jews; and at Epinal, the chief city of the department of the Vosges, there is the curious spectacle of the four most eminent civic functionaries-the paymaster, the military superintendent, the president of the court of justice, and the keeper-general of forests, being Jews, one and all. Scarcely a century ago, the Jews were hunted like mad dogs in the dominion of the Kaiser, at the mercy of every monk or police officer, and without the slightest security for life and property. Now, in this year, 1862, two eloquent Jews are the leaders of the great liberal party of the Austrian Reichsrath, and Emperor and Imperial Ministers tremble before the names of Giskra and Kuranda. More marked than even in Austria is the rise of the Jews in PRUSSIA. In the present political agitation, Hebrew leaders play the most conspicuous part, and their participation in the recent elections was so pronounced that the Kreux Zeitung for weeks did scarcely anything else but abuse the so-styled Jew democrats. According to this paper, nearly onefourth the number of Wäller chosen by the people of Prussia to elect the deputies was composed of Jews-a number about twenty times as large as is warranted by the population of the kingdom. At Berlin and other