tholic superstition, must be accomplished; the opening the knowledge of Divine Revelation to the wild, uncivilized inhabitants of many various regions of the

of Prophets and Apostles; those of all other countries became dumb, and cast down their crowns as unworthy to stand in their presence. Once she was rich in every blessing, victorious over all her enemies, and resting in peace, with every man sitting under his own vine, and under his own fig-tree, with none to disturb or make him afraid. Jerusalem was the brightest of all the cities of the East, and fortified above all other towns; so strong, that the Roman conqueror thereof, and the master of the whole world besides, exclaimed, on entering the City of David, and looking up at the towers which the Jews had abandoned: Surely we had God for our assistance in this war, for what could human hands or human machines do against these towers?' It is no other than God who has expelled the Jews from their fortifications; their temple was the richest in the whole world; their religion was the purest; and their God was the Lord of Hosts. Never was there a people favored like this people; but they set at nought the counsel of their God, trusted in their wall, and walked in the imagination of their own hearts. Their city was given up to the spoiler; the glory departed from Israel, and the sceptre from Judah; the day of vengeance arrived, and the rebellious sons of Jacob are scattered and peeled, and driven under every wind of heaven, without a nation

globe, to the idolatrous worshippers of the East, to the yet imperfectly-known Africans, to the numerous inhabitants of China, to the islanders of the South and

or a country to call their own: unamalgamated, persecuted, plundered, and reviled, like the ruins of a blighted tower, whose fragments remain to shew the power that smote it, and to call aloud to heaven and earth to repair. What a tremendous lesson for the kings and people of the earth to learn wisdom, and, in the midst of their prosperity, to recognize the hand from which their comforts flow! It is impossible for the Christian traveller to look upon Jerusalem with the same feelings with which he would set himself to contemplate the ruins of Thebes, of Athens, or of Rome, or of any other city which the world ever saw. There is, in all the doings of the Jews, their virtues and their vices, their wisdom and their folly, a height and a depth, a breadth and a length, that angels cannot fathom; their whole history is a history of miracles, the precepts of their sacred books are the most profound, and the best adapted to every situation in which man can be placed; they moderate him in prosperity, sustain him in adversity, guide him in health, console him in sickness, support him at the close of life, travel on with him through death, live with him throughout the endless ages of eternity, and Jerusalem lends her name to the eternal mansions, which man is admitted to enjoy through the Atonement of Christ Jesus, who was born of a descendant of Judah."

other seas.

Are not these stupendous works, and can man prèsume to dive into futurity, and point out the mode of God's operations beyond what the Scriptures

Page 263. "It was delightful to mix with them in their devotions, and to see performed, before your eyes, that ceremonial worship, by the descendants of that very people, to whom it was delivered by the voice of God. I should look at the ceremonies of Pagan temples as a matter of little more than idle curiosity, but the ceremonies of the Jews dip into the heart. This is the most ancient form of worship in existence; this is the manner in which the God of Heaven was worshipped by Abraham and his descendants, when all the other nations in the world were sitting in darkness, or falling down to stocks or stones. To the Jews were committed the oracles of God. This is the manner in which Moses and Elias, Daniel and Solomon, worshipped the God of their fathers. This worship was instituted by God himself, and in Jerusalem, the chosen and appointed city; and on the rock of Sion, God's holy hill, to sing a psalm of David in company with the outcast race of Jadah, winds to ecstasy the heart. The vital history of the Christian faith passes over the memory, and you feel as if you joined your voice with those chosen spirits, who spoke through inspiration, and told the will of God to man. The time will come when the descendants of his ancient people shall join the song of Moses to the song of the Lamb, and, singing Ho

intimate? The certainty of the fact is all that we are concerned with, the mode of effecting it is beyond our utmost powers. Various events, and circumstances

sannah to the Son of David, confess his power to save. I never see the fine venerable aspect of a Jew, but I feel for him as an elder brother. I have an affection for him that far transcends my feelings for a Greek, or for a Roman, who have left the world little more than mere childish rhythms and sprinklings of a groundless morality, compared with that pure and lofty thought that pervades the sacred volume. I have a desire to converse with him, to know the communings of a heart formed by the ancient word of inspiration, unanointed and unannealed by the consummating afflations of Christianity. I would rather pity than persecute him for refusing the Gospel. The thunders of Sinai once rung in his ears; need we wonder that they have sunk deep into his heart? The rock must be struck before the water will gush out. The coal must be warmed before it can be fanned into a flame. The fort must be taken by gradual approaches. Sichæus must be abolished by little and little. They are a hard-working and industrious people; the world has never been oppressed by their poor; the obstinacy with which they cling to their institutions, shews the stuff that is in them. Plundered and expatriated for the long period of eighteen hundred years, they have earned their bread from under the feet of those to whom the writings of their fathers reveal the will of

of modern times, seem clearly to point out, that we are living in the latter days; and some ingenious conjectures and calculations have been made as to the time

heaven, and from which we derive the soundest rules of life, and the gladdening hopes of a future existence. One would say that the son of Judah was a whom every Christian would be anxious to gem, polish and refine; by how much it is more blessed to give than to receive. They have given to all, but, saving the buffettings of tyranny and adversity, what have they received from the world? The elements of Christianity are incorporated in their institutions; when they consider and know them, they will see that the religion of Jesus is but the consummation of their own. Let us treat them like fellow-creatures; we owe them every thing, and they have not more of the original contamination of human nature than we ourselves."

Page 266. "The sight of a poor Jew in Jerusalem has in it something peculiarly affecting. The heart of this wonderful people, in whatever clime they roam, still turns to it as the city of their promised rest: they take pleasure in her ruins, and would lick the very dust for her sake. Jerusalem is the centre, around which the exiled sons of Judah build, in airy dreams, the mansions of their future greatness. In whatever part of the world he may live, the heart's desire of the Jew, when gathered to his fathers, is to be buried in Jerusalem. Thither they return from