the Common Law of England. Would that the realm of England stood forth to demand for the people of GOD their own ancient inalienable heritage! would that we offered ourselves to be the instruments in the hand of the Omnipotent to bring Israel back, spiritually and temporally; and that leading the Crusade--not to seize their land for ourselves, but to make restitution of it to its rightful owners, we obeyed the command, Is. Ix. 9, "Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the SHIPS of [the chief naval power] Tarshish FIRST, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee." And let men sneer as they will, they shall find that the Jew is to be the hero of the great drama of the world, especially when his rabbinical delusions shall as a captivity pass away, at the time (Rev. xvi, 12) of the drying up of the water of "the Euphrates;" for the genius of 'Reform,' in this as in other countries, may be said to have diverted the current, whereby Cyrus wades into the high Babylon of the constitution or old regime : but the difference is, that the Church is in concert with Daniel even there, and is not like the drunken Belshazzar who was slain at his impious orgies, for she is sober and vigilant, and watching unto prayer, fighting with the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, witnessing for CHRIST amid all this turmoil, and improving the latitudinarian riot, which shall only give greater religious freedom, making

Superstition to collapse, and opening the way to the land of promise for all "the Israel of GOD," so that (Zech. xiv. 16,) they shall "go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, unto Jerusalem." Nor should we overlook that this drying up of the Euphrates, is in the above passage made to have the following result, "that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared." These "KINGS" must be some united or incorporated rulers, such as the East India Company, which has the territorial Government of the best part of the Orient; and we may describe their progress as having been from the "ultimos orbis Britannos," "a Gadibus, usque Auroram et Gangem." Who else but a Company of "merchant princes" (Is. xxiii, 8,) can have one common object, on "the way," that is, their line, or the track for them, a Road adapted to their especial benefit, tho' formed perhaps manually by others? so, just as the Euphrates (Herodotus says) was a great stream of traffic, its drying up may denote a new kind of locomotion, such as an iron road, for the CAR-CAR-OTH, or railway trains, mentioned prophetically by name at Is. lxvi, 20, meaning, not "swift beasts," or dromedaries, but carriages which are like a string of camels winding through the desert, each with its "sella" or chair or small palanquin, called the car hagamal, at Gen. xxxi, 34. Such a line has already been begun, through Smyrna. This "way" is one whereby the Kings who arise from (or who got their ascendancy in) the East, may have continual intercourse with the

West; and yet their dominant current flows from West to East, on the map of the world, as exact as an arrow according to the course of the "water" of the Euphrates, from north-west to south-east. The power or wealth of these Kings lies at either extremity of this line; and the "way" is for war, commerce, and the Gospel. This way has already existed; but now it is to be "prepared," or remodelled, for a grand latent object. The route must run beside or through the old Jewish dominions, which extended to "the river." There must be this preparing a way, or arranging a transit, by means of political and physical facilities, towards that Holy Land, for its restoration to freedom; even tho' the "Kings of the East" crumble down themselves in so doing.

Thus are Balaam's words verifying, that "SHIPS shall come," miad, "from the coast," or, more strictly, freed from the hand, " of Chittim," or Italy; and they shall afflict Ashur, at Navarino, and now by asserting Israel's rights, just as Ashur had with all its numerous accomplices so long afflicted Eber or the Jews: "and he," namely, the enemy, Ashur, or Islam, individualized, and singled out for punishment, "shall perish for ever," being broken without hand: while simultaneously the affliction of "Eber" or the Hebrews ceases, and a restoration takes place. How true thus is the appeal in the 18th of Isaiah, to the land "which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia," namely, Britain, lying far beyond or over from Judea, across those Mouths of the Nile which Isaiah (xi, 15) calls

"the seven streams," whose embouchure for all "the rivers" of Cush is at Is. viii, 18, expressly signalized as the END of the rivers of Egypt. The English now pass this very point, on their hitherto usual highway to Egypt and Aden; by the route, which, tho' styled 'overland,' is principally marine. It is likewise written by Zephaniah iii, 10, "from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My suppliants, even the daughter of My dispersed, shall bring Mine offering;" that is, the powerful distant people who come eastward from the above direction, and who in their own western land are My liturgical suppliants or regular worshippers, saith the Saviour, SHALL BRING, as with the sound of the Jubilee trumpet, unto their JEHOVAH, the acceptable offering of regenerated Israel, or "the daughter of my dispersed," the "dispersed of Judah; even (James, i, 1,) "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad." Still further, at Is. lxvi, 20, it is announced that the Jews who become converts among the Gentiles, shall through Gentile instrumentality be the agents to "bring" all the rest of their brethren the Jews "to My holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD." Tho' the distant land is (Deut. xxx, 13,) "over the sea;" its people come thence, purposely, with salvation, and "bring it unto" the Jews. This land, as the first-rate Power on earth, is addressed, not with the cry of Woe," but, as Bochart explains it, Ho to the land! (like "Ho, everyone that thirsteth,") and this land is

may be sure that at last we shall look back adoringly on the unfolded map of all God's purposes, and sing together as our jubilant and eternal song, "Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with His people!"

Nor are these events far off; they are near, even at the doors. While we see before us the house of Israel still extant, existing as a distinctive body, and hitherto prejudiced generally against Christianity; we also trace that here it is, that the most wondrous work of these latter times does begin! "Ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel," Is. xxvii, 12; like as it is written in Jerem. iii, 14, "I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion." And correspondingly keen should be the interest excited; as Archbishop Leighton powerfully says, "they forget a main part of the Church's glory, who pray not daily for the conversion of the Jews." In other times there have often been nominal converts from Judaism: but they were forced to disclaim their real convictions; amid such gross acts of tyranny as when King John of England, in 1210, barbarously extracted the teeth of Jews to make them furnish him with the money which afterwards broke his sordid heart, when his treasures were lost in the Lincoln Washes, some indeed of these Jews endured his cruelty unmoved, altho' they would no longer have been subject to his extortions, if they had turned to that which was considered Christianity in those days. There have been Bishops in the Romish Church in Spain, Jews in disguise, who conformed for