lows that gentle measures are the best policy of the Church, 61; for the Church can only regain its supremacy by minister- ing to the minds of its opponents, 63. Answers to objections, 64- -7. Reply to Mr. Macaulay, 68-71. Great is the inconsistency of men who say that Jewish Legislators will un- christianize the country, 72- -80; their true and real feeling is a culpable dislike of Israel, 76. It is a high duty on our part to seek the spiritual welfare of the Jews, 82; and their hearts cannot but be softened by the kindness which now they experience, 83-6. Moreover, the Jews in Great Britain are very few in number, 86. It matters little if the principle of having Jewish Legislators be carried out to its full extent, 87. For we would only be deceiving ourselves, were we to treat the case as if the country is, or has of late been practi- cally Christian, 88, 90. Still, the Church cannot be deprived of her legitimate station and privileges, 91. Summing up, 93. III. ADVANTAGES OF THE MEASURE ...... Page 95 to the end. The desirable event of Israel's restoration to Palestine, is cer- tain to be promoted by these movements, 94-8. Mean- while, the Jews give the whole British empire, with new em- phasis, a most useful and pointed witness on the grand subject of Atonement, 98 -102. They also supply us with a most prominent and powerful warning, 1024. While these public dealings with the Jews, must draw increased attention to the Scriptures, 104-5. Moreover, Israel's new political privileges follow and as if attest the spiritual efforts which have been already extended towards the Jews, 105—7, They themselves are shown to be more than ever deserving of concessions from us, 107-9. Their many false friends must stir up their true friends, 109-113. A blessing will attend those who sincerely befriend the Jews, 113—116; while a fearful retribution is sure to follow those who would perpetuate their hither to-judicial sufferings, 116-124. Con- INTRODUCTION. THERE are few subjects more deeply interesting, than the records and prospects of the Jewish nation. The position of the Jews is so marvellous-they are such a visible monument of God's interposition; and the Christian faith contains so much reference to their history that the heart must be unnatural, which does not keenly feel for Israel. Indifference would be ingratitude towards that ancient people, "whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, CHRIST came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever"; for it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah! This view seems daily to gain ground and be reciprocated. Thus, for instance, while conversing with an intelligent Jew not long since, on the infallible proofs of Christianity, I was met with the natural remark'Suppose we grant that all is as you say, you must feel much beholden to those Jews, with whom in the very essence of your faith you say you have so much to do; for what would you have been without them? you surely then must cherish the liveliest affection towards Israel?'-and the response of every rightordered mind cannot be otherwise than as if in the accents of "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee! Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house [or Church] of the LORD our GOD, I will seek thy good." Thus the pious Bishop of Chester, in the London Society's Anniversary Sermon, for 1845, says, "Behold this nation, to whom I owe so much; without the hope which, through their means, I am blessed with! Let me hold up to them the Word of Life, if GoD peradventure may have mercy upon them, and disperse the blindness which has happened unto Israel. After eighteen hundred years, we begin to feel these sentiments, and to act upon them." Great and striking is the mission which the Jews have yet to fulfil. They have too freely been instruments in GoD's hands, ever to exhibit less than a strange and eventful destiny. Wondrous in dispersion, wondrous in prosperity, wondrous they have always been! Thus among the many praises that so rapturously ascended from the Red Sea shore, to the sound of the timbrels of Moses and of Miriam, none were chanted with more appropriate fervor than the strains that the God of Israel is surpassingly "glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders." And wheresoever our attention lights upon the illustrious annals of the children of Israel; we must pronounce them to be a miraculous nation: not only as a living and standing Miracle now, but also inasmuch as they originated in prodigies, were preserved amid mighty portents, and are to be at last converted by the crowning miracle of Grace "within" them; so that when the Scripture is fulfilled-" shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children," then especially, in the most thrilling accents of amazement, "according to this time, it SHALL be said, of Jacob and of Israel, What hath GOD wrought!" This wondrous character of all that appertains to Israel, we are necessarily impressed with, whether we behold the calling of faithful Abraham from among idolaters, or the preternatural birth of Isaac, the marvellous manner in which his prerogatives came to Jacob, the stupendous incidents in Egypt, the passage of the nation with their "young and their old " through the baptism of the Sea, the destruction of Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen, the terrific grandeur which invested mount Sinai under the personal presence of the LORD, the pillar of fire and the pillar of the cloud, the construction of the tabernacle, the gift of manna 66 angels' food" for forty years, while their raiment waxed not old upon them, neither did their foot swell in the wilderness: together with their magnificent introduction through the sundered flood of Jordan into their promised land, the lot of their inheritance; followed by unexampled victories, celebrated by writers, in poetry and history, of eloquence unrivalled because divine,-such as those incomparable effusions, the Psalms of David, hymned in the Temple of Solomon, which was itself a Wonder of the World. We may also mark their matchless wealth, their indomitable prowess, and the boundless dignity and comforts with which they were blessed, as long as they served JEHOVAH as He wished; but when they rebelled against GOD their King, they suffered the Seventy years' captivity, according to the precise number of the sabbaths which they had desecrated,—from which banishment, on repentance, they obtained a most signal restoration to their own land. And if we carry on the view of the circumstances of the Jews, down to the times of the Miracles of CHRIST and of His Apostles, succeeded by the total destruction of Jerusalem, because of Israel's national rejection of the Messiah; and the dispersion thenceforward and dissemination of the Jews in all climes, even to these our own days, in direct accomplishment of the brilliant prediction of the prophet Amos, ix, 9, "lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall [so as to be useless] upon the earth;" while we survey all these things, like one astounding pageant, we perceive that the LORD GOD of Israel, Who, in the triple testimony of Hebrew and Greek and Latin on the Cross, was so truly designated "the King of the Jews," has ever, in His dealings towards the race of Israel, been true to that title of the Prince of Peace, whereby He so suitably was announced by Isaiah as " Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God." Words could not give a more graphic description of the present condition of the Jews, than Hosea, |