differ with him on that point. He then goes on to say, "Jaffa is now undergoing a similar change to Jerusalem. A number of coffee and other unsightly shops, outside the gate on the Jerusalem road, are to be removed, and the land sold, with the condition that it shall be built upon; another gate is also to be made. Our Pasha went three days ago to see that these important changes and improvements are properly done. A better landing-place from the sea was nearly completed last week, and it is just possible that ere long a lighthouse may be built near it. Soon there is to be a lighthouse on Mount Carmel, and two or three others, it is said, will soon be placed on the Syrian coast. We have now two lines of English steamers touching monthly at Jaffa, in addition to the usual foreign ones, and the French will henceforth come oftener than formerly. Thus Jerusalem and the Holy Land will necessarily be brought more than ever into notice. Surely these, and many like changes which are taking place around us, have much meaning in them. I must believe they have.”

The Jew is found in every land, engaged in the business of every capital, thriving over the graves of buried nations, absorbed by none, refusing assimilation, maintaining their physical type, their religion, and their hope of the Messiah. "Captured, ravaged, burnt, razed to the foundation, dispeopled, its deported citizens sold into slavery, and forbidden by severest penalties to visit their native seats," their holy city, yet, even in its mournful desolations, stands

forth, a thing by itself, and altogether distinguished from all other ruins. Who now weeps over the fall of Troy? What people pays pilgrimages of devotion to the ruin-piles of mighty Nineveh or Babylon? These great monuments of human pride and glory sleep their last sleep, and no tear falls upon their unhonoured graves. But Jerusalem, even in her ashes, is still dear to the hearts of millions, and the mere mention of that name awakens pangs of mingled grief and hope as deep as those that weighed upon her captive sons when they mourned under the willows by Babel's waters. Beautifully has it been said that 'ever and anon, and from all the winds of heaven, Zion's exiled children come to visit her, and, with eyes weeping sore, bewail her widowhood. No city was ever honoured thus. None else thus receives pilgrimages from the fiftieth generation of its outcast population. None but this, after centuries of such dispersion, could, at the first call, gather beneath its wings the whole of its wide-wandering family. None but this has possessed a spell sufficient to keep its people still distinct, even in remotest regions, and in the face of the mightiest inducements. And none

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but itself can now be repeopled with precisely the same race which left it nearly two thousand years ago."

Isaiah writes, "It shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again, the second time, to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt,

and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the sea, and he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah" (the whole Jewish race) "from the four corners of the earth. . . And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt."

This prophecy is just what is required to account for their existence and insulation amid all the nations of the earth. There is no prophecy in the Bible so plain, so oft-repeated as that of the national return of the Jews to their country and their capital, there "to look on him they have pierced and mourn.”

In the chapter of this work entitled OUR PLACE IN PROPHECY there will be found unanswerable evidence of their restoration. What can be more clear as a prophecy of their restoration than those words in the last chapter of Isaiah: "When ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. For, behold the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. And I will set up a sign among them, and I will send those

that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, they have not heard my fame, neither seen my glory; and they (that escape God's terrific judgment upon Israel's enemies) shall declare my glory among the Gentiles; and they (the Gentiles) shall bring all your brethren (the prophet's brethren, the Jews) for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations ?"

As the Moslem dies, Palestine lives in interest in the hearts of the nations. Probably there will be instalments of their resettlement before the Lord comes. But their national return will be after His advent. "When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory."

St Paul writes-"If the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness ?" "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?" "Blindness in part is happened to Israel till the fulness (of the times of) the Gentiles be come in." To Jerusalem their hearts cling as the needle vibrates to the pole, as infants to their mother, the Jew's affections cleave and cluster around Jerusalem. He still says in his synagogue, with an emphasis that no words can exaggerate, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my right hand forget its cunning." That capital shall be theirs again. When the Eu

phrates shall have dried up-when the crescent shall have waned, as it wanes fast-we shall read some morning of a glorious exodus, far more majestic than that of old; when from all lands, like converging streams, God's ancient people, with their hearts and their hopes in Jerusalem, shall rush together; and every railway and steamer shall make them welcome. Some of us may live to see the Jew again in his own ancient capital, and may hear in Gethsemane, on Calvary, and in the garden of Arimathea, voices rich in music, and richer still because the hearts of the singers are in them, singing, "Hosannah, Hosannah in the highest; lo, this is our God, we have waited for him; blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Or, in the words of one of the most magnificent anthems in a book which contains so much that is magnificent, "Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. Judge. We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood; and number us with thy saints in glory everlasting."

We believe that thou wilt come to be our

The restoration of the Jew is dependant on the retreat of the Moslem from Palestine. He is the neutral housekeeper of Jerusalem, and will so continue till the owner is ready to return. "The kings from the sunrisings" wait for the drying up of the mystic Euphrates, that is, the waning, of the Turkish crescent, an event that draws nearer every day. It is in this relation that students of prophecy feel any concern about the interests of Turkey. The