nant would still survive. This was particularly true in regard to the fearful judgments which Moses denounced on the nation if they should be disobedient, and which have been so strikingly fulfilled (Deut. xxviii.). As the result of those judgments, Moses does not say that Jehovah would annihilate the nation, or extinguish their name, but that they should be left few in number' (Deut. xxviii. 62); and that Jehovah would scatter them among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other (Deut. xxviii. 64); and that among those nations they should find no ease, neither should the sole of their foot have rest, verse 65. In like manner it was predicted that they should be scattered everywhere. 'I will scatter them also among the heathen -whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, in all places whether I will drive them,' etc. (Jer. xxiv. 9, 10; xv. 7). "I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds'

(Ezek. v. 10). 'I will also scatter them among the nations, among the heathen, and disperse them in the countries' (Ezek. xii. 15). 'I will sift the house of Israel among the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. They shall be wanderers among the nations' (Amos ix. 9). I will make a full end of the nations whether I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in a measure; yet will I not utterly cut thee off, or leave thee wholly unpunished' (Jer. xlvi. 27, 28). From

all these, and from numerous other passages in the Old Testament, it is evident that it was designed that the Jewish nation should never be wholly destroyed; that they should be scattered among the nations, but should still be a distinct people; that while other nations should be utterly wasted and ruined, and should wholly cease to exist, yet that a remnant of the Jewish people, with the national peculiarities and customs, should still survive. How entirely this has been fulfilled, the remarkable history of the Jewish people everywhere testifies. Their present condition on the earth as a people scattered in all nations, yet surviving; without a king and a temple, yet preserving their national prejudices and peculiarities—is a most striking fulfilment of the prophecy. See Bishop Newton on the Prophecies, and Keith's Evidence of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, pp. 64-82.

They are now, and will continue to be, scattered in all nations. They have been driven to all parts of the earth-wanderers without a home—yet continuing their customs, rites, and peculiar opinions; and continuing to live, notwithstanding all the efforts of the nations to crush and destroy them. 2. They speak nearly all the languages of the world. They are acquainted with all the customs, prejudices, and opinions of the nations of the earth. They are familiar with all that impedes the extension of the one true God. They would, therefore, be under no necessity of engaging in the laborious work of learning languages-which now occupies so much of the time, and consumes so much of the strength of the modern missionary. The law of God is thus in all

nations. It is in every synagogue; and it has been well said, that the law in all their synagogues is like extinguished candles, and that all that is needful to illuminate all the world, is to light those candles. Let the Jew everywhere be brought to see the true meaning of his law, and his customs; let the light of evangelical truth shine into his synagogue, and the world would be at once illuminated. The truth would go with the rapidity of the beams of the sun from place to place until the whole earth would be enlightened with the knowledge of the Redeemer. 3. The Jews, when converted, make the best missionaries. There is a freshness and fulness in their views of the Messiah when they are converted which Gentile converts seldom feel. The apostles were all Jews; and the zeal of Paul shows what converted Jews will do when they become engaged in making known the true Messiah. If it has been a characteristic of their nation that they would ‘compass sea and land to make one proselyte,' what will their more than three millions accomplish when they become converted to the true faith of the Redeemer? We have every reason, therefore, to expect that God intends to make great use yet of the Jews whom he has preserved scattered everywherethough they be but a remnant'-in converting the world to his Son. And we should most fervently pray, that they may be converted; and that they may be imbued with the spirit of the apostles; be filled with love to their long-rejected Messiah; and that they may everywhere become the missionaries of the cross."-Barnes.

THE SONG OF THE REDEEMED.

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ISAIAH XII.

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THIS song succeeds a prediction full of glory and beauty, contained in the 11th chapter; where we are told that "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them." It is also predicted, They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. This chapter begins, “In that day," that day the characteristics of which I have now read, "thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee." In other words, this chapter is a hymn sung by the people of God when the whole earth is filled with his glory,-when the Redeemer returns to Zion; when they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, saying, Know the Lord; but all shall know him, from the least to the greatest. There is, therefore, no doubt that these very words shall be the burden of the songs of the redeemed, or white-robed group, who have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, and stand before the throne with palms in their hands, the symbols of victory, and shall praise him who has redeemed them with his precious blood, and made them kings

and priests unto God. Among the things they shall say in that day will be this: "O Lord, I will praise"-not saint, not angel, not myself, not any human being, but "I will praise thee;" thou only art the fountain of my salvation; unto thee only and exclusively will I give the praise, the honour, and the glory. Then will the believer say, "Thou wast angry with me." God must often be angry, even with his best-beloved; and before they were his he was deeply angry with them; but they have found him a Father and in Christ the Saviour; therefore his anger is turned away; and not only does he love them, not only does he forgive them, but "thou comfortest me;" thou art my comforter. Then upon the strength of this discovery the believer exclaims, "Behold,"-not faith, not good works, however excellent, fragrant, or numerous, but—"God is my salvation;" the author of it, the substance of it, the glory of it, the all and in all of it; and therefore"I will trust, and not be afraid;" I will believe his word; I will take him at his word; I will assume that he means what he says; for the great difficulty, I believe, in the case of thousands is that they do not think God means what he says; that they ought to deduct so much per cent. from his promise; that it is too good to be true. You are mistaken; there is nothing to be deducted: the most expressive words, laden with the most precious blessings, come short of what God means. Language fails to convey the love and the goodness, the mercy and the blessings, of Him who has loved us with an everlasting love, and delights to do us good, not to do us harm. "I will trust, and not be