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PASTOR RUSSELL'S DISCOURSEA T T H E

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

S U N D A Y , J U N E 5

-TOGETHER WITH-

"THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL"Chapter V I I I , Series I11

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"STUDIESN T H E SCRIPTURES"ENTITLED

"TI-IY KINGDOM COME"

1910

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

13-17 Hicks St., Brooklyn, N.Y.Publishen



P A S T O R RUSSELL i s wide ly known a s a Chr i s t ianminister amongst rel igious people of al l denomina-

t ions. S tan d ing f ree f ro m a ll denominat ional res t ra in t sin the l iber ty wherewi th Chr i s t would have a l l o f h i s

people free, he reco gniz es responsibi l ity to God alone.Because o f these fac t s h is s e rmo ns a r e being read wi thinterest and profi t by Chris t ian people of al l shades ofbelief an d unbelief. T h e resul t seems to be a d r a w i n e

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tog eth er of people who reverenc e God a nd who des i re tokno w h is will an d h is P lan . Chr i s t ians , Jew s an d Gent iles

in a ll par t s of the wor ld a r e coming to unders tand th e

Bib le be t te r , to sympath ize wi th each o ther more , and tohave g re a te r r eve rence fo r God an d g rea te r f a i th in theult imate glorious outcome of his gracious purposes-ou t lined in the O ld Tes tamen t , a s we ll a s in the Ne wT es t am en t . T h es e a r e r ece iv in g n o u ri sh m en t fo r h ea r tand head th rough the g rea t newspapers o f Chr i s tendom,m ore th an 600 of which publ ish the sermo ns weekly .

P as to r Russe ll m akes n o compromises , but , on the con-t ra ry , dec lares tha t compromise i s unnecessary , so sa t i s -fac to ry i s the D iv ine Pro g r am to a ll who come to apr op er un de rst an di ng of it-Jew, Ge ntile ancl C hr isti an .This l i t t le booklet was gotten out in response to requestsf rom Hebrews who had become in te res t cd in Pas to r

Russell 's d iscourse o n "Jerusalem," an d w h at h e thereinstated respecting the prophecies soon to be fulf i l led inbless ings upon Israel . W e herc g ive a brief sum m aryof the discourse, togethcr with a chapter from one ofP a st o r R ussell 's books, e nt i t led "T he Restoration ofIsrael." I n an oth er of h is volumes the world' s chron-o logy f rom the s tandpoin t o f the Hebrew Bi lde i s se t

fo r th wi th c lcarncss and s impl ic i ty ; a l so var ious p roph-ec ies wh ich re l a t e l a rge ly to I s rae l and i~~c idcn ta l lylsot o C h r i s t ian s w h o a r e s p ir it ua l Israelites. All of his booksa r e sold a t abso lu te cost by the Bib le a nd T r a c t Society,which publishes t hem; no r does Pas to r Russe l l r ece iveone penny of royal ty . Fu r th er in format ion may beobtained by addressing the I N T E R N A T I O N A LIBLE STU-

DENTS ASSOCIATION, 3-17 H ick s St., Brooklyn, N. Y.



JERUSALEMPastor R ussell's D iscourse. June 5th.

1910. at Brook lyn Academy of Music

OMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your

"C G od . Speak ye comfortably to I e r m d e m , and

cry unto her, that her appointed time is accomplished,that her iniquity is pardoned: for shc hatlz received from

the Lord's hand d o l~ ble or all her sins."-Isa. 40:1, 2 .

Pastor Russe l l of the Brooklyn Tabernac le , on h isre tu rn f ro m Pa les t ine , preached in Brooklyn Acad emy ofMusic , because i t was r ight ly es t imated tha t the numbers

des i rous of hear ing h is d iscourse on Je rusa lem would betoo l a rge fo r the Tabe rnac lc . A s it was , the Academy

wa s c rowded . T h r e e hundre d o r m o r e we r e s e at ed o nth e s tage behind the speaker. E v er y sea t in th e va s t

A ud itoriu m w as fillcd. A s m an y as the fire police would

pe rmi t s tood nea r the doors . I t is e s t ima ted th a t abou ttwo thousand were tu rned away , unab le to ga in admi t -tance , and tha t about four hnnt l red s tood in the Foyer

for an hour ar id a half , va inly ant ic ipat ing that some of

th e audience worild leave t he bui ld ing an d tha t they m igh t

take their sea ts .A synopsis of the discou rse w as published by th e lead-

in g journal s of the U ni tcd S ta tc s. T h e Jewish jo urna l s

of the City also published reports . I t is estimated, there -fore, that a t least f if teen mill ion families in the United

S ta te s and Canada came in con tac t wi th the d i scour se .

I t is no wonder , then , tha t hundreds of le t te r s were

rece ived by the Bible an d T ra c t Soc ie ty of Brooklyn,

N ew York , inqu i ring fo r fu r th e r r ead in g ma t te r. S irn -i la r ly , when Pas tor Russe l l was in London a month ago,

m or e th an five thousand applica tions fo r fur th er reading



m at te r w ere received wi th in tw o weeks by t he B ib le an dT ra c t Soc ie ty there . Evident ly th e people , nom inal Chr is -

t i a ns a nd J e ws , a r e a wa ke n ing to t he f a c t t ha t t here i sa poss ible interpreta t ion to the Bible which brings har-mon y an d beauty f rom i t s pages qui te in conf lic t w i th th ete r r ib le doc t r ines rec i ted in our c reeds formula ted in theD ar k Ages. An d th is is, and ought to be, a g rou nd fo rthanksgiv ing to God and for c loser fe l lowship on the par to f a l l who love r igh teousness and t ru th and who a relooking to th e Alm ighty God f or dem ons t ra t ion of thefa c t t ha t a s t he he a ve ns a re h ighe r t ha n the e a r th , s oa r e h i s w a ys h ighe r t ha n , ma n ' s ways. ( I s a . 55 :8, 9.)Suc h a r e coming to rea li ze more a nd m ore tha t God andhis Word have been misunders tood, but tha t now is thedu e time for the opening of the eyes of ou r un ders tandingand for a gre a te r apprec ia t ion of th e length an d breadthand height and depth of the love of God which passethall understanding.-Eph. 3 :18,19.

M ore tha n th i r t y ye a r s a go I abandoned the teachingsof a l l the C hris t ian cre eds respect ing Jews, Moham me-da n s a nd he a the n . I cotild no lo n g e r helieve t ha t thegreat Jehovah. our Creator, haci dcstineci al l these thou-s an d s of m illions t o a n e t e r ~ ~ i t yf tor ture because theyhad never accepted of Jesus as their Redeemer, theS av io r of the wor ld . 011 t l ie contrary, my synlpathy wento u t an d s ti ll gocs ou t t o I~ut i iani ty in gene ral , blinded

by ignorance and supers t i t ion and the Adversary andconfused by th e ja r r in g c rccds. I bel ieve that Divinesymp athy for a ll of these i s s ti ll gr ea te r than y ou rs an dmine. I found tha t o the rs sha red the san lc genera l s en t i -ments, but abandoned faith in the Bible as a Divine rnes-sage. By Go d's gr ac e I was not swept off in the currentof unbelief, which more and more i s ove rwhe lming the

in te llec tua l por tion of ou r race . O n th e cont ra ry , I heldfa s t to the s ta tenlent of tllc S cr ip ture s tha t "T her e i snone o the r nan ie g iven under heaven o r amongs t men



Iewish Hopes 1:whereby we must be saved" than the name of Jesus. Butdeeper study of God's Word revealed the fact that forfifteen centuries Christendom has been misunderstanding

the Scriptures in supposing that the present call of theChurch, spiritual Israel, marks the culmination of theDivine Plan. On the contrary, we find the Scripturesdistinctly to teach that God has two salvations-both tobe accomplishcd through Jesus-through faith in the onlyname given. One of these salvations is to a heavenly *

nature in joint-heirship with Jesus on the spiritual plane:"Partakers of the divine nature"; "Far above angels,principalities and powers and every name that is named."The other salvation is to be a human salvation-to earthlyperfection by purposes of restitution, upliftii~g, nlighten-ment, etc. The perfection of the human salvation will beto bring mankind back to the image and likeness of God,

in which the race was primarily created in Father Adam.Sin and its death penalty have gradually effaced frommankind much of the original godlikeness, bringing toman instead brutality, weakness, decay, death. I t will be

the work of the great Messiah to bless the redeemedworld by the uplifting influences of the glorious Kingdom

of God so long promised, for which we have so longprayed-"Thy Kingdom cotne; thy will be done on earthas it is done in heaven."

When we read in the Bible of the Divine favor be-

stowed upon Israel for centuries as God's chosen people.we are to realize that Jehovah has a right to bestow hisblessings and favors as he wills. When God, therefore, de-clares that it is his design that in all his dealings with ourrace the blessings shall come to the Jew first, it is notfor us to rebel, nor to refuse Divine favors throughwhatever channels they may come. Nor does this rec-

ognition of Israel's primacy in the Divine Plan neces-sarily signify a superiority in that race: For does notGod expressly term them a stiff-necked race, a disobedient



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p eo ple ? A n d d o e s h e n o t d e c la re i n s o ma n y w o r d s t h a this use of Isr ae l h a s been and will be gradu al ly with av iew t o sh ow ing fo r th h is ow n g lory and the power o f

h i s g race to t ake o f the mea n th ings o f the wor ld and , bythe t ransforming power of h is Tru th , to use them inthei r own b less ing and in the b less ing and upl i f t ing ofo the r s ?

Such was God ' s p romise to Abraham. I saac , Jacob andthe nat ion of Is rae l . I t i s a comnion mis take am ongst

Chris t ian people to suppose that those promises havebeen revoked by th e Alrnigkty God. I t is an ot he r mis-take to supposr tha t Chr i s t i ans have inher i t ed thosepromises . Q ui te to the co ntra ry , the promises made toA br ah am an d h is na tu ra l seed w ere ea r th ly promises. Nota heaven ly p romise o r sugges tion i s made in the L aw and

th e prophecies , f ro m Genes is to Malachi. Take , for in-

s tance . the p romise to Ab raha m , "Li f t up now th ine eyesand look to t he Nor th and the Sou th and the E as t and theW est . F o r a ll the land that thou sees t will I g ive to theea n d thy seed a ft e r thee." Isr ae l ha s no t ye t received thisg re a t blessing, no r h as i t entere d upon the work out l inedfor i t in the Scriptures , namely, that through God's Cov-enant with Israel a l l the Genti les shal l receive the bless-

in gs of Divine favor an d eve rlas t ing l ife. All thosep r omi se s a r e a s t r u e a n d a s s u r e to da y a s w h e n t h e y w e r eg iven . A s S t . Pau l declares , T h e g i f t s and cal ling o fGod are things he never repents of .-Rom. 1 1 :29.

How . then, shall we untlerstand Israel 's present condi-tion ant1 the f av or of God th at has reache d u s G ent i les?

I n th is way: God I iad a secret p lan respect ing the spir-i tua l Is rae l , wh ich h e d id no t tlisclose to A bra ha m o r tothe prophets of the pas t. W he n Is rae l perceived tha tthei r Law Covenant d id not br ing them ever las t ing l i fca n d th at i ts mediator . M oses, w as not ful ly capable ofcancel l i t lg their s ins , but that these needed to be atonedfor every year on the t en th day o f the seven th month ,

then G?tl gav e them a n exp lana tion . Hi s message tothem th rough Je remiah the p rophe t (31 : 31) was, "Be-hold the days come, sa i th the Lord , tha t I will make a



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New Covenant with the house of Israel , and with thehouse of Judah; not according to the Covenant that I

made with their fathers, in the day that I took them bythe hand, to br ing them ou t of the land of Eg yp t . . .but I will make a New Covenant with them and will takeaway the stony heart out of their flesh and give them ah ea rt of flesh," etc. A lready David th e prophet hadforetold th at a gre ater K in g than himself would exal tIsrael to a place of prominence in the world and that

Messiah's Kingdom exercised throu gh Isr ae l wou ld beth e Divine blessing t o all nations. Th enc eforth the hopeof Israel turned not from the Law Covenant but from i tsMediator, Moses, to the greater Mediator, Messiah.Thenceforth the hope of Israel has been that Messiah isthe Son of David and the gr ea t K ing would d o e f o r themwhat their great Lawgiver, Moses, had been unable todo-would br in g them to th a t harm on y w ith God tha twould give them eternal l ife and then would use them asDivine channels of mercy and instruct ion towards theworld of mankind.

That hope was a sound one, and is still a sound one.That very hope will be realized, for the mouth of the

Lord hath spoken it .THE H I D D E N M Y S T E R Y .

When now we point out the fact that Israel ' s greatMessiah, the antitype of Moses, is indeed a great King ofGlory who is about to take the rulership of the world

and about to receive Israel back again into Divine favorand about to establ ish a Kingdom through Israel whichwill last for a thousand years and effectually bless allth e fam ilies of the earth-the living an d th e dead-wea re but sta tin g Israel 's g re at hope. But, like all of God'sdoings, this hope is greater and grander than either Jewo r Gentile o r Ch ristian ever imagined. W e may see the

m atter now in its tr u e beauty, because the "due time" fo rthe unc?vering of th e M ys tery to all is a t hand.



CHRISTIANS AND JEWS MISUNDERSTOOD

Let i t be remembered that the great Messiah hoped forby Israel is to be a vast ly greater King than David orSolomon, because it is written in the Psalms, "Jehovahsaid unto my Lo rd, Si t thou a t m y right hand until I makethin e enemies th y footstool." (P sa lm s 110: I.) Does notthis imply tha t the M essiah a t Jehovah's rig ht hand willbe much gre ate r than David, Israel's gr ea t K in g ? AS-

suredly so!

Similarly as a priest he will occupy a higherposition than did A aron, fo r again it is prophesied, "Godhath sworn an oath and wil l not repent , Thou art a priestof the Age a ft e r the ord er of MelchisedecJ'-a high priest,a kingly priest , to whom Abraham bowed down and gavetithes and from whom Abraham received a blessing. Andyet Melchisedec was only a foreshadowing type of that

great Messiah who shall be Israel 's King and Priest .L et us remember again that gre at as Moses w as a s a

man of God, he was merely a man and not a Messiah-h e was merely a type o r illustration of the M essiah, evenas the Law Covenant which he insti tuted merely fore-shadowed the New [Law ] Cov enant to be introduced by th eg re at er M ediator, "after those days." M oses foretold th at

he w as merely a type o r foreshadow of the an titypicalMoses, saying to the Israelites, "A prophet shall the Lordyour God raise up unto you from amongst your brethrenlike un to me [a type o r likeness on a small scale]. H imshall ye hea r in all things. And th e soul th at w ill not beobedient to that Prophet [Teacher] shall be destroyedfrom am on gst the people." Israel's gr ea t Messiah, theKing of Glory on the spiritual plane, the express imageof Jehovah's person, is about to take the Throne of earthan d about to establish the Kingdom of Israel. He is th eantitypical Moses, David's Son and Lord, and the anti-typical Melchisedec and Priest upon his throne.

The hidden Mystery is that this great Prophet , Pr ies t

a nd K i ng i s not a man, but a Son of God on the spiri tplane; and further, this great Messiah is composed of

many "members," of which he i s the "Head." A nd these



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members were f irst gathered from the Jews and subse-quen tly all nations. I n the symbology of the Bible Mes-

siah is Jehovah's Son, and appointed to establish the Di-vine Kingdom in the ear th and to over throw sin andS at an and death. A nd his elect mem bers ar e symbol-ically styled h is Bride. T h is work of selecting the B rideof Messiah has been quietly done and neither Jews norChristians nor heathen understand this feature of the Di-vine Plan, although it was all written in the holy Scrip-

tures. T o all of us i t was a hidden Mystery until God's"due time" fo r opening the eyes of ou r understanding.Now, a s fas t a s we come into harmony of heart withGod, into full submission to him, we are granted a knowl-edge of this Mystery, the opening of the eyes of our un-derstanding. T his work of electing o r selecting the Brideof Christ is nearly completed. T he se cons titute the spir-

itual Seed of Abraham . of w hom it is written, "In thySeed shall all the families of the ea rth be blessed. T hyseed shall be a s the sta rs of heaven an d a s the sand of thesea." T h e spiritual Seed is represented in the sta rs ofheaven; the earthly seed is repxesented in the sand ofthe seashore. God's promises a re su re to both seeds.-

Heb.I I :12.

ISRAEL'S NEW COVENANT NEAR

Imm ediately th at the spiritual Se ed of A braham shallhave been completed, God's New Covenant wilt forth-with go into effect towards Abraham's natural seed,

Israel . T h e favo r of G od w as to the Jew first in ancienttimes, when that nation alone for centuries was recog-nized a s God's people. T h e favo r of God came to theJew first in respect to the spiritual Seed, the first mem-bers of which were selected from Israel after the flesh.T he fav or of God is t o come to the Jew first in th e timesof restitution of all things, which will begin promptly

when Messiah shall be revealed in power and greatglory.I feel great sympathy for the Jews in their unbelief



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in Jesus. W i t h thei r m inds filled w ith thou ghts of th eg lo ry o f the g rea t Mess iah who would conquer the wor lda n d es tab l i s l i the Div ine s tandard in a l l the ea r th andw ould upl if t a l l the people , us ing Is rae l a s h is agen cy orchan nel , ho w un rea so na l~ le t seen ied tha t Jesus of Gali lee,

s u r r o u n d e d by h i s fish erm en a po stle s, s h o ~ ~ l de tha t

&fessial i. T h e y saw not t l ia t th e prophesies t r l l both ofth e su ffe rin gs an d of the glory of Messiah-that hc nlust

redeen i his people before h e w ould de1iv'c.r them fro m the

power of s i r1 and death ; t l ia t to th is end he must be thePas so v e r L am b s l a in f o r th ei r d e l iv e r a n ce ; t h a t h e m u st

be the atonement sacr if ice, the ant i type of their bul lock

of s in-of fer ing ; an d tha t he m ust make sa t is fact ion fors ins for I s rae l and the whole wor ld before the P lan ofGod could go forward and the blessed t ime begin.

Not on ly mus t Mess iah su f fe r as be ing the an t i typ ica l

serpent reared upon the pole and the bet ter sacr if ice thanthose of the L a w of th e Mosaic svs tem. bu t addit ional lv

those to be associated with hinl must l ikewise. as ant i-typ ica l p r ies ts and Levi tes . share wi th h im in the suf -fer ings and s in-offer ings before they would be tes ted and

proved wor thy to share wi th h im the g lo r ies on the sp i r i tp lane and the work of b less ing and sav ing t l ie wor ld in

gene ra l on the ear th ly p lane . Al l th is wa s c learly fore-to ld th rough the prophets , bu t our eyes were holden a t idw e saw them not. F o r ins tance, th rough the p rophe tM alach i (3:1. 2 ) the Lord declares that l ie wil l send

Mess iah , "even the Messenger of the Co v en an t th a t y edel igh t in [ the Media tor of t l ie New Covrnant in which

no w th ei r hopes res t ] . B ut who shall sb i tl r tlie da y o fh is co ln ing , for he is as Ful ler ' s soap and as a ref iner ' s

f ire; and he shall s i t as a refil ler and purif ier of si lver ,tha t he may pur i fy th e sons o f L ev i tha t they ma y o f fe run to th e Lo rd an acceptable sacrifice." All of these spir-

i tual Israel i tes must be pr ies ts and Levites ant i typical ofA a ro n an d h is sons and h is house of 1-evi. Not un t il th is

work of f inding ant1 fulf i l l ing the spir i tual Israel shall becompleted will God's t ime come for brir .ging back f leshly

Isra:l in to his favo r , to be used a s his chann el fo r pou r-



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ing out bless ing upon a l l the famil ies of the ear th , in

ha rmony wi th h i s Covenan t made to Abraham. SO f a r ,then , f rom th ink ing of o u r Jewish ne igh l l0 rs a s be ing in

to r tu re we mus t l ea rn the Bib le t each ing on the sub jec t ,tha t they , l ike the remaind er o f the race, a r e s imply d eadunti l Messiah shal l es tabl ish his Kingdom ancl cal l forth

from the pr ison house of death the s leeping thousands ofmillions. T h e "first r e su r r e c t i o ~ ~ , "h e S c r i p t u r e s te ll us,

will consist of the royal priesthood, who will be asso-

c ia tes wi th Mess iah o n the sp i r i t p lane . Fo l low ing th i swi l l come Abraham, I s aac and J a c o l ~ a n d a ll of t h e

p rophe ts o f t he pas t t o be r e su r rec ted to h u n ~ a nperfec-t ion , o f which they were coun ted wor thy fo r obed iencet o the fai th . T h es e, the Bible tel ls us . M ess iah will

m ake p r inces and ru l e r s in a l l t he ea r th . A nd a sso -

c ia ted wi th these Divinely appoin ted pr inces under Is rae l ' s

New Covenan t wi l l come a l l t rue I s rae l i t es . who , wi ththe ir eyes of und erstant ling. will rejo ice in Jehovah an d in

h i s g l o r i o ~ l sSon and Redeemer and Media to r , and in h i s

g lor ious Kingt lom and i t s r igh teous requirements . S u c h

will ha ve th e privi lege of u pl i f t in g o u t of s in and d ea thto per fec tion and l ife e te rna l . A nd m ore than th i s thehope of al l the world , of every nat ion , people , k indred an d

tong ue, li1.s in th at sa m e N e w C ov en an t which God willc o n ~ u n i r n a t ewi th I s rae l as t ak ing over o r d i sp lac ing theMosa ic Covenan t . Al l na t ions , in or de r to share . the b less-

ing s o f th a t New Covenant . wil l be requircd to become"Israel ites indeed." T h u s a t th e conclusion of M essiah 's

re ign o f a th o u sa ~ ld ea rs the seed of Ab raham will have

become a s the saricl of the sea. A s it i s w ri t t c l~ ,"I h a v econs t i tu tcd thee , Abraham, a fa ther of many nat ions ."T h u s eventual ly only Abraham 's seed will remain, because

all na t ions shal l flow unto it to s h a re the D ivine b less ing

promised.

TI IE MESSAGE IN JERUSALEM

When recen t ly in Je rusa lem I had p leasure in re-

spond ing to a n inv it at ion to add res s Jews, h l oh an ~ l l~ ed an s ,



Catholics and Protestants, I took for my text the wordsof Isaiah's prophecy (40:r. 2), "Comfort ye, comfort ye,my people, saith your God. Spe ak ye com fortably toJerusalem, and cry unto her, that her appointed time isaccomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hathreceived from the Lord's hand double for all her sins."

My heart went out in sympathy for all of them, as I

realized that the barriers of the various faiths werechiefly of the Adversary and along the lines of misunder-

standing the Divine character and plan, rather than ofopposition t o G od.

GLAD TIDINGS

To them all I gave the message which Cod sent eight-een cen turies ago by the angels, saying : "Behold, we bring

yon good tidings o f g re a t joy which shall be unto allpeople, becatlse unto you is born this day in the city ofDavid a Savior (life-giver) which is Christ the Lord."I pointed them to the fact that they had all been lookingforward in anticipation to a better day, however theyexpected i t to come. W hen tha t day shall arr ive, a s Cod,through the prophets, has foretold, it will be "the desire

of all nationsw-what all nations, peoples, kin dre ds an dtongu es a re desiring, hoping for, pra yin g for-a betterday- the Golden .4ge. T h u s we found a common groundof agreement.

Having in mind chiefly the Jews, God'* chosen people,I pointed out that the glorious Kingdom of the hfcssiah,for which they had so long waited and prayed, is surely

near ; even a t the door . I pointed out that the hopes ofIsrael were built upon divine promises arid must surely befulfilled; that G od S blessings would surely come to allnations through the Seed of Abraham, and the privilegebe granted to all nations of coming in under Israel's NewCovenant, of which the Messiah in glory will be the greatMediator, Prophet, Priest and King. I pointed to thefact that they had not followed fables but the sure prom-ises of the Bible, and that all of its good promises would



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hav e fulfillment. T h en I proceeded to point out to themfrom the Prophets the cause of the delay of their hopes

from the text which I have taken for this occasion, "Com-fo rt ye, com fort ye, my people, saith God. Speak yecomfortably t o Jerusalem and cry unto her th at her w ar-fare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, forshe hath received at the Lord's hand DOUBLE for all ofher sins."-Isa. 40:r, 2.

A nd I said t o them, so now I say t o you, th at the Bibledistinctly informs us that the people of Israel are God'sspecial heritage. H e has not perm anently cast away hispeople, whom he foreknew; he has merely hidden hisfavor from them for a season an d fo r a purpose. T h a t

season of dis fav or is distinctly declared by the prophets,as we shal l see. e

Israel 's history as a nation began at the death of Jacob,and the entire period since down to the establishment ofthe nation as God's earthly representative in power andg re a t glory is divided into two equal parts . D uring thefirst of these divisions Cod showed that nation special na-

tional privileges an d favors. D ur ing the second pa rt heh as shown then1 n o national favors. T hes e m atters ou rH eb rew friends freely acknowledge. L et us note this"double" of Israe l's experiences a s foretold' by th ree oftheir most protni t~entprophcts :

( I ) Through Jeremiah the Lord declared that because

of Israel ' s unfai thful~~esse wo t ~ l dultimately cast themoff and scatter them amongst all nations, and after theyhad received a time of disfavor equal to that of theirpreceding favor he would bring them back and fulfi l tothem all the gracious promises made to the fathers-Jeremiah, xvi., 13-18.

, ( 2 ) Through the prophet Zechariah (ix., 9x2) th e

L ord announced the very day which would m ark the turn-ing point of their "double." T h a t day was April, A. D.

33, when Jesus fulfilled that 'prophecy riding upon a n ass.



(3 ) Trt our text '(Isaiah, xl, r, 2 ) the Lord marks theend of Israel's "double" or secondary experience of dis-favor. These "douhles" refer evidentIy not to a "double"

severity 'or "double" of what was justly due, but to a"double" of time.T o our understanding of the Word, Israel's "double" of

t ime was reached in 1878A. D., from which time thirty-seven years of rising in favor will bring them to the

year 1915 A. D., to N ew Covenant conditions promisedthem through Jeremiah xxxi., 31, compare Romans, xi,25-32.

PREACHES I N JERUSALEM

On. the occasion of ollr previous visit, eighteen years

ago, wc sought opportunity trr make known this message

of peace, but i ~ 3 n d o ears to hear, but, rather,a

strongresentment. This time we were requested to give a pubIicdiscourse and a Hebrew put at our disposal free of costthe best public ha11 in Jerusalem. W e had the closest at-

tention from Hebrews, Arabs and Catholics and Protest-ants. Amongst our auditors was Dr. evy, the Treasurerand General Busilicss Manager of the Zioliists. H e ex-

pressed himscl f freely as deeply appreciating our message,and inquired, "Why do not other Christians give us a

word of encouragrrnent. and recognition as a people ofGMI?" He anci othcr IIebrews regretted that bur mts-sace was not I~cartl hy at1 their co-reIigioi~ists,as an

enuouragemcnt a11c1stiniul~isto faith. Ixarnir~g hat we

wouIrI tlcliver our prcsurit aildress, Dr. Levy volunteeredto cvn~n~unicatc ith proniiucnt Hcbrcws of this city.urging tbcm to be prcscrlt.

Thc Zionist movcmcnt had not been begun at thetime of our p r e v i o ~ ~ sisit. Now Hd ~ r cw s11 the worldover are agog-the fire of patriotism begins to burn. Atthe last mectitlg of the Zionists it was dclermincd to

transfer all the business of the Association to Palestine as'headquarters, and that at future conferences only thepure Hebrew should be spoken by delegates-the Yiddish



J&h Hopes

is under the ban a s unpat r io t ic an d non-progress ive. Pa l -es t ine, and part icularly Jerusalem, is ar is ing from theashe s of the dea d past . N ew hope is coming into the

hear ts of many who had a lmost ceased to hope for theconsolation of Israel .

CROOKED STICK TO G A N G PLOW

A t one bound agr icu l tu re i s pass ing f rom the s tage o fp lough ing wi th a c ro o k ed s ti ck d r a w n b y a n o x o r acamel , and sometimes by donkeys, to the lates t improve-m ents in agriculture-a twelve-gang plow, d ra w n by at rac tion eng ine. T h e Or i en ta l T r ad ing Company , a tJaffa , hav e just im porte d and set up this piece of m a-chinery, whose capaci ty is forty acres per day of plough-ing , ha rro w ing a n d seeding complete . Fol lowing comes

the reap ing and th resh ing appara tus , opera ted by thesame eng ine . T h e Ara bs z re sel ling the i r p roper ty andthe Jew s a r e buying f rom them. A recently passed lawrequires tha t taxes hereaf ter shal l be paid in money andno t in a sh ar e of th e crop. T h is means t ha t wt:oeverholds the t i t le must cul t ivate the land, and s ignif ies inturn that the was te p laces must be made product ive and

tha t the non-progress ive A ra b s m ust g ive place to theJew s who a r e purchas ing an d improvirlg .

Inside the ci ty walls tnat tcrs have made l i t t le improve-ment, but on t h e outsicle much nloney llas bee11 spent, andm an y fine built lings, pul)lic and pr iva te, h av e been erected.T h e outside i s n to tlern jerusalcm. T h e extens ion i s inthe direction ivhich ruit is of ancient walls indicate was

once enclosed.W e sh ou ld n o t be u n d er st oo d a s r e c o mn ~ e n d i n g t h a t

a l l Jews go to Pa lest ine , n or a s expec ting tha t many ofthe eight mill ions of that people will leave their homesof g re at conlfort fo r t llc land of promise. O u r under-

s tanding of the Scr ip tures i s tha t the door to Pales t ine ,which has now been opened to the Jews, under the newTu rk ish Governm ent , will be en te re d by th e most ea rnes tand fa i thfu l of the Jews, and that the persecut ions in



Jerusalem

Russia and elsewhere will make the land of promise at-tra ct ive to them. A little lat er some of the more wea lthy

H ebrew s, foreseeing troublous times elsewhere, will go t oJerusalem a s th e City of Peace. T he se a r e not ou r specu-lations, but interpretations of H eb rew prophecies. D ur -ing our tour the Russian Government ordered the depar-ture of twenty thousand Hebrews from Kieff, and otherswill doubtless be comm anded. T h u s the Lord opens thedoor, attracts the attention of his people and then pushes

them out of other lands and makes them long for theirfatherland.

THE NEW JERUSALEM

Pastor Russell reminded his audience that Christianshave a deep interest in all these matters because the

period of Jewish disfavor and rejection has been theperiod of Christian favor. W hile na tural Israel ha s beenoutcast the gathering of spiritual Israel has been inprogress, and the returning of favor to Abraham's naturalseed will signify that the Spiritual Seed has all beenselected. T h is ha s a momentous significance to us, andbut a l i tt le t ime rem ains in which to make o ur calling an delection su re a s Abraham's Spiritual Seed (Gal. iii., 29 ) .We a re interested in th e earthly Jerusa lcl~i and the

prosperity about to come to it, when, under Messiah'sKingdom, it shall become the capital of the world. How -ever, we have a deeper interest in the heavenly Jert~ sale m ,symbolically, the glorified Church, the spiritual Seed of

Abraham, Mount Zion, for "The law shall go forth fromMount Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusaleni."None of the nations of Christendom will constitute theN ew Jerusalem, nor all o r any of i ts sects. T h e Lord ischoosing a saintly little company out of all nations, peo-ples, kindreds and tongues, sects and parties. To thesehe says: "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's

good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." A s soon a s thislittle flock shall have been found, completed, tested, glori-fie 4 the time will come fo r the establishm ent of M essiah's



3ewisl~Hopes 19

Kingdo m under the whole heavens. F o r a thousand ye arsi t will rule the world fo r the ov erthro w of sin and death,

and for the uplif t ing of humanity out of degradation tofull human perfection into the image and l ikeness ofGod.

ANCIENT WORTHIES O F ISRAEL.

The channel through which this spiritual and invisible

kingdom will operate amongst men will be the ancientwo rthies of Israel . "Ye shall see A brah am an d Isa acand Jacob and all the prophets in th e kingdom." I nclose association with these, first to be recognized will beth e Jews, na tura l Israel. God's fa v o r to them will openthe eyes of their understanding, and the ears of theirhearts, and they will receive the necessary instructions

and the blessillgs of restitution, w hich will begin w iththem according t o God's covenant w ith them. All whowould enjoy Divine favor and restitution blessings willg ladly gather to thei r s tandard and by c i rcumcis ia~ofheart and consecration of will they will become Israelites,proselytes, children of A braham . U ltimately all w ho will

no t come into accord with the divine a rrang em en t then es-tabl ished wil l die the "second death"destruct ion, and al lwho will obey that glorious Kingdom of God's dear Son,the ICingdom of Messiah, will be blessed a s A braham 'sseed a n d be lifted up, up, up t o perfection and to everlast-ing life. D urin g this reign of M essiah's Kingdom theearth, too, shall be blessed and shall yield her increase

and become Pa radis e restored , the footstool of God, whichhe declares shall be m ade glorious. T hen in th e en dthe entire race will be Abraham's seed, whose numbershall be a s th e sands of the sea sho re; while spiri tualIsrael , a s foretold, will be ,as the s tar s of heaven. T h enGod's will shall be done on ea rth a s i t is now. done in

heaven, Th enc eforth "there shall be no more death ,nei ther sorrow nor cry ing ; nei ther shall the re be an ymore p ain, fo r the form er things a re passed away.""And every creature which is in heaven and on earth,



a n d s u ch a s a r e i n t h e s ea , a n d a l l t h a t a r e i n th e m Iheard saying , Bless ing , and honor , and g lory , and powerbe un to h im tha t s i t t e th upon the t h r one , a nd un to t he

Lamb forever and ever."-Rev. xsi., 4; v., 13.

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STUDY VIII.

THE RESTORATION O F ISRAEL

TRSRE-ESTABLISHMENTr ISRAELN PALESTXNX,N EVENT O EX

WITHINTH O HARVEST.RIOD.-HOW, AND TO WHAT EXTENT,AND W r r ~WH A TC u s s . W 1 S H O ~ DXPECTius R~ZOUATION.-DATE F m BE-

onnsrm, AND EWDENCIPr m A ~ A LUOGESSSINCE.-WHY MXLLENN~ALB r r s u ~ c s , NTSNDED F O R ALLMANKIND, ILLREACHAND REVIVEHS JEW

FI~~T. -THIIR w t v r r o r Jm sn H O P E S . - - ~ ~ S E R V A T ~ O ~r LEADXNGEWISH

AND G Z ~ I L ~RITERS.-THE HARMONYF THESE WITH PROPHECY.-ISRAEL'S

B u lm n rs r RESPXCTINC HRISTA L R ~ M V ~ R ~ N GWAY.-TUX S-AD AND

YOYENTUX o r THE M ov F.H ~. -& D WILL HXLF wau .

"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,

.nd close up the brenches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and Iwill build it as in the days of old. And Iwill bring again the captivity

of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit

them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they

shall also make gardens, and eat the h i t of them And Iwill plant them

upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their lnnd

which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God."-Amos g: r,14,15.

MONG he relics of antiqu ity that have come down t oA our thy, there is no other obje* of so great interest as'the Jewish people. T h e searchers after ancien t lore have

untiringly questioned every inanimate objeQ that could givea mite of historic o r scientific information. Monuments.

altars, tombs, relics of public and private edifices, paintings,

sculptures, hieroglyphics an d dead languages have all been

appealed to ; nd some have even endeavored patiently to

discover the line of aAud truth which probably inspired

the many fanciful traditions, legends, songs, etc., that have243



Thy Kingdom Come.

tome floating down the centuries, in order to learn all that

it is possible to know of human origin, history and destiny.

But the most interesting relic, and the one whose history

can be most easily deciphered and understood, is the Jewish

people. In them we have a monument of antiquity of in-

estimable value, upon which are recorded, in clearly legi-

ble charaaers, the origin, progress and final destiny of the

whole human race-a living and intelligent witness of the

gradual outworking of a wonderful purpose in human affairs,in exaA conformity with the prediaions of their divinely

inspired prophets and seers.

As a people, they are marked as distina and peculiar by

every circumstance of their history and by their common

religious faith, aswell as by every element of their national

charaaer, and even by their physiognomy and their man-ners and customs. The national charaQeristics of many

centuries ago are still prominent, even to their fondness for

the leeks and onions and garlic of Egypt, and their'stiff-

necked obstinacy. As a people, they truly had much

advantage every way, in having committed unto them the

oracles of God, developing among them poets, lawyers,

statesmen and philosophers, and leading them up step by

step from being a nation of slaves to be-as in the time of

Solomon, the zenith of their glory-a people distinguished

and honored among the nations, attraQing the wonder and

admiration of the world.-Rom. 3:1, z ; I Kings 4:30-34; .I 0 : -29.

That the re-establishment of Israel in the land of Pales-

tine is one of the events to be expeaed in this Day of the

Lord, we are fully assured by the above expression of the

Prophet. Notice, particularly, that the prophecy cannot

be interpreted in any symbolic sense. It is not a Canaan inheaven to which they are appointed, but a Canaan on earth.

They are to be planted upon " heir land," the land which



God says he had gri~cnhem, the land which he promised to

Abraham, saying, Lift up now thine eyes and look from

the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and

eastward, and westward: for allthe I a n d w ~ ~ c nHOU SEESP,

to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. And I wiU

make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can

number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be

numbered. [An intimation of a then far distant period,

giving ample time for such a multiplication of his seed.]Arise, wa& through the land, in the length of it, and in the

breadth of it ; or I will give it unto thee." "And I will

give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein

fhm a r i a sirangur-all the land of Canaan, for an EVER-

LASTING POSSESSION." (Gen. 13: 4-17 ; 7 :8.) It is a land

. into which they were once privileged to enter, and in whichthey dwelt for centuries. But during that time they were

many times plucked up and carried into captivity in other

lands, while strangers wasted their cities, drank the wine

of their vineyards, and ate the fruit of their gardens. And

finally they were completely rooted out, their cities laid

waste and desolate, and they were driven as wanderers and

exiles from country to country the world over. But when

replanted in their land according to this promise, they

shall no more be pulled up out of their land," which God

gave them; and they shall build the waste cities [cities

in which they had formerly lived], and inhabit them."

A scattered, homeless, desolate and persecuted people, they

are still a distinA and homogeneous people. United bythe strong ties of blood relationship, by common hopes in-

spired by a common faith in the wonderful promisesof God,

though they have but dimly comprehended those promises,

and still further bound together by the bond of sympathygrowing out of their common sufferings and privations as

uiles, they, to this day, look and long for the hope of Israel,



As a people they stdl have faith in God, though in their

blindness and pride of heart they have stumbled over the

humility of God's appointed messenger for the world's sal-Ivation; so that, instead of receiving him, they crucified

the Savior, the Lord of glory. And yet the apostles and

prophets show us that even this flagrant crime, to which

their pride and self-will drove them, was not one which

could never be forgiven them. Because of it, they have

been punished, and that severely. When they condemnedthe Just One and said, " His blood be upon us and upon

our children," they little expeAed the fearful recompense

which followed.

The terrible trouble and loss of life, the destruaion of

their holy city and temple, the full end of their national

existence, and the scattering of the surviving remnant asexiles into all nations, completed the work of their harvest

period. It began in faaious civil strife and was completed

by an invading Roman army. Fire, sword and famine ac-

complished upon them a fearful recompense.

And since that time Israel has truly been a nstion scat-

tered and peeled. Driven as exiles from country to country,and from province to province, they have been deprived of

almost every right and privilege which other men enjoyed.

RejeEting Christianity, as well in its corrupted as in its pure

form, they became the objeAs of the contempt and re-

lentless persecution of the Church of Rome. Says the

historian :-I~ In Germany, France, England and Italy, they were

circumscribed in their rights by decrees and laws of theecclesiastical as well as the civil powers, excludcd from allhonorable occupations, driven from place to place, com-pelled to subsist almost entirely by mercantile occupations

and usury, overtaxed and degraded in the cities, kept innarrow quarters, and marked in their dress with signs ofcontempt, plundered by lawless barons and penniless prin-



ta, n easy prey to all parties during the civil feuds, againand again robbed of their pecuniary claims, owned and soldas serfs by the emperors, butchered by mobs and revoltedpeasants, chased by monks, and finally burned in thousandsby the crusaders, who also burned their brethren at Jerusa-lem in their synagogues, or tormented them by ridicule, abus-ive sermons, monstrous accusations and trials, threats andexperiments of conversion. . . They could own no land,belong to no guild of mechanics and engage in no form ofart ; hey were shut up almost exclusively to trading, And,finding all mankind at war with them, their national prideand arrogance were by no means softened, and the breachconsequently widened between the Jews and their Gentileneighbors everywhere."

Thus estranged from God and from their fellow-men of

every nation, sad and pitiable indeed has been their miser-

able condition. During the relentless Papal persecutions,

ihey have suffered in common with the saints and martyrs

of Jesus,-the Christian for his rejetlion of Antichrist, the

Jew for his rejetlion of both Christ and Antichrist. While

God has permitted these affliaions and persecutions to come

as a

penalty for their national crime of rejeaion of thegospel and crucifixion of the Redeemer, he will neverthe-

less in due time reward the constancy of their faith in his

promises, to which they have so long and so perseveringly

held. God foreknew their pride and hardness of heart, and

foretold it as well as the evils which have come upon them;

and no less pointedly has he foretold a departing of theirblindness and the ultimate fulfilment to them of a11 the

earthly promises declared long ago to Abraham and re-

peated by one aftcr another of the holy prophets.

As the titne for the promised restoration of God's favor

to Israel draws on, we see a preparation being made for it.

Within the present century a sifting and separating process

is manifest among them, dividing them into twro classes,

theOrthodox and the Non-orthodox Jews. The former still



a& TRY Kitlgdont Come.

hold to the promises of God, and still hope that God's set

time to favor Zion may soon come. The latter are losing

faith in a personal God, as well as in the Abrahamic prom-ises, and are drifting toward liberalism, rationalism, infi-

delity. The Orthodox include most of the poor, oppressed

Jews, as well as some of the wealthy and learned, and are

vastly more numerous than the Non-orthodox; though the

latter are by far the more influential and respeeed, often

merchants, bankers, editors, etc.The following is a brief summary of the faith of the Or-

thodox Jews :-c c I believe with a true and perfeA faith (I) that God is

the creator, governor and maker of all creatures, and thathe hath wrought all things; (2) that the Creator is one,

and that he alone hath been our God, is, and forever shallbe ; (3) that the Creator is not corporeal, not to be com-prehended with any bodily properties, and that there is nobodily essence that can be likened unto him; (4) thatnothing was before him, and that he shall abide forever ; 5)

that he is to be worshiped and none else; (6) that all thewords of the prophets are true; (7) that the prophecies of

Moses were true; that he was chief of all ivise men thatlived before him or ever shall live after him ; w e may con-sider them somewhat excusable for this overestimate of srlcha noble and worthy charaEier.1 (8) that all the law whichat this day is found in our hands was delivered by Godhimself to our master, Moses; (9) that the same law isnever to be changed, nor any other to be given us of God ;

(10) that God understandeth all the thoughts and works ofmen, as it is written in the prophets-< He fashioneth theirhearts alike, he understandeth all their works; ' (11) thatGod will recompense good to them that keep his command-ments, and will punish them who transgress them; (12)

that the Messiah is yet to come ; nd, although he retard hiscoming, yet ' 1 will wait for him till he come;' (13) that

the dead shall be restorad to life when it shall seem fit untoGod, the Creator, whose name be blessed and memory cel-ebrated without end. Amen."



Restoration of Isracf.

Since the destruaion of their temple and their dispersion,

,the sacrifices have been discontinued ; but in all other re-

speas the Mosaic requirements are still observed among theOrthodox Jews. 'Their worship, as of old, consists in the

reading of the Scriptures, prayer and praise. On the second

day of their feast of trumpets they read the account of

Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and God's blessing on

him and his seed. Then they blow the trumpet and pray

that God would bring them to Jerusalem.

The Non-orthodox or Reformed Jews, <' Radicals," differ

widely from the Orthodox : many of them are avowed athe-

ists, denying a personal God. They deny that any Messiah

is to come; and if they do not deny prophecy entirely,

they explain that the Jewish nation is itself the Messiah and

is reforming the world gradually, and that the sufferings

prediaed of Messiah are fulfilled in their persecutions and

sufferings as a people. Others of them declare that civili-

zation is the only Savior of the world they expee.

It will be the former class, no doubt, that will be re-

gathered and blessed when Messiah comes a second time,in glory and power ; who will say, " Lo, this is our God ;

we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the

Lord ; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice

in his salvation." (Isa. 25 : . ) And in the clearer light of

Messiah's teaching, all faith in the vain traditions which

they still hold as valuable additions to the law of God willvanish away. The time is fast approaching when God will

speak peace to Israel and comfort them and fully turn away

their blindness. We do not by this mean to intimate that

those who have wandered far off into infidelity will never

have their blindness removed. God forbid. The blind

eyes of all, and of every nationality, will be opened ; and

all the deaf ears will be unstopped. But no Jperial favor

will come to these infidel Jews at the time of the returning



favor; for "he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly "-merely

by family relationship and facial expression. The Jews

recognized by God as children of Abraham are those whohold to the faith of Abraham and trust in the divine promises.

ANGLO-ISRAELITES.

And here we must express our dissent from the views of

those who claim that the Anglo-Saxons are the Israel of

promise, in the Scriptures. Briefly stated, they claim thatthe Anglo-Saxons, the people of the United States, etc., are

the descendants of the ten tribes of Israel which separated

from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, after Solonion's

death, and which are often termed "the ten lost tribes; "

because, after the captivity (of the entire twelve tribes) in

Babylon, the ten tribes never re-established themselves inthe land of Canaan, as '' Israel," but became scattered as

tribes and as individuals among the various nations. Tliose

whose theory we criticise claim that they can trace their

journey toward Great Britain, and that the greatness and

influence of the English speaking peoples of the world are

traceable to the fa& that they belong to Ismel, and are in-

heriting the promises made to Israel.

To this we answer: Some of the evidences offered in

proof that they are of the lost tribes" seem far from

strong; but if we should admit a!! they claim in this, it

would not prove their position, that the greatness and in-

fltience of the Anglo-Saxon race are attributable to their be-

ing Israelites by natural generation, any more than to their

being " ost." Their greatness is attributable to their free-

don1 and intelligence, which are traceable, not to their be-

ing lost, nor to their being born Israelites accorcling to the

flesh, but to the doerines of Christ-to the light which

some of the spinY~~aZsceciofbraham let shine among them.

The fa& that the ten tribes strayed away from the two



is not to their credit, but otherwise. I t is an evidence that

they were disposed to rejeEt God's promises: it is a sign

of infidelity, of unbelief; for they well knew that God hadpredioed that the Lawgiver, the Savior, the Deliverer, the

King, in whom and by whom the promises were to be ful-

.filled, was to come out of judah . The tribe of Benjamin

was the only tribe, therefore, aside from Judah, which, at

the time of the revolt, manifested faith in God's promises.

But at the time of the return from the Babylonian captivity,though those who showed their continued faith in God and

his promises, by returning to the land of Canaan, were

mostly of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, yet all who

came back were not of these two tribes. Among them were

some from the various tribes, who loved the Lord and sought

him with repentance, still relying upon his promises. How-- ever, the vast majority of the ten tribes, as well as of the

two tribes, did not avail themselves of the opportunity to

return to the land of promise, preferring Babylon and other

lands, many among them having fallen into idolatry and lost

their rape& for God's promises.We must remember that but a few of those who returned

to their land under the lead of Ezra and none of those who

returned under Nehemiah were of those who had been

taken captive, the vast majority having died years before in

Babylon. These were their children, in whose hearts the

faith of their fathers still burned, who still hoped for theblessings and honors promised to -4brxhanl's seed. Thus

the returning little band of less than fifty thousand were all

the Israelites then remaining, of all the tribes, who by the

a& of returning to the land of promise sliowed that they

still held to the faith of Abraham. It was to the descend-

ants of these fittest ones, sifted out of all the tribes of Israel-though principally of the two tribes, and all called Jews,

after the royal and predominating tribe-that our Lord



252 Thy Ai'ngdom Come.

presented himself and the Kingdom, at the first advent, as

representing the holy nation, Israel entire.

Our Lord referred to them as Israel, and not as a part of

Israel, not as Judah merely. He speaks of even those who

had clung to the promises, and to each other, as the lost

sheep of the house of Israel," in that they had wandered far

from the truth, after the traditions of false shepherds who had

led them in their own way and not as God direfted. He says:

I am not sent save [except] to the lost sheep of the Rollseof l sraef ." To the house of Israel consequently his min-

istry was confined, in harmony with the foregoing, show-

ing that the Jews of his day were the only recognized rep-

resentatives of the "house of Israel," as the terms, "all

Israel," a our twelve tribes constantly serving God," and

many similar expressions of our Lord and the apostles in-dicate. And it will be remembered that our Lord, in con-

neftion with this statement, that his ministry was to Israel,

forbade his disciples going to any outside the Jews of Pal-

estine.-Matt. I O : ~ ,6; 15:24.

Notice also how the apostles used the word "Israel,"

and not"

Judah," when speaking of those who were livingat that timein Palestine(AEts 2 : 2 2 ; 3:12; 5:35; 13:16.;

21 :A), and how they apply the words of Isaiah concern-

ing the remnant of Israel to the comparatively few who re-

ceived the gospel (Rom. 9 :4, z7,29,31-33 ; 10 :1-4 ; 1 1 : ,

7-14, 25, 26, 31), and speak of all the rrsi as stumbling and

being blinded. So, then, even if it could be demonstratedthat the Anglo-Saxon peoples were part of " he ten lost

tribes," we see clearly that no favor could have come to

them upon that score, under that covenant; h r they de-

serted the Isracfifz3h covenant and became idolaters, unbe-

lievers, and praaically Gentiles. Besides, as already noted,*

all recognized as the na fu r l seed of Abraham, who would

*VOL. XI., Chapter vii.



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continue to rejeA Christ, were cast off from all favor from

the time of Christ's death to the year 1878, when, chron-

ologically, divine favor was due to return to them, and

their blindness to begin to be removed. Consequently, the

prominence of the Anglo-Saxons for the past centuries could

in no sense have been Israel's returning favor. Those from

whom the favor was taken for the rejeaion and crucifixion

of the Lord are the ones to whom the favor is to return

now. At that time, and ever since, Israel has been rep-resented by " he Jew " (Rom. 2 :g, IO), and it is the Jew

that will now be restored to favor as the natural "seed of

Abraham." These, with the spiritual "seed" (selelted

during the Gospel age-a remnant from Israel, Jewvs, and

the remainder gathered from the Gentiles), are to be God's

. agencies for blessing all the families of the earth.Nor will the coming favor to Israel be exclusive. All be-

l i e v e ~ ~n the covenant,promises may share those returning

favors with the natural seed, just as during the Gospel age

any Jew who accepted Christ was eligible to a11 the spirit-

ual blessings and advantages offered during the Gospel age.

As only a small remnant believed in and accepted the gos-pel favors at the beginning, so, aside from the Jews, only

a small number of mankind will be ready for the new laws

and conditions of the Millennial age, under the righteous

administration of the glorificd Lord and his glorified Church;

and hence, at first, few but Jews will be blessed under it.

The Jew, long accustomed to striving to do, and to trust-

.ing to works of obedience to the Law to secure for him the

divine blessing, stumbled over the first feature of the Gos-

pel dispensation-the remission of sins, without works, to

every one that believeth in Jesus' perfea work and all-suf-

ficient sacrifice for sin. But the Jew's respee for the Law

will turn to his advantage in the dawn of the Millennial

age, and none will Le more ready for the striA requirements



054 Thy Kingdom Coma

and laws of that age than he, after his blindness, relative

to Christ and the value of his sacrifice for sins, shall have

passed away; for works are required after faith in Christ,though not accepted before. And the Jew, in accepting

the love and favor of God in Christ, will not be so inclined

to lose sight of God's justice as are many others of to-day.

Others, on the contrary, will be blinded for a time and un-

ready to recognize the rules of the Kingdom, in which jus-

tice will be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet.As the Jew was blinded by a false view of the Law, which

mas made void through false teachings, so now, many Gen-

tiles will be hindered from taking hold of the conditions of

favor during the hlillennnial age, by reason of the false pre-

sentation of the doarine of grace in the forgiveness of sins,

made by false teachers of the present time, who make void

the gospcl of the grace of God through sophistical reason-

ings-" even denying that the Lord bought them " 2 Pet.

2 : ) , and that there was any ransm?t;bn'rc given or neces-

sary for man's recovery. They claim that to err is human,

to forgive, divine;

nd hence, inferentially, that occasionalsin is quite excusable, and that stri&ness of punishment, a

ransom, etc., are not supposable, since if there were no sins

to forgive it would take away God's pleasure and office of

forgiving. Losing sight of God's justice, they fail to see

the philosophy of his plan ofreconciliation through the blood

of the cross, granting remission of sins through a ransotn-sacrifice, to such only as accept Christ and strive against

sin. Blinded by their lax ideas of God's justice and stria-

ness, few will be so well prepared as the Jew for that stri&

obedience according to ability, which will be required of

all in the next age.

As an illustration of the preparation of the Jew to recog-. nize Christ Jesus' death as his ransom-corre~otr1 i in~$n2e

-the legal stonernent for man's sin, we quote below, from



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the pen of a young Hebrew converted to Christ, an account

of the yearly commemoration of the '' Great Day of Atone-

ment," as observed at the present time by Orthodox Jews.The article appeared in ~ i ec b r n u - ~ h A t i a n ,s follows:

c c Yotlt Kz;bput, or the Great Day of Atonement, was aremarkable day with my father; for he not only fasted,prayed and mortified himself on this holy day of expiation,but he a&ually spent the whole night at the synagogue indevotion. I have often seen my devout parent weep onthis great day, when he repeated the pathetic confessionfollowing the enumeration of the sacrifices which were ap-pointed by God to be offered up for the sins of ommissionand commission; and many a time have I shed sympathetictears as I joined hini in lamenting that we have now notemple, no high priest, no altar and no sacrifices. The daybefore that solemn day, he, in company with the rest of

the Jews, took a cock; and, during the repetition of certainforms of prayers, he moved the living fowl round his head'three times, repeating these words : ' This be my substitute,this be my exchange, this be my atonement ; his fowl shallgo to death, and I to a blessed life.' Then he laid his

.' hands on it, as the hands used to be laid on the sacrifices,and immediately after it was given to be slaughtered. Thisis the otrly blood that is shed in Israel now. The blood ofbulls and goats no longer flows beside the brazen altar.

"My father took the greatest pains to procure a whitecock, and avoided a red one altogether ; and when I askedhim his reason for doing so, he told me that a red cock isalready covered with sin, for sin itself is red, as it is written :

'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow;

though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'.(Isa. I :I%) H e continued: 'You will find that the Rab-bis have laid it down in the Talmud, if the cock be white,he is infeAed with no sin, and can therefore bear the sinsof the Jews ; but if he be red, he is altogether covered withsins, and is unfit for bearing our iniquities.'"The reason why they use a cock rather than any .other

creature is this. In Hebrew man is called gezter. Now ifgmer (man) has sinned, p v e r must also sustain the penaltythereof. But since the punishment is heavier than the Jews



27ay Kingdm Come.

can bear, the Rabbis have substituted for them a cock,which in the Chaldee dialeEt is called gever, and thus thedivine justice is assumed to be satisfied: because, as geverhas sinned, so gever, i. e., a cock, is sacrificed.

# ' This vain invention may be viewed as a remarkable evi-dence of a most striking fa&, that, while many among theJews at the present day deny the atonement altogether, thebody of the nation still have some feeling of the absolutenecessity of a sacrifice for sin, and that without an atone-ment repentance is of no avail for salvation. If, instead of

reading Rabbinical fables, the Jews would study the Bible,they would find that the Lord Jesus, the true Messiah, inHis own blessed person made that very atonement for sinwhich they in their ignorance imagine may be made by thesacrifice of a cock. Gevcr (man) has sinned, and gever(man), even the man Christ Jesus, has made his soul anoffering for sin.--Isa. 53 :10."

TO THE JEW FIRST.

We see, then, that God's predittion, that Israel (except

the faithful few) would be blinded by their Law ( R O ~ .

I I :g), was fulfilled in a natural way; and also that his

further predittion, that the favors and conditions of the

Millennia1 age will bless many of them more quickly thanothers, is also to come about in a perfealy natural way and

to result from reasonable causes.

Thus the Millennial favors will be to the Jews first, even

as by reason of the covenants, etc., the gospel favors were

oKcred to them first. And so it shall be finally as Sirneon

prophesied : " This child is set for the fall and rising againof many in Israel." And the time for raising up that nation,

so long fallen from favor, is at hand.

But let us guard against a too common mistake, made by

nlany who see something of these promises, of supposing

tnat the statements should be taken literally, which say:

:#After this I will return, and will build again the taber-nacle [house] of David, which is fallen down; and I will



build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up." "And

the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David."

l4

And David, my servant, shall be king over them." (A&15 :16; Luke I :32; Ezek. 37 : 4.) While the literalness

of the promised return of Israel to their own land, and the

rebuilding of Jerusalem upon her own heaps, cannot be

questioned, we may be equally confident that by the horrsc

and throne of David, not the literal stones, timbers, etc.,

are meant. The re-establishment of the house of David re-fers to the re-establishment of royalty and dominion in the

hands of some of David's posterity. Christ Jesus is the

promised scion of David's house, and the heir of his throne;

and when his authority begins to be establiskd, that will

be the beginning of the raising up (permanent establish-

ment) of the formerly temporary house or tabernacle ofDavid, which was overthrown, and which for m a y centu-

ries has lain in the dust. So, likewise, the "throne of

David," upon which Messiah will sit, refers not to the

wood and gold and ivory bench upon which David sat, but

to the dignity, power and authority of office which he ex-

ercised. That authority, office or throne, which David oc-cupied for some years, is to be filled on a much grander

scale by Jehovah's Anointed, our Lord Jesus.

But whtrt authority did David have and exercise? We

answer, it was Jehovah's authority: David "sat upon the

throne of Jehovah " ( I Chron. 29 :23) ; and this is the

very authority which will support Christ in his Millennia1Kingdom. And when rightly seen it is evident that David

and his throne or divine authority, established in the typi-

cal nation of Israel, were merely typical illustrations of

Christ and his Kingdom ; and David's chief honor will be,if he be counted worthy, to be one 'of the princes" to

: whom I~nmanuelwill entrust the earthly phase of his King-dom.-Psa. 45 :16.

17 =



David's name as well as his Kingdom was typical. Thename David signifies Bcldved; and it is God's Beloved Son

who will be king over all the earth in that day, and not thetypical beloved David of old. I t is well also to distinguish

clearly between the New Jerusalem, the heavenly or spirit-

ual city of which the apostles are the twelve foundations,

and the old Jerusalem which is to be rebuilt upon her old

heaps. The old Jerusalem's promised restoration implies

not merely the reconstru6tion of the buildings, etc., butspecially the reorganization of Israel's government ; or a

city in prophecy is always the symbol or representation of

a govtrnnrcnf. Hence the promised reconstruQion of Je-

rusalem upon her old foundations implies a national reor-

ganization of Israel upon a basis similar to that which it

formerly had, as a people over whom Jehovah's Anointedheld the authority. The New Jerusalem represents the Gos-

pel Church in glory and Kingdom power, spiritual, and in-

visible to men, yet all-powerful. Its descent to earth (Rev.

21 2) marks the fulfilment of that petition of our Lord's

prayer which says, " Thy Kingdom comc;" and its " com-

ing " will be gradual, and not sudden. I t is already 6 c com-

ing down," coming into control, and as a result we see the

preliminary steps leading to the re-establishment of the old

Jerusalem; and ultimately the result mentioned in our Lord's

prayer will be realized :-God's will will be done on earth

as in heaven. The New Jerusalem and the New Heavens aresynonymous, signifying the new spiritual ruling power.

Prophecies already examined point to the year 1878 s

the date at which Israel's uduubfc " fi/,rc of waiting for the

King was fulfilled, and from which their return to favor

and the turning away of their blindness were due to date :

the time after which it would be due to " peak comforta-bly to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her appointed tim:

[of waiting-her 4 6 double "1 is accon~~lisl~ednd lier inl-



quity pardoned; for she hath received of the Lord's hand

[her] double for all her sins,"-Isa. 40: 1-2.

From that date onward, therefore, we see, as we should

expea, marked indications of returning favor to that people

-a movement toward their aAual planting again in their

own land and their rebuilding as a great nation, according

to God's multiplied promises to that effeQ ; or, 6 1 Thus

saith the Lord, the God of Israel : Like these good figs, so

will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive ofJudah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of

the Chaldeans [Babylon-mystic Babylon, Christendom,

as shown in verse; g ; or since their overthrow they have

been dispersed among all the nations of so-called Christen-- dom] for their good [for their discipline and punishment :

a gaod thing in disguise]. "For I will set mine eyes uponthem for good, and I will bring them again to this land ;

and I will build'them, and not pull them down ; nd I will

plant them, and not pluck them up. [This could not refer

to the return from the captivity to literal Babylon, since

after that return they were again pulled down and plucked

up.] And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am

the Lord ; and they shall be my people, and I will be their

God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart."

-Jer. 24:s-7.

8 ( Thus saith the Lord : Behold, I will bring again the

' captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-

: places; and the city [Jerusalem] shall be builded upon her. own heap, and the palace [the templc] shall remain after

the manner thereof. Their children also sl~alle as afore-

time, and their congregation shall be established before me,

$ and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles

shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceedfrom the midst of them. Behold, I will bring them from

the north country [Russia, where nearly two-thirds of all



260 T/ry Kingdonz Come.

the Jews now living reside], and gather them from the coasts

of the earth. . . . A great company shall return thither.

They shall come with weeping; and with supplications willI lead them. . . . Hear the word of the Lord, 0 ye na-

tions, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that

scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd

doth his flock ; or the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and ran-

somed him from the hand of him that wvas stronger than he.

Therefore, they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for

wheat and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the

flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered

garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all."-Jer.

30:18, 20, 2 1 ; 31:&12.

Not only will the great Redeemer, once rejeaed by them,

thus restore and lift up the living generations of that people,

but the dead also are to be restored; for "Thus saith the

Lord God : BchoId, 0 my people, I will open your graves,

and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring

you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am

the Lord, when I have opened your graves, . . . and shall

put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you

i n y o r ~ rwn land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have

spoken it,and performed it, saitli the Lord." Ezek.37: 12-14.

Thesewonderful promises will not be fulfilled in a twenty-

four-hour day, but during the AIillcnnial day. They had a

marked beginning with the year 1878, as the result of the

Berlin Congress of Nations. The Jews now enjoy greater

privileges in the land of their fathers than had been ac-

corded them for centuries. They are no longer merely

"dogs " to the insolent Turks.

It is not generally known, we think, that England hasitready assumed a proteAorate over Palestine, and, indeed,

over all of Turkey's Asiatic provinces, of which it is one.



England has for a long time felt a necessity for proteaing

Turkey for three reasons : first, her wealthy classes are large

holders of Turkish bonds; second, if Turkey should go toany one of her neighboring nations, or were divided among

them, England would get little or none of the spoil; and

the other rival nations would thus be lifted more than Eng-

land into prominence and power in the control of the

affairs of Europe; third, and mainly, England realizes that

with the Turkish government out of the way, Russian in-fluence in soutl~ernAsia would be greatly increased, and

would ere long absorb the Indian Empire, of which Eng-

land's Queen is Empress, and from which Efigland draws

rich revenues in commerce, etc. Hence we find the Royal

or Tory party in England strenuously supporting he Turks;

and when, in 1878, Russia was about to enter Constanti-

nople, England interposed and sent a fleet of gunboats in-

to the harbor. The result was the Berlin C r n f ~ ~m cf

June 13, 1878, in which the chief figure was a Hebrew,

Lord Beacornfield, Prime Minister of England; nd Turk-

key's affairswere hen settled so as to preserve her national

existence for the present, and yetso o arrange her provinces

that in the event of final dismemberment the great powers

would know which portion each would Lx expened to seize.

It was at this time that all the provinces of Turkey were

granted greater religious freedom, and England by secret

treatywith

Turkey became proteAor of t l~e siatic provin-ces. In the language of the historian, Justin McCarthy,

a The English government undertook to guara9afee toTurkey her Asiatic possessions against all invasion, . . .formally pledged herself to defend and secureTurkey againstall in vasion and aggression, and occupied Cyprus in orderto have a more e&eAualvantage-ground from which to car-

ry on this proj&."It will be seen, then, that Palestine, as one of those

Asiatic provinces, isaiready under England's care; and this



2 6 2 Thy Kingdo?n Conrc.

accounts for th e greater laxity o n th e part of the Turkish

government i n th e enforcement of its laws unfavorable t o

Jewish interests. A n d this prov iden tial op en ing of Pales-ti n e t o th e Jews was followed by renewed persecutions in

th e "n o rt h coun try "-Russia a n d Roumania-cer ta in to

indu ce emigration from those countries to their own land.

As a result of this combination of circumstances, Palcstine,

and especially Jerusalem, is rapidly increasing in Jewish

population of the " orthodox " ype. Already th e Jews inJenlsalem outnumber all other nationalities combined,

whereas for centuries they have been a small minority.

T h e Ncw York Herald, comm enting some tim e ago upon

the acquirement by England of the island of Crete, her

occupancy of Egy pt an d the condit ion of Turkey an d her

provinces generally, said :-

(6 W e live in a fast age , an d even history is manufactureda t a grea ter speed. W ars used to last decades of years;civilization advanced slowly; communications between na-tion s a n d consequ ent mutual benefit proceeded correspond-ingly tardily. Now what is invented in on e cou ntry is

know n forthwith thousands of m iles away, a n d th e wholeworld can profit simultaneously by the inven tion. Notablyin politics is th e spir it of haste evident. Statesmen 'sschemes once required generations for c o m p l e t i o ~ l ;nowth e boldest plans ar e carried out b y th e plannners, an d th emap of a con tinent is cha nge d in a week. H o w quicklyevents march and history is created is evident with special

clearness in the magnetic Eastern question. . . . I n t h every m idst of th e scene of c onfli oi ng interests lies Palestine--dear t o Jew, Christian a n d hlohamm edan. T h e states-man says it is the key to the position ; and looking to hiscountrym en's advantage he declares tha t in view of its won-derful fertility, which of old sr~ pp orte dmillions ; in view ofits g ra nd possibilities for com merce, which in former days

made its sea-ports scenes of activity a nd wealth, an d whichhave rendered T y re a n d Sidon proverbial to this day ; inview of its being a t the j u n a io n of Europe an d Asia, an din location, therefore, most adniirable, the possession of



Rrsfornfiun of Israel. 263

Palestine is to his patrio tic hea rt most desirable. T h e his-torian says, T h e first international episode on record wasthe invasion of Palestine; from tha t day to this it has beena center of inte res t; therefore, he o n his part is concernedfor Palestine's future. T h e religionist ca nn ot find wordsto express the interest which he from his point of viewtakes in what he calls th e Ho ly L a n d : for him every ston eis an epic, every tree a poem. T h e shrewd comm ercialman notes that when the Asian railway system is built up,as built up i t will be as soon as stable govern m ent is estab-lished, the geographical position of Pa lestine will m ake itth e State to which the great railway lines will conv erge tocarry the produAions of Asia to European and Americanmarkets and vice versa; for, as th e comm erce of three con-tinents met in its borders in the days of Solomon, so willthe future commerce of the same continents flow again tothat favored spo t. Nor will h e ab ate his hopes in the leastdeg ree because their realization seems distan t. Remember-ing the swift growth of a Chicago or a San Francisco, therapid turning of wastes into populous States, he simply re-marks, ' Eve nts follow quickly nowadays,' and waits.

W hile, however, the great Christian Powers sta nd withmail-clad h an d st o grasp the coveted and tempting bit when

the moribund T urk lets g o his hold, a historic figure stepsforward and declares, ' T h e land is mine ! And when thepowers tu rn t o look a t the speaker, th ey recognize th e Jew-the child of the patriarch who lived in Pa lestine when itwas first invaded, and who wo uld himsr(f fn i~ z be frcscnfto rcceivc if s his own when its possession is dispu ted th irty-six centuries after I

Whata

wonderfu\ coincidence! '

Not so,' says theJew; ' t is no t a coincidence, it is m y destiny.' L et usnow briefly glance at the position of the Jew in this ques-tion of the future of Palestine. Nations are born fromideas. From the idea of German unity grew the Germ anempire in to a&ual fa&, proclaimed to t he world from Ver-sail la, with French cannon to answer amen to German

: prayer for its welfare. Froni the cry of ' talia irridenta 'was born th e ncw Italy o f to-day, whose thunder will againwake the M cditerranenn shores. From the tradition ofanc ient Greece the modern Greece was created. So Chris-



Thy Kingdom Come. '

tians understand how the long cherished aspirations of theJew may yet be realized ; nd while they fully concede thatto the Jew, above all, belongs Palestine, while he above all

is specially qualified to develop the future of that teemingcountry, while his possession of it would solve the fears ofthe jealous Powers, the establishment of the Jew in it wouldbe an a& of justice, and a worthy atonement for the fear-ful wrongs perpetrated upon him-the martyr of history.

As for the Jews themselves, t o say how they long forrestoration is hardly necessary. On the 9th of their month

Ab, they fast for the destrueion of their temples and thenational calamities attending those events. There is not amorning or an evening but what they pray, 'Gather us to-gether from the four corners of earth ; 'Restore our peo-ples as of old ; ' Dwell thou in the midst of Jerusalem ;

and these words are uttered in every city where the Jew isfound-that means throughout the world. Such constancy

is almost beyond all bounds, and to this day the SpanishJews in all lands (even in this distant country) put some ofthe dust of Palestine or ' ierra santa,' as they call it, onthe eyes of their dead-a poetic and pathetic evidence oftheir love for the sacred soil.

l 6 'When the railway reaches Jerusalem, Messiah comes,'alludes to Isaiah 66: 20, where the prophet in his vision

sees the exiles returning by all manner of conveyances,among them what he calls ' kirkaroth.' The English ver-sion translates it 'swift beasts,' which is, of course, too in-definite, or 'dromedaries,' which is certainly incorrea.Philologists are not wanting who derive the word from kor,

' a furnace,' and Radar ' to sway '-asserting that theprophet sought thus to coin a word for what was shown him

in his vision, a train in rapid motion. 'When Nicholasreigns redemption comes,' is an allusion to Isaiah 63:4,from which verse Hebraists evolve, by what they term

* Rashe Tehth, ' the sentence, All Judah shall hear andbehold the fall of Nicholas, Emperor of Muscovy, on accountof the oppresiion of the children of Judah, and after happen-ing our fall, will happen our real redemption, and near at

. hand for the children of Judah will be the good tidings ofthe Tishbite prophet [Elijah].' These, and such as these, arcimportant, insomuch as they indicate Jewish thought."



We are forcibly reminded of how near worldly men some-

times come to the truth, without knowing it, by the above

expression that the patriarch Abraham wmdd himselffainbcprcsrnt to receive" the land of promise as his own and

that of his posterity, thirty-six centuries after his death.

This, which some might consider a flight of poesy, the Script-

ures declare shall be an a h a 1 a&. For, a s we have already

seen,* Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with Daniel and all the

holy prophets, will be "made perfea "-awakened fromdeath to perf& manhood, after the Gospel Church has

been glorified (Heb. I I :40) ; and they will constitute the

"princes in all the earth " (Psa. 45 :16), the earthly and

visible representatives of the Christ, the spiritual, invisible'.

ruler. To Abraham as well as to his seed the land af

Pontise was given for an everlasting possession; and hemust receive it in the future, for as yet he has never possessed

a foot of it.-A&s 7 :s.

4. A letter publisl~ed n a Chicago journal bears remarkable

testimony to the gradual progress of restitution in Palestine,

and the preparations for God's promised future blessing

npon it and its people, as follorvs:-Jtrusnlcm, Nov. 23,1887.

"1 am very glad to tell you of the glorious things thatwe have been witnesses of during the six years we havelived here. When we arrived here, six years ago, we num-bered fourteen adults and five children. As we drove upfrom Jaffa we were deeply impressed with the desolation of

the land. Not a spear of green could be seen anywhere ;- the olive trees and vines were so covered with the gray dust

of a hot, dry summer, that you never could imagine there'*

could be any green underneath; and the whole earthseemeddried to its foundations. But we have never seen it looklike that since that time. Every year it looks greener, andnow many of those barren hill-sides are covered with vine-

; p d s and olive yards, quite changing their appearance.

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266 Thy Kingdonr Come.

"You will ask, What is the cause of this great change?God has promised that, like as he brought all this evil uponthis land, so he will bring great blessings unto it, and thesehave evidently begun by the sending of more rain than formany centuries past. He sends beautiful showers and heavydews, where there used not to be any ; and he sends cloudsin summer, which were never known even twenty years ago.This tempers the heat, so that it does not dry up the groundso. Five years ago he sent, in July and August (months inwhich it never used to rain), three hours of rain in Jnffn,and sixteen hours in Damascus, and much all around, sothat the American papers remarked upon it as a proof thatthe climate of Palestine is changing. Also when we camehere, there were very few Jews coming back to this land,but the persecutions in Russiaand Germany and other placesbegan to drive them out; and, in spite of the ediCts of

the Sultan, they began returning to this land, buying land,planting and building, and getting possession of the tradeof the city ; and so to-day there are many thousands morethan when we came.

( 1 Jerusalem is in reality now in the hands of the Jews, sofar as trade is concerned ; and the Jew is no longer underthe heel of the Mohammedan as he once was. They are

also rapidly building up a new city, exaaly on the line ofthe description in Jer. 31 38-40; 32:43-14, so that eventhe Turks, who are in power, are taking notice of it, andare saying one to the other, ' t is God ; and what can wedo?' And what can we say to all this, but that God is rap-idly fulfilling in our day his Word and the covenant hemade with Abraham? And we are witnesses of these things."

Notwithstanding the oppression and tyranny which haveground them down in the very dust, we find many of them

of late years rising to wenlth and distinaion far beyond

their Gentile neighbors. And with such means and dis-

tinoion, in many instances, rises the benevolent ambition

to expend it for the elevation of the Jewish race ; and wise

and well direoed efforts are accon~plishingmuch in this

direoion. The attention of thinking men among both Jews

and Gentiles is being drawn to this turn in Jelvisll affairs.



It is evident from the expressions of leading Jewish jour-

nals, and fiom the various movements now in progress for

the colonization of Palestine, and for the assistance andadvancement of those already settled there, that thousands

are now turning with eager eyes to the land of promise.

This turn in Jewish affairs has been since 1878; and the

shaping of events since that date has caused and is causing

a remarkable awakening on this subjd , which in itself is

a significant sign of the times; From the J&h WmId(Aug. PO&, 1886)we quote, for example, the following :-

<'There are rifts in the clouds which have hitherto cast

so dismal a shadow over the Holy Land. The future ofthat unhappy country, so lpng wrapped in impenetrabledarkness, is beginning faintly to brighten ; nd the glim-merings of a happier state of things arealmost within meas-

urable distance of our forecasts. . . . Two institutions aredestined to play a conspicuouspart in the amelioration ofthe condition of the Jews of Palestine-the AgriculturalSchool at Jaffa, and the Lionel De Rothschild institutionin the neighborhood of Jerusalem. We might add a thirdin the shape of the Montefiore Testimonial Fund, which,by its promotion of building societies and its er dio n of

cheap dwellings, has done much to foster thrift and to re-duce the miseries and hardships of domestic life in theHoly City. . . . What we are concerned at this momentin noting is, that the prospeas of the Jews in Palestineare no longer gloomy. There are, on the one hand, forcesat work for the improvement of the condition of our breth-ren, which have been wisely devised and ingeniously or-ganized, and which are now being assiduously applied;on the other hand, the people are getting tired of theirmisery and inaeivity, and are showing an increasing ten-dency to take advantage of the efforts made for their rehab-ilitation. This is a state of things which is fi-aught withhappy consequences, and no Jew will fail to contemplate itwith pleasure."

In a succeeding number of thesamepapera leadingarticle

on The Future of Palestine" closed with these words :-



068 Tily Kingdom Come.

W ith th e late influx of an agricultural element i n colo-

nies planted by the Montefiore, Hirsch, and Rothschildfunds, willing hands should be found to labor a t th e trans-

formation scene, when ' he desert shall blossom as th e rose;'willing hand s a n d willing hearts that shall reclaim the H o lyL an d from its long night of death, a n d restore to life an dlight th e n atio na l home o f th e Jews."

Ano ther journal, TheJewish Messenger, says :-I dW hile men are absorbed in their little cares, alternately

moved b y hopes an d fears, th e gran d and stately march ofhuman events progresses onward and irresistibly to com-pletion, in the fulfilment of an inevitable law w hich controlsall human a a i o n . M en here a n d there raise their punyvoices as if to stay this tide of advancement, an d arrest thisfiat of th e Eternal. As well might they attem pt to stay th elaw which governs th e universe. Races have as fixed a

course to run as have th e stars th a t dazzle in th e blue vaultabove us, and the race of Israel is the bright fixed star

am ongst them. I n all its wanderings it has been tru e t oits course. It s mission has been foreseen and foretold, a n dits final restoration to th e H o ly L an d prophesied. T h a tthis prophecy is being fulfilled, the signs of the times indi-cate. I t is being accomplished s o quietly, a n d sogradually,

tha t on ly those who have given th e subjet9 atte ntio n real-ize the importance of the work done.

" Palestine is a political necessity t o th e Jewish race. T h efounding of a nation in the H oly Land once m ore meansth e exaltation of all Israel. I t places he r as a nation amongstth e nations of the earth. I t gives t o th e Jew th at politicalpower an d sovereign right w hich mean prote&ion. I t m a li e

him a citizen of his country, and gives him a passportalllongst th e na tions of the earth. . . . This may look im-prafiicable to the man in the counting-room absorbed in hisbooks, t o the man in his store absorbed in figuring up hisprofits a nd losses, to th e man steeped in the bliss of socialpleasures, but it is as clear as the noon-day's sun to who-ever makes a stud y of the po litical horoscope.

" T h e political autonomy realized, t h e Jews scatteredthroughout the world will not flock to Palestine in a body.There are 300,000 Jews in Asia, 400,000 in Africa, and.



5,000,ooo live in Europe. It is from these that Palestinewill draw its life of restoration. The American-boa Jew

will undoubtedly remain an American; and if he shouldever visit the Holy Land it would be for pleasare and travel,and to see a land so famous as the chief birthplace of hisheroic race." t may be said that, geographically speaking, Palestine

is too small to exert much influence as a political, intellec-tual or moral power among the nations of the earth. We

reply that in ancient times Greecewas

a power, and that inmodern times the little island of Britain is a power. Geo-graphically speaking, what are they ? It is intellea, moralforce and pride of nationality that make nations great, andnot the extent of territory. I t is intellea and moral powerthat will make Israel renowned among nations."

TheJczuisA ~ronicZeays :-''The movement is irresistible. We cannot suffer our-selves to stand by with folded hands when this new exodus

is taking place. We Jews have held, for nearly two thousandyears, that the consummation of the ages of d e r i n g wehave passed through will be reached only when me againpossess the land of our fathers. Is that trust to die awayjust at the moment when it appears about to be fuIfilled?Or,

is it to be e x m e d that the return will be broughtabout by means so mysterious as to be beyond the co-opera-tion of human beings? God works his will through thewills of men; and if the prophecies are to be fulfilled, itwill be by human wills and energies. These may seem tobe high topics to drag into conneaion with a praaical planfor placing a few Jewish colonies in Palestine. But it istiom smallbeginnings, suchas these, that great events oftenarise; nd the return of a small body of Jews to the HolyLand can never fail to bring to mind the possibility andthe praeicability of the larger return to which a l l Jewishhistory and all Jewish aspirations have hitherto pointed."

Others, besides Jews,men of prominence in the world,

see and comment upon the rising prominence of Israel. For

instance, note the following from the ~ a Z P ~ e s S '(Instead of dying out, the Jewish body shows increas-

ing vitaIity. They cannot be stamped out or swallowed



270 Z?ty Kingnom Come.

up. T h e y pass from coun try t o country t o became prafii.cally masters wherever they go. T hey g e t th e land inGermany and Hungary, an d grow rich in Russia; they ar e

th e great bankers in Lond on d aris an d the centers ofEuropean commerce. I n ten (recent) years th e Ro thschildsfurnished£ ~oo,ooo,ooon loansto England,Austria,Prussia,France, Russia and Brazil."

L o rd Shaftesbury of E ngland said recently:-

'< T her e is a great jealousy of tha t w onderful people who

a re now ronzinr fo thefronf. A n d what a sign o f the timesit is, that, wherever the Jews are, they are either the mostprominent people to be persecuted, o r th e most prom inentpeople to tak e a lead in a ll the various professions I A prom-inent citizen of Berlin was asked, llYhat is the history ofthis strong anti-Jewish feeling which you have in Berlinand throughout Germany? ' H e replied, '1 wiU tell you :

T hes e Jews, if they go in to commerce, becom e t h e firstmerchants: if they go into the banking line, they becomet h e first ban kers ; if they g o into law, they hc o rn e th e firstlawy ers; o r if they go in to literature, the y beat us all.\Vl~atever career they undertake, they drive o u t the Gen -tiles; and I tell you, sir, we won't stand it.'

t r T h e persecution of th e Jews in Russia and Poland does

n o t depend upon religion o r nationality. These have noth-in g whatever to d o with it. T h e Russians would persecutean y people in the same position as the Jews. Bear this inmind, that the Jews hold in mortgage a very considerablepzrt of the landed pro perty of R ussia; that they hold intheir debt a very large proportion of the peasantry, andvery many of the shopkeepers in different parts of the em-

pire. Every single op po rtu ni ty which now presents itselft o t l ~ e ussian people for plunder an d spoliation of theJews is alrnost sure t o be seized. I n the des truQ ion of the

Jews, an d of the ir papers, Russians get rid of docum entsb y which they are bou nd, an d which might be brought as

evidence against them ; an d so long as there is property tob e laid hold of, so long will YOU find the Russian peoplerising against the Jews."

T h e following is an extra& from a letter in an English

gaper by Mr. Charles Rrade, the novelist, well known in



literary circles, whose conversion to Christ and the Bibleoccurred a few years ago :-

"The Jewish nation, though under a cloud, will eventu-ally resume their ancient territory, which is so evidentlykept waiting for them. The prophecies are clear as dayon two points: That the Jews are to repossess Palestine,and, indeed, to rule from Lebanon to Euphrates; and thatthis event is to be the first of a great series of changes lead-ing to a vast improvement in the condition of poor, suffer-

ing mankind, and of creation in general. Now, we havehere in prospea a glorious event, as sureas thesunwill riseto-morrow. The only difference is, that the sun will riseat a certain hour, and the Jews will occupy Syria and re-sume their national glory at an uncertain day. No doubtit is the foible of mankind to assume tlwt an uncertain datemust be a distant one. But that is unreasonable. Surely itis the duty of wise and sobermen to watch precursory signsand lend tlieir humble co-operation, should so great a priv-ilege be accorded to us."This sudden persecution of the Jews in the very nationwhere they are most numerous-may it not be a precursorysign, and a reminder from Providence that their abidingcity is not European Tartary? Palestine can be colonized&&ually from Russia alone, where there are three millions

of Jews trembling for life and property ; nd the rest wouldfollow. History is a looking-glass at our backs. WhateverJews have done, Jews may do. They are people of genius;and genius is not confined by nature, but by will, by habit,or by accident. What have these people tried and failed

in? Warriors, writers, builders, merchants, lawgivers, bus-bandmen; and supreme in all ! In this, history repeats itself.

They shall be great in the arts of peace and war, andtheir enemies melt away before them like snow off a dyke.Should they seem to require help fkom any other nation atstarting, blessed w i l l be the nation thafproferrs it; and thenation that persecutes them will be made an example of insome way or other. Therefore, if by any chance recentoutrages should decide the Jewish leaders to colonize Pales-

tine from Russia, let us freely offer ships, seamen, money-whatever we are asked for. It will be a better national in-vestment that Egyptian, Brazilian or Pmvian bonds."



A Jewish proverb of recent years declares :-"When the

railway reaches Jerusalem, Messiah comes;" and this is in

harmony with the symbolic representation of the railwayby the prophets ~ a h u m2 :s -5 ) and Isaiah (66:20). ~ n d ,

sure enough, the proverb has not much missed the mark ;

for the railroad will reach Jerusalem "in the day of his

preparation"-n the time of the presence of Messial~.

The following, which we clip from the daily press, has an

interesting bearing upon this subjelt :-a Galileo was right : the world does move. A railroad

is to be built from Jerusalem to Jaffa, on the Mediterranean,31 miles distance, the ancient port of the Jewish capital,and the landing place of the cedars with which the tenlplewas construlted. A Jeri~salem ew, Joseph Nabon by name,who is an Ottoman subje&, has obtained from the Sultan a

charter for this purpose. The charter holds good for 7 1years. The estimated cost of construAion is $250,000. So,then, hereafter civilization is to be domesticated in Pales-tine. The nineteenth century will arrive in those partswhen the first locomotive puffs into Jerusalem."

The following letter, from a correspondent of the Pilis-

burg Dispatch, which recently appeared in that journal, is

confirmatory of present progress in Palestine and especially

in Jerusalem:

Jcrusnkm, July 12,1889."Thirty thousand out of the forty thousand people in

Jerusalem are Jews. The Turkish government, which hasfor ages prohibited them from living 1, nger than three weeks

at a time in the Holy Land, is, under the influence of for-eign governments, relaxing its restriCtions; and at presentthe Jews are coming here by the hundred. They are en-gaging in business, and they now control a great part ofthe trade of Jerusalem. Some of them feel that thc daywhen the prophecy of the Bible that they shall again inhabittheir land shall be fulfilled is at hand ; nd one curious tribe

from southern Arabia claims to have received a revelationt h a t they must leave their desert country and come back toPalestine. These Jews have lived in Yemen Arabia for the



past 2,500 years. They are of the tribe of Gad, and theyleft Palestine 700 years before Christ was born. They arebringing with them many valuable documents which provetheir origin, and areengaging in agriculture near Jerusalem.The persecution of the Jews in Russia and Austria is drivingmany of them here, and there arealso large numbers of Polishand Spanish Jews in Jerusalem. The time of Jews remain-ing in Palestine has been extended, and the restriAionsupon their residence in Jerusalem have been pra&ically

removed. A half century ago there were only 32 Jewishfirmilies in.& Jerusalem, and the number in all Palestinewas only 3,000. Now there are nearly 50,000 in the HolyLand, and three-fourths of the population of Jerusalem ismade up of them.

c1A curious people they are ! Like no other Jews on thefke of the earth. They are nearer the type that existed

here in the past. The numberswho have been forced hereby persecution are supported almost entirely by the differentJewish churches over the world.

One of the great sights of Jerusalem is the Jews' wailing place, where every Friday certain se&s meet on the out-side of the walls of the Mosque of Omar, which occupiesthe .site of Solomon's temple, and with their heads bent

against the stones, sorrow over the loss of Jerusalem, andpray God to give the land back to his chosen people. Thiscustom has been observed since the days of the middleages,and it is one of the saddest sights. I visited it last week.In a narrow alley surrounded by miserable houses-on stoneflags which have been worn with the bare feet of thousandsof Jews-against a wall of great blocks of marble, which

reached for fifty or more feet above them, a long line ofmen in long gowns and of women with shawls over theirheads bowed, praying and weeping. Many of the men hadwhite beards, and long curly locks of silver. Others werejust in their prime; nd I could not but wonder when I sawthe forms of these at times almost convulsed with emotion.Each had a well-thumbed Hebrew Bible in his hand, and

from time to time the party broke out into a kind of chant,an old gray-haired man a&ing as leader, and the rest com-ing in on the refrain. The chant was in a strange tongue,but was translated as follows:-

IS



2 % ~ ingdom Coma.

Leader-For the palnce that lies desolat-Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.Leader-For the walls that are destroyed-

Response--We sit in solitude and mourn.Leader-For our Majesty that is departed-Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.Leader-For our gred mpn who lie dead-Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.Leader-For our priests who have stumbled-Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.Leader-For our kings who have despised him-Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.

a The effe& of this chant cannot be appreciated withouthearing it. The old men and weeping women, who kiss thestones of the wall that separates them from what was oncethe site of Solon~on's emple, and which is even now theholiest part of the earth to the Jew; the genuine feeling ex-pressed by all ; nd the faith they sllow in thus coming here,week after week, and year after year, are wonderfully im-

pressive. It is indeed one of the strange sights of thisstrangest of cities.

' I There are eight agricultural colonies in different partsof Palestine. One of these schools near Jaffa has morethan seven hundred pupils, and a farm of twenty-eightthousand acres. It is situated on the plains of Sharon,where the Philistines lived, and it has tens of thousands of

vines and olive trees. The Turlis are very much averse toselling land to the Jews, but the latter sllorv themselves tobe as good farmers as they are business men ; and the ter-raced condition of the hills about Jerusalem shows that theHoly land was far better cultivated under them than it hasbeen under their conquerors. A large amount of land justoutside of the city of Jerusalem is now in the hands either

of the Jews or of their charitable institutions. Mr. Behar,the head of the Rothschild schools, tells nle they have justbought the Jerusalem Hotel, and will add it to their school.

'

Sir Moses de Montefiore, r h o managed the fund left by arich New Orleans Israelite, built many good houses for Jewson the road between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and there

are a number of Jewish Bospitals.

"Among the people who confidently believe that theJews will soon again own Palestine is a colony of fifteenpersons who live in a fine l~orise uilt on the very walls of



Jerusalem, nd who are known as the Americans.' These

people are not Jews. They are Christians who have comehere from different parts of the United States, and moreespecially from Chicago, to await the fullilment of theprophecy that God will regenerate the world, beginning atJerusalem. [They do not see that the seleaion of theGospel Church must first be accomplished.]''There is no doubt, whatever, that Jerusalem is improv-

ing. The most of its streets are now well paved and thesanitary condition of the city has been greatly improved.The Jerusalem outside the walls is now almost as large asthe city within, and I am told that land has risen in valueto such an extent that the holy city may be said to have areal estate boom. I learn that along the J a a road, just out-side of the gate, property has gone up within a year or soseveral hundred per cent. One piece which belongs to a

charitable institution was bought ashort time ago for $500.

It isnow worth$8,ooo,and cannot bebought for that amount.A telegraph line now runs from here to the sea coast, anda railroad company has been organized to build a line fromJaffa to Jerusalem. For the first time in its history, Jeru-salem has a police force, and its order is now as good asthat of New York."

The following, clipped from 17te Hebrew CArrjrian of

July, '89, is another interesting account of an American

Jew's visit to the wailing place of the Jews at Jerusalem.

He says :-"Having spent several hoursvisiting Jews,my aged friend,

a Rabbi from KOMO,Russia, asked me if I would go withhim to the wailing place to mourn over the desolation of

Jerusalem and pray for Israel's restoration to her formerglory. I will go with you,' I replied, 'and pray veryearnestly that God may hasten the day when Judah will re-turn to the Lord.' Being Friday afternoon, the time whenmany Jews assemble for prayer at t e wall of the ancienttemple, I joined their company. f was, indeed, a mostmemorable sight. Here were Jews from among all nations,

in their peculiar Oriental costumes, and some dressed intheir T&A (praying garments). As loud as they possiblymuld.they read the lznd Psalm. Women with great eas-



Thy Kirgdotrr Cotttc.

nestness cried aloud, ' My G od, my G od , why hast thou for-saken m e ? W hy art thou so far from helping me, a n d fromth e words of my ro aring? 0 my God, I cry in th e day-time,but thou hearest not ; nd in the night season, an d am n otsilent.' T h e men also were weeping a n d rehearsing psalms,litanie s a n d prayers. Most of these earnestly pressed thei rlips against th e stones and liissed them. As I listened tothe ir pathetic prayers I remembered what the rabbins havesaid in the Talmud-that Since t h e ,des t rua ion o f theT em ple , th e gates of prayer have been closed, and o nly th e

gates of tears are open.' T h e rabbi in sad tones repeated :-a' a F o r th e palace tha t lies desolate,' etc.

T h e most touching wailing over Jerusalem is also to be

witnessed in the homes of the pious Jews. A t m idn igh tthey wrap themselves in their prayer garments, put asheson their heads, and prostrate then~selveson the ground.T h e n in melancholy tones they rehearse :-

a A voice of woe from Ramah's hoary tower,A voice of wail from Zion's sain ted kill ;

Alas! my diadem and queenly aower,T h e youthful honors I .emember still.

D ar k is to m e th e solitary bower\Vho di d of o ld a thro ne o f splendor fill.

8' I was su rnam ed Jehovah's fairest bride ;

But now am forced, forlorn, disconsolate,H is heavy wrath and vengeance to abide;My joys a re flown, my heart is desolate.

Come, weep, ye daughters, at my faltering side,For none drams nea r m y sorrows t o abate.

U'Degraded from a peerless eminence,ViEtim of pride and wanton vanity,

hiy beating heart in trem l~ling iolence

Strikes at h er cag e of hopeless misery.Judall laments in tearful penitence,A widow mourning in captivity.

r 4 was in Solymn a radiant queen,A golden cloud was I, the mount of Cod:

But nuw by infidels despoiled, I ween,N o poorer pilgrim o 'er the desert trml.

W renche d from the bosom all my babe.; have heen,T h e

elde rs murdered, steeped th e soil in blood.U'Doth n o one lay my wretchedness to hear t?

And no one check the swifily rolling t ea r?



And no one soothethe sod-empiercingsmart?And no one say, 'The heathen shall not dare

Call him my husband?' Oh, the poisoned dart.

The cruel mockings I am bound to bear IU Father of mercies, come, rep^ with grace

To Zion's dwelling beaut&dLet Israel's eye behold l l y dwellmg place

R e s t d ; then list the hallelujah's strain,The hymning voices of a ransomed race,Greeting the rising wall of that eternal fane.'"ARer this several psalms are read and prayers offered.

When rising from the ground, they say , 'Shake thyselffrom the dust; arise and sit down,0 erusalem. Loose hy-self from thebandsof thy neck, 0 aptive daughter of Zion.'

"A remarkable prayer offered on these occasions, andhaving reference no doubt to Isaiah 7: 14, is :-

" 6 In mercy, Lord, Thy people's prayer attend:Grant his desire to mourning Israel.

0 shield of Abraham, our Redeemer send,Andd is glorious name Immanuel.' I'

Not until further persecutions shall have driven more of

the poorer Jews to Palestine, and modem civilization shall

be still father advanced there, will the wealthier classes of

Jews be attraAed thither; nd hen it will be in great meas-

ure b m elfish motivetiwhen the general and great time

of trouble sM1 render property less secure in other lands

t l w it is now. Then Palestine, far away from sociaism

and anarchism, will appear to be a haven of safety to the

wealthy Jews. But at the present rate of progress, in these

various dirdions, the coming fifteen years will witness

much in Palestine.

There is another feature of prophecy relating to Fleshly

Israel, the fulfilment of which we should now begin to see.

The Apostle Paul declared: "Blindness, in part, is hap-

pened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come

in ;-that is, until the ele& number from among the Gen-

tiles, who, together with the remnant of Israel, are to con-



stitute the spiritual phase of the Kingdom, shall all have

come in to that highest favor, from which Israel as a nation

was cast off, and to the advantages of which they as a peoplehave continued to be blind. In the fullest sense, therefore,

the blindness of Fleshly Israel, otherwise called Jacob, will

not be due to pass away until the seleAion of Spiritual Israel

has been completed. And we are expressly advised (Rom.

I I :26) that their recovery and deliverance from blindness

and prejudice will come out of (mount) Zion, the glorified

Church or Kingdom. But as the Kingdom of Zion to some

extent began in 1878, when our King took to himself his

great power to reign, although the '* feet ' * class were not

yet fully developed and glorified, so the favor of God to-

ward"

acob," through Zion, properly hada

beginningthere, though it will not reach them in fullest measure until

the feet " members of Christ's body are also glorified.

And as 18Sr was the time parallel to the turning of the

light from Jacob to the Gentiles, so it marks the time for

the beginning of the turning back again of special light

upon the long blinded Jews. And, true to its Jewish pattern,the nominal Christian Church is now blindly stumbling,

while only a small remnant of it is being blessed. HOW

forcible and applicable the words of the Apostle, here : Be

not high minded, but fear; for if God spared not the nat-

ural branches, take heed, lest he spare not thee," etc.

But Israel's general recognition of the true Messiah and hisKingdom mill doubtless come about under and through the

restored patriarchs and prophets, whose perfea restorrltiofi

will be the first work of the Christ after all the "body " h s

been glorified. But their blindness will begin to pass away

before; and alreadya

great movement toward Christhas

tet in, especially among the Russian Jews. iLooking in this dire&ion, the signs of the times are so i

pronounced as to be startling. Tlie remarkable religious j



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movement in progress among the Jews ih Southern Russia

is bringing thousands of that people to a recognition of

J d C h r i s t as the long promised Messiah, and to an ac-knowledgment of their national sin, in rejeAing and cru-

cifying him. And this is in no sense the result of Christian

aeivity : t is an independent movement, spring-

ing up out of soil entirely Jewish. The leader of the move-

ment is a Jew, Mr. Joseph Rabinowitch, formerly a mer-

chant, and later a lawyer, and a man of high reputationamonghis people. Mr. Rabiiowitch was not a Jewish rabbi,

and neither he nor any of the leading men of the move-

merit were clergymen of any sea or creed. Concerning

this movement, we quote from an article in iY4rpw's

me&&, and from other reports, as follows:-

rr Its development has been such that it can confidentlybe pronounced no longer a mere experiment with doubt-ful chances of permanent existence. It has manifested aremarkable vitality; its growth has been steady and healthy,positive in charaaer, yet avoiding all unnqtural haste anddangerous extremes. Having been recognized by the Rus-sian authorities as a religio ticita, it now has a legal exist-

ence and legal rights. Its charaAer stamps it as one of themost unique phenomena in the variegated kaleidoscope ofnational, social and religious interests that divide the heartsand minds of the Czar's one hundred and sixteen millionsof subjeas.

"The faith of this new communion is further peculiar inthis, that they propose not to form any organic conneaion

with any existing form of Christianity, but, with the avowedaim of ignoring the historical development of doerinessince the Apostolic age, to draw their teachings direAly fromthe New Testament source, without having any specialregard for the formulas of doArines found in the orthodoxchurches of our times. It claims to be modeled after theJewish-Christian congregations in the days of the apostles.

c r

Energetic in charaAer and ambitious in self-improve-ment and the advancement, politically, socially and morally,of his people, Mr. Rabinowitch years ago became!known as



Thy Kitl&btn Com.

a zealous friend of reform among the Eastern Jews. With an

education and enterprise far beyond his brethren, he setabout to devise ways and means toattain his ideals and ends.

He did what he could to secure for them better politicalrights, but was unable to proteA them against the fierce per-secutions that set in against the unfortunate Israelites inRussia,Roumania and neighboring countries. Heacquaintedhinlself with the advanced philosophical thought of the West,in the hope that its adoption by his people would elevatethem to a higher plane, and thus secure for them higher

ideals and nobler ends. 6ut he soon learned to doubt boththe efficiency of the means and the possibility of appIyingthem to a people whom centuries of persecution and ultra-conservatism had been hardening to principles so at vari-ance with their traditional ideas. H e again attempted towin them away from their greed for gain, which, next totheir formalistic religious exercises, is the all-controlling and

all-degrading fa&or in the mind of the oriental Jew. Buthis endeavors to establish agricultural colonies for them. bothat home and in the Holy Land, proved abortive. Whilein Palestine, the conviAion ripened in him, through an in-dependent study of the New Testament in its relations to theOld, that Israel had made the mistake of its national life,and had become untrue to its historic mission, by the rejec-

tion of Jesus Christ.This conviaion concerning Christ, as the embodiment

and fulfilment of the prophecies of old, and of the idealsand aims of Israel as a nation, is the central thought aroundwhich the whole movement circles. The principles enun-ciated by the humble Nazarene are recognized as those whichalone can accomplish the destinies of the people, and ena.

ble them to attain the end for which they were set apart asa chosen people. It is thus regarded as a serious break inthe normal and historical development of Israel, that eighteenhundred years ago this people as a nation refused to acceptthose tenets and principles which are regarded by all Chris-tians, and now also by hlr. Rabinowitch and his f~llowc==~,

as the legitimate and only corre& outcome of the whole

previous historical development of Israel. To heal this. reach is the ideal aim of tlle Kischinev reformer, by settingin anew there, where first tlie chosen people entered upon



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an erroneous path of national development. In 1880 hepublished a program in which he advocated a complete re-organization of the rabbinical system. He was further ac-

tive in the work of a society for the promotion of agricul-ture among the Jews of Southern Russia; and during thedays of persecution in 1882 he earnestly advocated the re-turn of his people to Palestine. During that period thechange in his religious convi&ion took place. It was notthe result of Christian mission work, nor is he a convert inthe ordinary sense of the word. The change was graduallycffeeed, and only after long deliberation did the thoughtof organizing Christian congregations of the Jewish nation-ality assume maturity in his mind. After his return fromPalestine his conviklion was: 'The key to the Holy Landlies in the hand of our brother Jesus.' In the words, 'Jesusour Brother,' lies the kernel of his religious views. His workhas been successful, and many are accepting his teachings."

When Mr. Rabinowitch began to think that he ought to

be an avowed and open believer in Christ, he was much'

perplexed with the nunlber of s eas anlongst Christians, and

hesitated to join any of them. He says, "As the Jordan

must be crossed to leach Canaan, so Jesus is the way to

spiritual possession and rest." As to the Lord's Supper, hesays that the members of the New Covenant do not cele-

brate this, except as a Passover Supper. They (like us) do

not yet see their way to celebrate it at other times. H e

says the Lord Jesus Christ did not command his disciples

to remember his resurreEtion, but to remember him. Neither

he nor his followers keep Sunday as the Sabbath, litit con-tinue the observance of the Jewish Sabbath. Circun~cision

.is still observed; but it & not considered necessary to

salvation.

It is reported that a Lutheran pastor proposed to a com-

mittee in London that Mr. Rabinowitch should be employed

by their Society as niissionary to the Jews. The committee

declined, though only on the ground that he was not then

baptized. He has, however, since then been baptized in



Berlin, not into the Lutheran Church, nor into the Anglican

Church, but simply into the Church of Christ. Mr. Rab-

inowitch is in possession of letters received from Jews in aUparts of Russia and Roumania, inquiring into the movement,

its rules and its doArines, with a view to joining it, or start-

ing another and similar one.Mr. Rabinowitch possesses a very gentle, humble, lov-

ing spirit, and quickly responds, even to tears, to assurancesof Christian aKe&ion. He does not desire to identify him-self with any seA, but wishes to take his Christianity fromthe New Testament, and grow out of old habits and doc-trines into new ones, as the Holy Spirit may teach him in hiscontinued and prayerful study of the entire Word of God."

Prof. Franz Delitzsch, of Leipzig, the leader of the Jew-

ish missions in Germany and editor of the Sad at4 Nof-

nung, a quarterly devoted to this work, published a pam-phlet of about seventy-five pages on this new religious de-

velopment, the largest space in which is occupied by origi-

nal documents, in both the Hebrew and the German trans-

lation, on this movement. These documents embrace thir-

teen theses ; a Confession of Faith of the National Jewish

Church of the New Testament ; an Explanation of the Faith

in the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, in the sense of this con-

gregation ; a Haggada for the Israelites believing on the

hIessiah, Jesus of Nazareth; and, finally, an Order of the

Lord's Supper. As appendices are added a declaration of

a teacher, Friedmann, to the Jewish believers in Christ, anda declaration adopted by a conference of the latter, held in

Kischinev. The little pamphlet contains all the materials

for a study of the new movement.

These theses, which are to be regarded as the basis of the

new faith, start out with an account of the deplorable state

of the Jews in Russia, maintain that the endeavors at im-provement on the part of the Jews themselves have all

proved futile, and proceed to say :-



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#' There is need of a deep and inner moral renewal, of aspiritual regeneration. We must cast aside our false god-the love of money-and in the room thereof must establish

in our hearts a home for the love of truth, and for the fearof evil." For this, however, a leader is necessary. Whois he to be? In Israel none can be found. "The man whopossesses all the qualifications of a leader-love of Israel,sacrificing of life, pureness, deep knowledge of human na-ture, earnestness in the exposal of the sins and evils of hispeople-we have, after a careful research in all the books ofthe history of our people, found only in one man, in Jesusof Nazareth." The wise Israelites in his day could not un-derstand him; "but we can say with certainty that he,Jesus, he alone has sought the welfare of his brethren.Therefore we should sanAify the name of our Brother Je-sus." "We should receive the Gospel books into our housesas a blessing, and unite them with all the Holy Scriptureswhich were handed down to us by our wise men."

One of the most noteworthy of aseries of articles of faithwhich they have drawn up is the following :-

d g According to the decree of the inscrutable wisdom ofGod, our fathers were filled with hardness of heart, and theLord punished them with the spirit of deep sleep, so that

they opposed Jesus Christ and sinned against him until theprcsent day. But by their unbelief they led other nationsto greater zeal, and they thus contributed to the propitia-tion of mankind, who have believed in Jesus Christ,'theson of David, our king, when they heard the good tidingsthrough the peace-promising messengers (1s. 5 2 :7), whohad been disgracefully expelled from communion with Israel.

In consequence, however, of this our sin against the Christof God, the world has grown rich by its faith in Christ,and the nations in fulness have entered the Kingdom of

God. [They are not clear here. It is the j r l l nunrber ofthe little flock " out o the nations, and not the full na-tions falsely called Christendom, that Paul refers to inRom. 11:25 . ] NOW, oo, the time of our fulness has also

come, and we, the seed of Abraham, are to be blessed byour faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and the God of ourforefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, will take pity uponus and replant tlie branches which have been torn out, into



our own Holy Root-Jesus. And thus all Israel shall sharethe eternal salvation, and Jerusalen~,our Holy City, shallbe rebuilt, and the throne of David be established forever

and evermore."

The following is an extra& from a letter of Mr. Rabino-witch, dated Jan. nnd, 1885, to a gentleman in London :-

g ' Y ~ u r aluable letter, etc., were received. My heartrejoiced when I read then1 and perceived how great andstrong the love of your heart is toward the brethren of theLord Jesus, the Messiah, according to the flesh, and howprecious the salvation of the Israelitic nation is in your eyes.

t g I prostrate myself before Jehovah, the God of our LordJesus; and from the depth of my heart stream forth thewords of the sweet singer of Israel (Psa. 35), 'Let them beashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice atmine hurt. Let them shout for joy and be glad that favormy righteous cause; yea, let them say continually, Let theLord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity

of his servant.' Amen.Herewith I send you my opinions and statements in

reference to those children of Israel in Southern Russia whobelieve in Jesus as the Messiah. From them you will learnt o know the origin of our faith in Jesus (our brother bodily),the Messiah. He is the innermost desire and longing of

.our hearts. Our English friends and brethren in Jesos, ourSavior, may be convinced by the above pamphlet that afterthe Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of allnations, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salva-tion of our God, that now the time has come when thereshall depart from the midst of Israel all unclean persons, andthe bearers of the vessels of the Lord shall be cleansed.

"True, the salvation of the Lord cannot go out andcome into the world with haste (Joshua 6:1) , nor can itwalk with rapidity; but now as Jehovah, the Avantguardand King of the Universe, has passed on before the peopleof Israel, the God of Israel shall come also as Rearguard, asGatherer of the outcasts of Israel. I devote my time andname to the welfare of my stubborn and unhappy nation, to

testify unto them with a brazen forehead, in the strength ofGod, the gospel of promise, which our fathers had received;



viz., that God hath raised Jesus of Nazareth, out of theseed of David, as Savior of Israel.

IIThrough the depth of the riches and wisdom of God,

the highest, our fathers, who were incumbents of the prom-ise, rebelled against Jesus, so that grace might be bestowedupon the heathen nations, not through any promise, butthrough grace in the gospel of the Messiah. Now, afterthe fulness of the Gentiles hat11 come in, the time has ar-rived for us, the sons of Israel, to return to the God ofIsrael and his King, and be his beloved children. We

should accept our heritage of Jacob, which is without limit ;for we are the legitimate heirs, children of Abraham, disci-ples of Moses, servants of the house of David in eternity.Thus our fulness (i.t., he coming of many Israelites toChrist) will be our riches and the riches of the nations, ac-cording to the words of Jehovah by St. Paul, a firstborn of

Israel, and at the same time the foremost among the return-ing heathen.

,"Among my brethren, and in large meetings, I earnestly

admonish, Shake thyself from the dust; arise, put on thybeautiful garments, my people; through the son of Jesse,Jesus of Nazareth, hath the Lord done great things withthee, 0 srael, that he might also work great things among

the nations of the earth, who were blessed in our fathers.'" greatly thank God that I see thousands who cheerfullylisten. Many and worthy sons of Israel are waiting andlonging for the hour, the hour of the grace of our God. Iimplore you, in the name of our brethren in Russia whoseek the salvation, that the friends of our Lord Jesus Christ,wherever they be, may not be silent, but that they give

counsel and speak out boldly, until Immanuel be with usalso, until Jehovah show us him and his dwelling."These are humble words written from afar off."

Joseph Rabinowitch.

In addition to this remarkable awakening,a similar move-

ment has been progressing in Siberia, of which we have the

following account from the Presiytccrian Mtncss.-

c 6 News comes from ice-bound Siberia of a gospel move-ment essentially the same as that of Mr. Rabinowitch's.The leader is Jacob Scheinmann, a Polish Jew, who, twenty



286 Thy Kingdom Comc.

years ago, through independent thought, came to the con-clusion that Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, was thetrue Savior. The s t r ia Talmudic Jews got hill1 transported

to Siberia, where for fifteen years he labored, almost un-heeded, to awaken faith in his fellow-exiles. Anlong theuncalled-for mail matter which was found at Tomsk, wherehe was engaged in business, was a pamphlet by Rnbinowitch,with \vhon~he at once communicated. He has been busydisseminating his views through pamphlets called 'TheVoice of One Crying in the Wilderness.' Delitzsch's He-brew translation of the New Testament is being eagerlyread and studied by the Siberian Jews. I t is said that fully36,000 copia have been thus used."

Thus we see remarkable indications of God's returning

favor to Israel : in driving them out of othgr countries by .great persecutions, in opening up Palestine to receive them,

in inviting them thither by special providences in their favor

in the way of benevolent enterprises for their improvement

apd assistance, and also in this significant movement which

is the beginning of the turning away of Israel's blindness.

And how evidently it is all of God ! In this work for the

restoration of Fleshly Israel, as wellas

in the great harvestwork for the gathering of Spiritual Israel, the agency of the

now cast-off nominal church is entirely ignored. In both

of these great works now in progress the various organiza-

tions of nominal " Christendom" are quietly set aside;

and in his own time and way, and by new, humble, untitled

instruments, as in the Jewish harvest, God is causing hisgreat work to prosper and progress.

And now we inquire, What does it signify? What will

be the outcome of this strange and wonderful work, the

marlied beginnings and rapid strides of which are so mani-

fest in this harvest period? The Apostle Paul distin6tly

shows that the regathering of Israel signifies a regather-

* ing, or restitution, for all ~nankind:"Now if the fall of

them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of



R e s f o ~ a t i o ~ rf Israel. 287

them the riches of the Gentiles [as it was in the turn of

divine favor to them], how much more their fulness."

Through the casting away of Fleshly Israel the Gentiles re-ceived the favor of the high calling, and the " ew " who

appreciate it, and who overcome the obstacles in the way

of attaining it, will be exalted to joint-heirship with Christ.

They will constitute the body of Christ, the great Deliverer.

This was the intent and mill be the result of the casting

away df Fleshly Israel ; but their gathering again and theirre-establishment in the land of promise mark another step

in the great divine plan : they declare that the restitution

of all things, " to the Jew first," but ultimately to "all the

families of the earth," is about to begin. Earth's Great

Jubilee is about to be introduced, and it begins in God's

order with the Jew. Thus seen, Brothers Rabinowitch andScheinn~ann nd their co-laborers are God's instruments in

preparing his ancient people for restitution, even as it is

our privilege to be co-workers with the Lord in the renpi~rg

work conne&ed with the harvesting period of the Gospel

age and its selea, spiritual class. Surely, Israel's f i l l re-

turn to their own land and to divine favor will mean thatthe great Deliverer, Head and body, through whom resti-

tution is to be accomplished, has been exalted to power,

that the Kingdom has come, and that the work of restitu-

tion, of which Fleshly Israel\vill be the first fruits, has already

begun. Therefore, "If the casting away of them be the rec-

onciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be,

but life from the dead? "--restitution-not only for the liv-

ing, but for the dead also, according to the promise; and not

only for Israel, but for all mankind, of which Israel was a

type, and is to be the first fruits. The present beginnings of

favor to Israel are only droppings before a mighty shower

which will refresh, not only Israel, but all mankind. And

though the surgings of strife will yet beat heavily against



Israel, and for a time bring them into still greater tribula-

tion and distress, in the midst of it all God will be with them,

and in due time will help and exalt them.In this conneAion the following item from the public

press dispatches is certainly very significant. The ou;come

of the movement will be watched with deep interest by all

who are walking in the light of the present truth, and who

realize from God's Word that the time has come which God

announced through the prophet Isaiah, saying : ~ 6 mf o r tye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye com-

fortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare

imargin, her appointed th e ] is accomplished, for she hath

received of the Lord's hand double* for all her sins."-Isa. 40: I , 2.

The dispatch referred to runs as follorvs :

A JEWISH KINGDOAI PROPOSED.

Washingfon, D. ., March 5th, 189r.

"William E. Blackstone, of Chicago, to-day visited thePresident of the United States in company with Secretary

Blaine, and presented a memorial in behalf of the RussianJews."He explained that the memorial was the result of a

Conference of Christians and Jews recently held in Chicago,and called special attention to the fa& that it did not an-tagonize Russia, but sought in a peaceable way to give theJews control of their old home-Palestine.

"He pointed out many evidences of the possibility ofgreat development of that county, both agricultrrrally andcommercially, under an energetic government, and said thatthe railroad now building from Joppa to Jerusalem, if ex-tended to Damascus, Tadmor and down the Euphrates, can-not fail to becon~e n international highway.

g' He said that the poverty of the Turkish Government

gives emphasis to the proposed indemnity, by funding aportion of the Turkish national debt througll Jewish cap--

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italists, and that only peaceable diplomatic negotiations areasked for, to the end that all private ownership of land and

propertybe

carefully respeded and prot&ed. In closinghe said that, being on such friendly terms with Russia andhaving no complications in the Orient, it is most fittingand hopeful that our government should initiate this friendlymovement, to give these wandering millions of Israel acet tled and permanent home.

"The President listened attentively toMr.Blackstonels re-

marks, and promised to give the subjea serious consideration.THE MEMORIAL.

The text of the memorial is as follows :-What shall be done for the Russian Jews? It is both un-

wise and useless to undertake to dictate to Russia concern-ing her internal affairs. The Jews have lived as foreigners

in her dominions for centuries, and she fully believes thatthey are 3 burden upon her resources and prejudicial to thewelfare of her peasant population, and will not allow themto remain. She is determined that they must go. Hence,like the Sephardim of Spain, these Ashkenazim must emi-grate. But where shall two millions of such poor people go?Europe is crowded, and has no roo111 for more peasant pop-

ulation. Shall they come to America? This would be atremendous expense and wou!d require years.Why not give Palestine back to them again? Accord-

ing to God's distribution of nations it is their home--an in-alienable possession from which they were expelled by force.Under their cultivation it was a remarkably fruitful land,sustaining millions of Israelites, who industriously tilled its

hillsides and valleys. They were agriculturists and produ-xers as well as a nation of great conlmercial importance-tile center of civilization and religion. It is said, too, thatrains are increasing, and there are many evidences that theland is recovering its ancient fertility.

"Why shall not the powers which, under the treaty ofBerlin, in 1878, gave Bulgaria to the Bulgarians and Servia

to tile Servians, now give Palestine back to the Jews? Theseprovinces, as well as Roumania, Montenegro and Greece,were wrested from the Turks and given to their natural own-ers. D o ~ s ot Palestine as righttully belong to the Jews?

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: ego Thy Kingdom Come.

If they could have autonomy in government, the Jewsof the world would rally to transport and establish theirsuffering brethren in their time-honored habitation. For

over seventeen centuries they have patiently waited for sucha privileged opportunity. They have not become agricul-

turists elsewhere because they believed they were sojourners

in the various nations, and were yet to return to Palestineand till tlieir orvri 1:und. Whatever vested rights, by pos-

session, may have accrued to Turkey can be easily compen-sated for, possibly by the Jews assuming an equitable por-

tion of the national debt.6 r We believe this is an appropriate time for all nations,

and especially the Christian nations of Europe, to showkindness to Israel. A nlillion of exiles, by tlieir terrible

sufferings, are piteously appealing to our sympathy, justiceand humanity. L e t us now restore to them the land of whichthey were so cruelly despoiled by our Rollinn ancestors.

"To this end we respeftfully petition His Excellency,Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, and theHon. J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, to use their good

offices and influence with the governments of their ilnperialmajesties-.Slexander III., Czar of Russia ;Victoria, Queen

of Great Britain and Empress of India; William II., Em-

peror of Germany ;Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austro-Hun-

gary; Abdul Haulid II., Sultan of Turkey; Her RoyalMajesty, Marie Christina, Queen Regent of Spain; with

the government of the Republic of France ; nd with tliegov-ernlnents of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Portu-g ~ l , oumania, Servia, Bulgaria and Greece, to secure tlie

Ilolcling, at an early date, of an international conference toconsider the condition of the Israelites and their claims to

Palestine as tlieir ancient home, and to promote in allotllcr just and proper ways tlie alleviation of tlieir sufferi~ig

condition."[The nicmorial is signed by prouiinent men of all pro-

fessions and creeds fro111Chicago, Boston, New York, Phil.

adelphia, Baltimore and Washington.]

TIIEANGLO-ISRAELITIS11

QUESTION.Since the publication of tlie first edition of this volume, a

criticism of it and espcchlly of this chapter appeared in s o



English journal-The B a n n e r o firaeZ4evoted to the

theory that the Anglo-Saxon peoples are representatives of

the ten lost tribesI'

of Israel. The following appearedin the December, 1891, issue of our magazine ZION'SWATCH

TOWER. We publish it here, believing that it will be of

interest, as it touches additional points, as follows:

T o the Ed i tor of The Ban ner of Israel-

DEAR IR -A recent article in your journal, reviewing

MILLENNIALAWN,VOL. II., and especially its reference tothe Anglo-Israel Question in conneaion with the return of

the Jews to Palestine, has come to my attention ; and as itseems to inquire fora reply, I hasten to answer it briefly.

The point of discussion turns upon the question whether,

after the separation of the ten tribes from the two tribes of

Israel, in the days of Rehoboam, they ever again became

united, either a&ually or reckonedly. Your correspond-

ent claims that there was no reunion and that the name,

Ismcl, from that date forward belonged exclusively to the

ten tribes, and not to the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin,

known as the Jews. This error seems necessary to his the-

ory: that the Anglo-Saxon people are those ten tribes, and

that their prosperity is due to this fa&. We hold that from

the period of the seventy years desolation, and especially

from the return from Babylonian captivity, the nation of

Israel has been recognized by God as one, including all of

every tribe who respeaed God's promises and returned toPiilcstine when Cyrus issued his decree of permission. We

hold that all who did not return were not of the common-

wealth of Israel, not Israelites indeed, but that they were

thenceforth reckoned as Gentiles. We affirm, too, that

those lost " ones who were not Israelites indeed will re-

quire recognition and blessing under the New Covenantduring the coming hIillennia1 age, and not during the Gos-

pel age. Upon some points there seems to be a slight n~is-



understanding of our position. We do not deny that the

ten tribes separated from the two tribes, nor that the ten,

representing the majority, retained as such the originalname of all (Israel), nor that the two tribes became known

as Judah, nor that there was considerable cause for the sep-

aration, nor that it was in accord with God's plan for their

chastisement, nor that the ten tribes went into captivity

some seventy years before the two tribes, nor that God

possibly has some portion of blessing for the descendantsof the ten tribes, as well as for those of the two tribes and

for all the families of the earth, during the "times of resti-

tution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth

of all the holy prophets since the world began."-A&s

3:xg-21.

What we do claim is, that the Great Teacher was right

when he declared that " Salvation is of the Jews," and that

the great Apostle was right when he declared that God's

order is--" Glory, honor and peace to every man that aork-

eth good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; for

there is no respea of persons with God." (Rom. 2 : 0, I I.)

Our understanding of this is, that after the Babylonish cap-

tivity the name Jew became synonymous with Israelite, and

included all who held to the Law and hoped for the fulfil-

ment of the Abrahamic promises-including some from the

ten tribes as well as proselytes from the Gentiles-all who

were circumcised. Moreover, even at the time of the re-volt of the ten tribes, all the individual nienibers of those

tribes did not join in it. Some continued faithful to the

Kingdom of Judah, and continued to live anlong the Jews.

-I Kings I 2 : I 7.We have found,and pointedout thesignificant faEt,thatour

Lord and the Apostles addressed the " welve tribes"

underbnename- the Houseof Israel1'-and this, too, in speaking

dire&ly to the people living in Jerusalem, who, as all admit,



were chiefly of the tribe of Judah, but partially of all the

twelve tribes. The fa& that the Lord and the Apostles

thus addressed the twelve tribes as one nation, and appliedprophecies to them assuch, seems to us quite sufficient reason

for our doing the same.

To quote the texts of Scripture bearing on the different

phases of the subje& would require much space; but who-

ever will take a copy of Young's Concomdanrc, turn to page

528 and note the various instances in which the word Israelis used in the New Testament, will have what seems to be

overwhelming evidence that the House of Israel was no

longer regarded by our Lord and the Apostles as the "ten

tribes " merely, but, as it is expressed, " ll Israel." Note

especially the following texts: hfatt. 8: 1 0 ; I O : ~ ; 15 :24,

31; 27:g, 42 ; Mark 12:29; 15:32; Luke 1:54, 68, and

especially verse 80; also 2 :25, 32, 34; 24: 21 ; lso note

carefully John I : ~ I , 9; 3:1o; 12:13; alsoA6s 2:22,36;

3:12; 4:1o, 27; 5:21, 30, 31, 35; 13:16, 24; 21:28;

Rom. 9:6, 31; 1o:19; II:PJC,26; I Cor. 10:18; Gal.

6 : 6; Eph. 2 : 2 ; Pllil. 3 :5 ; Heb. 8 :8.

4' Salvation is of the Jews," or covenant-keeping Israel-

ites, in the sense that ( I ) our Lord Jesus, the Savior, came

in this line; (2) in that a remnant of these Jews (the Apos-

tics and most of the early Church), called a remnant of

Israel (Rom. g :27 ; I : , 5, 7), became ministers of recon-

ciliation to bear the message to the Gentiles; and (3) in

that the Lord's provision is that, in the restitution work of

the future, fleshly Israel, recovered from blindness, shall

be used as a medium through whom the streams of salva-

tion, issuing from the glorified, spiritual Israel, shall flow to

all thc families of the earth ; as it is written, "Out of Zion

[the Gospel Church, or spiritual Israel glorified] shall goforth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem [the

re-establishcd flcshlg Israel]. "-Isa. 2 : .



294 2Xy Kingdom Come.

But in an y case th e ten tribes ar e left out of this a n d all

such proillises; for neithe r Zion no r Jerusalem (neither th e

typical n or the real) belonged t o them. T o have a sharea t all in th e covenant made with Abraham, they must either

be united t o th e spiritual Israel, of w hich th e Lio n of th e

I trib e o ff it iu h is the head, o r they must become associated

with the literal jurkzlr a t Jerusalem, in orde r to share his

portion in th e com ing times of resti tution; for " he Lord

shall save the tents of JuJah first."--Zech. 12 .T h e arguments of your correspondent seem to be summed

u p in the following extra&, which me quote from yo ur

journal. H e says :-" A s t o the non-return of Israel, a comparison of Jer.

1 3 :1, 4, 10with Ezra I : I shows that the ediA of Cyrus

was in fulfilment of a prophecy which referred exclusivelyto th e Jew s; a n d from Ezek. 4:3-8 it is paten t that Israel'stern1 of captivity had to ex tend far beyond Judah's. T h e reis n o proof whatever th at th e ten tribes were embraced inth e offer of Cyrus."

W e must take exceptions to these statements, an d ask your

renders t o exam ine more carefully th e texts cited. Jereniiah

(29: 1-10) does no t advise th e people to sett le down con-

tentedly, nevcr exp eA ing to return t o Jerusalem, but tha t

they should make themselves comfortably a t hom e in the

land of B abylon, because the re would be no deliverance for

seventy year+a much lon ge r period of captivity than they

had ever before experienced.Ezra I : does not limit to th e m embers of Judah and

Benjamin th e privilege o r liberty to return. O n the con-

trary, verse 3 declares that Cyrus extendcd the offer :a

"Whoever among you that is o all his people; " verse 4

repeats the " whosoever," an d makes the invitation world-

.wide, as was Cyrus' dominion, by the words "in everyplace;" and verse 5 declares that not only the chiefs of

Judah and Benjamin responded, but also a he priests an d



Restoration o Ismti.

the Levites, with all tAorr whose spirit God had awakened "

-i. c., all whose hearts, like Simeon's, were waiting for

the consolation of Israel." Among such were some fromthe ten tribes, even though they were fewer. For instance,

among those who with Simeon waited in the temple for the

consolation of Ismel~vas nna the prophetess, the daughter

of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aslrcr.-Luke 2 :36.

As for the citation from Ezekiel (4:3-8), no suggestion

is offered as to when the forty years upon Judah, or tha

three hundred and ninety years upon the remainder of Israel,

were fulfilled. Your correspondent overlooks the fa& that

although this trouble is divided into two portions it is all

represented as coming against one people, as illustrated by

the one capital city, Jerusalem, which was portrayed by the

prophet as a part of his tableau teaching. Some suppose

the lesson taught to be that God's wrath against the ten

tribes dated from the time of the revolt, when they went

into idolatry, about 390 years before the desolation of Jeru-

salem, and that the wrath against the two tribes dated from

forty years before the desolation, when, under King Ma-

nasseh, the two tribes became idolaters, and that God's

wrath ceased, or was assuaged, by the expiation for their

sins in the utter desolation of Jerusalem and the land. If

this be come&, his favor returned, while they were in

Babylon, to all who revered his promises and waited for

the seventy years of desolation to expire, that they mightreturn to God's worshil> n his holy city and tcniple.

We answer, then, that there is no evidence that the will,. ing, faithful ones of the ten tribes were hindered and did

not return to the holy land after its seventy years of deso-

lation. On the contrary, the evidence shows that they

had the liberty to return and that some of them exercised it.After quoting from MILLENNIALAWN,OL. II., "They

[the ten tribes] deserted the Israelitish covenant, and be-



came idolaters, unbelievers, and praAically Gentiles," yourcorrespondent continues :"This is perfealy correA : he ten tribes did apostatize,

and were formally divorced from the Mosaic covenant. (Jer.3 :8.) But he overlooks the companion jewel-namely,they were to be remarried in a new and better covenant.(1st. 54:4-8 ; Hos. 2 :7, 19; er. 31 :31-33.) The Israel-ites were indeed praaically Gentiles, and are esteemedGentiles to this day ; but that is concordant with prophecy;for Ephraim's multitude of nations ' aregqim or nominal

Gentiles (Gen. 48 :19) ; nd the children of Ephraim-Israel,'which cannot be measured nor numbered,' are the offspringof Lo-ummi, or nominal Gentiles.-Hos. I :9, 10."

We beg to differ regarding the above statement. The

Lord has not remarried, nor will he ever remarry the ten

tribes. The citations prove nothing of this kind. Hosea

gives some hard piaures of a bad people. Chapter I :4, 6,7 seems to mention the ten tribes separately from the two,

but promises no more mercy, but, instead, an utter taking

away of the ten, and mercy upon Judah. Verses g and 10

show the rejeaion (for a time) of all Israel (the natural

branches of the olive), and the grafting in of spiritual Israel

upon the original root or promise-those from among theGentiles who formerly had not been recognized by the Lord

as his people, who had been strangers and foreigners and al-

iens to the commonwealth of Israel, but who are now brought

nigh and made partakers through Christ. This application

of this Scripture is made by the Apostle Paul. (Rom. g:23-

26.) Verse r I declares that a hen," at the time of their re-

jeaion and at the time of the recognition of spiritual Israel,

Judah and Israel would be reunited under one head.

Hosea 2 :1-7 includes one of the proofs offered ; but the

most careful search in these verses discloses no promise from

the L ~ r dhat he will remarry them. Reading down toverse -13 proves to the contrary. Then verses 14-18 show

the " door of hope " for these rebellious people, which tha



Millennia1 reign of the true spiritual seed of Abraham (Gal.

3: 6, 29) will open ; or verse 18 locates the date of this

door of hope," by declaring it to be after the time oftrouble, when wars shall be no more.

Verses 19 and 20, if applicable to the fleshly seed at all,

should be applied to nlZ Israel " (last before mentioned)

-see Chapter I :II-and in that case would not call for

fulfilment before the close of the Gospel age, when wars

shall be no more. But there is good reason for believingthat these verses (19 and 20) relate to the spiritual class,

seleQed during the time when fleshly Israel has been cast

off. To this view the 23rd verse as well as Chapter I : 0

gives support, both being quoted in Rom. g:23-26, and

agreeing well with the Apostle's other statement, " srael

hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the ele&ion

hat11 obtained it, and the rest were blinded."-Rom. 11:7.As for Isaiah 54 :~ -8 , the Apostle Paul has thrown the

light of superhuman wisdom upon it, and has applied it to

spiritual Zion, our mother or covenant,symbolized by Sarah.

The fleshly seed of Abraham had been cast out from being

heir of the promise, and the true seed, Christ (typified by

I m c and Rebecca), had been received a s the only seed of

promise.-Gal. 4:22, 24, 26-31.

Jeremiah 31 :2933 is quite to the point. It was written

at a time when the ten triks, called Israel, were separate

fro111 the two, called Judah ; nd hence it was necessary forthe prophet to mention both, in order not to be misunder-

stood to mean the ten tribes only. But here, in verse 31,

he puts the two together ; nd, after thus joining them as

one, he uses the one name for all, in verses 33 and 36; and

this is confirmed by verses 38-40, which describe places

lying in the portion ofthe two tribes, in and aboutJerusalem.

But next let us notice that this is a prophecynot yet ful-

filled; so that the ten tribes, even if they could clearly iden-



tify themselves now, have as yet no cause for boasting.

They would do better to wait until the New Covenant is

made with them, and until the law of that New Covenanthas been written in their hearts. Then surely they will no

longer boast themselves of their oln'cuvcnant, but of the new.

During the Gospel age the New Covenant and its blessed

heart-writing and spirit-teaching is not for the ten tribes,nor for the two. I t must first be sealed by the blood

(death) of the Mediator-HeadanG Body, from Jews andGentiles. The fleshly seed (Ishmael) must wait until the

spiritual seed (Isaac) has inherited all, and must thenget his portion through Isaac. In those days--when the

fleshly seed receives its portion-the blessed Millennia1privileges, mentioned in verses 2gand 30,willberealized.

Beloved, let us make our calling and eleaion sure by theobedience of faith, and not hope for sfirirUalblessings to

come to us because ofJPesh(yconne&ions-which the Lord's

lf'ord clearly shows us cannot be. If the Anglo-Saxon

races are the literal descendants of the ten lost tribes, it

certainly is to their adzrantage that the Lord will overlook

the relationship and count them as Gentiles; for his favorwas withdrawn from the natural seed when the remnant had

been sele&cd, and he turned to take out the people for his

name from among the Gentiles, who previorisly were not

his people; and, as we have seen, no return of his favor is

promised until the ele& Church shall have been completed,

in the Millennia] dawn.Nothing in our understanding of the teachings of the

Scriptures is in opposition to the idea that Great Britain,

Germany and the United States may contain some of the

descendants of the ten tribes which separated from the two

tribes in the days of Rehoboam. It could not be claimed,however, by any one who is familiar with the radical mix-

* ture which prevails, especially in the United States, that



any of these nations are of pure Israelitish stock. Neither

do we debate the question whether the prosperity of these

nations, more than that of some other nations of the world,is due to their lineage. Perhaps this is true. What me do

maintain, however, is that, so far as the Lord's "high call-

ing" of his Church is concerned, the middle mall of parti-

tion having been broken down, the Israelitish origin of anindividual or a nation would, under the terms of the GraceCovenant, gain the individual or the nation no advantage

over other individuals or nations of a different race. From

it "all Israel," the natural branches," were broken off,

except a "remnant" which accepted Christ, the mediator

of the New Covenant ; and that "ren~nant" had no pre-

eminence over others because of nationality. God, through

the Apostles, has preached no favors to Israel according tothe flcsh during the period of the seleAion of spiritual Israel;

but he has declared that when the company of spiritual

Israel is complete, his favor will return to the fleshly house.

Because we believe that the spiritual Israel is nearly com-

plete, therefore we are expeAing blessings upon the Israel-

ites who are according to the flesh, and the turning awayof their blindness, anticipating that they will be the first of

the restitution class to be blessed by spiritual Israzl, and so

4 4 obtain mercy through your mercy." (Rorn. I I :31.) After

they have thus received mercy through the complete and

glorified Church of Christ, they will indeed be used as the

Lord's instruments for blessing all the familics of the earth,and thus the Abrahamic promises will be fulfilled unto both

the seeds-both that which is according to the flesh, and

that which is according to the ~pirit--'~To he end that

the promise might be sure to all the seed ; not to that only

wliich is of the law, but to that also whicll is of the faith

ofAbra11am."-Rom. 4: 16. Yours respeQfully,

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