tively circumscribed and insignificant have been the conquests of the Church. It was conclusively argued, on an occasion kindred to the present, by a distinguished expositor of prophecy, that there has been nothing deserving the name of national conversion since the earlier triumphs of Christianity. Does not history thus appear to give her testimony in support of that interpretation of prophecy which we have been advocating? And even judging according to the operation of secondary causes, it is not difficult to conceive that the restoration, conversion, and exaltation of Israel, must exert a mighty, an overpowering influence on the kingdoms of the world. An accomplishment of prophecy so stupendous, a miraculous interposition so universal, must arouse the most insensible, arrest the most heedless, and stagger the most sceptical.

"But directly, as well as indirectly, are the Jews to subserve the evangelization of the world. It is strongly intimated by the voice of revelation, that they are to be the seed 'sown in the earth,' and 'the joy of the whole earth.' Let it be remembered that there have been no such evangelists as those which Judah furnished. The quarry whence a Paul, a Peter, and a John, were hewn, is the quarry whence we ought to look for the noblest missionaries of the latter days. There they exist, preeminently qualified already for the missionary enterprize, and only needing the vivifying touch of heavenly grace to make them stand up a mighty army, trained and harnessed for the conflict. Scattered among all people, inured to all climates, familiar with all languages, intimate with all customs, disciplined to all hardships, they would require no tedious process of preparationthey might leap at once, fully appointed, into the battlefield. Long and loud have been the complaints of the

Church, that while the harvest is plenteous, the dulyfitted labourers are lamentably few. Why have not her eyes been turned with more intense expectancy to that people, who supplied the glorious band that bare the cross triumphant round the globe? If, indeed, she travail in birth till the world be redeemed; if she be very jealous for the honour of her Lord; if her bowels yearn over the miseries of mankind; if she be weary of her humiliation and reproach; if she be oftentimes constrained to exclaim, O Lord, how long!' then let her sympathies, her efforts, her expectations, and her intercessions, be more concentrated on the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

§ 10. To close this subject, I would name the confirmation of the doctrines of our holy religion as another happy effect of the conversion of the Jews. It cannot but be exceedingly painful to the lover of truth, when seriously reflecting how almost every doctrine of the Bible is either openly denied or awfully perverted and corrupted; and this is not the case with the wicked and profane only, but many honest and sincere professors of the Christian religion hold pernicious errors, as if they were truth taught in the Bible, merely because. they were handed down to them as a legacy of their forefathers. Such was the case with the apostle Paul before his conversion; he verily thought that Jesus Christ had been an impostor, deceiver, and blasphemer. But after his conversion, when he was led to examine the Scriptures, he renounced the vain traditions received of the fathers, and became a zealous defender of the faith delivered unto the saints. The Jews, being once convinced by the Spirit of God of their guilty and helpless condition as sinners before the bar of Jehovah, will receive no other Messiah but one who is a Divine per

son, made a perfect satisfaction for sin, and brought in an everlasting righteousness. Like Thomas, they will acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Lord and their God. Then the Jews, as a nation, will adopt the whole of that glorious prediction of Isaiah, which has never been fulfilled, and say, "He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Isa. liii. 3—5. Notwithstanding all that has been said, there have been many objections raised against the Christian efforts made to promote the conversion of the Jews. Those considered the most weighty I shall answer in the next Part.

END OF PART II.

PART III.

OBJECTIONS TO THE EFFORTS MADE TO PROMOTE THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL.

§ 1. HAVING been engaged for more than thirty years in behalf of my Jewish brethren, I have had more frequent opportunities than others to hear objections, which would fill a volume. A gentleman in Wiltshire thought the object a very bad one, because thousands had nothing to live upon but a little pork; but when the Jews are converted he thought pork would become so scarce and dear that many would starve. Another person at Leith was quite shocked at the thought of the Jews being converted, for he had been taught to believe that, when the Jews are converted, the world would be at an end, and that to him seemed to be a great calamity, for the world was his only portion. But such, and a multitude of other objections, I shall pass by, and notice only one common objection with Jews and Infidels, and then proceed to answer such as are advanced by those who profess to " pray for the peace of Jerusalem."

It is a too common assertion, "that for a person to change the religion in which he was born and brought

up, is the worst thing he can do, and is a sure evidence of his being a bad man, and, therefore, it is very wrong to persuade the Jews to become Christians." To my Jewish brother I would say, you would certainly be shocked at the very thought that our father Abraham, who renounced the idolatrous religion of his fathers, and worshipped the true God, "did the worst thing a man could do, and thereby evinced himself to be a bad man.' Besides, if his conduct was blameable, the blame falls on Jehovah, whose express command was the rule of his conduct. And dare any one, who is called by the name of Jesus, assert such a principle? Did not He commission his apostles and ministers to preach his Gospel to every nation; to open their blind eyes; and to turn them from darkness to light; from their dumb idols, to serve the living and true God? If a Jew or a Gentile, for renouncing the religion of his fathers, and believing in Jesus Christ, be blameable, the blame belongs to Jesus, who commands all to believe in him, and not to him who obeys this divine command. Farther, is it not universally considered contrary to reason, to continue in the erroneous belief and practice of our forefathers, in matters of a temporary or worldly nature ? The husbandman, the mariner, the mechanic, the artist, the lawyer, and the statesman, each and every one considers it his duty and privilege to depart from the old mistaken views, principles, modes, and manners of his forefathers, and to follow the more correct, improved, and useful ideas and principles of the present day : and why should we not much more renounce the religious errors of our forefathers, and embrace the true religion of the Bible? Surely it is of infinitely greater importance to secure our spiritual and eternal happiness, than to improve our temporal and worldly circumstances;