all nations shall call you blessed " (Mal. iii. 12). These passages seem sufficient to establish the doctrine, that when Israel inhabit their own large kingdom they will be supreme among the nations. None will dispute their supremacy; none will muster in battle array their vast and well trained forces to overthrow it. All will acknowledge it, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same; and all will willingly and joyfully pay homage unto it. If any nation dares be delinquent in such service destruction is its certain doom-" it shall perish."

But large as we have seen the land of Canaan, Messiah's kingdom to be, when in glory he shall reign over the house of Jacob, we have not yet seen its full extent. Ah, no. When the heavens reveal Him at the time of the restitution of all things; when he shall come to be Israel's king, they, converted to him as the Messiah, and ready to receive him as such, will, with one voice, exclaim, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" The veil of Moses being taken from their hearts, and they seeing clearly that this is the Shiloh promised to the fathers, as a nation, they will repent and believe in him. And being thus converted to the true faith, as Christ did before, so he will do again: send them forth missionaries, to preach the gospel of his kingdom to other nations; for the disciples, the seventy, Paul, and Peter, were only types of what they as a nation shall be. Again he will invest the Jews with his divine commission, and send them

forth with greater power and success than went the twelve of old. Salvation was first and specially made known unto the Jews, and salvation is of them, for of them Christ came, and they were the first messengers of salvation to the Gentiles. It was through their labours and preaching that the gospel was carried beyond the territory of Judea, and proclaimed in many heathen lands. And again this high, and holy, and honourable work is awaiting them; for when Messiah comes he declares, "I will send those that escape" (from the battle of Armageddon) "of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles."

That the Jews in this case are to be the messengers sent admits not of a doubt, for they are the persons who will then have specially heard of Messiah's fame and seen his glory; they are the persons here spoken of as exalted to high posts of special honour; and while they are to be priests and Levites to the Lord, so also are they to be his messengers to the Gentiles; to those islands and their inhabitants, and perhaps to others like them, who have not heard his fame nor seen his glory. According to this, another deputation of Jewish missionaries, receiving their commission directly from the Lord the King, as did the apostles of old, shall visit heathen nations, declaring the true character of Messiah; not merely setting forth his humiliation,

suffering, and death, and declaring these to be an atonement for the sins of men, but also proclaiming his resurrection from the dead, and exaltation to boundless, inconceivable glory; not only revealing him as the crucified, but also as the supremely glorified; and, by a power peculiarly their own under this new dispensation of missions, proclaiming him the Saviour. This proclamation and glorious preaching, full of such glad tidings, accompanied by the special and all successful blessing and power of him who commissioned them, every Gentile ear will be open to hear, and every heart ready to believe; to believe in him whom they declare to be the SAVIOUR and the KING, and exalt him to the throne of the affections. No sooner will his name be announced, and his glory declared, than men will believe; for then Satan's power and influence will have been utterly annihilated, and that of the Lord the King alone will exist in its unopposed mightiness over all the earth; and then shall the whole of its inhabitants in that great day of his power be a willing people. Satan, the arch deceiver and leader in all earthly revolt, in the bottomless pit, shut up and sealed, will exert no opposing influences; will not fill the mind with enmity to the truth; but, under the only and everywhere mighty influence of the only ruling, holy king Jesus, all men will profoundly listen to the glorious proclamation of saving truth; all will receive the glad tidings, full of great joy, and all will believe. The divinely-commissioned heralds of conversion, the

brethren of the great King according to the flesh, running to and fro, shall visit all lands, go into all the earth, preaching these glad tidings, till every ear of man has heard, and every dweller upon the earth believed, in him whom they reveal, until "the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea;" until from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, his name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto his name, and a pure offering; for his name shall be great among the heathen."

Thus will the reign of peace and blessedness, the glorious millennium, be introduced, and not by missionary operations, as they are carried on in the present day. These may and do serve God's gracious and glorious purposes of gathering a people unto himself from among the Gentiles; a multitude which no man can number, out of every kindred, tongue, and people, and nation; and ought therefore to be carried on with a thousand times more munificent pecuniary contributions, energy, and self-consuming zeal on the part of the Christian church than they have ever been. But great as these efforts may be, involving the whole mightiest energies of the church, they cannot introduce the millennium, because they cannot bind Satan and cast him into the abyss; and while he is at large, as he has been since the seduction of our first parents in Eden, there can be no millennium. Let the missionary of the cross go where he may, sowing the good seed of

the word, the wicked one will be there sowing the tares, and under his influence the thorns will spring up and choke the good seed. It will be as it has been for six thousand years. He will keep up in the heart of man hatred of the truth, enmity to God, and rule in the hearts of the children of disobedience. Wherever the sons of God meet to present themselves before the Lord, he will be sure to be among them, exerting his influence to their injury, exciting unhallowed feelings, heartburnings, and divisions. To his evil influences upon the hearts of men, to his mighty opposition to the progress of the truth, there shall be no end while he is at large, like a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may devour. And whatever therefore may be the efforts of the church, and her praiseworthy exertions to convert all nations, yet her mightiest endeavors must ever fail, as they have heretofore done under apostles and the special outpourings of the Holy Spirit, while Satan, the inveterate enemy of the human race, is continually working in the hearts of the children of disobedience. While Satan is at large as he has been, it is manifest from the past there can be no millennium; and the teachings of scripture are clear and positive on this point, there will be none, until the angel comes down from heaven and binds and shuts up Satan in the bottomless pit, and sets a seal upon him, that he shall deceive the nations no more till the thousand years are fulfilled. The binding and shutting up of Satan, then, is necessary to the introduction and