ing illustrations suffice: "All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee: the rams of Nebaioth shall muster unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory" (Isaiah lx. 7). "Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts, and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe therein " (Zech. xiv. 21). "Then shall the offering of Jerusalem and Judah be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years " (Mal. iii. 4). "The daughter of my dispersed shall bring mine offering" (Zeph. iii. 10).

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The fact that the Law of Moses is suspended during the absence of Christ from the earth, and while his body is being developed by the faith and obedience of the Gospel, does not interfere with the testified purpose of God to restore it as the rule of Israel's obedience in the happy day of the return of His favour to them. In the day of Moses, it was the prophetic though unperceived adumbration of salvation by Christ, while serving the purpose of a national system and preliminary educator of the people of God in the day of Christ, it will be the understood typical memorial of the work accomplished in him in the day of his rejection, while serving the purpose of a means and joyful occasion of that obedience which it will be Israel's joy to render in a day when they shall be "all righteous, inheriting the land for ever (Isaiah lx. 21), and when the words of God will be fulfilled, which say : "A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them" (Ezek. xxxvi. 26).

In all the circumstances, it is not wonderful that the last injunction of the Scriptures of the "Old Testament" should be:

REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES, MY SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED UNTO HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND THE JUDGMENTS" (MAL. IV. 4).

The close of the nineteenth century finds the public attitude the very reverse of this, under the influence of natural bias and the sophistical ingenuity of a hostile learning, which superficially trifles

with the majestic theme under the glib technicality of " the Pentateuch." The close of the twentieth century will find it enthroned on Mount Zion in the glory of Messiah's reign, imposed upon an unwilling world by the hand of coercive judgment which will fulfil the prayer of David placed on record nearly 3,000 years ago: Arise, O Lord: let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men (Psa. ix. 19).