Jews may not be found. Many precious grains were gathered at the first preaching of the Gospel from among them, showing, as St. Paul says, "God hath not cast away His people, for I also am an Israelite."-"God hath not cast away his people, whom he foreknew." (Rom. xi.) And so, now and then at this time, in our own country and on the continent, the labours of a Society for promoting the knowledge of Christ among the Jews are blessed of God, and other grains are gathered in to Christ.

Must we not also remember that the most wonderful part of their history is yet to be fulfilled. Why are they kept distinct? Why preserved separate from others? That God may yet prove He is faithful to keep His promises, and His covenant that He has made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Prophecy upon prophecy foretells this wonderful event. However difficult of fulfilment, we must honour God, by believing it. Thus we are told, "I will cause the сарtivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel to return, and I will build them as at the first and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me,..............and it shall be to me a name of joy, and praise, and an honour before all the

nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I shall do unto them." (Jerem. xxxiii. 7, 8.) Or again, when it is said they "shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim." This is their state truly now. For one lesson they have learnt in their affliction,-they are no longer idolaters, and though they have no sacrifice, because no temple, they have no images, and no false gods. Then their future state is foretold "Afterwards shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.” (Hosea iii.)

Note one more such promise of a "God that cannot lie," "At that time I will bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord." And above in the same prophecy it is said, "I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame." (Zephaniah iii. 19, 20.)

Herein then will the great power, and the never-failing faithfulness of God be seen in

their restoration and conversion, as many other Scriptures foretell.

And all this is written for our learning. Behold the wonderful wisdom and love of God, "through their fall salvation is come unto us Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness." And "if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead." (Rom. xi. 12—15.) But let not us exult over their fall. Let us not be highminded, but fear. Can the sins which were their ruin be found among us? According to our privileges and light, so is our responsibility. What are we doing with our Sabbaths? What with the Word of God? Are we honouring God by our trust in Jesus, as our Priest over the true house of God? Are we acting as God's witnesses to others? Does our light so shine, that men who see our lives, know our characters, and hear our words, glorify God in us?

W. HUNT, STEAM PRESS, TAVERN STREET, IPSWICH.