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benefits of which she has been made the recipient by God,
and when I think of the pounds, shillings, and pence part of
the matter, I am ashamed that only £2`1,000 were collected
and I bang down my head. (Hear, hear.) Why, the church
of Christ ought to come and „give-back the gifts she has re-
ceived at the hands of the Jew. This is the true way in
which to look at the matter : and I verily believe that if the
cause be laid before the church of Christ, there will be a
response made to the application, which will surprise ourselVes
and prove to others that there is a feelinr, in the chord of
Christians which will vibrate if it be only touched by the min-
istry throughout the length and breadth of the land. (Loud
cheers.). But there are other reasons why I think we should
come to the rescue of this people, and one of those is, a con-
sideration of the past privileges of the Jew. Look to the con-
dition of that people during the 1500 years they constituted
the church of Christ. It is not my intention here to go back
to the call of Abraham, hut I refer you to the 1500 years
during which they Were established in the land of promise.
It appears manifest that God selected the nation out of all
the nations unoer heaven. He took them out of the midst

ot another nation. He made bare his arm in the time of
Pharaoh. He brought plague upon plague for the purpose
of proving this fact, that he was God over all the earth, and
that he would do according to his pleasure. And then if we
follow the Israelites in their passage through the wilderness,
what do we find ? by, we find that the ordinary course of
nature was reversed, that Goa hedged them in a corner, that
when the sea rolled between them and the opposite side, and
death th,

reatened them in the rear, God set at n
evil devices of the enemy, and, by commanding the sea to

enabled his

3Somed people to, pass over

•ras a wonderful distinction ; but alryou who go with them
into the land of promise, what do you find ? Their history

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was marked with light, and distinguished from all histories
be this feature : that God condescended not only to be their
historian, but that he condescended also to be their guide,
and that he consented to go before them in a cloud by day
and a pillar of fire by night. This was a distinction of which
they might well be proud. (Hear, hear.) But what has been
their condition for the last 1800 years ? They are scattered
among all nations—they area bye-word among the people,
and the Gentiles have treated them with all kinds of ignominy.
When 1 contrast their condition now with what hey were in
times past, they appear to me to be like Gideon's fleece.
Under those circumstances, I say that the exertions of the
Christian church do not keep pace with the occasion,
they commensurate with the obligations we owe
3od of Israel. It is to me a plain and self-evi-
dent fact, that there are glorious prospects plared hefoi e
the Jews in the Old Testament scriptures ; for when
we look to the Jew what do we see ? We see a man with a
mark on him like that of Cain. All this may be true, and

we see