Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-08-15

proof. What greater wonder can you re-
quire than that Of q people scattered
thruahout the W de face " ,he Rlobe-a
people hunted and pursued by the hatred
and prejudice of al mankind, people sur
vivirg ita ofpress~s, ,rianphing over i's
prosecutors, na by force, not hy power Of
esis,ance, tu, by power Of endurance be-
causc lheN e,eva,ing hope coul wear out
the crushing reality and because that hope
is founded on the law of God Show us on
man, one people ofthat really olden time,
that has suffered such viciss,udes as Israel
has. Show us one pooplo Of the really
% den time that survives TO relate them as
Israel does. You boast Of the philosophy
Of the Greek, you boast of The pol!ty Of the
Romans, of tho skill of the Phoenecian.-.--
Where are they Those nations have.
disappeared They live but in history.
Search their lands through, yon cannot find
one man who says, ~ am the genuine
descendant, Of those Greeks Of Marathon,
of,losc who conque,cd al Salamis." Go
AZ nore. Tosv ,iIUs; tho trace their de-
scent The farthest, where does il end
Among those bsrbaridns Of the north Who
,uhjected sll empires, you cannot find
man who says" an, descended from tina,
Bru,us WHO banished Monarchy. from that
fubli"o'a whom the people loved" Those
Romans who ru'ed the earth, their raee j.
extinct, Their pame only lives in hs,orys
Accom- lished rs they we're, powerful as
, they were, numerous as they were ; they
have disappeared from the earth because
the word of God had said "of all thy perse-
cutors win make an end, but oi thee will
not make an end"
Show me one other instance, in the his
Vy Of mankind, of a nation situated Ike
Israel tina, during $500 years has not on'y
preserved lis existence, but its institutions,
has moi only preserved its institutions un-
impaired, bat clincs 10 them with all the
love. the iervour, and the heartfelt deyo-
hon that their first fathers evinced when
th.sc Institutions were first inti.nated to
u I'm. Israel has been compared to The
olive tree, 10 the perennial olive tree, and
The comparison is lu,t. Its crown is COW
cred with the snow Of hoary age. Forty
centuries and their storms have assa led il
hul not 0yertl rONn il, or weakened il, be-
o N to hpar, La
strong and healthful, because its roots are
firmly fixed and supported by the Rock of
ages. God has sad that so long as sun
and moon retain their existence, so lons
shall I'rael no, cease to be people.
Because hat in the moral word, they do
Tho same service to their God. that sun
and moon d" in the physical world. These
are The two grea. books Of revelation, Ma
iure which teaches us the power If God
the Bible which teaches ns The will Of God.
Sun and moon a ID stars and planets, and
AL The systems thar rerolse in space are
Witnesses to Ills power; We are wines
scs to Ills viii We have thus shown no,
only the nature of the relation between
God and US, but also the important purpose
Tor which this relation was instituted, that
We might be the Witnesses Of our God, not
by our "is lom, not by our talents, not by
our merits, but by the on,crfal fact of
onr preservation.
III. II now remains for US 20 gee what
are The duties incur,ben, on US, in conse-
Guence oi this relation.
To renal true 10 the Lord our God
and TO His Holy Law. Every Israeli,e
who rrocIsims aloud TO the nations of earth
his cotfession Of Faith d" Hear o Israel
he Lord onr God The Lord is one"
Every t5rael.ic who does tins, in sincerity,
IS Missionary sent forth among ear'h's
na'lon<. to preach in the most powerful
manner, the most holy Of all truths. viz
There is od." Every lsraclte who
obeys the law OF his GOd, who observes The
Sabbath and holy days, who governs his
appetite and abstaus from that which is
forbidden. who in a things serves his God,
aud IN his life and conduct is subordinate
10 The Law oi God. Tha, Israeite is q
Missionary, who breaches TO all the nations
of earth, the second gtea, ruth, that Col
did reveal Himself 10 uan, that He gave a
law 10 man and made man obey HIS VIII.
That lsraeltc who loves the Lord his
God, who loves the stranger, who loves
his neighbour as himself who knows what
the Lori his God requires Of him, 20 do
Jds,ice, TO love mercy, to walk humhly iih
his God, lie is Missionary who breaches
Ia all the nations Of the earth the third
great ruth that there is God above, !, no
eXacjs responsibilities, who inhicts re,ri5u-
,"n-, who punishes the bad and rewards
the good Thus every Israei,c who is
ready for the love of his God to sacrifice
his ,ncilnsiiuns on the altar Of duty, who
remembers at all times that he and his
people arc the children, the witnesses Of
she LoId his God; The Israelite who does
silis is irdeed acting up TO the duly which
hrs people took on themselves when al
Sinsi He proc aimed His Law aud they
said whatever the Lord our Gud COM