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to which they aSSented. The terms ofth e covenant were that they should be willing and obedient, rendering worship and service to Jehovah and to none beside; and that He would be their God and would defend them from enemies and give them possession of the land in which their fathers had sojourned.
 Some nine hundred years later He said by the prophet Jeremiah: "Be- hold the days come that 1 will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was d husband unto them." And the Epistle to the Hebrews, written some six hundred and seventy years after Jeremiah. in ferS: "FOr if that first covenant had been faultlcss, then should no place have been sought for the second. " And "In that He saith a new cov- enant, He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away"
 It also recalls that the blood of the Mosaic covenant was sprinkled on the Book of the Covenant, which represent ed Jehovah, and on all the people, and says: "Ye are come to Jesus, the medi- ] atOr of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh bet l ter things than that of Abel;" and concludes with the prayer that through "the blood of the everlasting GOV enant" they may be made "perfect in every good work to do His will."
 l Notwithstanding the impractic;l- bility of this people, the several tribes at length received their allotments in the land of promise. And their con- dition rcSembled that of the American colonies under the British crown. The tribes were politically equal and in- dependent. Each occupied it's own
 territory and managed it's own affairs. Their bonds of union were a common ancestry and a common religion. They
 joined armies only when it was neces
 Sary to repel invaders who not un frequently were more than a match
 for the individual tribes. They had q
 common sanctuary to which as indi
 vidualS and tribes it was their privilege
 and duty to repair at least thrice g year. That they were negligent ir
 this particular was not only their fault
 but their misfortune, as it weakened
 the unity and fraternal fellowship
 through which they could have pre- Sented formidable front to the pcs
 tilent spoilers that were ever ready t(
 take advantage of their unprotected , isolation. The remedy that at lengtl
 occurred to them, as to our fathers
 was general government, which in
 deed they already had, if they hat
 known it and availed themselves of it
 He who brought them out of Egyp with high hand and an OutStretchct
 arm and had planted them in a lanC goOdly for fertility and eligible fo
 location, driving out their enemies
 before them, was able to make then
 lie down in green pastures and to lcat them beside still waters and to mak, their cup run over with an abundanc,
 of worldly goods. In choosing
 king for all Israel the several tribe
 parted with share of their independ
 encc. And under Solomon the cxpen
 sivencss of the royal style brough about a biSectiOn of the government , as if it were cheaper to run two gov
 ernmentS than one. And SO were sac rificed the glory of Hebrew eminencc the fruits of extensive cOnuueStS an, the revenues of colonial possessions And two unimpOrtant, if not con temptible, jurisdictions took the plac
 of one splendid, Ifrst-class power However God had purpOScd throug , this people to establish among men, kingdom for Himself, for the bcneti j of this people and all others, nor wa He faltering in that design, notWitl
 standing that His compliance with tn
 request of the Hebrews for Iebre, n king apparently blocked all furthe a advance in that direction. In tn |, person of David He found a man wh l said: 70 Lord, truly am thy servant