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Version, but as in the Revised) "earnestly." It is not an unmingled calamity that Israel sorrows and suffers; for by their very sorrows, which are so awful, as coming from so-called Christians, God is exercising the minds of the Jews wonderfully in connection with the recent persecutions. But, dear friends, with this Bible in our hand neither you nor I can congratulate the Jew upon the immediate prospect of a return to the land of Palestine. According to the prophets, and especially Daniel, there is a time of trouble such as never has been before, a time of tribulation such as has never been known in history; but mark that time of greatest trouble will come in the days of Antichrist, when he finds Israel the great difficulty in the way of his being supreme over the whole earth. Notwithstanding all the infidelity amongst them, Israel will be a grand nation at that time, for they will be the great barrier in the way of Antichrist getting rid of God and of religion. "Well," he says, "let us wipe them out, let us destroy this nation." But just as he has reached this point and is almost successful in destroying them, just at their greatest extremity the clouds suddenly part asunder over Mount Olivet, and the One who was nailed to Calvary's cross one thousand eight hundred years ago is seen once more by the nation in Palestine, the mount of Olives splits asunder, and the Lord God comes with all His saints who have met Him in the air and now come with Him as His beloved bride in resurrection life.

Now we get the re-marriage. Oh how wonderful are God's dealings with this wonderful people! I think sometimes that when we get to heaven we shall occupy a great deal of time in trying to solve the wonderful depths of love shown in the plan of human redemption, and unfolded in the history of the Jew. Well the re-marriage takes place as in Isaiah lxii. The land and the people shall be re-married, and then the people and God; "for as a young man marrieth a bride, so shall thy land be remarried. As a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy Restorer marry thee." God is the Bridegroom, and rejoices over the bride. The attitude of the Lord Jesus Christ has been that of a dear lover and of a loyal husband all along the line. From the first marriage He has loved with an everlasting love; but the attitude of to-day, the attitude in this dispensation, is that of an injured lover. The re-marriage takes place to-morrow, and we have Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

To-morrow we have restoration, followed by Jacob's trouble, and the second advent of Christ in glory, the conversion of the nation on seeing the Lord, and the re-marriage of Israel. Then we have the purposes of God fully unfolded, the mystery solved. He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, the Lord, King over all the earth, One Lord and His name One, and the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

Now I know some little of my Lord's love to His nation, His brethren according to the flesh, through whom He will revolutionize the whole world in the interest of His Father, and for the glory of His Father. And I ask you to-night, dear friends, Shall we not more correctly represent Christ to the outside world, to the unbelieving Jews and the unbelieving Gentiles, if we get more of this divine compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ, more of this everlasting love of the Lord Jesus? I wonder again and again we have not more love in the Church of Christ. For thirty-four years I have been labouring and praying for Israel. God has put into my heart for these years such interest and love for that people as no language can describe, and I can see that the Church has lost immense blessing through lack of interest in Israel. What a blessing there would be in the Church to-day if there were a revival of interest in that nation, for God says, "I will bless him that blesses thee."

Try to find out, dear friends, in your reading of the Word, the state of the Lord Jesus' heart towards His brethren according to the flesh, as expressing the Father's will and love; and as you get to know more of that written Word, it will be no more a mere fancy, but you will begin to take a wonderful interest, prayerful and practical, in the welfare and salvation of Israel, "of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."

The nearness of the close of this dispensation increases the responsibility of Christians to send the Gospel to the Jews; and the unprecedented willingness of the Jews to listen to the Gospel, whilst numbers are confessing their faith in Christ as the Messiah, encourages Christians to increased effort, prayer, and faith in Jewish Missions.

At the close of this address hymn No. 11 was sung--
"Oh, haste Thy coming kingdom,
Immanuel, Prince of Peace!"

The Rev. THEODORE J. MEYER then closed with prayer.

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The Missionary Meeting.

INDIA, NEW HEBRIDES, AND JAPAN.

LORD RADSTOCK.

ADDRESSES BY

REV. JOHN G. PATON.

REV. C. F. WARREN.

Thursday Afternoon, June 25th, 1885.

LARGE and deeply-interesting meeting, on behalf of Foreign Missions, was held in rooms 4 and 5, on Thursday afternoon, under the presidency of Mr. J. H. Tritton. The company having sung the favourite

missionary hymn

"Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King!
Tell it out! Tell it out!"

The CHAIRMAN read Psalm lxxii., the closing verses being audibly repeated by the whole meeting as an expression of adoration and prayer.

Mr. J. HERBERT TRITTON said: Since we met a year ago there has been the manifestation of a missionary spirit in our land, which we all feel has surpassed that of previous years. This has no doubt been owing in part to the prayers which have gone up from this place. We recognize the part which our brother, Mr. Reginald Radcliffe, has taken in stirring up the

young of our land to go forth as missionaries into heathen countries. Those great meetings that took place at Exeter Hall, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere, were the means of stirring to their depths the hearts of many young men. We have bid farewell to many whom we loved, and who have gone to distant parts of the earth. But the work is vast, and the simple increase of population over the whole world outweighs, times without number, the additions to the church of Christ that are made year by year through the labours of those who are now in the mission field. Oh that the Lord Himself would pour down upon us, and upon the natives of the various countries, a missionary spirit! We have seen an earnest of this spirit poured out; God grant that the feeling may deepen, and that the duty of evangelising the whole world may be more fully recognised, both by men and women, all around us.

After prayer by the Rev. H. GRATTAN-GUINNESS, the following address was given by

LORD RADSTOCK.

We are here upon a deeply-important question, and I do trust that the issue of this meeting may not merely be a quickened interest and more information given as to the various parts of the mission field referred to, but that there will be a fresh opportunity found for linking on fresh needs to Christ, and a fresh outcome of His fulness for meeting the needs of hundreds of millions who yet sit in darkness and the shadow of death.

I feel deeply my responsibility in speaking about India. I think that a great many of us have not realised that India, instead of being one country, is a collection of countries, with a population of about 250,000,000, consisting of different races, with different languages and different habits; collected in one large empire under our rule, but with degrees of education and with race differences as great as, if not greater than, what you find in the different nations of Europe. The first thing that strikes the visitor to India is the enormous mass of the population. Landing in Bombay, one seems lost in the masses of people, with perhaps one European in every five hundred natives. You then realise what a tiny handful the English

race are amidst that great population. Further into the interior you may travel hundreds of miles without meeting more than a stray European here and there. Here then you have this enormous mass of people, all in a state of expectancy. Of course, as the Europeans are the ruling race, the natives naturally look up to them. They are all called "Christians." Imagine to yourselves all the various kinds and classes of people in the English society throughout India, put down as the representatives of Christianity in the minds of the natives. "That man a Christian!" they will say. "Why he does a lot of things we would not do. Look at him; he lives such and such a life. We don't want that kind of Christianity; we would rather have our own religion." That is one of the first things that strikes you the appalling fact that a very large number of our countrymen, while they are called "Christians,' are by their daily lives dishonouring the name and cause of Christ. This is perhaps the fundamental question with respect to missions in India, that those who in the eye of the people represent Christianity are misrepresenting it in every way; therefore you start with a tremendous difficulty. Those who have the opportunity, whether by correspondence or by any other means, of influencing the European population, have a great responsibility. I am glad to say that there are efforts in this direction; a society has been established especially with a view to the evangelising of resident Europeans.

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But then there is the great question of taking the Gospel to the natives. There are a considerable number of missions at work. In some towns there are three or four missions represented, while in some large tracts of country there is no sort of Gospel witness whatever. I was at one place, which is one hundred miles distant from the nearest mission stationno missionary at all in a large and thickly-populated region. You travel by rail, and you see the people crammed into every train, by hundreds and hundreds, going long journeys on pilgrimages to Benares, or some other sacred city on the Ganges. Then you see the manifestation of their religious life and their religious activity at every turn. In the towns you find large temples, and hear all sorts of strange noises, which the people associate with their worship. They are very earnest in their religious feelings and observances. You see Mohammedans kneeling down in the public streets in Calcutta and other places, going through their devotions without omitting one genuflection,

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