dom. Again, the neck of Shelomoh is like the "tower" of David" (4:4); he lives amidst the daughters of Jerusalem, and among the roses, harts, and hinds of the field, “leaping upon the mountains" (2:7-8); while Shulammith lives under Lebanon, "a dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret stairs" (2 14), her eyes are like fishpools in Heshbon, her nose as the tower of Lebanon, her head like Carmel (7 : 5). All names of places used in the imagery of her by Shelomoh, or by her of herself, are taken from the ten tribes even extending to those beyond the Jordan. If the Bride is referred to the Northern Kingdom and a future age, all is clear.

Thrice happy are God's people, the whole Saxon people, seeing they have Him for their Guide, Guardian, and Protector, forever (Isa. 52: 16); also the Lord Jesus Christ as their Redeemer, solemnly pledged as "a Minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers" (Rom. 15:8). Well may Moses our prophet sing to the praise of the Lord in those grand verses which close Deut. 33: 26-29 (R. V.):—

"There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun,
Who rideth upon the heaven for thy help,
And in His excellency on the skies.
The Eternal God is thy dwelling-place,

And underneath are the Everlasting Arms."

CHAPTER VI.

PALESTINE RESTORED-THE SIXTH COLONY-THE GREAT SALVATION.

"Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion" (Psa. 65: 1). Having followed Israel by the sure word of prophecy through five distinct colonizations, and having seen in the New Ensign and the prophetic Psalms a glimpse of their future, we have now to consider the greatest gathering of the ages. For more than two thousand years they have been outcasts from their land and city. The times of the Gentiles (Luke 21: 24), are fast drawing to a close, and we look for "The Missing Links," "the wanderers," to reappear in the sixth and final colonization. This is one in which all the dispensations center. As the Mosaic was preparatory, so the Gospel is in turn a preparation for the time when "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord" (Hab. 2:14).

"I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord," said the dying patriarch as he concluded his blessing to Dan. But what great salvation has ever sprung from them? The sun worship in which they were involved for more than two thousand years, has long since gone out in darkness. Is it possible that Jacob, while "wrapped in holy vision," saw his descendants of this line busy with their ships upon the waters of the Mediteranean, with which they were ready to assist their brethren and Jeremiah with his precious treasures to the far off Emerald Isle? Is it possible that

he foresaw how their enterprise and valor would open a route for Israel through Central Europe to the coasts of Britain, for both the northern and southern colonies from Armenia? Is it possible that he saw these same pioneers coasting Southern Asia through the Indian ocean, thence through the Pacific, to North America, or that other colony of Dan crossing the Atlantic more than five hundred years before the colonization of the Anglo-Saxons in the new world, who by this "leap" should discover our own beautiful "Vineland"? Is it possible, finally, that in this far-reaching vision the tribe of Dan is at the head of the list with those who, as representatives, shall re-colonize the Holy Land to enjoy and promote "the great salvation"? (Ezek. 48).

Let the reader mark that in the vision of Jacob "Thy salvation" stands connected with the war-horse of Assyria (Gen. 49:17). "Dan biteth the horse's heels, so that the rider falleth back." Assyria fails in its purpose to annihilate the Northern Kingdom, for Dan had already led many to the British Islands where the salvation of the Lord has now long been extending westward in a fifth colony. And then the promise was good of the remnant. They "shall no more stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth" (Isa. 10:20). "I will be as the dew unto Israel" (Hos. 14:5). Dew rises in the night, so in the gloom of Israel's trouble the Lord would refresh them. "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, when I fall I shall arise, when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me" (Micah 7:8). God was Israel's "rearward” (Isa. 52:12), and they were not to go by "haste" or by "flight," for the Lord would go "before"

them.

It will be remembered that Nineveh, the very heart of Assyria, was once rescued from destruction by the preach

ing of a returned Hebrew who started for the city of Tarshish, our western Israel, as we have shown (Jonah 4:2). Assyria must be robbed of her prey before the great salvation. In Moses' wonderful and prophetic vision from the summit of Nebo God showed him first of all "the land of Gilead unto Dan" (Deut. 34: 1). This may answer the question propounded more than thirty centuries ago, "Why did Dan remain in ships?" (Jud. 5:17). To be the pilot of empire and the messenger of the covenant. "Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion" (Psa. 14:7).

NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM.

Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had a dream of a great image, of which the Prophet Daniel was called to give an interpretation. That image was of a man "whose brightness was excellent" and Daniel's "interpretation thereof sure." The image represented four great kingdoms. The first part of it (Babylon) was of gold, the second (Medo-Persia) of silver, the third (Greece) of brass, and the fourth (Rome) of iron. Then there was the mingling of iron and clay in the feet and toes to show that the kingdom was to be "partly strong and partly broken." They (the kings) shall mingle themselves with the seed of men (the people), but they shall not cleave one to another even as iron is not mixed with clay (Dan. 2: 31-45).

Inasmuch as France and Spain anciently belonged to the Roman empire, we naturally have France as the right foot of the image and Spain as the left; even as Medea and Persia were represented in the right and left arms respectively. It will be noticed that this imperial image lay along the northern shore of the Mediterranean sea, and extended from Babylonia to the Atlantic Ocean.

To suppose that the Roman empire extended into Britain, because for a short time there was a garrison of Romans there, is erroneous, since they never conquered more than a fraction of the Island, and never established any regular form of government there. To suppose that the British empire, which is five times larger than the Roman dominion ever was, should be compared to a toe of the image is absurd.

The fifth kingdom, which appeared to the eye of the prophet "as a stone cut out of the mountain without hands," smites the metallic image until the four parts become "like chaff of the summer threshing-floor, and the wind carries them away." This kingdom must be just as literal as the four preceding ones. Geographically the islands of Great Britain have been cut out of the southern portion of the Scandinavian range and by erosion may have been cut off from France, which answers to the description here given. The fact that all the kings and queens of England for centuries have been crowned on a stoneseated state chair may be a reason, also, why that kingdom should be called a stone. (See Vol. 1st, page 156.)

We believe that the Anglo-Saxons are the people represented in this fifth kingdom; that the ancient government, with its Irish, Scottish, and English royal line of kings, presents to the world in the solid characteristics of its people all the durability and permanence found in the stone. The same people as in the stone kingdom, now grown into a thriving colony, comes to power, among the nations, in America, and is able in genius, wealth, and numbers to stand for justice and righteousness in the earth. We also hold in emblem the very remarkable stone, in the Great Seal of the United States, not a mere rolling stone, but with all the fixedness of the Pyramid, and over it the ever watchful eye of Jehovah.