of Ephraim shall depart and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off, Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim” (11:13).

The New Testament places this federation still in the future. "And other sheep I have which are not of this (Jewish) fold, them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd" (John 10: 16). The two folds were then his, which could not have been affirmed of Gentiles. "That in the dispensations of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one, all things in Christ" (Eph. 1:10). "Our gathering together unto Him" (2 Thess. 2: 1).

That there is to be a national unity, we may further read of "the twelve tribes sealed" (Rev. 7: 5), and of "our twelve tribes" (Greek, dodecaphylon, singular), the twelve tribed people or nation. Caiaphas, the high priest, being moved by the Holy Spirit, said, "that Jesus should die for that nation, i. e., the Jews, and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one (nation) the children of God that were scattered abroad" (John 11:52). "The preliminary thunderings of the Alliance Cloud have been heard with fear and trembling by the other governments of the old world and the listening ear may even now catch the faint mutterings." The imperialism growing out of our eastern policy is fast preparing us for a closer union with the imperialism of the United Kingdom. The end is not yet. Who says the world does not need a Hebrew, a new and vast "Tadmor in the wilderness"? A correspondent in the London Spectator says, "He would not crook a finger to accelerate such a peculiarly earthly consummation" as the Restoration. "He does not care one straw whether there are or are not banks in Jerusalem or quays and stevedores in Joppa." He declares "that God is not the God of one little

division of this planet, and that if they have any message to deliver, they can deliver it in London or New York just as well as at Jerusalem."

Competition will hardly spoil New York or London. This writer simply ignores the divine word and the purpose to establish Jerusalem as the capital of this little planet. The trend of events, the trusts and combines of society are preludes to larger unity in state. The Hebrew race in its present outlook, in the far east, as developed in the Spanish war, must be fruitful in enabling our people to see “eye to eye," and the trinity of brotherhood of Ephraim, Manasseh and restored Palestine, will yet federate for the world's empire of the everlasting King.

The ultimate of this Federation is reached in one well defined passage, thus: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the beast. . . . stand on the sea of glass having the harps of God" (Rev. 15:2). Great Britain has, as it were, this environment. The people that had gotten the victory appear to be standing on the sea as the old prophet had long since sung of the island country, "Wherefore glorify the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea" (Isa. 24: 15). John, on the lonely Isle of Patmos had often beheld the waters breaking in crest and foam, calmed to crystal smoothness. This in poetic vision he used as a symbol of the political agitations and the triumph sung "with the harps of God." The ancient Hebrews under Moses triumphed at the sea, "gloriously." And now in token of their ancestry, and also the fact that they had become Christianized, they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy ways, thou King of nations." The saints of two dispensations are united in lofty ascriptions of praise for their great deliverance.

Then in Britham, the land of the covenant, God is fulfilling the ancient promise. Here the "covenanters" dwell, and since the beginning of the fourteenth century the British government has come to power in the multitudinous seed. It is here, the seven golden vials of the wrath of God are being poured out upon the harlot woman-Papal Rome.

"Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war, for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms" (Jer. 51: 20). Soon the federated Hebrews will be turned loose for the conquest of the world to Christ. The complete history of the campaign can only be written after the Paradise of perfect Peace is restored. Some things we can outline in anticipation.

"If drunk with sight of power,

We loose wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,

Such boasting as the Gentiles used,

And heathen tribes without the law

Lord God of hosts, be with us yet;

Lest we forget! Lest we forget!”

CHAPTER VII.

THE COMING FOR HIS SAINTS-FROM THE THRONE TO THE CLOUD.

THE SECOND MISSION TO EARTH.

What is the mind of the Spirit? The revelation of the Bible in regard to the future is limited. Reserve is judicious. We shall read very little between the lines and as one author observes, "My eyes were blinded and I read into the Bible what was not there, and out of it what was there."

But while we attempt not to be "wise about that which is written, we should attempt, and that most studiously, to be wise up to that which is written." The divine disclosures are many and great, and we have a right to walk up and down among them for the purpose of observation. Of the immortal life we have touches and glimpses sufficient, no doubt, for present necessity. Thus let us keep most strictly and modestly within the limits of the record, though,

"The flowering moments of the mind,

Drop half their petals in our speech."

When we speak of the Advent, the reader should not confound materialistic sentiments with the generally accepted doctrine which Christianity has continued to recognize. With materialism there can be no resurrection or reappearing. The no-soul or all-soul doctrine is materialism and in its last anaysis is infidelity of all-spirit life. To us the Ad

vent brings the spiritualized manhood to Him on earth and to all the heirs. Why are people so ready to celebrate Christmas of centuries ago, and so liable to forget the oft repeated exhortation to watch for the ever iminent second coming?

The principle object of the first advent was to make atonement. His second will be to claim the purchased possession (Eph. 1:14), which should be regarded as the consummation of the first. The philosophy of the

case seems to be this: Jesus Christ died on the cross to redeem us, therefore ("wherefore") God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name, above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth (Phill. 2:7-11). He that had such grace to redeem, has a right to rule "to the glory of God the Father."

No monarchy can stand before such logic, and it is equally fatal to republican government. The astounding fact of majority rule is that redeemed men are always in the minority, and on account of the rapid increase of the world's population there is no prospect of a change. The Jews wickedly and bluntly said, "We will not have this man to reign over us," and we in like manner at every election blindly put some one else in power, or it may be, something else, money, either white or yellow, and vainly suppose our cause is good and must succeed. But after a few turnings of the wheel, the "machine" breaks with the bur'den of its own weight. Great national sins are grinding on, the people are unredeemed from intemperance, immorality and poverty, the corrupt and corrupting masses are sweeping away the old land marks of the once popular government of the people, for the people. Thus we are becoming an object-lesson of weakness and failure. But