death. However much we may deplore it, there seems to be no check to its onward march. Our first Centennial has passed, yet who can define our Indian policy. With every presidential election the administration at Washington changes, and every change according to our spoil system is against the poor Indian. Their national unity, if they ever had one, has long since been broken. The tribes have been rent assunder by removal and death. We have literally been "pushing them to the ends of the earth." The pushing process has gone on first for "Western homes," then for conquest, then for the gold of California and the Black Hills, till now it threatens the extermination of the Indian race. We may blame the government, if we will, but there are circumstances over which the government has no control. That they did not desire to be Christainized, nor learn agriculture was no fault of ours; and the stern providence that deprives them of home and country is in harmony with the declared law: "The survival of the fittest."

Jacob having twice supplanted Esau, gains a real victory over him and his escort of four hundred men by the "wrestling" (Gen. 32:24). He prevailed: from which circumstance he is called Israel, the Prince of God, which in course of time supplanted his first name. In this wonderful transaction he calls himself Jacob, i. e., the supplanter (27) which was his confession and humiliation; but only as the Prince of God should he prevail. This foreshadows that in Israel's posterity there should be a prevailing "with God and with men." Our spirtual prevailing has already come and we are also now prevailing over thousands of Gentiles and supplanting them in regard to land, language and religion. That we are doing this work in the old, as in the new world, is our confession and in some respects

our humiliation, in that we are getting possession of territory by "sharp practice" instead of value received. What may seem still worse, the natives of the Pacific islands can have no representation in parliament, nor the aborigines of America any share either in Canadian Government or the Congress of the United States, even though we are eager to give citizenship to every other Gentile in our midst.

CANAANITES AND ISRAEL.

Moses instructed the children of Israel to drive out the Canaanites and dispossess them of their land. But finding themselves sufficiently comfortable, and the work of driving them out somewhat difficult, they disobeyed the command, and suffered them to dwell among them. The alleged, and perhaps the chief reason why they were not exterminated was through the fraud and misrepresentation of the Gibeonites. Joshua's great victory at Jericho and Ai alarmed all the tribes of the Canaanites and they sent out a deputation to "work wilily" and feign themselves poor and from "a far country" (Josh. 9: 22-27). The deception was so skillfully planned and executed that Joshua made a league with them and it was confirmed by the oath of the princes of the congregation. The army respected the oath and made them tributary. This was very displeasing to the Lord, and they were left to "prove" Israel, and we now use the Canaanite to prove that we are of the true stock of Abraham.

The Great Lawgiver of Israel informed his people what the result would be in case the original inhabitants were not expelled. He says, "They shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell" (Num. 33:55), "They shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and

"Their gods shall "There shall none of

thorns in your eyes" (Josh. 23: 13). be a snare unto you" (Judg. 2 : 3). you (Gentiles) be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God" (Josh. 9:23). They were to be the cause for the removal of Israel "from off the good land which the Lord thy God giveth you. They were to vex them in the land wherein ye dwell" which seems to imply that the Canaanites were to follow them wherever they should go.

In the first chapter of Judges we are surprised to learn how little was actually done, after twenty-five years, towards driving them out, especially in the northern section of the country. We know, at least, that they were used for bond-servants in the days of Solomon, or about five hundred years. It should be noticed that the vexing and bond-service is not limited to their possession of the promised land.

The words, "to prove Israel," would require their presence while in exile. We should, therefore, expect to find the Canaanites still vexing the modern Israel. This view is confirmed by the assistance they should render at Israel's "second return" when "Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them" (Isa. II II, 14). But the time shall come when "there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts" (Zech. 14: 21).

The identity declares the people of the south of Ireland to be descendants of the Canaanites. This people are boasting that they are descendants of the Phoenicians, the very people who once occupied the northern portion of Palestine. The old Irish language is said to be not unlike the Phonician, having each sixteen letters. There are many ethno