vision of the prophet Daniel on the same subject; "How long shall it be to the end of these won"ders?" Dan. xii. 6. When shall the " indig"nation against the holy people be accomplished?" Dan. xi. 31, that they may "return "and seek the Lord their God, and David their king?"

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To Daniel the Prophet, and to John the Evangelist, was given a revelation of the great events of the general Church to the end of time. Daniel foretels that the Christian Church shall be oppressed by the persecuting powers for "a time, times, and the dividing of a time." Dan. vii. 25. The same period he assigns for the accomplishment of the indignation against the holy people Israel. "One said, how long

"shall it be to the end of these wonders? And "I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held

up his right hand and his left hand unto "heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, "that it shall be for a TIME, TIMES, and a HALF; "and when he shall have accomplished to scatter "the power of the holy people, all these things "shall be fulfilled." Dan. xii. 7. Now the same form of words is used in the Revelation of St. John, to express the duration of the Papal and Mahomedan powers. Oppressed by

them, the Church of Christ was to remain desolate in the wilderness, " for a TIME, TIMES, and HALF "of a TIME." Rev. xii. 14. Every one, who is erudite in sacred prophecy, will understand that this great period of Daniel and St. John commences at the same era, namely, the rise of the persecuting powers; and that its duration is 1260 years.*

Here then are three great events hastening to their period; the extinction of the Papal dominion; the subversion of the Mahomedan power; and "the accomplishment of the divine indig"nation against the holy people," or the return of the people of Israel" to seek the Lord their God, and David their king.”

Our blessed Saviour has not left an event of this importance without notice. "The JEWS," saith he," shall be led away captive into all "nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down "of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles "be fulfilled." Luke xxi. 24. What these "times of the Gentiles" are, our Lord has explained in his subsequent Revelation to St. John. "The court which is without the temple is "given unto the Gentiles; and the holy city

* See this period explained in p. 172.

"shall they tread under foot FORTY and TWO "MONTHS;" or, in prophetical language, at a day for a year, 1260 years. Rev. xi. 2.

The Apostle Paul hath also recorded this event. "I would not, brethren, that ye should be ig"norant of this mystery, that blindness, in part, "is happened to ISRAEL, until the fulness of the "Gentiles be come in; and so all Israel shall be "saved." Rom. xi. 25. The fulness of time for the conversion of the Gentiles will be come in, when the Mahomedan and Papal obstructions are removed. Such events as the fall of the Pope in the West, and of Mahomed in the East, both of whom persecuted the Jews to death, will probably be the means of awakening the Jews to consider the evidences of that Religion which predicted the rise and fall of both.

But the grand prophecy of. the apostle Paul on this subject, is that which respects the consequence of the conversion of the Jews. "The "receiving of the Jews," saith he, "What shall it "be to the world, but LIFE FROM THE DEAD?" Rom. xi. 15. Dispersed as they are in all countries, and speaking the languages of all countries, they will form a body of preachers ready prepared; and they need only say, "Behold the Scriptures of God, in our pos"session; read our history there, as foretold

"three thousand years ago, and read the events

in the annals of nations. We are witnesses "to the world, and the world to us. Let the "whole race of mankind unite and examine the "fact."-"All ye inhabitants of the world, "and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when the "Lord lifteth up an ENSIGN on the mountains; "and when he bloweth a TRUMPET, hear ye.'

Isaiah xviii. 3. Thus will their preaching be to the world" LIFE from the DEAD."

But if the conversion of Israel is to take place when the Papal and Mahomedan powers have fallen, and who does not see that these events are near at hand? it might be expected that some signs of conciliation between Jews and Christians would now begin to be visible, And is not this the fact? Christians in all countries begin to consider, that "the indignation against "the holy people" is nearly accomplished. Many events declare it. The indignation of man is relaxing. The prophecies have been fulfilled regarding it. The GREAT CRIME at CALVARY has been punished by all nations; and we now hear the words of the Prophet addressing us, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, "saith your God; speak ye comfortably to "Jerusalem, and CRY unto her, that her warfare " is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned,"

Isaiah xl. 1. This is the Divine command. And behold, Christians begin now, for the first time," to speak comfortably to Jerusalem."

While the Author was in the East, the state of the Jews, who are dispersed in different countries, frequently occupied his thoughts. He had heard that they existed in distinct colonies in certain parts of India; that some of them had arrived long before the Christian Era, and had remained in the midst of the Hindoos, to this time, a distinct and separate people, persecuted by the native princes, from age to age, and yet not destroyed; burning, like the bush of "Moses, and not consumed;" and he had a strong desire to turn aside and see this great "sight." His mind was impressed with the conviction that their preservation, in such a variety of regions, and under such a diversity of circumstances, could be only effected by the interposition of the Divine PROVIDENCE, which reserved them, thus distinct, for some special and important purpose. And since the period of time for the accomplishment of this purpose was considered by many to be fast approaching,

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