not to be enjoyed by itself alone, in the realizing age, but of the blessedness of all nations in Abraham, through Christ. Are not, then, those Christians and converted Jews, who labor to convert Jews to the Christian faith, by holding out motives of a carnal restoration, assuming untenable ground, and indirectly carnalizing Christianity, and fostering the very spirit which St. Paul denounced, when he proclaimed the Gentiles "fellow-heirs" of the promises to the seed of Abraham? Is not a false sympathy for the Jew thus engendered, which will prove disastrous in the end? Let Jewish sinners hear the gospel, and embrace it from the same motives presented in common to all mankind; let them be willing to allow to all Christians an equal right to all the blessings of the gospel; let them acknowledge that God looks only at moral character, and "is no respector of persons" on account of mere parentage; let them admit the fact, that God will not raise and sustain any aristocracy of persons on account of mere fleshly extraction, and that such extraction confers no virtue, no hereditary pre-emption, to royal supremacy; let them remember that the "jointheir of Jesus Christ" is not necessarily by birth a Jew, but any one that is born of God, no matter who. The carnal theory is positively arrogant and intolerable, and should be rejected as a fanatical delusion.

We now epitomize our arguments and close. 1. We showed the carnal theory to be irrational and anti-scrip-: tural. 2. That nationality in the latter day, was promised to Christians only. 3. That the United States, is a Christian Israel. 4. That America, coincides with the waiting isles. 5. That the ships of Spain, opening up America to the Christian emigration, coincide with "the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far." 6. That America, a wilderness "from of old," coincides with the lands" which have been always waste." 7. That the United States, answers to the people gathered out of: many nations in the country "always waste." 8. The; great fluvial system of America, and our vast inland

prosperity, answer to "there, a place of broad rivers and streams." 9. American independence, answers to "no galley with oars, neither gallant ship," &c. 10. Western emigration, by royal encouragement, answers to flying to the west on the shoulders of modern Philistia or maritime Europe. 11. "The Old Thirteen," answer to the thirteen divisions of the Christian nation, predicted by Ezekiel. 12. The royal proprietary and charter colonies, answer to "kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nursing mothers." 13. Our republic, answers to "restoring thy judges as at first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning." 14. Our unwalled towns and villages, answer to Ezekiel's description of Israel's villages and cities. 15. Our unparalleled expansion, answer to the cry "the place is too straight; give place that I may dwell." 16. The universality of Christian education, answers to "all thy children shall be taught of the Lord." 17. The vast foreign immigration, answers to the 49th and 60th chapters of Isaiah. 18. America's location as head of the world, answers to the country to which all were to " go up. 19. The immigration from China, answers to "lo, these from the west, and from the land of Sinim." 20. The menial service of foreign Romanists, answers to the "bending of the sons of them that afflicted thee." 21. The drudgery of building canals, turnpikes, railroads, &c., &c., by foreign Catholics, answers to "the sons of strangers shall build thy walls." 22. Constitutional rights to foreigners, answer to an inheritance among us promised to strangers. 23. Universality and unity of language, answer to "thou shalt not see a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive," &c. 24. The birth day of our nation, July 4th, 1776, answers exactly to the day when Israel was to born at once." Now, then, as the legitimacy of our expositions, a priori, cannot be denied, and as they are all realized in America, it follows that the United States is the promised nationality to Christian Israel.

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SECTION IV.

PARALLEL PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL.

The restoration of Israel and its fulfillment in the rise of the United States, has its parallels in the Hebrew escape from Egypt across a sea, and its erection of a republic in the wilderness; and in the stone cut out of the mountain, or fifth great empire of Nebuchadnezzar's vision; in the ancient of days, or fifth empire of Daniel's vision of empires; and in Michael, in his last vision; in the two witnesses; the woman and her twelve stars ; in the woman and her man child; and the man with many diadems, on a white horse; and in the sealing of the twelve tribes of Revelation.

An Israel restored was promised by the prophets on a mighty scale, and it was to be a Christian Israel. If we look at our own glorious country, we see clearly a Christian Israel, enjoying the greatest and most glorious of all nationalities. Here is a coincidence with the prophets; and here then is their fulfillment.

Christ assured his disciples, that the restoration was to be a mystery, and Daniel told that its history, in prophecy, would be concealed, till just before the battle of the Kings; and the blindness on the subject hitherto, has resulted from the order of God. This concealment of our country as the Israel restored of the promises, every wise man can see was a prudent measure with reference both to our past and future history.

CHAPTER V.

EZEKIEL'S SYMBOLIC PROPHECIES OF AMERICA.

EZEKIEL is both a literal and symbolic prophet, and in this he differs from Daniel and John. He also differa from them in this, that he does not give the history of the four great empires that were to precede the final triumphs of Christianity. He, however, coincides with them as to Israel's restoration, and the freeing of the earth from the curse. The parts of his prophecy which we take up, are those which relate to the close of the fourth monarchy by the battle of the great day; the rise of Israel; and the final empire of Christ on earth.

SECTION 1.

ISRAEL RESTORED-AMERICA.

We have already considered some prophecies of Ezekiel, which show that the Israel of Christ was to be restored in the latter day: we shall now add a few additional points of interest. From the forty-third to the forty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel, he gives a description of Christianity, in all its progress and triumphs after the rise of the Israel of Christ to nationality. He embraces all that Daniel does, beginning with the rise of the stone kingdom, and all that John docs, beginning with the kingdom that sprung from the woman or church

in the wilderness. We can not quote these chapters, and shall only give the strong points of coincidence between the three prophets mentioned. We say, that this vision coincides with Daniel's and John's descriptions of the

same era.

1. This must be true, because they both describe the same era, and, of course, must coincide in the same subjects.

2. Both John and Daniel predict the universality of the empire of Christ, and Ezekiel does the same. The holy city of Ezekiel, and his trees of life, and river of the water of life, also coincide with the city New Jerusalem, the river and trees of life given by St. John. This shows that their descriptions of these things refer to the very same era.

3. Ezekiel, in addition to this, describes the rise of Israel, and his occupancy of the promised land. In this description it is plain that Israel did not, at the time of this settlement, possess the whole earth, but only a part of it, and thus it coincides with the descriptions of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and John. In the forty-eighth chapter he says, the divisions of the promised land to the tribes, shall not be as in ancient times, but that they shall extend from east to west, and lie side by side of each other. He says, also, that there shall be a sea on the east side of the land, and a great sea on the west. "This shall be the border whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions."-xlvii: 13. I this land, also, was to be an inheritance for strangers: And they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel, and they shall have inheritance with you