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THE PROMISED LAND.
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the sons of those from among whom came the humble
but glorious Twelve who carried and spread the seed,
the rich harvest of whose labours we reap ? If we have
received of the Jew spiritual things, is it a great thing
if he shall reap our carnal things ? Theirs was the
land, and theirs it will be again, by the same sure
promise whose fulfilment is certain, —theirs was the
Zion which "the Lord shall comfort," and theirs were
the " waste places," and the " wilderness," and the
"desert," which "He will make like Eden, and like
the garden of the Lord ; " the land which their fathers
possessed they shall possess, although " desolation and
destruction, and the famine and the sword " have come
upon them, — while our part is to remember that this
" cup of His fury " will be transferred " to the hand of
them that afflict" His people, and the blessing of Him
who charged us to " help one another " will be given
to the Grentile who tries, in all humility and faith, to
enable his poor Jew brother to possess his own —■ to
show him the light of truth by the hand of real
charity, — and to help him to raise up and exalt him-
self from the low and degraded condition of the Jews
now living in the Promised Land of Israel.
Another reason also exists for endeavouring to raise
the Jew to independence : when, by Grod's grace, they
have hearkened to the teaching of the missionary,—-when
his eyes are opened, his heart softened, and his ears
unveiled, what is to become of the Jew ? The doors of
his home are closed against him — his kindred have
become his bitterest enemies —■ and the misery, which
he feels he might bear for himself, becomes impossible
to face when he looks on the wife and children around
him, who will be left destitute and starving from the
moment of his listening to the voice of faith in his
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the sons of those from among whom came the humble
but glorious Twelve who carried and spread the seed,
the rich harvest of whose labours we reap ? If we have
received of the Jew spiritual things, is it a great thing
if he shall reap our carnal things ? Theirs was the
land, and theirs it will be again, by the same sure
promise whose fulfilment is certain, —theirs was the
Zion which "the Lord shall comfort," and theirs were
the " waste places," and the " wilderness," and the
"desert," which "He will make like Eden, and like
the garden of the Lord ; " the land which their fathers
possessed they shall possess, although " desolation and
destruction, and the famine and the sword " have come
upon them, — while our part is to remember that this
" cup of His fury " will be transferred " to the hand of
them that afflict" His people, and the blessing of Him
who charged us to " help one another " will be given
to the Grentile who tries, in all humility and faith, to
enable his poor Jew brother to possess his own —■ to
show him the light of truth by the hand of real
charity, — and to help him to raise up and exalt him-
self from the low and degraded condition of the Jews
now living in the Promised Land of Israel.
Another reason also exists for endeavouring to raise
the Jew to independence : when, by Grod's grace, they
have hearkened to the teaching of the missionary,—-when
his eyes are opened, his heart softened, and his ears
unveiled, what is to become of the Jew ? The doors of
his home are closed against him — his kindred have
become his bitterest enemies —■ and the misery, which
he feels he might bear for himself, becomes impossible
to face when he looks on the wife and children around
him, who will be left destitute and starving from the
moment of his listening to the voice of faith in his