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on the subject he rather hinted at than fully expressed ; 

 I have succeeded, however, in laying hold of a few of 

 the more interesting of these. He seems to be decidedly 

 of opinion that the Jews are reserved for the accomplish- 

 ment of some great purpose in the moral government 

 of the world. What, says he, if the spirit of infidelity, so 

 dominant in the present age, and which seems to be 

 sapping the foundations of every religion, true and false, 

 should at length so thoroughly prevail, that the Church 

 and the Pagod and the Mosque should come to be 

 involved in one general ruin, and every form of worship 

 be banished from the earth, what if, when there sur- 

 vived, of all who had prayed to any Deity, only a few 

 despised, disheartened followers of the cross, when the 

 great mass of the people in every country, amenable to no 

 authority, without one tie of morality, or one belief of a 

 future world of rewards and punishments, shall, with 

 their mouths filled with denunciations against tyranny, be 

 themselves the bloodiest and most despotic of tyrants, 

 what if, at such a time, the Spirit of God should breathe 

 upon the dry bones of Judah until, covered with flesh 

 and sinew, and animated by the principle of life, they 

 shall stand up among the nations, an exceeding great 

 multitude, to testify through the miracle of the power 

 and faithfulness of God, and, converted themselves, be 

 the grand and fully adequate means of the conversion of 

 a world! Is there not something wonderfully expansive, 

 and at the same time highly pleasing, in the thought ? 

 Take another in the same style. What if those differ- 

 ences which now divide the Christian world, setting 

 even good men in hostile opposition to each other, and 

 destroying, in no slight degree, those charities which it 

 is the part of religion to inculcate, are to receive their 

 final adjustment on the return of the Jews ! It is to be 



