110 PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS. 



storm scattered over the earth, like fragments on the 

 waters, and, instead of disappearing or mingling with the 

 nations, remaining a perfectly distinct people, in every king- 

 dom the same, retaining similar habits and customs in every 

 part of the globe meeting everywhere the same insult, 

 mockery, and oppression finding no resting place without 

 an enemy soon to dispossess them multiplying amidst all 

 their miseries surviving their enemies* beholding un- 

 changed, the extinction of many nations, and the convulsions 

 of all robbed of their silver and of their gold, though cleav- 

 ing to the love of them still, as the stumbling block of their 

 iniquity often bereaved of their very children disjoined 

 and disorganised, but uniform and unaltered ever bruised, 

 but never broken weak, fearful, sorrowful, and afflicted 

 often driven to madness at the spectacle of their own misery 

 taken up in the lips of the talkers the taunt and hissing 

 and infamy of all people, and continuing ever, what they are 

 to this day, the sole proverb common to the whole world." \ 

 Such a chain of prophecy already fulfilled, we may look to 

 the completion of all; how far the agency of man is bringing 

 about the designs of the Almighty, we can neither see nor 

 determine but the growing importance of this outcast race 

 is daily increasing. The time for their persecution is passed 

 their civil disabilities are gradually being removed. In- 

 heriting the " riches of the Gentiles," the influence which 

 they extend by their " silver and gold" may be an instrument 

 towards their restoration. We cannot tell how far the use 

 of human means may be continued to be employed in work- 

 ing out the fulfilment of prophecy. It is not for mortal men 

 to determine the counsels of God; but we may rest assured 

 that the promise made to Abraham will be fulfilled, and that 

 succeeding ages will see " the outcasts of Israel gathered to- 

 gether from the four corners of the earth," and brought into 

 the land which their fathers possessed. Then shall they be 



* The Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman Empires have 

 disappeared; the Persians alone, who restored them from the Baby- 

 lonish captivity, yet remain a kingdom. 



t Keith's Evidence of Prophecy. 



