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"These Christians are all agreed in viewing those points of wor- 

 ship, or opinion, wherein they differ, as being of infinitely less im- 

 portance than the grand tenet in which they all unite, viz. that 

 Jesus Christ is the Messiah, and that faith in him is essential to 

 salvation. They are all agreed in their present cordial endeavour 

 to bring the Jews to their acknowledgement of this same truth, as 

 the foundation of their union with the Christian church; leaving 

 it to the subsequent determination of the converts, into what par- 

 ticular community of professing Christians they may, after mature 

 reflection, feel it their duty to enter. 



" We are looking forward to that period, of which the prophets 

 have spoken, when " the earth shall be full of the knowledge of 

 the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall 

 be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; 

 to it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious. And it 

 shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand 

 again the second time, to recover the remnant of his people, which 

 shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and 

 from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, 

 and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign 

 for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and 

 gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of 

 the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adver- 

 saries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, 

 and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." Isaiah. 



" At that period, which may God hasten! all lesser distinctions 

 shall vanish in one true knowledge and love of God the Father, 

 and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. We hope that the very sub- 



