182 GENERAL SIR CHARLES WARREN, G.C.M.G., F.R.S., ON 



SO readily to a Christian marplot. If one attempts to go back 

 into the past beyond the local gods, or Baalim, one is met with 

 proposals of animism and otlier links in the development of 

 religion in the changes from the savage to the civilized state ; 

 but my impression is that, in the Semitic races and in the old 

 Eastern civilizations of Asia, the natural religion belongs to 

 people who have once known the true God, and that they have 

 joined together the service of God and devils. I therefore look 

 upon these old heathen customs which make for good, as being 

 old duties to God run wild. 



The Laml and the Covenant. 



The geography of Palestine has at all times been intimately 

 connected with the history of Israel, and cannot be separated 

 from it. 



The Land of Canaan is still held by Israel under a contract 

 which cannot be broken, an everlasting Covenant between 

 Jehovah and the seed of Abraham : " and I will be their God . . . 

 Thou shaft keep my Covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed 

 after thee in their generations. This is my Covenant . . . Every 

 man child among you shall be circumcised " (Gen. xvii, 8-10). 



This Covenant is still in operation, the Deeds are intact, but 

 the land is withheld from the heritors because, though the 

 outward sign of the Covenant has in a great measure been 

 faithfully kept, the spiritual grace has been lacking. But the 

 world is looking forward to the completion of the Covenant in 

 the near future. 



This Covenant has been developed and expanded in detail as 

 history has progressed, but its substance has not been altered ; 

 the God of the whole earth is still the God of Abraham and 

 His seed for ever, and the Covenant has still to be fulfilled 

 in its entirety, and the Promised Land has to be occupied by 

 Israel. 



We on our parts have a part to perform. If we are to do 

 our duty in assisting Israel, we must learn to comprehend more 

 fully their ancient history, and must attune our minds to the 

 conditions under which the people lived in those early days. 

 " Unless we can look upon ancient customs with the eyes 

 of the ancients, unless we can transport ourselves in the spirit 

 to other lands and other times, and sun ourselves in the clear 

 light of bygone days, all our conceptions of what has been done 

 by the men who have long ceased to be must be dim, uncertain, 

 and unsatisfactory, and all our reproductions as soulless and 



