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our Lord — shall we see His face, except our brother be with us ? 

 Must we not leave our gift before the altar and first be recon- 

 ■ciled to our brother ? Why are there not showers of blessing — 

 rivers in the human deserts ? Is it not because we give no place 

 in our public worship to our Lord's dying petition ? 



The Lord Jesus can only make His love known to Israel 

 through us. As long as we persecute or despise the Jews and 

 shut them out of their land, we frustrate the plan of God. Why 

 is the Mission Field so scantily supplied with workers ? " The 

 first-born of thy sons shaft thou give unto Me." The Christian 

 Church does not teach that, but when the Jews return to th 

 Lord, His vineyard will be crowded with labourers. The Gentiles 

 have not sought their aid, but the Jews, entering at the eleventh 

 hour, will receive a full wage. 



We have only to read the headings to such chapters as 

 Isaiah xlix or Jeremiah xxxi, to realize how the Christian 

 Church has appropriated promises, which belong to the Jews, 

 and has deceived itself into believing that the Jews are disin- 

 herited. Is it not the fact, that since the Christian nations, 

 stirred up by the Churches, attempted to seize the Holy Land 

 for themselves — the Crusades broke up in quarrels, which have 

 never ceased — the Moslems have advanced and still maintain 

 their unique position by fomenting and utilising that discord ? 



We have come then to this point, that the plan of God, as 

 forecast in the Old Testament, has been fulfilled in the New 

 'i'estament up to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and 

 His rule over the nations. And that there remains for fulfilment 

 the discovery by the Jews that this Gentile Prince is their own 

 King — the Jesus, whom they crucified, now reigning over the 

 kingdoms of the earth, but ever watching with aching heart and 

 outstretched arms for their return. Already the Jews are 

 bringing money in their hands, asking for the lands of their 

 fathers, to be allowed to colonise there, to be guaranteed in safe 

 possession ; and Christ is now seeking from the Christian 

 Churches and from the Christian Powers, as Joseph demanded 

 from his steward and claimed from Pharaoh, practical help in 

 making known His goodwill to Israel. But there is no response. 

 The Churches are without faith and the Powers without concern. 

 There is no expectancy of fulfilment. 



Why shall the receiving of the Jews by their King be life 

 from the dead ? Because a world without faith is dead, and the 

 conversion of the Jews will restore faith to the world. The 

 Jews will look upon the Eisen Jesus, and will go forth to 

 proclaim to all nations that this same Jesus, whom they crucified, 



