Hosts, that I will break his (i.e. the Gentile's) yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers

shall no more serve themselves of him." When we think of the 1800 years and more during which that heavy

yoke has been borne and the bonds with which the Jews have been bound, is it too much to see in recent

events the beginning of the end of the oppression of Ages? Look at the following entirely new facts in the

light of that oppression.

1. In 1783 Joseph II. of Austria first abolished the body-tax, removed vexatious restrictions, and opened the

Schools to the Jews.

2. In 1784 Louis XVI. of France abolished the body-tax.

3. In 1787 Frederick William of Prussia repealed some of the laws which Frederick the Great had made.

4. In 1788 Louis XVI. appointed a commission to re -model the laws respecting the Jews. The revolution

stopped this work, but it included the Jews in its Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

5. In 1805 Alexander I. of Russia revoked the Edict of Exclusion and millions returned there.

6. In 1806 they were made citizens of Italy and Westphalia (as they had been some years before of Holland

and Belgium), and were formally recognized by Napoleon I. as a religious body.

7. In 1809, Baden; and 1813, Prussia and Denmark gave the Jews civil liberty.

8. In England, successive Acts in 1830, 1833, and 1835 removed certain restrictions, but it was not till 1858

that the Jews had full equality.

9. In 1870 Bismarck completed the unification of Germany, and made the Jews free all through the Empire.

10. In 1867 Turkey gave the Jews, for the first time, the right to possess land in Palestine.

11. In 1870 with the fall of the temporal power of the Pope, freedom came in Italy.

12. In 1878 The Berlin Congress made the freedom of the Jews in Roumania a special condition.

It is too much to conclude that in all these things, Jer. xxx. 7, has begun to be fulfilled.

II. RESTORATION GRADUAL. Ezek. xxxvii. 7-14. The restoration is not to be the one work of a moment, but

it is marked by successive stages. (1) "a noise," (2) "a shaking," (3) "the bones came together, bone to his

bone," (4) "the sinews and flesh came up upon them," (5) "the skin covered them above," (6) "the breath

came into them and they lived," and (7) they "stood up upon their feet."

Now as the Restoration of Israel cannot be the work of a moment or a day, or of a mere brief period, Is it too

much to ask whether we may not call these present movements, the "noise" and the "shaking," even if not

the coming together of bone to bone; For

1. In 1806 Napoleon summoned the great Sanhedrin for the first time in Europe, and

i.e. the day of Jacob's trouble, verse 6.