2. The principle of restoring nationalities. The cry of Germany for the Germans, Italy for the Italians, Greece

for the Greeks, &c., &c., demand Palestine for the Jews.

3. Jewish movements point to it. The Jewis h Chronicle (Dec. 17, 1880), says "We are inundated with books

on Palestine, and the air is thick with schemes for Colonizing the Holy Land once more."

4. "The Palestine Exploration Fund" has turned the eyes and hearts and thoughts, yea and the feet of

thousands of God's servants towards the stones and dust of Emmanuel's Land, and caused the words of Ps.

cii. 13, 14 to have a new and most solemn and important significance:--

"THOU SHALT ARISE AND HAVE MERCY UPON ZION: FOR THE TIME TO FAVOUR HER, YEA THE

SET TIME IS COME. FOR THY SERVANTS TAKE PLEASURE IN HER STONES AND FAVOUR THE

DUST THEREOF."