JEREMIAH 1. 6, 7.-"My people hath been lost sheep; yea my flock was

scattered upon all the face of the earth: they have gone from mountain to

hill, they have forgotten their resting place. All that found them have

devoured them and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they

have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice: even the Lord the

hope of their fathers."

JOEL iii. 2." I will plead with them for my people and for my heritage Israel,

whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land."

LECTURE IV.—p. 66.

THE PRESENT

CONDITION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. JAMES BENNETT, D.D.,

OF FALCON SQUARE CHAPEL.

HOSEA iii. 4.-"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a

king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,

and without an ephod, and without teraphim."

ON THE

LECTURE V.—p. 101.

CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. E. HENDERSON, D.D.,

OF HIGHBURY COLLEGE.

JEREMIAH Xxxi. 18—20.—“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself

thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccus-

tomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the

Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that

I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even

confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my

dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do

earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him;

I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord."

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LECTURE VI.—p. 138.

THE ENCOURAGEMENTS WHICH CHRISTIANS HAVE TO UNDER-

TAKE THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. J. C. BURNS,

OF THE SCOTCH CHURCH, LONDON-WALL.

ROMANS X. 1.-"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is,

that they might be saved."

ROMANS Xi. 1.-"I say then, Hath God cast away his people?

God forbid.

For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Ben-

jamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew."

LECTURE VII.—p. 159.

THE OBLIGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS TO LABOUR FOR THE

CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. H. F. BURDER, D.D.,

OF HACKNEY.

ROMANS Xi. 30, 31.-"For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet
have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so have these also
now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy."

LECTURE VIII.—p. 175.

THE BEST MEANS FOR EFFECTING THE CONVERSION OF

THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. J. MORISON, D.D.,

MINISTER OF TREVOR CHAPEL, BROMPTON.

1 COR. ix. 20." And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain
the Jews."

THE BENEFITS WHICH WILL ACCRUE TO THE CHURCH OF

CHRIST, FROM THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. J. S. STAMP,

WESLEYAN MINISTER.

ISAIAH xlix. 3.—" And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in

whom I will be glorified."

LECTURE X.-p. 227.

THE GLORY WHICH WILL REDOUND TO GOD FROM THE

CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. J. HARRIS, D.D.,

CHESHUNT COLLEGE.

ROMANS Xi. 33.-"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and

knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways

past finding out!"

LECTURE I.

THE DESTINATION OF THE JEWS.

BY THE REV. JAMES HAMILTON,

MINISTER OF THE NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REGENT SQUARE.

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LUKE XXI. 24.

Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, UNTIL the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

ROMANS XI. 25, 26.

"Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved."

IN submitting a few remarks on the Destination of the Jews, I have selected these two passages, not because they are the fullest predictions on this momentous matter, but because they are among the latest. When you say that Israel will yet be restored and converted, and quote in support of your position Old Testament predictions,

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their force is often evaded on no other pretext but because they are found in the Old Testament, as if the Old Testament were not as authoritative as the Newor as if the Old were all fulfilled and finished the instant the New began. But leaving the Old Testament entirely out of view, the destination of the Jews might be sufficiently gathered from what Christ and his inspired apostles have told us. Had we no Scriptures but the Gospels and Epistles, it would be extremely probable that the house of Judah should fill their old seats again, and absolutely certain that they should become the conspicuous and favoured people of God once more.

However, I confess that I have no desire thus to narrow the field of presumption and proof. I would read these New Testament prophecies in the light of the Old, and fill up these more recent hints from the ampler information of earlier predictions. I would, on the one hand, learn more fully what God's purpose is, and on the other, would ascertain that this purpose is not yet fulfilled

-in other words, that it is God's purpose still. The New Testament allusions to Israel's last return are cursory and few, but it is enough that there are allusions. If you get a letter from a friend in India telling that he proposes to take a journey home, and fixing the very time of his intended departure, describing the route he intends to pursue, the length of time which he is likely to tarry at such a place, and the business which he hopes to transact at such another place, and the time when he hopes to arrive in Britain; should his next despatch relate to some affair which has occurred in the meanwhile, you would not expect that this second letter should repeat all the details of its predecessor. It would be enough if he