land was peopled by them. Partly by direct emigration, and partly by the scattering occasioned by the incursions of the Danes and the Norman conquest, the same race that peopled the central parts of the island, called, in the times of the Heptarchy, East Anglia, and Mercia, and Northumberland, was spread out southward into the Saxon quarters, and even westward into Wales, as well as northward into Scotland." (Wilson, pp. 187, 188.) After the establishment of Saxon supremacy, another representation of the Teutonic race came in the Danes, and, afterwards, still another in the Normans. These various elements of Gaelic and Kymric Celts, and Anglo-Saxon, Danish, and Norman Teutons, were shaken together by irresistible circumstances, and the result was England. In the words of a French historian, “England is especially a Gallo-Teutonic people, as France is especially a Gallo-Roman people; with this difference, that in France the Roman element was only a form modifying the Gallic substratum, while in England the Teutonic element combined largely with the primitive stratum which it covered." (Martin's Decline of French Monarchy.)

How the facts given by history of this coalition agree with the figure of the prophet Ezekiel when he sees the dead nationality of Israel in the valley of dry bones, and beholds the first signs of resurrection! "There was a noise, and, behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone." (Ezek. xxxvii. 7.)

And how the time when the coalition is recognized by history as a settled accomplishment agrees with the designation by Hosea! "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." A.D. 1281 marks the expiration of the second day and the beginning of the third, and to that epoch the unerring finger of history points. Macaulay, in his History of England, vol. i. ch. 1, thus speaks:-"The sources of the noblest rivers are to be sought in wild and barren mountain-tracts, incorrectly laid down in maps, and rarely explored by travellers. To such a tract the history of our country during the thirteenth century may not unaptly be compared. Then it was that the great English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities which it has ever since retained, and that our fathers became emphatically islanders; islanders not merely in geographical position, but in their poli

tics, their feelings, and their manners. Then first appeared with distinctness that constitution which has ever since, through all changes, preserved its identity; that constitution of which all the other free constitutions in the world are copies. Then it was that the House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet either in the Old or in the New World, held its first sittings. Then it was that the common law rose to the dignity of a science. Then it was that the most ancient colleges which still exist at both the great national seats of learning were founded. Then was formed that language, less musical, indeed, than the languages of the South, but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, inferior to that of Greece alone. Then, too, appeared the first dawn of that noble literature, the most splendid and the most durable of the many glories of England. Early in the fourteenth century the amalgamation of the races was all-but complete; and it was soon made manifest, by signs not to be mistaken, that a people inferior to none existing in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other and with the aboriginal Britons."

The coalition, begun so thoroughly, has steadily progressed to this day. Commenced in England, it goes on to perfection in this western world. In blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, Israel said, "Let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them, like fish, become a multitude in the midst of the earth.” (Gen. xlviii. 16.) To fulfil this prediction, the American continent was discovered in the latter part of the fifteenth century, between Europe on one side and Asia on the other, and thus "in the midst of the" inhabited "earth." The best portion of this land-from the Atlantic to the Pacific-was given to the two brothers, and, after a precious nucleus had been established to form the early character of the infant nation, the gates of the republic were widely opened to the mighty current of Teutonic and Celtic emigration, which, with a constantly augmenting volume, rushes in to swell the "multitude in the midst of the earth." And as "like fish" they were to become a multitude, so "like fish" they have crossed and are crossing the broad Atlantic, to fulfil the word of YAHVEH.

According to the statistics of emigration, there came into the

United States from 1784 to 1859, five millions of persons, of whom the vast majority were clearly of Teutonic and Celtic origin. From Great Britain and Ireland there came two million six hundred thousand; from Germany, one million six hundred thousand; from France, two hundred thousand; from British America, one hundred thousand; from Sweden and Norway, fifty thousand; from Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium, sixty-five thousand. There landed in New York from May 5, 1847, to De cember 31, 1864, three million one hundred and forty-five thousand emigrants; of which one million three hundred and thirty-nine thousand came from Ireland, and one million one hundred and twenty-six thousand from Germany. During the year 1865, two hundred thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden, New York: of these Germany contributed eighty-three thousand; Ireland, seventy thousand; England, twenty-seven thousand; Scotland, four thousand; Sweden, two thousand; Switzerland, two thousand; France, two thousand. The report recently presented to Congress by the Commissioners of Emigration shows that during 1866 two hundred and eighty-six thousand emigrants arrived in the United States: one hundred and seven thousand came from Great Britain and Ireland, eighty-six thousand from Germany, twenty-nine thousand from British America, eight thousand from Norway, five thousand from France, four thousand from Sweden three thousand from Switzerland, two thousand from Denmark, one thousand from Holland, one thousand from Belgium. As thirty-two thousand were unknown, it is obvious what a small number of emigrants came from other races than the Teutonic and Celtic.

And still they come. Ezekiel's vision is in process of rapid fulfilment, and soon the word of YAHVEH shall be hailed by the resurrected nation of Israel. The voice of Jesus has penetrated the graves of Israel in the north country, and all are coming from the graves,—some to a resurrection of life, and some to a resurrection of condemnation. No wonder that men begin to inquire for the meaning of these things. One says, "It makes the head swim with wonder and doubt to observe the elements of growth and greatness gathering and developing here on this continent. Only a divine sight and faith can trace the future with comprehension and confidence." (Springfield (Mass.) Repub

lican, May 4, 1867.)

Another asks, "Will some one attempt to explain the seeming paradox of an immense and steadily increasing migration from countries that owe little and tax lightly in comparison to this overburdened republic? That some should flock hither at all events, is natural; but that the volume of immigration should be not merely maintained, but largely augmented, under the pressure of gigantic debt, a high tariff, heavy internal taxes, and an inflated, irredeemable currency, is a puzzle to political economists. Do we not need a new political economy, recognizing and adapted to this state of facts?" (New York Tribune, Aug. 14, 1867.)

"Who is among you that feareth YAHVEH?

Let him hearken to the voice of his servant!

That walketh in darkness and hath no light?

Let him trust in the name of YAHVEH, and stay upon his God!" (Isa. 1. 10.)

ISRAEL PREPARED FOR THE GOSPEL.

THE law according to which the gospel of Christ works among men, was declared by our Lord Jesus in "the parable of the sower." "Some seed fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth; and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no depth of earth; and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them. But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirtyfold." (Matt. xiii.) From this parable we learn that the progress of the gospel depends on the previous preparation of men to receive it. As the seed produces fruit only in good ground, so the word of God flourishes only in good hearts. But as the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. ii. 14), it is evident that he will never accept the word of God until he has received the Spirit of God. Therefore the progress of the gospel in the world of man is determined by the extent of previous preparation made

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by the Holy Spirit. Little preparation, little progress; great preparation, great progress.

As the gospel was preached to the "foolish nation" that Israel might be "provoked to jealousy," we see why the Roman Empire was so imperfectly prepared for the word of truth, and why the light of Christianity, at first bright, so speedily became dim. The peoples of Southern Europe were mostly "wayside,' "? " stony ground," and "thorny ground" hearers; but Israel was "good ground" which was to bring forth fruit to perfection. Hence the religious condition of our fathers prior to their conversion from heathenism to Christianity was highly favorable to the change; and history thus attests the fact:

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"There might appear in the Teutonic religious character a depth, seriousness, and tendency to the mysterious, congenial to Christianity, which would prepare them to receive the gospel. Already the German had the conception of an illimitable Deity, towards whom he looked with solemn and reverential awe. tus might seem to speak the language of a Christian father,almost of a Jewish prophet. Their gods could not be confined within walls, and it was degradation to those vast unseen powers to represent them under the human form. Reverential awe alone could contemplate that mysterious being which they called divinity. (Tac. German. ix.) These deities, or this one Supreme, were shrouded in the untrodden, impenetrable forest. Such seems to have been the sublime conception above, if not antérior to, what may be called the mythology of Teutonic religion. This mythology was the same, only in its elemental form, throughout the German tribes, with that which, having passed through more than one race of poets, grew into the Eddas of Scandinavia. Vestiges of this close relationship are traced in the language, in the mythic conceptions, and in the superstitions of all the Teutonic tribes. Certain religious forms and words are common to all the races of Teutonic descent. In every dialect appear kindred or derivative terms for the Deity, for sacrifice, for temples, and for the priesthood. This mythic religion was in some points a nature-worship, though there might have existed, as has been said, something more ancient and superior to the worship of the visible and impersonated powers or energies of the material world." (Milman's Latin Christianity, vol. i. p. 356.)