an Gulf, and from the Mediterranean to the Arabian
Sea, 1,600. These boundaries you will glean by taking note of the
several promises to Abraham and his seed, as recorded in Gen. xv. 10, and
Exod. xxiii. 31, and Deut. xi. 24. The land so promised and given
specially to Abraham and his seed, the descendants of Abraham never yet
occupied, no, not half of it, even in the palmy days of King Solomon.
Will it ever be? We answer, Yes, as sure as the seasons and night and
day. He is faithful that has promised, and will do it.

This remarkable peninsula will be the theatre of the future glory of
Israel and Judah. As finely described by the Rev. A. B. Grimaldi, it
will be found to be most exactly and suitably placed to enable them to
fulfil their high destiny to all nations, and become the centre of all
lands, the praise and beauty of the whole earth. This land has, in fact,
a central position for communication, commerce, and all other advantages
of civilisation not enjoyed by any other portion of land in the whole
world; while the peculiar geographical formation is such that it has an
immense seaboard, and is therefore fitted for vaster commercial and naval
operations than have ever yet been seen, commanding, as it does, the
three most important seas and the two largest rivers of the whole world.

This land, as laid out by Ezekiel, will be divided into thirteen
longitudinal strips, sixty miles long, and twenty broad. In the very
centre will be a portion, some fifty miles square, which will be divided
and apportioned to what is called the holy oblation--namely, in the very
middle will be the temple, a mile square, or larger than ever the whole
city of Jerusalem has yet been. Then the city will be ten miles square.
On one side will be a portion for the priests; on another, a portion for
the Levites; and on the other two sides, the prince's or king's portion.
This portion, which will be on the East and West sides, will be sixty
miles long by ten broad, or some 600 miles square. But it is clear he
will need it, for he will not be supported by taxes. He will have to
judge the land. He cannot take any more land. He will have to support
his own family. No public grant to his children. He will have to be
liberal with the temple. He will have sixty miles of sea coast to defend
and sixty miles of land frontier to protect, and thus cover some of the
weaker tribes. The city will have 720 square miles as a suburb, in which
to