gdom was never to be left unto other
people. It is typified by the stone cut out of the mountain that is to
fill the world. Why then stand amazed at the cession of Cyprus to
England, if she be Israel. To her was promised the isles of the sea, the
coasts of the earth, the waste and desolate places--the heathen and
uttermost parts of the earth, as a possession. Already out of the
fifty-one million square miles which composes the earth, England,
including the United States, now owns about fourteen millions, or say
one-fourth. She bears rule over one-third of the people of the earth;
she adds a colony every four years on an average. At the present rate it
will not be long before the kingdoms of this world will be given to the
saints of the Most High. It is no marvel in the light and instruction of
prophecy that this throne and people should be so stable and prosperous.

Turn your attention to the founding of this throne of David. You will
find the throne and seed unconditionally federated, the place and measure
of prosperity conditioned on the obedience of the people and throne to
God. "The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it;
of _the fruit of thy body_ will I set upon thy throne" (Psalm cxxxii.
11). Again, "I have sworn unto David, thy seed I will _establish for
ever_, and build up thy throne to _all_ generations" (Psalm lxxxix. 3,
4). This promise is to all generations--not a part, nor simply for sixty
years. For the kingdom was rent in twain when Rehoboam, the grandson of
David, began to reign. The throne of David would be about the poorest
type of Christ's throne and rule, and reign, if we can only see it in
Palestine. There it was soon divided, very corrupt. "If ye can break My
covenant of the day and night in their season, then may also My covenant
be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign
upon his throne . . . Thus saith the Lord: If My covenant be not with day
and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and
earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David My servant, so
that I will not take any of _his seed_ to be rulers over the seed of
Abraham" (Jer. xxxiii. 25, 26). Let anybody of the same mind read the
seventh chapter of the second book of Samuel, and they will see that God
promised to David that his house and kingdom should be established for
ever, and that God would set up the seed of David after him. Well might