140. K. James V. (d. A.D. 1542), Mary of Lorraine (d. A.D. 1560).

141. Q. Mary (d. A.D. 1587), Lord Henry Darnley.

SOVEREIGNS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

142. K. James VI. and I. (A.D. 1603-1625), Ann of Denmark.

143. Princess Elizabeth (1596-1613), K. Frederick of Bohemia.

144. Princess Sophia m. Duke Ernest of Brunswick.

145. K. George I. (1698-1727), Sophia Dorothea Zelle (1667-1726).

146. K. George II. (1727-1760), Princess Caroline of Auspach
(1683-1737).

147. Prince Frederick of Wales (1707-1751), Princess Augusta of
Saxe-Gotha.

148. K. George III. (1760-1830), Princess Sophia of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz (1744-1818).

149. Duke Edward of Kent (1767-1820), Princess Victoria of Leiningen.

150. Q. Victoria (b. 1819, cr. 1838), Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

Thus do we see how God has kept His word to David, and with this view,
English and American history are at once understandable. The future is
assuring and grand. God will assuredly overturn till His throne once
more is planted in Jerusalem.

JEREMIAH AND ST. PATRICK.
Discourse XX.

THE PROPHET'S COMMISSION--HIS LIFE--THE TRIBES IN HIS DAY--LANDING OF
JEREMIAH IN IRELAND--WHAT HE BROUGHT WITH HIM--COLONISATION OF
IRELAND--JEREMIAH THE FOUNDER OF THE ANCIENT IRISH GOVERNMENT AND
RELIGION--TEA TEPHI AND HEREMON--THE ANCIENT IRISH FLAG--THE HARP AND
LION--SEASON OF IRELAND'S HISTORICAL PRESTIGE--CAUSES OF HER DECLINE--ST.
PATRICK A BENJAMITE--HOW ROME DESTROYED JEREMIAH'S MEMORY AMONG THE
IRISH--DESTRUCTION OF TARA--ULSTER NEVER CONQUERED--IRISH
INDEPENDENCE--ARK OF THE COVENANT--RUINS OF TARA.

"See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw
down, to build, and to plant."--Jer. i. 10.

In these words we have set forth the Divine commission given to the
prophet Jeremiah. Never before, or since, was such a commission given to
mortal man. It is not that Jeremiah is constituted a prophet for his own
people, or over his own nation, and country, but he was Divinely
appointed and set over the nations and kingdoms of the earth, with an
authority "to root out, pull down, destroy, and throw down." Surely he
was rightly named, for the word Jeremiah means the exalted, or appointed
one of the Lord. By common consent, the Jews gave him the first place
and name among the prophets. Up to the time of the Babylonian captivity
he was second,