world. They gave to the surrounding
nations the only true idea of God, for in their lowest condition and
idolatry they preserved the name and knowledge of Jehovah, and Christ
sent His disciples after them through one of their own Tribe--namely,
Benjamin--telling them not to go into the way of the Gentiles, nor into
the cities of the Samaritans, "but go rather to the lost sheep of the
House of Israel." To these sheep Christ declares He was sent. Where
were these sheep? They were scattered about in Central Asia--in
Scriptural language in Cappadocia, Galatia, Pamphylia, Lydia, Bithynia,
and round about Illyricum. From these very regions came the Saxons: from
here they spread abroad North and West, being the most Christian of any
people on the face of the earth then, as well as now. Their reception of
the Gospel gave them power over the surrounding nations, to whom they
were, as it had been foretold, witnesses for Jesus and providence in a
very special manner. What then, we say with Paul, will be the blessing
of Israel--recognized and fully restored to God's favour? If so much
good was carried and bestowed upon the Gentile nations because Israel was
scattered, how much, and what are the blessings in store for those
nations when Israel and Judah be restored? Paul compares it to a
resurrection--like as when the barrenness and desolation of a Winter is
supplanted by the fruits and beauties of Summer. "If the casting away of
them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them
be, but life from the dead?" (Rom. xi. 15).

It is reasonable to suppose that this world is subject to the providence
of God. Such a supposition is grandly sustained by the laws and
operations of nature without, and the experience and intuitions of the
mind within; and I believe this providence to be all-comprehensive,
bounding, and cognising all things, past, present, and future, both small
and great; claiming the ages for its measure, the universe for the field
of its operations, and the Infinite as the source of power. "The Lord
Jehovah reigns, let the earth rejoice." Let me persuade you to
thoroughly believe in the precision, the intimacy, and the completeness
of this providence. This doctrine we need to fully learn and accept.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," and it is He
"who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out
heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the