s; but taking all in all, the good will out-weigh the bad;
and more so as the years roll on.

True, an arbitrary purpose and an individualism is seen on the surface,
yet under it all there is the hand of God. The farmer is free as to what
he sows, but the Divine, without interfering with his freedom, regulates
the harvest to plenty or famine. The Saxon people, England and America,
stand in a new light to the world by the teachings of the Bible. Being
Israel or the Ten Lost Tribes, they become at once the chosen agents of
God for the glorious purpose of evangelising the whole world, and
finally, by reducing the whole earth to the plane of universal liberty
and peace.

It was necessary that these two nations should first be taught the art of
mediation, for the ends of peace; that they should learn and show to the
world that national disputes and grievances can be settled without an
appeal to the sword. Hence we have, and what is much better, the world
has, Geneva and Alabama and the fish bounty treaty of Canada and the
United States. Not all the press did on either side, nor all the carping
and blustering of individuals, could prevent the happy consummation of
both these treaties. To God be praise, for they are prophetic harbingers
of a better day coming.

No hand nor power, nor combination of powers, can stop the onward march
of Israel to her God-ordained goal. Her future is to spread on the right
hand and on the left. Island after island, colony after colony, will
fall into her hands for mutual benefit. Russia may contest this march,
and will, for she is as much the appointed agent of contest from Heaven
as England is to advance. In a few years she will try to take the place
of England among the nations, as she has just done in Afghan. Russia
promised, no doubt, that she would and could protect the Ameer against
England, but the bargain was outside of the aims of Providence, hence it
could not be sustained. It is ordained of Heaven that Afghan fall into
the hands of England, if England be Israel.

Against this fate-like division of the world Russia is going to contend
and fight whenever she gets a chance. It would pay Russia and many other
countries to read that "When the Most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the
people according to the children of Israel" (Deut. xxxii. 8). These
bounds God will maintain wherever they run; whatever c