, waste and desolate places; to inherit the seed of the Gentiles,
and cause their desolate cities to be filled. They were to possess and
rule over the heathen. In the latter days they were to possess Edom and
Esau--that is, Turkey--and so come in possession of their own land,
Palestine. Now I call you to witness, and ask you if these things are
so? Before your eyes, before mine, before the eyes of all the world, God
is fulfilling His promises made to the fathers.

The very exceptions to the sweeping and comprehensive possessions of the
seed of Jacob are pyramidal witnesses to the same. The House of Judah
was to become homeless, without a nation and without a government, after
they left Palestine; but to be a people known by the race feature, and by
their unwavering adherence, attachment, and fidelity to the Mosaic
worship. This exception all can see, and none can truthfully deny. They
have had money and men enough to buy and rule a nation, but as yet they
have none. Their talent, their ability, and their money, have been the
chief factor in the rule, prosperity, and greatness of many nations in
the past as well as now. And the second conception is not less grand and
conclusive. Let any one inquire what was to be the portion of the Tribe
of Manasseh, and they will find that Manasseh was to be a distinct
people, a great people; for so said the dying patriarch Jacob. Now such
a people, a great people, we hold Manasseh to be at this day in the
people of the United States. Some sixty colonies England has overrun,
established, or conquered, and she is busy at work yet conquering and
gathering in. But is it not remarkable that she has never lost one of
the many save the United States? Will any one give an earthly reason for
this marvellous exception? I presume no one can. There is, however, a
Divine reason. Moses, when giving his prophetic benediction to the
Tribes of Israel, gives us an insight into this question. Speaking of
Joseph and the wonderful blessing in store for his sons Ephraim and
Manasseh, he says: "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and
his horns are like the horns of unicorns; and with them he shall push the
people together to the ends of the earth; _and they are the ten thousands
of Ephraim_, _and they are the thousands of Manasseh_" (Deut, xxxiii.
17). And further light is thrown on this subject when we notice what
Isaiah says in the forty-ninth chapter. The children of Israel,