ce
is made to float in water, and so save our lakes, streams, and wells from
being frozen solid. As this exception is to thermal science, so is the
law of reproduction to Israel in this day. This people, who have been
behind other races, now, at an appointed time, step to the front. The
law seems to be reversed, and that too for a benevolent purpose--for the
very purpose that they might be able to fulfil the mission assigned them
in these last days, to occupy the new lands and evangelise the world.
One prophecy seems to call for the other, for what would be the use of
the lands without the people, or the people without the lands? It is an
amazing fact that Queen Victoria should bear rule over one-third of the
population of the whole earth, and that Israel, including Manasseh,
should own one-fourth of the land.

But this amazing fact is made reasonable when we accept the Queen as
being of the seed of David, and an heir to the promises attaching to
David's throne, and when we accept the Anglo-Saxons as being the Ten Lost
Tribes of Israel. Then prophecy, Providence, and facts, are a
trinity--they are one sublime whole. God, speaking through Moses, said
He would punish to reform Israel for seven times--and seven times
prophetically understood, means 2,520 years. If we allow that Israel
were carried captive in the year 725 before Christ, then Israel would
come into freedom, or be reformed, about 1795; because if we add 725 to
1,795, we get 2,520. Up to this point they were to be robbed of their
children and to be few in number (see Lev. xxvi. 22). In the year 1795
Israel were to be relieved from these curses; and about this time this
special law of reproduction came into operation; or, if we take the
lamentations of Hosea vi. 1-3: "Come and let us return unto the Lord, for
He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us
up; after two days will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us
up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know if we follow on
to know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning, and He
shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the
earth." By this passage, our day and the special providences of this
period are mournfully and graphically referred to. Here a day stands for
a thousand years, "for a day with the Lord is as a thousand years;" so
that when two thousand years should have passed by, Ephraim, who stands
for Israel,