arnings of
woe and judgment, by so much will He keep faith with the promise of
good He has made; by so much is it sure He will yet plant them as He
has said in their own land and will do so with His whole heart and
His whole soul.

Already the sound of their footsteps may be heard on the homeward
march.

Zionism is now an immense fact.

The spirit of nationalism has come back to Judah.

The blue and white flag of David has been unfurled.

Diplomats in the nations' counsels agree there can be no settled
peace between Europe and the East till the Jew is back in his own
land and Judah once more a recognized political state; that the Jews
are the only people all the nations will agree should have
Palestine, and the words, "Jewish State" are words repeated in
common speech round the globe.

England has driven the Turk out of Jerusalem.

The corner-stone of a five million dollar university has been laid
upon that Mount of Olives where once the Son of God amid its lonely
shades prayed and agonized, a begun fulfillment of the prophecy of
Zephaniah that in the latter days the Lord would execute judgment on
the Gentile nations that should be gathered there and to His
restored and delivered people turn again a pure speech, no longer
the stuttering and smattering phrase of Yiddish, but the old Hebraic
tongue of their fathers.

Already there are papers in Jerusalem published in Hebrew, schools
are taught and many speak in the ancient language.

Many Jews are going back to Palestine.

Many more are there now than returned from Babylon.

They are going back as the Word of God foretold, in utter and
absolute unbelief and bitter repudiation of the idea that Jesus of
Nazareth was their foretold and foreordained Messiah.

They are going back with the vail upon their eyes and as blind as in
the day when their fathers caused Him to be crucified by Roman
hands.

They are going back to a time of anguish of which Jeremiah solemnly
warns as "the day of Jacob's trouble," and our Lord describes as the
tribulation, "the great one," the like of which the world has never
seen and will never see again.

They are going back to be set up by a league of ten nations and to
enter into an alliance and covenant with its godless head as their
political and false Messiah.

They will suffer until there shall come upon that generation all the
righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel
to the blood of Zacharias, th