oble to be longer slaves to priest or Pope. Bereft of temporal power,
they henceforth will have to win and fight their way, as others, on the
purity of their doctrines and practice. In such a strife we can but wish
them, and all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, great success.

Thus in the short outline of these four kingdoms we see enough to show us
that God has kept His word. How marvellous are His ways! how complete
His work!

Let us now look at this stone kingdom. This fifth kingdom is as much
material and political as the other four, and stands for a king, country,
and people. It does not come into existence until the image is perfect.
For it is while Nebuchadnezzar was looking at the image he saw the stone
cut out of the mountain--its growth was gradual. Its work was to destroy
this image and fill the world. As these kingdoms became weaker and
smaller, it would become stronger and larger.

What king, country, and people respond to this kingdom? The answer is as
easy as to find the other, if we keep our minds free from prejudice and
open to truth.

First, this kingdom was of Divine origin. Second, it was small at first.
Third, the more it fights the more it grows. Fourth, it breaks in pieces
this image, beginning at the feet. It is in fact the sworn enemy of all
the four kingdoms. Fifth, it is to fill the world and thus become a
universal kingdom and monarchy. In this latter sense it will be a fit
type of the kingdom of Christ.

Just such a kingdom as this did God repeatedly promise to Abraham and his
descendants. David's throne and seed royal are to be established before
Him for ever. He promised to David's throne perpetuity, and that David's
seed should always be on the throne--not in a spiritual sense as some
think--but naturally and actually in this world.

God promised to Israel, as a people and a kingdom, such pre-eminence in
origin, power, and growth. The answer, then, is simple and
plain--England, as representing the Lost Tribes of Israel, and Queen
Victoria being a direct descendant from David. For she came of James
VI., of Scotland--he from Bruce and Duncan, and Malcolm, and Kenneth, and
Kenneth through the kings of Argyleshire, Alpin, and Donald, and Fergus.
Then through the long line of Irish Kings from Earca to Heremon, of Tara,
and he married Tea Tephi, the daughter of Zedekiah, who, through Jeremiah
the prophet, had been hid from the destroying vengeance of
Nebuchadnezzar. He ki