rching on
after him, and now they have nearly overtaken him. Lincoln's ideas and
the country's are nearly equal. A man led of God is generally a good
distance behind, and the people led by such a man are equally as far
behind him as he is behind God. But this nation and Abraham Lincoln are
now one, and in those things in which they once were divided they are a
unit, with more than the honoured Lincoln; for they are a unit with God
and providence. Thus follows the English nation in the wake of Disraeli,
and the world is coming on behind, and the day will come when all will be
a unit. It does not shock our idea of human honesty much when we learn
that this crownless king played a double game with Russia and Turkey. It
is intensely Jewish, but if it were only Jewish, then it would be very
detestable; it is more, it is Divine in part. "Had the princes of this
world known, they would not have crucified the Prince of Glory." Had the
princes of the late Berlin Congress known the double game being played by
one of the quietest of their number, they would not have done as they
did. Turkey in Asia was given over to England's protection, aye, yes,
that included Palestine. The island of Cyprus is given over
entirely--surely the way of the kings of the East is being grandly
prepared.

Why did not the Congress hand over to England's protection Turkey in
Europe? For reasons good and sufficient. Turkey in Europe will be the
cause of much strife, of several wars, and of strange alliances; hence it
would not have done for Israel-England to be mixed up with it.
Constantinople alone, of European Turkey, England will keep. Israel is
to be much preserved from war, until the great battle of Armageddon comes
on. Against that time she will have to husband her strength and
resources. It is marvellous now to think that what the Congress settled
as belonging to England, none dispute--all is peace. But Russia's share
and Austria's are in arms. Servia, Greece, Roumania, and all the Turkish
provinces rebel and are in a state of disquietude, that portends war and
strife again in a few years. But England will have nothing to do with
it, excepting that Russia and Austria, with the consent of Germany,
Italy, and France, are to set a precedent for England, which in a few
years she will need. It is plain that if Russia and Austria can force by
arms the conditions of the Berlin Congress, England will be at liberty to
do the same without a