with his eyes
half open can see this part of the prophecy fulfilling. The Jews,
England, and United States, from this and henceforth, are one in
interest, policy, and destiny.

These being the latter days, let us look for the signs of the multiplying
of the seed so that they be as the sea sands God promised to Abraham,
saying: "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon
the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies" (Gen.
xxii. 17). Old Jacob foretold that Joseph would be a fruitful bough,
whose branches would run over the wall--that is, colonise. This increase
is to be seen in two ways. Let me direct your attention to one of these
ways, in a special manner, because it is so singular and unique, so
distinct and discernable. In Jeremiah xxx. 10, 11, we find a remarkable
statement: "Fear not, O Israel, for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to
save thee. Though I make a full end of all nations whither I have
scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee; but I will
correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished."
That Israel has been punished and corrected no one will deny who is
acquainted with her history and sojourn from the time she was carried
captive to this day. But has the other part of the saying been
fulfilled? We answer, Yes--as the law of colonisation has progressed.
The Ancient Britons are no more; Saxon Israel has entirely supplanted
them, just as Manasseh in the United States is supplanting the aborigines
or Indians. They perish and disappear like snow before the rising sun.
Not all we can do on the line of legislation, philanthropy, and religion,
is sufficient to stay the ravages of this long-ago declared decree of
Heaven. Go to Canada, and you find they are perishing; in Newfoundland
they are entirely gone, and in every other province they are fast
disappearing, save such as are saved by incorporation, by marriage, and
salt stayed by the power of Christianity; but both these remedies are
only temporal--they perish in spite of all in the heated atmosphere of
Israel's civilisation. Some few tribes may hold their own and seem to
increase, but such does not invalidate the evidence of the decree. For
they have perished in such numbers, and so uniformly, when in contact
with Israel, that history proclaims the decree fulfilled.

The native inhabitants of Van Die