JEHOVAH-and no human nor devil's hand can wrest asunder what God hath joined together in His eternal purpose.

The book is Gop's revelation, not to the Jew alone, but to all humanity-but it is only through the Jew, that humanity has been, and will be, blest.

The people a peculiar, separated people, that has been, and will be, the source of every blessing to every creature under heaven.

The land was theirs, and will yet be theirs throughout all the blessed ages to come.

Of this people it was written 3393 years ago: "I will scatter you among the nations. I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies."

It was written of them 2640 years ago:

"To tread them down like the mire of the streets!" Are not the above words true of the eastern European Jews to-day?

Of this land it was written 3393 years ago:

"I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation. And I will bring the land unto desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. Your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it."

Who will dispute the fact that the land has been a most unfruitful one for some eighteen centuries?

Will the reader note that these words were spoken against the people and the land some forty years before the people entered the land under Joshua-to possess the land.

And 3393 years ago JEHOVAH said also of the people:

"Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also

my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember!"

And 3393 years ago JEHOVAH said:

"And I will remember the land!"

THE LORD is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness.

CHAPTER II.

AS TO THE LAND.

When one has made up his mind (the owner being willing) to purchase a certain lot of land, the first request that he makes is:

"Have you a perfect title? Please have the abstract of the property brought down to date, and I shall have my lawyer examine; if your title be without flaw, I will immediately pay you."

Every wise would-be purchaser of a home, or an investment, will have the most competent lawyer examine the title before he pays for the property. Now let us see why this Jew claims the land of Canaan for his own. How was the title first invested in him? And if that title is without flaw, though he is a long time without possession (if he has not sold it, and he never has as far as mortal man's records go), then he has a perfect right to take possession of the land. The Jew never willingly gave up the land; he was always forcibly driven from his homestead.

The creator of any property is the absolute owner. As JEHOVAH created the world in ages long past, and six thousand years ago formed it, and shaped it to His will, He had a perfect right to give the land He calls "Holy" to whomsoever His sovereign love desired. The Jews claim the land because JEHOVAH was the grantor to their Father Abraham.

Let us look up the records: In the many recorded interviews of JEHOVAH with Abraham we find mention of the land in six, written as follows:

1st Interview:

show thee."

"Get thee * * to a land that I will

2d Interview: "Unto thy seed will I give this land."

3d Interview: "Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will

I give it, and to thy seed forever. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee."

4th Interview: "I am THE LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it."

5th Interview: "In the same day THE LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.''

6th Interview: “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an EVERLASTING POSSESSION."

The reader of these records must of necessity observe one very particular feature, namely, the land was given to Abraham without a single, solitary condition; the metes and bounds were laid down carefully, and absolutely given without consideration, as an everlasting possession. The children of Israel then have a perfectly clear title to the land; it is absolutely theirs without the shadow of a flaw.

They never sold it; they were driven forcibly from the land; they have a right to possess it whenever they enter into its bounds.

And not only to Abraham, but also to his son Isaac, JEHOVAH in His first recorded interview with the latter, said, as follows:

"Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of; sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries; and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham, thy father; and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

And among the few recorded interviews between JEHOVAH and Jacob, we read: "I am THE LORD GOD of Abraham, thy

father, and the God of Isaac. The land wherein thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."

"And God said unto him: Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel. And GOD said unto him: I AM GOD ALMIGHTY. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land."

According to GOD's promise, the children of Israel were given part of the land; but never once did they, though coming very near to it in the reign of King Solomon, possess the limits of the tract of land granted by GOD to Abraham in his fifth recorded interview.

There has been a witty sneer-that JEHOVAH of the Jews must have been a very little God when he gave them such a small tract of land. But the wit's sneers were made in profound ignorance, for the dimensions of the land as originally given, and yet to be occupied by Israel in the near future, form indeed an imperial stretch of country.

Again, it has been said, that Israel by their wickedness made null and void all the promises of GOD. What profound stupidity is this; what a misconception of the mind of the grantor? The land was given to Abraham and his seed without a condition. Once given, the grantor could not afterwards make conditions that the inheritors were bound to respect. The land was given absolutely from JEHOVAH to Abraham and his seed for an everlasting possession-(talking with the utmost reverence)-GOD could not four hundred years afterward say, "Certain conditions must be observed or the land shall cease to be yours." Binding conditions must be stated before, not after the warranty deed is given. JEHOVAH has a perfect right to say what children of Abraham shall occupy the land, but