WE take it that few of the birthright promises were realised to Israel when they were in the land of Palestine. Their seed was not then as "the stars-of heaven" (Gen. xv. 3-6), or as "the dust of the earth" (Gen. xiii. 16) for multitude; neither had they become "a company of nations" (Gen. xxxv. ii). These promises were not intended to apply to Israel when in that land, but rather when they were in exile, during which time all, excepting prospective ones, had their fulfilment. We are told that, after Israel had arrived in the isles, and had increased her population, she would find the isles too small for -her people. Scripture is most explicit upon' this point, as we find in chap. xlix. of Isaiah, where Israel is indicated as being within the range of the then prophetic forecast, dwelling in the isles, the chapter beginning with, ",Listen, 0 isles, unto me;" and that the chapter applies to Israel may be known, because in the 3rd verse Israel is addressed by name: " Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified." So that we plainly gather that the events narrated in this chapter could only happen when Israel was dwelling in the isles. When God tells Israel, "Thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants" (Isa. xlix i9) the isles would become too strait for them, so that they would require new territory. "The land of thy destruction" means the land of- their exile;, and this event must have been after they had broken away from the Assyrians, who alone were the people that had swallowed them up: "And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away" -i.e., Israel would now be in the West and the Assyrians about the East, with no power over them.

This Scripture could not intelligently bear a spiritual interpretation, and therefore must apply to the literal affairs of Israel: the Church never has been too small to hold her converts;, and the love of Christ is so abounding as to hold, "whosoever will." It is equally certain that it cannot apply to the Jews, because so directly contrary to all their experience, so that to, apply it to them would be to falsify the "Sure Word:"

THE IDENTITY is easy to substantiate.' The British are the only people who found their isles too small for them " by reason of the inhabitants." If we had had no possessions to have emigrated to, we should have been so over-populated that Great Britain would have been as one great charnel house. whether we look for Israel East, South, or North, it matters not; nowhere else on the earth can we find them.

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