COLONIES seem to be the next step in the order of Identifica tion. Israel must have them. Scripture would be at fault if this were not the case; prove' the jots and tittles of Scripture to be true--prove the iotas of prophecy to be living powers, and you substantiate God's Word. We maintain that Colonies must now be an institution of Israel's, because the prayer that Israel raised when in the isles was heard by God: Israel prayed to God, saying, "The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell" (Isa. xlix. 20); and we are told in the same chapter, "Thus saith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee, . . . and I Trill preserve thee and give thee . . . to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages" (ver. 8). These "desolate heritages" are Colonies. Israel never could become '"a nation and a company of nations" (Gen. xxxv. 11) without them; neither could that Scripture be fulfilled that declares of Israel, " Thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be in habited" (Isa. liv. 3). It would he untrue to apply these Scriptures to the Jews. They never have possessed inheritances. They never have been over-populous-they were not to be; on the contrary, they were to be few in number (Jer. xv. 7). They are not now much over five millions in all •parts of the earth. It would be equally untrue to apply the spiritual term, and to maintain that Christianity in itself causes "desolate cities to be inhabited," because it has not this effect. These Colonies are part of the "covenant" God-made with his people, they are included as a portion of their blessings, and the blessings of Israel were to take effect at the very same time that the curses upon Judah were taking effect (Isa. lxv. 13-15), they were to be contemporaneous; and as the curses upon the Jews are new having effect, it follows that Israel must be realising her blessings now; so that it would be folly to assert, as some have done that Israel must return to her land, and then receive her increase, and then go out again from her land in quest of Colonies; because, if so, then Judah must go back again, only to go forth once, more from her land to share her curses : both conditions must go together. But as it is impossible that Israel can ever return, except according to "the consumption decreed" (Isa. X. 22), i.e., "one of a city and two of a family" (Jer. iii. 14); and as this must be the condition of their return "the second time" (Isa. xi. ii), the "first" return being from Egypt, and "the second" not having yet taken place, it follows that they must be in possession of their Colonies before this return. This position, receives further testimony from Scripture, which says, " The house of Jacob (i.e., Israel) shall possess their possessions" (Obad. 17), so that once having their Colonies in hand, it is impossible that they should give them up.

THE IDENTITY fixes upon us the face, that the British nation does possess Colonies. That since we have been in these isles we have, by them, broke "forth on the right hand and on the left;" that all .the "desolate heritages" that were in existence when we went forth to colonise have come into our possession. That they were only promised to Israel, but have all come to us, ergo, we must be Israel; and by virtue of our being identical with Israel, we can declare we are the only nation upon the earth that has;; succeeded, and that we cannot help succeeding in colonising. The Dutch nation once tried it but woefully failed. The Spanish nation also tried, and gave promise of succeeding, but have ignominiously failed, and what paltry possessions they now hold must very soon cede away from them. The French virtually have none. The Germans have tried and failed, but the British nation has flourishing Colonies in all parts of the World, and urgently require more yet.

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