ISRAEL must enjoy the position of supremacy among the nations; she must be the " Chief of the Nations," and to attain and maintain this exalted state, she must be jealous of her power, and use every care to hold her own. France, for three hundred years, devised means to keep Germany a divided nation, think mg that if it allowed her the privilege of becoming united, she would gain mastery and dominion over France. So Israel would use the means to obtain her supremacy in the "balance of power," and would make her protests, and interfere with every movement that she thought calculated to give one Gentile nation more power than was wont, as we are plainly told in Scripture, " Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them" (St. Mark, x. 42), and surely it is the prerogative of Israel to do this. "Thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee" (Deut. xv. 6). She could not, throughout' her history, have enjoyed unbroken peace, but must have taken her proper share in interfering with the internal affairs of the other nations. Prior to her Identity being manifested, and prior to the great changes that are to come oven--Gentile nations at the time of her Identity, i.e., in the times we have entered upon, Israel would adopt an entirely new principle to her, that of the non-intervention with the Gentile powers. The Almighty enjoins this action upon her. She who previously would be foremost in every warlike movement, now would be passive, neutral, non-interfering, hence the Scripture, alluding only to Israel, "Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us" (Isa. xxvi. 12). "Come, my people (a term only applicable to Israel), enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee (nonintervention), hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast; for, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth (i.e., the, Gentiles.-Isa. xxvi. 20, 21). Thus, before these dreadful things are to fall upon the Gentiles, Israel is bid by the Lord to keep themselves quiet, to adopt a new system-a thing in itself showing that they must have been interfering before. Our Saviour knew this truth, when He, speaking to Israel in the prospective, said, "When ye hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled" (St. Mark xiii. 7). Of course if they were to, take a part in these troubles they could not help being "troubled;" besides, these times will be contemporaneous with the return of Israel. " Jacob shall return and be in PEST and at EASE" (Jer. xlvi. 27).

THE IDENTITY: We are "the Chief of the Nations"; we have been foremost in every squabble; we have exercised lordship over the nations, have always been protesting, insisting upon being consulted in every movement, using the watchword " Balance of Power"; and yet all at once, without any tangible reason being assigned, at the very time of- our Identity with Israel becoming nationally known, i.e., at the veritable time appointed by the Almighty, we have suddenly turned round and have raised a new cry-Neutrality Non-intervention!-and by this cry have positively reduced the strength of our army, have shut-up and sold dockyards, lessened defence expenses, reduced by thousands the employed of our arsenals, and all this in-the very face of the fact, full well known to us, that all the other nations upon the Continent are' increasing upon an enormous scale their different armies -arming to the teeth, so as to be prepared for, a strife they see looming in their very front, and that any day or any, hour may cause to burst with dreadful fury upon them Israel only is bid to do this. We alone have done it, ergo, we must be Israel.

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