THE custom of turning to the East in national worship is really to Israel a very important point. The gist of this matter is .so much turning to the East as it is praying in the land of their Qtr captivity with their faces toward their own land. Israel's exile has not yet been turned, and the land of their captivity must be in their islands; and these must be in the West. Therefore, being West of Palestine, to pray to the Almighty with their faces toward their land, would require them to assume 'an Eastern position in prayer. It therefore becomes impossible ' for- Israel to value any other position in her national worship. Whatever conclusions some Christians may arrive at who are indifferent to the letter of the Scriptures, this much is certain, that Solomon's prayer for Israel, which was accepted by-God in its integrity, demands of Israel that when in captivity they should in prayer turn their faces toward their land. " If they bethink themselves . in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly. If they return unto thee with all their. heart, and PRAY TOWARD THEIr LAND WhiCh thou gayest unto their fathers, . then hear thou from thee heavens," &c., &c. (2 Chron. vi. 36-42). And as showing the importance with which this Eastern position was regarded, the same clause is inserted and insisted upon by Solomon again and again in the sane chapter (see verses 21, 26, 34; r Kings viii. 30, 35, 42, 44, 48), and as often accepted and consented to by the Almighty.

THE IDENTITY declares that the British are the only people upon 'the -Earth who, in their National Worship, face the East. Our National Churches are required to have the Eastern Window: and a Bishop would be false to his office who would consecrate any newly-constructed Church where this essential was not complied with. 'It is important to see that the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Church, the German National Church, and the Continental Teutonic Peoples, have no such conditions imposed upon them by their national' laws. God only commands it from Israel, and we only respond to the' demand--ergo, we must be Israel.
(Prejudice creates many excuses, thus many denominational Christians have written me, saying, that God does not sanction looking "toward the East," quoting Ezek. viii. 16; but surely a candid' reading of this verse shows that the thing so displeasing to the Almighty was not the Eastern aspect, but that " they worshipped the sun." It is God's protest against idolatry, and in no way affects Israel's. worship in exile.

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