St. Bartholomew; who has for his coadjutor another French layman, an ex-agent of the government; and for the chronicler of his worthy deeds, a Capuchin monk. The persons who render themselves conspicuous in stimulating and aiding the murders are Latin priests, and other—must I say Christians?'

'Yet, you see, they speak of the justice rendered, and the sympathy shewn by some honest followers of Christ."

Yes; that is one of the points in the document that struck me. The sufferers evidently do not charge upon the religion itself the abominations perpetuated by its false professors. Addressing a Pagan, they could have no motive for this implied testimony to the right feeling of Christians, but rather the reverse. There is an extraordinary passage in the narrative of the highly respectable Hebrew who has given a record of these atrocities. Speaking of the fierce cruelty of one of the French papists, he says,' he seemed inclined to revenge upon the Jews the death of his Divine Master, who, doubtless, forgave them.' This coming from one who knows not, or believes not, the New Testament history, is most singular.'

'Altogether, uncle, it is impossible to regard these events otherwise than as marking an era in the history of Israel.'

' And will you not pray, earnestly, constantly pray, to the Lord God of Abraham, that he may remember the covenant, and pity his people? Be assured this is expressly meant as a trumpet-call to us to be instant, fervent, importunate in prayer: to give the Lord no rest till he fulfil his gracious promise and establish it, and make Jerusalem a praise in the

whole earth. Never did my soul so go forth in earnest longings and aspirations on behalf of God's dear Israel as now! Reflect again upon this matter; remember how often we have assented to the truth that Israel's exaltation and Babylon's destruction must synchronize, and that the two grand impostures of the West and East, Popery and Mahomedanism, as they rose together, so together will they fall. See them now united, and in the guise of two twin fiends standing over the helpless, innocent Jew, who expires under their torture; and that too in a cause not personal, or even national, but strictly the cause of that law which they received in the days of their glorious Theocracy from God himself. It is the religion they wish, as the petition states, to defile: ' they would represent the Mosaic law as a law of cannibalism—a goodly outrage against the Most High, wherewith to crown twelve hundred years of varying, yet consistent blasphemy, proceeding out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet!'

6

'France stands forward with unenviable pre-eminence,' I remarked.

'Let France look to herself,' responded my uncle, in his sternest tone. 'She is about to commit an act of positive infatuation. Trust me, the dead ashes of one man, that France is equipping an expidition to convey from the rock of St. Helena to her shores, have more power, and of a more fearful character, than an embattled army of living warriors, to rend her with intestine convulsions and deluge the land with blood.'

'I do marvel how the Bourbons can venture on

such a terribly exciting experiment just now, among a people so excitable as the French.'

'The Bourbons cannot prevent it: stronger hands than theirs rule the land, and a power far mightier than both is ordering all after the counsel of his own will.'

' And what of our England, uncle?'

‘I am no prophet, niece; but a very few months will solve many problems that now puzzle us. Let us see how we shall prosper in this iniquitous Opium War: let us see the issue of impending measures regarding the three divisions of our home empire, and let us mark what opposition is offered to the desolating progress of Popery and infidelity in their various grades and shades, now advancing through the land. To say truth, and a strange confession it is for me, I have almost lost my nationality, in the contemplation of those mighty scenes for the enactment of which we see the great stages of East and West preparing. My gaze seems involuntarily fixed upon the Jew, the receiving of whom again shall be as life from the dead to the whole world. Israel is the key-note, by which every chord must be tuned-the index hand, of which the pointing will declare to us how the hidden wheels are working. Let me but see on Israel's part a movement Zionward, and I am content. All the rest will follow in course, and may lift up my head and look up, for I shall then know that our redemption from this state of trouble and bondage draweth nigh-that the kingdoms of this world are about to become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever!'