330 THEIR ADAPTATION FOR THE MISSIONARY WORK.



tian populations of the Greek, Armenian, and Coptic
churches of the East, whose corruptions of doctrine and
worship are the same in substance as those of the Ro-
man Catholics, with the exception of the supremacy of
the Pope, so their influence on these churches will be
the same as on the Roman Catholics.
   It will be perceived that the preceding opinions are
founded on the supposition that the greater part of the
descendants of Jacob will remain dispersed through the
earth. This is not inconsistent with the undoubted fact
of the restoration of the Jewish state in Palestine. It
will be restored by the operation of political and social
causes working gradually until the result shall be con-
cluded and established by political combinations. The
restoration of the state is all that prophecy requires, or
the analogy and designs of Providence warrant. It is
admitted that the fertility of the Promised Land shall
be restored, yet by the natural means by which any
other land in similar condition would be renovated.
But when restored, it never can receive and support (in
addition to the population found there at the time, and
which we have no reason to suppose will be cast out)
the many millions of the descendants of Jacob.t The
restoration will be to the extent of the ability of the land;
the remaining millions will continue to dwell amid all

   It is not within my plan to enter into a defence of the opinion that there
will be a sudden and general conversion of the Jews to Christianity. Such
an event would be less wonderful than their preservation and past history,
which are standing miracles, seen and acknowledged by all. The following
exclamation, put into the mouth of Zion personified, indicates their sudden
and wonderful conversion: "1 Who hath begotten me those, seeing I have
lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro and
who hath brought up these  Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they
been Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms; kings shall be thy nursing fa-
thers, and queens thy nursing mothers.-(Isai., xlix., 22, 23.)
t It has been seen that there are 7,000,0CO of Judah and Benjamin alone;
how many millions of the Ten Tribes we cannot even conjecture.