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Show ISATAH, ADDRESS joice to have our earthly lot with a people of whom such honourable mention is made by tae prophetic Spire it of old; and to whom so nobie a work is assigaed. > Our children coming upon the staze may live to see~ the meaning and fulfilment of this prophetic chapier, which is most rich in sentiment, and which will not tail OF THE PROPHET land of the going down of the sun. lacipleut voted lustre ob Cai propuel, lil LLi€se tue iL inay days Ol prove Sieiial tue west lo oreak us, dear Counirymen, pe hae Wem ISAIAH. This passaze lo tie may lh Our Ciidren Mmometiaca 347 of bHOPrD shed an EVanell- Abraham, TE Pristine ions, and dreadiul might! second this attempt with th Let our in- of accomplishment. The great argument found in this sacred address, to induce to a compliance wiih the duty demanded, ts tne terrors of the days of vengeance on easteri corrupt uations ; which seems to imply some good dezree of exemption in our owa case, and our happy ieisuretor tie business assigned. Heaven wiilshow -espotic natious, and old corrupt empires, the diflerence between them, and a land ** shadowing with wings ;”" a happy asyium of tercessious, Our Coutrbutions, aud our iitluence. Ma ali societies formed in behaii of the Jews. aud all solici- liberty and in the hand oi the prophet, with the stick of the Jews : The cloud like a which man’s hand, prophetic \ \ bassadors,” for a Jerusalem mission ! o thou nation : \O chiidven of Abraham, we may in a e i al : ‘ + ees aww : , of the last days, shadowing with 7 Stee ee he nN; espec : her ‘* am- for this ray of light from the ially the outcast branch ot them. who were the natives of you. soil. Pity tiat degraded remnant o fanation se terribie ANancient2 times, but who have been how so long wretch ’ = er es 2 Spars ye , y 1e God o them, ye worshippers of Iraha ham m, Give €yes, tilla house be builde d to your God, fv a S as) eee : not si eep iain to Jeho you ; ioe Pe eh gi : ; 1 ws at vifFu the light of \b thy wings of liberty and peace; pity, instr uct, and |” save my ancient people and brethre - Bless the Lord, to us; holy prophetic spirit ; -overthe Atlantic and the Mediterranean, by the mouths of the “rivers of Ethiopia,”’ and has landed them.—Acd with it, imagine ourselves as though seated in the audiete eect leaiah s—ma) imagine him sighing g exliement of his brethren of Israel s—and uttering the following sentiments of the How great effects spring from little cauancient Zione A purling stream from the threshold of the sancses! tuary, soon rises to the ankles, to the knees, to ue Dea loins, and to an unfordable river, which heals the er pee the has Already sea; Ezek. xvi. mighty waters, over which the done to fuifj to this address,and of evangelical considerations connected ford a sound of great rain; and shall water the hilis of eye ¥ ance what can be of the lost tribes of tiie house of Israel, and that the ad- dress noted is directed shall af- ped from the ‘ land shadowing with wings, | arene at once of God, as it relates oo will A leading step has already been taken ina Jerusalem ‘This may prove, in relation to a fulfilment mission. of our text, a perceive # |} 4 Bas make the duty plain. and we ail who fearGod will leap tor joy, that as the Jerusalein Wissivii IS aiready under Way 3 sO missions to these tribes of Israei are already uuder way! Should we tind ample coaviction that our natives are for the conversion of the Jews and Is| the j rael; prepared to aid will be his own interpreter, to ne God belong ’ rael; and his gracious debrought within teu tribes, as weli as the Jews, the noted demand be devoutly disposed and prepared to obey; and HeaBy prayer, ven will, in due time. make the cu y plain. every attempt patronage, . ed~Y Should this be the reply; contributions, and your influence, be fervent m Let most , be done? Our Ezek. xxxvil. 15.—If1% is a fact, that the aborigines off tis “ iand shadowing with wings,” are the tribes of js- address, and to obey the urged upoa us! Incet apm oc what can here lavour, . any say, of Heaven their * nation scattered aud peeled, aid terribie from the begiimig.”’ Yes, the stick of Ephraiun is to become one toinduce us to maintain the character implied in this in Aud God will not fau of iuiiiimg by us sizus. The biessed busiiess will be Our reacil, aiid wiil be accomplished. religion in the west. Can a motive be wanting injunction talioiis | * PROPHET ee THE Pa OF 2: gelgings Dt Slt4 ‘ on, y” het we fed be OF ¢ * > oe a; , ap Ses SFB tie pao Way fe Paar e+ ADDRESS * 246 |
