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Show 62 CONCLUSION, CONCLUSION. continent,when the glad tidings of salvation shall be car: ried to the natives of these extensive dreary forests and those regions of wretchedness and death shall be. come vocal with the high praises of God, sung by his: ancient Israel. In Micah likewise have a reference to the times of the future res- Scott says of the verses following, “ They evidently related to Christ, and the success of the gosel to the end of time; and the future restoration of Is- rael.”? Inverse 12 the application for this restoration is made to them “‘ from sea to sea; and from mountain ‘The prophet then prays tor them, verse tomountain.”? 14; that God would feed his people, ‘the flock of his heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood ;” that he would feed them in the midst of Carmel, Bashan and Where are this people Gilead, as in the days of old. “‘ from sea to sea ; from and in the wood?” mountain ‘This answers to moun- to nothing of ancient date. But to the situation of Israel of modern date, (if they be in the wilds of America) . well ac“from seaa Here they must indeed be cords. g. oo. sought to.sea; from mountain to mountain; and ‘‘in the weod. And this event is to be, verse 13, “after that thear land hath been desolate;” as Scott renders it from the original. And this is to. be in fulfilment of “the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abrabam, which God had sworn from the days of old ;”” verse 20. 18, God then, as 1n — 19,pardons the transgression of the remnant of his | = tage, retains not his anger forever, but turns ee has compassion on them, and casts all their sins into the depth of the ~~ F sea. All these to expressions seem 7 ' ) Americans are the ‘Though he 11—13, Bp. Lowth says, * The general restoration of the Jews shall not be brought to pass till after Bp. their land hath lain desolate for many ages.” ‘“'They may Newcomb: says, of verses 14—i7; » 5. If it be a fact that the native divinity of our holy scriptures. A new field of evidence is bere opened from a race of men, “ outcast”? frorn all civil society for a long course of centuries. Jmpressed on these wild tenants of the forest, (these chil- was of Judah, Scott says, ** He addressed his messages bota to Judah and Israel.”? Of the passage, verse tain; branch of Israel are to be found then, * dwelling solitarily inthe wood ;” and are to be sought * from sea to set; and from mountain to mountain.” tribes of Israel, new evidence ts hence furnished of the about twenty-five years after the event. to be found apply perfectly to the final restoration of Israel; but not to any thing antecedent to that event. This vil. is a prediction relative to Israel’s res- toration. Micah, as well as Isaiah, lived in the days of Israel’s dispersion. He began his ministry about eighteen yeats before this event; and continued it titution.”” 63 * 2 dren of nature, without books or letters, or any thing but savage tradition,) striking characters are found of the truth of ancient revelation. The intelligent vindicator of the word of Ged has never feared to meet the infidel on fair ground. His triumph has not been less certain than that of David against Goliah. But in the view taken of the natives of our continent, the believer will find additional! argu- ments, in which to triumph. He will find more than “five smooth stones taken out of the brook,” (1 Sam. Kvi. 40,) each one of which is sufficient to sink into the head of an impious Goliaii, challenging the God of Israel, s Let the unbeliever in revelations undertake swer the following questions. -to an- _ Whence have the greater part of the American na- tives been taught the veing of one and only one God ; when all other heathen nations have lost all such knowme and believe in many false gods ? / : AVA Vhenc rate e y have : the} » Indian s,: or most of them, been Trag : a 6 Yr > I : ‘ > . kept from gross idolatry, which has cover ed the rest of the heathen 80 prone? AT : When ce world? and to which have. many . of5 them ali men have been been ae taught that the name of the one God, the Great Se spirit above, is Yoheies Ale, Yah, (Hebrew names of God,) who made al] Ba “ ah and to whom alone worship is due ? ~ laught any of them that God, at first, ae ‘ht; irom earth; . be formed = ’ him well; into life? and that God made latter-€ of of whom have 4 . and made one breathed him good and bad spirits; the a prince over are them ? ¢ |
