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Show HKT0IIN OP' THK JBWS TO PALiKSTlNH To the student of the Bibloand clinrch. history there-arc few.; current, subjects of more absorbingiintorest o of deeper-significance thuti the Oreutft nor. aluiTjjt dally iraiispiring'fvhlclfpojittto the nrpofscssiwi-by nrpofscssiwi-by tho Jews of their ovfn land Tho tide-of tide-of progress, ttftfif thc lapse of centuries,, may Ue fairly aSW to' have turned in that tjjrecUoo, ftnil -ihe prayer long offered by. that ch'ofcn, but now rcattered people," -thift "Judah may bo sflvtit dud Jswclj dwell s,ecnreli-,'i'nnd that the Redeemer i ly come to ibn,' is u udowbtcdly- hasten-i hasten-i leg t fullihueut. The Kultftu of Turkey euconrages Jewish Jew-ish emigration to Palestine, midisuftiiring to sell tutta as much tana as ttiey nre ois-; poacd to buy, and, te issaid, has expressed 1 bis willingness' to dispose ?ftheMpsqne of Omar, which, it will borccollefcted, , stands upon the very site of the Jewish 1 Temple ou Mount Muriah,. j This moMU4 iS ono of the MaLornrae-dans' MaLornrae-dans' most celebrated tlirincs, .being scarcely inferior tn national importance if thosc-of Mecira and Alcdlna, ' Politicians . aud sUloweu look upon these indications as a Ictritiiaato consequence of the libera-' tiziug influence ot Muhgmincdim intci--conrse with Christians, and so they may be; but to the reader oftlio yet unfulfilled pages of KevclaUon, they also paint to what, ns it respects the Jewish tiatian, 'prophets and kings" have long waited for "but died without tho sight." That tho roosiuCof -Omar should be in a fair way of passing iuto-the hands of tho jieopie to whose, fathers tho site oil which it Mauds was once givcn ln an everlasting ! covenant, is what no readcrof secular hU-I hU-I tory, Dfty years agof coiild tvon have hlreumcd, would ever come to pass,. Some I of the hills around Jcrosalem hare "already become Jewish property, and it is by no (means improbable that some op the pre-'sciit pre-'sciit generation. wilt Sep tho eutirocityof Jerusalem ogaiu in the bunds of its ancient an-cient owners- That mighty rcvolutfons will-follow in the wake of such an event Is probably as certain as that the Jews will return at all; at all fronts, affairs iu that imuicUlato region re-gion of the Hast must' ere long become nn engrossing theme" umpng the nations of the earth. 1'MladtliAfii Jr'rtss. |