in a foreign country, and the other is at this moment arising in our own. In Russia, God has raised up a friend for his people, another Cyrus, in the head of that vast empire ; who has assigned one, if not more places in his dominions, where the Jews who shall embrace Christianity may find a safe asylum, and enjoy all necessary means of providing for themselves, agreeably to their former habits. In our own land, an unprecedented concern begins to manifest itself in behalf of all the nations of the earth who are lying in darkness and the shadow of death. The duty of send- ing forth missionaries to instruct them, is now pub- licly acknowledged by all our governors in Church and State ; and in a short time will the whole com- munity, from the highest to the lowest, be invited to unite in this blessed workk. And in this ebullition of religious zeal, can we suppose that the Jew shall be forgotten ? Shall those to whom we ourselves are indebted for all the light that we enjoy, be overlooked ? Will it not be remembered, that our blessed Lord and Saviour was a Jew ; and that it is a Jew who is at this moment interceding for us at the right hand of God ? Shall not our obligations to him and his Apostles be requited by a due attention to those who were the first in his estimation, and are yet " beloved by him for their fathers' sakes?" We must on no account overlook them : we must consider them as comprehended in the general commission : and let us hope that there will be a simultaneous effort through the land, to carry into effect the pious and benevolent designs of our governors.
An erroneous idea has obtained, that because it is said by St. Paul, " that blindness in part is happened unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in1," the great harvest of the Gentiles must be reaped before the sickle is put to the Jewish field. But this is directly contrary to what the same Apostle says in the very same chapter, where he
k In the Prince Regent's Letter, read in all the Churches through the kingdom, in 1815. 1 Rom. xi. 25.