James Turner Barclay
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 682
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Excerpt from The City of the Great King, or Jerusalem as It Was, as It Is, and as It Is to Be And what is all this but a Bath-kol of Providence - the voice of a man of Palestine - seen in vision, praying us to come over and help them! N ow, from all these Providential facts and indications, should we not assuredly gather that the Lord hath called us for to preach the gospel unto them? And trusting in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, are we not well able to go over and possess the land? These astonishing concessions on the part of the Turk though brought about at the solicitation of the anglo-french alliance - are the Lord's doing, and marvellous in our eyes. Surely the water of the Euphrates, at least so far as it may be regarded as a barrier to the restoration of the Jews, is effectually dried up, and the times of the Gentiles fulfilled! The relaxing grasp of the bigoted Rabbin is another sign of the times scarcely less astonishing and auspicious; and well calculated to arrest the attention of all that would profit by discerning the face of the moral and political sky. The immediately pending future is doubtless big with momentous events concerning Zion and Israel, and well does it behoove us to discern the signs of the times, and turn our eyes toward the devoted, down-trodden, neglected, but still Heaven-remem bered city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.