14 REASONS FOR BEING A CHURCHMAN. '

mately associated with the predictions of the coming
Messiah. To give the tenth part of the prophecies
which taught that the Jewish Church should widen into
an universal Church, would require more space than is
at my command. But this was the meaning of Qod^s
words when he said to Abraham: "In thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed."" Such, too,
was the testimony of the dying Patriarch, Jacob, when
he said of Christ, "Unto Him shall the gathering of the
people be"" — ^the same truth which the Holy Ghost
spake through the Sweet Singer of Israel, "Ask of Me,
and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy posses-
sion,"" and again: "All kings shall fall down before
Him; all nations shall do Him service,"" the truth
which Isaiah perceived when he cried out: "Lift up
thine eyes round about and see; all they gather them-
selves together, they come to Thee. The forces of the
Gentiles shall be converted unto Thee."" This truth
pervades all holy prophecy, but is, perhaps, most clearly
set forth in DaniePs vision of the stone cut out without
hands, which smote the image and became a mountain,
and filled the whole earth." This, Daniel interpreted
to mean that in the days of the fourth kingdom (the
Roman Empire) "shall the God of Heaven set up a
Kingdom which shall never be destroyed ; and the king-

^« Genesis zzil. 18.
^"Genesis zllz. 10.
^•Psalms ii. 8.
" Ps. Izzii. Read the whole Psalm.
"Is. Ix.
"Dan. ii. 84-5.
