peculiar debt which Christians owe to Israel. I shall touch on this
and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God" (Zech. 13:8, 9). But I freely confess that these are deep things. Enough for you and me to know that Israel shall be restored to their own land, and shall be converted, and saved, without entering too minutely into particulars. Let me close this branch of my subject with the Apostle's words: "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out" (Rom. 11:33).
Only let us grasp firmly the great principle laid down by Jeremiah:
Fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Do not fear, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord: for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but appropriately correct you; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished" (Jer. 46:27, 28).
4. I shall now ask you in the fourth and last place to consider the peculiar debt which Christians owe to Israel. I shall touch on this branch of my subject briefly, because it is one with which most people are familiar. But it is a branch of such vast importance that I dare not altogether pass over it. It is one about which we all need to be reminded.
That every Christian is a debtor and under solemn obligation to do good to his fellow men, is one of the great first principles of the Gospel. An ignorant formal Churchgoer, who never reads his Bible, or prays with his heart, or thinks seriously about his soul, may not understand this. He is apt to say with Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?" "Let every one mind his own business." But a man who is taught by the Holy Spirit, who feels his sins, and knows his obligation to Christ, and has tasted the comfort of peace with God,