China, have in these predictions which describe the Redeemer's reign as extending to "all nations." If we add the fifty millions allotted to America, to the hundred and seventy millions of Europe, we shall have two hundred and twenty; and should we allow eighty to Africa while Pinkerton allows her but forty; all beside the inhabitants of Asia will amount to only Three Hundred Millions. Add fifty millions more for the Turks, the Persians, and Arabs of Western Asia, a higher number than most authors allow to these nations, and we then have only Three Hundred and Fifty Millions of men, exclusive of the Five Hundred Millions of Eastern Asia. Whether these latter include "five hundred millions" according to our author, therefore, or only four hundred and fifty, it will be evident that they form the greater part of the human race. Now if it be right to apply predictions delivered respecting "the Gentiles,"" the heathen,”—" the nations,”—" the families of the earth," to the greater part of mankind, (and if it be not, by what rule can our Abbé apply them to the smaller?) it will be evident, that Eastern Asia must form the chief seat of the Redeemer's kingdom, the principal scene where those predictions which describe the spread of his reign through the nations of the earth, must necessarily be fulfilled. This kept in mind, will enable us to judge in what a degree the five hundred millions under the dominion of brahmunism and boudhism, are interested in the two predictions already mentioned, and in those which follow.

Let us now direct him to the prediction delivered by Jacob on his death-bed respecting the promised Messiah under the character of Shiloh, "Unto him shall the gathering of the peoples or nations be," and ask him has he any authority from Scripture for striking out

the five hundred millions of Eastern Asia from "the peoples or nations?"-We also refer him to Psalm ii. "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession;" and enquire when the Redeemer informed him that he intends to give up for ever the largest portion of his inheritance into the hands of his grand enemy, Satan. Has he not told us elsewhere," all that the Father giveth me shall come to me?"

Further what does the Psalmist mean when he says Psalm xxii. "All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee?" Are the kindreds of Eastern Asia to be left out of this number? Will common sense permit any thing to be termed ALL, when the greater part is left out? Nor is it merely said, that one in a thousand shall hear something called the gospel, although it may be justly termed idolatry in disguise, and then the whole nation be delivered over to an everlasting anathema for not believing. It is said that they shall actually turn to the Lord, and shall really worship before him. How happy is it for poor India that our Abbé's ways are not God's ways, particularly that of his abandoning it with all its unborn millions to idolatry, by his own confession, no less murderous than that of Moloch, no less obscene than that of Belphegor, because his own corrupted seed, so partially sown among them, did not bring forth living fruit!

We may even ask the Abbé what he thinks of the prayer dictated by the Divine Spirit in Psalm lxvii,for the use of succeeding generations? "God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us; that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health, or salvation, among all nations," particularly as

taken in connection with the prayer taught his disciples by Christ himself; "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth even as in heaven ?" Does God command his servants to pray for what he never intends to give? Would our Abbé himself solemnly charge his servants to ask him perpetually to perform that which he never intends to do?We may ask him further of whom it is said in Psalm lxxii. "All kings shall fall down before him : all nations shall serve him?" Should he reply, "Of Solomon ;" we must ask him again; was Solomon to live as long as the moon endureth? Let common sense again decide.

Let the Abbé weigh those predictions delivered three centuries later by the prophet Isaiah; and first that in ch. ii. "It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be exalted in the top of the mountains, and ALL nations shall flow unto it.” Let him say how this can be fulfilled if India with all its nations be given up" to an everlasting anathema!" Can all nations "flow unto it" if the greater part of them be left in idolatry? Does he say, this has been already fulfilled respecting India, by their having had the gospel these three or four centuries? Even granting that it was the gospel carried to them by his predecessors, have all the Indian nations ever flowed to him or his predecessors? If they have, why is his book written? But the prediction declares that they SHALL flow unto God's house; and that they shall say to each other, "Come ye and let us go up to the house of the Lord, and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths." Every page of our author's book tes

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tifies that this has never yet been fulfilled; and who has told him that it never shall ?Let us further ask him "of the increase of whose government and peace

shall there be no end?" Is it not of his whose name is "the Mighty God?" But according to our author, there must be an end to the increase of his kingdom; the brahmuns of India are to prescribe its bounds, and to say, "hitherto shall it come, but no farther!"

What does our author say to ch. xi. 9; "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea?" Is Eastern Asia to be excluded from the operation of this promise? How then can the earth be FULL of the knowledge of God? How could our author overlook such predictions as these? Let us further refer him to ch. xxv. "And in this mountain shall the Lord make unto all people or nations a feast of fat things."-" And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations." Should he say, "the brahmuns will prevent his destroying the covering of ignorance spread over India, we would ask him," Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it not?" Let him recollect that "there is no might, nor counsel, nor understanding against the Lord." What does he think of Isaiah xl. 5, "the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it?" Surely he will not say that the brahmuns, "the impostors," will effectually prevent their "dupes" the great body of the Hindoos from seeing it. If he does, must he not exalt them above the arch-impostor, the Father of lies? Must he not make them stronger than Omnipotence itself?

We may also ask him the meaning of ch. xlix. 6, "I will also give thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth." And of ch. lx. 11; "thy gates shall be open continually;

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principle they will admit of the five hundred millions of Eastern Asia being excluded from their operation. If he deny that the five hundred millions of heathen in Eastern Asia be meant, how will he prove that they apply to the hundred and seventy millions in Europe? This interpretation would annihilate the predictions altogether, and render totally vain the solemn declaration "the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Should he reply; These in Europe have the word of life, which proves that it was meant of them, but the other five hundred millions have it not, therefore they will never have it; this rule applied to the predictions relative to the coming of Christ only two years before he was born of a virgin, would have made him reason thus ; " the Messiah has not yet descended on earth, therefore he will never come in the flesh;" and thus he would have proved that all the predictions respecting the Messiah's coming meant nothing, even when they were on the very eve of fulfilment ! We ask the Abbé further, in what bet ter state the British isles, and France, and all Europe were, than Eastern Asia, when these predictions were delivered? And we might ask a protestant nation, in what state Britain was in the fourteenth century, two thousand years after these predictions had been delivered. Even on the principles of common sense, the na tions of Eastern Asia form far more fully the subject of these predictions than those of Europe itself; since in general prophetic terms the greater part must be included. whatever may become of the smaller.