unjust violence of the erring Monarch, and also to preserve his followers in like manner, and this work he accomplished with his usual adroitness and energy.

On being raised by God to the throne, the virtues of David's past life lived on uncorrupted by his splendid acquisition of kingly power and glory, flourishing in pristine vigor. And when anointed Sovereign, with all fidelity did he most zealously adhere to the great principle of the THEOCRACY: that sublime mode of government, under which, the Divinity, albeit invisible, deigned to be actually present as Head of the State, not simply as the Great Creator, the Lord of All the Universe, but as the personal King of a particular nation, over whom the human Supreme Chief, whether called Prophet, Judge, or King, was His Prime Minister. Unlike Peter on "the Scythian's icy Throne,”* and Mahmood on the imperial banks of the Bosphorus, and Mohammed Allee under the shadow of the Pyramids, David's position did not require his politics to involve prodigious and violent revolutionary destructions and changes, but rather to strengthen, develope, and beautify the existing fabric of state.

Gloriously lived the right royal David, and in Times Newspaper.

all the happiness of assured Divine acceptance did he pass to the World of Spirits.

"Spirit of undying name!

Endless honor thou shalt claim;
Glory's hallowed light divine,

Ever on thy head shall shine,

And Valor's heart shall be thy shrine,
Thy portion vast futurity!"*

* Ode to Napoleon.

THE

RESTORATION OF ISRAEL.

The Restoration of Israel.

CHAPTER I.

PROSPECTS OF ISRAEL.

"THE SOUL OF THE PAST, again,

To its ancient home,

'Will' come to resume its reign!"

BULWER.

SACRED EMPIRE all glorious in holy nationality! awaits the People of JEHOVAH! the third time will the Covenanted Race be arrayed in the transcendent splendors of Supernal Dominion! with immortal vigor, again like the Eagle will the Chosen bloom in the full glory of rejuvenescent power!

"Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,
And lift up himself as a young lion :

He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
And drink the blood of the slain."

Inspired by the Lord God Almighty with lionhearted and eagle-winged enthusiasm, Israel will arise, and gathering together from all lands,

* Bible, Numbers 23-24.