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 the Sultan suitable to his present emergency, they will assuredly demand some solid guarantee in return. It is a remarkable fact, that while I am writing, the rumour has gone forth that a great Jewish capitalist has offered a loan, for any amount required, to the Sultan, on condition of a mortgage on Palestine, and it is also currently reported that the Jews are collecting vast sums for the work of rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem. Be all this as it may, the declaration of Daniel us unmistakeable, that the Archangel Michael will stand up for the conversion of the Jewish people at the very time when the Turkish empire shall fall before the victorious arms of the King of the North. And when the Prophet adds the words quoted above, "And a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time:" he may refer either to the dreadful conflict that is to usher in the destruction of Mahometanism, or he may refer to the unprecedented peace and prosperity that are to ensue after it. We trust these words rather to the latter: but of this we may feel sure, that the peace and prosperity of the glorious period will be preceded by calamities of the most terrible kind, for prophecy is most explicit upon this head. Our Saviour distinctly tells us, that before the conversion of the Jews,