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Rh to be good and they refuse, then they are to blame, and not He. This is the reason He condemned the world to a flood. This is the reason the Egyptians were drowned. This is the reason the Sodomites were burned. This is the reason the Canaanites were destroyed. This is the reason we were sold into Babylon. And oh! for a master spirit to rise up, as did Samuel to Saul, to tell us the reason we are again forsaken and cast away; why is it that our city and the holy temple are forsaken and desolate? Why is it that God fights no more battles for Israel? Why is it that we have no leader that it would be safe for the people to follow? Why is it that Israel is turned against herself, that every evil bird is permitted to pluck her, and her best friends are turned to be her enemies? Why is it that Josephus sold Galilee to the Romans? Why is it that the sanctifying of the Spirit is withdrawn? Why is it that the Urim and the Thummim in the temple have not changed the color of its stones in thirty years? Why is it that the light of the threshold in the temple has ceased to burn? And why is it that the Jews have lost the feeling of brotherhood, and fight each other like beasts of hell until God has given us over, and permitted the Romans to, devour our heritage, to bum our city, to destroy our beloved temple, and drench it with the blood of its devotees?

"I know that many of my brethren, more particularly the priests, will bring grave charges against the ministration and, of course, indirectly impeach