¹ Israel in the World: or, The Mission of the Hebrews to the great military monarchies. By William Henry Johnstone, M.A., ... Illustrated with a map. London: ... 1844. (_pp._ viii., 193‒195.) Another religious writer gave poetical expression to this idea. Arise, great God! and let thy grace Shed its glad beams on Jacob’s race; Restore the long-lost scatter’d band, And call them to their native land. Their mis’ry let thy mercy heal, Their trespass hide, their pardon seal: O God of Israel! hear our prayer, And grant them still thy love to share.¹ ¹ _Hebrew Melodies_, _p._ 74. Published by Robert Young (1822‒1888), Edinburgh [1855]. CHAPTER XXIX. BRITAIN’S MISSION IN THE EAST Colonel Charles Henry Churchill――Sir Austen Henry Layard――“The Key to the East”――European Consuls in Palestine――The _Hatti Sheerif_ of Gulharch――Lord Palmerston’s Circular of April, 1841――Mr. James Finn. THE theory of Great Britain’s mission in the East has been put forward by representatives of different classes of English people in different epochs and from various points of view. The idea existed in greater or less degree wherever Englishmen thought seriously about the Eastern problem; it was a flame which was never extinguished. Colonel Charles Henry Churchill (1814‒1877), a grandson of the fifth Duke of Marlborough (1766‒1840), was a staff officer in the British Expedition to Syria, and wrote one of the best works in English about _The Lebanon_ and its inhabitants. In the “Preface” to which he writes:―― “The genius of England, which seems so peculiarly fitted to lead and govern the populations of the East, has, by the happily-combined influence of arms, commerce, and legislation, established in that quarter of the globe, a dominion which no purely military conqueror could ever have consolidated, much less upheld and sustained.” “The development of the capabilities and resources of that unparalleled empire in the East, over which England presides――and that without a rival or compeer――has thus become essentially necessary to her national prosperity, it may be to her national existence, and must ever possess imperative, though not exclusive claims upon her national feelings and sympathies.”