is Governor among the nations, and to whom they are under solemn responsibilities. “Righteousness exalteth a nation, whilst sin is the reproach (as well as the ruin) of any people.” Let it not be forgotten that the Lord Jesus Christ is “King of nations,” as well as “King of saints;” and oftentimes, in the history of the world, have his judgments been made manifest. Seated on his mediatorial throne, “all power is given unto him in heaven and in earth.” The nation or kingdom that will not serve him “shall be utterly wasted;” and history, we repeat, has fearfully attested the exercise of his dread authority, and the vindication of his prerogative to “root out, to pull down, and to destroy” the despisers of his law. Thus it was that God dealt with the heathen nations of Canaan. The “iniquity of the Amorites” was “not yet full” when He made a covenant with Abraham, subsequently renewed to Jacob at the foot of the mystic ladder; but the cup was filled up to overflowing when Joshua crossed the Jordan as Heaven’s own avenger. It was so with Egypt. She held in iron bondage the people of God, and clung to her abominable idolatry in the worship of birds and beasts and creeping things. Even while by the colony of shepherds, who had migrated from Palestine to Goshen, the light of Divine truth was kindled in her midst, she remained an impenitent rebel; and when ten plagues had wasted her borders, and sent the wail of sore bereavement in one night into every family, the last act in the drama of Divine judgment was consummated in that anger which whelmed the chariots and horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh in the surging billows of the Red Sea. Look, again, at proud Nineveh. Why did she perish? The answer is found in the Divine declaration, “I will make thy grave, for thou art vile.” Yes, so deep did Jehovah dig the dishonoured grave of Nineveh, that only now, at the end of 2500 years, are her obelisks and winged lions—her idol gods of stone, and the engraved memorials of her battles, her sieges, and her victories, disentombed and brought to the light of day, to the confusion of the sceptic, and the confirmation of the “sure word of prophecy.”