The corner-stone of a five million dollar university has been laid upon that Mount of Olives where once the Son of God amid its lonely shades prayed and agonized, a begun fulfillment of the prophecy of Zephaniah that in the latter days the Lord would execute judgment on the Gentile nations that should be gathered there and to His restored and delivered people turn again a pure speech, no longer the stuttering and smattering phrase of Yiddish, but the old Hebraic tongue of their fathers. Already there are papers in Jerusalem published in Hebrew, schools are taught and many speak in the ancient language. Many Jews are going back to Palestine. Many more are there now than returned from Babylon. They are going back as the Word of God foretold, in utter and absolute unbelief and bitter repudiation of the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was their foretold and foreordained Messiah. They are going back with the vail upon their eyes and as blind as in the day when their fathers caused Him to be crucified by Roman hands. They are going back to a time of anguish of which Jeremiah solemnly warns as "the day of Jacob's trouble," and our Lord describes as the tribulation, "the great one," the like of which the world has never seen and will never see again. They are going back to be set up by a league of ten nations and to enter into an alliance and covenant with its godless head as their political and false Messiah. They will suffer until there shall come upon that generation all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, the son of Bacharias who was slain between the temple and the altar, and the blood of the Son of God which they invoked in judgment on themselves and their children in that fatal hour when Pilate convinced of the innocence of Jesus and wishing to let Him go had washed His hands in water, putting the responsibility of the crucifixion upon them as a people. Then it was they cried that terrible cry: "His blood be on us, and on our children." But then as now, and always since the days of Elijah, there was and is an elect remnant in Israel. For their sakes the Lord will come. He will descend with His host to Mount Sinai, the place of the law; the spot where Israel rejected grace and sought that covenant which neither they nor their children have ever been able to keep. He will sweep with His mighty army to Jerusalem. He will overthrow the Gentile nations gathered there under the Devil-incarnate Antichrist. He will stand upon the Mount of Olives. The elect remnant will behold Him come. They will look upon Him whom their fathers pierced. They will fall down in anguish before Him. They will mourn for Him as one mourneth for his only son. They will take up the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah and make it their confession of faith and bitter, self-accusing lamentation. They will say: "We did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.