Now it is a curious fact, that there is no other nation in the world which has such a right to its own country as the Jews. Other nations claim their country simply through the right of occupation. We live in England, and our fathers lived there before us, so we consider it ours, and are ready to lay down our lives for its safety. But we have no title-deeds, and we have no documents to prove that it is ours. But it is very different with the Jews. They have the clearest possible documentary evidence of their covenant right to Palestine. There is not a person in any town who has a better title to his house than the Jews have to their country. It was distinctly given to them by God Himself, as we read in Gen. xv. 18. And yet after having occupied it for fifteen centuries, and after having shown the utmost courage and determination in its defence, they were driven from their homes by their Roman conquerors. Their city was sacked, their temple burnt with fire, their country laid desolate, and they themselves scattered homeless through the world. The result is that at this present time there are many more Jews in London than there are in the whole of Palestine. Now these are plain, well-known facts, and facts so well established that they are beyond the reach of contradiction. (2.) _Dispersion_. When their home was broken up in Jerusalem they were not carried elsewhere as they were when they entered it, like a hive of bees moved from one garden to another, but they were dispersed in all directions. From that day they have had no resting-place anywhere, and they have never since had what we may term a central home. They have had no head-quarters, and, although they cluster more thickly in some places than in others, they have on the whole gone forth as lone wanderers on the face of the earth. The result is that, go where you will, you are sure to meet with Jews. They are sometimes driven about by persecution, and sometimes attracted by trade; but we need not study the cause of their movements. They are found in all the continents—Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia; in new settlements and old countries, in all climates and amongst all races; and as the seed is scattered over the field, so the Jewish people are dispersed through the world. (3.) _Distinction_, _or Distinctiveness_.