
(A reminder, this article was written 75 years ago)
"I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land  wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting  possession." This promise waits for fulfillment. The word "everlasting" must  mean something more than those few centuries of broken, fitful rule. The recent  immigration of Jews to Palestine may be an initial stage to its realization. But  there is a time, no doubt, at hand when our covenant-keeping God will build  again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will repair the ruins  thereof; and the land, which now sighs under the cruel despotism of the infidel,  shall be again inhabited by the seed of Abraham His friend.