life tended to fix their thoughts on One that was to come. By types and by promises, their eyes were continually turned towards a Messiah. Their history was a continued prophecy. All the great stages of their national existence were accompanied by effusions of prophetic light.1 Abraham was called from his father’s house, and it was revealed that in him “all families of the earth should be blessed.” Moses formed Abraham’s descendants into a people, by giving them a law and national institutions;