kind of person will he be? Of what country? Of what ancestry? What works will he do? Thirdly, we come to the question of fundamental interest to us, as Christians, and surely, of no less interest to the candid Jew: Was Jesus the Messiah? A vast number of people (and no inconsiderable number of Jews) have, through all the ages, believed, with the Scriptures in their hands, that Jesus was the Messiah; and, surely, our Jewish friends who do not so receive Him, will admit that it is a question of supreme