cried despairingly, “no man living shall be righted!” But plainly he could not rest in that unfruitful conclusion. Something had to be done, and done without delay. The question became acute for religious Israel, when the days of exile were over. Some stalwarts, doubtless, maintained that ‘Abrahamic descent’ was all-sufficient. But many were not content with that ‘high and dry’ position. They set to work with vigour to ‘make their calling and election sure,’ by indefatigable attention to the keeping