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 M ONTREAL • 
 
 AMLO-ISRAEL ASSOCIATION 
 
 3. 
 
 itoN. JAMES Ferrier, Senator, Honorary President. 
 
 Wm. Greio, 8 Cadieux St., Montreal, Sec- Treasurer. 
 
 TRACT No. 1 
 
 ON THE 
 
 Distinction between the Houses of 
 JuDAH AND Israel. 
 
 The following forms No. 4 of a series of letters by the Secretary of this 
 Association, on the Identity of the British and Americaa nations with 
 the •* House of Israel," published in the '' Canada Presbyterian," 
 Toronto, between the months of July and December, 1879. 
 
 ■»■»«• '-«., 
 
 MONTREAL: 
 W. Drybdale & Co., 232 St. Jambs Street* 
 
 1880, 
 
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DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. 
 
 In glancing over the Canada Preshyierian of the iSthof July, my atten- 
 tion was drawn to an artitle on Romish Ordination, signed '• X," in which the 
 writer after be-rating " A Member," for ignorance in regard to the question at 
 issue, broadly hints that, because •' in the days of Knox and Luther it was not 
 the practice of the Church to require the re-ordination of Romish priests, and 
 because Dr. Hodge of Princeton, as well as many able and devout divines are 
 opposed alike.to re-baptism and re-ordination, therefore there is no need of its 
 being done at the present day when ex-priests of Rome are received into the 
 Christian Church. 
 
 Had our ministers gone for guidance " to the law and to the testimony " 
 rather than to " the traditions of the elders," they would no doubt have found 
 there better examples to follow than even that of the Church in the days of Knox 
 and Luther. 1 hey would there have discovered that the Levite Barnabas (a 
 priest of the true God under the Jewish dispensation) was re-ordained, Acts xiii. 
 2, and that twelvv men, among whom was presumably Apollos (a man mighty iii 
 the Scriptures and fervent in the spirit,) who had been baptized unto repentance 
 and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, by so great a prophet as John the Baptist, 
 were on their full reception into the Christian Church again baptized. Acts xix. i 
 to 5 ; how much rather then these ex-priests of the " Synagogue of Satan," of 
 which history attests and Father Chiniquy will prove to you, that it is pagan in 
 its ancestry and anti-Christian in its practices. 
 
 In thinking over this matter it appeared to me, that just as " X," and those 
 able and devout divines have done in regard to Church practices, i.e., following the 
 lead of the early Church in the days of Knox and Luther, when it was just emer- 
 ging out of the thick darkness of Popery, and accepting blindly even the opinions 
 of the great men of the present day like Dr. Hodge, so have our professors and 
 our ministers (of all evangelical denominations) trained their students and the 
 membership of the Church to accept implicitly the sayings and doings of those 
 whom men are pleased to call the "Fathers of the Church," notwithstanding that 
 it was impossible that these good men could, in the comparative darkness of their 
 days, understand the prophecies, as can equally good and learned men in these 
 days of science and discovery, when prophecy, especially during the last century, 
 has so largely developed into history. ^ 
 
 It cannot be denied that many interpretations of Scripture, accepted and 
 trusted in by our honoured ancestors, have in the light of the present day been 
 found erroneous, and the system universally adopted by these commentators, and 
 as universally followed by our ministers, of spiritualizing everything which did 
 not (from their defective knowledge of God's word as compared with His works 
 of providence as seen in his history) appear plain to them, has likewise tended to 
 darken the understanding of not a few, who,unable, or unwilling, or both, to search 
 and prove all things for themselves, are content blindly to follow whithersoever 
 these good men may lead, caring nothing that " doctors differ" in theology as well 
 as medicine, and that the earth for a time covers both their mistakes. 
 
That the lost ten tribes of Israel have not long ago been found, may largely 
 be due to the fact that our commentators, past and present, have failed to notice 
 the broad distinction which the Scriptures make between the tv/o" Houses" 
 of Israel and Judah. From their point of view all Israelites are Je.vs— even 
 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are no exceptions to this rule — and accordingly they 
 have jumbled up the promises and threatenings, the blessings and the curses, 
 until perfect chaos has become the result. 
 
 Following such leading, Voltaire, it is said, came to th3 conclusion that the 
 liible was false and untrustworthy, because the prophecies regarding the Jeios 
 were so full of contradictions, blessings and curses and curses and blessings, alter- 
 nating with such wonderful rapidity that he failed to see how the same people 
 could be under the blessings and under the curses at the same time, and to-day, 
 many like him failing to see the distinction, and to interpret the Scriptures 
 according to the dictates of common sense, have, if not daring to accept his rash 
 conclusions, acknowledged their total inability to penetrate their meaning and 
 therefore consider it wisest totally to ignore them, 
 
 It is worthy of note that the Biblical Revision Committee have drawn atten* 
 tion to the fact, that in the headings ofthe prophetical chapters, great liberties have 
 been taken with the text, the " Church " being credited with nearly all the bless- 
 ings which were to be the portion of Israel in the latter days. J. Turvey in 
 commenting upon this very question says, " It is a prevalent practice when reading 
 of Israel and their future, as indicated in the prophetic writings, to assume that 
 the Jews arc the people referred to, and this view is frequently propounded in 
 our schools and churches. There is, however, anything but consistency in this, 
 matter, for many there are among our learned authorides and among Bible stu- 
 dents generally, who will tell us that the curses rightfully belong to the ye7i>s 
 but that the blcssius^s, although promised to the Israelites, belong to the Christian 
 Church ; thus totally ignoring the people to whom the promises were made, and 
 placing the " Church " in its stead. What grounds are there, we may ask, for 
 applying to the Gentiles the i)romises given to Israel ? No such course is 
 adopted with reference to the curses pronounced on the Jews, but they jthe 
 Jews) are allowed to have full and undisputed possession of them. Ifthen Jndah" 
 curses are to be taken in their literal signification, of which, by the way, there is 
 no disputing, for we have the very people before our eyes a living fulfilment of 
 them, we must with every sense of right and justice, claim the same interpre- 
 tations for the great and glorious promises given to Israel. 
 
 Further on he says : " At this period (the captivity to Assyria) they sudden- 
 ly and permanently drop out of the historical portion of the Bible, but prophecy 
 sui»i)lics the sequel. No more of their doings are chronicled, but their whole 
 future is foretold with great minuteness of detail, and in all its fulness of character. 
 
 Many tender and forgiving messages were sent after them with assurances 
 of mercy and forgiveness and repeated promises of a restoration. There are also 
 numerous predictions as to their becoming, (during their absence from their own 
 land,) scattered and lost. They were to be divorced from the law and to be re- 
 deemed They arc freciuently addressed in the Isles of the Sea, and the Isles of 
 the West, v/herc they should become multitudinous, great and powerful and God's 
 witnesses for the truth. They were to find the islands too small for them in their 
 rapid development, when they should break forth on the right hand and on the 
 left, inhabiting the desolate heritages, and filling the face of the world with fruit. 
 
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 They were to become the cord, or measuring-line of God's inheritance and •' all 
 that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the seed which the Lord hath 
 blessed." On the other hand, predictions concerning the House of Judah or the 
 Jews, are, that they should be few in number, bereft of children, a bye-word, a 
 proverb, an astonishment, a reproach, and a shame. These two sets of predic- 
 tions cannot possibly refer to one and the same people ; besides the context 
 shows that in the one case they refer to Israel and in the other to Judah. How 
 those relating to Judah have been fulfilled is well known ; but that those 
 relating to Israel have also been, or will be likewise literally fulfilled we may 
 be equally assured." 
 
 The following comparative view presents a number of ix}ints on which the 
 distinction is clearly and visibly manifest. 
 
 1. The Kingdon of Israel consisted often tribes, i Kings xi. 31 ; xii. 1-19; 
 Josephus, book 8, chap. viii. 
 
 The Kingdom of Judah consisted of two tribes, i Kings xii. 30-21 ; Jo- 
 sephus book 8, chap. viii. 
 
 2. Jeroboam was the first separate king of Israel, i Kings xii. 20; 2 Chron. 
 X. 15. 
 
 Rehoboani was the first separate king of Judah, 2 Chron. xii. 13 ; Josephus 
 book 8, chap. viii. sec. i . 
 
 3. The people of Israel were called Israelites, Josephus book 9, chap, xiv, 
 sec. I. 
 
 The people of Judah were called Jews, 2 Chron. xxxii. 18 ; Ezra v. 5 ; 
 Josephus book 9. chap. xii. sec I. . " 
 
 4. Israel's chief city was Samaria, i F ings xvi. 24 ; Isaiah vii. 9 ; Josephus 
 book 8, chap. xii. sec. 5. 
 
 Judah 's chief city was Jerusalem, i Kings xi. 36; 2Chron, xi. I ; Josephus 
 book 8, chap. viii. sec. 3. 
 
 5. Israel had nineteen kings and no queen. 
 
 Judah had nineteen kings and one queen, Atbaliah, 2 Kings xi. 1-3 ; 2 Chron. 
 xxii. lo-ii. 
 
 6. The last king of Israel was Hoshea. 2 Kings xvii. 4 ; Josephus book 9, chap, 
 xiv. sec. I. 
 
 The last King of Judah was Zedekiah, 2 Kings xxv. 7 ; Josephus book 10, 
 chap. viii. see's, i, 2, 3 and 4. 
 
 7. The Israelites were all taken out of their own land, not one was left behindi 
 2 Kings xvii. 18-20 ; Josephus book 9, chap. xiv. sec. i. 
 
 The Jews were not all taken out of their own land, 2 Kings xxv. 19 ; Jeremiah 
 xxxix. 10 ; Josephus book 10, chap. x. 
 
 S. The Israelites were taken captive by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 2 
 Kings xvii. 3 ; Josephus book 9, chap. xiv. 
 
 The Jews were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Chaldees. 2 
 Chron. xxxvi. 17 ; Josephus book 10, chap, ix, sec. 7. 
 
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 9. The cities of Israel were colonized by strangers sent thither by Shalma' 
 neser, 2 Kings xvii. ?4-34 ; Josephus book 9, chap, xiv, sec. i ; book 10. chap. ix. 
 sec. 7. 
 
 No foreigners came to colonize the cities of Jiulah, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 21 ; Jo. 
 sephiis book 10, chap. ix. sec. 7. 
 
 10. The Israelites' captivity began B.C. 721. 
 The Jews' captivity did not begin until B.C. 588. 
 
 11. The Israelites were placed by Shalmanescr in Halaii and in ITabovby 
 the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 2 Kings, xvii. 6. 
 
 The Jews were placed by Nebnchadnezzer in the city and province of Baby^ 
 Jon, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 20. 
 
 12. The Israelites never returned to Palestine ; Josephui book 11, chap. v. 
 sec. 7. 
 
 The Jews returned thither after the promulgation of the Decree of Cyrus. 
 B.C. 536-518; see Ezra, Nehemiah, and Josephus book 11, chap. i. Letter of 
 Cyrus. 
 
 13. The Israelites had nothing to do with the rejection and crucifixion of 
 Christ. 
 
 The Jews committed both these crimes : Math, xxvii. 25 ; Acts ii. 23. 
 
 14. Israel was to remain one nation for ever, Jeremiah xxxi. 36. 
 
 The Jews were to be scattered among all nations, Jeremiah ix. 16 ; Ezek. xii. 
 
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 15. Israel was to be under the rule of the house of David, Jeremiah xx.: ii. 
 
 36. 
 
 The Jews were to pass from under that rule, Jeremiah xxii. 30; xxxvi. 30-31, 
 
 16. The fear of Israel was to be upon all nations, Deut. >i. 25. 
 Judah was to be a by-word Jeremiah xxiv. 9. 
 
 17. Israel was to be the chief of nations, Jeremiah xxxi. 7. 
 Judah was to be down-trodden by all nations, I.uke xxi. 24. 
 
 18. Israel was to break every yoke and let the oppressed go free, Isaiah 
 Iviii. 6. 
 
 Judah was to be oppressed, Isaiah iii. 5. 
 
 19. Israel was to possess the gates of her enemies, Gen. xxii, 17. 
 Judah was to serve her enemies, Jeremiah xvii. 4, 
 
 20. Israel was to be strong in power, Isaiah xli. 12. 
 [udah was to be without might, Jeremiah xix. 17. 
 
 21. Israel was to be a great multitude, Ezekiel xxxvi. 10-37 ; Micah ii. 12 ; 
 Hosea i. 10. 
 
 Judah was to be few in number, bereft of children, Ezekiel xii. 16; Jeremiah 
 XV. 7. 
 
 22. Israel was to be brave, able to turn the battle to the gate, Isaiah xxviii, 
 6. 
 
 Judah was to be fainthearted and trembling, Jeremiah vi. 24 ; Ezekivl xxi. 7. 
 

 
 23. Israel was tu lose her ukl name and be called by another name, Isaiah 
 Ixli. 2 ; Ixv. 15. 
 
 Judah was to retain her old name, Isaiah Ixv, 15. 
 
 24. Israel was to have a place of" her own " and never be removed from 
 it, 2 Sanuiel vii. 10, 
 
 Judah was to be tolerated in all countries, but to have none of her own, 
 Jercniiali xv. 4 ; xxiv. 9. 
 
 25. Israel was to be under the new covenant, Hebrews viii. 10. 
 Judah was to be under the old covenant, Jeremiah xiv. 12. 
 
 26. The seal of God's covenant with Israel was "the sure mercies of David," 
 Isaiah Iv. 3. 
 
 The seal of God's covenant with Judah was circumcision, Jeremiah iv. 4; 
 Acts XV. 5. 
 
 27. Israel was to eat. 
 Judah was to be hungry. 
 
 28. Israel was to drink. 
 Judah was to be thirsty. 
 
 29. Israel was to rejoice. 
 Judah was to be ashamed. 
 
 30. Israel was to i^ing for joy of heart. 
 
 Judah was to cry for sorrow of heart, and howl for ve.xation of spirit, Isaiah 
 Ixv. 13-14. 
 
 31. The Israelites were to be of comely countenance, Hosea xiv. 6. 
 
 The Jews were to have the shew of their countenances for a witness against 
 them, Isaiah iii. 9. 
 
 Note, — The work of Josephus, to which reference has been made throughout 
 this list, is the "Antiquities of the Jews." 
 
 (From " Israel's Identity Standard" p. 41, 42,). 
 
 " This distinction, then existed as early as H.C. 1,056 (if not before). It has 
 continued through all tha centuries that have since elapsed, and, as a culminat. 
 ing point, if we return to the Scripture passages referring to the restoration, 
 lohich isyetjutiire, wc find it as marked and as prominent as in any of the other 
 features to which we have alluded. 
 
 "'Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered 
 together and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the 
 land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel : ' (llosea, i. 11.) 
 
 " ' In those days the house of Judah shall walk (0 (marginal reading) the 
 house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the 
 land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers : ' (Jer. iii. 18). 
 
 " ' And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; 
 and one king shall be king of tuem all; and they shall no more be two nations, 
 neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all : ' (PIzekiel, 
 xxxvii. 22)." 
 
"And t shall strengthen the house of Jiuhih, and I will Have the house of 
 Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them ; for I will have mercy upon 
 them ; and they shall be as though 1 had not cast them ofi", for I am the Lord 
 their God and will hear them : " (Zcch. x. 6.) (I. Turvey.) 
 
 It is hardly necessary for me to produce evidence to prove how literally 
 many of the foregoing prophecies have been fulfilled. It is well known to all 
 your readers that the Jews have in the past suflfered terrible persecutions, but it 
 may not l)e as well known that at the present time these persecutions still continue. 
 
 As an example of the treatment formerly accorded them in Prussia, I give 
 you the following from Mulbach's Historical Romance of Frederick der Grosse, 
 translated from the original : — " My prince, I am a Je'/, that means a despised 
 calumniated, persecuted man, or rather no man, but a cieatnre who is kicked 
 like a dog when he is poor and 'n misery, and to whom the rights of manhood arc 
 barely accorded when he has gold and treasure. A dog's life is better than a 
 Jew's in Prussia's dominions. The female dares to have young ones, and when 
 she has borne the pangs of nature she may rejoice over them. But the Jewess 
 dare not rejoice over the children she bears in anguish, for the law of the land 
 hangs a sword over her, and perhaps she will be driven forth, because she has 
 borne a child, by which the permitted number of Jews is overstepped, and it mny 
 be that the father is not rich enough to pay the thousand thalers wherewith he 
 must each time pay the State the right to be a father." Such was the law in force 
 in the Christian country ol Prussia in the eighteenth century. 
 
 The following from Mirza Shaker, of Teheran, in Persia, shows how they 
 are treated in that country at the present time : "The Jews in Persia are very 
 numerous, very badly treated and occasionally massacred, as at Tabriz where 
 they were annihilated. A Jew may not ride in the presence of even a Musulman 
 boy, being liable to be cut down and killed. Even the Shah's Jewish doctor may 
 not drive through the main streets of Teheren much less ride. They are killed 
 if they attempt to sell food out of their own quarters of the cities. The punish- 
 ment for the murder of Moselm is death ; of a Jew, cutting off the top of the little 
 finger. No Jew can live out of the Jews' quarters. More than i,ooo years ago 
 [tradition says] the Jews of Ispahan were set aside to be massacred, but the 
 sentence was deferred for 1,000 years. A little le.ss than twenty-five years ago 
 the time expired, and Haji Synd Mahomed B;ighir, of Ispahan, called up the elders 
 to show cause why they should not be massacred. The elders showed that the 
 Musulmani year was ten days shorter than the Jewish, therefore he gave them a 
 respite of 1,000 times 10 days, or 27 J years, which brings their massacre year 
 very near A.D. 1881." 
 
 May not these persecutions which are not confined to Persia, be the means in 
 the hand of God of causing the Jews " to walk to the house of Israel " [in Britain] 
 in such multitudes that Britain may see it for her interest to transport them in her ' 
 '* swift-wingied " ships to the land of Palestine, and there to guard and protect" 
 them in the peaceful possession of that land long ago promised to them for an 
 everlasting possession ? 
 
 That the House of Israel [the British nation] has also received the fulfilment 
 of many of the prophecies of blessings bestowed upon it, is so well known as to 
 require no proof. Notwithstanding, hear what the great Frenchman, Victor 
 Hago, says of us : " Over that sea, in calm majesty, lies the proud island whose 
 
fexistenco c^(}flole3: me for it thousand continental crimes, and vimlidtc:) fot* me 
 the goodness of Providence. Yes. proud Knghmd thou art justly proud of thy 
 colossal strength, more justly of thy God-like rcjHJSc. Stretched on the rock, but 
 not like Promcthus, and with no evil bird to rcrid his side, rest.s the genius of 
 England. He waits his hour but he counts not the hours between. He knows 
 it is rolling up through the mystic gloom of the ages, and th.it its ch.iriot is guided 
 by the iron hand of deutiny. Dare I murmur that the mist will not clear for mc, 
 (hat I shall not hear the wheels of the chariot, of the hour of England? It will 
 come — it is coming — it is ct)me ! The whole world aroused as by some mighty 
 galvanism, suddenly raises a loud cry of love and adoration, and throws itself 
 upon the bounteous bosom of England. Henceforth there are no nations, no 
 peoples, but one and indivisible will be the world, and the world will be one 
 England. Her virtue and her patience have triumphed ; the lamp of her faith, 
 kindled at the apostolic altars, burns as a bcacim to mankind. Her e.xaniple has 
 regenerated the erring ; her mildness h.is rebuked the rebellious; and her gentle* 
 ness has enchanted the good. .She is henceforth humanity, and London her type 
 and her temple, shall be the Mecca and Jerusalem of a renewed universe ♦ * ♦ 
 It shall be thine to undo the work of B.abel, and with a pardoned sigh, the son of 
 France recognizes in thy tongue and Shakespeare's the one language of the ages." 
 
 Compare Victor Hugo's ikvprds w^th Balaam's prophecy. [Josephus' version. 
 Antiquities Book IV, chap. VI, §i.] 
 
 " Happy is this people upon whom God bestows the possession of 
 innumerable good things, aird grants them his own providence to be their 
 assistant and their guide ; so that there is not any nation am»ng man« 
 kind but you will be estefctrfed superior to them in virtue, and in the 
 earnest prosecution of the best rules of life, and of such as are pure from wicked* 
 fiess, and will leave those rules to your excellent children, .ind this out of the 
 regard that God bears to you, and the provision of such things for you as may 
 render you happier than any other people under the sun. You shall retain that 
 land to which he hath sent you, and it shall ever be under the command of yonr 
 children; and both all the earth, as well as the sea, shall be filled with your 
 glory ; and you shall be sutHciently numerous to supply the world in general, and 
 every region of it in particular with inhabitants out of your stock. However O 
 blessed army ! wonder that you are become so many from one father ; and truly, 
 the land of Canaan can now hold you, as being yet comparatively few ; but know 
 ye that the whole world is proposed to be the place of your habitation for ever. 
 The multitude of your posterity also shall live as well in the islands as on the 
 continent, and that more in number than are the stars of heaven. Ani when you 
 are become so many, (iod will not relinquish the care of you, but will afford you 
 an abundance of all good things in times of peace, with victory and dominion in 
 times of war. May the children of your enemies have an inclin.ition to fight 
 against you, and may they be so hardy as to come to arms, and to assault you in 
 battle, for they will not return with victory, nor will their return be agreeable to 
 their children and wives. To so great a degree of valour will you be raised by 
 the providence of God who is able to diminish the aftiuencc of some and to supply 
 the wants of others." 
 
 JUHl 1964 
 
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