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5r//£' CREED OF THE IlIXITES.

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The Hinites are a rcliiriotis sect which have lately sprung into existoncpi
They derive their name from their leader, Edward Hine of England.
They are not numerous ; thtsy are, however, very zealous, and are busily
seeking to make converts. They may bo r garded as divid d into two
classes, the confirmed Hinitjs and the; slack Hinites. The former have no
doubt about their origin. They pay no attentjpn to reason or arguujcn'ls.
They have adopted their b3lief and aro bound to live and die in it. The
latin* are not altogether sure about their origin. Doubts as to tho'r
being Israelites occasionally rise up their minds.

That there are among the Hin!tjs, especially among the slack Ilinites,
intelligent, honest and respectable men anjjl women I admit. 'I fall in
with such here and there. It is not their good sense or prety however
that makes them Hinites. but tlieir want of acouaintanco with history
and the rules of Biblical interpretation. They are very much at Hine"s
mercy with respect to historical matters. They take for grantt'dthat the
statements in this phamplets ar' true. Of the interpretation of prophecy
they know nothing. They never take the trouble of studying the Old
Testament in the light of the New.

The following: is their creed :

1. We believe we are th". descendants of the ton tribes, the followers of
Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel tp sin.

2. We believe that in the year 720 L. C, the tribe of Dan left the land
of Israel in ships, that they arrived in safety in the north of Ireland, that
they were there known as the Tuatha De Danann ; that they spoke the
Hebrew language there, and that the north of Ireland Protestants are their
lineal descendants.

3. We bdieve that the tribe of Simeon came with the tribe of Dan in
their ships to the west coast of Scotland, that they landed there, that they

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gradually removed to the south, that they finally settled in Wales, and
that the Welsh people are all descended from them.

4. We btilieve that the tribes carried into Assyria by Shalmanescr, in
the year 721 B. C. remained in the land to which they were carried
until the days of the apostles; that they and they only are the lost sheep
of the house of Israel spoken of in the tenth chapter of Matthew ; that
the apostles went directly to them, and preached the Gospel to then* ; that
some time after the Gospel had been preached to them they moved west-
ward ; and that as barbarous and heathen marauders, under the name of
Saxons, that is, Isaac's sons, they landed in £ngland in the year 449.

5. We bi'lieve that the tribu of Benjamin embraced the {gospel, that
they escaped from Jerusalem to Pilla, prior to the siege by the Roman
army, that they went in ships to Italy, that they lived for some time in
Normandy in France, that in the year 1066 they crossed over to Knj^land
under Willam the conqueror ; and that all who can trace their origin to
the Normans are true Israelites of the tribe of Benjamin.

6. We believe that the Yankees are of the tribe of Manas-seh.

7. We believe that the Celts of Ireland are accursed Canaanites, and
that we should use them as hewers of wood and drawers of water.

8. We biilieve that in the year 580 B. C, Jeremiah and Baruch came
to Tara in Ireland ; that they had with tho.iu a princess of the house of
David, named Tephi ; that Eochaid, the King of Ireland, adopted the
Jewish riligion and married Tephi ; that Quoen Victoria is de.>-cended
from Eochaid and Tephi ; and that thu-» the line of David rules over
Israel.

9. We believe that when Jeremiah came to Ireland he took with him
the stone on Avhich Jacob slept, and that it is upon this stone that the
sovereigns of Britain are crowned.

10. We believe that seven-eighths of the Bible are generally misunder-
stood by Christians.

11. We believe that the Bible is addressed to three classes of men, the
Israelites, the Jews, and the Gentiles ; the Israelites being the tribes of
Reuben, Simeon, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Zebulon, Issachar, Dan, Ephraim,
Manasseh„and Benjamin ; and the Jews being the tribes of Judah and
Levi. %

12. We believe it is a great waste of money to be sending missionaries
to the Jews, the wicked descendants of Judah and Levi.

13. We believe that the Jews will return to their own land, build a tem-
ple, and re-establish the ceremonial and civil laws of Moses.

14. We beiieve that we, the Israelites, shall also go back to the Holy
Land ; not all of us, but two out of every family.

15. We believe that in our return procession we shall all be under one
commander-in-chief, every city having its own company, every company
being commanded by its own captain, and every captain instructing his
own men *' how to act, where to halt, when to march, and what route to
take."

16. We believe in the glory of the great pyramid, the glory of saving
millions a year, the glory of long life, and twenty-four other glories of
England.

17. We believe ** from the marvellous teachings of the great pyramid"
that our identity with Israel will be nationally established before the pre-

sent Tovy Government of Britain shall go out of power, or some time bc-
foro the end of 1881.

18. We believe that wherever we, the true Israelites settle, the abori-
gines, should and will die out.

19. We believe, with all Chi'istian humility, that ten Englishmen,
or true Israelites, can whip any day one hundred Gentiles, be they High-
landers, Irish Celts, or Cossacks.

All the Hinites do not believe the whole of this creed. Like other
sects they have their heretics. The thouroughly orthodox hold that Hine's
interpretations are all sound ; the heretics maintain that some of these
are not correct. They all believe, however, that the British, with the
exception of the Irish Celts acid the Highlanders, are identical with the
ten tribes, that the Israelites constitute the aristocracy of the Christian
Church, and they themselves are the most enlightened portion of that
aristocracy. A. M.

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II.

THE NEW RULES OF HERMENEUTIVS.

Hermeneutics is the science which treats of the interpretation of the
Scriptures. The Hinites are diligently at work trying to improve it.
Home's Introduction, Aukus' Bible Hand Book, and Fairbairn's Her-
mtmcut.cul Manual they havt? cast aside; they regard those works as of no
more value than Belcher's Almanac for 1879. They have adopted three
rules of interpretation to which they attach very great importance. They
areas l'ollow.s: —

1. Remember that the Bible never speaks of a member of any of the
ten tribes, except the tribe of Benjamin, as a Jew ; the Israelites are not
Jews. 2. The Bible regards the human race as divided into three classes ;
the Israelites, the Jews, and the Gentiles. 3. Wherever in the Holy
Scriptures, fiom the days of Isaiah to the days of John the apostle, yta
find the word Israel you ujay be sure that the reference is to the ten
tribes. Theso rules are of course new. We cannot, however, speak of
them as diE<c\jveries; they are inventions. There is no trace 6f their exis-
tence from Genesis to Revelation. .'f' 'i " !;';''•-

Rules of inti^rpretation to be of any value must be based li^h l^'cts In
tht' Oible, not upon fancies floating in the brains of speculative writers.
Thai Hine'.s rules are not based upon facts can easily be shown! They
contradict facts, and very clear facts too.

1. Ever since the period of the Babylonian captivity we find Israelites
of all the twelve tribes spoken of as Jews.

Every person admits that those who formed the Kingdom of the ten
tribes were not called Jews whilst in their own land. The Jews were the
men of Judah, or those who formed the Kingdom of Judah. If a man
belonged to that Kingdom, no matter of what tribe he was a member he
was called a Jew. 2 Kings 14-- 22, 16 : 6, 25 : 25. Jer. 32 : 12, 34 : 9.

The Kingdom of Judah consisted of the two whole tribes of Judah and
Benjamin, of a great number from the ten tribes, and of the priests and
Levites.

That there were tliourtands of persons from the ten tribjs in tlio kin<;-
doni of Judah cannot be denied. A part of the territories of Simeon and
J.''an remained all alon^ in poHHession of Judah, 1 Samuel 27: (>, 1 Kinj;M
ll)::t, 2 Chron. 11 : 10 c(.nipared wth Jo^hmi 1!): 1,-41, 42. In the
r.;igns of Abijah an I Asa tho Kin;j;doiu of Judali obtained by eon<(uoht a
j)ortion of the Kiiif^dom of L-rael. 2 Chron. 13 : 19, 15: H, 17 : 2. Many
jiious men left the Kinjidom of Israel and .settled in the. Kin<>dom of
Judah. 2 Chron. 15 : 9-10. We are di.^tinotly told that "in Jeru.saleui
dwelt of the child 'en of Judah, and of the children of Benjaujin, and of
the children of Kphraim and Maiastseli." 1 Chron. 9 : 3.

The I eople who upon the return from Babylon, formed the new com-
monwealth of Israel are called Jews. Ezra 4 ; 12. Joscphus' Anti(j. 11 :
5 : 7. That commonwealth couHi^ted of the det-cendantK of the Jews who
had not been carried away lo Babylon and ofthe Jew.s who nturned from
Babylon. That like the Kinjidom oi'»Fudah, it embraced per.'-ons from
all the tr be-t of Israel cannot be dojbted. It is altogether improbable
that there were no membcns of the ten tr.bjs among the poor who had not
be n carried to Babylon. It is also iiiiprobable, when we fnd the
Persian monarchs addre.ss their decrees respecting going back to Judea
to 'all the poo|.lj of God," to " all who Were of the people of Israel,"
that no membLrs ofthe ten tr,bvis return* d. Ezra 1 : 3, 7 : 13. It is evi-
dent that the Jewss of the new commonwealth regarded themriehcs as the
throe npresentative.s ofthe Hebrew nation. They called themselves Israel,
and were in thij habit of offering up saeriiices for tlie twelve tribes. Ezra
2:7(». 3: I, G :17, 10: 1, 5. Neh., 11:3, 20; 12: 47, 13:3. Anna,
the prt>phetj.ss, boioM^j:ed to the tribe of Ashjr. Luke 2 : 30.

The Israelites who remained in Babylon are called Jews. Esther. Acts
That they b longed to all the tribes of Lsare! we cannot doubt.
The Israelites of the hou.se of Judah would scarcely at as early a period
as the days of Ahasueres, be scattered over the one hundred and twenty-
seven provincjs of the Persian Empire. Esther 1 : 1,3:8.

Paul speaks of those to whom the oracles of God were given as Jew.s.

Kom. 3 : 1-2. The oracles of God we know were given to the twelve
tribjs, God's visible churc'.i. 3Iust we not infer then that Paul regarded
t'i(^ whole twelve trb^s as Jews ? It is evident that in his day the words

11 brew, I.-raelite, and Jew were synonymous term-'. #

The T^raelitAS who lived in Judea in the days of our Saviour are
throughout the whole ofthe New Testament called Jews; i-o al.>-o are the
Israelites among w'iom the apo.'^tles labored.

2. The Scriptures regard the human race as divided into two classes :
tho< who profess to worsnip God according to his word, and those who
donotprofoss to worship him accordinjjf to his word.

Fr m the days of Moe- until the death of Solomon God's professed
followers were one politically as well as ecclesiastically. Jereboam's rebel-
lion divided them politically; some belongod to the Kingdom of Judah and
^(une to th.'; Kingdom of Israel. It did not, however, divide them iccle-
s astically. The ten tribes as well as the two tribes wintup to Jeru.'alem
to worship Gnd. In an ecclesiastical point of view the twelve tribes were
n >vv r divided. They all belonged to the same church. God spoke of
ti'.em all a his p.ople. It was as such, as his undivided church, f^.nd not

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gracious proimsts which wo tind in the wiitin<iH of the prophets.

The Old Testitineiit uiid the New divide the hun)aii race; m the t*onie
way. In the Old Testament wc read of (jnd'.s people and tiic heathen
nationK around them ; but not of a third class of men. In the New
Testament we nad of Jews and (Jeiitiles, but never of Israelite8,JewH and
Oontiles. Should any por.<on affirm that the two classeH, Jews and Gen-
tiles, do not include all men, all I have to say in reply is that they uii-
(luestionablv include all sitniers, and all to wliojn the gospel was to bu
preached. "Ram. 1 : 13-16, 2 : 9, H: 1-19. f-'^' '*' '^

3. The trrui Israel <;enernlly denotes the Hebrew people, or the descen-
dants of tlu' twelve .sons of Jacob re<;arded as a distinct people, the
covenant people of God.

•' The name I-^ra^ I at first belonged to an individual. It was the . anie
which the Lord gave to Jacob. Jacob's descendants the twelve tribes,
ado[)tvd it as th ir national name. When the ti-n tribes rebelled, being a
majority of tin ch Idren of Israel, they assumed it as the name of their
Kingdom. Thty liad, however, no legal right to it ; they were only a
portion of Israel, and they did not ri^present ancient Israel as truly as the
house of Judah did. Even during the national existence of the ten tribes
wc find the Kingdom of Judah spoken of as Israel. 2 Chron. 12: t), 21 :
2. The Jews wiio returned from the Babylonian captivity resumed the
old nati<»nal name of Lsrael. Ezra 4 : 3. Neh. 11:8. This they did be-
cause they Were the true representatives of the Isiacl of Mo.ses and
Joshua, and the Israel of David and Solomon. In our Saviour's day
Judea was called the land of Israel and its iohabitants Israelites. Matt.
2 : 20, 8 : 10, 9 : 33. Luke 1 : 80. John 1 : 47, 3 : 10. Acts 21 : 28.

But the chief thing to be determined in discussing matters with the
HinitJs is tiie sense 'u which the prophets employ the term Israel. The
very first time Isaiah uses it he refers especially to the two tribes, Is. 1 :
1-3, Jeremiah addresses the men of Judah as the house of Israel, Jer.
5: 15. Ezekiel also looked upon them as the true theocracy, Ezek. 17 :
2, 19 : 1, 20 : 1, 21 : 2. Daniel who was of the children of Judah speaks
oi' his people as L^^rael, Dan. 9 : 20. Joel tells the children of Zion or
Jerus-alem that when certain blessings should be given them they would
know that the Lord w^s in the midst of Israel, Joel 2: 23-27. Haggai re-
garded the Jews of the restoration as the representatives of the people
who came out of Egypt, Haggai 2 : 5. Malachi uniformly speaks of the
new Hebrew common-wetilth as Israel. He makes no reference to the
ten tribes, Mai. 1 : 1, 2 : 11, 3: 4.

h: As a general thing the term Israel denotes in the prophets the children
of Israel considered as God's covenant people ; in a few places it is used
in its political sense, or as the name of the ten tribes in their organized
capacity.

Bishop Titcomb, though a strong Anglo- Israelite, admits that the term
Israel does not in all cases in the Prophetsrefer to the ten tribes. " You
are aware," he says, '' that this word Israel is often used to denote the
the whole Hebrew nation. There is consequently a great danger of tak-
ing up some passages which were intended to apply to the whole people,
and transferring them to the ten tribes exclusively. I shall be on my
guard against that danger j for I am free to confess that I have found

our friend Jones fallinj^ into it Hevcral times. " By his " friend Jones"
he evidently means Mr. Pline.

Hine'M ideas respecting the expression "all Israel" are most extraordin-
ary. His words are: " The term 'all Israel' is never applied to Jiidah.
The ' air is not an adjisctive, it is linked to I.-irael; the two words toj^ethor
form a proper noun. ' Ali Israel' is the name of the ten tribes or of any
portion of the ten. The one tribe of Benjamin is repeatedly referred to
us all Israel."

The expression "all iNrael" is frecjuently employed in connection with
tiie house of Judah. 2 Ohron. 12: 1,24:5. It is also employed in
eonnt'Ct!on with the Jiws who r. turned from Babylon. Ezra 2: fo, 8: 25,
10 : 6 ; Nell. 8: 7i^, 12 : 47. That the one tribe of Benjamin is frc(|uently
referred to as all Israel is a statement which is as far from the truth as
the North Pole is from the South. The tr.be of Benjamin by itself is
never spoken of as Israel.

ii Iline gives the following account of the meaning" of the expression
•' hou-ic of Israel :" — '* When God in prophecy spoaks to the house of
I rael ILj does not refer to the Jews. 8uch expressions as the house of
Isra I wholly, and the whol; hou.se of Israel are never applied to Judah.
The sp( c!al mission of Christ and his disciples was to the ten tribes.
Matt. 10: 5— ()."

As the t<!n tribes had no national existence in the days of Moses it
must Huri ly follow that by the expression *' whole hou.se of Israel" in
Ijev. 10: wear.- to undiTstand the twelve tribes, and not the special
fivonriti'S of the llin t«s. Ez kiel prophesied to the people of Judah,
y t he never hesitatvd to ad<lre.ss thtin as '• the house of I.«-rael" He
un formly spvMiks of thoni under that name. When he says *' The.se bones
are t'le whole bouse of I.»rael," whether he refers to the t«n tribes or not,
1),^ unquest onably refers to the house of Judah.

'I The command in Matt. 10: 5 — (5 liad reference merely to a temporary
miss on upon which the Ay)ostles wore s»nt. This is evident from the
subj.ct of their preaching, and from th(! fact that they were away only a
sh nt timi'. What they preached was, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand ;" not '(/hrist is r..sen irom the dead." We have an account of
til ir nturn in Maik 9: 30 an«l Luke 9: 10. Now how could it b.' pos-
sible for t'le .\po,-tlt s in a few weeks or months to visit the Israelites of
the t'n tr.bes who were all b.-yond the Euphrates? Thc-o were no rad-
r.>ads in their tnie ; they had not even swift hor.ses at their eoiDniand. It
i evdent that the lost sheep of the house of I>rael among whom the
Aportles laboured during their brief mission were the Jtws of Palestine.
It was after the resurrection of Christ, not before it, thit the Apostles
got their grand marching orders. There orders were, " Go ye into all the
world, and pri'aeh the gospel to every cr^-ature." How different from the
command in Matt. 10: 5 — (i ! Christ had now, howevtr, by his death
broken down the m ddle wall of partition bjtween the Jewt' and the Gen-
tiles. The glorious latter days had come. The doors of the church were
thrown widely open for all men. Henceforth tht-re was to hi no diiference
betwe(!n the Jew and the Gick ; believers of all nations won; to be one in
Christ Jesus. Horn. 10 : 12 ; Eph. 2 : 14—15.

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1. ''As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may
j:row thereby." Search the Scriptures not for arguments in !<up|Mjrt (»f
some crotchet which has got into your heads, but for food for your souls.

2. Consider tV.e cont^'Xt carefully. The Uible looks u|)on man as a
rational being and addre.'-ses him as such. It is not a jumble of discon-
nected sentenci's; it has order in it. Krad not ui-srely the v»'rse in which
you are specially interested, but also the VvFses which go b fore it, and
the verses which follow it, consider what the wr!tir is treating of.

H. Find out the time in which the Prophet whot^e writings you are
studying lived, the circumstances in whioh he was placed, and the people
to whom he prophesied. Joel, Jonah, Amos, and Ilosea lived before the
destruction of the kingdom of Israel ; Isaiah and Micah lived at the time
of its destruction ; Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel lived at the time of the
Babylonian captivity; and Uaggai, Zechariah, and Malachi alter the re,
turn of the Jews from Babylon. Ilosca and Amos prophesied t<» the ten
tribes; Joel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hani il, and Ezekiel to the people of Judah ;
and Haggai, Zechariah, and Mali;tcl!i to the Jews who had returned from
Babylon.

4. Riniemb. r that owing to the typical character of the Old TestanHmt
institutions some predictions refer to two things; they reft^r partially to one
thing, fully to another thing, the former boijig a type of the latter. T<t
this class of predictions belongs the promise made to Abraham thnt he
would have a numerous offspring, the promise that the throne of l>avid''
Kingdom would be established forever, and the promise that God's peopl •
would return from Babylon. The first of i\\cm promi.ses finds its chief
fulfilment in the countless number ot the saved ; the second in the estab-
lishment of Christ's Kingdom; and the third i' the multituder who, under
the gospel dispensation, have come and will yet coaic to worship in the
real Zion or Jerusalm, the church of God.

6. Compare one part of the Scriptures with another. Tour interpreta
tion may contradict the Bible, but the Bible rightly understood never
contradicts itself. It is all the work of one mind, the work of Him wh<«
in infinite in knowledge and truth. The doctrines of the New Testament
are only the doctrines of the Old in a clear and fully developed form. It
is therefore always of the greatest advantage in interpreting a passage in
the Old Testament to find it quoted in the New. Whatever it might at
first sight appear to mean we know that it means just what the Lord
Jesus Christ and his Apostles say it means. To their expositions thea
let us in all cases gladly, fully, and thankfully submit. '' ,

A. M.

in.

THE nmiTES ON PROPHECY.

The Hinites are very fond of the prophets. They are continually
searching their writings. They priae them chiefly on account of what they
regard as promises to Queen Victoria and the Anglo-Saxons. Every pas-
sage in which the word Israel occurs, they assure us, refers to Great Bri-

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tiMfi. Poor Dr. Cumiiiing! Ho is a Christian, a scholar, and a man 0?
ability; yet the Hinitos have cast him wholly into the shade !

The Hinitc-s find at least a thousand and one proof's in the prophets
that the pcoph of Great Britain are almost all dcs-candcd from the ten
tribes. A fow of taef e proofs, especially those which their learned dec-
tors rf divinity rjj^ard as unassailable, we shall brief y consider:

1. " Th^ ten tribjs must bo found in an island homi; Great Britain in
an island; therefore the p.-ople nf Britain n\\^ Israelites. Proof — ' The
isles shall wait for his law.' I-', xl i.. 4.''

I suppose the Hinitos will adm't that the person spt^ken of in Is, xlii.,
4, as thii admiiii.strator cf tiic law, is the Saviour; what they hold is that
the people of th.; isles were to be the ten tr.bos. IIow the H nit.s can
show that by the wo'd isles in this passa.fy we are to understand places
surrounded by water as Great Britain and Ireland are, I don't know. I
am sure that the primary meaning- of the word translated isles, is (//y
1 nul, whether surrounded by water or not. How will the Ilinites explain
Is. xlii. 15, where it is sa'd, '• I will make the rivers islands?'' Even the
secondary meaning of the Hebrew word translated island is not a place
sui rounded by water, but a place adjacent to the sea. Phaviicia might
thus be called an is-land. The Old Testauiont was translated into Greek
in the year 277 B. C. This tiaiisktion is known -xs thj S.^ptuagint, from
a tradition that it was made by seventy learned J^ws. '''he apostles fre-
quently quote fr-^m it. Its rendering of the statement, " The isles shall
wait for his law" is "upon his name shall the O.ntiles trust." Matthcv
sanctions this rendering as co:ix".t; he merely changes tiio prej'ositioii
nj)(>n iutci in. Matt, xii., 21. Thus ^hen according to the uninspired
seventy Jews of Alexandria and the inspired apostle of Galilee, the islands*
that were to wait for the laws of the Messiah wtre to- be islands (if Gen-
tiles not of Israelite.-^. I would humbly suggest to those who may read
" the forty-seven indentifications " the propriety of followiUj^ Matthew's
interpretation of prophecy rather than Hine's interpretation.

2. " Israel's isles must be north-west of Palestine ; Britain is exactly
where it ought to be ; therefore the people of Britain are the Uv tribes.
Proofs — Is. xxiv. 15, Is. xliii. 5, Is. lix. 19, Jer. iii. 12, 18, Jer. xxiii. 8."

Is. xxiv. 15 reads, — "Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even
the name of the Lord God of Israel in the Isle? of the sea." There is no
reference to the west in this passage in my B.ble : it seems, however, that
in Hine s Bible there is such a reference, for in this phamphlet he quotes
it thus : " glorify the name of the Lord God of Israel in the wesfo'ii sms."

Is. xliii. 5 reads, — "Fear not, for I am with theej I will bring thy seed
from the east and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, give
up, and to the south, keep not back." An ordinary Christian vould infer
from this passage that G )d's p3ople were to bo gathered from all quarters
of the globe ; Hine, however, finds in it a plain proof that the ten tribes
could be found only in the »vest. We must however rememb<'r that the
Hinites pitch aside the east, north and scilth ; they quote merely the
words, " I will gather thee from the west." They don't like the south,
It is too hot for them.

Is. lix. 19 reads — " So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the
west and his glory from the rising sun." The old commentators imagined
that this meant that the name of the Tjord would be feared from the east

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to tilt -jfcfit, or from the rislnj; to the settint: sun : the nflw commentators
t4!li» uf that it uieans nothinj* of the kind, and that it is only stupid per-
sons that will read farther than the word west. Their rule of interpre-
tnt.o:i is, " Head to the word west, then stop, shut your eyes, think, and
bKJieye that you are an Israelite."

Ji.;r. iii. 18 reads: *• In those days tlso house of Judah shall walk with
the house of Israel and they shall eonic to_irether (»ut of the land of the
north to the land that I have givi.-n for an inheritance unto your fathers."
Jer. iii 12, and Jer. xxiii 8 also sp.?ak of the Jews as coming from the
land of the north.

According to the Hinites Jeremiah could on the foggiest day turn round
and point with his linger to the British Isles, although these isles were
wholly unknown in his day t the Jews, Phoenicia ns, Greeks, and Romans.
As however he had no term fot northwest, he was compelled to speak of
Brraiu sometimes as in the north, and sometiui.s as in the west. He took
for granted that people would know that he meant a country halfway be-
tween the noi'th and the west. He was. how<'Ver, strange to say. wholly
mi>-understood until the Hinites sprang up in the world. The way they
came to know what he meant was by the application ot a new law in her-
meueuties. The hiw is this: "When two things do not seem to agree in
the prophecies, split the difference and you will arrive at the truth.""

By the land of the north. Jeremiah means the Babylonian empire, and
neither Great Britain, Canada, nor Sibiria. He never >ays that the
children of l>rael as a people were to come from the west, he '.)es, how-
<iver, tay tliat tliey were to come from the north. " Halah and Habor
by the river of Gozan" was as much to the north of Palestine as Britain
is. The northern part of th' .'Juhylonian Kmpire was directly north of
it. That empire in Jeremich's day included the following countries:
Babylonia proper or Ohaldea. Mesopotamia. Assyria. Armenia and the
adjacent districts as far north as the (i'aucasus. Cilicia, Syria, Palestine.
Phoenicia, and Tdu-nea. x\s the ten tribes and also the two tribes were
captives in the Babylonian Empire, it is highly probable that the prophet
would expect their return fro-u that ([uarter. It was very natural for the
Jews to regard Babylon as a northern country, because the Babylonians
always invaded their country from the north ; they could not indeed owing
to the great Arabian desert invade it from the east. Nebuchadnezzar
waited in "Riblah in the land of Hamath "whilst his generals were laying
seige to Jerusalem; and Riblah, we know, was on the Orontes. straight
north of the capital of Judea, But Jeremiah certainly knew his own
geographical terms better than Hine, or his most learned follower. That
by the land of the north he meatit Babylon is placed beyond dispute by t\w
following verse : " Behold. I will scud and take all the families of the north,
saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzer. the King of Babylcii. my servant,
and will bring them against this land, and against ths inhrbitants thereof:"
Jer. XXV. 9 ; see also Zech. ii. 6. 7. ft is a historical fact that many of
the children of Israel retun>od from Babylon in the yi^ur 536 B. C. By
the children of Israel I do not mean the ten tribes, I mean the descen-
dants of Jacob.

3. " The ten tribes must be a nation ; the British are a nation therefore
the British are the ten tribes. Proof, Jer. xxxi. 35, 3H."

Jerc-'^iau xxxi. 36 is: *' If those ordinances depart from me, saith the

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Lord, then the need of Israel also shnll cease from being a nation before ^
n\e." If by the word nation in this place we are to understand a people
in their organized capacity, that is, a people with a ruler and laws of their
own, it follows thf.t the promii-e made has not been fulfilled. The ten
tribes ceas d to bo a nat on when carried into Assyria in the year 721 B.
C, and the house of Judah ceased to be a nation when carried into Baby-
lon in the year (306 B. C. or at any rate when Jerusalem waa destroyed
by T tus in the year sewnty after Christ. The word translated nation,
however, means a people. Gesenius in his Hebrew dictionary gives as itf<
meaning, a people, a nation. It is rendered by the word people in several
places in in our English Vvrsion. for example in Is. ix. 2. and Is. xlii. 6.
In the very prssajre quoted by the Hinites the Septuagint translates it
ethnos. a word which means b race, a people. That the radical meaning
of etlnwfi is race the ordinary English t-cholar may know. He finds it in
ethnology.

Now whilst the cl/ldren of Israel have ccasi'd from being a nation in
the strict scn.se of that term, they have not ceased from being a people ;
up to this day they have b.!en preserved as a distinct race.

4. " The Israelites were to be called by another name, Britain is a
different name from Israel ; therefore the British are the ten tribes. Proof.
Is. 65: 15. He shall call his servants by another name."

If the reference in Is. 65 : 15 be to the ten tribes it is somewhat
sfcrange that the statement is not, He shall call his servants by other
names, and not merely by another name. Have they not been called by
half a dozen names, such as, Scythians, Sacae, Saxons, Anglo-Saxons,
En'rlish, Britons, Irish, Welsh and Normans ?

The 65th chapter of Isaiah has no reference to the ten tribes as such ;
it refers to the church of Christ, represented in Isaiah's day by the
Israelites who clung to the house of Judah. God's people have received
a new name. They have been called Hephzibah, the delight of the Lord.
Is. 62 : 1-4. They have also received a new name in another way ; they
have Ci'a.«ed to b • called Israelites, Hebrews, or Jews; they are now called
Cliristains.

If by the servants of the Lord in Is. 65 : 15 we are to understand, not
lliose who actually keep the law of God, bttt Israelites according to the
flesh, then it follows that those who were to be called by another name
were the Israelites of the Kingdom of Judah. Is. 64 ; 9-12. Is. 65 : 9,
15, 19.

5. " The ten tribes were to speak another tongue ; the British do not
ppak Hebrew; therefore the British are Israelites. Proof. Is. 28: 11."

Hine in speaking of this proof says :-'' Using another tongue is a proof
of our identity. Yet this question has to 'be approached ethnologically
i»nd anthropologically, both of which sciences declare language to be a
principal agency in the tracing of peoples. The declared opinion of
eminent scholars is that the English language contains the roots of no
less than eight hundred 1 ebrew words."

The sciences of " eth ologically " and " anthropologically " I never
heard of before. It niij..it be possible for the Hebrew to contain the
roots of some English words, but how the English can contain the roots
of Hebrew words, I cannot comprehend. The Hebrew it is well known
was old and gray before the English came into existence.

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Ij<aiah b gan to prophecy ut Jerusalem about the year 759 B. C. In
the 28th chapter ho describes the destruction of the Kingdom of Isra<;l
(1-4), and the preservation and punishment of the Kingdom of Judah.
(6-29). In the 9th versse and the 10th the prophet represents the peo-
ple of the house of Judah as scoffing at the manner in wliich God in-
structed them by his prophets. '• Does God," tiioy said," treat us as child-
ren ? Does Hi! deal with us as with infants just weaned ? Do we need
precept upon precept, line upon litie ?" In the 11th verse the punish-
ment which was to come upon these scoflFers i.i declared. "With stam-
mering lips and another tongue will God sp^^ak to this people." Tha*^ the
people spoken of from the 5th verse to the 15th is the house of Judah is
quite clear. As the crown of Gphraim is represented in the 3rd verse as
trodden under feet, it follows that '' the residue " of his people to whom
the Lord was be for a crown of glory must be the Kingdom of Judah.
We are also told that the scornful m;n, or scoffers were in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28 : 11 teaches, not that the barbarous Anglo-Saxons should be
ignorant of Hebrew but that the Jews would b.: carried to Babylon and
that they would there learn the lessons which they refused to learn in
their own land. To .«p.ak with stammering lips means to speak unintel-
ligibly, or in a foreign tongue. Is. 33 : 19. The language of the Baby-
lonians was not intelligible to the Jews. Is. 36 : 11. The Jews did learn
whilst in Babylon that it is an evil and bitter thing to sin against God.
They learned also to hate idolatry.

6. *' The Israelites whilst in the land of their exile were to become
a great multitude ; the Anglo-Saxons are exceedingly numerous ; therefore
the British are Israelites. Hosea 1 : 11."

Even if we are to understand Hosea 1 : 11 as teaching that the ten
tribes were to become a great multitude in the land of their exile we have
no occasion to go to Britain for its fulfilment. There is a passage in Jose-
phus which the H in ites believe as firmly as they do the Gospel. It is
this : — " The ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an im-
mense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers." Hosea's predic-
tion it seems then was fulfilled before the ten tribes left the land of their
captivity.

Hosea 1 : 1 1 is not a prediction respecting the ten tribes, but a predic-
tion respecting the twelve tribes, or the descendants of Jacob. It is mere-
ly a quotation from Gen. 32 : 12. '

The promise in Gen. 32 : 12 had a double meaning. It implied that
Jacob should have a numerous natural offspring, and also a numertas
spiritual offspring ; of its fulfilment in the latter, as well as in the former
sense, we have the fullest proof. John represents the redeemed as " a great
multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindredr, ttrnd
people, and tongues."

Though (rod cast off the ten tribes, yet the number of the children of
Israel even i Judea was as the sand of the sea. The Jews after tke
r<;turn from Ijyion increased with great rapidity. They were very
nunj Mus wl > Jerusalem was destroyed.

T 'i!! t eference in Hosea 1 : 11-12 may be primarily to the Jews
of t ' '111, there C3,n be no doubt that the chief reference is to the

churci itc Messiah. Bom, 9: 23-26. A. M.

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rT/A; niXTTEs on provhkcy.

The Uiiiites tlepeiitl chiefly lor their proofs of the identity (»t thi? Brit-
ish nation with the ten tribos upon prophecy. Souie of their prophetic
proof^^ wo have already considered; let uh now have a look at few niore of
thcni.

1. '* The Israelites were to find their isleH too isniall for theru and to
found colonies : Britain has colonies all over the world, therefore the
British are the't^n tribes. Is. 49 : lrt-23. Is. 54 : 1-8."

The primary reference in Is. 49 : 18-28 is to the Jerusalem of the re-
storation. In the 14th verse, Zion or Jerusalem is represented as sayin«^,
•' The Lord hath forsaken me." In the 1 5th verse the Lord begins to
address words of comfort to Zion and continues addressing it to the end
of the chapter. He assures JerusaUnj that he had graven it upon the
palms of his hands, and that its children would come back from Babylon,
that it would have more inhabitants than it had before the^aptlvity, and
that kings should be its nursing fathers. These predictions we know
were all literally fulfilled. The children of Israel returned from Babylon ;
Judea was crowded with people; thousands of its inhabitants moved to
foreign lands ; Cyrus, Artaxerxes, and Esther were the very best friends
to God's people.

The secondary reference in Is. 49 : 18-28 is to the great ingathering of
spiritual children to the spiritual Zion, or the church of God. Under
the Messiah God would show to the world that He had not forgotten his
piople, they would be so numerous that Judea could contain only a small
part of them ; the church would be in a most flourishiug condition. Gal.
4:26. Hvb. 12:22.

That the 54th chapter of Isaiah refers to the church of God no Chris-
tian can doubt. The Saviour and one of his inspired apostles quote it
as referring to the church. John 6 : 45. Gal. 4 : 27. The church is
called upon to make room for the millions that were to come into it uuder
the Messiah. It is spoken of under the image of a tabernacle because
the tabernacle was the place of religious worship among the Hebrews,
the symbol of the church, before the erection of Solomon's temple.

There is not one verse in the Bible which teaches that the ten tribes
were to have colonies. There are, however, hundreds of verses which
teach that the church was to be 'extended by the conversion of the Gen-
tiles. " Ask of me and I shall •/wd thee the heathen for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." The Bible was
not given to puiF up people with national pride, but to show the way of
salvation to sinners, whether Jews or Gentiles.

2. " God was to make a full end of the nations among whom the Israel-
ites should settle; the abori'irines die out before the Anglo-Saxon colonists;
therefore the British are Israelites. Jer. 30 : 10-11, 46 : 27-28 "

Jeremiah says that God would make a full end of all the nations among
whom the children of Israel would be '* scattered." Well they were
scattered among the Assyrians, the Medes and the Babylonians, — nations
which so far as known to me have no existence at the present day. A
full end has been made of them. The Assyrians came to an end as a nation
in the year 606 B. C, the Medes in the year 538 B. C, and the Babylo-
nians \n the year 536 B. C. At the present day we can find without

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trouble a people who call themselves Jews ; we cannot so readily, however,
tind a people who call themselves Assyrians, Medes, or Babylonianh.
Hine ideiitilies the Germans with the Assyrians. Strange that an illiterate
Knglishman should know more about the origin of the learned Germans
than tlu-y know themselves ! Truly wonders will never cease !

The Bible nowhere teaches that the aborigines were to die Out before
the ten tribes. The passages quoteu by Hine refer not to individuals,
but to nations. Besides the promises in those passages were specially
given to the house of Judah. The Jacob or I.srael ol Jer. HO : 10 includes
the Israel and Judah of Jer. 30: I. Any person who will read the 44th,
45th, & 4(Jth chapters of Jeremiah will see that it was to the house of Judah
the promise in the last two verses of the last of these chapters was given.
The tjn tribes are frequently spoken of as Ephraim, but never as Jacob.

8. •' The ten tribes cpnnot be conquered in their island home ; the
Anglo-Saxons have never been conquered, therefore the British are
Israelites. Is. 54 : 17."

It will be admitted, I suppose.by all sensible men that Is. 54: 17. " No
weapo'i that is formed against thee ohall prosper " is a promise to the
•' barren " one spoken of in the firsit verse. By the barren one we are
evidently to understand the church of God under the Old Testament
which being confined within very narrow limits might in comparison with
the missionary church of the New Testatment, be regarded as barren.
It was especially at the time of the Babylonian captivity in a very low
condition ; its spiritual children were extremely few. That Is. 54 : 1
refers to the church of Christ is placed beyond all doubt by the apostle
Paul who quotes it to prove that the Jerusalem which is above, or the
church, is free and the mother of all believers. Gal. 4 : 27.

The church of God can never be destroyed. It has been persecuted
by thfc Pharaohs, by the rulers of Babylon, and by the Pagan Emperors
of Rome ; yet it is to-day in a more flourishing condition than ever. The
fire of persecution cannot destroy it, because God is in it. " Lo I am
with you alway even unto the end of the world."

It is not a fact that the Saxons have never been conquered. Charle-
mane conquered the Saxons of Germany, and William the Nornian
conquered the Saxons of England.

I believe that Britain will not be conquered ; not, however, because
the British are Israelites, but because they are Christians, and are with
all their selfishness and irreligion doing more for the cause of Christ than
any other nation.

4. *' It was promised to Abraham that in Isaac should his seed be call-
ed ; the British are Saxons, that is Isaac's sons ; therefore the British are
Israelites. Gen. 21 : 12."

One would suppose that the most ignorant person who reads Gen. 21 :
12 would know that the meaning is that the promised seed should be de-
scended not from Ishmael but from Isaac. To derive the word Saxon
from Isaac's son is certainly something new, very new, in philology.
Webster derives it from Seax, a knife, a dagger ; and as the Saxons,
when they came to Britain, were simply roving pirates, I have no doubt
that they knew more about knives and daggers than they did about Abra-
ham and Isaac.

5. " The children of Isrpel must have the line of King David ruling

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over them ; the Queen of Great Britain is desictnded from David ; there-
fore the British are Israelites. 2 Sam. 7 : 16; Ut Kings 9 : 1-6 ; Jer. 13 :
17-21; Ps. 132:11."

In 2 Sam. 7 : 12-16 we find an ab-olutv' promise to David. His throne
was to be established forever, that is, not only to the end of the world, but
throu<;h all eternity. Surely this promise must find its fulfilment in
Christ, «;reat David's groatur son. Heb. 1 : 8. In Hwhrews it is quoted
as referring to Christ. Heb. 1 : 5. The promise to Solomon in 1 Kings 9 :
4--5 is only a conditional promise. T-id Solomon comply with the condition
laid down ? Did he walk before God as David his father walked ? The
promise in Jer. 33 : 17-21 cannot refer exclusively to the literal seed of
David. The plain promise is that David should be at no time without a
^on reigning upon the throne of Israel. But Iline himself admits that
the children of Israel were many days without a King, either of David's
1 ne or any other. According to his theory they had no King of David's
line from the time of their rtbellion against Rehoboam until the accession
of Queen Mary's son to the throne of England, a period of 2579 years.
Though Queen Victoria should as a matter of fact bo descended from
David it would be impossible to speak of her as " a man " or as " a son."
That Psalm 132 : 11 refers to Christ cannot be called in question by any
person who believes in the inspiration of the New Testament. Peter
quotes it as referring to Him. Acts 2 : 30. Hine of course denies that
it refers to Christ, he says " it would be totally false if it did."

Hine gravely assures us that Jeremiah and Baruch came to Ireland,
that they brought with them a Jewish princess named Ttphi, that Eoch-
aid the King of Ireland married this princess, and that Queen Victoria
is lineally descended from her. Eochaid was originally a Pagan, but for
the sake of getting Tephi he changed his religion and believed every
thing she asked him to believe. He established the ten commandments as
the law of his kingdom. He likewise introduced a great many Hebrew
institutions and customs into the country. OUamh foladh, Mur-ollam-
hain, reachtaire, tara, and breac are all pure Hebrew words.

The Bible does not inform us that Jeremiah and Baruch went to Ire-
land ; neither does any other book ancient or modern. Some Jewis»i
writiTS say that when Egypt was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, they
went to Babylon and died there in peace. Jerome says that both died in
E^ypt. Taat the Biblemikjs no inMtioa of r.!p'ii evrory b )iy kaow^.
That she is not referred to in any work of an earlier djite than the yeair
ofour Lord 431 is certain. That she is not named in any book for
hundreds of years after the Babylonian captivity, for at least 1200 years,
no scholar will deny. Such a person never existed. I wonder if Hine
has read '' The Arabian Nights' Entertainments," a first rate book of its
kind. If he has it is astonishing that he does not quote it as a thorough-
ly reliable historical work. No doubt he considers Robinson Crusoe as
full of " undeniable facts." tfea

The words which Hin<; represents as pure Hebrew cannot be found in
the Hebraw dictionary ; I find them, however, in the Irish dictionary.
Instead of being pure Hebrew words thiy are pure Gaelic words. Ollamh
means a doctor, or chief professor of a science, and foladh learning ; thus
oUanil. foladh means professor of learning, or a karned man. Mur means
a wall, a house, and oUamhain, professors or learned men ; thus mur-

real
Tai

bri

thol
niel
bea
of

fnj
noi

isl

SJrr:.

'^avid ; there-
^-6; Jer. 13;

j' His throne
f the world, but
f'ulfiJinent in
^f it is quoted
'" 1 Kin^s 9:
1 the condition
valked ? The
1 teral seed of
inie without a
"<Iiiiits that
«i-of David '8
»;,Mif David's
tho accession
2579 jearf!,
cendtd from
r as "a son."
LJStion by any
"•ent. Peter
' 'Jeuies that

to Ireland,
\, that Boch-
'en Victoria
»;^an, but for
lit^ved every
>ndniont.s as
fiy Hebrew
Mur-ollara-

^ent to Ire-
>nie Jewisi
f^zzar, they
>oth died in
iy knows.
n the year
book for
200 years,
r if Hine
book of its
thorough-
Uiusoe as

found in
dictionary.
. Oliamh
i»g ; thus
ur means
lus mur-

ollamhain means a house of leariud men, or a college. Rcachtairc or
reachdairc, from roachd a law and fear, a man, means a law<iiver, a judge.
Tara, prop.riy Teamhair, r)!»ean.s a pl« avant place. Breac distorted 'nto
bru;; and brt if; nuans spotted or frickLd. The Iri^h annalists never
thought of B)f ruch whon speaking ol'Simon Breac. I wish Hine would re-
member that a dot over a letter in Irish is iquivalent to h. If ho would
bear this fact in mind we would not find ollam in his pamphlets in place
of ollamh.

There is not the shadow of an evid<jnce that the Q-ieen is descended
from King David ; according to all history, labulous and authentic, she is
not.

6. " The ten tribes must have Jacob's pilli>w with them ; it is the Brit-
ish coronation stone; therefore the British are Israelites. Gen. 28. '

Hine says,-— •• The promise in Oen. 28: 15 muht be to the ten tribes;
it has not yi t been fulfilli d. Jacob's stone mu^t be in existence till the re-
storation of Israel. It was brought to Inland by Jiremiah Baruch. Tephi
was crowned on it. It is called Lia fail. Lia or leac is Irish and means a
flat stone. Fail is a H.brew Wf»rdand uieans wonderful. This stone is
referred to in Psalm IIS : 22-23. It wa« the chiel" corner stone of the
temple. Kings have been crowned on it i succession for 2450 years."

It is nowhere stated in the B.ble that the ten tribes were to have
Jacob's stone with them. The only account we have of this stone is in
Genesis the 28th chapter. Th(! promi-se in the 13th verse of that chap-
ter is to Jacob and his seed. Now the seed of Jacob surely includes the
two tribes as well as the ten. In the 15th vjrse there is a promist to Jacob
persionally. From Gen. 35 : 1-7 we learn that it was fulfilled ; Jacob re-
turned in the course of thirty years to the very spot on which he had
slept. Z'^ven if we regard it as a promise to Jacob's seed, it was fulfilled
long ago ; the children of Israel were iu possession of Bethel for hundreds
of years.

The stone on which Jacob slept serv< d as a pillar to mark the spot on
which he liad his remarkable dream. When he returned it is likely that
he made use of it in the altar which he built. What became of it after-
wards is not known. That it was in Solomon's temple is an utterly
groundless tradition. No man who believes in the inspiration of the New
Testament can regard Ps. 118: 22-23 as referring to Jacab's stone.
Christ is the chief corner-stone of God's true temple, the Church. Majtt.
21 : 42, Acts 4: 11, Eph. 2: 20, 1 Peter 2: 47.

The coronation stone of Westminster Abbey was taken from Scotland
to England by Edward I, The Highlanders called it Lia fail. That
one of these words is Gaslic and the other Hebrew no philologist can
believe. They are both Gaelic words, and moan stone of destiny.

There is not the least evidence that the coronation stone came from
Asia. No Hebrew author affirms that Jacob's pillow was ever moved
from the spot on which Jacob slept. No heathen Greek or Roman writer
makes any mention of either Jacob or his pillow. No Irishman could
write about Jacob's stone before St. Patrick's day. No geologist will
affirm that it must have come from Palestine. According to the oldest
Irish annalists it came from Denmark ; the Tuath de Danann brought it
with them.

There is no evidence that the coronation stone in Westminster Abbey

I II!

i .

■ l I

I ■

was ever even in Ireland. Col. Robertson in his " HiMtorical Proof Re-
Mpectinj; the (laol of Alban" maintains that it was not. The Irish he
holds would not allow their coronation stone to be brought to Arjryle by
th ! paltry colony of Dalrir.ds. The learned author of " Scotland under
her early Kings'' agrees with Col. Robi^rtson. According to Wintown
the coronation st^ne came from lona. Logan says " its history is carried
back to a period far beyond all authentic record." He considers it cer-
tain that it was once at the castle of Dunstaffnage in Argyle. H»! tells
us that ' it is of a dark color and appears like the kind of stone found
n 'ar Dundee."— Scottish Gael, 138.

There must at one time have been quite a number of coronation stones
in Scotland and Ireland. When a king or chief entered upon his gov-
ernment it was very natural to place him upon a .stone, so that his fol-
lowers could see him. The stone on which the Lords of the Isles were
crowned is still in existence. The stone on which the kings of Munster
wei'e crowned is also in existence ; it is somewhere near tht; Cathedral
of Cashel.

In his " Critical Dissertations," a work wh'ch Gibbon speaks of as
replete with erudition and criticism. Dr. McPherson informs us that,
according to the Irish annalists. " the coronation stone had a very ex-
traordinary virtue till after the birth of Christ; whenever an Irish
monarch was crowned on it. it made a strange noise and appeared in a
surprising agitation." This I have no doubt will be very interesting
i iformafeion to the Hinites.

7. " The ten tribes must have the emblems of the lion and the unicorn ;
Britain has these very emblems ; therefore the British are the ten tribes.
Numbers 21: 8-9; Deut. 33: 17."

If Numbers 24 : 8-9 and '^eut. 33 : 17 refer to national emblems it is
clear that our flag, in order to correspond with the emblems mentioned
in those passages, should have in it not only a lion and a unicorn but also
a bullock. Hine has seen this, and gives what his disciples consider a
very satisfactory reason for the absence of the bullock from the flag.
''Without straining," he says, "the finstling of his bullock, the ox being
sometimes applied to Israel, may fairly be said to emblemise the world-
famed power of John Bull !" But Hine has to give a reason not only for
the absence of the bullock, but also for the absence of a second horn on
the unicorn. A second horn on the unicorn ! Does not every Latin
scholar know the unicorn must be a one-horned beast ? Whatever the
literal meaning of the word unicorn may be, the beast referred to in Deut.
33: 17 had two horns. The word translated unicorns is Reem, and is in
the singular number. The person compared to the reem is Joseph ; the
horns of the reem a,rc " the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands
of Manasseh."

The Hinites should without any delay get the British Government to
put anoth'^r horn on the slender animal of our flag. It is also likely they
will have to change its shape. It is highly probable that the reem of
Moses was a species of wild ox. How any man can make himself believe
that Numbers 24 : 8-9 and Deut. 33 : 17 refer to national emblems, it is
difficult to comprehend. But man's capacity for being fooled is very
great. ^ . .

Th>l
II

the I
is
fia^
tor

nhol
ThI
of

wol
bor

i ; yu 9iMk t* J t»j,tie M tt* ^ -

'chI Proof Re-

Th« Irish he

to Ariryle by

cotland undor

tf> Wintown

tojy is cnrrifd

siders It cer-

'«• H(f tells

stone found

natfon stonos

upon his firnv-

that his Vol-

»« Isles Were

•^ of Munster

Ho Cathedral

ip<'alcs of as
o»s us that,

a very ex-
ej" an Irish
speared in a

interestinjr

the unicorn ;
e ten tribes.

iiblenis it is

mentioned
^rn but also

consider a
n the flag,
he ox being

the world-
not onir for
id horn on
^ery Latin
latever the
to in Deut.
. and is in
»seph; the
thousands

rnnient to
ikely they

reeni of
ilf believe
ems, it is i

is very

Probably T have said enough about the new intorprctation of |>ropliecy.
That it is imposition not expo.-iton is evident.

Hinisni almost seems tA> hv a judLtment upon people for tin ir neglect oi'
tlie Old Testament. Many pernons ntivir read it at family worHhip. Thi!«
is wrong; the whole Bible should he read. Even in the pulpit it is to l>e
ftared that the Old Testauient does not receive its proper share of atten-
tion. Some ministers taki' almost all their t^'xts from the New Testament.

The existence of Hineism and other absurdities in the church clearly
shows th ! necessity of exponndiug the Bible more i'uily than is done.
Thi re is too much pr.'achiig from texts. The great revival in the day»
of Ezra resultid from rending and tX]ilainiiig the word of (tod.

I would advise jiersoMs of a limited education and a light purse, who
would like *o understand the prophets, to prr-cure and study the following
books: — Edwards' History of lledi'mption. The Portab' ■ (Nmimentary.
by Jamieson. Brown aiul Faushct. Barnes on Revelation, and the Bible
JVictionary, issued by the American Tract Sneiety. Edwards' History ol
Redemption is the best church history ever written. It throws a vast
amount of light on the Old Testam 'nt. It costs only 80 cents. The
Portable Commentary is evangelical, reliable and cheap. It is on the
Old and New Testaments. It co.-ts $4.00. Barnes on Revelation is a
capital work and should be bought along w th the Portable Commentary.
It costs about 90 cents. The American Tract Society's Bible Dictionary
can be got for about 81.50.

Now Hinitcs, look here ! Use ynur trashy pamphlets for kitidling the
fire ; they will give you more light hi that way than in any other. Get
good useful books and study them. Look for Christ and His Church in
the prophets and not for Victoria and the British Isles.

A.M.

V.
THE ORIGIN OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND PROTESTANTS.

If a man were to come to you and say, I have the philosopher's stone,
prove that I have not, you would laugh at him as a simpleton. If he had
it and wished you to believe that he had it, he ought surely not merely to
assert that he had it but to show to you by converting iron into gold be-
fore your eyes that he had it. When the apostles went forth among the
(lentiles they did not say. our religion is from heaven, prove that it is not ;
what they said was, our religion is from heaven, listen and we will show
you that it is. Now if the Hinitcs expect to get rational followers, in-
stead of asking the world to prove that their theory is false, they should
ij;o to work and prove that it is true. This of course they try to do; they go
to prophecy. history, ethnology, and philology for proofs. Their views of
the origin of the people of the north of Ireland I shall consider in this
letter. ^ s*^ *

The Hinites affirm that we have " ample evidence " that the tribe of
l>an settled in the north of Ireland about the time of the Assyrian cap
tivity, that is about 721 B. C.

It is not mentioned in any historical work, ancient or modern, that the
tribe of Dan settled in Ireland. How then did Mr, Hine come to know

-T"

tlu-y did ? The Tuatlia d«^ Dunatin hehuy>. Hpoke Hibri'W, and inu(«t hnvn
bi;t>ii ["ra'litttsnf'tim tribe uf Dati. The Tuatba doDaiuiiDi are not ineiitMin-
ed by *iiy llibrew, Greek or Uoiiiaii writer ; our tir.«'t acenuut oftlieiii in
fi'.nii lri>h fabuliHtw. Sir Jauiet* Ware, one of the most learned nnticjua-
riaMH that Irehuid lias produced, admits that it was 8t. Futriek that in
trodueed the kaowb^dge ol* lott rs among the lr>h. Non- as 8t. Patriek
did not land in Ireland till the year 41(1 after Christ, it follows that there
can be no Irish history of an earlier date than that yi-ar. The truth is
that there is no Irish history in existenee written before the tenth cen.
tury. Ti^hcarnaeli and Marianus Scotus may be coiHidired as tln' fcnind
ers of the school of Iritih annalists ; ohe first of these ditd in the year
1088, and the latter in the yicir 108G. But even if the history of Ireland
had boin written as early as the days of Ht. Patri(-k. it wcnild be utterly
iaipossible to give an aceount of things which had ha])pened at as early
a period as the time of the Assyrian captivity. It would puzzle our best
Canadian historians to jiiv«; an account of the loves and wars and expedi-
tious of the Indians in feliis country not only 1 IS^y.ars ago, but even 400
years a^o. How then could we expect an Iri.«h annalist writing in St.
Patrick's day, and having neither books nor inoiiuineNts to help him to
write an authentic history ol Ireland from his own time back to the days
of Jeremiah? D'Arcy MeGee in his very interesting " Popular History

ol' Ireland " ,«peaksof " what the old bards and story-tellers have handed
down concerning il.e hisitory of Ireland before it became Christian,*' that

is before St. Patrick's day, as •' wild and uncertain traditions of which wo
have neither doeunii-iitary nor umiiumental evidence." It is gross igno-
rance, not only of the history of Ireland but of general hi^tory, that would
lead any one to suppose that» we have reliable information about what
took place in Ireland 721 B, C. We have not even the slighti'st evidence
that the existence of Ii eland was at that period known t(» the civilized
world.

It is a sure thing that Hebrew was not spoken in Ireland in St. Pa-
trick's day. How Mr. Hine knows that it was spoken there 1152 ytars
before his day, it is difficult to say.

. It may be useful to give a briet sketch of the history of Ireland ac-
cording to the historians upon whom Mr. Hiue relies for his facts. Ire-
land then, according to t'lese historians, was uninhabited until the year
2025 B. C. In that year, and on 14th of May, Partholan, a wicked
Greek who had murdered his father and motlur, landed on the coast of
Munster. He had with him 1,000 soldiers and some women. His race
was wholly cut oflF by pestilence 300 years after his arrival. Nemedius,
also a Greek, and the eleventh in descent from Noah, arrived about
thirty years after the descendants of Partholan bad perished. His pos-
terity Were greatly troubled by African pirates, and had to leave the
country. Under the guidance of Simon Breac. or speckled Simon, they
steered for Greece. The next settlers of Ireland were the Firbolgs. They
were from Greece and wore th.; descendants of Simon Breac.

The Firbolgs were displaced by the Tuatha do Danann. They too
were Greeks. They went, however, from Greece to Denmark, where they
lived for some time. From Denmark they came to Scotland, and from
Scotland to Ireland. They landed in Ireland some time before the days
of 31oses. They were great necromancers. They could que 11 storms.

»ndinijstluiv«
""t ni(!iit,oh.
"t '»f'tli(.|j, i^

|'«'ti luitiqmi-
•■'t^k tliaf JM

;w.s tjittt there
'J^'ic truth is
toiitli c,n-
'l'^ til.' fouiirl
'II thir year
'7 "f Ireland
il bo utterly
«t as early
zzle our bt>t
Hiitl t'xpedi-
>"t even 400
't'"K in St.
'<•'!> him to
t'> the dayn
J»r History
'»ve handed
'•^I'an," that
>f which we
grosw ignn-
that would
ibout what
St ev'dence
t' civil izfcj

'n St. Pa-
152 yiars

reJand ac-

icts. Ire-

the year

a wicked

coast of

Hi(s race
J^>-medius,
^d about
His pos-
i^ave the
rtn, they
rs. They

hey too
ere they
id from
he days
ftornjs,

cure dlHtuHeH,nn(l font«ll ew 't«; they cnuld aUo rcftore t*) life ihoHi who
had t'alleti in battle, utid brin^ them into the tield the next day. They
were miglity warriorK. They slew 10(1, OOO of the Firbol;j;K in one battle.
They carried a woiidi iful statue with tluni from Denmark ; it wan called
Hn/in'l, or the KU^tne of destiny. ''^Iiey used it to crown tlieir kingw upon it.
The Gael wer- the* fifth ami la.»t colonist of Iiejand. They were descend-
ed Irom (jiitlielus. the son of ii king of Scythiu by Scotaa daughter of
Pharoiih. This (Juthelus Mas a very great parsonage. He lived in Egypt
in the time ol' Moses, and was on very intimate terms with the great pro-
phet and legislator of the Jews. His descendants went from Egypt to
Spain and lived in tftat country fur (juite a time. From Spain under
Hiber and Heremon, two sons of King MilcHius, they went to Ireland in
the year liJOO B. C. They con(juered the Tuatlia de Danann <|uite easily
in spite of all their knowledge of the black art.

The fabulous liisUiry of Ireland, or according to Hine, the true history,
way be found viry fully in Dr. Keating's History of Ireland. McCiee
gives a very brief sketch of it.

From the account of the settlement of Ireland which I have just giv. n
it will b' seen that ther.; is a slight chronological difficulty in making the
Tuatha de Danann the tribe of Dan. The Tuatha de Danann arrived in
Ireland in theyeai l.SOO B. C, whilst the tribe of Dan had not left Jmlea
till the year 721 B. C I btilieve, however, that the Hiuites never allow
dates to stand in their way ; they brush thim aside like cobwebs.

The word tuatli in Irish uieans people: tuatha or tuathan being the
nominative plura' ; the word de means of; and the word dananu may
mean Dane-IslaiiQ ; thus it is probable that the words Tuatha de Danann
literally mean, the peoples or hordes of Daneland. Whatever Danann
means it cannot mean simply J)aii ; the latter half of the word ann, must
have .some meaning. What then does ann nieau ? It may unquestionably
be the same as inn; for it is a rule in Irish orthography that a broad vowel
in one syllable mu.st be followed by a broad vowel in the next, and a small
vowel foUowed by a small vowel. The broad vowels are u, o, u, ; the
small e, i. And what does inn mean ? It i.s a contraction for innis, an
island or grazing ground. Erin, properly Eirinn means lar-Innis, west-
island. That Danann means Dane-island is probable however not only on
etymological grounds, but from the fact that the Irish Bards always repre-
sent the Tuatha de Danann as coming from Denmark. It may of course
be said that Denmark is not an island. It may not be exactly an island ;
but it was far more likely that an ancient Irish Bard would speak of it as
an island than that a modern D. D. would say that Tuatha de Danann
means the tribe of Dan.

The people of the North of Ireland area mixed race, being descended
from the original Cc^ltic inhabitants of the country, and the Scottish and
English colonists who crossed over to Ireland in the reign of James I.
They have good blood in their veins, but it is not Hebrew blood. A. M.

VI.

THE CANAANITES.

1. The Cells of Ireland, Mr. Hine tells us, are Canaanites. He proves

thin tn liis nwii siiti>>riicti(iii t'nmi |»rophf<!y, phllolo;;)'. and history, — tliroo
(hiii^-^ of wliirli III- knows notliiiivr.

iJiii.-V |)rii|ili('tii' proot ol tilt; (!aiiuaiiiti.Hh <)i'i};in of tliu Irish is this:
•'The ^yiiiiu;iMiU!s wcn' to ho ihonis to tUv Isnirliti's, the Insh Po'iians
ui'(! jhoiiisto ih.' Kiiulish; thiTiit'ori! tlic Irish, t'-ipc*- ally the Fi'iiiims unr
CaiiaaiiiU's." It .-n'ciiis to in ■ tliat tiicrc an- voiiif Wrak points in this
iii'UUunnL III the iii>t, phicc it takos lor ;.M'uiitt'(l thattlit; iJnnaaniti^s
wtti'o to h(> thorns hi the sidos oi'tlu' I-^ia.-ht.'s, not only in •luih-a, but in
otluT eomltrll^H ; and al o tlitit tin- Kn^xlish arc Isniclites. In tlu! seoontl
piatM it proves too innrji, I'-imiu; tin; sainti spccirs of ra^oninf;, we may
Hay, the (Jaiiiiaiiitcrt wert- to Ix; tliorns to tin- IsmcHf'H; tho Iinlians are
thorns to th • Vatik.-i's. Isra -lites of th^ trihe of Manasseli ; therv'toio the
Inuians cspi-ciaily Sittin;; Hull and his braves, are Canaanites.

L.'t us now look at llin>''s pliilolo,t;ical and historieal proot'it of the
Canaanitish oriuin of tlie Irish.

Tlie Irish and tlie Piitciiician alphab;'t he says eonsist of the Hame nuiii-
her of lett-rs. namely sixt.vti. Any person who will take; thtt trouble of
look inii' into O'lliiilly's Irish Knj^lish Dictionary will tind that there are
seventtMUi letters in the Irish alphabet, namely, n.h, «•, (/, «, /', g, i, /, m,u,
I). i> V. s. t. II. II is not admitted to the dijjjnity of a letter; it i.s used
only as an aspiratt^ The I'lKcnician like the Hebrew alphabet consists
of twenty-two lett.-rs, not ot' sixteen. I'rtd'. Whitney of Yale Collej^e, an
eminent pli Unionist, in his very valuable work, '' Lau,iiuai;e and the
Study id' Lanjj;uame," says: •' Tlie Piioenieian alphabet was a .system of
twenty-two siiins, all of them posseHsln^• consonantal value. It wai^ strict-
ly and exclusively a phonetitr syst m. It received from the Greeks its
dual perfection, To the Onek alphabet the early Celtic modes of writing
trace their oriiiin, mainly thr(»ULrh the Latin." Page 4(52.

No doubt some Irish fabulists assert that N.al, the father of the great
Oathelus, •' by the assistance of two excell-'iit scdiolars invented the He-
brew, (irreek, Latin and Irish alphab. ts." The same fabulists also tell us
that Ireland was distinguished for its schools and coUegeio ages before St.
Patrick was b«;rn. That Irish monks who were good scholars and
had nothing to do should write I'ablcis is not to be wondered at, but that
men of st^ise should believe the.we fables to be historical facts is something
astonishing. If the Iri.sh had litters and a written literature before the
days of St. Patrick, how comes it that the Irish words for books, pens,
reading, writing, and ktt< rs are all lA' Latin origin.

The Iri.sh language we are gravely told is " identical with the Phciiii-
cian." All scholars know that the Phoenician and the Hebrew, though
different dialects, may be rei^arded as the same languag". Augustine,
who lived among the t^hffluicans of Carthage says : — " The Hebrew and
the Phuniican languages d:fffr ve-y little from one another." Whitney
says, '' The Phconicians spol^c a dialect oo nearly akin with the Hebrew
that its scanty remains are n^ad with no great d.fficulty by the aid of that
language." Page 295,, Now no sane man who can speak the Celtic lan-
guage and spell his willpbhrough thi' Hebrew Bible w.ll say that the Irish
and the Hebrew are identical ; the former belongs to the Indo-European
family of languages; t|»je latter to the Semitic family. A man may be a
good Hebrew scholar, and not be able to read one word of Irish.

Hine's historic proo|'.of the identity of the IriHh with the Canaanites

<'onf|

tlie

It >|

prol

is al
real

thii

inal
" tf

pal

SSIm

In story. —til roe i

f'lNh In thiM ;

Iirsii F...„H„„
''ViiiiitiH am

"•ii'fs in tliis
'<' ♦-''ftiiiiariih'H
"''«'ii, but ill

111 tlh! Mfoond

"'";r. wo may
^"•iinriN are
H!i\;f()io l\^^.

roof's of the

'•' >*JiiUf num.

'•' trouble of

't thuro are

' 9] *. f, m, n,

■; 't is used

b«t conNiHt.*

<^'<>jle^'e, iin

•.^e and the

^ system of

t wu(!striet-
^ (jcecks its
'« of writin<r

•f the great
■d the He-

also teJl us
^ before St.
ii)]ars aud
but that

«ouiethin^'

before the

oki«

penw,

>e Phcaiii-
S thou;;h
^",iin.<tine,
brew and
Whitney
' Hebrew
d of that
•^itio lun-
the Irish
'uropean
^ay be a

Jaanites

•^

pii<.

f^ionoii'tK merely in thi- I'ollewiny aHuertinn : — '* Theroean he no doubt that
Uie Iri^li are (.'aiiaauitiH ; their own hihtory and lep-iids fairly prove thif."
It i(* a uveat pity tluit Iliiicdid not euniirM'i'iid to name the hir^tory whleh
f)roV(',H thi;* thettry. I liope it is iiotu .-tury-book.

iliiie ill trying to prove tin- ('aiiuituitish orijiiii of the Iris-h takt.'s for
^rar^ted that (lie (,'aiiaaiiiteH and the lMia«nieiaiis were the same people. It
iri almost ei'rtain that they Ui ri' not the saine people. We liavi; every
reason to b licve that tin- l*liu'iiieiaiis Were a Siiiitie raer ; whilst we know
(hat the ('ariaanit.'s were descended from Ham. Aeetirdingto IlerodotuM
the l*ii(i?iiieans earn IVom the INivian (Julf. I'rof. Rawliiison stoutly
maintains that the C'aiiaanites and the lMi(LMiieuus were two distiiiet raees,
" the lorui T b^'iiiLT the ori:;inal inliahitant-t of the country, and the latter
beinj; em ;rrants ata enm|iaratively recent date." Herodotus vol. IV.
11M>. Ori^iiii <tl Nat.ons, pa;;e 1!>!).

That the Irish an; ('.'Its is an un<|Uistionable fact. That the Celts of
Britain and Ir land eami^ from (Jaid all rational historians admit. That
Ireland was peopled notdireetly from (iaul but from Scotland cannot very
well be doubt "(I. A Karned rri-hman, |)r. (.) Brieii, Bishop of Cloy ne
8avH, — *' Mr. liliuyd j>ives yood ;;round to think that the first Celts who
caim; to Ireland arrived there, not immediately from (laul, but ratluT
after remainin;; for SOUK' tract of time in the ;:,reater British isle." Gibb(»u
in his own way of puttinji things sa}s, — •• It is probabh; that in some re-
mote period of anticjuity. the ftirtih; j)lains of Ulster received a colony of
hungry Scots." Vol. II. page r>(i4.

The Irish would have no reason to be ashamed of a PhtEnieiun origin ;
neither would they have any cause to be j roud of an Isra<.'litish origin
Morally the I*h(Bni<;ians were not mticii inf'rior to the ten tribes, especi-
ally at the time ol' their captivity ; inttlUctually they were at least e<jual
to them. Let the Irish rest satisfie(i with being what they are, chiefly
Celts, de.scendauts neither ofShem nor of Ham, butol"Japheth. The Irish
Celts were a noble ract!, distinguished both for their harning and their
bravery. Any nation might be proud of the battle of Clontarf.

" Ixit Krin rtmieniber tiaj days of old,
V.rvi lier faitlilosw sons betrayed bor ;
When Muhiehi wore the collar of gold »

Wliieli he won from the proud invader;
When her kinjiK with standard of green unfurled
Led the Red Hranch Kiiiirhts to danger:
Ere the emerald gem of the western world
Was set in tiie crown of a stranyror."

2. It is well known that the Irish and the Elighlanders are of the same
stock. They speak the .<ame languaire, and call themselves by the same
name, Gael. If then the Irish are Canaan ites the Highlanders must also
beCanaanites.

Highlanders attention ! Lit me speak a few words to those of you who
have an itching after Hinism.

My dear friends, what do you mean ? Hiae does not say that you are
Israelites; he looks upon you as wicked worthless Canaauitcs who are
fit for nothing but to be trampled upon. J)o you believe you are what he
thinks ? If 80, go and be slaves to your lawiul masters. It is a pity you
would not see yourselves as others see you. You cut a very ridiculous
fig-ire as you go hopping about, slapping your hands, ad straining your

^Cits, wb<,ther born in /k i . " ^^^^ that all fJnl ^r ^'"'^ ^'ood
i^n. or Tui,bucto '",f'%^o^;Jands of Scotland .t'^^""^ ""^ ^''^ »••«

.^laeiaurin, and CtJT\^"^ ^ivi„.«tone were P u"*^ T*-^ ^elts.
^'ii were Cel*« T ^''*''^*'*^ ^^re Ccltfl m ^'''^'- •^o^d Owen

y ^>^h, O'ConnelJ and Mo«^""*"^"-^ '^'^ Celts A.!, c"'' t '"''' ^elt?.
^^'ieeon.::t;:!'p ^^r oftbei)o,^t^^;^h^
>Jackenzi., the leader of rh '' '' * P"''''^ Celt. hI .hi ^'^.^"' ^'«»«g«r
;;ord Lome. youn^Mac clil r^P^''"'""' ••^ al^o a C t T^^ ^^^^^"^-•-

" Triumphant h«*K . «'«nd fcj joui-

AVhere Fingal Bt^ZlS^.tf^'^''* hilh it' grow.

" «"<! I a„, ,.„!„„ J "" f "K to make . r-fg^^J*" ?'f,S"in« to Lte

'-' - J'oo.lU', trough lli' J^-J-- I quest o„, hotver^^^f^.l^r*'

AM.*

VIl.
^^£ WtSLSH.

- '^'' "^^ay 'Dto Assyria • *I, ^ ""'^^^

"^^la, they escaped to

''^^^ Ganaanit^..
..yo" ashamed of

't ''f."'-y. The
»•" A«,a. LonL.

'■'a"<i, and En<r.
l« have ,,ver ^^;.

'doina and made
'* 'twasnotbe-

ere better disci-
|ch common jg^^

»• CoJin Cau5i)-
' f«-^ »f p. ace

f C.Jt.c bJood
,' a"d 0'8 are
JofCapeBre-
* f^e CeJt8.
John Owen,
'lomas Camn-
^W'^re Celts.
Jamea Mack-
I'^a'-dof'Sir
•mi^i^ianager ;
w, Alexander
'«^ too that
>' this great

ivB up jour
"^ fcjjouj.

''g spruce
y to make
answered
^' Mt the
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A.M.

ritain and Ireland in ships. Is. 66 : 19. Obadiah, 14th verso. The
irlbe of Dan settled in the north of Iniland, tuid the tribe of Sinioon on ,
|he west coast of Scotland. The S.UKOiiites not likinjr Scoila'id continucdJ^;
"Inigrating towards the South, and finallv Kttl( d in Walis. Th»- Wehh"
people are pure Israelites."

If assertions were proofs Hine and his followtrs would prove aiiythinj;.

There is not the slightest foundation for the ."supposition that the V/elsh

are of an Israelitish origin ; it is indeed certain that they are not.

i The Bible tells us that Siiahnaneser '• carried Israel away into Assy-

|i'ia." ft !s not stated that any tribe escaped. The 66th chapter of

Jl.saiah refers to things which were to happen, not at the time of the di-

Istruction of the Kingdom of the ten tribes, but after the return of tha

'iJews from Babylon. Surely the HmiteswiU nt>t affirm thatby Tarshish.

Pul and Lud, and Tubul and Jav.in we are to understand Ireland and

; Wales. Obadiah who probably lived in the time of the Babyhtnian ca{»-

♦ t vity denounces the Edomites for opposinu the escape of the house of

Judah, not for opposing the escape of members of the Kingdom of the t(;n

tribes. 12th. 18th, and 14th verses.

We have no account in any history extant of the arrival of a colony of
Israelites in Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales, either before or since the
Christian era. The traditions of the Welsh do not in any way connect
tluni with the ten tribes.

It will be admitted by sober-minded men and Hinites alike that the an-
cestors of the present inhabitants of Wales were in Britain nineteen hun-
dred years ago. Julius Caesar who landed in Britain 55 years B. C.
found the whole country thickly settled. His words are, — ' There is a
countless multitude of persons in Britain." Tacitus who wroU; his life of
Agricola about ninety years after Christ informs us that the Britons of
Wales were divided into two tribes; the Silures who iiihabited South
Wales and the Ordovices who inhabited North Wales. At the time of the
Saxon invasion multitudes of Britons from all parts of Enuland flocked
into Wales. The Welsh bravely maintained their independence against
the whole power of England until the time of Edward I. They were con-
quered in the year 1282, thirty-two years before the battle of Bannock-
burn.

That the people who lived in Wales in the days of Caesar were of the
sauje race with the people who lived in other parts of south Britain can-
not be denied. They all spoke the same language, believed the same .super-
stitrions, and observed the same sacred rites.

But from what country did the Britons come ? Did they come from
the opposite coast of Gitul, or did they come from Judea ? It would be
natuioil to suppose that they came from Gaul. History, ethnology, and
philology prove that they casne from Gaul. Cae-ar in his account of Bri-
tain say- — " The buildings of the Britons are almost similar to those of
the Gauls. The Britons do not think it lawful to taste the hare, the hen, or
the goose. Of all the Britons the most civilized are tho.se who live in Kent,
they do not differ much in their manners from the Gauls. The greater
part oftho.se in the interior of the country do not sow, they live on milk
and flesh, and clothe themselves with skins. Almost all the Britons paint
themselves with woad. They havi; ions hair and do not shave their upper
lip." Csesar's Gallic War Book V : 12-14. Tacitus in his life of Agri-

cola Pays :— " It Is to h:- believed that the Gauls oocupit^d the neighbor-
injr British soil. You iSnd auioncj the Britons the sacred rites oi' the
Gauls. The langua,i>e of tho Gauls and Britons differs very little."
Chapter llth. Druidisrn which pr.ivailed in Gaul and Britain proves that
the people of the two countries were of the .«anie race. The Welsh look
upon themselves as descendants f.r the ancient Britons, and believe that
their forefathers came from Gual.

It is well known that tlie Celts of Gaul were not Israelites. H:ne him-
self will not say that they wen;. The Jews arc descimdants of Shem ;
the Celt«« accordinj; to Josophus are de>c^ndant-! of GonnT. the son of Ja-
phet. How the Celts of Wales cm hi Israrelites, the Celts of Ireland
Canaanites, and the Celts of France some other race, it is very difficult
to conceive. Of course the Hinites do not trv to understand and reconcile
things; their motto U B Hove, It is certainly our duty to believe thinirs
upon <iOod authority whiither we understand them or not. but it cannot
surely be our duty to believe upon the assertion of uninformed enthusiasts
eith<*r thin<:s which contradict known facts or thinijs which cannot be
shown to be based upon facts.

The Celts in their migrations from Western A-^ia to Western Europe
b'came dividend into two ureat branches ; the Gael and the Cyniry. The
Gael represented by the H'ghlandersand Irish, were the fii-r.t to enter Bri-
tain ; the Cymrij, represented by the Welsh followed them The Cymry
ari no doubt the ^aine people as the Cimmerians — Rawlinson's Herodotus,
Vol. Ill, page 150. But the Cimmerians were a powerful nation in
Europe in the days of Homer. He speaks of them at the beg'nning of
the eleventh book of his Odyssey. He represents them as living so far
west that the sun never reached them. But Hom.'r lived at least eight
hundred and fifty years before Christ or more than one hundred years be-
fore the tribes had been carried away into captivity in Assyria. If then
the Welsh people arc Cimmerians, they cannot be Israelites. A .M.

VIII.
TIfE ORIGIN OF THE SAXONS.

The chief plank in the theory of the Hinites is that the Anglo-Saxons
were the lineal descendants of the tribes which had bi^en carried away
captives into As.syria. Their arguments in support of this view may be
thus summed up: — (1) " The second race of people that settled in Eu-
rope was the Scythian, the Celtic being the first. The Scythians were first
heard of in Asia in the region of the river Araxes. The Saxons were a
Scythian tribe. They are the same people as the Saca ', Sakai.i iacas-sani,
or Saka-Suna. Now as it was to the Araxes the ten tribes had been car-
ried away, it is plain that they are the Sacae of profane history. The
very word Saxon which is the same as Sacae means Isaac's son. (2) The
Saxons, Sacae, or Scythians made their first appearance in Media in the
region of the Araxes at the exact period of the Assyrian captivity. This
Wvj learn from Homer and Herodotus. (8) Media was not the cradle, or
original country of the Scythians, Sacae, or Saxons. They came from
some other country, of course the ten tribes came from Palestine."

With regard to the time at which the Anglo-Saxons or the ten tribes

tribes

left Asia fbr the British Isles, Hine writes as followa : — " In the days ot
Christ our foref'athe.'s were occupying the north-west of Asia, and on the
point of making their way into Europe. The apostles found them located
in Cappadocia, Galatia, Pamphylia, Lydia, Bithynia, Mysia, Achaia,
Thessaly, Macedonia, and lUyricum. In obedience to the couiniand in
Matt. 10 : 5 the apostles after the day of Pentecost labored among them.
Josephus testifies that in his day they were still beyond the Euphrates.
The cause of their being so long in the region of Media was that tliey
were waiting for redemption from the Mosaic law. The apostles found
them with their synagogues and clinging to the institutions cf Moses. In
order that they might lose their identity, Paul c*,ommauded them to give
up circumcision and genealogical distinctions. 1 Cor. 7 : 19. Titus 3 : 9.
The Epistle to the Galatians, the two Epistles of Peter, the Epistle to
the Hebrews, and the Epistle of James were all written to the ten tribes."

Let as now examine Hine's statements respecting the origin of the
Anglo-Saxons. Is his theory based upon facts ? Is it a pure supposition ?
Or is it in direct opposition to well-known facts ? What is there really in
it?

I admit that tihe Celts and Scythians both had their origin in Western
Asia. If they are descended from Noah they must have come fro^i tiiat
quarter.

The ten tribes were carried away for rebellion as captives into Assyria
in the year 721 B. C. They were placed in small batches here and there
throughout the Assyrian Empire. 2 Kings 17 : 6 and 18 : 11. 1 Chron.
5 : 26. The Books of Kings were probably written by Jeremiah, and
cannot be <of an earlier date than the time of the Babylonian captivity,
6G6 B. C. The Books of Chronicles it is generally believtd were com-
piled by Ezra. But whoever compiled them they cannot be of an earlier
date than 536 B. C, the year in which Cyrus issued his decree for re-
building the temple stt Jerusalem. Now we know when the books of Kings
and Chronicles were written that the ten tribes were captives in the very
places to which the Kings of Assyria had brou<>htthem. 2 Kings 17 : 23,
1 Chron. 5 : 26. We know i'u.ther that when Josephus wrote his antiqui-
ties, 93 years after Christ, they were still in Assyria, The words of thi
great Jewish historian are, — ^' There are bui. two tribes in Asia and Eu-
rope subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphra-
tes till now, and are an immense multitude and not to be estimated by
numbers," Antiq. 11:2,

No man who knew what he was writing about would quote Homer in
proof of the idoatity of the Scythians and the ten tribes. The great bard
was in his grave over one hundred years b. fore the Assyrian captivity,

Herodotus who finished his history about the year 430 B. C. gives a
very full account of the Scythiaas. They were in his day a powerful na-
tion occupying the region of the country between the Danube and the
Don, A vast horde of thom under their King Madyeshad passeo out of
Europe into Asia Minor in the year 638 B. C. They defeat<!d the Medes
in battle, and remained in their country plundering and oppressing for
twenty-eight years. They were overcome by Cyaxerxes in the year 610

B. C. and compelled to return to their own country. In th<! year 514 B.

C. Darius with a large army invaded Scythia.

When now we compare the facts stated by the writers of Kings and

.26

B vck S 'a ? Or how could tluy ol f ^^^ ^^

'an,;, at the present |^a.v J^ Herodetus ™y^ t threonnfy of .

„c^.., .1 Kent, tne *;"»;, „„,,i, „f the H»"'»'7,..;™,,,,„, „an,e to

Vlor-.' inviul'd *^'»;-il'>"^'- He nays that

.„4t.„rsh-,„,ei H ttha ov.n ' . -' ^^ . ^efnan tnbe .^^„„,

ir the Angle. .■«eb.)0d ^^.^ ^^^^^ ^ to *>o xe *. d^_^.^^ .^. ^^_^_^,
•^"•■"'•'"r" T-,An^ \vrote hisGerumna •» A. ^U ^^ ^ S,„,m„ova«t

• :r(i;tia;;:tbentbey.evt.w>^

h ;;u;t,«hentheya.nved. -op^^^ ^,^,^^ ^^^

fe.-t that the Germans. P'^..'^,™^ ,„.„ and women alike aic .„"0t
litei-atnre. '5f';'"'f.'"^'"i},,,.„iauia 19. ,. ,„ Tl,ev cott'.d read

Tlu- Hinitc*' "J * T ....<.Vt.-; who passed throupu ^' ,. ;v,„ airman?,,
from Tacitus down to lidwaid 11,

That intelli^ont luuii who rv.&d, or ought to read history, can pcrmailo
thuiiiselvcs that tlicy were Israelites is one of the inystciries of the auc.

The Gr.'riiiaus, the Jute.s, Saxons and Angles included, had been tnr a
long time in western Europe even in the days of Julius Cajsar. Tlli^• is
t!vido!it from the account given of them bnth by Civssar and Tacitus.

Saxons, Saxons, don't be a-hamed of Geruiany. Reniembir it is the
land of Luther, Kepler, Goetlu;, Kant, Ilichter, Von Moltke, and Bis-
ujark. A. M.

IX.
THE NORMANS; WHO WERE THEYf

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lert to
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jg Afere,.
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Urnian!»,'
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\stor;anr»

It is firmly b. liev.d by tlie Hinites that the Normans w^ho invaded
Knglaud under William tiie C't)ni)Utn'or were the tribe of Benjamin.

Hine has written h vast amount of nonsense about the tribe of Benja-
min ; stuff which no intelligent man can believe. His account of it is
substantially as follows: — "Benjamin is a tribe of Israel, one of the ten,
«nd not a tribe of the Kingdom of Judah. It was not one tribe out of
the twelve that was promised to Rehoboam, but one tribe out of the ten
which belonged to Israel. There were not ten tribes under Jeroboam,
nor in the Kingdom of I.-rael at ;;ny t'tne. There were only seven tribes
carried away into Assyria; the trihos of Dan and Simeon escaped to
Irt;land and Wales, and t!ie tribe of B 'njaniin remained with Judah.
The mission ol the one tribe of Israel given to Ilehoboam was to be a
light before (rod. 1 Kings, 11: 3(). Thet ibe of Benjamin were a light
by preaching the gospel. All the Disciples of Christ, exc :,/t Judas were
of tnis tribe. It was on the tribe of Benjamin that the Holy Spirit was
poured out on the day of Pentecost. Joel's proj)hecy (|Uoted by Peter in
the second chapter of Acts had no reference at all to the Jews. It is a very
grave mistake to speak of tiie followers of Christ as Jivvs. There was
not one peison of the! house of Judah among his Disciples. The whole
tribe of Benjamin embraced the ciiristiun religion. The B'lijamites all
escaped from JerUsah-m sometime betore its destruct'on by Titus. Their
escape was predicted by Jeremiah. Jer. (> : 1. That they escaped we
learn from Josephus, Having got away from Jerusalem they went by
Kca to Italy and thence by land to Normandy in France. From Nor-
mandy they crossed over to England under William the Contiiieror. The
men who routed the Saxons at the b;ittl<' of Ha:*tings were not Normans,
but positively Israelites of the trbe of Benjamin."

The above statements takiii from Hmes' ' Flashes ot Light" are among
the most ridiculous ever penned outside of a lunatic nsylum.

When we consider the Jihvs merely "as descendants ol' Jacob the trib.;
of -Levi is to be counted as one of the twelve ; when, however, we consider
them as landowners, taxpayers and warriors we are m^t to regard it as
one of the twelve. The twelve tribes that owned the land were the tr ibes
of Reuben, Simeon, Judah, I-suohar. Z.'bulon, Eplira'n. Maiiasseh,
Benjamin, Dan, Asher, Gad, and Napthali. Numbers 1: 1—47; Joshua
14:1 — 5. The Bible distinctly says that " the children of Joseph W( re
two tribes, Manass. h and Ephralm." The children ..f L vi receivid no
inh.ritance ; they were not numbered among the twelve tribes ; they were

wholly given up to the Lord iustead of the first-born ; they were the reli-
gious teachers of the people. Numbers 1 : 47—50, 8 : 6— 2&, 18 : 1—23,
26 : 52—62. Peut. 10 : 8—9, 18 : 1—2. Josh. 21 : 1—42. When the
division of the Kingdom of Israel took place the children of Levi were
not counted as belonging either to Jeroboam or Rehoboam. They wer»
scattered over both Kingdoms.

Benjamin was never one of the ten tribes. The Benjamites alwayn
followed the house of Judah. The one tribe given to Rehoborm could
not possibly be one of the ten tribes given to Jeroboam ; it must ivebeen
one of the twelve tribes that formed the Kingdom of Solomon. When
Abijah met Jeroboam he rent his new garment into twelve pieces and told
him to take ten of the twelve, at the same time assuring him that God
would give him ten tribes of the twelve tribes of Israel. Of the remain-
ing two tribes Rehoboam was to have one. With respect to the other
tribe God might give it either to Jeroboam or to Rehoboam as he saw
proper ; He gave it to Rehoboam. 1 Kings 11 : 11 — 39. The one tribe
specially promised to Rehoboam was the tribe of Judah, not the tribe of
Benjamin. This is evident from 1 Kings 12: 16 — 20. When the divi-
sion took place the tribe of Benjamin cast in its lot with the house of
Judah. 1 Kings 12: 21. * is outrageous to affirm that there were not
ten tribes under Jeroboam. God always fulfils bis promises, and the
promise to Jeroboam was, '* I will give ten tribes to thee," Josephus
says that Grod promised Rehoboam " one tribe with that which was next
to it" and Jeroboam tn tribes. He also says that the t;ibe of Judah
and that of Bi-njamin ordained Rehoboam King, but that the rest of the
people appoint jd Jeroboam to be their king. Antiquities 8:7:8 and 8 :
8 : 3.

Hiiies interpretation of 1 Kings 11 : 36 is intensely ridiculous. The
tribe referred to is the tribe of Judah. The thing promised is that
David's descendants would continue to rule in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 15 :
4. 2 Kings 8 : 19. 2 Chron. 21 : 7.

We have no proof that the Apostles were all of the tribe of Benjamin
except Judas ; it is probable that they belonged to diflFerent tribes. There
is no ground for supposing that no members of the tribe of Judah em-
braced the gospel. The Jews of the tribe of Judah were no worse than
the Jews of the tribe of Benjamin. If the Saviour wept over Jerusalem,
prayed for those who were putting Him to death, died for His enemies,
and commanded His Disciples to preach the gospel in Jerusalem, what
right have the Hinites to say that He would not pour out his Spirit upon
men who belonged to the tribe of Judah ? The descendants of Levi were
especially bitter in their oppositino to Christ, yet we find that
Barnabas who was one of them was a good man and full of the Holy
Ghost and of faith. Acts 4 : 36 artd 11 : 24. It is not on account of our
goodness or innocence that we are saved, but because God is infinitely
merciful. The men of Judah were in every respect better than the men
of Israel. They maintained the true worship of God among them until
the Messiah came.

The Hinites represent themselves as the only enlightened christians in
the world. " We are the men," is their everlasting song, "we are the
men and wisdom shall die with us." It is strange if they are the clear-
headed and pure-hearted christians they regard themselves that they have

not a little more respect for the word of God than they have. It is wrong,
they say, to speak of the firHt christians as Jews ; they were not Jews at
all, they were Israelites. They were Israelites, I admit, descendants of
Jacob, but they were also Jews. The Bible speaks of them as Jews.
John 11 : 45 and 12:11. Acts 14 : 1, 17 : 1-4, 18 : 2 and 24, 22 : 3.
Gal. 2: 11-16. The Hinites may go on raving about the distinction
between the Jews and the Israelites, but those who believe the New
Testament will still be of opinion that the Saviour and his Apostles re-
garded all the Israelites in their day as Jews.

That ** Joel does not prophesy of the Jews at all" is a very daring
assumption. The truth is that Joel's prophesies from beginTiin>> to end
have reference to the Jews. Joel 2 : 1, 23, 32 and 3:1. Pettr umiues-
tionably thought Joel prophesied respecting the Jews ; if not s-onio o\' his
statements are very strange. Lp'.. us look at his sermon on thi? day of
Pentecost. He begins by addressing the men of Judoa and all tluit
dwelt in Jerusalem. He tells them that what they witnessed was tiie
thing spoken of by the prophet Joel. He calls them men of Israel and
charges them with having crucified the Saviour. He urges thtui t(» rt-
pent and be baptized and promises them the gift of the Holy Ghost. If
Peter was b- Hinite is it not strange that he regarded the cxpressioiis
" men of Judaea" and *'men of Israel" as synonymous? Is it not also
strange that he charged the men of Israel with crucifying the Saviour ?
Acts 2: 22— '23i, 3: 12 — 16. We are informed that some of the vtry
meo whom Peter charged with having killed the Prince of Life wern
saved. Acts 2 : 4\ How then can it be maintained that no Jews wire
converted on the uay of Pentecost ?

How the Hinites have found out that the whole tribe of Benjamin em-
braced the christian religion it is impossible to conceive. The only rational
supposition is that they are wholly indebted to their imagination for their
facts.

There is no such prediction in Jeremiah as that the tribe of Benjamin
would escape from Jerusalem at the time of the Roman seige. The re-
ference in Jer. 6 : 1 is to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.
The prophet had good reasons for calling upon the children of Benjamin
to escape out of Jerusalem. Probably one half of the people in Jerusalem
belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. B sides Jeremiah had been brought
up among the Benjamites.

We are nowhere told that the tribe of Benjamin escaped from Jerusalem
at the time of the Roman seige. Had such a thing happened Josephus
would certainly have mentioned it. The Benjamites fought like brave
men, and suffered precisely the same fate with the Judahites. Eusebius
tells us that the Christians escaped tro"a Jerusalem. He says they fled
to Pella at the northern extremitv of Perea. He did not know however
that they went to Italy. It was Hine that found that out.

The assertion that the Normans came from Palestine by way of Italy
ana France is directly in the teeth of well-known historical facts. The
Germany of the Romans included, not only the country at present called
by that name, but also Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The Germans
and Scandinavians were originally the same people. The roving tribes
in Norway formed themselves into a kingdom in A. D. 870 under Harold,
the Fair-haired. The Norwegians, Swedes and Danes were known at

that tinu! ill thu civiliiiod portions of Europe an Normans or Nortlimen,
A band of Normans, under Rollo, a young Norwegian chief, iettled in
Knuic ! about the year 898. They named the phico in which iliey st tiled
Normandy, They were all Pagans, They intermarried with the original
Otitic iiitiabitants, and embraced the Christian religion. Thoy learned
to sp(!ak the Fri!iicli language ; their children had no knowledge of Scan-
d navian. Their d(!scendants. partly of Scandinavian or German origin
and party of Celtic origin, were a v.Ty active race of mun. In 10G6
1 1 iv cro*s!l over into England unil>ir Wdliam the Conqueror and de-
viated the Saxons at the battle of Hastings,

VVt! now s,',e that the Normans, in.stead of being I.sraelitea, were descen-
dants of those wlimn CfBsar and Tacitus called Germans. Authentic
history trae !S their origin, not tn i\ peopl^ who lived beyond the Euphra-
t !s ill oiic (lays Josephus, but to a people who were at that time chasing
wild beasts in the forests of iScandinavia, or learning to paddle canoes.

A. M.

MISCELLANEOL'S MA TTERS.

1 . Hine makes the following astounding statements respecting the looks
of the Jews : — " The ten tribes never bore the features of the present
»I !vvs. Until the time of the Roman .seige the people of Judah and Israel
Were the same in appearance. It was owing to the sin of crucifying the
Saviour that the physical type of the Jews underwent a change. This is
clear from Isaiali IJ : 9. It is more than probable that the Israelites, the
ten tribes, have retaincid to this day their original cast of countenance,"

The statement in Isaiah 3 : 9, *' The show of their countenance doth
witness against them." simply means that the look of the proud and
haughty among the Jews would cornvspond to their inner character. That
no change has come over the physical app.*arance of the Jews is certain
from th: fact that the Jews of the tribe of Judah and Levi which go ped-
, dliiig up and down thr>)u<j.h the country have the very looks of the Jews
who liVv'd in the time of IVlo-;es, as is evident from ancient Egyptian and
A-^syrlan monuments. If the ten tribes have retained to this day their
or g'nal cast of countenance, and if they are the English people, it must
follow that the English look like the Israelites of the Egypti n monu-
ment-:. Tlie English, however, do not resemble the Israelites of the monu-
ments; t nui«t be then that they are not Israelites, or else that a great
change has come ov.-r their looks. As, however, the present Jews resem-
bh; the Jews or I>raelite.s of the monument-*, Hine's theory of a change in
the " ';)ks of the Jews since the destruction of Jeru-ialem mast be a fiction.

2. Soni:^ ignoramus has told Hine that the English language is derived
from the Hebrew and the Sanskrit.

The languages of the world may be divided into several classes. The
two most important classes are the Indo-Kuroptan and the Semitic. The
Indo-European class inclndi^s tlie languages of Iridia, the Persian, the
Gre, k. the Latin, the Slavonic, the Gjr nanic and the Celtic. The Sans-
krit is one of the languages of India. The English, so far as structure is
cone roed, is the f*arae as the old Saxon, and ia a Germanic dialect. Tl.e

\e
le

lis
lie

Sanskrit, liowovor, cannot bo spoken of as the ninthor of the ricnnat'ifi
family oi' lanjjuuu:es ; it is only its sister. Tiio Hebrew lii'lonirs tn tlit;
Semitic family of lungua<ies. and is wiiolly unlike English.

3. Hine asserts that the i'act tliat many surnames of Hebrew orij;iii are
found in Kni^land <;o.!s for to prove that the E-ii;Ush are Israelites.

If Mr. Him- will show that Hebrew names were (luite eouimon amonji
the Saxons before they became acquainted with the Bible I will admit
that there is some force in his ariiument. That there are fiimilies of Jtiw-
isli origin in En}i;land no one will deny. Hebrew names, however, are not
so common in Kni^hmd as Hine thinks. Al'xauder, Demetrius. St;'| hen.
Philip,, Peter and Timothy are Greek nanus. Claudius, Mareu-. :iii<l
Lilcius are Latin names.

4. Hine takes far 'granted that the pi-ople of Britain hav.' b eonie
thorouj^hly united and froiu this fupposition uv<^ues that the (\ Its. tlie
Danes, the Saxons, and the Normans mu^t nU V)e of the same rac •.

It i.s not a fact that the Irish, th<i Welsh, the Scotch, and tli • Ku;.;! h
have became thorouj^.dy blended into one. Even if it were a fact t wimld
not follow that th.y were Israelites. The C"Us, the llomans. th • Krauk-i,
and the Normally of Franco have b came a*^. hi) st as much unit d as th.,-
difttirent races of Britain, yet Hine will not admit that the Fr i eh are
Israelites. Ho thinks it would be a mo-st unchristain thinj; to allow the
Celts of France to have the same ble^-iiii;-i in this world that the Eiiilish
have. The amaljiamation argument, it is evidei\t, has no firee iu it.

5. The Hinites make a <ireat ado about weiirhts and mea^ums. Tiie
heathen, they say, had only a profane system invented by tin uiselve-;
whilst the Hebrews l;ad a saer 'd system, a .•^ystem liiven them from Hui-
VOD, The ark, the tabernacle in tlu^ wilderness and Solomon's temple
were all built according to the sacred measure. The Great Pyramid was
erected according to the same measure. The English inch, foot, ell. and
mile are the same as the .sacred Hebrew measures. The English quarter
is just a quartor of what the ark of the covenant would contain.

Whatever Hine and his faithful followers may imagine and as.sert. all
liistorians believe that the forefathers of the Saxons. Jutes, and Angles who
took possession of England were in Germany in the days of CiBsar. ami
that they were among tho-^e whom that historian calls Germans. Now
if the German tribes of Saxons. Jutes, and Angles were so intimately ac-
quainted with measures of distances as Mine's theory would lead us to
Huppose, is it not very strangi! that Caesar penned the following sentence, —
" The breadth of the Hercynian woods extends to a speedy journey of nine
days ; for it cannot be measured otherwise as the Germans do not know
measures of journeys." Do Bello Gallico ; Liber VI, chap. 25.

In a book to which almost every person has access, Collier's History of
the British Empire, we find it stated that in the reign of Henry I " a
standard of weights and measures was established, the ell being fixed at
the length of the King's aru)."' Strange that a king of the tribe of Ben-
jamin and a fine scholar should have meddled with the old sacred weights
and measures of the Saxons ! StrangiT still that the arm of such a pro-
fane meddler should be a sacred measure! King Henry's arm must have
been almost as wonderful an object as the <rreat pyramid itself.

Smith's Bible Dictionary, edted by Hackett. is the best work of its
kind in the English language. It was prepared by ."ome of the most

«niincnt scholars In Britain and (he United States. Now in thicr work, to
tho article on Weights and Measures, I find the following statoiaents : —
" The cubit, which may be regarded as the standard measure, was of vary*
ing length. It denotes in the ordinary sense of the term the distance be>-
tween the elbow and the extremity of the middle finger. Cubits were not
regarded in the light of sacred and profane."

■^Auy person who will look into Webster's Dictionary will find that the
EngliHh quarter is the quarter of a ton, or eight bushels of such good
heavy wheat as grew before Hine and the weevil came into existence.

But t must Htop. To be refuting Hine's vagaries seems like proving
that the moon is not made of green cheese. If any man thinks he is an
I>)raelite let him think so. Nebuchadnezzar believed he was an ox. — A. M.

XI.
THE EVILS OF HINISM.

A few of them I

There are various evils in connection with Hinism.
will point out.

1. H<nism is a huge falsehood, and belief in what is false as true is
necessarily injurious. The freer the mind is from error the better does

' it act.

2. Hinism tends to weaken the power of reasoning. It separates know-
ledge from faith. It asks you to believe without giving you any grounds
for believing. Its nature is thus to make men superstitious.

3. Hinism begets 8elfishness, pride, and vanity, It is ph'arisaism in a
modern dress. Its chief votaries look upon themselves as the special favor-
ites of Heaven. The Germans and the French they regard as miserable
Gentiles; the world they think was made for the Anglo-Saxons, especially
for those of them who are fortunate enough to know their origin.

4. Hinism tends to prevent missionary operations. Ohrist commanded
his apostles to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,
but the Hinites say it is absurd to preach the gospel to the Jews.

5. Hinism contradicts the teachings of the Bible respecting the outpour-
ing of the spirit. The Bible represents God as giving his spirit in his
mercy where and when He pleases. Hinism makes the outpouring of the
spirit dependent upon our acknowledging ourselves as the ten tribes.
Hine's words are, — " The promised outpouring upon Israel will be given
to us in England immediately upon our recognizing our identity. It is a
glory attached to the identity and can never be realized before."

0. Hinism misrepresents the object of the Saviour's coming into the
World. '* It was Christ's great mission," says Hine, to " redeem Israel.
He oame to redeem Israel, the ten tribes, but not Judah, the two tribes.
If he had oome for the latter he would have run counter to the prophets.
If the Jews of our day compose the whole twelve tribes, as Dr. Talbot
says; then would his mission have been a total failure, Hnoanie purpose-
ly for the ten tribes, and directed his apostles and disciples where to find
them, and Paul Went straight to them,"

The teachings of the Holy Spirit respecting the mission of Christ to the
world are very diflferent from those of Hine and his followers.

Jews in their blindness and pride believed that the special

That the
work of tha

In
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M. Hniiili \v«)\il(l lu- tn li. lu lit tin III. 1 tlo iidt^dt'iiy. Many (»!' tluui wrre
<|Uit.' us innoriiiit of till! iiiruiiiii;.' oj' tlir Hiblc iih tin; lliiiiti' U'utlcrh tliciii-
Hiilvcs, .\<!(<»r«liii!j; to the lii>J |trnclniiuitinn of tlic u<i.-|ul the Sdii (if Man
was to cdiiii! to tlicworhi to lniiisi! tlii' M.'r|i(iit'> lua<l. Acconliii^ tt> tin;
Saviour liiiiiMif l\v fauio to the world that wllo^ot'Vl!r I)«li(Vt!tli in iiiui
■•^liuiild not peri."!! l)Ut liavr (vt ihutiiiji lift'. Paul never tlniu^ilit that it
was to save the t ii ti'.ltcs (Miri't cainc. •• This is a luithfiil sa}'iii«r," lu;
^ays "and worthy <il alt arci jitation that Christ .Ji'.>-us cauio into world to
favf siiiiurs."

The s|itvial work of (Miri.-t on earth was neither to teaeh nor bestow
f<alvati(^ii, hilt to t;iVc hi> life a.-t a ransom, and hy his dtath to procure
^aivatioll for his people. •• Christ love<I the church and j:ave. iiiuiself for
it," not lor tlie t^ n tiihi.-.

The :;ieat cominiss <ui of Ciirist t(» his aportles was, not to preach tjic
linspel either to the ten or the two, or the twelve tr.bes, but to all men.
'' All powtr is };iveti unto me in Ileav* ii and in earth; u,o ye then fore and
t( aidi ail nations." Matt. liH : l!>. The apostles be;;an tlieir labors
in Jerusali III ; that wa> proper and in aeeordanee with the iiistruetions-
of their Master. Lii|^ :i4 : Ii7. For .-ome tiim- indeed, even beyond Ju
dia, in Piieiiiee. ('ypi'u». and Antioch the diSc. pies preached the word only
to the JiWs. Acts 11 : 11).

If us the Iliuites uia.ntain the <>reut and final commission ^iveii to tlic
apo>tles was ti> pr, aeh the gospel to the ten tribes, and if it shows ••ro.sH
i,u;iioraiic.' to speak of tin; ten tr bes as «Ji ws, bow does it ha[ipeii that the
inspired histor an oi' our ehurch always calls tlic( Israelites amonji' whom
theapostles and uth. r d seiples laln»red Ji ws ■•* Acts 1 1 : 15). i:{ : 5-43,
14: 1. 17; l-.'). 18 : 4, 1!«.2S. 2(1: 18-21. 28: 17-24. Would the Hin-
ites liave us bi lit ve that i^uke eommitti'd mistakes? Mine streiiuoui-ly
uiaintaiiis that the devout men who wire [iresent at Jk ru>aleiii on the day
of I'eiiticost wi;r(; the representatives of the tin tr.bes. Wi-re I to wpejik of
those devout men as Jews every lliiiite in the country would call me an
iuiiorant man who d.d not know the wonderfully imfiorlaiit distinction be
tween the Jews aud the I.-rael.tes. Ijiike calls them Jews. Acts 2 : 5.

7. Hiiiism jjjivesa <rros,sly incorrect view of the nature id' Clirist's Kjig-
dom. It represents it as to a ureat extent a worldly kingdom. It admit*
ofcour.se that Geruiaii and French Christian.s are luembers of it; yet it
does not uive theui the same privileges and blessings in it that it gives to
British Christians. As there is an aristocracy in the political kingdouiss
of the world, so there is in Chri.Tts' Kingdom on earth, in the gospel
church !

That the teachings of Hinisni respecting Chritst's kingdom are opposed
alike to the spirit of Christianity aud tiie express declarations of the Bible,
is quite clear. Indeed lliiiism has nothing of the .spirit of Christianity
about it. It is a revival of the olJ Jewish notion that the world wa.s made
for the childri'ii of Israel and tliat under tlu; reign of the Me.s.siah the
G^'Utlles would all bj slaves to them.

Christ's kingdom is wholly spiritual in its nature. It is not a kingdom of
worldly riches, or power, or emin nee. It is essentially diflPerenc from earth-
ly kingdoms. Matt. 13 : U-44. 22 : 21. John 18 : 'M. Rom. 14 : 17.

The terms of admission to C.irist's kingdom, faith and repentance, are
spiritual in their nature. Matt. 18 : 8. John 3 : 3-5. Acts 8 : 37-38. No

oiitviir.I tliinir« HiU'h as pn>r<>wion, p(!i'r»rm»iiioi! nf dutufH. or natural ih'-
Hf.'iit will M •cur.' admission to it. Matt. 5 : 2(>. 7:'J1. H')in, H : 20. 0:«),
(};iJ. r);(;. 1 l».t.r :{:2!.

Till' iiiuil(.«r.-t of ('liri>t's kitiv:'lnm an; spiritual nifii, pornons who Imvo
rociv.'d a utiw natun! tVoui tli>' Ilujy (Jli.Ht. Kpli. 2 : 1!>. I'liilip .*J : 2(».

('iiri>t's kiUi:<liMu is universal. It, knows no political distinctions. Its
iiuMnb>r.s are to Ix; found aiiioni; all nations and in all parts of the world.
Irt !>:((. Dan. 2:44.

Tiid 1)1 :ssin^s or(Miri>t's kiuAdcnn arc ptiri'ly npiritual. Tlicv an- sucli
a^ pardon, Mon-Irp, au<l liol n ss. Matt. 2:21. IJ:!!. 2 Cor. Kh 4.
Kph. 1: :{-8. (.'..I. : 1 i:j-14. Titus 2: 14.

All the in inibiT-! ofCMiri-t's kin;^doin (Mijoy tho H«nic riu;ht><, privile<^o^^
I ul bi fs.^inirs. (ill. :{: 27-2f). Kph. 2 : 1 1-22.

'' Nothiti^ i.s plain. 'r frun the tijachinj^s of stu'ipturo than that all bc;-
liovcrs arc ono body in ('lirist. that all an^ tho partakcTM of thf Holy
Spirit, j'.ud by virtu<' of their union with lliui an; joint and e(|ual partu-
k'Ts of tlu> b 'ut'tits of rt'dcinption ; that if there b" any difTiTonci' b tween
thnui, it i.s not in virtui' of national or soiual distinctions, but solely of
individi!al ebaraet 'r and devotion. As under the old dispensation prose-
lytes from the hc'athen were incorporated with the Jewish people, and ail
di.stinction Ix^twectn them and tho<e who wt'r>; Jew,- by birth was lost, so
it was under the j^n-ip.-l. (Jiintiles and Jews were united in undistiuf^uish-
ed and UJidistin^uish.;l)le membership in tli(( same church. It is as much
oppo.sed to the spirit of the j^o-pel that pre-cininencij in CMirist's kinj;dom
should be adjudged to any man or set of u»en on tho ;jjround of national
descent, as on tho ground of superior stature, physical strcujj;th, or wealth."
— Hod<;c'» Theolojry, vol. HI, pag- 811,

H, Hinism pirverts the meanlu'r of much of the Bible by its <rro.->,s literal-
ism. Many of the glorious promises which are made to the church, it re-
gards r.s prot;ii.ses to the natural seed of Abraham. Hine, in .«p"aking of
the phrase spiritual, ^says, — "Whenever Israel is referred to either in the
Old or the New Te. lament the reference is always to Israel as a nation-
ality, to the lineal descendants of Israel of old. It is non.sense to talk
about a spiritual Israel."

We are to look upon the children of Israel not merely as a j)eople but
as God's people, as his visible church. That this is the light in which wo
are co regard them is evident. They were Go! > chosen people ; so are
Chri.'^tians, Ex, 6:7, 19 : 5-6, Deut. 10 ;>. Eph. 1 : 4. They were
tho ransom(Ml of the Lord, so are Christians. They were a royal priest-
hood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; so are Christians. I Peter 2 : 9.
They were the professed worshippers of God, so are Christians. They
had the oracles of God, so have Christians. They had seals of the cove-
nant, so have Christians. They were witnesses for the true religion, so
are Christians. If the commonwealth of Israel was not God's visible
church, there was no visible church on earth before the day of Pentecost.
Stephen expressly calls it tho church. Acts 7 : 38.

The church under the New Testament is identical with the church un^
der the Old Testament ; it is not a different church but the very same
church. It is nowhere said that the Old Testament church was abolished
and a new one instituted in its place. The Saviour found a church on
earth when Ho came. He removed what was typical of Himself in it, in-

1* t

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trndupcil sonic clianjios in tlio mode of adininii-tcriiiiir its iiff.iirf, iiicnnf-cd
itH sp.ritiiiiLtv, tiixl «>iiliii|rid its |ii'iviiip«>. I*-!! ali loKtold timt tlio
Mrssiiili, iiist ail i)t'(i«>!>tiii)'iii;^ the cliurcli wliicli He would iiiid oiMartli,
wntiM stmi^tlicii and miarp' it l),v l)riii}^iii<; tlu' (iciitiits into it. Is. 40:
i:{-2:5, tl(h 1-14. Paul npn.siiits tlu' cliurfli uudi f tli ■ Old Tistauunt
<Iis|i(iiHatioii as uii olivi- ti'tc into wliicli iIk' <ii>ntih's had h/cu ;:raH(d.
Rom. 11 : 17-24. lli' speaks ot' tli«; K|>lic'siuiis as alicus iVom tlio i-om-
inonwt altli (d l>rai'l. )>. t'oi'i' tlicir coiiw rsioii ; liut as uhimI)) is ot that
commotiwi all.li, " tclluw (rit 2'iis with tht> saints," alttr tlicir

conviTsion.

B. liid' in Christ had hrniiuht th ni into tin- " housrhold orCiiid," th*; old
housidiold of which Ahrahmu, Momcs and David wtre nuuih. r. . Kph. 2;
11-I!».

Th<! promise whleh (Jod uiadi' to Ahraham that he nhonld !*i' tli<! lather
of a numerous oH'-priuji' ineludid two thinjjs. It implitd in th', lii.-t place
that his literal th ^c ndints throu^;h Isniic -hould be Vi rv nuincrtius. It
iniplird. in th- si eond |'hie>'. that his spiritual oft'-prin<;. that is. those who
like him windd trust in tiiod. would he atlea~t as numerous as his natural
ofl'-prini:'. His natural ehildr. n were a tjpv- of his .spiritual children.
Fairbairn's Typolojfy, vol, I.4!>H. The chit f reference in the promise wa.s
t(t the latti^r. Aet-":{ : 25-2(1, Rom. 4 : 11-17, 5>: (i-H ; (Jal, .'i : 8-21>.
'• It is impossible that the covenant oi' Abraham, Isaac, aod Jacob, — tho
ot)Vunant t>f urace and blesslnu winch embraces in its bosom Christ himsilf
and the benefits »d" hisetevmil rtthmptinn, — couM ever havt; ctmtcnipla-
ttid as its real membi'rs any but spiritual and ri;^htcous per-ons.'" Typology,

vol. I. ani;.

Ah tlu'ii thochihlnn of Israel constituted the church of God in Old
Testament times, as the church has in all au;es born one and the .sunc
church, and as the children of Abraham to whom the prtuniscs in tln-ir
comjilete fulfilment b loiiutd were his spir.tual children, or believer.'^, it
follttw.s that if we are Christians, whether wo be of Jcwi.sh or (lentilc
ori^:;in, wc can appropriate as our own all the pronriscs oi' protictioii,
support, and spirituid hles^inns t vrr madv; to Gtid's people. Weshtiuld bo
thanklul that Ilinism i> a lie. Wire it true we could not find the iulncs.>j
of consolatitm in (jod\s word which wc now find. Uulcs.s wt; could jjrovo
that we are Israelites there are many of the exceedingly great and precious
promises of the old Testament which we could not claim i"* ours.

As all Christians are Abraham'.s children, it does not neces.«arily follow
that the Jews will be restored to their own land The prophecies which
speak of theii restoration may all find their fulfilment in the extension
and prosperity of the Christian church. The literal interpretation of
some of those prophecies seems very unnatural. Is. Gti : 20-23. Zeuh.
.14 : 1()-21. Ezok. 37 : 24. The New Testament makes uo reference to
their return.

There never has been and never will boa pure church on earth. Among
till Israelites of old there were carnal Israelites and spiritual Israelites as
anioiiii, Christians there are nominal Christians and real Christians. Na-
thaiad was a spiritual Israelite, or as thti Saviour said, an Israelite in-
d.' I, a man whose heart corresponded with his outward professions. He
y ot a Jt^w, says Paul, which is one outwardly ; but he is a Jew which is
(. ,: ; iwardly. Rom. 2:28-29.

[: vUUDOt be a wrong or impropjr thing to speak of Christians as true

I-<ra 'lltos, or T-jraaliti^s indor'd, 'vlu'ti in tho won! of Ood. wi; find b-lL'Vcrs
called Ab.ahaDi's seed. Oal. 8 : 29 ; [sra itcs, ():il. (5 : It). Kpli. 2 : 12--1J) ;
coin'rs to Mount Zion. Hijb. 12 : 22 ; clt z 'ms of tli;; hoavorilv Jfrnsak'Hi.
Gii. 4: 211; a royal priesthood,! PitiU* 2: !) ; th ; i;in;u iicjision, Pnilip. H :
:!. Col. 2:11; alid ovoii Jews, R -v. 2 : I).

The jjivat uiistakiM)f the ILnites is in rei^ardiiiu' ail the promises of*
tlie Old Te-itan».!iit as made to Israel after the flesh. They forget that
it is tliroui^h Christ \V(! receive all blessinus, and that those whom (^od
really promises to bless ar; C.irist's p 'ople. The kin^drnn which h.vs
colonies all ov.T the world, which in superior to all other kini? loms. and
which can never bee )n(jiiered is not Victoria's Ivintjdom but Chri.st's kini>-
doni, (f'td'.s churci! on tnirth,

!>. H.nis'.n tends to b 'jiet fal-<e ho))es of salvation. It is <juite a coui-
uion thin<j to hear younj;' Hinites say, — would it not be nice to be an
Israelite ? If we were ordy sure that we ar Israelites we would be sunt
that we would go to heaven. The Scribos and J*iiari.«ees were a .'^te}) in
advanci', of those who speak in this way; they were sure that they
were Israelites, th.-y knew that they were deKiCin'^ints of Jacob. They
were therefore (juite confider)t with ruspL'Ct to their salvation. It was thisir
firm belief tlia^ becau.se they had Abraham's blood in their veitis they
would be with Abraham forever.

It is not Abrahau) who holds the keys of Heaven. How did he get to
H aveu him.»<elf ? Not by works, but by faith. Rom. 4 : 1-5. Heb. 11 :
8-19, The people wh'fl came outof Eaypt under Moses were all Abrahaui's
children after the flesh, but were they all saved? Heb. 3 : 7--1!). The
Piuirisees and Saducees who canie to John to be baptized could say, we
have Abraham for our father ; but could they be saved without repentance ?
Matt. 3: 7--12. Nicodemus was a master of Israel, but could he enter
the kingdom of Heaven without being born again ? John 3 • 3. The
people among whom the vSaviour labored when on earth were Israelites,
but are they all with Him to day ? Matt. 8 : 11-12. 11 . 20--24. The
Israelites who shall be saved are not those who are Abraham's children
according to the flesh, but those who like Abraham have given themselves
up to God through Christ. Rom, 4 : 11-16. Gal. 3: 7. " He that be-
lieveth on the Son hath everlasting life ; and he that believeth not the Son
•shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." John 3 : 3*).

Hinein his " Flashes of Light," which really are splashes of darkness,
has 9n article on everlasting punishment. In t'lat article he expressly
teaches the blasphemous d(>ctrine that although God threatens to cast the
impenitent into hell, He may not carry out his threats. Lest it should
be denied that Hine teaches such a doctrine I will quote his very words : —
" Let us not be found catching at thoughts antagonistic to the scriptures*
by saying there cannot be eternal punishments, when God declares so
plainly that there can. Let us rather hope that though pronounced they
may not be inflicted, and leave the matter with our Father ; for surely wo
have the precedoiit, that though the curses were pronounced against Israel,
yet though dreadfully disobedient they have not shared them. Eternui
wret.'-hedness may bo literally carried out in the case of sinners ; yet it may
n( V hinding on the part of God to carry it out. He can do his own will
in the matter and withhold the fire, as He did the curses from Israel."

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piotaiit' history alike. The curses in IKut. 28th chaptir, were not pro-
iionnircd aji^a list eitlior the ton trihos or tlie two tribes, but against thu
chddr.'U oi'I-^rufl as one p('Oj)h'. That tlje eurses came upon the tribtss of
thiu hou-ie of Israel as well as upon the tr.biis of the house of Judah, it is
imp )ssible to d iiy. Conijian; IKnt. 28 : 23. Jil), a'ld 57 with 1 Kings 17:
r-7. 2 Kin-s 1 7 : (J and 2 Kings (i ; 28-2!>.

What A', r (irod threatens against the wieked He will do. To tlmsr who
live and die in a state of in<peii,teney Clirist will certainly .-ay (»n the la^t
day, '• depart from nie ye cursed into evtrlasting fire pri'j)ared lor the devii
and his angel>." <ir(hl eannot iK'iiy hinj-tlf. n A. M.

XII.

AS EXUOII'IWTIOX TO THE IIIXITES.

My dear Uinites, you think it very wickt;<l for peoph^ to hiu^h at yi'ur
tlieory. IVojde laugh at it biuanse tliey know it is one of the gr. at.•^t
follies of the agi'. There is at lea-<t as inueh ground for b lieving that
Esther Cox could get an evil spirit to write down bad Knglisl: i«ii the wall
for her. as thert; is for b lieving that the Saxons are Israelites. Have you
ever ston (Miarles Maekay's 'H. story of Extraordinary Pojjular |)<iu-
sions?" If not, get it. It will show you what a gullible animal man is,
and may lead you to think. You b^Leve yoii have truth on your side !
So did tht! wise men who laboured to d.seover the philo.sopher's stone.
So did the learned judges who eondeinned silly old women to death for
<leprjvii:g their neighbour';- cows of milk by the power of witchcraft. It
<loes not follow that a man is on the right track because he thinks he is.

Look at your leaders ; what are they / Do you consider Edward Hine
<jualiiied to enlighten the world ? He may be an honest man. I have
nothing to say against his character. Even il" he were a very bad man
his theory might bi; right. He may have good natural talents ; I take
for granted that he h<: '. But he is not an educated man. He has re-
ceived no theological training. He knows n ither Greek nor Hebrew, —
languages which a commentator would require to know. He is far from
being well read in history ; he shows great ignorance of it. He has not
a well-balanced mind ; lie jumps at conclusions without any ground for
them. Indeed his writings look very much like the ravings of a fanatic.
Do you regard Dr. Wild as a Uian of power ? He is anything but that.
He is just one of those men who lay hold at once of new-fangled notions,
and defend them without ever examining the foundations upon which they
cost. Cati you feel proud of those who writt; in the newspapers in defence
of your theory ? They have given in their writings at least as many
proofs that they belong to the ancient Uandarians of Herodotus as they
have that they belona: to the ten tribes. You ought to know that.

The men who are best qualified t^e ,(Udge of the merits of your theory
condemn it as an out-ageous absurdity. Our ministers and priests, with
scarcely an exception, are against you. Of course you will say that they
are against you because they wish to keep the world in darkness. As
there was a Judas aujong the apostles, so there may be wicked men among
our clergyujen. Can you, however, believe that all the clergymen in the

Dominion, except perhaps half a doztn, an; mm who from selfish pur-
poses wish to keep th(i world in darkness ? All the Jtiwish rabbis are

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None of them ever aavaneeU your theory. All our com-
mentators, from Orijrcn to Lanj^e, are againt^t yon. All historians are
against you. The truth is, tliere is no one of any consujnonce with yqu.
I know that Hine cares nothing ibr the views of 1 arned men. From the
top of the gnat pyramid he looks down upon them all with contempt.
lie does not hisitate to call Prof. Rawlinson a simpleton. Rawlinson a
B mpleton ! II the view held by S.r William Hamilton respecting the
diffusion of the mind throuiih the whole bojy bo correct, there can he no
doubt that tinrc is more mind in Prof. Rawiinson's little finger than in the
whole of Hine and all the men who try to write up his theory. You will
no doubt tell me that there are .some gr. at astronomers who beliiVe your
doctrines. Surely you know that a man may b ; a good astrononuir and
yt't be entirely ignorant of the Bibk' and ancieiit history. The moon, of
course, may have had something to do with bringing your theory into ex-
istence ; still, astronomy cannot be of the leaet ui^e to you in proving its
correctness,

I Admit that Bishop Titcomb, and a lew others who believe that the
British nation are the ten tribes, are respcctiihle men, and men of some
cnltrtre. Not one of them, however, can be looked upon as an authority
either i:) B.blical or historical subjt ets.

If your theory is not founded upon facts it is very unreasonable for you
to believe in it. If it is founded upon facts you sliould produce them,
(let your leaders at once t) make known to the public tho books which
contain the account of the emigration of the tr be of Dan to Ireland, and
also the books which state that the Normans came straight from Palestine
to Italy and thence to Norriiandy,

Those who do not belong to your sect tliink that there are contradic-
tions and ab-urdities in your theory. Things which seem clear to you as
daylight do not aeem so to ignorant Gentdes. If the people of the North
of Ireland were pious Israelites in the days of Jeremiah, how did it hap-
pen that when the first christian teachers went among them they had no
vestige of Jewish rites ? Does it not seem strange even to yourselves
that the Angles, who were Jews or Christians when they left Asia in the
days of the apostles, were worshippers of Hertha at as early a period
thereafter as the time of Tacitus ? If the Normans were all good chris-
tians and men of education when they left Jerusalem, in the year 70 A.C.,
how came they to be savage eaters of horse-flesh and worshippers of the
gods of Scandinavia when they arrived in France? If the apostles were
commissioned to preach only to the ten tribes, why did James writ^ a
letti r to "the twelve tribes ?'' How can you reconcile Paul's statement that,
the "twelve tribes were instantly serving God day and night" in his time,
with the well-known fact tiiat the Welsh and the Irish, two of the twelve
tribes according to your theory, were, at tin; very moment in which the
apostle was speaking, gross idolaters ? Acts 2G : 7. You have no ground
for believing that the ten tribes exist as a distinct nation at the present
day. There is no promise in th;; whole Bible that they would be preserved
as a separate people. Hosea li: (J — 7.

What became of the ten tribes? you ask me. It mak^s no difference
to you or me what became of them. A groat number of th(!m no doubt

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wholly apostatizc'd and became mixed up amonu; the Assyrian?. Thiy
were wed to their idols when carried away, tliey were dispiTsed here and
there over a larjre extent of country, and they were of the sami' race with
their captors. Those of them who had souk' sparks of religion associated
with t!ie two tribes and united with tliem durinji; the period of the Baby-
lonian captivity. Common adversity made the stick of Ephraim and tlie
stick jf Judah <me. Ezek. 37 : IG— 22. A few of the ti)n tribe-, it is
very probable, wended their way back to the land of their for^ futliLT,-.

The "jreat bulk of the twi-lve tribL's :\:niained in Babylon and w>r.!
known as the Di-jptrsinn. They looked, however, upon J.rualem a^
their ecclesiastical capital, and contr.butjd towards the maintrnaiicj of
the services of the temple.

That the Children of Israel forgot tlieir old quarrels and b;Ciimjoni( in
Bivbylou we can scarcely doubt. They would all have reason to r joicj in
the elevation of Daniel, Mordeeai, and Estlur. "The schism wh ch hdd
divided the first kinujdom was foi rottjn in th ; result-! of the mn-ral cal-
amity. The dispersion iiiclud -d t'.i" twiilvo tribes." — Sm'th's B bl'.' 1) c-
tionary, Vol, I., page608. * The keniul of I-rael yielded thetusi he- t(t
the "ttempts at approach on the part of Judah, attached themselves t<t
h' r, and ranged themselves under her.' — Lan_<re's Eziikicl, pa;:e 8. "The
idea that the ten tribes still exist somnvhere in tha world and are to bj
restored to their tribal Stat.!, ha-! aris 'ti from a misconstructioi of thov
i ,c 'hecies vvifich refer to a return from Babylon." — Henderson on Z cli.
i . i3.

Some of the ten tribes embraced the christian reli<rion in the first cen-
tury of our era. These, of course, would cease to be known as Israelites
or Jews; they would call themselves christians. Tlnty would not, as our
new Israelites do, glory in the flesh. There are thousands and thousands
of the descendants of the ten tribes at this very day throughout the region
of the ancient Assyrian empire.

That the ten tribes were be3'ond the Euphrates, t^hat it is to the East of
it in the year 93 A.C when Josephus wrote his "Antiquities of the Jews,"
you will all admit. Jerome, who lived a long time in the East, and was
the most learned man of his age, says in his commentary on Hosea, —
"Unto this day the ten tribes are subject unto the kings of the Pers'ins
nor has their captivity been loosed." Jerome was born in Dalmatia in
the year H31 A.C, and died in Bethlehem in the year 420, Benjamin of
Tudel . Spanish Jew who travelled in the East between 1160 A. C.
and 1 : '":'■ '' und an immense number of Jews in Persia, Speaking of the
Jew.-" ii; : ..t'-ain mountainous region, he says: "These Jews in the
mountaii. .e descendants of those who were originally led into captivity
by the King Shalmanescr. They speak the Syriac language, among them
are many excellent Talmudic scholars." The Rev, John H. Shedd, for
many years a missionary in Persia, has a sensible and .-cholarly article on
"The Remnants of the Twelve Tribes," in the Princeton Review for
April, 1878. In that article Mr, Shedd says : "I have had opportunity
to gather statistics on the ground, and to visit in person many of the
Jewish communities. We have East of the Tigris, in the regions where
the ten tribes were e(»lonized, an existing population exceeding in numbers
the multitude that returned to Jerusalem at the first proclamation of
Cyius, These numbers are still increased by the Jews living in Ass^ra

west of'tlie Tijirif. Tlu-y art- t-c n-miiiints of a lavtror p<»pul.if*<in. anil
luaiiv (iftlKMii doubtless me; liiuiil dt-sceudants ot'tlu; Sauiar.tan captivt's ;
such is their tradition, Tluy consider tlieiusolves a^ belonuinfr t) the tiu

tribes,"

In "Zi-cliariiih and liis prophecies/" the Batnpton hn-ture tor 1878, an
adniirabK' work by t\u' Hlv. C, H. H. Wright, 1 find tho toho\vin<> .-tate-
nu'nt respL'ctini: the ten tribes ;—

•Th»^ t'aneiful notions whiih every now and then are put forward by
w)Uie drcami-r who iinaj;incs that he hasdisi-overe«l thesni poi«cd U)>t tribes,
scarcely deserve niueli attention. Isolated bodies of ffcws or I,-rai'lite»
may no doubt from time to time be discovered in remote conntries. Sev-
eral interestint; works have been written on ^neh, as for instance the little^
work of Mr. F.nn on 'The orphan Colony of Jews in (!!hina.'" But thi-
recout attempt to trace the Anvilo-8axon racj to an Israeliti.^h osisiin,
whiCh has been nnule by some En};lish entlius'a>ts, tilled w.th national
pride on the one hand, and with an ignorant «'oiitinipt for u.iy other foru)
nf l;v^^lgelical chri^tanlty than that which they have seen and learned to
value in tli;ir own land, arises only front spir.tual pride and "lUst \m
tr. aUd w.tli c»)Mtempt, The theory ol" the identity of the Anj^lo-Saxon
race with the t,n or any of the tr>b s of I-ra> 1, is one which c(»uld only
b' propounded by mt n ignorant of history and philology, and ol' the I's-
Mtn« to bi- learned from tin; careful study of sncli departments. Such
theories are injur. ou"*. because tluy are oft-;ii readily embraced by a por-
tion ol' the unlearnt d mass ot the public, and they fretjuently cause otlierw
to entertain an und«seived contempt i'or that evangel. cal t achinj; which
is olten dear to tlu' adherents of >uch fanciful op.nion>',"' — Page 2H1.

Why are you so anxious to make out that you are desciUidaiit-; of Abra-
ham '!* Ev.n if you were I>ra'lit's, what would yo\ir gain b;? WouiJ
you be hi tt, r oif thar other clirist aiis ? Do y< u think the Alniighty
lovis unconv rtid Israelites • lore than He does unconverted Gentiles "r*
Jews and G. nt.les are all under Sin.- — Kcm. ;i : ',). Tribulation and an-
guish shall come u|,oii every >oul that doeth evii, ..f the Jew first and also
of the Geutile. — lloui, 2:9. Is God the God oi' the Jews only ? Is He
not also the God of the Gentiles? — Rom. 8 : 29. Do you suppcse that
salvation is oifered more sincerely and freely to the Israelites than it is to
(it'iiers? ''Him that cometh unto me I will in no wi.se cast out." Are
you of opinion that God has promised to convert all who can trace their
origin to the twelve tribet; ? You cannot put your finger upon such a
promise. You will not surely say that all Anglo-Saxons die christians.
Do you imagine that God loves rene wed Israelites more than he does re-
newed Gentiles? He loves all who are in Christ with the same infinite
and unchangeable love. Do you look upon believing Israelites as havini;
greater spiritual privileges and bl'jssings than believing G'ntiles? The
christians of C'^rinth were of Gentle origin, yet Paul says to them, —
'•Let no man glory m men. For all things are yours, whether Paul, or
Appollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or
things to come; all are yours ; and ye art; (yhristV;, and Christ is God's."
— 1 Cor. 3: 21 — 28. Ail christians are justified persons, sons of God,
heirs of God and jomt-hiirs with Ciirist Jesus. All who love God have
the glorious promise that all things shall work together for their good.
It cannot give much comfort to a person on his death-bed, if h'> be an

i,„pe„itentsi»nerthatth.r.i.l.raeim,h

of man will not a»lt anyone on the laat day » ™ " j ^^^ ;„.

all hi» follower, alike he w.ll say : ;C;'-; ^^iSioQ "I the woJld,"

a pl.anrn:^Jliowin« an empty bubblefeedjn^ He 1»

n:a-'rraxrh:Si/.t^^^^^^^

tre™^r:""S7yeT»^S:L^^^^ Htfe ehiM.n,
ye shall i.ot ent.r the Kingdom of Hoaven.
December Ut., 1879.

Robe

,>H ifcConndl, IMnter, Gmrdian Office, Inglis Street, Truro, N. S.