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Ii^-.l j-..li l»(>ll .{*»(>;{ t^tl »H JiTti''{* 5r//£' CREED OF THE IlIXITES. 4^ i^\ 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 I 5'8\^V 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- in to 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. 'UJ^,. _I-J ...i. \ 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, 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 2:D tlio liny of K'U) ilof i n.s tlie poopli' of Ut'lidboam, or tlii^ people of Jenrooani, TIcj nmile thciii the gracious proimsts which wo tind in the wiitinads 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. 1 think I have now shown that Hine's rules for interpreting prophecy art nf rat ■is .Si mm ■WMLi ' L" id Jo nes xtraord in- to tfuduh. H t(j<;t'th«)r or of any t'ftrrcd to tion with >loyod ill 0, 8 : 25, rtqucntly truth m itself in X press ion liouse of liouse of « Juduh. n triboH. Mosos it trael" in e NpeciuJ Judah, u-l" Hu ese bones is or not, mporary roui the y only a i^en is at ount of b-; po.-- ahtiiH of no ra.l- land. It oni the ilestine. Vpostles ' ) all the rom the IS death e Gen- 30 Were ference one Id ophocy arr really rules for n>i«interpretlnjr it. To those who stuily the wrft.ings of the prophets 1 would ffive the following direetions : — 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 !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- i I 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 to I wa sitg tut »>.■ thi J* li<4 PWI 1 a man of prophets 111 the ten nicd doc' Britain in of—' The n Is, xlil., )Id is that nit's can d places know. I is (hi/ Ks explain Kvcn the ' a place ia might )to Greek !;int, from tistlos fre- 'les t'hall Matthev 'ej'ositioii n in spired lie ixJand.'* of Gen- iiay iiad fatthew's I exactly 1 tribes, rxiii. 8," les, even ere is m* VGT, that e quotes )'n .scriH. thy seed th, give lid infer uarters tribes that the rely the south, 'oni the lagined he east ^ v: 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- 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 % I ' to ^ ■ 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. th{ plo in SBVL-ral d If. xlii. 6. translates it cal Qieaninp; He finds it in a nation in g a people ; ^ Britain is a ;ribes. Proof. is somewhat ts by other een called by Ln«!;lo-Saxons, bes as such ; day by the ave received t of the Lord. er way ; they ■e now called lerstand, not rding to the lother name 5. Is. 65 : 9, tish do not [s. 28: 11." no is a proof hnologically age to be a opinion of oots of no 1 never ontain the in the roots well known I Ij 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. t ♦ \ i l' 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 f filj H \ th . thi bi m 't^' of fch,. Brit- hf^ir prophetic It few more of them an- ord begins to it to the end it upon the from Babylon, Hptivity, and >ns we know rom Babjlon • Its moved to y best friends ngathering of God. Under forgotten his only a small dition. Gal. od no Chris- ties quote it B church is into it under icle because le Hebrews, mple. '■ ten tribes erses which of the Gen- inheritance le Bible was he way of I the Israel- n colonists; -28." ioiis among they were ^, — nations ^ day. A as a nation _ he Babylo- ' d without I f 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 . r b < < I i 1 ft |i!i ' ■ ) ( i 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 i SJrr:. m '^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 "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 laww 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! to I I I. 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. ^ . . 11 Th>l II the I is fia^ tor nhol ThI of wol bor by i ; yu 9iMk t* J t»j,tie M tt* ^ - T '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 17 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" f 18 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. T! m T »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, to 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 m \ thin tn liis nwii siiti>>riicti(iii t'nmi |»rophft, 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 11 is al real thii inal " tf be pal H. SSIm 21 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 writine Phcaiii- S thou;;h ^",iin.. Ori^iiii !). 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^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. " «"' this great ivB up jour "^ fcjjouj. ''g spruce y to make answered ^' Mt the '" as u ;e- A.M. 2S 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- 24 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 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"^'- 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, 27 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 they raivt :avs ^. lert to m t\u' ad n*» :aiit oV jg Afere,. Jrevmau!' Urnian!»,' rvcd the \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 it 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 29 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 80 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. X. 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>)uraelite.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 31 \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- 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. HJ |trnclniiuitinn of tlic u lua 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 -us cauio into world to favf siiiiurs." The s|itvial work of (Miri.-t on earth was neither to teaeh nor bestow f life a.-t a ransom, and hy his dtath to procure ^aivatioll for his people. •• Christ love. 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 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: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<, 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; 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 ,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 T ^ 11- d 85 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 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'. 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 36 I-- doni, (f'td'.s churci! on tnirth, !>. H.nis'.n tends to b 'jiet fal-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." God visited the Hebrew nation with all the curses pronounced against a ri o: P hi CO SC ar th on ;t, Tn iiffinn that He did not is to affirm wliat is contrary to Hacred and 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." 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 .-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 41 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.