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 ANGLO - ISRAEL : 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE BRITISH NATION 
 
 THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 
 
 By rev. W. H. POOLE. 
 
 And the reft||«iit of Jacob shall be 
 among the Genttfes iirthe midst of many 
 people as a lilon among the flocks of 
 sheep; Who, if he go through, both 
 treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, 
 and none can deliver."— J/tcaA v, 8. 
 
 ^' His glory is like the firstling of his 
 bullock, and his horns are like the Aotht 
 of Untcomf t with them he shall 
 push the people together to the ends of 
 tXit earth" — Deut. xxxiii, 17. 
 
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 «* There is a pnnciple which is a bar against all information, which i$ proof 
 agaiitst all ammient, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. 
 This principle is, contempt prior to examination."— />r. P^ley. 
 
 A greater than Paley ha* said ;— •• He that answereth a matter before he 
 heareth it, it is a folly, and a Shame unto \am."~Prov. xviii, 13. 
 
 
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 THE BRITISH NATION 
 
 THE 
 
 Lost Tribes of Lsrael. 
 
 By rev. W. H. POOLE. -^ '^ 
 
 " And the remnant of Jacob shall be 
 among the Gentiles in the midst of many 
 people as a liion among the flocks of 
 sheep; who, if he go through, both 
 treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, 
 and none can deliver," — Micnh v, 8. 
 
 j "His glory is like the firstling of his 
 bullock, and his horns are like the horns 
 of VnlCOms: with them he shall 
 push the people together to the ends of 
 the earth " — Deut. xxxiii, 17. 
 
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 ' ' There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof 
 against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. 
 This principle is, contempt prior to examination." — Dr. Paley. 
 
 A greater than Paley has said : — " He that answereth a matter before he 
 heareth it, it is a folly, and a shame unto him." — Prm'. xviii, 13. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 In presenting to my readers the results of my researches 
 on this interesting subject, I refer them to the writings of 
 Sharon Turner, John Wilson, William Carpenter, Edward 
 Hine, T. C. Balmer, E. W. Bird, Harrison Oxley, J. G. Shaw, 
 Revd. F. R. Glover, M.A., Dr. W. Holt Yates, Bishop Titcomb, 
 Major H. A. Tracey, R.A., Rev. Canon Brownrigg, Rev. B. W. 
 Saville, M.A., Rev. Dr. Potter, Rev. J. T. Gott.J.Dr. Latham. 
 Charles L. jBrace, Lieut. Col. Vallancey, L.L. D., Sir Walter 
 Elliott, K.C.S.I., Rev. H. Newton. B.A., Professor C. Piazzi 
 Smyth, F.R.S.S.I.E., Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Doc- 
 tor Brunnow, Astronomer Royal for Ireland, and a host of oth- 
 ers from whose writings I have made quotations. 
 
 W. H. Poole. 
 
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 ANGLO -ISRAEL. 
 
 There are several theories on record as to the locality where 
 we may most reasonably look for the lost tribes of Israel. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Wolf, in his journals, written between 1831 and 
 1834, says they are in China. 
 
 The Rev. J. Samuels, in a work entitled "The remnant 
 found," says, they are in the region )f the Caspian sea. 
 
 Dr. Grant was of the opinion that the Nestorians are the 
 lost ones. 
 
 Sir William Jones says the Afghans have a superior claim. 
 
 Mrs. Dixon says the Mexicans and the Peruvians are with- 
 out doubt the ten tribes of Israel. 
 
 Some say our North American Indians are the people we 
 are looking for, others say the Karens of India, or the Gipsies 
 of Southern Europe. 
 
 Dr. Claudius Buchanan was satisfied that the greater part 
 of the ten tribes are still to be found in the countries to which 
 hey were led captive. 
 
 Now, while we cheerfully acknowledge the undoubted ability 
 of those writers, and some of their theories are very plausible, 
 |we cannot accept their conclusions, because they all fail to 
 harmonize with the word of the Lord in reference to his ban- 
 ished ones. We repudiate all theories that are antagonistic to 
 the glorious promises of God to Israel. 
 
 In our inquiries after the ten tribes of Israel, known as the 
 lost tribes, we see them in Sacred history, with their brethren. 
 Under the government of sixteen judges and of three kings, 
 Saul, David, and Solomon. 
 
 After the death of Solomon the ten tribes revolted, and 
 formed a new kingdom under Jeroboam. After this revolt 
 there were two kingdoms separated the one from the other, and 
 were known as the kingdom of Judah, and the kingdom of 
 Israel. The severance was complete. 
 
THE JEWS. 
 
 The kingdom of Judah was governed by nineteen kings and 
 one queen, and existed as a nation during a period of 387 years, 
 when they were taken captive and carried away to Babylon, 
 where they remained for seventy years, their songs hushed to 
 silence, their harps upon the willows. 
 
 Those Jews, according to the word of the Lord were never 
 to be lost sight of, they were " to be known in all lands by the 
 shew of their countenance," Isa. iii, 9, i. e. by their expression. 
 
 There are to-day Russian Jews, Austrian Jews, Polish Jews, 
 Italian Jews, German Jews, English and American Jews, and 
 yet they are distinguishable at first sight, as separate and dis- 
 tinct from all others, and this, not from any choice of theirs, for 
 they cannot help it. This remarkable ethnic phenomenon is 
 a strong point in their history, for in the whole history of our 
 globe, no such fact exists among other people, for no race has 
 ever been dispersed among other people without losing their 
 national traits of character, and peculiar characteristics ; but 
 the Jews, though scattered throughout the habitable globe for 
 1800 years, still retain their ethnic identity, though they mingle 
 with every other nation they blend with none. 
 
 " Amazing race ! deprived of land and laws, 
 A general language, and a public cause ; 
 With a religion none can now obey, 
 With a reproach that none can take away : 
 A people still, whose common ties are gone. 
 Who, mixed with every race, are lest in none." 
 
 The Lord said of the Jews, they were "to be known as an 
 astonishment," " a desolation," " a reproach," " a by-word," 
 *' a hissir.g, and a curse." They were to be a people "scattered," 
 " meted out," " trodden down," and " peeled," they were to 
 drink the cup of sorrow to its dregs, to be a target for the 
 marksmen of the nations. 
 
 It is well known that these prophetic utterances have all 
 been fulfilled, and that the Jews are still among the nations, a 
 living proof of the truth of God's holy word. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott says, " Except, perhaps the flying fish, there 
 was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or in the waters, 
 who were the object of such unremitting^, general, and relent- 
 less persecution as the Jews." 
 
 THE LOST TRIBES. 
 
 The ten tribes, or the kingdom of Lsrael, had also nine- 
 teen kings, and they existed as a nation for 274 years. They 
 
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 were driven into captivity 133 years before the captivity of 
 Judah, and they have never returned. 
 
 In the Sacred Scriptures, 2 Kings xv ch., 29, and xvii ch., 6. 
 and in i Chron. v ch., 26, we are informed how Tiglath-pileser 
 and Shalmanezer took them captives and carried them away 
 to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to Gozan, cities of the Medes. 
 
 There is on an Kastern obelisk, an inscription of Sargon, 
 whose name, is found Isa. xx ch,, i, which reads, " Sargon, king 
 of Assyria came up against the city of Samaria and against 
 the tribes of Beth-Kymri, and carried captive into Assyria 
 27,280 families." 
 
 " So Israel was carried out oif their own land to Assyria unto 
 this day." 
 
 TWO NATIONS. 
 
 It must be remembered that these kingdoms had a separate 
 history, each entirely distinct from the other. The two-tribed 
 kingdom of Judah is not the ten-tribed kingdom of Israel. 
 The Jews are one people ; the lost tribes are another. ^ he 
 Jews, are, of course, of ^!rn;l, as a slip taken off from a tree 
 has an existence independent of the stock froin which it w-v^ 
 taken. The ten uibes are noi c'HH: jssed as Jews, nor are they 
 known as such. The term Israelite is a general term, includ- 
 ing the whole Hebrew race Every Jew is, of course, an Israel- 
 ite, but all Israelites are not Jews. All Scotchmen are Britons, 
 but all Britons are not Scoichmen. We often find such terms 
 as "the whole house of Israel," and "all Israel" applied to 
 them. 
 
 ISRAEL LOST. 
 
 The Word of God clearly intimates that Israel would lo.se 
 their identity, their land, their language, their religion and their 
 name, that they would be lost to themselves, and to other 
 nations lost. Deut. xxxii ch., 26, " I will scatter them into cor- 
 ners, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from 
 among men." Isa. viii ch., 17, " The Lord hideth his face from 
 the house of Jacob." Isa. xxviii ch., 1 1, He was not any more 
 to speak to them in the Hebrew tongue ; but "by another 
 tongue will I speak unto this people." They shall no more 
 be called Israel, He will call them by another name. Isa. Ixii 
 ch., 2, " And thou shalt be called by a new name which the 
 mouth of the Lord shall name." Lsa. Ixv ch., 15, "The Lord 
 shall call his servants by another name." Psalm Ixxxiii, 4, 
 "The name Israel shall be no more in remembrance." " And ye 
 shall lose, or leave, your name, and the Lord shall call his ser- 
 
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 vants by another name." Isa. xl. ch., 27, " Why sayest thou 
 O Jacob ! and speakest O Israel ! nny way is hid from the 
 Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God." 
 
 Isa. liv. ch., 8, *' For a small moment have I forsaken thee, 
 but with great mercies will I gather thee — In a little wrath I 
 hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with everlasting 
 kindness will I have mercy upon thee." 
 
 In Hos. i ch., 4, 7, the Lord says, " I will cause to cease the 
 kingdom of the house of Israel," . . and, " I will no more 
 have mercy upon the house of Israel but I will utterly take 
 them away," . . " But I will have mercy upon the house of 
 Judah." Hos. i ch., " Israel is to be called Lo-ammi, for ye 
 are not my people and I will not be your God." The house 
 of Israel is here compared to a wife that had proved unfaithful 
 to her husband, and had sought many lovers, and the Lord 
 had given her a bill of divorcement. Jer. iii ch., " She went 
 away from me, saith the Lord, and she returned not, and her 
 treacherous sister Judah saw it." Ezek. xxxiv ch., 6, " Woe 
 be to the shepherds of Israel ! My sheep wandered through 
 all the mountains, yea, my flock was scattered upon all the 
 face of the earth, my flock became a prey." Amos viii ch., 12, 
 " They shall wander from sea to sea." Amos ix ch., 9, " For 
 lo ! I will command and I will sift the house of Israel among 
 all nations like as corn is sifted in a sieve ; yet shall not the 
 least grain fall up6n the earth." Hos. ii ch., 6, " Therefore, 
 behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall 
 that she shall not find her paths." Hosea viii ch., 8, 9, " Is- 
 rael is swallowed up ; now shall they be among the gentiles 
 as a vessel wherein is no pleasure," /. c. they shall be hidden 
 from view, or put out of sight. " For they are gone up to 
 Assyria, a wild Ass alone by himself" Hosea ix ch., i, 
 " Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people, for thou hast 
 gone a whoring from thy God. 17, My God shall cast them 
 away, and they shall be wanderers among the nations." Hos. 
 xiii ch., 3, " Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and 
 as the early dew that passeth away ; as the chaff that is driven 
 with the whir'wind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of 
 the chimney." All this surely means to be lost, lost to them- 
 selves, and to other nations. 
 
 IN THE VALLEY. 
 
 In Ueut. xxviii ch., 16, "The Lord .shall bring thee (Israel) and 
 thy king which thou shalt set over thee into a nation which 
 neither thou nor thy fathers have known ; and there shalt thou 
 serve other Gods, wood and stone." This was all realized by 
 
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 48, "Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord 
 shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in naked- 
 ness, and in want of all things : and he shall put a yoke of iron 
 upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee." Here is a true 
 photograph of Israel under the Assyrian yoke. 
 
 Jer. vii ch 15. " And I will cast you out of my sight, as I 
 have cast out all my brethren, even the whole seed of 
 Ephraim." 
 
 In Ezekiel xxxvii ch., Israel is presented to us as a valley 
 full of bones, and they were said to be very dry, their hope 
 was lost, they were cut off from their parts, from the two tribes. 
 I am aware that some of our expositors say, the dry bones are 
 the Gentile people, and sinners in general, that the duty of the 
 Church is to preach and pray for the breath from heaven, and 
 the result will be a revival of religion among the dry bones. 
 This may be thought very ingenious but it is a miserable per- 
 version of the truth of God. If the expounder would read the 
 context, he would be saved from such deceitful handling of the 
 Word. See the nth ver. "Son of Man, these bones are the 
 whole house of Israel," and that house is represented as dead, 
 lo.st, cut off, buried, and the Lord promises to open their graves, 
 and to cause them to come up out of their graves, and to bring 
 them into their own land." 
 
 What can all this mean .^ Who can read those passages and 
 study their obvious meaning, and not see in them that the ten 
 tribes were to be lost, out of sight, out of remembrance, scat- 
 tered, hidden, their relation, circumstances, language and name 
 changed ? As to their religion Hosea is very minute, where 
 he says, iii ch., 4, 5, " For the children of Israel shall abide 
 many dciys without a king, and without a prince, and without 
 a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and 
 without teraphim. Afterward shall the children of Israel 
 return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king ; 
 and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days." 
 
 It is only when you have cleared away the rubbish of pre- 
 conceived notions gleaned from book-makers and professed 
 historians and have noted, specially, what God has said to 
 those people and of them, that you will be able to see the dis- 
 tinction made in the Scripture between the two houses of 
 Judah and Israel. This distinction is very remarkable, and if 
 we fail to observe it, we confuse the various prophecies relating 
 to them, and the difficulties and apparent contradictions make 
 the whole subject dista.steful. 
 
 The history of Judah is well known up to the present day : 
 
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 that of Israel is only certainly known up to the time of their cap- 
 tivity by the Assyrians, seven hundred and twenty years before 
 Christ. But, where history leaves them, prophecy finds them. 
 And we believe that a careful study of the Word of God 
 spoken to them," and of them, will enable us to trace this lost 
 house of Israel with great comfort and with very great cer- 
 tainty. Bear in mind the distinction, broad and clear, bet%veen 
 the ten-tribed and the two-tribed kingdoms. It will be seen 
 that the predicted destinies are separate and distinct. To 
 make clear the strong and striking difference between the two 
 houses we place a few of the prophecies in contrast, only 
 selecting the most obvious and indisputable passages. 
 
 CONTRAST. 
 
 Israel was to be unknown in name, Isa. Ixv ch., 15. The 
 Jews to be known as a by- word and reproach, Jer. xxiv ch., 9. 
 
 Israel was to be a multitudinous people, Hos. i ch., 10. 
 
 The Jews were to be bereft of children, Jer. xv ch., 7. 
 
 Israel wa;^ to be a powerfdl nation, Isa. xli ch., 12, Mic. iv 
 ch., 6, 7. 
 
 The Jews were to be without might, Jer. xix ch., 7. 
 
 Israel was to wander for many years, and then, to find an 
 island home in the western seas,. Isa. xlix ch., i, 8. 
 
 The Jews were to be strangers in all lands, Jer. xv ch., 4. 
 
 Israel was to have the kingdom, and a national existence, 
 and a perpetual monarchy, and that monarchy of David's line, 
 Jer. xxxiii ch., zi, 22. 
 
 The Jews were never to be a nation, or to have a king, until 
 their union with Israel, and their acceptance of Jesus as their 
 Messiah, Zech. ix ch., 13, and x ch., 6. 
 
 Israel was divorced from the law. 
 
 The Jews were to remain under the law, until the fulness of 
 the Gentiles. 
 
 Israel was to be a christian people, " all taught of God," 
 Isa. liv ch., 13. 
 
 The Jews were to remain under the old covenant. 
 
 Israel was to be driven out from their own land, sown 
 among the nations, lost to view, to be sought out, and found, 
 and to become the sons of God, and then, to be used for the 
 conversion of the world. 
 
 The Jews were to remain separated from all nations, des- 
 tined to persecution and reproach. 
 
 Israel was to lose their old name, and to be called by 
 another name. 
 
 The Jews were to retain their old name and their identity. 
 
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 Israel was taken by Shalmaneser and Tiglath-pileser to the 
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 The Jews were taken by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon. 
 
 Israel were all taken, not one of them were left, 2 Kings, 
 xvii ch., 18, 
 
 The poorer class among the Jews were left, Jer. xl ch., 7. 
 
 Israel was to be lost, unknown and unrecognised, Hos. i ch. 
 
 Judah was to be scattered, and dispersed but known, Ezek. 
 xii ch., 15. 
 
 Of Israel was to come the multitudinous seed, the fulness 
 of the Gentiles. 
 
 Of Judah, or the Jews, was to come the one seed, Christ. 
 
 Israel was to be scattered ; but the Lord was to be a little 
 sanctuary to them in all countries where they came, Ezek. xi 
 ch.. 16. 
 
 Judah was to be removed to all kingdoms for their hurt, 
 Jer, xxiv ch., 9. 
 
 Israel was to be in honor, and no weapon found against 
 them was to prosper, Isa. Ixiv ch., 17. 
 
 Judah was to be a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, 
 Jer. xxiv ch., 9. 
 
 Israel was to be punished for a short time, a little moment, 
 Isa. liv ch., 7. And cast out of their land ; but to be .sought 
 out in exile, and taught the Gospel, and made a great people 
 and called Jezreel, the seed of God, Hos. i and ii ch. ; 1 Peter, 
 ii ch., 10 ; Rom. ix ch., 26 ; also Isa. xli ch. 
 
 Judah was to be carried captive for seventy years, then 
 restored to their land and given another opportunity and trial. 
 Hut after their rejection of the Messiah, the Gospel was sent 
 to the lost house of Israel, and Judah was cast out of their 
 land, because they knew not the time of thgir visitation, 
 2 Chron. xxxvi. ch., 21. 
 
 The territory Israel left was colonized by strangers, and a 
 teacher sent back to instruct them, 2 Kings xvii ch 27. 
 
 The territory of the Jews remained vacant, or occupied only 
 by a few poor, Jer. xl ch., 7. 
 
 Israel was to be chief among the nations, Isa. liv ch., 15-17- 
 The Jews were to be a trembling and faint hearted people. 
 My servant (Israel) shall eat, but ye (Jews) shall be hungry : 
 My servant (Israel) shall drink, but ye (Jews) shall be thirsty : 
 My servant (Israel) shall rejoice, but ye (Jews) shall be ashamed : 
 My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for 
 sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of spirit." Isa. 
 Ixv ch., 13. 
 
 Israel never returned to their own land ; a large number of 
 
12 
 
 the Jews did return after the decree of Cyrus. Israel is five 
 times called "backsliding Israel," a term not once applied to 
 Judah. Judah is four times called " treacherous Judah," a 
 term not once used to Israel. 
 
 Israel had nothing to do with the rejection and crucifixion 
 of Christ. The Jews put him to death. How great the con- 
 trast. 
 
 hookp:r's interpretation. 
 
 The blessings promised to Israel are so great that it is per- 
 fectly useless to look for them among obscure tribes, they 
 must be sought for among the great nations ot the earth, so 
 many and so great are those promises that it is only as men 
 undertake to spiritualize the prophecies that they can avoid 
 the conclusion of the present greatness of lost Israel. We have 
 been too much given to spiritualize passages of God's Word 
 that would bear a literal meaning. I believe that when the 
 prophets speak of Israel and Zion, and Jerusalem and Egypt,, 
 and Moab and Edom, that they mean primarily those people, 
 and those places, whatever typical meanmg they bear besides. 
 I have long ago adopted Hooker's very safe principle of inter- 
 pretation, " that when a passage of the W^ord of God would 
 bear a literal interpretation, the furthest from the letter was 
 generally the worst. It is a dangerous kind of art, which, like 
 alchemy, changeth the nature of metals ; it maketh of any- 
 thing what it listeth, and in the end bringeth all truth to 
 nothing." If you take the blessings to Israel spiritually to 
 ourselves, pray, be honest, and take the cur.ses of the Jews 
 spiritually also. The book is full of the spiritual, without vio- 
 lating all the laws of interpretation. 
 
 OBJECTION. 
 
 Now, an objection is made to the use we make of many of 
 those passages of S<:ripture, and it is affirmed, " that as many 
 of them were spoken long before the division of the tribes they 
 cannot apply to the ten-tribcd kingdom any more than to the 
 Jews." To this, I reply, that the Lord solemnly promised to 
 David, 2 Sam. vii ch., i6 : 
 
 *' And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee r 
 thy throne shall be establishecl for ever." 
 
 This throne and kingdom was in due time transferred to 
 Solomon, i Kings i ch., 35, "And I have made him (Solomon) 
 to be ruler over Israel and Judah." i Kings ii ch., 12 : 
 
 " Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father ; and his kinsjdom wa» 
 established greatly. And it is said (15) this was from the Lord." 
 
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 Of Solomon it was said, i Chron. xxii ch., 10 : 
 
 *' He shall build an house for my name ; and he shall be my son, and I will be 
 his father ; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever." 
 
 Then the Lord said to Solomon i Kings xix ch. 1 1 : 
 
 '* Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, 
 and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded 
 thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. 
 12 Notwithstanding in thv days I will not do it for David thy father's sake : but I 
 will rend it out of the hand of thy son. 13 Howbeil I will not rend away all the 
 kingdom ; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for 
 Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.' 
 
 And again, i Kings xi ch., 31 : 
 
 " And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces : for thus saith the L(jrd, the 
 (iod of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and 
 will give ten tribes to thee : 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's 
 hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes." 
 
 The ten-tribed nation, therefore, is the kingdom, and 
 J udah lost all claim to the honours and rewards of the king- 
 dom now transferred to other hands. So Rehoboam under- 
 .stood it, and he was ill disposed to allow of such a transfer ; 
 for he resolved to make war on the children of Israel, i Kings 
 xii ch., 24 : 
 
 " Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the 
 children of Israel : return every man to his house ; for this thing is from me. 
 They hearkened therefore to ihe word of the Lord, and returned to depart, accor- 
 ding to the word of the Lord." 
 
 I need hardly say that this remarkable transfer of the king- 
 dom, throne and dignity to the ten tribes, secured to them all 
 those special promises and blessings that God had previously 
 made to Abraham and to his seed. It is to the kingdom 
 of Israel, as then constituted, and their descendants that we 
 must look for the fulfilment of those many promises quoted, 
 and others yet to be noted. To the ten tribes to whom the 
 kingdom was transferred, most certainly, the blessings are 
 promised, and not to the Jews. 
 
 ISRAEL AND THE KINGDOM. 
 
 About three hundred years after the transfer ju.st named, 
 the Lord said to Jeremiah xxxi ch., 35 : 
 
 " Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordi- 
 nances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea 
 when the waves thereof roar ; The Lord of hosts is his name : 36 If those ordi- 
 nances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall 
 €ease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord ; if heaven 
 above can be mea.sured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I 
 will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. " 
 
f 
 
 H 
 And xxxii ch., 33rd ; i ch., 19: 
 
 " And the word o*^ the Lord came unto Jeremiah, :saying, 20 Thus saifh the 
 Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and 
 that there should not be day and night in their season ; 2 1 Then may also my 
 covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign 
 upon his throne ; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host 
 of heaven cannot be nnmbered, neither the sand of the sea measured ; so will I 
 multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unt© me." 
 
 If David of his seed do wrong the Lord said : 
 
 " I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of 
 men : 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, 
 whom I put away before thee. 16 And thine house and thine kingdom shall be 
 established for ever before thee : thy throne shall be established for ever. And thy 
 throne to all generations." 
 
 And in 2 Chron. xiii ch., 4 : 
 
 " And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and 
 said. Hear me, ou Jeroboam, and all Israel ; 5 Ought ye not to know that the 
 Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him 
 and to his sons by a covenant of salt ? " 
 
 And xxi ch., 7 : 
 
 ' " Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the cov 
 enant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and 
 to his sons for ever. " 
 
 In the Ixxxix Psalm, we read of a covenant the Lord made 
 with David : 
 
 " I have sworn unto David my servant, thy seed will I establish for ever, and 
 build up thy throne to all generations. My covenant with him shall stand fast. 
 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 
 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. 31 U they 
 break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; 32 Then will I visit their 
 transgressions with the rod, and their iniquitv with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my 
 loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, r.or suffer my faithfulness to fall. 
 
 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 
 
 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed 
 shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be estab- 
 lished for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven." , 
 
 Here we have the promise of God in various forms of ex- 
 pression, each expression designed to make the promise more 
 secure if possible. Then the covenant with him and with hi.s 
 hou.se is called a covenant of salt, which was never to be 
 broken. Then we have the solemn oath of God, and that oath 
 repeated ; and all possible conditions anticipated and secured. 
 Here, surely, if words have any meaning and force, the blessing 
 of a powerful national existence is guaranteed in perpetuity to 
 Israel, and to the Royal house of David. 
 
 That throne of David and the kingdom of Israel must be 
 in existence somewhere ; and, moreover, they must have had a 
 continuous existence throughout all these centuries. 
 
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 My opponents entertain the assumption, that the plans and 
 purposes of God have been frustrated, and that his oath has 
 failed, and Nebuchadnezzar and the devil were able to defeat 
 the plans of the Almighty. 
 
 AN OBJECTOR 
 
 Says, '* That Judah was to retain the kingdom, and the 
 crown, and the sceptre until the Messiah, Jesus, came," and he 
 quotes Gen. Ixix ch., lo : 
 
 '•The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, 
 until Shiloh come ; " 
 
 The usual interpretation given to this passage is that 
 " Shiloh " means Christ, and that Judah was to hold the scep- 
 tre of dominion, or Empire until Christ came. But who does 
 not seethe inconsistency and unreliability of such an interpreta- 
 tion. The word " Shiloh " is twenty times given in the Holy 
 Scriptures, and in every case it means a place, and not once 
 does it mean a person. " The children of Israel came to 
 Shiloh." " Came to Joshua to Shiloh." " Cast lots for them 
 in Shiloh." " Spake unto them at Shiloh." " The hou.se of 
 God was at Shiloh." "The Lord appeared in Shiloh." "Make 
 this house as Shiloh." And many more of the same import. 
 Then, who is it that has read history that does not know that 
 Judah, or the Tews, never had the sceptre of Dominion for one 
 day, since thi flays of Zedekiah, no, not for an hour. When 
 the sacred vessels of the Holy temple were taken to Babylon 
 the cup of Chaldean iniquity was nearly full, and that great 
 Empire came to its death in a ball room. They were weighed 
 in the balance and were found wanting. The Persian kings, 
 to the number of fourteen, swayed their sceptre over all those 
 lands in the East. Then came Alexander the great, and after 
 him the Syrian conquerors, next ten or eleven of the Ptolemy's, 
 who all held the country tributary to them. The Maccabean 
 or Asmonean family, nine of them, claimed the kingly author- 
 ity ; but they were not of Judah or Jews ; then the country fell 
 into the hands of Pompey and the twelve Csesars ; and when 
 Christ came, Herod, who was an P^domite, a creature of Rome, 
 held nominal sway over the land and the people of the Jews. 
 Here were thirty-eight creatures of foreign birth and alien 
 blood, who usurped authority and claimed to govern the land. 
 Surely that system of things could never have been the true 
 meaning of the venerable Jacob when he called his sons to 
 him to hear what would come to pass in the latter days. 
 
 The true meaning of this passage is " The sceptre shall not 
 
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 depart from Judah till rest comes," or, " Till he comes to rest." 
 
 Dr. Fairbairn in his imperial dictionary says, " Shiloh " is now 
 generally admitted to be an adjective meaning * peaceful.' " 
 
 Kitto gives the meaning of the Hebrew as, " To rest, to be 
 at peace." 
 
 I might quote a score of eminent writers to support the 
 same opinion. The sceptre of Judah remained in the house 
 of David ; and in the family of David it was transferred from 
 the East to the " Isles of the West," where it will remain until 
 the time ol the " peaceful " union of the two houses so long 
 divided, that is the " rest " promised in the latter days. The 
 words of the venerable Jacob have in them a great wealth of 
 meaning. 
 
 Another objection is stated thus : " The tribal distinctions 
 were entirely lost in Babylon and Assyria, and there was no 
 distinction between Judah and Israel. The ten tribes returned 
 home with the Jews after the decree by Cyrus." I am sur- 
 prised that anyone in this day of bible reading would make 
 such a statement. Turn to Ezra ii ch., and read of a Court of 
 inquiry appointed to examine certain claims to the priesthood, 
 after the return to Jerusalem, and note how that Court 
 rejected all those persons whose families were unable to trace 
 their family and tribal distinctions ; of some it was said,ver. 59: 
 
 " But they could not show their father's house." 
 
 And ver. 62 : 
 
 '* These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but 
 they were not found : therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." 
 
 Here we find them examining their tribal records in Jeru- 
 salem after their return. Then, if this objection has any force, 
 how can we prove the ancestral line of Jesus Christ, if the 
 tribal distinctions and family records were lost ; certainly 
 Matthew and Luke did not so understand it, for they produce 
 the family records of both sides of the house from Abraham 
 to Christ. We have also the tribal distinctions of Zecharias 
 and Elizabeth, and of Anna the prophetess, and of Paul and 
 Barnabas and many others. In Luke ii ch., we have an inci- 
 dental passage, which of itself sends the objector into cloud- 
 land : 
 
 " And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Ctesar 
 Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 {And this taxing was first made 
 when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. ) 3 And all went to be taxed, everyone into 
 his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazar- 
 eth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem ; (because he 
 was of the house and lineage of David •) 
 
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 omes to rest." 
 shiloh " is now 
 peaceful.' " 
 To rest, to be 
 
 > support the 
 in the house 
 msferred from 
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 2r days. The 
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 il distinctions 
 there was no 
 ribes returned 
 ." I am sur- 
 • would make 
 of a Court of 
 he priesthood, 
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 fiable to trace 
 s said,ver. 59: 
 
 jy genealogy, but 
 the priesthood." 
 
 ords in Jeru- 
 las any force, 
 Christ, if the 
 certainly 
 
 hey produce 
 )m Abraham 
 of Zccharias 
 
 of Paul and 
 
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 lave an mci- 
 into cloud- 
 
 cree from Caesar 
 
 was first made 
 
 d, everyone into 
 
 city of Nazar- 
 
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 How could they go every man to his own city if they had 
 no family record of where to go ? Even to this day the Jews 
 have their tribal distinctions. 
 
 OHJKCTION. 
 
 Our objector says, " there is no distinction between Judah 
 and Israel." Let us sec ; what .saith the word of the Lord on 
 this point ^ This distinction is of great importance to a right 
 understanding of the Scriptures. There are two nations, and 
 they have undergone two different courses of discipline ; both 
 nations have passed under the rod ; the dealings of God to 
 them have been distinctly marked, and a wide difference is seen 
 in his method of dealing with them. I believe that this dis- 
 tinction, so mysterious and so disciplinary, will not terminate 
 in an uncertain and undefined manner ; but will, in a most 
 marked and wonderful way, show the divine faithfulness and 
 power. 
 
 The distinct line of separation between Judah and Israel 
 was foreshadowed at an early day. Psalm cxiv : 
 
 " When Israel went out of Kgypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange 
 language ; 2 Judah was his sanctuary, ttiul Israel his dominion." 
 
 Here, at this exodus, wc have a dim outline of what was 
 commg. In Samuel's day they were numbered separately 
 I Sam. xi ch., 8 : 
 
 •' And vvhen he numbered them in liezek, the children of Israel were three hun- 
 'dred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand." 
 
 Lord Arthur Harvey, Bishop of Bath, says, "The separate 
 mention of Judah shows how little union there was between 
 Judah and the other tribes at that early day." 
 
 David reigned seven years over Judah before they made him 
 king over all Israel. 
 
 Jeremiah xxxiii ch., 24, speaks of them as " the two fami- 
 slies which the Lord hath chosen." He has for wise purposes 
 'kept them apart for 2850 years. The time for their union has 
 hiot yet come. If wc read Zech. viii ch., 13 : 
 
 i; 
 
 " And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house 
 fof Judah, and house of Israel ; so will I save you and ye shall be a blessing ; fear 
 [not, but let your hands be strong." 
 
 Also ix ch., 1 3 : 
 
 I " When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up 
 = thy sons, O Zion. against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a 
 i mighty man." 
 
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 And X ch., 6 : 
 
 " And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and 1 will save the house of Joseph, 
 and 1 will brin^ them again to place them ; for I have mercy upon them : and they 
 shall be as though I had not cast them aff : for I am the Lord their God, and will 
 hear them." 
 
 (We may here see a distinction between Judah and Israel, 
 and a union also, and a glorious future opened up for Israel.) 
 
 " 7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall re- 
 joice as through wine ; yea, their children shall see it, and be glad ; their heart 
 shall reioice in the Lord, 8 I will hiss for them, and gather them ; for 1 have 
 redeemed them : and they shall increase as they have increased. 9 And I will 
 sow them among the people ; and they shall remember me in far countries ; and 
 they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10 I will bring them again 
 also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria ; and I will bring 
 them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon ; and place shall not be found for them. 
 1 1 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in 
 the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up : and the pride of Assyria shall 
 be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart awav 12 And I will 
 strengthen them in the Lord ; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith 
 the Lord." 
 
 UNION PROMISED. 
 
 And again in viii ch., Zechariah rises from the then present, 
 into the far off future of Israel, and says : 
 
 " 20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; // shall yet come to pass, that there shall 
 come people, and the inhabitants of many cities : 21 And the inhabitants of one 
 city shall go to another, saying. Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and 
 to seek the Lord of liosts : I will go also. 22 Yea, many people and strong 
 nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts ; In those days it shall come to pass, 
 that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take 
 hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you : for we have 
 heard that God is with you." 
 
 In these passages they are sifted through the nations, pre- 
 served, remembered, redeemed, and greatly blessed in their 
 relation to God, and all this, " after Judah shall have been 
 bent unto the Lord," an event in the future. 
 
 In Ezekiel, after the Lord has opened the graves of Israel 
 in the great valley full of bones, and caused them to know 
 him, and filled them with the spirit, the prophet was com- 
 manded to take two sticks, or standards, thu.s, xxxvii 16 : 
 
 " Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, 
 and for the children of Israel his companions : then take another stick, and write 
 upon it, for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim. and for all the house of Israel his com- 
 panions : 17 And join them one to another into one stick ; and they shall become 
 one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, 
 saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these ? 19 Say unto them. 
 Thus saith the Lord GoD ; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the 
 hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, 
 even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in 
 mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before 
 
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 le house of Joseph, 
 on them : and they 
 ;heir God, and will 
 
 ah and Israel, 
 up for Israel.) 
 
 their heart shall re- 
 e glad ; their heart 
 ■ them ; for 1 have 
 ed. 9 And I will 
 far countries ; and 
 I bring them again 
 I ; and I will bring 
 be found for them, 
 .smite the waves in 
 ide of Assyria shall 
 y. 12 And I will 
 n in his name, saith 
 
 e then present, 
 
 19 
 
 I5S, that there shall 
 
 inhabitants of one 
 
 fore the Lord, and 
 
 people and strong 
 
 shall come to pass, 
 
 )ns, even shall take 
 
 you : for we have 
 
 e nations, pre- 
 essed in their 
 all have been 
 
 •aves of Israel 
 lem to know 
 let was com- 
 xxvii 1 6 : 
 
 pon it. For Judah, 
 ler stick, and write 
 of Israel his com- 
 they shall become 
 dl speak unto thee, 
 19 Say unto them, 
 ph, which IS in the 
 jut them with him. 
 ley shall be one in 
 thine hand before 
 
 heir eyes. 21 And say unto them, thus saith the Lord Goo ; behold, 1 will take 
 ht children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will 
 jajBier them on every side, and bring them into their own land : 22 And I will 
 nlPie them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel ; and one king 
 ilj^l be king to them all : and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall 
 My be divided into two kingdoms any more at all : 23 Neither shall they detile 
 hi||nselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any 
 (fflieir transgressions : but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein 
 Iw have sinned, and will cleanse them : so shall they be my people, and I will 
 »«|heir (Jod. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them ; and they all 
 Iwl have one shepherd ': they shnll also walk in my judgments, and observe my 
 t||utes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell inthelnnd that 1 have given unto 
 l^b my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt ; and they shall dwell therein, 
 they, and their children, and their children's children for ever : and my ser- 
 David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of 
 :e with them ; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them : and I will place 
 1, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them (or ever- 
 re. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them : yea, I will be their (iod, and 
 f shall be my people. 28 And the heathen shall know that 1 the Lord do 
 ctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them I'or evermore.'' 
 
 JCan anyone say there is no distinction here between Judah 
 Israel, or that this union took place in Babylon, or on tJie 
 lurn home. 
 
 TWO IN ONE. 
 
 'hey are said to be united in the prophet's hand, and in the 
 
 |id of the Lord through the cross of Christ, of which the 
 
 .sticks are significant emblems. Here you see explained 
 
 I crossing of the Patriarch's hands as he blessed Kphraim 
 
 Manasseh. In this chapter Ezekiel saw the awaken- 
 
 j, identity, and restoration of those people so long sepa- 
 
 fed, and he saw the two sceptres, each distinct, and then 
 
 ited, and the one king chosen by both, and he of David's 
 
 ;, and the purification and the divine protection, and the 
 rmanent sanctuary, and the obedience most complete, and 
 Ithe result of the whole, the conversion of the heathen nation 
 
 |Chri.st. • 
 
 In beautiful harmony with the above, we hear Jer. iii ch., 18 : 
 
 [in those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they 
 ~ come together out of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance 
 your fathers." 
 
 'he marginal reading has it "to " instead of " tvit/i." " Judah 
 \\\ walk to Israel." And Hosea i ch., 10 : 
 
 jYet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which 
 
 lot be measured nor numbered ; and it shall come to pass, that in the place 
 
 lOB*"^ it was said unto them. Ye are not my people, there it .shall be said unto 
 
 Ye are the sons of the living God. 1 1 Then shall the children of Judah and 
 
 children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head, and 
 
 shall come up out of the land : for ^reat shall be the day of Jezreel." 
 
20 
 
 
 M: 
 
 The act of choosing one head has in it a wealth of meaninu 
 It means separate and distinct existence, and that each km^ 
 of the others existence, and that each recognized the identitj 
 of the other. Isaiah also speaks of those houses as distinct, ar^ 
 of their future union, xi ch., lo : 
 
 >V 
 
 in that ilay there shall he a R)ot of Jes>e, which shall siaiul for an ens ^jUj^ 
 :ople ; lo it shall the Clenliles seek : and his rest shall be glorious. ^^ 
 
 II 
 
 " And i 
 ot the peo 
 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, thnt the Lord shall set his hand .again i 
 second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyi 
 and from Kj^ypt. and from I'athros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from S 
 nai, and from Ilamath, and from the islands of tlu< sea. 12 And he shall set ,. 
 an ensign for the nations, .md shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gallVfliE 
 together the dispersed of judah from the four corners of the earth. The ei MjL 
 also of Kphraim shall ilepart, and the adversaries of Judali shall be cut "'^ji^^ 
 Kphraini shall not envy Judah. and Judah shall not vex Kphraim." a VC 
 
 [ma 
 
 DISTINCT IIOUSK.S. ' QOk 
 
 Who can fail to .sec the distinct houses here, and that tlK'^"" 
 
 remain di.stinct until the Lord .shall luidertake the second tiii**^^' 
 
 to gather his people to their own land ; the first time wii'*^ 
 
 when he led them out of ICgypt, the second time he will brir^j^ 
 
 them from the four corncrsof the earth," from the nor*"h and froi'" 
 
 the west," and " from the Isles of the west," and " from tl'^ 
 
 Isles afar off." That cannot mean from Babylon. Then tlr, , 
 
 envy of Judah and Israel will depart, and they shall cease i^ 
 
 vex one another. ^A^ 
 
 Daniel ix ch., 7, saw them as distinct hou.ses, hear him : *^ ^ 
 
 wftni 
 
 " To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Isr.ii](|^a 
 that are near, and thnt arc afar off, through all the countries whither thou I'ljljl^, 
 driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed atrainst thee." 5. 
 
 He saw them in all countries where for two hundred yeal^p 
 they had been spreading to the north and to the west. here 
 
 Micah speaking of the restoration of both houses of Isran^jke 
 and Judah, under the terms Sanmria and Jerusalem, .saylTh 
 ii ch., 12 : itiipl 
 
 " I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee ; I will surely gather the renin, 
 of Israel ; I will put them together as the sheep of Hozrah, as the flock in i 
 midst of their fold : they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men 
 
 And iv ch., 6, 7, also v ch., 3, 8 : ' 
 
 "In that d.iy. saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I v| 
 gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted ; 7 And I will mn 
 her that halted a renmant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation : and t ■ 
 Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 3 Tlil 
 the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 4 And !, 
 shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of tr 
 Lord his (iod ; and they shall abide : for now shall he be great unto the ends ' 
 the earth. 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people a- 
 
 I 
 
 
 X 
 
 '^^?t^L^ 
 
^I 
 
 calth of ineaniniM from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrielh not lor man, nor 
 id that each kni'^*'^ for the sons of men. 8 And the remnant of facob shall be amontj the 
 ri-/#> 1 t-hf iH^'nti*^'''**' '" ^^^ midst of many people as a lion amonc the beasts of the ' rst. as a 
 niztCl inc laenxi,^^^ U^j^ among the flocks of sheep : who, if he goeth through, both treadeth 
 CS as distinct, a'lSn, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. " 
 
 AVill anyone say that these promises had their fulfihrient in 
 
 lall staiul for an en^ ^ ^f ^^^, ^^^ hi.Story of thosc people ? 
 t shall be glorious. ^^ ' "^ i r 
 
 1 set his hand again- .p^^^^ SISTKk.S. 
 
 .11 be left, from Assyi 
 
 m Elam, and from S • i ••• ,u r i- ,., i ui ••: i i • i r 
 
 12 And he shall set i*" J^'''- '" th., Isa. li. and Hos. Ill, Israel is spoken til as a 
 
 s of Israel, and gaiiv|||e " divorccd " from her husband, as a " woman forsaken," as 
 
 " desolate one," in contradistinction to the married wife. It 
 
 sj'Vcry clear that they are speaking.; of representative i)ers(>ns. 
 
 [fteel was divorced from the old covenant, and one must not 
 
 bpy for her as in the same condition as the Jews. For Jeremiah 
 
 s " Backsliding Israel did wrong and I put her away, and 
 
 e her a bill of divorcem. , imd her treacherous sister Judah 
 
 it, and feared not," and h^aiah speaks of Isi-ael's restoration, 
 
 calls upon her to sing and rejoice " for more arc the 
 
 drcn of the desolate, than the children of the married wife 
 
 h the Lord," and the children of the woman forsaken are 
 
 € colonizers. In their greatness and in their strength they 
 
 gall 
 
 the carlii. Ihe ti- 
 udali shall be cut d" 
 hraini 
 
 ere, and that tin" 
 :e the second tiiW 
 le first time wa' 
 time he will brir^' 
 he nor^h and froi 
 t," and " from tl 
 
 hev shall cea.se '^ ^° ^° abroad and fill up the desolate lands, and to become 
 
 I'itiultitude of nations. It is also remarkable that Israel is 
 
 hear him • ^ addressed as in their land, but as in the Islands. The last 
 
 ^nty-.seven chapters of I.saiah belong chiefly to Israel — the 
 
 ■m. and unto all lsraii|fcaken wife is to be gathered with great mercy, and in loving- 
 
 wT/'ilS^VJ'"" ''W "and I will betroth her unto me for ever—and I 
 
 iSeci against tnec. d i i • , it-, 
 
 vvP say to them which were not my people, I hou art my 
 
 rvo hundred yeall^ple, and they .shall Cjill me /s/ii, that is my husband. And 
 
 the west. Wire shall be peace, and freedom from terror, for God will 
 
 houses of Israft#ce them to lie down .safely." 
 
 Jeru.salem, .say^fphe Jews now number about six millions, who can give the 
 riftfiber of Israel ! 
 
 lely gather the renni.i 
 lah, as the flock in t 
 Itlif multitude of mer 
 
 }.i halteth, and I v\| 
 7 And I will ni.il_ 
 frong nation : and ll»| 
 van for ever. 3 Thij 
 I of Lsrael. 4 And hi 
 [ity of the name of tt"j 
 jreat unto the ends 
 of many people as 
 
 .STILL DLSTINCT. 
 
 the days of Christ and of his Apostles the distinction 
 
 very clearly seen, for they used the terms " outcast of 
 
 lel," and the "dispersed of Judah," as they were used in 
 
 prophetic \vritings. The disciples said of Jesus *' will he 
 
 ito the dispersed among the Gentiles } " This could not 
 
 m "Jews," for they had not yet been scattered. The " dis- 
 
 sed " were the " divorced " and " scattered," who had been 
 
 ^n among the nations. 
 
 I he same distinction is noted by Paul in Rom. .xi ch., where 
 
rr 
 
 il 
 
 22 
 
 he speaks of the grand old olive tree, not as cut down, for 
 still grew and was flourishing ; but some of the branches (tl 
 Jews) were broken off and Gentiles had been grafted on, ar 
 made to share in the richness and fertility of the natii 
 branches. Here were three sets of branches, the natural, t\ 
 broken off, and the grafted, and each, in Paul's mind, evident 
 distinct. 
 
 TOM PAINE. 
 
 It is a most dangerous thing to misinterpret the word of tl 
 Lord on any point. The poor, misguided Tom Paine fell in 
 the common error of looking at the Jews as the house of Israi 
 and as being one with them, and he states boldly in h 
 writings, that he was led into infidelity, because he saw 
 the circumstances and condition of the Jews that they nev 
 could verify the glorious promises God made to Israel. 
 
 OHJEC'l'ION. 
 
 A Rev. and dear Bro. waxed warm one day and state 
 " That the ten tribes returned from Babylon with the two, ai 
 were mixed up with the captive Jews, and that they are wi 
 the Jews still." This is the most extraordinary statement 
 any on such a grave question. Turn to Ezra, i ch., and re; 
 of Judah and Benjamin, and also in subsequent chapters of 
 correspondence with Artaxcrxes, and King Darius, and of t 
 children of the transportation, and of the people carried ca 
 tive by Nebuchadnezzar, and of a public meeting they held 
 consider their return to Jerusalem ; and of a proclamati 
 issued commanding their return, and yet there is not a wo 
 said about the ten tribes, while the return is expressly limit 
 t(^ the two tribes. When \'ou take the figures as given 
 detail and add them together, you have only 29,818; or t 
 total number that is given, 42,360. Even this number w 
 considered so very small for two tribes, that they spake of the 
 as a " remnant," and the " residue." 
 
 True, the)' are called Israel here, as in Ezekiel, becau.se tli 
 was a generic term, but the ten tribes were in the Lo-Amr 
 or the divorced state for a time, and then the Jews were 
 Israel. But, in all this correspondence, and ii^all this retu; 
 the ten tribes were not named, and they were not in any w 
 connected with that captivity, or that return. They had Ii 
 their country 133 years before their brethern, the Jews, a 
 they had no sympath)- with each other. 
 
 ii 
 
 \\- 
 
 V''\\> »/.. , 
 
23 
 
 s cut down, for 
 :he branches (tl^ 
 n grafted on, ar 
 ty of the nati\ 
 s, the natural, tl 
 's mind, evident 
 
 ;t the word of tl 
 Dm Paine fell in 
 be house of Israi 
 es boldly in li 
 Dcause he saw 
 s that they nev 
 : to Israel. 
 
 day and state 
 with the two, ai 
 that they are w i 
 lary statement 
 ra, i ch., and re; 
 lent chapters of 
 Darius, and of t 
 ople carried ca 
 ting they held 
 f a proclamatit 
 ere is not a wo 
 expressly limit 
 ures as given 
 y 29,8 18; or t 
 
 this number w 
 icy spake of the 
 
 viel, because tb 
 
 1 the Lo-Amr 
 he Jews were 
 ii^ all this retu: 
 
 2 not in any w 
 
 They had li 
 n, the Jews, a 
 
 JOSEPHUS. 
 
 As proof of this we quote Josephus, who says, Antiq. 11, 1-3, 
 " The rulers of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with the 
 Levites and priests went in haste to Jerusalem, yet did many 
 of the people stay at Babylon as not willing to leave their 
 possessions." 
 
 Again, " Thus did these men go, a certain and determinate 
 number of them out of every family ; by this means a certain 
 part of the people of the Jews, that weie in Babylon came and 
 dwelt in Jerusalem ; but the rest of the multitude returned 
 every one to their own country again." 
 
 " The ten tribes did not return to Palestine, only two tribes 
 served the Romans after Palestine became a Roman province." 
 .\ntiq. xi. 3, 10 and v. 2. 
 
 Josephus, when speaking of ICzra and his doings, says, " So 
 ICzra read the Epistles of Xerxes at Babylon to those Je\^s 
 that were there .... and sent a copy of it to all those 
 of his own nation that were in Media, and .... man\- 
 of them took their effects with them, and came to Jerusalem, 
 but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in 
 that country ; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia anJ 
 Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond 
 the PLuphrates till now, and are an immen.sc multitude." 
 
 Jerome says, " The ten tribes inhabit to this da}' the cities 
 and mountains of the Medes." 
 
 Milman, in his historx, \'ol. 1. 418 p., says, "Twenty-five 
 thousand was the number of Jews who had the national spirit 
 and patriotism to leave their comfortable homes in Chaldea, 
 and go back to their burned cit}- and desolated countr)'." 
 
 Kitto states, " After the captivity we hear \'ery little of the ter- 
 ritories of the tribes, for ten of them never returned." 
 
 Can an\' one suppo.sc for a moment, that the above number 
 would be even a majorit\- of the two tribes, and of the few 
 people who went with them, much less of the ten tribes mixed 
 up with the two. If so, they must be badly mixed. 
 
 OBJECTION. 
 
 Another learned Profes.sor, says. " As Ezra u.ses the words, 
 " all Israel," therefore the whole twelve tribes were included, 
 and all went back with Ezra." It is too bad to have to send 
 another learned gent to the rear ; but they should know what 
 they are .saying. I affirm that the words " all Israel," do not 
 mean in all cases the twelve tribes. P'or example, observe 
 1 Kings, xii, 20, we arc told that " all Israel " came and made 
 
24 • • 
 
 Jeroboam King over " all Israel." Was Judah and Benjamin 
 there ? They were not. The twelve tribes did no such thing. 
 
 Again, King Rehoboam sent his Lord Chancellor to collect 
 tribute, and " all Israel," stoned him with stones, and he died, 
 ver. 1 8. Were the twelve tribes guilty ; Judah and Benjamin 
 would plead not guilty to the charge. Here, five times, the 
 words " all Israel " are used when the twelve were not includ- 
 ed. See also 2 Chron. xxx. 
 
 A Rev. Dr. makes quite a flourish over Ezra vi, 17, where it 
 is said : 
 
 " And for a sin oftering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the numi)er 
 of the tribes of Israel. " 
 
 " This," he said, " proves that the whole nation were represent- 
 ed in that sacrifice, and must have returned after the clecree b\ 
 Cyrus." This is certainly no proof that they were all present. 
 When in the daj^s of Ahab, " Elijah, on Mount Carmel, took 
 twelve .stones, according to the number of the twelve tribes of the 
 sons of Jacob." Does this prove that the twelve tribes served 
 Ahab } I shall not multiply references. Such objectors show 
 an ostrich-like unconsciousness of the nakedness of their situa- 
 tion. 
 
 WHEN ARE TMO.SE I'KO.MISES TO HE EULFIEl.El). 
 
 " The mills of the gods grind slowU- ; but they do grind." J I 
 is evidence of our great weakness of faith in the promises of 
 God, that we look for a speedy fulfilment of them ; the first 
 grand promi.se in the Bible is a promi.se of Christ's first coming, 
 and it was not fulfilled for 4,000 years. The divine promi.ser 
 was all the time preparing for its fulfilment. The second 
 promise given to man was a promise of his second coming. 
 
 The declarations of God against the Jews that they should 
 be dispersed, scattered, reproached, &c., were not to be fulfilled 
 until after the death of Christ. Judah was not then dispersed, 
 nor had Israel then been lost. The judgments had not then 
 overtaken the one, nor the blessings come upon the other. 
 Those blessings must all follow the full accomplishment of the 
 promise of the Lamb of God provided as a sacrifice for our 
 sins. All history assures us, that the predicted punishment 
 has fallen upon the one ; and it is onl)' reasonable to expect 
 that the blessings are being enjoyed by the other. The bless- 
 ings and the curses are proceeding from the .same source, were 
 spoken of at the same time, and belong to the same dispen.sa- 
 tion. 
 
 Those promised blessings to Israel could not be anticipated 
 
 
^5 
 
 and Benjamin 
 
 no such thing. 
 
 :ellor to collect 
 
 :s, and he died. 
 
 and Benjamin 
 
 five times, the 
 
 ere not includ- 
 
 vi, 17, where it 
 
 ling to the nunihei 
 
 vcre represent- 
 ■ the decree b\ 
 2re all present. 
 t Carmel, took 
 i^e tribes of the 
 tribes served 
 objectors show 
 of their situa- 
 
 Il.l.Kl). 
 
 lo<rrind." it 
 - promises of 
 cm ; the first 
 s first comint;, 
 /ine promiser 
 
 The second 
 d comincj. 
 
 they should 
 to be fulfilled 
 en dispersed, 
 lad not then 
 >n the other, 
 hment of the 
 ificc for our 
 
 punishment 
 
 )le to expect 
 
 The bless- 
 
 source, were 
 
 me dispen.sa- 
 
 ^ anticipated 
 
 during Israel's stay in the Holy Land. They never yet had 
 possession of more than one-twentieth of their promised in- 
 heritance. 
 
 The Lord said, " he would give them all the land from the 
 river of Egypt (the Nile) unto the great river, the river Euph- 
 rates, Gen. XV, 18. The {)rophet E/.ek, xxxxviii ch., makes out 
 the boundaries of that land ; it includes a territory 300,000 
 miles square. The land given by lot to the tribes was of very 
 small proportions when compared with the promised posses- 
 sion. Yet, small as it was, thc)- did not conquer that fully. 
 The Philistines held a large pcMtion of it on the south coast 
 and the Syro-l^hcenicians on the north coast. Solomon had, 
 in his palmy days, a sort of nominal sway (wer the surround- 
 ing nations, through his many wives and concubines who 
 secured the tribute from some of the outlying provnices. But 
 the territory promised to Abraham, and surveyed by Ezckiel, 
 they have never yet owned. 
 
 Nor could those promises be expected during the " many 
 's " of their wanderings. They could not take effect until 
 those tribes became united under the monarchy of the long 
 promised seed royal. 
 
 ! The kingdom of Israel is compared to a dixorced wife, the 
 Lord, the husband, says, Hos. ii, 7. 
 
 ■' And Mhe shall follow after hei lovei>, but she shall not overtake tlicm ; and 
 hlie shall seek them, but sliall not find tlum : then shall she say, I will ^o and 
 return to my first hnsband ; for ttien icas it better with me than now. 14 There- 
 fore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak cum- 
 fortal)lv unto her. 15 And I. will give her her vuieyards from thence, and the 
 valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall siiij^ there, as in the days of her 
 youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it 
 shall beat that day, saith the LoiU), tkat thou shalt call me Ishi ; and shalt call 
 me no more IJaali. 17 For 1 will take away the name^ ol Baalim out of her 
 mouth, and they shall ni> more be remembere' by their name. 19 And I will be- 
 troth thee unto me fen- ever ; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and 
 in judgment, and in loving-kindne.ss, anfl in mercies. 2o I will even betroth thee 
 unto me in faithfulness ; and thou shalt know the LoKU. 2} And I will >ow her 
 unto me in the earth ; and I will have nurcy upon her that had not obtained 
 mercy ; and I will say to tliein ivhich ivcrc not my people, 'rinni art my ])eopIe ; 
 and they shall say. Thou art my (Jod." 
 
 TFT. LOST ARE FOUND. 
 
 The house of Israel was compared to a flock of sheej) that 
 had strayed far away from their fold and pastures. Ezek. xxxiv, 
 6. Thus saith the Lord, " Woe be to the shepherds of Israel 
 that do feed themselves and not the flock." 
 
 "6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill : 
 yea. my flock was scattered upon all the face of .he earth, and none did search or 
 seek after them. 
 
26 
 
 (But they were in safe k-eepin^^ though under his chasteniiu 
 rod.) 
 
 *"ll For thus saith the Loid (.i(Ji) ; Behold, I, fvi:n I, will both search nii 
 sheep, and seek them out. 1 2 As a shepherd seekelh out his flock in the day tha 
 he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and wil 
 deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy anc 
 dark day. 13 And I will brinj; them mit from the people, and gather them froii 
 the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon tin 
 mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all th^ inhabited places of the country 
 14 I will feed them in a gootl pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shal 
 their fold be : there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they 
 feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause then; 
 to lie down, saith the Lord (iop. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring 
 again that which was driven away." 
 
 So the divorced wife is brought home, and the lo.st sheep 
 are to be sought and found and restored. 
 
 In Mat. XV ch., 24, Jesus said of himself, " I am not sent but 
 unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." To his apo.stlcs 
 he had said, " Go not in the way of the Gentiles, nor to the 
 Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the hou.se of 
 Israel." 
 
 Many of our Lord's most touching parables clearly pointed 
 out the lost Israel. The parables of the lost trea.sure, of the 
 lost silver, the lost sheep, and the lost son, while the lost was 
 in every case found amid great rejoicings. 
 
 The good Shepherd knew that his wandering ones, his lost 
 Israel, were off to the north and west, and there he .sent his 
 messages of love. 
 
 Paul's apostolic tours were made among them, and because 
 there was a colon)' of them in Rome, he sent his greetings, " to 
 all that be in Rome, beloved of the Lord." And because there 
 was was a large colony of them in S{)ain, Paul plans his tour 
 to go to Spain. Rom. xv ch., 24. 
 
 Paul tells us, " That his heart's desire and prayer to God for 
 Israel is, that they might be saved." 
 
 The apo.stle James addres.sed his epistle " to the twelve 
 tribes who are in their dispersion." The Jews in Pale.stinc 
 could not be the persons here alluded to, for they were not yet 
 dispersed. 
 
 Peter addres.sed his letters " to the pilgrims of the disper- 
 sion." He called them a chosen generation, a royal priest- 
 hood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; which in times past 
 (during their Lo-Ammi condition, while divorced) were not a 
 people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained 
 mercy, but now have obtained mercy." 
 
 " Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers," (from Asia, 
 or Armenia, or Media; "and pilgrims, ab.stain from fleshly lusts. 
 
 
ler his cha.steniii< 
 
 , will both search n„ 
 lis flock in the day tha 
 ut my sheep, and wil 
 red in the cloudy anc 
 and gather them froii 
 lo feed them upon tlit 
 places of the country 
 nuntains of Israel shal 
 I fat pasture shall thev 
 
 and I will cause then; 
 h was lost, and brinq 
 
 27 
 
 which war against the soul, having your conversation honest 
 among the Gentiles." These parties, so addressed, were not 
 Gentiles, nor were they Jews, the)- were Israelites restored to 
 favour. 
 
 I'AUI. IN BKi'l'AlN. 
 
 Simeon said, "Jesus was set for the fall and the rising again 
 of many in Israel." These words would not appl)- to the Jews, 
 to them he was a stone of stumbling, &c. 
 
 There are eight years of Paul's ministerial life, to us. as \et, 
 shrouded in mystery ; would it be too much to say that those 
 years were spent in Britain ? Wc know that Caractacus. a 
 
 1 .1 I ,4. 1 ycd.is vvcic r5jjcuL Ml Diiiciiii : vv <_ isinvw liicil v^ttirtLLcit-U.i, c 
 
 sneci) British King, was a fellow-prisoner with Paul at Rome. V\\ 
 
 am not sent but 
 
 To his apostles 
 
 tiles, nor to the 
 
 of the house of 
 
 i clearly pointed 
 
 treasure, of the 
 
 lile the lost wa> 
 
 ig ones, his lost 
 here he sent his 
 
 2m, and because 
 is greetings, " to 
 id because there 
 I plans his tour 
 
 ayer to God for 
 
 'to the twelve 
 vs in Palestine 
 -y were not yet 
 
 of the dispei- 
 a royal priest - 
 
 in times past 
 -d) were not a 
 d not obtained 
 
 '," (from Asia, 
 m fleshly lusts, 
 
 know also that Claudia, daughter of this King, and Pudeiis, 
 her husband, and Linus, their son, were members of the Em- 
 peror's household, 2 Tim., iv, 21. We know that on the 
 return of this Royal household, Caractacus, Claudia and 
 Pudens to Britain, Christianity was introduced to those " Isles 
 of the West," and how natural and proper that, having enjoyed 
 the blessings of the Gospel in Rome, the) should plant the 
 standard in their own land. Would Paul not be likely to 
 accompany them, or to follow them after his visit in Spain, 
 especially as he knew that the tribe of Dan had a large colon)' 
 there. 
 
 That Claudia Ruffina was a g''eat favourite during her resid- 
 ence in Rome is certified in man)' a record. I here quote a 
 few lines translated from the Latin \ersc. The)- need no 
 comment : 
 
 Claudia Rukkina, raised beneath the sun 
 That shines on Britain's dark cerule.in race. 
 Whence comes it that thy heart is like our own ? 
 That thou hast such a beauteous form and face ? 
 
 The Roman matrons readily believe 
 
 That thou from them thy birthright didst receive ; 
 
 That, nurtured in this fair and smiling land. 
 
 Thy name to them a monument will stand. 
 
 When after ages shall have psissed away 
 
 And be as much commended as to-day I 
 
 The bird of song, the beauteous nightingale. 
 Would in its tribe thy presence gladly hail. 
 And claim thee as a warbler, sweet and fair, 
 As ever breathed its wild-notes on the air I 
 
 In the history of the Cymri of Wales, it is said that " Hid, " 
 an Israelite, came with Caractacus and family and introduced 
 the Gospel into these Islands. 
 
 Stillingfleet, in his origiufs Britannica affirms that some of 
 
28 
 
 I 
 
 U 
 
 the Apostles preached the ^^ospel in Britain. Eusebius, 
 Theodoret, and Jerome, our best ecclesiastical historians, say 
 that l^aul went to those Islands. Irenaeus says, " The Apostles 
 planted Christian Churches amon^ the Keltoi," — Celts. 
 
 IRELAND Nor MISSIONED FROM ROME. 
 
 Gildas says, " The sun of the gospel first illumined the 
 Island before the defeat of Boadicea." 
 
 Many of our modern writers give far too much credit to 
 Rome when thev sav that she missioned England and Ireland. 
 Those Islands had the pure worship of God before the Romans 
 sent their agents. The Irish Church was the last to submit to 
 the claims of the Koman Pontiff. She held firm by the Asiatic 
 customs. 
 
 Dr. Adam Clarke says on that point, " Ireland received the 
 Christian religion not from the West or the Roman Church 
 but from the East. The Irish were, from time immemorial, 
 accustomed to Eastern rites, and celebrated their Easter after 
 the Asiatic manner. I have myself noticed among this people 
 a number of customs both sacred and civil, that are of mere 
 Asiatic origin ; and not a few exact counterparts of some 
 among the patriarchs and ancient Jews, as mentioned in the 
 sacred writings, and were historians and chronologers to look 
 more towards the East, than towards the West, not only for 
 the origin of the religion of Ireland, in its early days, but for 
 the origin of the nation itself, they would probably get nearer 
 the source." 
 
 Some authors say, that " Bran, the father of Caractacus, 
 brought the gospel into Ireland, at the very time it was being 
 taken from the Jews." " The Church in those Islands," says 
 the Rev J. M. Hodge, M.A., "Was known to have been zeal- 
 ously opposed to Roman usurpation, and the English as a 
 Church and nation, to-day seem most nearly to answer to the 
 nation spoken of by our Lord in Matthew xxi, 43." 
 
 ISRAEL AND JUDAH DI.STINCT. 
 
 But we must return to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 
 
 We ha\'e no warrant for saying that the Jews of our Lord's 
 
 dr.- \v(.re of the ten tribes. " Many of the children of Israel 
 
 he turn to the Lord their God," was spoken of the future. 
 
 '.iith holpen his servant Israel," could not apply to the 
 
 /cause they refused his help. To his Israelitish, Ben- 
 
 . 1 followers, he said, Matthew xiii, 1 1, " Unto you (Israel) 
 
 it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to 
 
 '■{ 
 
 jf 
 
 ■I 
 
 fflv'Srg; 
 
39 
 
 Eusebius, 
 istorians, say 
 rhe Apostles 
 3elts. 
 
 lumined the 
 
 :h credit to 
 and Ireland, 
 the Romans 
 to submit to 
 'the Asiatic 
 
 'eceived the 
 lan Church 
 n memorial, 
 faster after 
 this people 
 re of mere 
 ;s of some 
 ned in the 
 ers to look 
 >t only for 
 ''s, but for 
 get nearer 
 
 aractacus, 
 was being 
 
 ds," says 
 5een zeal- 
 
 ish as a 
 VGv to the 
 
 ir 
 
 of Israel. 
 
 Lord's 
 of Israel 
 le future. 
 
 to the 
 sh, Ben- 
 i (Israel) 
 d, but to 
 
 f 
 
 them (Jews, it is not given, and Jesus quotes and applies, 
 I"aiah vi, 9, 10. See Matthew xiii, 14, 15. 
 
 " By 'learing ye (Jews) shall hear and shall not understand ; and leeing ye 
 (Jews) shall see and shall not perceive. I'or this people's hear', is waxed yt()s>, 
 and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed ; lest at any 
 lime they should see with tli(jir, eyes, and hear with tluir ears, and should uniler- 
 stand with tluir heart, and should he converted, and I should heal them. Hut 
 blessed are your eyes (Israel who became Christians) for you see. and your ear« 
 (Benjamites) for they hear." 
 
 Israel was his scattered flock and He went to seek them out 
 as he promised. Me draws a very broad line of distinction 
 between them and the Jews, and 1 le tells thcni so. To tlii; 
 Jews, He said, " Ye believe not, because ye are not of m>' 
 sheep," John x, 28. Anu then, bringing out the distinction 
 very clearly. He said, " My sheep hear my voice, and I know 
 them and they follow me." Then, having drawn the distinc- 
 tion so clearly, and told the Jews so [)Iainly of the true rela- 
 tion, " The)' took up stones again to stone him." 
 
 TWO CLASSKS. 
 
 (">ne Professor fails to see any distinction here ; Jesus saw it. 
 and the Jews saw it, hence the stones. It was Christ's grand 
 mission to redeem Israel, to save them, and employ them and 
 commission them to reform and save the world. If His mis- 
 sion was to the Jews, it was a signal failure, for after 1,800 
 years have passed they still hold to the law of Moses, and the 
 picture he then drew of them holds g^od to this da\-, Matthew 
 XV, 8. 
 
 " This people dravveth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with 
 tfidir lips ; but their heart is far from me. <) I'>ut in vain they do worship me. 
 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." 
 
 Jesus had well instructed his followers in the loss the Jew s 
 would sustain, and in the honour and blessing Israel would 
 receive, and they came to him and asked him, " Lord vvilt 
 thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel." 
 
 Peter, too, saw the distinction, and liis address at the Pen- 
 tecost shows it. He had both Jews and Israelites in that 
 audience. Acts ii, 14, " Ye men of Judea, be this known unto 
 you," and then ver. 22, " Ye men of Israel, hear these words, 
 Jesus of Nazareth .... ye (Jews) have taken and by 
 wicked hands, &c." These were the unbelieving Jews, mock- 
 ing, and calling hard names, and the men of Israel. Benjam- 
 ites, who were given, we are told, " to be a Hgbt always in 
 Jerusalem, i Kings, xi, 34, upon whom the promised spirit 
 had come." They all listened to him (Peter) until he came to 
 
 ■ji^ 
 
30 
 
 the grand appeal to the Israeh'tes, representative men, Parth- 
 ians and Medes, &c., and to them he said, " Therefore let all 
 the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that 
 same Jesus, whom ye (Jews) have crucified, both Lord and 
 Christ." Who can avoid seeing the two houses, Judah and 
 Israel, represented here, the people that mocked, and used 
 uj^'ly words, were not the same as those " who speak with new 
 tongues." 
 
 The Medes were represented at this Pentecost, and it was 
 all important that they should carry home the wondrous tid- 
 ings of a world's redeemer. This important message was sent 
 to Israel by one who well knew where they were. " Let all 
 the house of Israel know." 
 
 As to Israel returning with the Jews after the decree by 
 Cyrus, no greater wrong can be done to numerous portions of 
 the Scriptures, than such an assumption, Isaiah xi, 1 1 : 
 
 " And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand 
 .-ifjain the second time to recover the remnant of his people, whicli shall be left, 
 from Assyria, and from Kgypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, 
 and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the Islands of the sea." 
 
 Here a second return is spoken of There was one return 
 from Egypt, when the whole twelve tribes were brought into 
 the promised land. The second return is yet in the future ; 
 when that time comes they are to come from the East and 
 from the West, and from the Isles of the West. There is not 
 one word said of a third return, Isaiah xlix, 12 : 
 
 " Behold these shall come from far : and, lo, these from the north and from 
 the west : and these from the land of .Sinim." 
 
 We must do violence to our common sense, if we take these 
 promises as referring to the return of the Jews from Babylon. 
 
 WHien the time comes for the second return the Lord says, 
 Amos, ix, 14 : 
 
 "And 1 will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall 
 build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink 
 the wine thereof ; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And 
 1 will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their 
 land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God." 
 
 The Jews were " pulled up " out of their land and have 
 been away from it for 1,800 years. 
 
 Before the second return Israel is to be a vast multitude, as 
 the sands and stars for number, Hos, i, lo. 
 
 The Jews were, at most, only a few thousands. When 
 Israel returns the second time, there is to be a grand union 
 with Judah, Jeremiah iii, 13 : 
 
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 ;refore let all 
 th made that 
 th Lord and 
 s, Judah and 
 ed, and used 
 eak with new 
 
 it, and it was 
 /ondrous tid- 
 sage was sent 
 -c. " Let all 
 
 le decree by 
 IS portions of 
 ci, I I : 
 
 all set his hand 
 ich shall be left, 
 , and from Elain, 
 lea." 
 
 s one return 
 brought into 
 the future ; 
 le East and 
 There is not 
 
 north and from 
 
 e take these 
 
 )m Babylon. 
 
 Lord says, 
 
 and they shall 
 'ards, and drink 
 them. 15 And 
 
 up out of their 
 
 and have 
 
 ultitude, as 
 
 ds. When 
 'and union 
 
 •* In those <lays the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and 
 they shall come together out of the north to the land that I hsive given for an in- 
 heritance unto your fathers." 
 
 It is to be a united return, then " Ephraim shall not envy 
 Judah and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." 
 
 When the Jews returned they were at enmity with each 
 other, and vexed one another. 
 
 When Israel return.s, the Isles will wait for him, and the 
 ships of Tarshi-sh will bring them, Isaiah Ix, 9. 
 
 This could not be said of the Jews ; Isles, and ships, were 
 very scarce about Babylon. 
 
 When Israel returns, "They shall possess their possessions 
 (Obadiah 17), and have immense wealth." 
 
 The Jews were much impoverished when they returned, and 
 tfeey have never owned a country since. 
 
 When Israel returns, " They are to be built up as at the 
 first," Jeremiah xxxiii, 7. 
 
 The Jews were pulled down by all the Gentiles around 
 them. 
 
 When Israel returns the second time, the Lord said, " That 
 he would do better for them than he did at the first," Ezekiel 
 xxxvi, II. 
 
 , With the Jews it was worse and worse until they were finally 
 scattered. 
 
 The return of Israel to their own land is to be an end of 
 their sorrows, " They shall sing in the height of Zion," and 
 Isaiah xxxv, 10 : 
 
 . " And the ransomed of the I.okd shall return, and come to Zion with son^s 
 atid everlasting joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
 sighing shall flee away." 
 
 The Jews have wept and mourned ever since. 
 
 When Israel returns, they will find a new experience, and a 
 new way of telling it, Jeremiah xvi, 14, 15. 
 
 There was no such blessing for the Je^vs. 
 . When Israel returns, they are to come home a redeemed 
 people, saved of the Lord, under the gospel, or the new cov- 
 enant, Isaiah liv, 13. 
 ; It was not .so with the |ews. 
 
 When Israel returns, the Lord will make an everlasting 
 Covenant of peace with them, Ezekiel xxxvii, 26. 
 
 With the Jews it was a covenant of war. 
 
 When Israel returns, the second time, they are to be 
 l|ssociated as one of three great powers united in an inter- 
 lliational policy ; having a pure form of worship, and she is to 
 l|e united with Egypt and Assyria, Isaiah xix, 23. 
 
 
f 
 
 32 
 
 Tile Jews came home alone. 
 
 When Israel returns they are to be a blessing to all tik . 
 surrounding nations, ICgypt is to be smitten and healed. , 
 
 The Jews could not be said to be a blessing in any nationa! 
 
 sense. 
 
 to 
 
 When Israel returns they shall possess the whole land, ,1 
 territory 300.OCK) scjuare miles o( {)r()mised land, about twict , 
 and a half as large as Great Britain and Ireland together. Sci 
 Dr. Keith's Land of Israel. ^"' 
 
 The Jews after their return were never independent of foreign S** 
 control, and had possession only of a small part of the land. **^ 
 
 When Israel returns the land shall be allotted to them on ,1 «♦ 
 diffeient plan, and the tpbes differently located, ]'>.ekiel xlvii: ^^f 
 
 When the Jews returned it was not so. ^^ 
 
 When Israel returns, they are to come " one of a city andbriai 
 two of a tribe," /. c. representatively, Jeremiah iii, 14. 
 
 It was not so with the Jews. 
 
 When Israel returns, many nations shall be joined unti 
 them, and nations shall be born in a day, Zech. ii, 11. 
 
 It was not so with the Jews. 
 
 THK NOk Til AND WKS'I". 
 
 EOU 
 
 shall 
 ofth< 
 
 When on a former occasion God sent a message to them seed > 
 He said to Jeremiah iii, \2 : '"^ 
 
 '■ (io and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou back H 
 sliding Israel, saith tlie LoKD ; and I will not cause mine anjjer to fall upon you fofnr 
 for i (ini merciful, saith the I.ORD, nnd I will not keep niii^ii- lor ever, ^"'j 'U/pc 
 acknowietUe thine inic|uity, that thou hast transgressed atfainst the Lord thy Ciod. ''~' 
 and hast scattered thy ways to the stran^'crs under every green tree, and ye have QUlt 
 not obeyed my voice, saith the I.dRD. Turn, O backslidinfj children, saith tin fof ( 
 lx>Ki) ; for 1 am manied unto you ; and I will take you one of a city, and two oi 
 a family, and 1 will brini^ you to Zion. And I will yive you |iastors according ti 
 mine heart, which shall feeil you with knowledge and understanding. 
 And they shall come out of the land of the North to the land that I have given ft'i "W 
 an inheritance to your fathers." ^^ „ 
 
 " So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the West.' |.jQg 
 Isaiah xliii, 5, " I will bring thy .seed from the East and gathei Rq^ 
 them from the West." llos. xi, 10, " They shall tremble fromunti 
 the West. ' gjye 
 
 Jeremiah xxxi, 8, "Behold I will bring them from theses 
 North country and gather them from the coasts of the earth.' Jg 
 
 Isaiah xlix, 12, " Behold these shall come from far '^Yari.sh the 
 and lo, these from the North and from the West ; and these nfoj 
 from the land of Siuim." The vulgate has it Australi. Jc 
 
 Zech. viii, 7, " Behold I will .save my people from the lOastcy^s 
 country, and from the West country." The margin reads, ledg 
 " I*>om the going down of the sun.'' was 
 
 1-4 
 
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33 
 
 tlk 
 
 ^s.sing to all 
 lul healed, 
 in any national 
 
 It is very evident that when they are to return to their own 
 laild they are to come from the North and West, and from 
 , the Islands, and sea coasts. In the Hebrew there is no word 
 to express north-west, or north-east. 
 
 NEW EXPKRIEWCE. 
 
 e whole land, ,i 
 
 nd, about twict ~, „ , , • i ■ n r 
 
 I «;,vrether Sci The Prophet Jeremiah also tells us of a new experience 
 *^ which Israel would love to tell after their return. It would 
 
 ^ndent of forei"i! Sft^^^Y ^^'P "^^"7 o^ "^ to get a new experience ; that old one 
 rtof the land.^ ^^v^^^*"" "^^""^^ threadbare, xvi ch., 14, 15 :— 
 
 ed to them on a ** Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more he 
 
 d ICzekiel xlviil ""^ '^^^ Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
 
 EiHpt. But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the 
 
 huHd of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them : and 1 will 
 
 IC of a city and bllig them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers." 
 
 '''• '4- '-Andxxiii, 5 :— 
 
 be ioined untu ** Behold, the davs come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a nght- 
 .. •' com Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judijment and 
 
 1- "1 '1- jl^^c^ to the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safe- 
 
 tyjand this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHT- 
 BOUSNE.SS. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they 
 rimill no more say. The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out 
 of the land of Egypt. But, the LoKD liveth, which brought up and which led the 
 
 essage to theni, seBd of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whithei 
 I llfid driven them ; and they shall dwell in their own land." 
 
 Here, in two places, we have the same thing in a diversified 
 
 Return, thou back 
 
 uer to fall upon you foym, .some slight variations. The return from the North and 
 
 !(ir for ever. Only 
 
 the Lord thy Ckxl. 
 n tree, and ye have* 
 children, saith llu' 
 
 fa city, and t>vo oi 
 jiastors according ti 
 nding. 
 
 hat I have given fui 
 
 West was to be on such a magnificent scale that it would 
 quite exceed in glory the wondrous deliverance wrought out 
 for our fathers when they left the land of Egypt. 
 
 OUR BLINDNESS. 
 
 om the West.' 
 !ast and gather 
 ill tremble from 
 
 hem from the 
 s of the earth.' 
 )in far ' Yarish 
 st ; and these 
 Uistrali. 
 from the T^ast 
 margin reads, 
 
 We must not forget the fact, that a kind of blindness, a 
 ** Porosis," has fallen upon the people of Israel ; the Lord said. 
 Hos. ii, 6, "They would not find their paths." Paul says, 
 Romans xii, 25, " Blindness in part hath happened to Israel 
 until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." " God hath 
 given them the spirit of slumber ; eyes, that they should not 
 se^ and the rest were blinded." 
 
 Isaiah xxix, 10, " For the Lord hath poured out upon you 
 the spirit of a deep sleep, and hath clo.'^ed your eyes : the 
 prophets and rulers, the seers hath he covered." 
 
 Isaiah xliii, 8, they are called " The blind people that have 
 ey^s." They had lost their identity ; they had lost all know- 
 leld^e of themselves and of their ancestry. That blindness 
 ¥fas judicial. It was a part of their punishment connected 
 
34 
 
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 m 
 
 \ -n 
 
 %y||^_ 
 
 with their wanderings in the North and West, and it ws 
 necessary for the great future that lay before them, that tht - 
 should be lost to themselves and to other nations. 
 
 Rut they were in safe keeping for the Lord said, Isai;,^f*^ 
 
 woi 
 
 xlii, r6 
 
 Ezekiel xii, 14 :- 
 
 " Anil 1 will bring the blind by a way that they knew not ; I will lead thenipf j. 
 paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, a 
 crooked things straight. Tlicse things will I do unto them, and not forsake then'^^I 
 
 aga 
 to < 
 
 '• Again the word of the Lork came unto me, saying. Son of man, thy brethat 
 ren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindreci, and all the house of Israel whoii^f*. 
 are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from : , 
 Lord : unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, 'I'hus sa*"**' 
 the LordGon; Although 1 have cast them far ofi" among the heathen, and aithouthat 
 I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little ^siauft 
 tuary in the countries wliere they shall come. Therefore say, thus saith the l,c 
 (ion : I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the coe 
 tries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land ot Israel." 
 
 T 
 
 Here, the Jews, as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, are fouFj,|g^ 
 
 claiming the land exclusively as theirs ; but the Lord assur/^ng 
 
 :onc 
 
 Israel of their return to the land, and of his protection 
 " little sanctuary," until that return takes place. 
 
 THE LAND UNSOLD, 
 
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 :hc 
 orov 
 
 Before going any farther, 1 want to remind you that 
 Lord has kept that land for them these 3,797 years. 
 Lev. XXV, 23, it is said, " The land shall not be sold for evcj^ort 
 for the land is mine." Pagan, Papalin, Turk, Assyrian, Egyf^ayj 
 lan and Roman have each claimed that land as their o\Very 
 and yet, there, in the eye of three continents it has remain;racii 
 unsold, or unoccupied except by a few wandering Arabs, orjf ^^ 
 few squatters ; until the last few years when the Turkish Gcmcc! 
 ernment authori.scd the transfer of a kind of title to purcha 
 ers, and here last year, that whole , ountry to the Bosphorus 
 placed under the protection of Gr<iat Britain. TIi 
 
 It is worthy of note what Obaaiah says, 20 : — n at 
 
 " And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of'S'O" 
 Canaanites, even unto Zarephath ; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which u.'d fr 
 Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. And saviours shall come up7crfr; 
 mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau : and thekincdom shall be the Lord's."* 
 
 UP TO THE BOSPHORUS. )f Qs 
 
 The Septuagint reads, " and the captivity of Jerusalem ^ *' 
 to Ephratha ;" the Latin vulgate reads, " Up to the Bosph'^ ^^ 
 us." And so from the cities of the South up to the Bosphoi^^OOi^ 
 is now under the direct protection of the children of Isr^^**h 
 under another name, as was spoken 600 years B, C. nank 
 
 J^ 
 
35 
 
 IVest, and it w; karia' and i,ATTP:k rain. 
 
 c them, that the '^Yxcjc is another remarkable fact worthy of note, the Lord 
 5'°"'T . , . . said, *' I will make the rain of thy land powder and dust, and 
 Lora said, isais^j^ heavens shall be as brass, and the earth iron," and " He 
 would withhold the early and the latter rain." &c. For want 
 ot ; I will lead them Qfjjjjp those land jobbers had a sorr\ time of it even in those 
 ,'!Snorfo7sakMhe>08t fertile valleys. But the early and the latter rain has 
 again been given by him who said, " 1 will cause the shower- 
 to come down in his season." And now we are informed 
 Son of man, thy brtthirt all that land is being refreshed with the early and the 
 2 house of Israel whoiji^lllg,. ^^jp a^jj shrubs, and fruits, and flowers are everywhere 
 erelore^°a"y,''VhuTsa*d<*''ning the long desolated land. Even shrubs and flowers 
 he heathen,'ancl althouthat have not been sccii for centuries are again in full bloom 
 to them as a little »a;j^|i(} beauty. 
 say, thus saith the l.( r 
 
 )le you out of the co; f VAI.UAHl.K rKSTIMONV. 
 
 ^e land ot Israel. " -,, ,^ ,.. , ^ , r r , , , • • 
 
 The Rev. Hishop Gobat, ot Jerusalem, expressed his views 
 
 rusalem, are fouidearly and firmly and said, " That a solid ground for the 
 t the Lord assur^l^Jglo.l^j^v^ori Israelitish hypothesis existed in the fact, that 
 lis protection as^o^here else had Kphraim been found fulfilling the required 
 ace. zohditions of the Scriptures." 
 
 Mr. Robert M impress says, " We are found as the posterity 
 jf Joseph were to be found, blessed through the cross, and in 
 ind you that tl^Ji^ name of the Redeemer of Israel ; also with natural and 
 3»797 years, providential blessings as promised to our fathers. And it is 
 be sold for evCiyorthy of remark that the English race, in whom is so re- 
 Assyrian, Egyiiiarkably fulfilling the destiny of Ephraim, came from the 
 and as their o\Very quarter where Ephraim was lost. Our best historians 
 s it has remaitiiracing the Anglo-Saxon race back, eastward, to the borders 
 dering Arabs, orjf the Caspian Sea, in which neighbourhood our Israelitish 
 
 the Turkish Gcmcestors were located b\- the Assyrians." 
 bf title to purcha ^^^^ records. 
 
 o the Bosphoru? ■' 
 
 The testimony of those last witnesses will have due influence 
 
 ;o: n any Court. It may be proper here to draw on Jewish 
 
 shall i>ossess that of'^^^^ion for a last glimpse of the ten tribes as they disappear- 
 ■ Jerusalem, which "kI from their view. This we have in the second book of 
 iours shall come upis^jras xiii, lo There we are informed that the ten tribes 
 shall be the LoRDs.y^j,^ carried away prisoners out of their own land, in the time 
 )f Osea, the King, whom Shalmanassar, the King of Assyria, 
 v of Terusaiem ®^ away captive, and he carried them over the waters ; and 
 Jo to the Bosph'O came they into another land. But they took counsel 
 D to the Bosphoi*"*Of'S themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the 
 children of Isr:*^*^^"- ^^^ go forth into a further country where never 
 B C nankind dwelt, that they might keep their statutes which 
 
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 36 
 
 they never kept in their own land. And they entered iiit 
 Euphrates by the narrow passage of the river. For the Mo; 
 High then showed signs lor them, and held still the flood ti 
 they were passed over. For through that country there m 
 a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half, and the sarr 
 region is called Arsareth. They dwelt there until the lattf 
 time, and now when they shall begin to come, the Highe 
 shall stay the springs of the stream again that they may i 
 through. This is not as an inspired book, and yet its histor 
 may be valuable. To us, this is valuable so far as that 
 records the opinion some entertained two hundred years aft( 
 their captivity. It seems also like a resolution of men of son: 
 independence. It was a national act. They were free : 
 decide for themselves, and the distance to that country and i 
 locality is of some interest. We omit this for the present. 
 
 THE RIVER NOAH. 
 
 The Jews had another tradition on the subject of this gre 
 emigration, and that is, that the ten tribes went away we 
 beyond the rH'er Sabbatyon, or rest. It is worthy of no; 
 that the Germans still call the Danube the river of Noah, 
 of rest. If we follow up those great valleys on either side 
 that river, " Rest," we will be on one of the precise routes ti 
 Israelites took away to North Germany, Saxony, Denmark, & 
 So far the Jewish testimony goes. Now it was in these ve: 
 times, and in this very direction, that is, coming Noith wt 
 from Media and the Caspian Sea, that our ancestors are fir 
 traced in history and tradition. 
 
 Sharon Turner, quoting Diodorus, says, " The Scythia; 
 formerly an inconsiderable few, possessed a narrow region i 
 the Araxes, but by degrees they became more powerful 
 numbers and in courage. They extended their boundaries 
 all sides till at last they raised their nation to a great Empi 
 and to glory." Several hundred years before the captivity 
 Tead that several small colonies of the tribes went away Noi 
 and East to find room and pasturage : they were called Scyt 
 or wanderers. Whence come those Scythians } They stru 
 some terrible blows on the great despotisms of those da; 
 One of their kings became valiant and skilful in war, a; 
 added to their territory the regions about the Caucasus a: 
 the plains towards the sea, and the Palus Maotis, Sea 
 Moses, (now Sea of Azov) with the surrounding counti 
 They subdued many nations there, and spread into Euro 
 from the Don to the Danube, taking a westerly direction. 
 
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37 
 
 THEIR CENTRAL ROUTE. 
 
 they entered int All along this route those people left traces of themselves.. 
 i^er. For the Moi lllSDrth of the Caucasian Mountains there are vast plains now 
 d still the flood ti covered by immense numbers of tumuli, or tombs. Dr. 
 country there wj Clarke's travels describes those as beautiful in workman- 
 half, and the sarr i^ip, and indicating great skill in the art of building. The 
 isre until the lattt ifoms are arched, made of white marble. In the tombs are 
 come, the Highe jpund pottery, jewelry, trinkets, bracelets, gold, and precious 
 that they may ^ iwbnes, and evidences of labour so prodigious, and expenditure 
 and yet its histor i6 enormous, as to remind one of the Pyramids of Egypt, the 
 Caverns of Elephanta, and the first temples of the ancient 
 
 so far as that 
 undred years afti 
 ion of men of sorr 
 They were free : 
 ;hat country and i 
 for the present. 
 
 ibject of this gre 
 s went away we 
 is worthy of no: 
 ; river of Noah, 
 ^s on either side 
 i precise routes t! 
 ony, Denmark, & 
 : was in these ve 
 oming Noith we 
 ancestors are fir 
 
 i, "The Scythia 
 L narrow region i 
 more powerful 
 heir boundaries 
 to a great Empi 
 re the captivity * 
 3 went away Nor 
 were called Scyt 
 ins .-• They stru 
 ms of tho.se dai 
 kilful in war, a; 
 the Caucasus a: 
 (s McBotis, Sea 
 rounding countf 
 >read into Euro 
 erly direction. 
 
 '^' Mr 
 
 A C;OLDEN SERPENT. 
 
 On one article alone can I now dwell ; it represented the 
 
 tdy of a serpent, carved in the form of an ellipse, having 
 o heads, which met at opposite points and made an open- 
 ing for the arm. Those heads were full of sparkling rubies 
 sind gems of rare value. The rest of the bracelet was adorned 
 iirith carved work. That serpent speaks of the " Brazen 
 iSerpent " of Mose.s, and of the idolatrous use it was put to 
 )fOO years after. 
 
 Carpenter says, " The Russian Archaeological Society 
 s brought to light many interesting Israelitish relics, and 
 scriptions, hundreds of epitaphs from tombs and monuments 
 lirhich speak of pre-Christian times. 
 
 In Spain, there stands a tombstone of one of the Honour- 
 itbles of King Solomon's Cabinet. The inscription reads, 
 " This is the tomb of Adoniram, the servant of King Solomon, 
 who came to collect tribute and died here." See i Kings iv, 
 iSy "And Adoniram was over the tribute." 
 
 COSSACK AND GAW-THEI. 
 
 ; These are way-marks by which we trace westward a power- 
 
 &1 and intelligent people, who believed in God, and claimed 
 
 J^oses as their prophet; the connection of those grave-yr '.- 
 
 id tomb stones with the Hebrew race is indisputable ; the 
 
 iscriptions are largely Hebrew; here is one of them, " This is 
 
 le tombstone of Buhi son of Izchak, the priest, may his rest 
 
 ,jjbe Eden, at the time of the salvation of Israel. In the year of 
 
 Sur exile 702," Facsimiles of three of these monuments have 
 
 >een sent to Petersburg. Tischindorf, Olshausen and Dr. 
 
 leige all endorse their antiquity. 
 
 The same relation may also be established with the Cossacks, 
 
38 
 
 Jfl ; 
 
 ii 
 
 1 
 
 a fine race of people on the Don, whose free institutions harCQI 
 existed so long, although surrounded by all the blight of despo kn 
 ism. In their name we have "Goi," sons of, and Saac," Gc siM 
 Isaac, Cossack, sons of Isaac. 
 
 It was in that country near the Danube that the Cimmeria; be 
 and the Gaw-thei, the people of God, called the Goths, took the tt* 
 rise and became mighty nations in their day. When the stor; £»li 
 cloud like a whirlwind passed away from Europe, new forms th< 
 government, new laws, new manners, new languages, ne 'Gc 
 dresses, new names of men and countries had been introduce a 
 Speed says that there were none among all the Germans " < 
 reputation for military deeds comparable to the Saxoi! of 
 Zozimus says " the Saxons were among the most valiant of ti: ^ 
 German races." b<? 
 
 ISRAEL AND SAXON. 
 
 all 
 
 m 
 
 Sir W. Temple says, " It is absurd to suppose that a peop: sh 
 who were so imbued with the spirit of government, that the th 
 
 have with little difficulty made laws for the greater part 
 Europe if not for the world, could be as they were called b 
 the Romans, a barbarous people." He further adds, " The 
 had their national records, which were called " Riifies," writte 
 in the Runic character, and because they excited the jealous 
 of the Romish priests they ordered the people to burn then 
 The Vohispa and the Edda have been preserved. In the; 
 system of jurisprudence ; in the administration of law b 
 twelve judges ; in their social order ; in the rights of property 
 in the provision made for ministers of religion ; in the institi 
 tions of chivalry ; in the science of heraldry, or symbols ; i 
 the association of freemasonry, linking the architecture c 
 Solomon with modern times ; in architec ure, carving, gilditi' 
 in the use of metals, in needle work, poetry and music w 
 trace our Israelitish origin. 
 
 THE NEW NAME. 
 
 We will now look around us for our Saxon ancestors ani 
 see if we can find any links connecting our fathers with thos 
 wanderers in the country and cities of the Medes. Where di 
 this large body of enterprising men go to .'' Where did oi 
 Saxon ancestors come from } 
 
 Dr. Abbadie, Amsterdam, in 1723, said, " Unless th 
 ten tribes have flown into the air, or have been plunged to th; 
 centre of the earth, they must be sought for in the North ant 
 West, and in the British Isles." 
 
 First, as to the name, " Saxon," the dictionaries say, i 
 
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 S 
 « 
 
 ir 
 £ 
 I 
 
 n 
 
 tl 
 
 \ 
 
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 < 
 
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39 
 
 w languages, ne 
 id been introduce 
 1 the Germans 
 to the Saxon 
 
 ie institutions haiCflftnes from " Scaxe" a short sword ; but short swords, or long 
 he blight of despo knives, were in use thousands of years before we hear of any 
 f, and Saac," Go sujch word as Saxon. 
 
 i As to the " new name " by which the Lord's people are to 
 lat the Cimmeria: b(^ known when he calls them to their own land, Isaiah tells us 
 le Goths, took the tibt^t it shall be a " new name which the mouth of the Lord 
 When the stor: shall name." We are to find the new name in the word of 
 urope, new forms tlie Lord ; not that we are to look for a new revelation from 
 God. It is to be found in the one he has given. 
 
 jjln former times this people were called " Hebrews," then 
 
 "idiildren of Abraham," then " sons of Jacob," and " children 
 
 q^Jlsrael ; but as we come down the stream of time we find 
 
 most valiant of tl' t)|ey are called, " sons of Isaac," Amos vii, i6. In the closing 
 
 bpoks of the Old Testament we find the new name. This 
 
 a,l|iO had been clearly revealed by God to Abraham when he 
 
 ip^de the promise, for he said, Genesis xxi, 12, " In Isaac 
 
 •pose that a peep ^all thy seed be called." This passage has been repeated on 
 
 -rnment, that the Wfrough the ages, until Paul tells us, Romans ix, 7, " In Isaac 
 
 he greater part ( ^all thy seed be called," also Hebrews xi, 18. "In Isaac." 
 
 ey were called b I|ow in Isaac .'' Drop the letter I, which is very common in 
 
 •ther adds, " The t^e East, and we have " Saac," the letter C is often found 
 
 d " i^««<?j,"writte Changed to K, and often to X, so we have Saax, which with 
 
 ^cited the jealous .t^e termination " ons," gives us Saaxons. 
 
 )ple to burn then 
 
 ■eserved. In the 
 
 tration of law b 
 
 rights of property 
 
 on ; in the institi 
 
 I -SAAC. 
 
 .yjDr. W. Holt Yates, says, " The word " Saxon " comes from 
 'ffions of Isaac," by dropping the prefix I. and adding the 
 alfix " ons." He gives us Saac, Saak, Saach, Saax, Sach-sen, 
 y, or symbols ; i .§ak-sen. He shows that in most of the Eastern languages 
 le architecture ( ^* sons of" is written "sunnia." As with us in Scotland "Mac " 
 ipf^eans, son of, thus, MacDonald, son of Donald ; and "Fitz" 
 in England, thus FitzWilliam, son of William. So in the 
 JEast, " Saac-Sunnia " means sons of Saac, or sons of Isaac. 
 I|t is a little curious to glean from the history of those ancient 
 nations, and from the stone monuments of those early times, 
 f^e various forms in which this word is to be found. I will 
 ^re insert a few from a list of my own gleaned from ancient 
 history. Thus, " sons of Isaac," sons of Saac, Saac-Sunnia, 
 
 tiac Sunia, Saac-Suna, Saac-Sena, Saca-pena, Esakska.Sacae- 
 myrqui, Beth-Sakai, Sunia-Sakai, Sakai-Suna, Saca-Suna, 
 Sacse-Sunae, Sackasina, Sachka-Sunnia, Sacacine, Saka-Suna, 
 ,Sacas-Sani, Sakas-Saini, Saxi-Suna, Sach-Suna, Sachi, Sacha, 
 j|akah, Saachus, Saacus, Sacho, Saxo, Saxoi, Saxonia, Sax- 
 •^ERies, Saxae, Sach-sen, Sacksen, Saxe-Sen, Saxone, Saxony, 
 :^xon. " In Isaac shall thy seed be called." 
 
 ■e, carving, gildinj 
 try and music w 
 
 3n ancestors an 
 
 ithers with thos 
 
 edes. Where di 
 
 Where did 01 
 
 id. "Unless th 
 en plunged to th; 
 n the North an( 
 
 tionaries say, 
 
40 
 
 ! >l 
 
 iini '■' 
 
 'III 
 
 But I must now produce proof from reliable authors, tha 
 those people were so called. I will not quote a tenth part o 
 what I have on hand. I have before me a very ancient ma; 
 of the country of the Medes, and directly north of the Mede 
 we find a most fertile valley called Sacasena and Sacapem 
 These names are on the map. Those valleys were so callei 
 from those tribes during their residence there. 
 
 NEARER HOME. 
 
 In Rev. L. Porter's "Giant Cities of Bashan" this interestir 
 item " Turning away from Batanea we rode along the mour 
 tain side eastward to ' Shuka'; this is a very old town. Ptole 
 my calls it " Saecaea." Only a few of its antique houses re 
 main, and its shattered ruins of temples are seen on every sidt 
 Around Shuka ire tombs and towers, with numerous tablets ove 
 the doors whici' record the names of the dead who once la; 
 there. There cnn be no mistake as to who these people were 
 here called Sacaea, ...-td here we find them in the land of Isra 
 el, on the northern slope of the mountains of Bashan, overloolv 
 ing the boundless plains of Damascus. Here the Sacaea ar 
 traced to the very place where our Saxon-Israelites, sons o 
 Isaac, lived before their captivity. 
 
 Strabo, the great Greek historian who lived 19 A. D., say: 
 " The most ancient Greek writers called the people who live 
 beyond the Caspian sea Sacae or Messegatae. In modern pai 
 lance Saxons and Goths. He also says, those people calb 
 the " Sacae " got possession of the most fertile valleys in Ar 
 menia, which was called after their own name, Sacca-senae 
 The historian and the map are clear proofs of the existence 
 such a people. 
 
 Diodorus of Sicily says, "The Sacae sprung fiom a peopl 
 in Media, who obtained a vast and glorious empire." 
 
 Ptolemy mentions a Scythian race sprung from the Saka 
 called Saxones, they came, he said from the country of th 
 Medes. 
 
 Pliny says, " The Sakai were among the most distinguishei 
 people of Scythia who settled in Armenia, and were calle 
 Sacca-sani," 
 
 Albinus said, " The Saxons were descended from the ancier 
 Sacae of Asia, and that in the process of time they came to b 
 called Saxons." 
 
 /Eschylus, the celebrated Grecian poet specially mention 
 that, "The Sacae were noted for good laws, and were pre 
 eminently a righteous people." 
 
 " Prideaux says, " The Cimbrians were driven from thef 
 
 ^'-'- 
 
41 
 
 able authors, tha 
 te a tenth part c 
 very ancient ma: 
 >rth of the Mede 
 la and Sacapent 
 eys were so callei 
 e. 
 
 ,n" this interestin 
 ; along the mour 
 ' old town. Ptole 
 intique houses re 
 seen on every sidt 
 nerous tablets ove 
 ead who once la 
 these people wen 
 n the land of Isra 
 Bashan, overlook 
 re the Sacaea ar 
 Israelites, sons o 
 
 ed 19 A. D., say 
 
 ; people who live 
 
 In modern pai 
 
 ose people calle 
 
 ile valleys in Ar 
 
 ne, Sacca-senae 
 
 the existence 
 
 ng fiom a peopl 
 
 mpire." 
 
 ', from the Saka 
 
 le country of th 
 
 ost distinguish^ 
 and were callei 
 
 from the ancier 
 they came to b 
 
 icially mention 
 5, and were pre 
 
 riven from thei 
 
 .country by a people called Asa;e, who came from betv;een 
 'the Euxine and Black Seas, and from whom came those Angli, 
 iwho, with the Saxons, afterwards took possession of England," 
 On the Nineveh marbles, we read that a people called 
 tEsak-ska rebelled against the Assyrians about 670 B. C, that 
 ■is nearly fifty years after the captivity. 
 
 In 516 B. C. Darius Hystaspes inscribed on a famous rock 
 , called the ** Behistan," the history of " Iskunka," the chief of 
 the Sacae who rebelled against him. 
 
 t. Palgrave, in his History of the Anglo-Saxons, gives a draw- 
 ing (p. 221) of a Runic ring found in Norway, of the possible 
 date of the second century of the Christian era, when the 
 Scandinavian population were emigrating to the North of 
 jEurope, on which is engraved a perfect representation of a 
 J Greek cross, while a penny of our own Alfred the Great, coined 
 a thousand years ago, has on the obverse side the symbol of a 
 ^ Greek cross, the exact counterpart of the one which appears 
 ,jOn the head of Iskunka, the chief named on that famous rock 
 of Behistan. 
 
 Sharon Turner says, "The Saxons were a Scythian nation 
 
 J^nd were called Saca, Sacha, Saki, Sach-sen." He also says, 
 
 W' It is peculiarly interesting for us to consider the immigration 
 
 |of the Cymry, the Goths, and Saxons, because from these 
 
 i|]branches not only our own immediate ancestors, but also those 
 
 >|of the most celebrated nations of Europe have unquestionably 
 
 Mescended." 
 
 f The Rev. W. L. Bevan, writer of the article, " Gomer " in 
 ^Smith's dictionary of the Bible, justly observes that " Gomer is 
 _jenerally recognised as the progenitor of the early Cimmeri- 
 ans, of the later Cimbri, and the other branches of the Celtic 
 family, and the modern Gael and Cymry, the latter preserving 
 with very slight deviation the original name. After the 
 vcxpulsion of the Cimmerians from Asia Minor, their name disap- 
 ^pears in its original form ; but there can be no doubt that 
 tboth the name and the people are to be recognised in the 
 ^Cimbri, whose abodes were fixed during the Roman Empire 
 Jjn the north and west of Europe." 
 
 1 OBJECTION. 
 
 Rev. Mr. says, " There is one difficulty about the Scyth- 
 ians /. e. the fact of their name appearing frequently upon ancient 
 ;^'Assyrian tablets and cylinders, ages before Israel was carried 
 captive." I have quoted his own words exactly. This objec- 
 tion vanishes at once, when you see several colonies of those 
 'Very same people migrating to that country ages before the 
 
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42 
 
 captivity. Is that so ? Yes it is ! In Genesis xxxviii ch., 30, 
 we read of one Zarah, a brother of Pharez, son of Judah, who 
 became a Scythe, a wanderer, he and his whole family of 
 five sons, i Chronicles ii ch., 6. Moreover, this family took 
 with them members of all the tribes, and went away north 
 east, and founded a Scythian nation. It was not long until a 
 colony of Simeon followed them away in the fertile valleys of 
 the east, where they found " fat pasture and good, and wide, 
 and quiet, and peaceable," 1 Chronicles iv ch., 39. The sons 
 of Reuben, also went away to the Euphrates and joined the 
 former Scythes, and grew up a strong nation in a few years, 
 1 Chronicles v ch., 9 : — 
 
 " And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the 
 river Euphrates : because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. And 
 in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand : and 
 they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead." 
 
 Reuben and of Gad, with 44,000 of an army, 
 ant of themselves in the work of extension, 
 
 also the sons of 
 a gO' d a 
 
 gave 
 18 
 
 " The soib 
 
 • if Kcuben, 
 1-. 
 
 ip'l Mie Gadiles, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of val- 
 iant men, meii abic v bea. ijuukier and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful 
 in war, xvere four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out 
 to the war. And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, 
 and Nodab. And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were 
 delivered into their hand, and all that were with them : for they cried to God in 
 the battle, and he was intreated of them ; because they put their trust in him." 
 
 Here we have the names and the persons, wanderers, true 
 Scythians, in large numbers hundreds of years before Israel 
 were made captive ; they no doubt erected the tablets and 
 monuments referred to. 
 
 m 
 
 MIXTURE OF RACES. 
 
 Another objector says, " There is a great difficulty about 
 mixing so many nationalities together, and still claiming 
 for their descendants a distinct nationality, and the identity of 
 the same people." My reply must be brief. As to the admix- 
 ture of races, we do well to note what was forbidden and what 
 was allowed. For very good reasons the Ammonite and the 
 Moabite were utterly forbidden ; the offspring of an alliance 
 with them was not to be naturalized even in the tenth gener- 
 ation. The Edomite, on the other hand, could be admitted in 
 the third generation, because he was the descendant of Jacob's 
 brother. — Deuteronomy xxiii. Also the offspring of an Egypt- 
 ian alliance could be admitted in the third generation. We 
 must not forget that Joseph married an Egyptian wife ; their 
 
 
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43 
 
 s xxxviii ch., 30, 
 »n of Judah, who 
 whole family of 
 :his family took 
 i^ent away north 
 
 not long until a 
 fertile valleys of 
 
 good, and wide, 
 »., 39. The sons 
 J and joined the 
 1 in a few years, 
 
 le wilderness from tht 
 land of Gilead. And 
 :11 by their hand : and 
 d." 
 
 ,000 of an army, 
 •rk of extension. 
 
 I of Manasseh, of val- 
 with bow, and skilful 
 
 sescore, that went out 
 Jetur, and Nephish, 
 the Hagarites were 
 they cried to God in 
 
 eir trust in him." 
 
 wanderers, true 
 irs before Israel 
 the tablets and 
 
 diflficulty about 
 still claiming 
 the identity of 
 s to the admix- 
 idden and what 
 Tionite and the 
 of an alliance 
 le tenth gener- 
 be admitted in 
 dant of Jacob's 
 igof an Egypt- 
 ineration. We 
 ian wife ; their 
 
 1 
 
 jtwo sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, the objector would call half- 
 breeds, and would be troubled, no doubt, about calling them 
 .Israelites, but we find they were recognized at once as belong- 
 ing to the honoured twelve, and were so included and so 
 recorded, and especially blessed. 
 
 ^i We must also remember that in the genealogy of our Lord, 
 
 a Rahab, a Canaanitish Gentile woman of Jericho was required, 
 
 and a Ruth, a Moabitish heathen was permitted. If so, and 
 
 •so it is, this objection cannot amount to much. I cannot here 
 
 .^enlarge, nor is it necessary. 
 
 II'; 
 
 TARSHLSH. 
 
 •<• 
 
 It is necessary, here, that wc look for a moment at our 
 
 Biblical Geography. If our position be correct, we will have 
 
 ji strong argument drawn from this source, and so we have. 
 
 In the loth ch. of Genesis, we have the names of the countries 
 
 allotted to the sons and grandsons of Noah. 
 
 ■ " The Isles of the Gentiles," Calmct says, " included all those 
 
 lands to which they were wont to go by water." 
 ;; To Javan was given the British Isles, and I have an ancient 
 i-map by Ptolemy on which it is so named, England and Scot- 
 lland are named Javan. Those Isles on the ancient maps and 
 
 in the Bible are called, " Isles of the West." To Javan's two 
 v:Son.s, Tarshish and Kittim, was given the western coast of 
 
 Europe, that we name Spain, Portugal, and France. It also 
 fis so named on the ancient maps. Frequent mention is made 
 ;;in the Scriptures of " Tarshish," the Isles of Tarshish," and of 
 the ships of Tarshish," and " the men and commerce of 
 
 Tarshish," as also of Javan and Kittim, or Chittim. 
 
 : " Tarshish," says Hillier, "was the west coast of Europe, 
 iafterwards called Gaul, and in later limes, Spain and France." 
 . :' Bochart says, " All agree that Tarshish is Spain, sometimes 
 ;icalled Tartessus, from the two Greek words " Thars-eis " and 
 ;'** Nesas," the Islands of Tarshish. To this Ari.stotle, Stra- 
 j'ibe, Pausanias Avicrnus, all agree. Other learned ones say the 
 -fvord comes from " Tar," a border, or round about, and " shish," 
 
 white, or bright, or shining, the name given to England from 
 j'the whiteness of its cliffs on the shore, or as one would see 
 .^hem from a Southern view, some say Tarshish means " Tin 
 filslands." 
 
 j'< To talk of Tarsus in Celicia is supremely ridiculous. We 
 ,|ftre told in classic story, " that the Tyrians fled to Tarshish 
 #rom the arms of Alexander," but going to Celicia would have 
 iho meaning, as it would be no escape from the dreaded dangler. 
 
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 The fleet of Hiram and Solomon could go to Celicia in ten 
 days instead of three years, as in i Kings x ch., 22 : — 
 
 " For the king Jhad at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram : once in 
 three years came the navy of Tarshish. bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes, 
 and peacocks." 
 
 The articles of trade brought from Tarshish were never found 
 in Tarsus in Celicia. Tarsus was never known as a naval sta- 
 tion, nor could it be, from its inland situation. 
 
 Ezekiel xxvii ch., 1 2, speaking of Tyre, says : — 
 
 "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; 
 with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 19 Dan also and Javaii 
 going to and fro occupied in thy fairs : bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in 
 thy market. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market : and thou 
 wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the .seas." 
 
 2 Chronicles, ix, 21: — 
 
 " For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram : every three 
 years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, 
 and peacocks. " 
 
 Psalm Ixviii, 7 : — " The ships of Tarshish were broken with 
 an east wind." 
 
 Psalm Ixxii, 10 :— " The kings of Tarshish and of the Isles 
 shall bring presents." Histor> does not give us any kings of 
 Tarsus, in Cilicia ; but it does give us a long line of honoured 
 kings of Great Britain. 
 
 Diodorus says that " Tin and bright iron was brought into 
 Gaul from the western isles, 620 years before Christ." 
 
 Pliny says, " The whole of the Roman Empire was supplied 
 with metals and with tin from Britannia." He says, " Greece, 
 too, was supplied with tin and sundry metals from the same 
 source as early as 907, B.C. 
 
 Rollin .say.s, " The Phoenicians took purple, scarlet, rich 
 stuffs, tapestry, costly furniture, and curious works of art to 
 the west beyond the Straits of Hercules ; and brought back 
 gold, silver, iron, and tin, &c." The Straits of Gibraltar were 
 called " the Straits of Hercules." See Ptolemy's map. 
 
 Von Humbolt and Sir Geo. Lewis say that, "Voyages to 
 Cornwall, England, for tin and iron, were of frequent occur- 
 rence, 620, B.C." 
 
 Xenophon, who wrote 100 years later than Ezekiel, describes 
 one of those ships of Tarshish .starting for Gades, now Cadiz. 
 
 Polybius : — " Some will inquire why having made so long a 
 discourse Lybia and Iberia, we have not spoken more fully of 
 the outlet at the Pillars of Hercules, nor of the interior sea, 
 nor yet indeed of the Britannic Isles, and the working of tin,! 
 nor of the gold and silver mines of Ibernia." 
 
:o Celicia in ten 
 22 : — 
 
 r of Hiram : once in 
 ver, ivory and apes, 
 
 ^ere never found 
 1 as a naval sta- 
 
 3 
 
 f all kind of riches ; 
 Dan also and Javaii 
 and calamus, were in 
 y market : and thou 
 eas." 
 
 Iluram : every three 
 irer. ivory, and apes. 
 
 ire broken with 
 
 ,nd of the Isles 
 IS any kings of 
 ne of honoured 
 
 as brought into 
 :hrist." 
 
 •ire was supplied 
 
 ; says, "Greece, 
 
 from the same 
 
 le, scarlet, rich 
 works of art to 
 d brought back 
 Gibraltar were 
 y's map. 
 .t, "Voyages to 
 frequent occur- 
 
 zekiel, describes 
 les, now Cadiz, 
 made so long a 
 n more fully of 
 the interior sea, 
 working of tin, 
 
 45 
 
 Aristotle says, '* Beyond the Pillars of Hercules the ocean 
 flows round the earth. In this ocean, however, there are two 
 islands, and those are very large, and are called P»ritannic, 
 Albion, and lerne, which are larger than those before named. 
 They lie beyond the Keltie, and there are not a few small 
 islands around the Britannic Isles and around Iberia." 
 
 Herodotus say.s, " I cannot speak with certainty, nor am I 
 acquainted with the islands called Cassisteridcs from which tin 
 is brought to us." Kassisterides is a term which a Phoenician 
 only would use, it was an Asiatic name for the tin-like alloy. 
 
 TIN ISLANDS. 
 
 W. H. S. Aubrey, in his History of England, states that 
 Herodotus, describing the Cassisterides, or Tin Islands, in 
 the West of Europe, says, that the tin came from Cornwall. 
 The country was known to the Phoenicians who traded for tin, 
 which, when mixed with copper, was the well known bronze of 
 early times. 
 
 This metal was largely used in Solomon's temple. This 
 tin was found in Cornwall, England. It was called " bright 
 iron. 
 
 Sir Edward Creasy, a distinguished antiquarian, in his 
 history of England, says, "The British tin mines mainly sup- 
 plied the glorious adornment of Solomon's temple." 
 
 When the power of the Medo-Persian Empire was broken, 
 and all hindrances removed, the commission from the Lord 
 was given to Israel, Isaiah xxiii, 6, " Pass ye over to Tarshish, 
 pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish." 
 
 They could now go as a river, in streams, none to hinder 
 them. They are commanded to go to Tarshish. 
 
 The Lord moreover had said, Isaiah Ixvi, 19, " I will send 
 those that escape of them (/>. Israel) unto Tarshish, and 
 Javan, and to the Islands afar off, (or Yarish Islands) that 
 have not seen my glory, nor heard my fame, and they shall 
 declare my glory among the Gentiles." 
 
 Who does not see in this passage the divine will clearly 
 indicated as to the country to which they were to go ; and 
 the glorious privileges they were to enjoy ; and the grand and 
 glorious missionary work they were to perform among the 
 Gentile nations after their settlement in their island home. 
 Have not the great missionary associations of Great Britain 
 been doing the work here spoken of long centuries ago ? 
 " They shall declare his glory among the Gentiles." 
 
 In Ezekiel it is said, " that in the latter days Sheba and 
 Dedan, and the Merchants of Tarshish, with all the young 
 
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 |r^i 
 
 46 
 
 lions thereof were to be associated in commerce and in war." 
 Those young lions will aid in finding \:he old lion. 
 
 In view of the overthrow of Tyre, Isaiah wrote, xxiii ch. 
 " Howl, oh ye ships of Tarshish." He says " It was revealed 
 to them from the land of Chittim." The message came to 
 Javan and Dan (England and Ireland) across the straits of 
 Dover, from France as we call it, and the next verse is : — 
 
 " Be still ye inhabitants of the Isle ; thou whom the merchants ofZidon, that 
 pass over the sea have replenished." 
 
 The same people on those Isles of Tarshish are exhorted to 
 quiemess and trust in the Lord. 
 
 This was a cry of hard times, when the great commercial 
 emporium was destroyed, and the castearn trade cut off. 
 
 The " escaped " of Israel and the " preserved " of Israel 
 were sent over to Tarshish, and the Lord promises them four 
 things, "the comely" and " the beautiful," " the excellent," and 
 " the glorious." Has he not made good his promise to them 
 long ago } 
 
 Ortellius .says "The ten tribes went north and west of Media, 
 to a country called Arsareth, where, on entering, they took the 
 name of Gau-thei ; or people of God. 
 
 ARSARETH. 
 
 In a previous quotation from Esdras that name Arsareth 
 occurs. It is a question of great interest and importance. 
 Where is this country called Arsa-reth, said to be so far away 
 from Media that it would require one year and a half to reach 
 it .-* I will answer that question by quoting from the pen of 
 Rev. James Mcintosh, curate of Hebburn-on-Tyne. His know- 
 ledge of the Hebrew will not be questioned. He says, Arsareth 
 is composed of two roots, "Ars," and '^ Areth" this last meaning 
 " land," or earth, or country, giving us Ars-land, or Erse-land, 
 or Ireland. It means, " to betroth," or " to espouse," signify- 
 ing, " the land of Espousals," or the land of Betrothment. 
 Read this in connection with Hosea ii ch., 14-20, where Israel 
 is brought into the wilderness ; there they become a christian 
 people ; there they rejoice as in the days of their national 
 prosperity ; there they forget the names of their idols ; there 
 God causes them to dwell safely, and then he says, 19 : — 
 
 ' • And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ; yea, I will betroth thee nnto me in 
 righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. And I 
 will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness ; and thou rhalt know the Lord." 
 
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47 
 
 e and in war." 
 •n. 
 
 rrote, xxiii ch. 
 t was revealed 
 ssage came to 
 the straits of 
 erse is : — 
 
 nts ofZidon, that 
 e exhorted to 
 
 It commercial 
 cut off. 
 
 ed " of Israel 
 scs them four 
 xcellent," and 
 )mise to them 
 
 vest of Media, 
 they took the 
 
 ime Arsareth 
 I importance, 
 e so far away 
 half to reach 
 n the pen of 
 i. His know- 
 ays, Arsareth 
 last meaning 
 or Erse-land, 
 use," signify- 
 Betrothment. 
 where Israel 
 le a christian 
 heir national 
 idols ; there 
 s, 19 :— 
 
 thee nnto me in 
 nercies. And I 
 w the Lord." 
 
 LAND OF ESPOUSALS. 
 
 The betrothed are to be married when " their land shall be 
 called Buelah, for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land 
 shall be married." 
 
 : The same author traces the word Kelt, or Celt and Gael, or 
 Gaelic and the Cymbri, and Engli', or Angli, and Saxon, all 
 to their original Hebrew ; and be says, " All these races, then, 
 —the Danes, Saxons, Angles, Gaels, Celts, Cymbri, and the 
 Northmen, are the lost tribes." In conclusion he says, " We 
 have clearly proved that the place " A rsaret/t," to which the 
 ten tribes journeyed, was no other than Ireland, a word which 
 is nearer Erseland in its form than is Ireland ; and that all 
 the peoples of these islands can be identified with the lost 
 tribes. This kind of evidence is peculiarly convincing, and 
 amounts to a moral certainty, if not to an actual mathematical 
 demonstration." 
 
 Parkhurst, the learned lexicographer, says, "It seems not a 
 little remarkable that the Northern nations should have 
 retained the Hebrew word nearly in its physical sense. The 
 Saxon " Bael " signifies a fire. Bel, Bal, or Bael, was the 
 name of the chief deity of the ancient Irish, which, according 
 to Col. Vallancey, they derived from the Punic." 
 
 NAMES TO IRELAND. 
 
 I have noticed those Islands of Britain, as named in the 
 Bible, called the " Isles of the West." The Isles of Tarshish 
 Javan, and Earsland or Arsareth, we find other names given 
 to at an early day, they were called " Vari'sA,"' a Hebrew 
 word, which means the land of the sun setting, or the land afar 
 off, this name comes very near the word Irish. 
 
 The Phoenecians, or men from the country of Palms, who 
 
 were the first traders to these Islands called them '' Barat- 
 
 ^anacl' the land of tin, from this nanfie comes our word 
 
 ^Britannia. The Phoenecians also called them " Ibernael' the 
 
 'farthest off land. To them Ireland was the farthest off land ; 
 
 they knew nothing of America. From this name Ibernai came 
 
 our Hibernae. In the days of Grecian conquest the names of 
 
 all those places were changed ; those Islands were called 
 
 *' Skotee" which means " the land of the sun setting," from 
 
 ; this name by the ordinary changes, we have Sktcthes, or wan- 
 
 liderers, and Scuthei, Scuthe, Scuit, Scuithan, Scythian, Scote, 
 
 VScot, Scottish, Scotland. The Greeks also called those islands 
 
 " Cassisterides" from Cassisteros, the name given to tin : the 
 
 c tin islands. 
 
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 m 
 
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 Aristotle, in his treatise of the Globe, called "De Mundo," 
 dedicated to Alexander the Great, calls those islands " A/dion," 
 so did Festus in his account of the voyage of Hamilcar. The 
 inhabitants then in Scotland spent a long time in Albania in 
 the east, and, as was often done, they named their new country 
 after the one from which they came ; the same people do the 
 same thing now, when they emigrate. In the account of the 
 Argonautica, Ireland was called " lerinda" 
 
 Ptolemy called those islands " fourna." He says, " They 
 were peopled by the descendants of the Hebrews, and were 
 skilled in smelting operations, and excelled in working metals. 
 The Romans called them Anglesea." 
 
 DAN. 
 
 We must now turn our attention to the means and agencies 
 used by God to prepare the way for the establishment of a 
 new nationality, and the building up of a new Empire. To 
 find the tribe of Dan is to find all Israel, because God had 
 said that the captives that escaped should have the same 
 meeting place in the far off isles. 
 
 When the land was divided by lot, Dan received only a 
 small portion in the South, on the seaboard. He soon resolved 
 to acquire more territory, and adopting the motto, " Push 
 things," he won a territory north, near Lebanon. Here were 
 the oaks of Bashan ; the cedars of Lebanon ; the commerce 
 of Damascus ; the enterprising Phoenicians, and close by, the 
 emporiums of trade. Tyre and Sidon. A splendid country 
 for ship-builders and traders. Dan soon began to make his 
 name and influence felt, and in order to perpetuate that name 
 he changed the name of the chief city, Laish, and called it 
 Dan, (Judges xviii, 19) after the name of his father. 
 
 It must be remembered that Dan had a large shipping trade 
 1,296 years B. C. For when Deborah found that Barak, was 
 a wishey-washey, linsey-woolsey, milk and water sort of man, 
 she, the noble woman, mounted the charger herself, and led 
 the host to a glorious victory. On her return from the well 
 fought field, she sang in lofty strains her patriotic joy ; and in 
 that song she mildly reproved Dan, saying, " Why did Dan 
 remain in his ships ?" The fact is, Dan was looking after the 
 bread question. He was engaged in carrying freight for the 
 very people she made to bite the dust, and he did not want to 
 endanger his commercial relations for the sake of a local war. 
 Besides, an Eastern army could not hurt him so long as Judah 
 and Benjamin were unconquered, as their territory lay between 
 him and the enemy. 
 
49 
 
 I "De Mundo," 
 ands '' A/dion," 
 [amilcar. The 
 : in Albania in 
 ir new country 
 people do the 
 account of the 
 
 e says, " The) 
 ews, and were 
 /orking metals. 
 
 IS and agencies 
 blishment of a 
 r Empire. To 
 :ause God had 
 lave the same 
 
 iceived only a 
 e soon resolved 
 motto, " Push 
 n. Here were 
 the commerce 
 ] close by, the 
 endid country 
 n to make his 
 late that name 
 
 and called it 
 her. 
 
 shipping trade 
 lat Barak, was 
 er sort of man, 
 erself, and led 
 from the well 
 :ic joy ; and in 
 Why did Dan 
 )king after the 
 freight for the 
 id not want to 
 of a local war. 
 
 long as Judah 
 ry lay between 
 
 A people, so bold and enterprising as to change the name of 
 the first city they conquered, were not slow to wriie thi: same 
 name upon other objects as they had opportunity, judges 
 xviii, 12 : — Their first camping ground was named Mahaneh- 
 Dan, and, all along Northern and Central Europe, we find sucli 
 names as the Dan-ube, the Dan-iester, the Dan-au, the Dan- 
 an» the Daninn, Dan-tzig, I)an-enbury, Dan-etz, the Dan- 
 •^.ster, the Dan-dari, the Dan-ez, the Don, the Dacia, the Davi, 
 
 » Be-davi, the Betavia, the Sea of Moses, ant! the Country of 
 Moses, or Morcia, and the Dan-ric Alps, and the Danish 
 Archiepelago. In Ptolemy's map of Ireland we find Dan's- 
 Lough, Dan-Sowar, Dan-Sobairse, Dan's resting pla':e, and 
 Dan's habitation, and Dan-gan Castle the birth-place of the 
 Duke of Wellington). The old inhabitants of Ireland were 
 called Dan-onians. It is well-known that among the ancient 
 Kings of Ireland there were several Davids, three Solomons, 
 with a Daniel in every hou.se down to Dan O'Connell. 
 
 You may also find a Jeremiah in almost every family. The) 
 used to sing, 
 
 " It matters not wheree'er you roam. 
 You're sure to find a Jerry's home." 
 
 ^ DAN AWAY WKSr. 
 
 It we remember that Dan was the firstborn in kachel's 
 household, the reason why he was so named, and the meaning 
 of his name, and the prominent part this tribe took in leading 
 and in governing the nation ; that, in peace and in war, this 
 tribe furnished them their chief officers and chief architects, 
 their Samsons, and iheir mighty men, we will see <i divine 
 haiTnony in the purposes and plans of God in that Dan should 
 still be their chief leader, and the architect of their national 
 greatness. It was for Dan to conquer a new territory in the 
 west, and so far to change its name and character as to pre- 
 pare for the noble work of transplanting the throne and sceptre 
 ofPavid, and a prince of the tribe of Dan was united with a 
 roy^l princess of David's house, that the wanderini; tribes 
 might be gathered to their long promised throne and sceptre. 
 
 The "many days " of Hosea iii ch., 4, were fast drawing to 
 a close, the throne of David was soon to be hurled from 
 Mount Zion, and Jerusalem to be laid in the dust. It was 
 necessary that Dan and his ship builders, and his merchants 
 should go to found a new nation and a kingdom, which was to 
 be tile great agency in the hand of God of blessing all nations. 
 
 In Camden's Brittania, I find the following curious extract, 
 [us, in his public lectures in Paris, derives the name Ire- 
 
M^:l 
 
 
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 land from the Jews- so that Irin is quasi Jurin, /. c. the landr 
 the Jews. For he says that the Jews, (forsooth) being tli 
 most skilful soothsayers, and presaging that the empire of th 
 world would at last settle in that strong angle towards the wcy, 
 took possession of these parts, and of Ireland, very early, am 
 that the Syrians, and the Tyrians also, endeavoured to scttl 
 themselves there, that they might la}' the foundation of a futur 
 empire." 
 
 It is interesting to find this early impartial testimony to 
 conviction on the Jewish mind of a transfer of the kingdom t 
 the " Isles of the West." The divine intimation to Jeremiah, t 
 plant a new kingdom, was, no doubt, the origin of the belk 
 here ascribed to the soothsaj-ers. Camden died 2y6 years agi 
 so we see our Israelitish theory then had firm believers amon, 
 the learned ones. 
 
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 THE CENSUS. 
 
 I want you to note specialh- the fact that, when the censi; 
 was taken as recorded in 1 Chronicles, and all Israel were sai: 
 to be numbered, there is not one word said of the army, or nav, 
 or' the families of Dan. Not one word ! Nor is there an; 
 mention made of Dan in the record in the Revelations, vii d 
 where the thousands of Israel were sealed. 
 
 Yet, when Ezekiel speaks of the tribes after their return t 
 their own land, the tribe of Dan has a most honourable pos 
 tion among his brethren. I am aware of the special pleadiii. 
 of a host of expositors, who have each copied from his predi 
 cessor what must have often created surprise on the mind ( 
 the reader. The simple fact is, that, when that census w?. 
 taken, Dan was not then in the country ; he had gone to " th 
 Isles of the West " to tr)- his fortune in Arsareth. and to pre 
 pare the wa\- for others, who were soon to follow. 
 
 Eldad, an eminent Jewish writer, says, " In Jeroboam 
 day, 975 H. C, Dan refused to shed his brother's blood ; ant 
 rather than go to war with Judah, he left the country and wer 
 in a bod\- to Greece, to Javan our British isles) and to Dar 
 mark." 
 
 The learned Grotius, also speaks of Dan's disappearanc 
 from the land of Canaan at an earlv age. 
 
 THE DAN-AN.S. 
 
 Dr. William Smith, in his History of Greece, (p. 18) say; 
 " Of all the heroic families in Greece none was more heroi 
 than that of the Dan-ans of Argos." 
 
 In Kcating's History of Ireland, he says, "The Dan-an 
 
 
 Piiip> 
 
 
n, /'. e. the land r 
 sooth) being th 
 the empire of th 
 towards the wey 
 1, very early, an' 
 avourcd to scttl 
 idation of a futur 
 
 al testimony to 
 )f the kingdom t 
 3n to Jeremiah, t 
 igin of the belk 
 ied 276 years agi 
 I believers amon. 
 
 when the censi 
 I Israel were sai 
 the army, or nav. 
 "^or is there an; 
 evelations. vii cl 
 
 er their return t 
 honourable pos 
 
 ; special pleadin, 
 
 I from his pred 
 on the mind ( 
 hat census wa 
 
 lad gone to " th 
 eth, and to pit 
 ow. 
 
 ' In Jeroboam 
 
 ler's blood ; anc 
 
 oimtry and wer 
 
 cs) and to Bar 
 
 disappearanc 
 
 }ce, (p. i8j say- 
 as more heroi 
 
 The Dan -an 
 
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 were a people of great learning and wealth ; they left Greece 
 after a battle with the Assyrians, and went to Ireland and 
 alsQ to Danmark, and called it Dan-mares, Dan's country." 
 
 In a work called the " Annals of Ireland," it is said : — The 
 Danans were a highly civilized people, well skilled in archi- 
 tecture and other arts from their long residence in Greece, and 
 their intercourse with the Phcenicians. Their first appearance 
 in Ireland was 1,200 B. C, or 85 years after the great victory 
 of Debordh. 
 
 Humboldt, considers that the Greeks, in the term PhotMii- 
 cian, (the Countiy of Palms; included the Israelites as well as 
 other Syrian nations. He is very clear on the early inhabit- 
 ants of Ireland being Israelites, and that large numbers of 
 them passed through Laccdaemon and Spain on their way. 
 See John Wilson, Col. Gawler, Fitzgerald, Giraldus Cambrensis, 
 Also the Archreological Societ}- of Kilkenny, Rawlinson's 
 Herodotus, and Kennedy's Ethnolog\-. 
 
 Dr. Latham, in his ICthnolog)' of Europe, (p. 137; says, " I 
 think that the Eponymus of the Argive Danaia was no other 
 than that of the Israelite tribe of Dan ; only we are so used to 
 confine ourselves to the soil of Palestine in our considerations 
 of the Israelites, that we treat them as if they were adscripti 
 gleboi and ignore the share the\- may have taken in the hi.story 
 of the world. " 
 
 i.AN(;uA(;i;. 
 
 In Mr. Gladstone's work on " Homer and the Homeric Age," 
 he says, that the phrase Dan-oi occurs 147 times in the 
 Iliad, and 13 times in the Odes.sy ; that it never occurs 
 in the singular number, is never applied to women, but always 
 to soldiers and lovers of war. That Homer used the name as 
 a standing appellation as ;ve use the word Cambrian for a 
 Welshman, or Caledonian for a Scotchman, or Gael for a 
 Highlander, or son ci{ Albion for an P^nglishman, he also 
 affirms. 
 
 As to the philological argument, though one of great im- 
 portance, I cpntiot venture to dwell upon it in this paper. I 
 find eminent philologists willing to stand up and lecture before 
 the London Philological .Society, giving evidence of strong 
 affinities existing between the Hebrew and the Anglo-Saxon 
 languages. If men like the Rev. J. Davies, Phii. Soc. Trans., 
 and R°v. F. Crawford, Phil. Soc. Trans., find such affinities, 
 and others, whom I will quote from briefly, find a strong 
 resemblance, an Anglo-Israelite may be excused, if he fancies 
 that the sneers of men, who have only dabbled in the science, 
 are of no great weight in the contention. 
 
 
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 si' 
 
 I can here only produce a moiety of the evidence on hand. 
 I will confine myself to a few quotations from men of a world- 
 wide reputation as profound scholars. A paper was read at 
 the last Congress of the British Archaeological Association, by 
 the Rev. Dr. Margoliouth, vicar, editor of the Hebrew Christian 
 Witness — Bishop Merriman in the chair. The learned Doctor 
 says in this paper : — " At last year's Congress, I adduced 
 examples of whole sentences of positive archaic Hebraisms in 
 the now obsolete Cornish language." Again, he says : — " I 
 now confine myself to the time-honoured appellation of 
 * Kymry.' It is no more true-born English, than is the term 
 Gael, or Welsh. The nomenclature of both owe their true 
 birth to a parentage, and a country, far more ancient than the 
 British, or the English. Those two terms, Gael, which became 
 Wael, and then Welsh, and Kymry, which by the Greeks 
 became Kimmeroi, amongst the Teutons, Kimbri and Latin- 
 ized into Cambria, are of purely Hebrew origin." In this 
 paper the author quotes from the writings of Taliesin, known 
 as the prince oi the Druid bards, where he says in one of his 
 poems, " My lore has been declared in Hebrew, in the Fiebraic 
 tongue." The Dr. also says, " I have proved that some of the 
 dispersed of Judah had found their way to this Island not 
 long after the conquest of Palestine by Nebuchadnezzar. I 
 hold it also, that some of the captive Israelites, with some of 
 their religious teachers, had also found their way hither from 
 the regions of Halah and Habor." 
 
 Again, in the British Anthropological Society, there was a 
 discussion on this very question. Dr. R. S. Charnock, V. R. A., 
 President, in the chair. At that conference thert- were some 
 of the most eminent philologists of the day, and thc\- took an 
 active part in the discussion. There was Dr. Leitncr, Dr. C. 
 Blake, Dr. C. O. G. Napier, Dr. F. C. Lewis, Rev. J. G. Tipper. 
 M.A., and Bishop Titcomb. They all admitted " That the 
 English language is derived in part from the Hebrew." The 
 learned Bi.shop, last named, says, " The Kelts and Teutons 
 formed cognate branches of the same ;n-cat Aryan race, who 
 .swept over PLurope in successive waves of immigration. They 
 all came from one parent stock, whose home was in the I-'ast, 
 and whose languages all centre in the Hebrew." General 
 Vallancey, L.L. D., whom Pinnock ranks as a great linguist 
 and antiquarian, says, " The language of the early inhabitants 
 of Ireland was a compound of Hebrew and Phtenician." He 
 collected .several thousand words of Hebrew origin ; I ha\e 
 now before me a grammar written by him. Of this author 
 Sir William Bethan says, " I cannot speak of him with 
 
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 R.A.. 
 
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 ok an 
 [)r. C. 
 ippei". 
 at the 
 The 
 cutons 
 c, who 
 
 They 
 ■ ICast, 
 "icncral 
 linguist 
 bitatits 
 ;• He 
 
 1 have 
 , author 
 m with 
 
 too much respect. His labours in Celtic investigation were 
 beyond any other, intense and unremitted." He also says, 
 " It is not just, however, to condemn Valiancy for not having 
 his evidence arranged and systematized, he only undertook to 
 collect, leaving others to methodize and put in order." 
 
 William Tyndal, the first translator of the Hebrew Bible 
 and Greek Testament into English, said, " The Greek agree- 
 eth more with the Englyshe than with the Latyne ; and the 
 properties of the Hebrew tongue agree-eth a thousand times 
 more with the Englyshe than with the Latyne." 
 
 Rev. Jacob Tomlin, M.A., wrote a curious work of " Forty- 
 eight languages, analysed and compared," in which it was 
 shown that the early literature of Britain was " largely in the 
 Hebrew, with several modifications." He also says', " One- 
 fourth part of the words of the Saxon tongue bear a close 
 afifinity with the Hebrew. ' 
 
 Rev. Canon Lysons, in " Our British Ancestors," concludes 
 that the Hebraeo-Kymric is the superstructure upon which 
 our present language is built up. He gives a li.st of Hebrew 
 words to the number of 5,000. 
 
 Professor Max Muller shows that the old Armenian tongue 
 belongs to the Indo-Kuropean family. If so, wc see how 
 easily the Israelites might drop their own Semitic and take 
 up with the Aryan forms of speech instead. In this way 
 the old forms of Armenian Gautheic, Angli, and Saxon, may- 
 have gradually developed into English. 
 
 Professor T. C. Balmer says, " With respect to language, I 
 have little to say, but, bearing in mind that it was the purpose 
 of God that Israel should be lost as to their origin — which 
 could not have taken place had they retained their language 
 — therefore, the Hebrew has been replaced by another tongue ; 
 but, according to the results of recent research, there is not 
 that great difference between the Hebrew and Saxon as is 
 generally supposed. A great man)- Saxon words have been 
 found to be rooted in the Hebrew. And when wc consider 
 that the Anglo-Saxon was an unwritten language previous to 
 their occupation of Britain, the process necessary to reduce it 
 to writing must have altered it considerably. But the Welsh 
 and the kindred ancient tongues of Ireland and Scotland have 
 been clearly identified as dialects of the Hebrew ; and it is 
 well known that the English language, in its grammatical 
 construction, bears a close resemblance to the Hebrew, and is 
 the only language into which it can be almost literally trans- 
 lated." 
 
 Again, on the question of language, he says, " We observe^ 
 
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 If 
 
 that the diversity between the Hebrew and the Anglo-Saxon, 
 of which the English is mainly composed, is not so great as is 
 assumed. There are, it appears from the researches, no less 
 than six hundred words purely derived from the Hebrew." 
 In Sharon Turner's History, we find that he traces eighty- 
 four words in the Anglo-Saxon that have affinity with as 
 many in Hebrew ; and many more that have an affinity 
 between the Anglo-Saxon and the Sanscrit. 
 
 Rev. J. Tomlin, D.D., considers that one-quarter of the 
 words of our Saxon tongue bear a close affinity with the 
 Hebrew, either in a primary or secondary degree. This 
 marked affinity exists not only in words, but in the arrange- 
 ment of ideas and the simple structure of sentences. In proof 
 of the Asiatic derivation of the British, Sharon Turner says 
 that he found one hundred and sixty words in the modern 
 l-*ersian similar in sound and meaning to as many in the 
 Anglo-Saxon. He also found rifty-seven in the Zend and 
 forty-three in the Pehlvi. From these facts and others he 
 concluded that our progenitors came from the regions of 
 Central Asia. 
 
 Professor E. W. Bird says, " In regard to the assumption 
 that the Anglo-Saxon is Aryan, and one with the Germanic, 
 Teutonic and Latin famil}' of tongues, we deny that the 
 evidence is conclusive of the facts assumed. We assert, on 
 the contrary, that the Anglo-Saxon, in grammatic structure 
 and idiomatic texture, differs materially from the so-called 
 cognate German, or Aryan languages. The truth rather seems 
 to be that English is a Shemitic tongue, which has long been 
 in contact with Aryan tongues, and ha.s thereby suffered a 
 large transfusion of verbal roots and dlalect-ic forms. It 
 exhibits just such a transformation as one would expect 
 Hebrew would have sustained by subjection to the domina- 
 tion of the Aryan tongues, during a period of more than thir- 
 teen centuries. The Saxons, if Hebrews, were, during that 
 long period, migrating slowly westward across the Aryan 
 territories of Europe from their Shemitic centre ; and their 
 language, while it tenaciously retains its Hebrew grammatic 
 and idiomatic structure, besides a really large number of 
 Hebrew roots, has adopted, as it was sure to do, the very con- 
 siderable amount of Aryan verbal roots and dialectic forms 
 we know to exist in it. This we believe to be the true 
 theorv of the affinity of the Anglo-Saxon with the Teutonic, or 
 Germanic language, erro . 'ously assumed to be its foundation. 
 Such affinity of language as exists is proof of contact not of 
 affinity of race." 
 
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 In Ptolemy's map of Ireland, there are several names of 
 places given in the old Hebrew form. On the spot, where, on 
 our maps we have Carrickfergus, he had Dan-sobarce, Dan's 
 refuge, or resting-place, and there stands the ruins of a fortress 
 of immense strength. The name Tara is a pure Hebrew 
 name, which means the Two Tables. The grave of Tephi, the 
 Hebrew princess, is not called a grave in the acceptation of the 
 usual word, as was Sarah's, which is called Kavar, but it is called 
 Mergech, the repository, or receptacle. In the " Early Irish 
 Antiquities Archaeological, vol. vii," Governor Pownall, says, 
 "My surprise was great when I found in Buxtorfthat "■Jodhaii 
 Morain " was the Chaldee name for Urim and Thummim. 
 Not satisfied withBuxtorf, I wrote to the learned Rabbi 
 Heideck, now in London, his answer was satisfactory, and 
 contained a dozen quotations' from various Talmud commen- 
 taries. In short my friend the Rabbi will have it, that none 
 but Jews or Chaldees could have brought the name or the 
 thing to Ireland." The name Jodhan Morain occurs very 
 often in the early Irish literature. How came all this Hebrew 
 to find its way into our language ? 
 
 JEREMIAH. 
 
 Did you ever notice what a wonderful man the Prophet 
 Jeremiah was } How much more fully God revealed himself 
 to him than to the other prophets, and how clearly he saw and 
 wrote of the movements of divine providence to his people 
 and to the nations ! The Rev. Dr. Potter says, " Everybody 
 knew that the whole political history of every nation of the 
 world was admitted to be written in the book of Daniel." 
 And yet when Daniel desired to look into the future he 
 became a student of the hooks of Jeremiah, and from him the 
 great Prime Minister of Chaldea learned of the times and 
 seasons that were drawing near, Daniel, ix ch., 2. The 
 prophet Jeremiah was specially intrusted by the Lord with a 
 royal commission to take the daughters of king Zedekiah in 
 charge, with the king's household. The king's sons had been 
 killed, and his own eyes put out. There was a small remnant 
 left. By an. act of disobedience, the royal household was taken 
 away to Egypt, Jeremiah Ixiii ch., 6, " So they came into the 
 land of Egypt," but they were commanded to leave immedi- 
 ately, "F'or I will punish them that dwell in the land of 
 Egypt." They were commanded to go to the north and west 
 to Tarshish, Isaiah Ixvi ch., 19 : — 
 
 " And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them 
 unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and 
 
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 Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my 
 tjlory ; and they shall declare my glory amonj; the Oentiles." 
 
 " To Tarshish and to the Isles afar ofif ! " 
 
 Why send them to Tarshish and to the western Isles afar 
 off? The Royal commission given to Jeremiah will answer 
 the question. 
 
 • A NEW NATION. 
 
 ) 
 
 ■ i 
 
 In Jeremiah i ch., lo : 
 
 " See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root 
 out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant." 
 
 i.e. nations. 
 
 Trees are G'^d's symbols of nations and kingdoms. If a 
 new nation is to be called into existence it is spoken of as a 
 tree to be planted, or, if a nation is to be destroyed, he speaks 
 of it as a tree to be cut down, or plucked up. thus Nebuchad- 
 nezzar in his dream saw a tree, Daniel iv ch., lo : — 
 
 " Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed ; I saw, and behold a tree in 
 the midst of the earth, and tlie the height thereof wrts great. The tree grew, and 
 the height thereof readied unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the 
 earth." 
 
 And Daniel went to him and interpreted the dream ; 
 
 " 20 The tree tliat thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height 
 reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth. Whose leaves 
 zvere fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it 7vas meat for all ; under which the 
 beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had 
 their habitation. It is thou. O king, that art grown and become strong : for thy 
 greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the 
 earth." 
 
 The Assyrian Empire, too, was spoken of under the .same 
 figure. Ezek. xxxi ch., 3 : — 
 
 " Jiehoid, the Assyrian 70(!S a cedar.in Lebanon with fair i)ranches, and with a 
 shadowing shroud, and ol an high stature ; and his toii was among the thick 
 boughs. 'I"he watejs made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers 
 running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of 
 the tield. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his 
 boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of 
 waters, when he shot forth. All the fo\vls of heaven made their nests in his 
 boughs, and under his branches did all tJe beasts of the field bring forth their 
 young, and under his shadow ilwelt all great nations. Thus was he fair in his 
 greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. The 
 '.edars in the garden of God could nr." hide him : the fir trees were not like his 
 boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches ; nor any tree in the 
 garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. I have made him fair by the 
 multitude of his branches : so that all the trees of Eden, that 7veri' in the garden of 
 God, envied him." 
 
 What a fine description of a j; eat nation ! 
 
57 
 Kgypt. too, was spoken of in the same way, as a tree, thus ; 
 
 ^ " l8 To whom art thou thus like in {jlory and in yieatness among the trees of 
 Eden ? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto tlie nether 
 parts of the earth." 
 
 And the interpreter said ; 
 
 "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Cod." 
 
 Now when the Lord . speaks of his own people Israel, he 
 uses the same figure, Jeremiah Ixv ch, 4. " That which I have 
 planted will I pluck up, even this whole land, and that which 
 I have built will I break down." And he saj's Isaiah xxxvii 
 ch., 37 :— 
 
 " And the remnant that is escrjped of the house of Judah shall again take root 
 downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, 
 and thev that escape out of Mount /.ion : the zeal of the I.okd of hosts shall do 
 this." 
 
 The remnant is not to be destroyed, it shall grow again and 
 be a fruit-bearing kingdom. There is to be a nation trans- 
 planted to a new .soil, for thus saith the Lord, l^zekiel xvii 
 ch., 22 : — 
 
 "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch o\ the high 
 cedar, and will set it ; I will crop oft from tlie top of his young twigs a tender one, 
 and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent. In the mountain of the 
 height of Israel will I plant it : and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and 
 be a goodly cedar : and under it shall dwell all (owl of every winy ; in the shadow 
 of the branches thereof shall they dwell. .And all tiie trees of the field shall know 
 that I the Lord have brought down the hi^h tree, have exalted the low tree, have 
 ■ dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish : I the Lokd have 
 spoken and have done it." 
 
 Nimrod had planted a tree (Bab\"lon) and it had been cut 
 down. Ashur had planted a tree (Assyria and it had been 
 plucked up by the roots. Mizraim had planted a beautiful 
 tree in a good .soil (Egypt) but it had withered awaj-. Now 
 the Lord says, " I will plant a tree (Great Britain) and you 
 Jeremiah, are to be my deputy in this thing, I have this da\' 
 appointed thee ... to plant a nation." 
 
 Dr. Adam Clark says. " This branch is another Monarchy 
 which shall come up in the line of David," — this high cedar is 
 the royal family of the tribe of Judal. the highest branch is 
 David's family, and the tender one is a daughter of king 
 Zedekiah. 
 
 If a new kingdom is to be planted, it is reasonable to ask. 
 where ? Not in the East, for the Babylonian and Medo- 
 Persian empires are crumbling to the dust. Not in the South 
 in Egypt, or in Ethiopia ; for they are doomed to destruction, 
 and the armies are mustering to lay low the pride of Egypt. 
 
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 i 
 
 Where is this plant of the Lord to be set ? Where is his 
 tree to be made to grow ? Will the prophetic harp be tuned 
 to tell of Babylon and Persia, and Media, and Assyria, and 
 Greece, and Rome, and Egypt, and Rosha ; and not one single 
 strain foreshadow where this new empire is to be founded ? 
 These people are to be lost for long years, and to disappear 
 from among the nations for a time ; trees must have time to 
 take roor, and to grow. If the Egyptians had known the 
 future of Joseph, they would have strangled him. 
 
 " God moves in a mysterious way 
 His wonders to perform." 
 
 So he plants his tree in the Isles of the west, in the Isles of 
 Tarshish, and in the farthest off one, because most secure 
 from the eagles of imperial Rome. There was a large and 
 prosperous colony of Hebrews over there already ; they had 
 been there preparing the way of the Lord for several centuries ; 
 they had secured already immense treasures invested in arts 
 and commerce ; there is already great commercial enterprise in 
 the " Tuaiha dc danan,'' the tribe of Dan. The merchant- 
 princes have found a home there, and arc prepared to give a 
 right royal welcome to the " tender branch ; " the Lord had 
 said, this tender branch, this tree of the Lord is "to be 
 planted on a high mountain, in a land of traffic, a fruitful 
 field by the rivers of waters, in a city of merchants," the name 
 (if thu place is not given, but you can see the Emerald Isle in 
 the picture. 
 
 How long Jeremiah and the king's daughters, and Baruch 
 and their attendants, or household, remained in Egypt, I don't 
 know. It is certain that they were there. How long they 
 were in Spain, I don't know, there was a large colony of their 
 people there, how long they remained there we may not know, 
 but we do know that just seven years after they left Mount 
 Zion, we find them landing on the Irish coast. It is more 
 than probable that some monument, or slab, or marble will be 
 found to fill up this missing link of seven years. 
 
 I mi^;ht quote from the Psalter of Ca.shel, the annals of 
 Tigernac, and of the four masters, and from the Welsh triads, 
 from very ancient poems, and monumental inscriptions to 
 prove the arrival of large companies of the descendants of the 
 chosen people, and of their arrival at different times, bearing 
 evidence in their language and institutions of a Hebrew origin, 
 but I mu.st not in this paper indulge to any extent, more than 
 a mere synopsis of what history informs us accompanied the 
 
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 prophet and his royal charge B.C. 580 or 581. 
 under th^ direction of the ship owners of Dan. 
 
 A REVKAI.ER. 
 
 They came 
 
 There was a revealer, or prophet, one divinely commissioned 
 called Ollam-Fodla, a teacher from God ; with him, as a scribe, 
 Sinion Baruch, Isaiah Iv, 1, also the daughters of Zodekiah.and 
 their household and attendants. The)- introduced many new 
 things into Ireland. The tables of the law, the Mur-olla-main, 
 or school of the prophets ; a system of civil jurisprudence 
 with a chief priest, or head, and he was called Jodhan-Morain, 
 a name found in Jeremiah xxiii, 40, and Isaiah xi, 3. They 
 appointed a Rectaire, a Hebrew word for Judge. They 
 brought with them the Liah-fail, or coronation stone, which 
 stone is now in Westminster Abbey, upon which all the kings 
 and queens of Great Britain, for 2,300 )'ears, have been crowned. 
 They brought the harp and other musical instruments, and 
 the grand old melodies, which to this day " dissolve us into 
 ecstacies," or as Milton says, " Might create a soul under the 
 ribs of death." They introduced a curriculum for the 
 " ollams " requiring them to complete a course in the school 
 of classics, the school of law, and the school of ))hilosophy and 
 poetry. It required twelve years study to graduate in those 
 schools. A literary title in those days meant work. How- 
 ever, when the man won his honours they made ample pro- 
 vision for his necessities. " An Ollam was allowed a standing 
 income of (20) twenty cows, and their keep on the chieftain's 
 farm, besides plenty of refections for himself, his wife and 
 family, with their attendants to the number of twenty-four. " 
 He was also entitled by law to have two hounds and six horses. 
 He was free from arrest and his wife also. 
 
 Ireland was then divided into five provinces ; Meath being 
 the fifth. Ea.ch province elected their chief warrior, and the 
 five, so chosen, elected an Eirmon, or Here-mon, or king, 
 whom they crowned as commander of all the army. 
 
 THE KIN(;. 580 H. C. 
 
 This crowned horseman, or king of Ulster was dressed in 
 royal robes, was tall and slender of form, of broad forehead, 
 sparkling blue laughing eyes, thin, red lips, pearly, shining 
 teeth ; on his person was a shirt of white kingly linen, called 
 " byssus," with golden clasps for buttons. A red and white 
 cloak fluttered about him fastened in front with a clasp of gold, 
 •and gold fastenings on his shoulder. A gold-handled sword. 
 
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 ;i white shield, a long, sharp spear, with a white shield, a long, 
 sharj), dark green spear, also a short, sharp spear, with a rich 
 carved silver handle. Fergus said of him, "Such a man is of 
 himself half a battle." 
 
 There was with him a lad, a secretary, with a crimson cloak, 
 a shirt of kingly linen, with gold fastenings, a white shield with 
 hooks of gold, and golden rim. A small sword at his side, a 
 light, short, sharp, shining spear on his shoulder. " Who is he, 
 dear i'ergu.s," said Ailill, " I don't remember," said Fergus, 
 "leaving any such persons as these in Ulster when I left it, I 
 believe they are the young princes of Tara lately come from 
 the East." 
 
 Echoid was the king's name, and it was not good for a man 
 to be alone, especially a popular Irishman. He was a bachelor. 
 
 TARA. 
 
 Matches they say are made in heaven, some of them a long 
 way on this side, I fear. 
 
 To see the "tender branch" was to love her, for .she was 
 of all virgins, the most beautiful. Tephi was her name, a pure 
 Hebrew name, a pet name, like our Emma, or Rosamond, 
 denoting fragrance and beauty. The king, or chief, made pro- 
 posals to her, for a manly man was he. She consulted her 
 guardian, as in duty bound ; the prophet consented to the union 
 on three conditions : 
 
 1. The worship of Baal must be renounced and the worship 
 of the true God established. 
 
 2. The nation must accept the moral law as contained in the 
 two tables. • 
 
 3. He must provide a .school for the Ollams. 
 
 VVhat young nobleman, tired of Bel and the Dragon, his 
 whole nature insulted by the huge falsehoods in Baal-worship, 
 would refuse such an offer } The law of God soon took the 
 place of the law of Baal. 
 
 The school is erected, a pure form of worship established, 
 the prophet blesses the nuptials, and Tephi becomes the beau- 
 tiful repre.sentative of the royal house of David. 
 
 The name of " Lothair Groffin," a castle in Meath. is changed 
 to that of Tara, and thus we see the tender branch planted on 
 a high mountain, and eminent in a land of traffic, by the great 
 waters, in a city of merchants, as was promised. We are 
 informed by very competent judges, that a large number of 
 Hebrew words are found in the literature of Ireland of those 
 early times, brought there, when the royal household^ was 
 transplanted fron Zion to Tara. 
 
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 In thosecarly times much of the history of the nation was 
 written in poems of the country. As mij^ht be expected, the 
 introduction of an l^astern princess became an inspiring' theme. 
 I cannot now quote from them, though there is much of intei - 
 est in many of those I have on hand. 
 
 Who has not heard "The Harp that once in Tara's Hall }" 
 
 " When a land rejects her legends 
 Sees but falsehood in the past, 
 And its people view their sires, 
 In the light of fools, or liars, 
 Tis a sign of its decline. 
 And its splendors cannot last. 
 Branches, that but blight their roots 
 Yield no sap for lasting fruits." 
 
 In Ireland, county Fermanagh, four miles below Enniskillen 
 there is a lake called Lough Erin. In this lake there is an 
 Island, called Davenish, on which there is a round tower ; con- 
 nected with the tower is a very ancient cemetery. In that 
 cemetery there are very ancient monuments, and in one corner 
 of the cemetery there is a tomb hewn out of a solid rock. 
 That tomb has from time immemorial been called " JcrcinialCs 
 tomby A gentleman, living in this city, says, " I have seen 
 that tomb hundreds of times." 
 
 It is well known to historians that, for centuries, Ireland was 
 the university for all Europe. There are, however, so many 
 who do not know it, and who are not willing to admit the facts 
 about the musical and literary character of Ireland at tiiose 
 times, I will quote from two or three impartial testimonies. 
 Sir James Mc Into.sh, says, " The Irish nation pos.sesses genu- 
 ine history several centuries more ancient than atiy other I'vUro- 
 pean nation possesses in its present spoken language. 
 
 .A UNIVKRSrrV. 
 
 Dr. Johnson said, " Ireland was at those times the school of 
 the West, the quiet habitation of sanctity and learning." 
 
 Lord Lyttii-ton said, " Most of the lights, which, in times past 
 — times of thick darkness, cast their beams over Europe pro- 
 ceeded from Ireland." 
 
 Mosheim says, " Ireland supplied Gaul, Germany and Italy, 
 with their scholars, and professionals." 
 
 Camden says, " At that time the Saxons flocked from all 
 quarters to Ireland, which was a mart of literature." It is 
 recorded as a mark of respect to many of the great ones ; 
 " He was .sent to Ireland to be educated." 
 
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 Julius Caesar says. " The learned Druids were taught in the 
 Irish schools, and the youth from Galli were sent over 
 there to finish their education." Me further says, " Persons 
 who desire to acquire a more extensive knowledge repair to 
 Britain for information ; " and if Britain taught Gaul ; where 
 did they acquire their knowledge ? and from whence came 
 the tribes of Dani, Simcni, and Cad of Hebrew origin, of whom 
 we read so much ? 
 
 Sir James Ware says, "The English Saxons received their 
 education from schools then planted in Ireland." 
 
 I'^ed. Jos. Spencer says, " We can understand why Ireland 
 was once the light of the world, She was once the sanctuar)- 
 and the asylum of knowledge, the protectress of the feeble, 
 and the university of the nations." 
 
 rilK ISI.KS .VDDKESSEI). 
 
 Now, if God sent his Israel over to " the Isles ol the West ;'" 
 the dispersed and the preserved of Israel to the far off isles, 
 to the Isles of Tarshish, we will, most probably, have some 
 intimation of his care over them. If he planted that new 
 nation, he will certainly show them kindness, and speak words 
 of comfort to them. Have we any near, or remote evidence 
 that he has done so .' Listen. 
 
 Isaiah ixxi, 5, "The isles shall wait upon me, and upon m}- 
 arm shall they trust." Israel is always safe trusting on that 
 arm. 
 
 When Eastern Europe and Western Asia were in their death 
 throes, it was comforting to hear him say : — 
 
 Isaiah xxiii, 2, " Be .still ye inhabitants of the Isles, thou 
 whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the .sea, have 
 replenished." The same people that carried on trade with 
 Tyre and Sidon are here addressed. 
 
 Jeremiah xxxi, 10, " Hear the word of the Lord, ye nations, 
 and declare it in the farthest off Isles." Yes ! where are those 
 to be found ? 
 
 "To the Isles he will repay a recompense," Isaiah Ixxix, i«S, 
 
 "The Isles .saw it and feared and the ends of the earth were 
 afraid." 
 
 Isaiah Ixxix, 19, " So shall they fear the name of the Lord 
 from the West." 
 
 "Keep silence before me O Islands !" Lsaiah xli, i. 
 
 " They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing aloud from 
 the sea," 
 
 " Wherefore glorify the God of Lsrael in the Isles of the 
 Sea." Isles of the sea is often read Isles of the West. The\' 
 
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 must be worshippers of Israel's God who are here addressed. 
 Listen, O ye Islands ! and hearken ye people from afar ! (from 
 Yarish land). 
 
 " Let them declare his praise in the Islands." It was most 
 becoming that they should. 
 
 " Sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise from the 
 ends of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, the Isles and 
 the inhabitants thereof." Isaiah Hi, lo. 
 
 God says, of Israel, " 1 will set his dominion in the sea. and 
 his right hand (the emblem of power; in the floods." To 
 whom has God given the dominion of the seas ? 
 
 What people are here addres.sed as having an Island home, 
 and trusting on God, and glorifying him ^ lias God forgotten 
 the tree of his own right hand planting .' To what race and 
 to what people does he speak in all those allusions .' 
 
 F. Tennyson, Esq., says, " It has come to light within the 
 past few }'ears that the Anglo-Saxon race are really and truly 
 those ten tribes of Israel carried away some seven centuries 
 and a half before Christ ; and deported by the king of As.syria 
 to the country of the Medes, and non-apparent from that 
 time to this ; but who undoubtedly migrated north-west, and 
 finally settled in the British Isles. The astonishing and mul- 
 tifarious evidences of this fact have already filkd volumes. I 
 may .say this much, that the British people, or the Saxon race 
 have literally fulfilled all the great promi.ses made by God to 
 Abraham ; which were never realized in Palestine. In reading 
 the works you must not expect a polished st)'le ; look for 
 facts, which I defy any man to explain awa)." 
 
 THE PRUMISK.s. 
 
 - We will now note some of those promises to Abraham, to 
 Jacob and to Joseph, and enquire for their fulfilment in grand 
 facts as Tennyson says. 
 
 I. God promises that his Israel shall be as the stars in 
 heaven for n '•"tudr and as the sand upon the sea shore, etc. 
 Th'^se romises are repeated several times, on down to the 
 ^ ' ,>i..phcts. They were first given to Abraham on Mount 
 . lah ; this m vellous multiplicity of increase may be sought 
 I. after the death of Christ, not before. Genesis Ixviii ch., i6. 
 "They p lall grow into a multitude in the mid.st of the earth ;" 
 the margin reads, "as fishe^ <4row." Well, how do fishes multi- 
 ply > not by twos, or tens, bu i by shoals, or colonies. There is no 
 nation that has at all approximated to a fulfilment of these 
 promises but our own. 
 
 Mr. Axon, a celebrated statistician, shows, " That while the 
 
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 ijreat European nations takes from 120 to 555 years to double 
 their population, the Anglo-Saxon — taking the mean of the 
 whole race — doubles every 41 years with a lower death rate 
 than any other." 
 
 The British nation is now the wealtniest, greatest, most 
 powerful nation on the face of the whole earth, having an 
 inconceivable multitudinous people, possesssing one half of the 
 habitable globe, and ruling, by her mild sway, one fourth of 
 the whole world's population. The tree the Lord planted, 
 " Has taken root downward and borne fruit upward, and ail 
 fowl of every wing come to the shadow of its branches." 
 
 C(JMI'ANV OF NATIONS. 
 
 2. God promises that he would make Israel " a nation and a 
 company of nations," tha"- "his seed should become a multitude 
 of nations," that "ye shall possess nations greater and 
 mightier than yourselves," that "people shall serve thee, and 
 nations shall bow down to thee." — Deuteronomy ii, 23. 
 
 Can these promises find a fulfilment in the Nestorians, 
 Abyssinians, Mexicans, Peruvians, or our North American 
 Indians.^ Every intelligent man says. No! In not one of 
 them; but, in our own Queen's dominions, they are all fulfilled 
 See the company of nations in our own Canada, best and 
 brightest gem in the crown of Her Majesty, a crown of many 
 diadems : in the states of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, 
 South African States, Transvaal, Fiji Island, and in the sixteen 
 heathen nations of India, with her thirty-six languages, and 
 250 millions of people, and in Afghanistan and Persia, that 
 must soon be ours. 
 
 In this familv of nations, too, I claim the United States of 
 America, for they ; re ours, though politically independent j( 
 us ; in the great family, in the great and glorious brotherhood 
 of our nations they are all one. And if these United States 
 should only agree in their foreign policy with us, we could then 
 say to all the nations of the earth : " Put up thy sword and learn 
 war no more." '^.'he Saxon race, now, if so disposed, could issue 
 a mandate that :herc shoald be war no more. 
 
 THK Mf)THl-:R NATION. 
 
 3. God said to Israel, " I will bless thee and make thee the 
 mother of many nations, and kings of peoples shall come of 
 thee." Genesis, xvii, 16. A mother nation must have children, 
 young nations growing up to strength and vigour and national 
 life. Where do we find such a mother nation .-^ In France.'* No! 
 PVance lias a few colonies but she does not succeed in multi- 
 
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 plying her children, all her American colonies have sought a 
 Saxon home. Spain makes a very poor mother, not even a 
 good step-mother. Italy, no! worse and worse ; the nearer you 
 get to the Vatican, the less chance for motherhood ; the pope 
 and cardinals and monks and nuns may dress like grandmoth- 
 ers, and have very long pockets, but they are very poor moth- 
 ers. Austria, no ! Russia, no ! Russia tried to colonize, but 
 she could not, and she sold the small patch, she had away north 
 of us, to our enterprising cousins on which to build an icc'-house, 
 or something. But Great Britain has a flourishing family of 
 sixty colonies, young nations, stalwart boys, with brain, and 
 heart, and soul, and well developed muscle. There is that 
 grand old mother of nations, fat and flourishing, loved by all 
 her sons, and loved most by those who know her best. May 
 her shadow never gn^w less ! 
 
 *' SPIRITUAL IS'RAKI." 
 
 I hear another objectio)''. from a dear friend of mine, who 
 grows warm and noisy about what he calls " Spiritual Israel." 
 and he says, that, " We, in claiming a literal fulfilment of 
 certain promises made to Abraham and his seed, do dishonour 
 to ' Spiritual Israel.' " I have, however, never been able to 
 persuade him to point out a single passage in the word of God, 
 where his favourite term is used. He mighi as well fret and 
 fume about Spiritual Jacob, or Spiritual Esau, or Spiritual 
 Joseph. The fact is, the term has no place in rhe Scriptures, 
 It is a piece of foreign metal. We read of "children of 
 Abraham," believers in Christ," " sons of God," the " faithful," 
 "children of God," "righteous," of "children of the light," 
 " citizens of God," of the " family of God," but Spiritual Israel 
 we don't find in the book. 
 
 That term sounds very much like one that a wealthy gen- 
 tleman often uses. He .says, that he belongs to the " invisible 
 church." It is a very cheap church, certainly ; there is no house 
 to build or keep in order, no minister to support, no parsonage 
 to furnish, and no poor members v/ho have a claim on him. 
 All his doings for God and community are invisible ; no one 
 ever saw him do the handsome thing. He never lets his left 
 hand know what his right hand does ; because neither hand 
 ever does anything. He belongs, he says, to an invisible 
 church. 
 
 Israelite is a generic term u.sed to express the covenant 
 people of God. A patronymic term expressing the name of 
 our forefather Israel ; one who descended from Jacob as an 
 Israelite. 
 
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 A Gentile may become a Christian, and inherit the blessings 
 of grace on earth and glory in heaven ; but he cannot become 
 an Israelite. A man may be an Israelite and be a lost 
 sinner, or he may be an Israelite by birth, and a Christian by 
 the new-birth unto righteousness, which is, to me, the highest 
 style of man, that would, in the estimate of Jesus, constitute 
 him an " Israelite indeed," as was Nathanael. 
 
 While rejoicing in our spiritual blessings and special priv- 
 ileges promised to Israel, we must not overlook the temporal. 
 
 In that memorable promise of God to Abraham we have a 
 trinity of blessings. 
 
 In that one there is a tri-partite division : — 
 
 1. His seed should be a great nation and they should in- 
 herit the land of Canaan. 
 
 2. He should be the progenitor of the coming " Vaveh " — 
 Jesus. 
 
 3. He should be the father of many nations, of multitudes 
 of peoples ; they should possess the ends of the earth, and the 
 gates of their enemies, Genesis xxii, 17. 
 
 Now all that was included in these promi.ses was transmitted 
 to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to the twelve tribes. The first 
 promise was literally fulfilled. The second also was literally 
 made good, even to the most minute particulars of His life 
 and labours. His death and resurrection. 
 
 Now, the third promise mu.st be as truly and literally fulfilled 
 as the first and second. Just at this point, we have set up a 
 mystical, figurative, symbolical system of interpretation, that 
 claims to spiritualize the remainder of those promises. Upon 
 whose authority are we to spiritualize one of the three, taking 
 the other two literally .^ The literal is the natural, and the fig- 
 urative the exceptional method of interpretation. There are 
 some passages which admit of a two-fold application, but we 
 '^.honld first .see if a promise will admit of a literal, before we 
 ^^cK for a figurative application. 
 
 If the first two were literally fulfilled we may reasonably look 
 for the third to be literal. If the prophecy regarding the cap- 
 tivity and dispersion were literal, we may safely look for the 
 prophecy regarding ihe restoration to be literal. If the curses 
 are literal, I claim that the blessings will be literal also. If 
 the past as literal, .so will the future. If you spiritualize Israel in 
 the xix ch. of Isaiah you are bound to spiritualize Assyria 
 and Egypt and Edom and Moab. Deal fairly and justly all 
 round. If you make a Christian Church of Israel, what will 
 you do with Noph and Toan .-' If you spiritualize Israel you 
 must try and do the same with Judah. 
 
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 ^t is recorded of a circn.f • 
 
 -" easy mate/to fi^^l "'"■ ."'^■> -""'•'tt: „'Tha".t '" '"'"- 
 A volunteer was at fj. *?'"'"" "'"'"g to W to /hl,*f ""' 
 
 - t-e «.t -^;ti:i:rr 3.^0.™ '" ^-^-t^^d 
 
 " Into a world of ruffians sent 
 
 wi-retranTeSLrr 
 
 An, raven. -X-slSn".!?-'' 
 liiat man must have har? o 
 
 Th'eTte,, u f ""'"'"' ''•="'"-' f- ^Pint- 
 
 to crack h *''*^ """'''-dfeh he found ^L,^? '"^ "■"<> to 
 ProveTth'at tr'^"'' •'"^'"g »" .•ngentul'h h''"" '' ''''■■'' ""t 
 easily saw how th:"H"'-^'"^ ''"' *e %h, „f 1' rl'' ''!!""£ 
 
 sn^uflJd 'out Cfhise'e"?"^' ^ >"'"' "S^had bett^'"," f/' 
 
 ngh. hand ami on Vhe to f f 5™. "'' »"'<«■■'• i-or lZ\t^ T"'T i »P»« »<". 
 
 Shall c:l'"ot^„frh'ee'.''^ "'"''" °' -"^ -tions, and ki„j 
 borrl^ ''^^* '^-^ -to .„a„y nations, hut thou shalt not 
 
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 " Thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies." 
 
 " The streets of Jerusalem shall be full of boys and girls 
 playing in the streets," Zech. viii, 5. 
 
 Deuteronomy xxxii, 30, " One of you shall chase a thousand, 
 and two put ten thousand to flight." 
 
 Exodus xxiii, ^7, " I will make all thine enemies turn their 
 back upon thee." 
 
 Isaiah xli, 12, " They that war against Israel shall be as 
 nothing, and as a thing of nought for I am with thee." 
 
 Jeremiah li, 19 : — 
 
 " The portion of Jacob is not like them ; for he is the former of all things : and 
 Israel is the rod of his inheritance : the Lord of hosts is his name, Thou art 
 my battle axe and weapons of war : for with thee will I break in piecesjthe nations, 
 and with thee will I destroy kingdoms. And with thee will I break in pieces the 
 horse and his rider ; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider." 
 
 You will need the Duke of Wellington to help you to 
 spiritualize these. 
 
 THE GIRDLE. 
 
 4. The colonial possessions of Israel were to encircle both 
 continents. Deuteronomy xxxii, 8, "When the Most High 
 divided the nations he set the bounds of the people according 
 to their inheritance." " The Lord's portion is his people, 
 Israel is the (measuring) rod of his inheritance." " He hath 
 determined the bounds of their habitation." The " rod " 
 means girdle, belt, circle. So the possessions of Israel are to 
 be so situated that they will bound, or encircle the other 
 nations. Israel is to possess the " sides of the earth," the 
 " coasts of the earth," the " ends of the earth," the " uttermost 
 parts of the earth," the " uttermost boundaries of the ever- 
 lasting hills." This could not be said of two nations. If, 
 therefore, we find a nation holding this position, we find Israel. 
 
 Now our vast possessions do positively encircle the great 
 Gentile nations ; we do occupy " the sea coasts ;" we do 
 possess "the ends of the earth." Upon the empire of our Queen 
 the sun never sets. 
 
 The great Daniel Webster once said of Britain, "Her 
 morning drum-beat, keeping time with the hours, encircles the 
 earth with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." 
 
 Look at the map, and note how fully God has made good 
 his promise. We surround the Eastern hemisphere with our 
 possessions. Make the British Isles an observatory and look 
 around, there is Heligoland, Gibraltar, Malta, Gambia, Sierra- 
 Leone, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Mauritius, Aden, Perim, 
 Straits Settlements, India, Ceylon, Labuan, Northern, Western, 
 
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 it 
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 and Southern Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Hong-Kong, 
 and fifteen Chinese ports ; thus completing circle No. i. The 
 same is true of the Western hemisphere : there is Canada, 
 Manitoba, British Columbia, Vancouvers Island, United States, 
 Fiji, and other Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Falkland Islands, 
 St. Helena, and Ascension Islands, British Guiana, Trinidad, 
 Windward Islands, Granada, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, 
 Tobago, Leeward Islands, Antigua, Montserat, St. Christopher, 
 Nevis, Virgin Islands, Dominico, Jamaica, British Honduras, 
 Turks Island, Bahamas, Bermuda, Nova-Scotia, Prince Edward 
 Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland ; so we complete 
 circle No. 2. Thus we become, in our national history, a living 
 power to prove God's inspired word. 
 
 THE ISLES AND THE WASTES. 
 
 5. Israel was to possess an extensive Gentile empire, and 
 to possess the desolate or unoccupied lands and territories. 
 Isaiah liv, 3, " Thou shall break forth on the right hand 
 and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and 
 make the desolate cities to be inhabited." Isaiah xlix, " Listen, 
 O Isles, unto me, and hearken ye people from afar." 
 
 '• 8 Thus saith the Lord, in an acceptable time have [ heard thee, and in a day 
 of salvation have I helped thee : and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a 
 covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate 
 heritages. 22 Tiius saith the Lord God, behold, I will lift up mine hand to the 
 Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people ; and they ihall bring thy sons in 
 their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon tlieir shoulders." 
 
 " To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate 
 heritages," and the reason given is " For Israel is graven upon 
 the palms of my hands." This is to be " in the appointed time, 
 in the latter days." 
 
 When the Roman poet conjured up in his prophetic fancy a 
 temple, and games, and a theatre for the honour of Augustus, 
 triumphant over the East, he saw in ivory and gold upon the 
 temple gates, the Nile surging with flood and war, Asia con- 
 quered, and the mighty Ganges witnessing the subjugation of 
 her .sons. But we, too, had a place in that vision. Gigantic 
 Britons, posted on either side, seemed to draw the tapestry that 
 revealed the ever changing scene. Little did that poet think 
 that tho.se very Britons, would one day raise the curtain, and 
 present to the world a vast imperial assemblage such as met 
 at Delhi in January 1877, to celebrate the assumption by Her 
 Majesty Queen Victoria of the Eastern title of 
 
 EMPRESS OF INULV 
 
 the all powerful successor of the great Mogul. Was not that 
 
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 occasion a literal fulfilment of the divine promise, " Ye shall 
 possess nations greater and mightier than yourselves," and 
 " thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles ?" Then and there one 
 sixth of the human race were cast upon our hands, no doubt 
 for the wisest of purposes, and here recently there has been 
 further inheriting of the Gentiles in the annexation of Trans- 
 vaal, a territory 400,000 square miles, also Fiji, and Cyprus. 
 
 It ought to be remembered that all these immense territories 
 are ours in answer to prayer. The time was to come when 
 that Island home would be too small for its inhabitants, and 
 the cry was to go up to God, " Give us room that we may 
 dwell, for the place is too straight for us," Isaiah xlix ; and the 
 answer to that prayer is (Isaiah liv, 3) : — 
 
 "For thou shah break forth on the right hind indon the Itft ; and thy seed 
 shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cit'vs to be inhabited." 
 
 In filling up the desolate territories they find room for the 
 surplus population of those crowded Isles. How far-seeing 
 was that venerable man of God, as he leaned upon his staff 
 and called his sons to him, that he might tell them what would 
 come "to pass in the latter days !" When he came to Joseph, 
 and under a large measure of inspiration, he said, (Genesis 
 xlix, 22) " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by 
 a well, whose branches run over the wall ;" the thrifty vine 
 grew too rapidly to be controlled, and it ran over the wall of 
 restraint, and away into a luxuriant and glorious independence. 
 
 NEW ENGLAND. 
 
 6. Israel was to grow up a young nation, a colonial child — a 
 daughter, like the mother, in nature, in language, in laws, in 
 enterprise, in religion : and that daughter was to be lost to her 
 mother, as a child is lost to parents when she leaves her home, 
 and refuses parental restraint. I am not blaming either the 
 mother, or the daughter, but I think I see an Israelitish 
 photograph in the facts of history, and I see the providence of 
 God in the provision made for our surplus population. The 
 Prophet (Isaiah xlix, 20,) saw that Island home still crowded, 
 and he says : — 
 
 *' The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall 
 say ajfain in thine ears, the place is luo strait for me : give place to me that I may 
 dwell." 
 
 THE SAXON EVERYWHERE. 
 
 That colonial child was lost to the mother and still the cry was 
 " Give us room," and Canada became the lovely, and dutiful 
 
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 child, the home of millions of trusty hearts : " We want 
 room," and Australia in her desolation blooms as a beautiful 
 rose: " We want room," and British Columbia and Manitoba in 
 their loneliness and desolation have learned to rejoice, and I 
 fully believe that the "desolate heritages " away on the West 
 and North of us, on and on, to the everlasting hills, and still 
 on to the setting sun, must and will be peopled by those ever 
 conquering, ever progressive Saxons. The command still is, 
 as I read it some years ago, 
 
 " Stretch forth ! stretch forth from South to North ; 
 From East to West, stretch for^h ! stretch forth ! 
 Strengthen thy stakes, and leng*^hen thy cords. 
 The world is a tent for the world's true lords, 
 Break forth, and spread over every place, 
 The world is a world for the Saxon race. 
 
 Britain sowed the glorious seed, 
 
 In her wise old laws, and her pure old creed ; 
 
 And her stout old heart and her plain old tongue, 
 
 And her resolute energies ever young, 
 
 And her free bold hand, and her frank fair face 
 
 And her faith in the rule of the Saxon race. 
 
 Feebly dwindling day by day, 
 
 All other races are fading away, 
 
 The sensual South, and the servile East, 
 
 And the tottering throne of the treacherous priest. 
 
 And every land is in evil case. 
 
 But the wide spread realm of the Saxon race. 
 
 Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen all, 
 
 By one great name on your millions I call ; 
 
 Norman, American, Gael or Celt, 
 
 In to this, this fine mixed mass ye melt, 
 
 And all the best of your best, I trace. 
 
 In the gold and the brass of the Saxon race." 
 
 Britons, everywhere, faithful and free, 
 
 Lords of the land and kings of the sea : 
 
 Anglo-Israelites, honest and true 
 
 By hundreds of millions, my word is to you. 
 
 Love one another, as brothers embrace. 
 
 That the world may be blessed in the Saxon race. 
 
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 LAND AND SEA. 
 
 7. Israel must be the first naval power in the world -7" to 
 possess the sea coasts," " to possess the Isles of the sea," 
 " to possess many waters," " to go down to the sea in ships," 
 "to do business in great waters." " He shall pour the water out 
 of his buckets," i. e. shall use it, and control it ; shall do a large 
 ocean trade. Facts are stubborn things. The Board of Trade, 
 in a report of 1875, shows that, when you compare the tonnage 
 of our steam and sailing vessels with the tonnage of France, 
 Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Russia, China and all 
 the other Gentile nations, our tonnage is to the whole of them 
 put together, as 15^ is to 6^, or more than two to one. 
 
 " Sing, my hearties," says the sailor to his mates, 
 
 " Britannia Rules the Waves." 
 
 "THEY run!" 
 
 8. Israel was to conquer against the greatest odds. Deut- 
 eronomy XX, I ; Leviticus xxvi, 7, 8 ; Joshua xviii, 10 ; Deut- 
 eronomy xxxii, 30 : — 
 
 " I When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and 
 chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them : for the Lord thy 
 God h with thee. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before 
 you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of 
 you shall put ten thousand to flight : and your enemies shall fall before you by the 
 sword. 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand : for the Lord your God, he ii 
 is that fi^hteth for you, as he hath promised you. 30 How should one chase a 
 thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, 
 and the Lord had shut them up ?" 
 
 " And I will make all thine enemies turn their back upon 
 thee," — Israel. For Jeremiah H, 30 : — 
 
 "Thou«r/my battle axe 'rt«rf weapons of war : for with thee will I break in 
 pieces the nations, and with thee will 1 destroy kingdoms." 
 
 The battle axe has been doing the work of God for ages. 
 
 How extraordinary those promises, and yet, our history, 
 from the first day until now, is one continued illustration of 
 their fulfilment in our behalf! A few red coats, and a few 
 Scotch Greys awed and conquered China. A very small de- 
 tachment brought the Aby.ssinian hordes to terms without 
 the loss of a single man. 
 
 We hold India with her teeming millions by a few soldiers, 
 who, it is said, " if they did not drink whiskey, would thrash 
 all creation." 
 
 The Duke of Wellington was the hero of one hundred bat- 
 tles, and every fight he fought, he won, and never in any field 
 did he lose a single cannon. 
 
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 The prophet Micah describes the prowess of Israel's arms ; 
 V ch. 8 :— 
 
 " And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many 
 people as a lion among the beasts ofthe forest, as a young lion among the flocks of 
 sheep : who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none 
 can deliver." 
 
 Israel was not to be conquered by a Gentile nation, and in- 
 deed it stands to-day the only undefeated nation in Europe. 
 It was necessary that the Saxons and Danes .should be 
 «niade a part of the confederacy, as in 1066 A. D. It was necess- 
 ary that Benjamin, "little Benjamin their ruler," Psalms Ixviii, 
 ch. 27, should be admitted into the body politic. Since then, 
 Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Russia, and 
 France have all been made to own themselves "whipped ;" but 
 Britain has had an assurance, as in the fate of the Spanish 
 Armada and Napoleon's projected invasion, of the truth of 
 God's Word ; Isaiah xvii ch. 13 : — 
 
 " The nations shall rush like the rushing; of many waters ; but God shall rebuke 
 them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains 
 before the wind, and like a rollmg thinjj beiore the whirlwind." 
 
 OUR ROYAL STANDARD. 
 
 All the great empires, or kingdoms, that have passed across the 
 stage of this world's history, have had their national .standards. 
 
 9. Israel received from God a Royal Standard, or Coat of 
 Arms, and that standard is rightfully claimed to be the Royal 
 Standard of Britain. 
 
 The Assyrians had a Bull, the Macedonians the Goat, Persia 
 the Sun, Turkey the Moon, or Crescent, Austria and Russia 
 the Double-headed Eagle, France the Eagle, etc. 
 
 Look at our National Standard. 
 
 This is the Coat of Arms affixed to every document pro- 
 ceeding from the supreme authorities of every !_ British posses- 
 sion — an emblem commanding and obtaining respect from 
 every British subject, and which, displayed on the breasts of 
 our heroic kings has struck terror and dismay to our enemies 
 on the battle field. Let us proceed to analize this time- 
 honoured symbol of our great nation : — 
 
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 On the first quarter there are three Lions, on the second the 
 Scotch Lion, on the third the Harp that was taken from 
 Mount Zion to Tara, Ireland, and on the fourth quarter, three 
 more Lions, then a Lion and a Unicorn rampant, and above 
 all the Crowned Lion standing on a Crown, Only nine lions 
 and a unicorn ! ! How came all these lions here ? The richly 
 endowed, strangely gifted Israel, when leaning upon his staff, 
 gave us the origin of all heraldly ; as he blessed his sons, he 
 said (Genesis xlix, 9) : — 
 
 " Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art g»ne up : he stooped 
 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ?" 
 
 ninp: lions. 
 
 And inspiration used the same and similar language through- 
 out. " Israel hath the strength of a unicorn, he couched, he 
 lay down as a lion, and as an old lion." 
 
 " Behold the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift 
 himself up rs a young lion." 
 
 "And I e remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in 
 the midst of many people as a young lion among a flock of 
 sheep," 
 
 " Behold he shall come up as a lion." 
 
 *' He hath the strength of a unicorn, his horns are like the 
 horns of a unicorn." 
 
 " My heritage is unto me as a lion of the forest." 
 
 " His glory is like the firstlings of his bullock, (" a bullock !" 
 that sounds like John Bull) and his horns like the horns of 
 unicorns." 
 
 " With them he shall push the people together to the ends 
 of the earth : and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and 
 they are the thousands of Manasseh." 
 
 THK STANDARD GOES TO ISRAEL. 
 
 Judah was the recognized leader in all their journeys, 
 marches, and wars, and was known as the royal tribe, and the 
 lion was the heraldry of Judah. This device was given to 
 them by God, and by them retained until the event alluded to 
 in Matthew xxi, 43. When the Jews killed the son and heir 
 of the vineyard, and Jesus said unto them, " The kingdom of 
 God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing 
 forth the fruits thereof." The Jews had borne the royal 
 emblems until now ; but rejecting the son and the heir, they 
 lost the honour and the glory, and even the semblance of a 
 national existence passed away from them. The disciples, 
 who were Benjamites, so understood it, for they came together 
 
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 and asked Jesus, ** Lord wilt thou at this time restore again 
 the kingdom to Israel." Jesus did not inform them that 
 it was merged in Judah, nor did he censure them for 
 entertaining such an opinion ; but he assured them of the 
 promised baptism of power to aid them in the work demand- 
 ing their attention. It was not for them to know, when, or 
 how his Israel should be identified and fully re-instated ; they 
 had work to do. 
 
 THE HAkJ'. 
 
 As to the unicorn, it is an un-Knglish animal. It is probably 
 the equicerous of Cuvier, or the hippelaphus of Aristotle. It 
 was usually sculptured in profile, on bas-reliefs ; its two horns, 
 being erect, looked like one. On our standard it combines 
 somewhat the figure of a horse and of an antelope or hind. 
 These were both emblems of the Saxons. In this combination 
 we have the horse of Dan, and the hind of Naphtali, see Gen- 
 esis xlix ch. 21, "Naphtali is a hind let loose." fDan is always 
 seen on a fine looking horse, like King William, Prince of 
 Orange in our day.) 
 
 The harp on which David loved so well to play, was the 
 national emblem of Ireland centuries before ('hrisl, and, on 
 down through the ages for 2000 years, it was seen floating on 
 her castles. It was stamped upon her shields and upon her 
 coin. That harp and its angel guardian was the only standard 
 she would own until the union of the three realms of England, 
 Ireland and Scotland in one kingdom. Then the harp is seen 
 with its angel protector associated with nine lions, and an 
 antelope, or unicorn. Then the cross of St. Andrew, the cross 
 of St. George, and the cross of St. Patrick became the Union 
 Jack. 
 
 If you trace that word "Jack" to its origin, you will find 
 the French Jacques, the Latin Jacobus, and the Hebrew Jacob, 
 The "Union" that flag represents, was the union of Jacob's pos- 
 terity in the " Isles of the west." 
 
 Haydcn says, " The Cumry of Wales had the harp on their 
 coat of arms, which they received from Ireland," " The harp was 
 brought into Ireland by the Tuatha de Danaan, 719 B.C., see 
 books of Leacan and Ballymote. 
 
 That crowned lion is none other than the Lion of the Tribe of 
 Judah. The other eight upon our standard may represent the 
 young nations, or colonies, in loving alliance to the power of 
 the old lion — "the young lions of Tarshish." Sound the timbrel, 
 tell it in France, publish it in Austria, send the echo to Besika 
 Bay, to Constantinople, to all the Russias, to Egypt, to India, 
 
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 to the Ameer of Afghan, tell it to the hosts of Britain's might 
 and chivalry on land and sea : that our heraldry, so proudly 
 borne by army and navy, was given millenniums ago, by the 
 God of Israel, to our forefathers, and has been handed down 
 from generation to generation, as a grand security of his 
 abiding presence with "s and with our children for ever ! ! 
 
 I use the word " Britain," rather than the minor word England ; 
 for Britain, like Israel of old, is formed out of many tribes, all 
 resting peacefully under one flag. Her national character is 
 powerful because composite, and England, Ireland, and Scot- 
 land equally have contributed to her glory. If England gave 
 Britain a Nelson, Ireland gave Britain a Wellington, and 
 Scotland gave Britain a Colin Campbell. Each country 
 increases the glory of the other. 
 
 OUR GATIi.S. 
 
 About 3,750 years ago, the promise was made to Israel's 
 grandfather that " thy seed shall possess the gate of his 
 enemies," Genesis xxii, 17: also Genesis xxiv, 60: — 
 
 " And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, thou art our sister, be thou 
 the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which 
 hate them." 
 
 Bishop Patrick says, " 'Gates' are cities and consequently the 
 country," strongholds, or fortified places. If the gates are 
 taken and cities surrendered, the country is conquered. What 
 nation, or people, are now the gate holders of the nations ? 
 W^e hold Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Acre, Port Sayyud, Suez 
 Canal, Aden, Perim, Socotra, Babelmandeb, or Gate of Tears, 
 Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Peshavvan, Kurrachee, Rangoon, 
 Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Sarawak, Hong-Kong, Australia, 
 Tasmania, New Zealand, nearly all the African Coast, Halifax, 
 Quebec, Vancouver, etc. For 500 years Britain has been the 
 gate-holder in the lands of those who hate her, and Con- 
 stantinople is now virtually ours. 
 
 But of our own " gates " the Lord says, (Isaiah Ix, 11) : — 
 
 " Therefore thy yates shall be open continually ; thev shall not be shut day nor 
 nij4ht.'" 
 
 When did any one hear of London, or Liverpool, or Dublin, 
 or Glasgow being blockaded or shut up } 
 
 Some say, this gate question refers to the passport .system ; 
 doubtful, but, if so the same is true still, the British Consul 
 holds the key for all those Gentile countries. Go to any 
 country in Europe, and be sure you look well after your pass- 
 ports. 
 
 
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 Did anyone ever hear of a passport in order to travel in 
 Kngland, Ireland, Scotland, Canada or the United States ? 
 Not likely! Those Anglo- Israelites or Saxons can take care 
 of Lhemselves without passports. "Thy gates open continu- 
 ally ;" the reason given is, " that men may bring unto thee the 
 forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought." 
 " Forces," the wealth of the Gentiles. An English finan- 
 cier says one hundred million sterling a year finds its way to 
 liritain from those nation.s. 
 
 MONEY LKNDKRS. 
 
 11. The Lord appointed his Israel to be the great treasure 
 house of all nations and all peoples ; Deuteronomy xv. 6, and 
 xxviii, 12, 13. 
 
 •'6 For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee : and ihini shalt 
 lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow ; and thou shalt rei^n over 
 many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 12 The Lord shali open unto 
 thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and 
 to bless all the work of thine hand : and thou shalt leini unto many nations, and 
 thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not tlie 
 tail ; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not l)e beneath ; if th.it thou 
 hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy (lod, w hich I command thee 
 this day, to observe and to do them." 
 
 These promises were forfeited once by disobedience, but 
 when Israel returned to the Lord, and sought him, and were 
 restored to his favour, the promises all hold good, and all be- 
 come ours. He says, " I will do bettor to you than at the 
 beginning." " Lend unto many !" The Westminster Review 
 says, " Foreign countries have during the last thirty years ad- 
 ded three thousand million pounds sterling to their debts, and 
 the British people are the great lenders ! !" 
 
 Emmerson says, "The creation of wealth in England during 
 the last century is a main fact in modern history. The wealth 
 of England determines prices all over the Globe." 
 
 Carpenter says, " The amount of interest paid on our enor- 
 mous loans in England, alone exceeds six millions sterling in 
 a single month." 
 
 And while we have lent and are lending at two and three per 
 cent, the amount of unemployed capital is so great that borrow- 
 ers cannot be found. " Shall not borrow !" Who can tell me the 
 time, when Britain asked a loan from any Gentile nation ? 
 Why, .such an idea would be laughed at all over the nation. 
 
 MIS.SIONARIES. 
 
 1 2. The Israel of God are to be the great missionary agency to 
 the world, " I will bless thee and thou shalt be a blessing." 
 
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 " 111 thy sect! shiill all the nations of the earth be blessed." 
 The [)riniar\' meaning- is Christ, and his redeeming work ; but 
 as human instruments that agency is largely to be Israel, "this 
 people have I formed for m^ self, they shall show forth my 
 praise," " I will send those that escape of them, unto the 
 nations /^'Tarshish. . . J avan, /<? the isles afar off, that have not 
 heard my fame, neither have seen my glory ; and they shall 
 declare my glory amoni; the Gentiles." — Isaiah Ixvi, 19. Note 
 the agency and the "escaped" who have found a home in 
 Tarshish and the far off isles. The mission is to be to the 
 Cicntiles. It could not mean the Jews, for they have not yet 
 been "bent" to Christ. It must mean some portion of 
 Abraham's family, and that portion of them must be 
 christianized. 
 
 To Israel the Lord says, Isaiah xlix, 6: — 
 
 ■■ 1 will also jjjvfi thfi' (ov a light to the (Jeiitiles, that thou mayest be my salva- 
 lion unto the end of the earth." 
 
 Hear Paul and Barnabas. Acts xiii, 45 : — 
 
 " Hut when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were tilled with envy, and spake 
 against t.io.se things w'hieh were spoken by I'aul, contradicting and blaspheming,'. 
 Then Paul anfl Hnrnabas waxed bold, and said, it was necessary that the word of 
 (iod should first have been sj)oken to you : but seeinij ye put it from you, and 
 judge yourselves unworthy of cverlnsiiiiy life, lo, v\e turn to the Gentiles. For so 
 h.ith the I,ord coinmandt^rl us. 5<7v/»i,'. I have set thee to be a liijht of the (ientiles, 
 tha: thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the 
 (■entiles heard this, they were L;lad, and glorified the word of the Lord : and as 
 many as were ordained to eternal life believed." 
 
 Mere was Israel, and not Judah, at missionary work for God. 
 And oil the great missionary agencies of our century are 
 sent by the Saxon races : the names alone of great missionary 
 organization.'' would fill pages. It is literally Britain and 
 America that are engaged in blessing all the families of 
 the earth. They are the missionaries of the world. These 
 two nations are the " light of the Gentiles." They maintain 
 more than twice as many foreign missions as all the Gentile 
 nations put together. 
 
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 13. Israel is God's inheritance and possession, and we must 
 be prepared to acknowledge the fact. Moses prayed, " O Lord 
 take us for thine inheritance," and He said, " The Lord hath 
 taken you for an inheritance ; and again, ' O Lord destroy 
 not thine inheritance." " They are thy people and hine inherit- 
 ance." David prayed, " Bless the inheritance of the Lord," 
 " And the people A/'hom thou hast e.iosen for thine inherit- 
 
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 ance." Isaiah says, " O Lord return the tribes of thine 
 inheritance," " Israel mine inheritance," " Ask of me and I 
 will give the heathen to thine inheritance." 
 
 Now, note, our British people through their national church, 
 claim to be the very people here spoken of Hear them 
 throughout all the land in the beautiful service of the prayer 
 book. In the Confession the}- say, " We have erred and 
 strayed from His way like lost sheep," and they use the very 
 term: by which God had all along spoken of them, " lost 
 sheep." " His people, my people, my servants, thy heritage," 
 "thine inheritance," "the sheep of thy pasture," 'thy chosen 
 people," " thy people Israel,' and the like, and thc\- say, " We 
 are the people of thy pasture and the sheep of thy hand," ' O 
 Lord save thy people and bless thine inheritance," " And 
 make thy chosen people joyful," " O let Israel bless the Lord, 
 Bless ye the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and 
 redeemed his people," " And they call upon the Lord to 
 remember his holy covenant, and to perform unto us the 
 oath which he sware to OUR forefather, Abraham." Indeed, 
 that is prett}' good. If Abraham be our forefather are we not 
 his children ? " He hath holpen His servant Israel, as He 
 promised to our forefather Abraham tl; it He A'ould give us." 
 ■' O God we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have told 
 us the noble works that thou didst in their days i.nd in times 
 of old." What fathers are here meant ? Gentile chiefs ^ 
 Indian chiefs > Anglo-Saxon Idolators .' Old Druids .' No ! ! 
 not by any means ; farther back still : go to the Patriarchs and 
 Prophets. 
 
 MUST OWN Ul'. ■ 
 
 " O Lord spare Thy people, and let not Thine heritage be 
 brought to confusion, so that we that are Thy people and the 
 sheep of thy pasture, shall give Thee thanks for ever, &c." 
 " O Lord mercifully receive the prayers of Thy people." 
 
 In the service for the 20th of June, in a prayer for the 
 Queen, they say, " Let there never be one wanting in her 
 house to succeed her in the government of this kingdom, that 
 our posterity may see her childrens' children, cind peace upon 
 Israel." What docs all this mean ? Coming from the Arch- 
 Bishops, Bishops, Ministers, Deans, Curates, and the nation 
 they represent, I would not for a moment, think that they do 
 not mean it. Many hundreds of them are among the most 
 devoted of all God's people; but while the}- say it on the Sab- 
 bath, in their cathedrals and churches, I would have them own 
 up to the same glorious truth on week days, and in all the walks 
 
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 and ways of life, and be prepared to incur the responsabilities 
 of his Israel. 
 
 Then, note the Wesieyan Methodist Minister as he calls 
 upon his people by tens iJ. thousands to sing the praises of 
 God, and to mean what thev- sing, as he gives out the 546th 
 hymn ; — 
 
 " The sheep of Israel's fold 
 In England's pastures feed." 
 
 Of course they do, and it is safe and good pasturage too. 
 And then the Presbyterians, of all branches, sing right lustily: 
 
 "We arc His people. He doth us feed, 
 And for His sheep He doth us take. 
 
 We are His people, and the sheep 
 Within his pastures fed." 
 
 And the Baptists p.iid Congregationalists catch the same 
 strain, and indulge in the same scntim .t. 
 
 CHAIN BREAKERS. 
 
 14. Mr.Wesley was far in advance of his times. He called the 
 slave trade " The sum of all villianies." God issued a high 
 commission, a divine command to flis Israel, "To loo.se the 
 bands of wickedness, to undo heavy burdens, to let the 
 oppressed go free, and that ye (Israel) break off every yoke." 
 
 Compare the death penalty incurred by a British subject 
 infringing the laws of his country by engaging in the slave 
 traffic, with the law laid down to Israe! in Exodus xxi, 16: — 
 " He that stealeth a man and sellcth him, or if he be found in 
 his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Other nations 
 limit the punishment for this nefarious practice to imprison- 
 ment, A^hen not absolutely winked at. 
 
 Britain is a high court of appeal for all lands and all nations, 
 and with one voice her sixty colonies do unite in singing, 
 " Britons never shall be slaves," 
 
 At one of my lectures, having read this paper, a gentleman 
 came to the front, somewhat excited, and said " Mr. Poole, 
 you say ' That the British people, consisting of the Plnglish, 
 Irish, Scotch, and the Americans and Canadians are to be put 
 in possession of the land of Canaan, that land promised to 
 Abraham and to his seed,' why they would not find standing 
 room in such a small country as that." To quiet the fears of 
 our friend, wc read for him the promise of God found in 
 Jeremiah iii, 14 : "I will take you one of a city, and two of a 
 tribe, and I will bring you to Zion." 
 
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 " The Lord'? redeemed with joy shall come 
 From lands afar to Israel's home — 
 From every tribe a chosen bandy 
 To worship in the Holy Land." 
 
 That looks very much like representation by population. 
 Our excited friend grew more calm, and said that he would 
 have no objection to Jerusalem. 
 
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 THE SABBATH. 
 
 15. It was a divine appointment that Israel wherever found 
 must ha\ e a Sabbath. 
 
 " And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying;. Speak thou also unto the children 
 of Israel, sayinij;, verily my Sabbatlis ye shall keep : for it ;5 a sij,'n between me 
 and you throujjliout your generations ; that ye ina\ know that I nni the Lord that 
 coth sanctify you. Wherefore the children of Israel sliall keep the Sabbath, to 
 observe the .Sabbath throughout their ^generations, fur a perpetual covenant. It is 
 a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever." 
 
 " Sabbath," says Bishop Ely, " was thus made a distinguish- 
 ing badge, a bond for the whole people. 
 
 Greenh'U says, " Sign " here means proof, a note of your" 
 distinctif n Irain others, of your being my people. It is a sign 
 that we arc h;i, a mark or token that has great significance. 
 
 The Rev. Cane ) Brownrigg says, " I do not hesitate to say 
 that our standing tradition respecting the observance of 
 the entire Sabbath day is founded upon some instinctive 
 feeling of the nation ; that the Sabbath, in respect of the 
 nation possesses a special character as if there were resting 
 upon us as a people a special reason why we should keep it 
 holy." 
 
 When England and Scotland united under James I. they 
 put a most stringent Sabbath observance law upon the Statute 
 Book, and it has never been obliterated. 
 
 It is well known that the Jews and Saxons are the only 
 people that have a law for Sabbath observance ; France, Spain, 
 Italy, etc., have no Sabbath ; the sons of Isaac are the only 
 nations who keep the day sacred. . When, in 1S74, a motion 
 was made in the House of Commons, England, to introduce 
 the Continental Sabbath, it was rejected by a vote of 271 
 against 68. The Commons said, we will keep the Sabbath of 
 the Lord our God. 
 
 We do not keep it as it ought to be kept ; we ought more 
 sacredly to guard thi.s, the token of our covenant with Israel's 
 God. To Britain and to all her colonial children I would say, 
 as one of our poets has said. 
 
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 Arise ye nations, with rejoicing rise, 
 And tell your ijladness to the listening skies ; 
 Come out forgetful of the weeks turmoil, 
 From halls of mirth, and iron gates of toil : 
 Come forth, come forth and let your joy increase. 
 Till one loud pa^an hails the day of peace, 
 Sing, trembling age, ye youths and maidens sing, 
 Ring, ye sweet chimes, from every belfry ring, 
 Pour the grand anthem till it soars and swells, 
 And heaven seems full of lofty aerial bells. 
 
 Behold the morn from Orient chambers glide, 
 
 "With shining footsteps, like a radiant bride. 
 
 Rise ye sweet maidens, strew her path with flowers, 
 
 With sacred lillies from your virgin bowers, 
 
 Go, youths, and meet her with your olive boughs, 
 
 Go, age, and meet her with your holiest vows, 
 
 See where she comes her hands upon her breast, 
 
 The sainted Sabbath comes and smiles a world to rest." 
 
 " Six days may wealth divide the poor, 
 
 O, Dives from thy banquet hall, 
 The seventh, the Father ope's the door, 
 
 And holds his feast for all. 
 Six days stern labour shuts the poor 
 
 From Nature's splendid banquet hall, 
 The seventh an angel ope's the door, 
 
 And smiling welcomes all." 
 
 COD SAVE THE QUEEN. 
 
UUIllOU Ul LlUlill 
 
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 TORONTO. 
 
 1.—'^ Anglo I$4rae1; or. tlit^ BritiMli Nation the T^ont 
 Tribes of Israel.'* — This Lfr-cture hns been given six timea in Turonlo, 
 three times in the Citj^ of Hamilton, and twice in the City Hall, London. 
 Thc; London Free Pirss says: — 'The hall v/as filled to repletion. It was 
 one of the most instructive and entenaininfl: lectures ever delivered in the 
 City Hall." The London Ilerakl sayf^ ; — "The lecture was one of the most 
 instructive and interestiug that has been delivered in this city for many a 
 day. 
 
 3.— «* ]%' uts to Crack, or answers to thirty-live objec- 
 tions to Anglo-Israel.^' 
 
 3.—'* The IVestward migrations ol the Eleven l.ost 
 Tribes, and their l^thnic Itelations." 
 
 4.— ^«The Harp of I>ayid on the Ko.yal British 
 Standard ; or the Harp taken from Iflonnt Zion to 
 Tara's Hall, Ireland."— A map is shown with the Harp among 
 the Lions. 
 
 5.— **Our Gates; or England's Strongholds."— Toronto 
 Globe sa3's:— "Rev. W. H. I\iole, of Toronto, lectured to a large and 
 appreciative audience on the abovi' suljject. The reverend gentleman 
 based his remarits upon the biblical (juotation, "Th\' seed shall possess the 
 gate of his tnemies," and in an eloquent address explanatory of the past 
 history and ja-esent position of Gil)raltar, Malta, Cyprus. Port Said, Aden, 
 Singfipore, and twenty (i%e other strongiiolds, essayed to prove tliat the 
 Haxou race were the people directly referred to in the prophecy. Thc lec- 
 ture was listened to with the rapt attention which Mr. Poole's utterances 
 on his favorite subject always commands in this city." 
 
 6.—" The Great Pyramid of .leezeh in Kgypt."— Sup 
 posed nt)w, according to the Astronomer-ltoyal for Scotland, to have been 
 erected under the t-ye of Melchizedek, according to a design furpished to 
 him by Divine Inspiration. Besides embodying many interesting scientific 
 facts, unknown to the world for more than 8,000 years af'er the date of ii.s 
 building, the Great Pyramid has also ciu-onided and sluKiowed forth some 
 of the leading and most jnomentous Prophetic events of tiie world's history. 
 —See Isa. 19, 19 ver. 
 
 7.— "I-iChoes from the Koeks of Kgypt. Arabia, 
 Pei*sia and Assyria."— The lecturer exhibits «pecimens of tlie 
 Hierodyphic and Enchorial Writing of Egypt; the Himyaritic, Cuneiform 
 and Phumician Alphabet, the Mystic Writing of the Ancient Druids ; also 
 a copy of the inscription on the Rosetta Stone, and extracts from the won- 
 derful rock of Behistan. 
 
 8.—** Jacob's Pillow; or, the Coronation Stone, now 
 in Westminster Abbey." 
 
 O.— '' The C*nniry of IVaU^. M^^nglantl. the Strath- 
 <'lydians and Hatlriadians of Scotland prove<l t<» be 
 the Israelite-^." 
 
 10.— "The Jews, their speedy retnrn. their glo**" 
 Aitnre. according to pritmise. prior lo the c 
 Chiliad." 
 
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