command of Jehovah, appears to be typical of the intermixture of the races of the House of Israel and the Gomerim which took place within the two centuries immediately succeeding their deportation! Syria was ancient Scythia, and "a Syrian"-or a Scythian or wanderer-"am I," said Jacob, Isaac's son, to Pharaoh. Centuries later, when Fenusius Farsa, or "Scytha" (the son of Mohul, the son of Ethan, the son of Zerah, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob) settled there, as settle there he did, according to the Milesian (!) records, the land renewed its name in him. This settlement antedated that of Israel itself, even as that of Milesius antedated that of David's line in Ireland, and received that line, in wedlock, still later down the centuries. Marked with the "scarlet thread" of royalty from birth, the line of Zerah (Gen. xxxviii.) then at last got Judah's sceptre from the "Tender Twig" of Pharez' house (Ezek. xvii. 22; Jer. xliii. 5-7), and in "Tea Tephi," the Hebrew, eastern princess, of Irish chronicles, David's own sceptre, saved by a woman, kept its full Scythian sway. 66 "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it," said the Lord in Zedekiah's day and so he hath. For he removed the diadem from Zedekiah, that "profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day had come," and thus took off the crown" from the head of Pharez. Fleeing in the female line to Zerah it was no longer "the same." He that was "low" was 66 'exalted," and he that was "high" was made "low." Thus the "breach,” pronounced on Pharez at his birth, received fulfilment; nor will it ever be healed "until He come whose right it is," oven Christ the Son of David, through Mary his mother, by actual descent, and through Joseph, his legal father only, by the Hebrew law-for He was "the Son of the Living God"! And how, pray, was it overturned these THREE times, so explicitly and so ominously pronounced against it in Ezekiel xxi.? Let History answer: From Palestine to Tara, through Tea Tephi, it was overturned; from Tara to Scotland, through Fergus, it was OVERTURNED; from Scotland to Westminster, through James the First, it was OVERTURNED. And there it rests upon the "Bethel" which has accompanied it, "until He come whose right it is," and of whom God says, "I will give it unto HIM." But the plot of this romance is too intricate for our brief space. It has filled the centuries with such thickly-written pages that no eye but that of quickened faith can scan them fast enough to catch the poetry and beauty they conceal. Is it not passing strange that any sons of such a race as this should thrust their tongues out at so great a truth, lest, forsooth, the people see it and believe? XII. THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER. OUR subject burdens one with its immensity; and well it should, in order to maintain its claims! For if it be the truth, it is the greatest miracle of history, and down before it, when "its ancient things" are clearly demonstrated, Infidelity, in every form, must crumble into dust. The difficulty under which one labors in discussing it is, not to find material for argument, but to discriminate amid the mass which overwhelms him; for volumes could not hold the " Pros," and answers to the "Cons," which so conspire to demonstrate it as beyond all peradventure true. It has already conquered, and it will grind to powder those who have temerity enough to stand before it. The world may be defied to produce against its general verity a single fatal objection. It is destined to prevail. For He who is the former of all things, the Lord of Hosts is his name, speaking of Israel as the rod of his inheritance, says of his chosen people thus (Jer. li. 19–23): "Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: 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: With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; And with thee will I break in pieces old and young. And with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; And with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; And with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers." This is an address unto Israel, as the Fifth and Final Monarchy, the Empire of Stone seated upon the Saxon Stone of Empire! It is spoken against Babylon in a double sense, as the Head of the Gentile Image of Em pire, and as the Genius of Abomination. Against them both shall Israel, doubly called in Isaac's name, be strengthened, and prevail. The realization of our lofty genealogy assures us of an ever-growing concord between Ephraim and our own Great People. It looks towards the moulding not remotely of every spear and sword into the pruning-hooks and ploughs of a world recovered from strife, and all of whose nations shall have accepted blessings which are also to be theirs in Abraham our father. It is idle to predict a limit to the influence for good which an acknowledged acceptance of this truth will secure to England and America alone. Nor may we ever set a boundary to the far wider influence which an uncontested fraternity in Joseph must exert in turn upon the nations round about us. The peoples of the earth must see this truth in time, and in its light must "flow unto the Lord" in willingness. But as for us, the time is now upon the Saxon race! The arguments are clear enough to awaken Israel now. Moreover, let but Tara yield her sacred treasures to the light, or let Victoria's proclamation solve the Eastern Question, and a ration will be reborn in a single day! But, were this truth by others scorned, and yet by them, by "Brothers John and Jonathan" believed, the greatness of the Saxon stock would dominate the world more irresistibly than even now, when with but faint acknowledgment it reaches on towards its certain des tiny. On far less evidence than this lost treasures have been traced. What priceless treasures glitter at the feet of such as will give heed to this! It is "life from the dead" to us, for it is Christian unity within the Saxon fold, and oneness in each Saxon heart! In this expanding theme the true Philosophy of History is spread before us. Beneath the glare of this Identity, the clear reflection from its panoramic vistas takes significance so new, so startling, so marvellous, so thrilling, that all the links of universal history become but one harmonious sequence in a chain of evidence that is anchored in conviction. Beneath its light the pages of prophecy read as the story of to-day, and God's sure Word becomes the Record of OUR OWN GREAT RACE! In dignity this topic has no compeer, and to him who lends himself a willing and an unbiassed student of its claims it will afford a subject of unending scope. 66 Its evidence is cumulative. Herein lies its strength and its vitality. The very objections urged against it breed but further demonstration. Many say, for instance, that these tribes were never "lost," that they were merged into the Jews," returned with them after the Babylonish Captivity, and are now only missing in the sense of being thus blended with that wandering race. The bulk of the objections which have hitherto been raised are similar to this, and are as easily refuted. Those who maintain this view not only array themselves against the plain reading of the whole context of the Scriptures, but proclaim their ignorance of history as well. Josephus denies their statement, and boasted to the Romans that the bulk of Abraham's descendants, "the Lost Tribes," had never come beneath the Roman yoke, but were in his days beyond the Euphrates and a mighty people. The Jews themselves in every age refute them, and in our own avow that "Israel" is not among them, but must yet be "found," and with them must return to Palestine, Furthermore, it is significantly probable that "Israel" |