It is a mystery not to be uttered. Temor, the impregnable, of lasting resources, What is the "MYSTERY" connected with this unviolated Tomb? 16. [ .] "JERONACRON, the sacred promontory of Ireland:" where was it, what is the derivation of the word, and the history of the place? 17. [ .] Where is the Favored "Remnant” of Judah? Jer. xv. 11.-THE EDITOR. 18. [ of Jacob? Gen. xxviii. 18, 22.-THE EDITOR. .] Where is the "Pillar of Witness" 19. [ Dispersed"? Zeph. iii. 10.-THE EDITOR. ] Where is the "Daughter of the 20. [ .] Where is the offering she is to bring? Isa. xi. 12; Zeph. iii. 10.-THE EDITOR. 21. [ .] What is the Reserve which is to be pardoned? Jer. 1. 20.-THE EDITOR. 22. [ .] Where is Ephraim the Multitude of Nations? Gen. xlviii. 19.-THE EDITOR. 23. [ .] Where is Ephraim, with which Judah is to choose One Head? Isa. xi. 13; Hos. i. 11. -THE EDITOR. 24. [ united? Jer. xxxiii. 24.-THE EDITOR. 25. [ .] How are the Two Families to be Where are they to choose One Head? Hos. i. 11.-THE EDITOR. 26. [ .] What is the Pure Language in which the Daughter of the Dispersed and the Lord's offering which she is to bring, are to consent, with all the people, to serve the Lord? Zeph. iii. 9, 10,-THE EDITOR 27. [ .] What is, and where is, the Place of The Day of Jezreel? Hos. i. 11; Jer. xxxi. 27-38.— THE EDITOR. 28. [ .] What is the Israel of Blessing which is to be a Third with Egypt and Assyria? Isa. xix. 24, 25. THE EDITOR. 29. [ .] What is to be understood by "the King's Pillar" (2 Chron. xxiii. 13) beside which Joash stood "as the manner was" (2 Kings xi. 14), at his coronation? Was it not "Jacob's Stone," "the throne of the kingdom"? (2 Chron. xxiii. 21.)-THE EDITOR. QUANDARIES AND COGITATIONS. Are we to spiritualize all of these Questions? If so, do we not beg the whole question? And if admitted, why do we not spiritualize the Crucifixion? If Judah's blessing was a literal thing and is still working, what has become of the Temporal Birthright of Joseph, who was innocent of Calvary? If God is just, and mindful of the Promises and Oaths, how is it that (when centuries after Israel was lost the Prophets say that Backsliding Israel had justified herself more than treacherous Judah) Israel is said, by some of our teachers, to be, and to have been then, utterly consumed? If ISRAEL was to be sifted like wheat, and yet not a single grain lost, where are the grains? Do you really believe the Prophets? If not, why do you pay any heed to the Scriptures, moral or otherwise? If you do, why are you not consistent? Beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, does not a plain reading of the clear promises and of the oaths demand a literal fulfilment ? Is not this a fair query, and is it not based upon the same premises that established the literal facts of Christ's Identity? If the marks which demonstrated the manifestation of the "Man of Sorrows" are patent to the willing searcher for the truth, how much more should we expect those which are to identify a vast, chosen, literal seed of Abraham, and of Lost Israel, to be cumulative and patent? These questions may be extended absolutely without limit. They all convince the mind that the integrity of the Scriptures demand of us to find ISRAEL. If so, why, of all men on earth, are the "Shepherds of Israel "-the Clergy-so apathetic in this search, and why do so many among them "seal" the Book and "forbid" the study, or, still worse, belittle it? Who in these days are making the Scriptures of none effect by their metaphysical quibbles and traditional spiritualizations? Is not "Israel,” to-day, as "blind to the Rock whence she is hewn," as Judah was, eighteen centuries ago, to literal predictions? Judah was then to inherit a spiritual Christ, and rejected him because she wanted a temporal ruler. How are the tables turned upon us, who criticise the Jews so severely, since we-actually called in Isaac's name, and in possession of all the Birthmarks-still persist in calling ourselves Gentiles, and only spiritual children of Abraham! The entire fault of this confusion lies at the door of the clergy. It has not been intentional, but it is none the less a fact, and it is their duty to recede from their position or to fortify it, lest the laity carry it, and sweep them from their positions as teachers. In the face of modern criticism, feeding as the spore of corruption upon the mildewed garment of the Scriptures, cannot the Guides of the Flock see that they must expose their raiment to the sunlight, or stand naked soon amid a faithless world? Atheism, disbelief, lukewarmness, carelessness, and all the brood begotten of modern free-thought, have crowded into the pews, and fill the churches of the present day, without regard to sect, creed, or previous condition of belief. And still the "foolishness of preaching" continues. Our sermons do not rest upon a single, solid, practical, or literal premise; the Prophets are no longer explained, but Doctrine, Paulism, Egotism, and Rhetoric, Music, Ritualism, Sensation, Show, and mere Spectacle take up the brief hour of Sunday services, and Monday we go back to our pursuits more careless or confused than ever. If God's Word is sure, and no jot of it is to pass unfulfilled, is it not time to cut away the spiritual drapery that drags in the wake of Israel's merchantmen and befogs our vision, and sail out into the ocean where Dan abides in ships? |