command to make a quick display of powerful force, which will generally prevent the necessity of its actual use by the government responsible for the maintenance of tranquillity and order. And it will become more and more necessary to provide and maintain a body of highly educated and trained men to cultivate the knowledge of military and naval science, free from the pursuit of trade, politics, and wealth, whose rewards will become more and more engrossing as population and wealth and luxury increase. Our grandchildren will be members of a commonwealth of 284 millions of citizens. No such empire has ever existed. When at height of power, Rome, the empire, had 120 million people. As its citizens and soldiers grew rich and luxurious, depending on force to maintain its power and integrity, it was no longer able to withstand the inroads of northern barbarians driven from their forests by the laws of natural multiplication and increase of mankind. What was to the 31 millions of 1860 an enormous and crushing expenditure for defence will be a trifle to the 280 millions of 1940.""

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It is sometimes ignorantly maintained that the remarkable increase of Anglo-Saxon population is due mainly to the present influx of alien emigration, which in time must cease. This is absolutely contrary to facts. 1880 the total foreign-born population in the United States was but 6,679,943, or only about one person in eight; and the grand total of immigration to the United States, up to 1884, was not quite 12 millions-less than one hundredth of all the eaglets that have been reared in Freedom's eyrie !

No, the Philosophy of Facts disputes this vain and jealous animadversion, and investigation, upon every line of progress, serves only to enhance the Seal upon

the Credentials which give to Anglo-Saxons the HEADSHIP among Adam's sons!

What TITLE have these people to their present greatness?

Who ARE they?

WHENCE have they been hewn?

By WHOм, and to what END, are they thus favored among men ?

"Amazing phenomenon! On all sides dead or dying nations; one trunk alone, the Anglo-Saxon, has life within itself, a life so vigorous that it is filling the earth with its boughs"" (Gen. xlix. 22; Isa. xxvii. 6). WHENCE do its rootlets draw their sustenance? In WHAT soil was "seed " like theirs first sown? These are momentous questions, for around their answer hangs the whole Philosophy of History, and to sketch it is to write a glowing Romance!

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THE MIGHT OF AN IDea.

THE story of the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race involves questions so grand and so far-reaching, questions which run back throughout all written history, and which, sweeping on beside the stream of prophecy, map out the scheme of man's remotest future, that to consider them in brief, and well, is well-nigh but in vain.

What shall be said if in these latter days this mighty race of modern times, this giant of the human story, is now about to be revealed to us, as well as unto all man

kind, as identical with ISRAEL itself,-literal "Israel,”that Ten-tribed Kingdom "lost" amid the mountains of the Medes so many centuries ago!

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The finding of these tribes is vital to the very integrity of the Bible. Hence they have been sought for far and near, and by none so earnestly as by explorers of the Saxon race. How still more thrilling will their romance be if at the last these very ones who have pursued the search most diligently shall receive the greeting "O foolish people, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken; ye have but sought yourselves! Ye are the blind people that have eyes,' for upon you, O Israel, has blindness been allowed in part to fall until the fulness of the times. Look now 'unto the Rock whence ye are hewn, and unto Sarah who bore you,' for the day of thy manifestation, as JESHURUN, draweth nigh!"

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Oh that one could begin at Moses and all the prophets, and expound unto OUR RACE, so literally " called in Isaac's name" in all the Scriptures, the things concerning themselves! Oh that the spirit of Him that teacheth wisdom to the simple would but touch our inner eyes, and that He who leadeth Israel like a flock would herd them to this fold! For if their "loss" has been a means "of light unto the Gentiles," "their finding again will be as life" from "the valley of dead bones;" and if their casting away" has been a means of chastening them for sin, their reacceptance will mean nothing short of God's "final effort" to redeem mankind!

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The Identity of the Anglo-Saxons of the British Empire, and of the United States, with Ephraim and Manasseh and the tribes their fellows, is a claim so startling to us who have hitherto been taught to think

ourse.ves as of purely "Gentile" origin, that the first and natural impulse is to reject it wholly. But whoso is wise will ponder these things, and they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. The proofs are such as cannot be lightly gainsaid, and they have only to be examined to become as fruitful as the promises themselves.

For full fifty years this topic has been one of growing interest in Great Britain. Hundreds of thousands of volumes, dealing with it in every phase, have come from its press, and numerous periodicals and newspapers are constantly devoted to its discussion. The colonies have imbibed the zeal of its investigation, it has occupied the public stage, and numbers its believers by increasing millions.

Though it is of little import whether "any of the Pharisees have yet believed," it is enough to state that it already numbers in the ranks of its earnest advocates at least a dozen bishops, some six hundred clergy, and hosts of the laity of the Established Church. It has enlisted no little Royal patronage, and has stirred up a controversy the like of which has not since the days of the Reformation made so fair a bid to become wide, deep-seated, and concerned. In the mean time the grandeur of this truth has expanded more and more into a common ground upon which dissenting Protestants of every shade can reunite. In it the "Unity of Christians" becomes possible at last, and in so great a consummation possibilities inhere which had lain latent otherwise forever! It is the "flux" of Christian thought, the "bond" that may unite "all Israel" once more, and guide them quickly to their certain destiny.

The truth of this Identity gains rather than loses

strength in the controversy. Nor is it too much to predict that if it shall continue to grow in the future as it has been spreading in the past, then it certainly is destined, in a day not very distant, to become a dominant and acknowledged factor, in the policies of an Empire of a "Great People," and of a Race, that hitherto have taken no steps backward.

As a political idea it is instinctive with puissant might. It sweeps into its scope all things terrestrial, lays down the lines of Empire with a rod of iron, and laughs at man's diplomacy, and scorns a world in arms against it!

The seeds of it were latent in the writings, and the statesmanship, of Disraeli. Had he been premier in Victoria's year of Jubilee, who shall say that, looking towards the hope of Judah, and the manifest destiny of England, he might not have found occasion to add yet other titles to Victoria's name?

As late advices intimate, the Pope of Rome is strongly urged to assume the title of “ King of Jerusalem" ! This appellation would be not only empty of significance, but be devoid of every guarantee, or hope of right, to exercise even a temporality therein. All Roman Catholic Christendom could not displace the Turk, though but a "sick man," upon such a plea. This was anticipated, centuries ago, when Richard "Cœur de Lion" assumed it as a right, and the Crown of Jerusalem will never fit the Papal brow.

But, upon the other hand, how startling would it be, how pregnant with political import, should the ministry of Great Britain, returning to a vigorous foreign policy, actually occupy the Holy Land, and accompany the act with a proclamation conferring upon England's sovereign the "Suzerainty of All Israel”!