ITS ORIGIN AND DESTINY.

A Series of Studies on the Saxon Riddle.

BY

CHARLES A. L. TOTTEN, M.A.,

LATE FIRST LIEUTENANT FOURTH ARTILLERY, U. S. A.; PROFESSOR OF
MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS S. S. S. OF YALE UNIVERSITY;
AUTHOR OF "STRATEGOS;" "AN IMPORTANT QUESTION;" "FACTS,
FANCIES, LEGENDS, AND LOBE OF NATIVITY;" ETO.

EDITOR OF OUR RACE SERIES (Quarterly) AND NEWS-LEAFLETS (Monthly).

"TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD" (Motto of the ancient CYMRY).

"We can do nothing against the Truth" (St. Paul); "Great is Truth and mighty
above all things" (Esdras); "Buy the Truth and sell it not" (Proverbs); "Truth is
stranger than fiction" (Byron); "What is Truth ?" (Pilate); "I AM THE TRUTH"
(Assertion of THE CHRIST).

WITH AN INTRODUCTION.

BY C. PIAZZI SMYTH, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., F.R.SS.A.,
C.M.S. Sp. It.; Hon. M. Inst. Engin. Sc., P.S., Ed., R.A.A.S. Munich and
Palermo;

Late Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh,
and Astronomer-Royal for Scotland;

Author of "Life and Work at,” and “Our Inheritance in," "THE Great
Pyramid," etc., and of the Edinburgh Star-Catalogue
and Ephemeris.

REVISED EDITION.

THE OUR RACE PUBLISHING COMPANY,

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

1897.

"Happy art thou, O Israel:

Who is like unto thee, O people saved
By the Lord, the shield of thy help,
And who is the sword of thy excellency!

And thine enemies shall be subdued unto thee;
And thou shalt tread upon their high places."
DEUT. xxxiii. 29.

DS

131

T72

1897

66

"BROTHER JOHN" AND BROTHER JONATHAN," "THE COMPANY OF NATIONS AND "THE GREAT PEOPLE," WHO, DOUBLY CALLED IN ISAAC'S NAME," ARE

SAXON BY BLOOD, BY SPIRIT CHRISTIAN,

AND UNTO WHOM PERTAINS "THE BIRTHRIGHT,” THIS SURVEY OF THEIR PAST, AND PREFACE TO THEIR FUTURE AS "STONES" OF THE "STONE KINGDOM";—

UNTO JUDAH, TO WHOM PERTAINS"THE SCEPTRE,"

LOST AWHILE, YET HELD FOR THEM IN TRUST :TO THE EMPRESS OF ISRAEL, and to MANASSEH'S CHIEF :— TO ALL WHO SOJOURN WITH THEM, ALIENS OR KIN,

WHEREVER HEBREW STANDARDS FLOAT:

UNTO ALL WHO DWELL ABOUT THEM,
CONSENTING TO THEIR TESTIMONY:-

TO ISRAEL, TO JUDAH, TO STRANGERS, TO GENTILES,
AS A PLEDGE OF HOPE, AND AS AN EARNEST OF THE HARVEST :-
UNTO EMMANUEL,

THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, OF ISAAC, AND OF JACOB,

AS A HUMBLE RECOGNITION OF THE INFALLIBILITY
OF HIS "WORD," HIS “OATH," HIS COVENANT:-
THESE NOTES OF OUR PILGRIMAGE

TOWARDS "AMMI," FROM "Lo-AMMI,"

ARE WITH BOTH THANKFULNESS AND PRAYER

DEVOUTLY DEDICATED.