always pay the nation's bills, and it would leave men free to give thought to their mutual betterment, rather than to their destruction.” Come, then, and let us reason together, and take counsel at the oracles. Do we not owe it to ourselves, aye, rather to the God of our Fathers, by whose overshadowing we are what we are, that we take measures to fetch all this about, and to become what He intends we must? The Philosophy of History looks clearly to this end, and this end, by no means remotely contemplates the disarmament of nations, glad to relinquish war, and to pursue in peace the quiet of industrial arts. Again, God speed the day when, roused to the rock whence we are manifestly hewn, our two fraternal nations shall come solidly together, and in one New Empire inquire of God to do this for us, and to consummate the great work which he has in view with reference to all other races. For the next step will be to bring in all the rest of the nations. A seal must be made before an impression can be taken, a die engraved before an icon can be struck off. So must Israel also be perfected ere other nations can be lifted up to her likeness. It therefore behooves us, "Brother John and Brother Jonathan," to awaken to our vast responsibility in these premises, and I can conceive of no more effective way to hasten the result than to spread the truths of our Identity with Ten-Tribed-Israel, Lost, but Found again in the "Victorian Age." May God save the Queen-unto the coming of the King! NEW HAVEN, CONN., U. S. A. July 4th, 1895. C. A. L. TOTTEN, Editor of "Our Race," A STANDING PROMISE TO ISRAEL. And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, The Blessing and The Curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee, Deut. xxx. 1−3. RECESSIONAL. (Rudyard Kipling's Contribution to the Victorian Jubilee.) God of our fathers, known of old— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, The tumult and the shouting dies- Lord God. of Hosts, be with us yet, Far-called our navies melt away Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Or lesser breeds without the Law Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, For heathen heart that puts her trust *Surely we, of these United States, whose name, Manasseh, is interpreted Forgetfulness (Vide Gen. xli. 51), are even more than "Ephraim," the United Kingdom, concerned in this "Amen "-lest we, too, forget to whom we owe our own prosperity. Oh, that Our Race would look unto the Rock whence it is hewn, and that Judah might see her day of opportunity! |