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 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 WITH AN INTRODUCTION. BY C. PIAZZI SMYTH, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., F.R.SS.A., Late Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh, Author of "Life and Work at,” and “Our Inheritance in," "THE Great REVISED EDITION. THE OUR RACE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 1897. "Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, O people saved And thine enemies shall be subdued unto thee; 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, TO ISRAEL, TO JUDAH, TO STRANGERS, TO GENTILES, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, OF ISAAC, AND OF JACOB, AS A HUMBLE RECOGNITION OF THE INFALLIBILITY TOWARDS "AMMI," FROM "Lo-AMMI," ARE WITH BOTH THANKFULNESS AND PRAYER DEVOUTLY DEDICATED. |