The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-11

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Who are tho TEN Lost Tribes NJ Israel g.
China as the Land OF tho Lost Tribes.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: About
two months since saw the question
asked in the Herald, "Who are the long
/ lost ten tribes Of Israeli" The ques-
doner evidently expected an answer
from the preachers, the modern Phari-
sees; but he waited in vain, and he pro
ceeded to answer his own question him
self in last Sundays Herald. He thinks
+ that the Huns and other barbarous
tribes from Persia and Mesopotamia and
from about the Black Sea, who invaded
Europe ten or twelve centuries ago, were
the ten tribes; but this is an error, as
they never bore any distinct trace of
being distinct from other barbarous peo-
pie. But the ton tribes do bear distin-
gushing qualities from all other people
on the globe, living by themselves, and
having civilization Of their own, which
Is the same as they had when they lived
at Samaria, on the Eastern coast of the
Mediterranean, with the exception of
the immense advancement they have
made in agriculture, manufacture and
industry, which excels that of all other
nations, and made them more wealthy,
perhaps, than all other nations on the
globe. They established themselves
where they now dwell at about the time
OF the building of Rome, as that is
about the period of time that Shalma-
nezzar, the King of Assyria, carried
them away beyond the river Euphrates,
and they took this counsel among them
selves, as we are informed by the pro-
phet Ezra, or Esdras. that they would
leave the multitude of the heathen and
go into country where mankind had
never settled, SO that there they might
keep their own laws and live exclusively
by themselves. They procured suitable
boats, entered into the Euphrates by the
narrow mouths, and into the Persian
Gulf, and, coasting the Indian Ocean,
proceeded on and passed further India;
for the Almighty held still the food un-
TIL they were clear passed over, and they
landed at Quantong, which was then
howling wilderness, filled with beasts
and birds, and lakes and rivers. filled
with fish. This long voyage took them
one year and half to accomplish.
All Eastern Asia was at that time un-
inhabited, and was the same as North
America was when first discovered, q
rank wilderness. Here they settled,
many thousands of miles away from eli
other nations. They were not contami.
mated with the heather, and they have
prospered more than any other nation,
and constitute nearly half the people Of
the globe, as the Scriptures say: 'sWho
can count the dust Of Jacob, or number
the fourth part of Israel"-for he must
count the hundreds of millions of Chi
nese first. They have the idolatrous
worship now that they had in Samaria;
Ahut now, as at Samaria, they have wise
sn who have never bowed the knee to
Baal. They have always had idols since
they settled in China. They have set
the best example of all nations to shun
war, and live in peace with all nations,
which is the secret of prosperity and
statesmanship. Europe is indebted to
them for the example, and has, for the
last hundred. years, been following in
the pathway of peaceful industry and
manufacture. Europe and the world
are indebted to China for the. knowledge
of all the most important discoveries
and manufactures in the world. Cotton,
silks, satins and most other manufactures
came from China, passed through India
and Persia West to the Mediterranean.
Furthermore, all nations are indebted to
China for their civilization. The Greeks
and Romans have faded from the earth
some thousands of years, while from her
superior craftsmanship China has sur
vived them all, having living civiliza-
tion which Greece and Rome never had.
China, which is incontestably the land
of the long lost ten tribes, stands at the
head of oil civilized nations. except in
one thing. and that is Christianity.
Their superior civilization over Europe
is shown by their free religion, having
no State religion. as the barbarous ma
tions of Europe always have had, and it
is more than likely that the morals of the
Chinese are better than those of Europe,
which is Christianity in reality, and
much better than religion, which has
never yet been defined, and probably
never will be.
When the King OF the Jews, Jesus
Christ, was born at Jerusalem, wise men
came from the East, saying, "Where is
he that is born King of the Jows. for we
have seen his star in the East, and are
come to worship him?" Thus wise and
good men have alWays been in China