The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-10
Esn,a the Ne,rs and Oburia..

WHICH suuyeSs ie4e 49,
vincing aud severestlogic was handled 6y
the preacher of the day, the Rev. Dr.
Prentiss. The Subject was the ldentifi,,
cation of the lost Ten Tribes of Israel
with the Anglo.Saxon race now resi-
dent in Great Britain and in this country.
The subiset was new to the audience,
none of the clergy or The church in this
city having as yet brought it to the no
tice of their congregations. -,
Sympathizing with the preacher oil the
day in his views and efforts, hope you
will allow me to reduce his matter TO a
more systematic and logical arrange
ments than his limited time and pecul-
lar audience seemed to justify him even
attempting. And here would remark,
az the outset, that in all investigations
upon this subjectit is ofthe utmost i'm
portance to remember that in pro-
phetic writings the defendants of Abra-
ham appear as two distinct natlonalitles.
To confound Judah, or the Jews proper,
with Ephraim, Israel, or the Ten Tribes
or sons of Isaac, as they are sometimes
called in the Scriptures, is TO confuse the
prophecies and render plain words unin-
telligible.
In many places in the prophetic wri-
tings these two peoples are brought into
sharp and distinctive contrast In the
same sentence one people are cursed and
some other people called By God my
servants" are blessed. This different
nationality can only be the Ten Tribes,
because no other nations on the face OF
the earth were at the time ofthe prophecy
even pretending to serve Jehovah, except
these two peoples ofJudah and Ephraim.
Take for example Isaiah, 65th chapter,
18th to 18th verses: Therefore thus
saith the Lord God: Behold my ser
wants (Ephraim) shall eat, but ye (Jn-
dahl Shall be hungry. Behold my SER
wants (Ephraim or the Ten Tribes)
shall drink, but ye (Judah) shall be
thirsty. Behold my servants (Ephraim)
shall rejoice, but We (Judah) shall be
ashamed. Behold my servants (Israel,
Ephraim or the Ten Tribes shall sing
for joy, but ye (Judahl shall cry for sor-
row of heart and shall howl for veSa-
ton fspirit. Andye Judah shall leave
your name for a curse unto my chosen
(Ephraim,) for the Lord God shall slay
thee (Judah) and call his servants
(Ephraim) by another name."
Here, then, we have curses upon Ju--
dab and blessings upou Ephraim Joined
together, and beginning at the same. If
therefore, we can ascertain at what time
the curse begins to descend upon Judah
we discover, necessarily, the time when
the blessing upon Ephraim commences.
Now the curse begins to descend en-
phatically upon Judah, or the Jews pro-
per, in A. D. 20, when Titus took Jeru-
salem; and of necessity, the blessing
upon Ephraim also.
1t is evident, from Acts "a, 9th and 7th
verses, that the Apostle Paul we'll knew
the place of Ephraim's residence, and
their religious character and condition.
It is evident from lst Peter ], l, that
they were dispersed throughout Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia. Romans, or
Proconsular ASIA and Bythinia, and also
from verse Sth. that they had embraced
Christianity. They had not consented
unto the crime of Judah in crusifying
the Lord of Glory, but had received the
Gospel with avidity; denouncing the
Mosaic ritual and religion, finding the
law in yoke which neither they nor their
fathers could bear, they were in danger
of rushing into the opposite error of An
tinomianism, against which st. James
in his Epistle addressed to them, (see 1st
chapter, 1st verse, cautions and re-
proves them.
Josephus, who lived about this time
testifes that the Ten Tribes were then
resident in the East, and were multi
tude which no man could number.
From this time they begin to be called
by another name. Abandoning all their
Jewish peculiarities, losing even distinc-
tive physiognomy, they become lost, while
yet "the show of his countenance" con-
tinues to testify against Jndah for his re-
lection of the Messiah.
Now, to find these Lost tribes, it is
only necessary to ascertain their history,
character and condition, as these are de-
cribed in prohecy, and see whether there
be any people on the earth who can
meet the requirements. The people
that fills the prophets bill is Ephraim.
Hosea list chapter 10th verse) gives US
the first mark by which we are to know
them. They are to dwell in some
country in which they are not to be re-
cognized as the people of God, Ii. e. as
Isrealites,) but these are to be noted for
their religion. There it shall be said
unto them, aye are the sons of the living
God"
This land of their new habitation is
insular, and in theseislands the exhausted
people are to find "rest," and to "renew
their strength" isaiah, 41-1.) See the
whole chapter. In this country they
"shall lift up their voice from the sea, u
and glorify the name of the Lord God Of
the sea-" isaiah, 24-15.l The situa.
tion ofthese islands is northwest of Pal.
estine. See Jeremiah, 4-1S, and
Isaiah, 43-5. In this land God "speaks
to them by another name." Here par.
tial blindness los to their ancestry "hap.
Here God promises to lead these "blind
by 8 way that they know not Of" Here
true to their national instincts, they
yearn after an acknowledged relation.
ship with Jehovah saying: Doubtless
those are our father, thoug b Abraham. be
ignorant of us, and though Israel ac-
Knowledge us not" Here they are to
increase wonderfully, "to be like the
sand of the sea, which cannot be meas
ured." Hosea, 10y So large is
their increase that, when God gathers
them again into their own land, He can
only take zone of city and two of q
family" to restore them to Zion. They
are to become a multitude of nations,
overhowing into colonies, because their
place is too strait for them.
One remarkable colony they are to
lose, (Manassah or the United States, J
but after they have lost this "the chill
drea which she shall have shall say the
place is too strait 70. me-" Isaiah45-
80. In order to aid them in subduing
waste and desolate places by their colo
nies, their physical constitution is to
odont ;tse1f fo all countries 50 that "the