The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-11
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s. England.
The united Lenten service ofthe Episco.
pal Church was heldas usual, and ST. Luke s
Church was tolerably filed
The congregation was composed chiefly
OF ladies, to which circumstance perhaps
may be attributed the manner in which a
subject requiring the most convincing and
sevcrest logic was handled by the preacher
of the day, the Rev. Dr. Prentiss. Tho
subject was the Identification of the Lost
Ten Tribes of Israel with the Auglo.Saxon
race now resident in Great Britain and in
this country. The subject was new to the
audience, none of the clergy of the church
in this city having as yet brought it to the
notice of their congregations.
Sympathizing with the preacher of the
day in his views and efforts, hope you will
allow me to reduce his matter into a more
systematic and logical arrangement than his
limited time and peculiar audicuccd seemed
tojustity him in even attempting. And here
would remark, at the outset, that in all
Investigations upon this subject it is of the
utmost Importance to remember, that in
prophetic writings the descendants of
Abraham appear as two distinct natonali
ties. To confjund Judah, or the Jews
proper, with Ephraim, Israel, or the Ten
Tribes, or scrs of Isaac, as they are some.
times called 20 the Scriptures, is to confuse
The prophecies and render plain words un
Ineligible.
In many places in the prophetic writings
these two peoples are brought into sharp
and distinctive contrast. In the same SEN
tence 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 tho earth were at
tn" t'"'c of the prophecy even pretending
to serve Jehovah, except these two people
of Judah and Ephralm. Take for example
Isaiah, Goth chapter, 18th to 18th verses
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold
my servants (Ephraim) shall eat, but We
(Judah) shall be hungry. Behold my SER
wants (Ephraim or the Ten Tribes) shall
drink, but ye (Judah) shall be thirsty. Be-
hold my servants (Ephraim) shall rejoice,
but yo (Judah) shall be ashamed Behold
my servants (Israel, Ephraim or the Ten
Tribss) shall sing for JOY, but ye (Judah)
shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl
for vexation of spirit. And ye (Judah)
shall leave your name for curse unto my
chosen (EphraimD for the Lord God shall
slay thee (Judah) and call his servants
(Ephraim) by another name"
Here then, We have curses upon Judah
and blessings upon Ephraim joined together,
and beginning at the same. IF, therefore,
wo can ascertain at what time tho curse be-
gins to descend upon Judah, we discover,
necessarily, the time when the blessing upon
Ephraim commences.
Now the curse begins to descend emphat-
ically upon Judah, or the Jews proper, in
A. ID. 20, when Titus took Jerusalem; and
of necessity, tho blessing upon Ephraim
also.
1t is evident, from Acts "a, 9th and 9TH
verses, that the Apostle Paul well knew the
place of Ephraim's residence, and their re-
ligious character aud condition. 1t is evil
dent from 1st Peter /. /, that they were
dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cap
padocia. Asia, (Roman, or Proconsular
Asia,) and Bythinia, and also from verse
9Th, that they had embraced Christianity
They had not consented unto the crime Of
Judah in crucifying the Lord Of Glory,
but had received the Gaspel with avidity !;
denouncing the Mosaic ritual and religion,
finding the law yoke which neither they
nor their fathers could bear, they were in
danger of rushing into the opposite error
of Antinomianism, against which St James
in his Epistle addressed to them, (see 1st
chapter, lst verse; cautions and reproves
them.
Josephus, who lived about this time, tcs-
ti6es that the Ten Tribes were then resident
in the East, and were a multitude which
no man could number. From this time
they begin to be called by another name.-
Abandoning all their Jewish peculiarities
losing even their distinctive physiognc N.Y.
they become lost, while yet "the show Of
his countenance" continues to testify
against Judah for his rejection of the Mes.
slab.
Now, to find these Lost Tribes, it is only
necessary to ascertain their history, charac-
ter and condition, as these are described in
prophecy, and see whether there be any
people on the earth who can meet the re-
quirements. The people that fills the
prophets bill is Ephraim. Hosea (1st chap.
ter 10th verse) gives us the frst mark by
which we are to know them. They are to
dwell in some country 10 which they are
not to be recognized as the people Of God