Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-04-17

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The LostTribes Of Israel.
Nccs of Charleston Diuinc ,oho Gives
his Reasons .)or Believing them to be the
People of;Enylana. q 'I#
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The united Lenton service Of the Episco
pal Church was hold as usual, and St. Luke s
Church was tolerably filled.
The congregation was composed chiefly
Of ladies,' TO which circumstance perhaps
may be attributed tho manhcr in which d
subject requiring tho most convincing and
sevefeSelogc was handledSby the preacher
of tho day, tho Rev., Drs Prentiss. The
subject was the Identification of the lost
Ten Tribes Of Isreal with the Anglo Saxon
:raeo now resident in Great Britain and in
this country The subject was new to the
nptigs Of their congregations. Y
s"Sympathisings.@ith tho preacher Of tho
day in his views and efforts, hope you
will allow MO to;reducc his matter, into n
moro systematic aud logical arrangement
than his limited time and peculiar audience
seemed td Justify ;himip ever attempting
Aud hero I Would remark, at the outset,
that in all Investigations upon this subject
it is Of tho utmost Importance to romomber,
that Id prophetic writings the deceniants
Of Abraham appear as two distinct national
proper with 'EphrAim,' iIsrcal, or tho Ten
Tribes, or sous of Isaac, as they are somo-
times called III the Scriptures, is to confuse
tho prophcsics and render plain words un-
Ineligible.
In many places 10 tho phrophctic writ
ings these two peoples arc brought into
sharp and distinctive contrast. 10 the same
sentence one people are cursed and some
other people CALLED by God "My servants
aro blessed. This different nationality can
only DC tho Ten Tribes, because no other
nations on the faco of tho earth wcro at
tho time of tho prophecy even pretending
to servor jehovah, except these two people
Of Judah ani Ephraim. Take for example
Isaiah, 65th chapter, 18th to 18th verses:
"Therefore thus saith tho Lord God: Behold
my servants (Ephraim) shall eat, but 20
(Judah) shall be hungry. Behold my scr.
wants (Ephraim or tho Ten Tribcs) shall
drink, but yo (Judah) shall be thirsty
Behold my servants (Ephraim) shall rejoice,
but ye (Judah) shall be ashamed. Behold
my servants ([srcal, Ephraim or the Ten
Tribes) shall sing for joy, but yo (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 (Ephram,) for tho lord God shall
slay thee (Judah) end call his servants
(Ephraim) by another name"
Here, then, wo have curses upon Judah
and blessings upon Ephraim joined together,
pud beginning at tho samo. If, therefore,
wo can ascertain at what timo tho curse
begins to descend upon judah, we dis
cover, necessarily, the time when tho bless
ing upon Ephraim commences.
Now tho curse begins to descend omphat.
isally upon Judah, or the Jews proper, in
A. D!7Q, when Titus took Jerusalem, and
Of necessity, tho blessing upon Ephraim
It is evident, from Acts "a, 9th aud ,7th
vcrses, that the Apostle Paul wol knew the
place of Epbraim's residence, and their
religious character and condition. It is
evident from 1st Peter l, /, that they wore
u'"PokSoN Outuot ouldtlub Nup.
padocia, Asia, (Roman or Proconsular
Asia,) aud Bythinia, aud also from verse
9Th, that they had embraced Christianity.
Thoy had not consented unto tho crimo of
judah in cruoifyipg tho Lord of Glory,
but had received tho Gospel with avidity;
dqnouncing the Mosaic ritual and religion,
finding tho law yoke which neither thoy
nor their fathers could bear, they wcro in
danger Of rushing iato the opposite error
Of Antinomianisp, against which St. James
in his Epistlo addressed to them, (see lst
chapter, Let verse,) cautions and roproves
them.
Josephus, who lived about this time, testi.
fies that the Ton Tribes were thon resident
in tho East, and wcrc multitude which
no man could number. From this time
they begin to bo called by another namo.
Abandoning all their jewish pcouliaritios,
losing even their distinctive physiognomy,
they become lost, while yet sthe show Of
his countenanco' continues to tettify
against Judah for his rejection Of tho
Messiah. .am
Now, to find these Lost Tribes, it is only
necessary to ascertain their history, charao.
ter and condition, as thoso are described in
prophecy, and seorwhother thero be any
people on tho earth who can meet the re-
quirements. Z Tho people that fills tho
prophets bill is Ephrain. Hosea (Tst