The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-11
VOL. X.-NEw SERIES.
THE LOST IRIsEe or issxst 8 8
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" The united Lenten service ofthe Episco-
pal Church was beldas 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
bject requiring the most convincing and
sevcrcst logic was handled by the preacher
of the day. the Rev. DR.. Prentiss. The
subject was the Identification of the Lost
Ten Tribes of Israel with the Anglo. 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 audicnccd seemed
tojustity him in even attempting. And here
l 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 us two distinct nationai
ties 10 confjund Judah or the Jews
proper, with Ephraim, Israel, or the Ten
Tribes, or sens of Isaac, as they are some.
times called in the Scriptures, is to confuse
The prophecies and render pain words un
intelligible.
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" arc
blessed. This different nationality can
only be the Ten Tribes, because no other
nations on the face of the earth were at
the time 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
'Thcretore thus saith the Lord God: Behold
my servants (Ephraim) shall eat, but ye
(Judah) shall be hungry. Behold my SER
wants (Ephraim or the Ten Tribcs) shall
drink, but yc (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 vcxation of spirit. And yc Judah)
shall leave your name for 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 Judah
and blessings upon Ephraim joined together,
and beginning at the same If, therefore,
VIC can ascertain at what time the 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
~. ID. 20, when Titus took Jerusaem; and
of necessity, tho blessing upon Ephraim
also
1t is evident, from Acts "a, 9th and 7th
verses, that the Apostle Paul well knew the
place OF Ephraims s residence, and their re-
ligious character and condition. 1t is evil
dent from lst Peter l, l, that they were
dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cap
padocia. Asia, (Roman, 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 crucitying the Lord Of G. lory,
but had received the Gaspcl 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 Authoritarian, against which st James
in his Epistlc addressed to them, (see 1st
chapter, lst verse; cautions and reprovcs
them.
Joscphus, who lived about this time, tcs-
titles that the Ten Tribes were then resident
in the East, and were multitude which
no man could number From this time
they begin to be called by another name
Abandoning all their Jewish peculiaritcs,
losing even their distinctive physioenc my,
they become lost, while yot 'the show of
his countenance" continues to testify
against Judah for his rejection of the Mes.
siah
Now, to find these Lost Tribes, 1t 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-
quircmcnts The people that fills the
prophets bill is Ephraim Hosea Qst chap.
ter 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 recognized as the people of God, ,
(i. C. as lsraclltcS,) but these arc to be noted
for their religion. There it shall be said
unto them, "Yc arc the sons of the living
Cod"
This land Of their new habitation is in
sular, and in these islands the exhausted