The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-10
9naerson gntelligeaser.
THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
Views of ChnrlestUn Dsvtno who Giyei
his Reasons for believing them TO be the
People OF England.
From The Ncu, and C1urier.

was tolerably filled.
The congregation was composed chief
ly of ladies, to which circumstance per-
haps may he attributed the manner in
Which subject requiring the most con-
vincing and sevcrestlogic was handled by
the preacher OF the day, the Rev. DR..
Prentiss. The subject was the 'dentifi-
cation Of the lost Ten Tribes of Israel
with the Anglo Saxon race now resi-
dent in Great Britain and in this country.
The subisct was new to the audience,
none of the clergy or the church in this
city having as yet brough: it to the no.
tice Of their congregations.
Sympathizing with the preacher OF the
day in his views and efforts, hope you
will allow me to reduce his matter to a
more systematic and logical arrange
mcnts than his limited time and pecul-
attempting. And here would remark,
at the outset, that in all Investigations
upon this subject it IS ofthe utmost inn
r0rtance to remember that in pro-
phetic writings the defendants Of Abra-
ham appear as two distinct nationalities.
To confound Judah, or the Jews proper,
with Ephraim, Israel, or tho Ten Tribes
or sons of Isaac, as they arc sometimes
called in the Scriptures, Is TO confuse the
prophecies and render plain words unin-
tclligible.
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" nrc blessed. This different
nationality can only be the Ten Tribes,
because no other nations on the face OF
the earth were at the time oftho prophecy
ever pretending to serve Jehovah, except
these two peoples ofJudah and Ephraim.
Take for example Isaiah. Goth chapter,
18th to 10Th verses: Therefore thus
saith the Lord God: Behold my ser
tlah) shall be hungry. Behold my SER
wants (Ephraim or the Ten Tribcs)
shall drink, but yc (Judah) shall be
thirsty. Behold my servants (Ephram)
shall rejoice, but ye (Judnh) shall be
ashamed. Behold my servants (Israel,
Ephraim OF the Ten Tribes) shall sing
for joy, but we (Judah) shall cry for sor-
row of heart and shall howl for vexa-
tion ofspirit. Andye (Judali) 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 Ju-
dab and blessings upou Ephraim joined
together, and beginning at the same. If
therefore, we can ascertain at what tine
tho 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 Jcru-
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 1st Peter ], l., that
they were dispersed throughout Pontus,
Proconsular Asia, and Bythinia, and also
from verse 9th, that they had embraced
Christianity. They had not consented
unto the crime of Judah in crusfying
the Lord of Glory, but had received the
Gospel with avidity; dcnouncing tho
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, tsee lst
chapter, 1st verse,) cautions and re-
proves them.
Josephus, who lived about this time
testifies 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 sec whether there
be any people on the earth who can
meet the requirements. The people
that fills the prophets bill is Ephraim.
Hosea (1st chapter 10Th vcrse) gives us
the first mark by which we are to know
them. They arc to dwell in some
country in which they are not to be re.
cognized as the people of God, ii. e. us
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 ia
insular, and in these islands 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,''
and gloriiy the name Of the Lord God OF
the sea-" isaiah, "a 15.l The situa.
tion ofthese islands is northwest of Pal.
estine. Sec jeremiah, 4-lS, aud
Isaiah, 43-5. In this land God "speaks
to them by another name." Hero par.
tial blindness las to their ancestry chap
pens unto them" Romans, l1-25.
Here God promises to lead these "blint
by way that they know not Of" Here
true to their national instincts the,
yearn after an acknowledged relations
ship with Jehovah saying: ''Doubtles.
those are our father, though Abraham. bt
Ignorant of US, and though Israel ac
knowledge us not" Here they are te
increase wonderfully, "to be like the
sand Of the sea, which cannot be meas.
ured." (Hosea, 10y So large il
their increase that, when God gathers
them again into their own land, He can
only take Gone af citv and two of q
family" to restore them to Zion. They
are to become multitude of nations
overiiowing into colonies, because their
place is too strait for them.
One remarkable colony they are "a
lose, Manassah or the United States, J
bnt after they have lost this "lhe chill.
dren which che shall have shall say the
place is too strait 70. me-" Isaiah45-
30. In order to aid them in subduine