The herald., 1895-11-24

| OF interest and direct the attention OF the
earnest and thoughtful to the events OF
today, the history of the present. With
out tarrying at DISPUTED chronological
questions or 60 answer the question rs to
the pre-millenal or post.millenial advent
OF Christ, series of events may be recog
nized in prophecy, linked with and de-
pendent upon each other, which We NAV
reverently place in the clear light OF
recent history, forecast the probable de-
velopnents of a near future and come to
a better understan ding OF both. As much
of the significance and interest OF the
issues OF tho eastern question centers
about the past, present and future OF the
| Jewish people, a glance at their history
and the various theories concerning
them is impor RANT.
| Before the carrying away into Baby lon
| OF the northern kingdom OF ancient
Israel, jeremiah the prophet constantly
and vehemently urged the people to cease
their resistance and to submit TO the
terms of surrender imposed by the Chal.
dean monarch. His impassioned appeals
were considered both unpatriotio and
traitorous, and he was thrown into q
dungeon aud subjected to the seserest
hardships. But faithful to the message
God had eiren him. Jeremish contained
his warn n from his prison, and after
bis deliv rance by the king. EN- boldened
by the advance OF their friendly allies.
the Egyptians, the nation persisted in
their desperate defanse. Overcome at
last, after enduring tho untold horrors of
q long siege, the city was taken. Zede-
kiah the king, after being forced g. wit
ness the deaths of his two sons. had his
eyes put out, WAS loaded with c,ains,
and with his mobiles was taken to Babv-
Ion. Here he ended his life in one OF
the dungeons of that great city. Thou
sands of his people, the richest and most
powerful, accom- panied him into this
forced e1ils only few OF the poorer sort
being lett to till the sill.
Jeremiah, who was father-in-Iaw TO the
king, was treated with great favor by tho
Cbaldean generals and permitted to retire
to bis own place in the country. Hitler
ne was accompanied by his grand-daush
tiers, the only remaining children OF the
exIled king. An insurrections having
arisen among the fractIous remnant left
in the land, jeremiah was forced by them
TO go into Egypt with them and to carry
with MIN the kings daughters. Here
they were kindly received and palace as
signed for his home. The Bible storV
closes at this point any positive history
concerning the prophet or his fate. Some
traditions say he was stoned to death by
his infatuated countrymcn; others, that
he was carried to Babylon, at the break
ine up Of the Egg ptiun monarchy by the
Chaldeans, and died in that city, respect
ed and honorsd.
A recent and perhaps more probable
story Is this: During the confusion and
alarm which prevailed IN Egypt at the
trium phant invasion of the Chaldeans,
Jeremiah ana the kings daughters were
hurried on board a vessel navigat.d by
So ilors from the tribe of Dan, the one
clan of Israel which had never been con-
quered bv the Chaldeans. Taking u
nor;hwestsrly course. the ship landed its
passengers safely upon the coast OF Ire
land. Hospitality received by the ruler
If that island, the eldest daughter OF
| Israel, king was married to the prince
royal Of that small kingdom, and they
became the progsnitors of a race whose
! earliest history is marked by enterprise.
! advanced civilization, and later on. the
adoption Of purer religious faith. The
last days Of the prophet were ended mere
| in a peaceful exile.
Meantime the great body of the people,
carried by thousands into Baby onia, wers
merged, as is com monly believed. into
| the surr1un ing peoples, and bscsfn q
,he lost tribes OF Israel about whom SO
| much fanciIul history has been written,
| and, concerning whose fate. so many
| spa culative theories have been advanced.
| Recen. traiitionary lore BIAS gwen con.
siderable plhusibility 10 the idea that
thay psrretusted, even IN captivity,
their racial distinctiveness, national cns-
toms an integrity. Amid the despot-
isms of their environments they pre-
served the germs OF rel resentative gov
eminent and saved from the utter con-
tamination Of debasinl faiths some cor
rect ideas Of the worship OF the true
Jehovah.
When tbe Chaldean monarchy fall To
rise no more before the Persian, larger
Liberty was granted the jewish captives..
a small fraction. not more than one In
hundred, returned to the holy city to re
build ITS walls and temple aud TO MAKE
an effort toward the r.suscitation of the
national life. By Tar the larger mum Der
migrated into northern and central
Europe. Adopting the name Of their
entcrprising, Independent clan leader,
Dan, they perpetuated 1t in the name OF
their new Kingdom. DAn.marK-ths Den.
mark of modern times. the early kings
of this little peninsula, which has had
so heroic history for many centuries,
ntroduc many USEFUL arts.subdued the
surrounding peoples and laid the found
alton of a representative constitutional
government IN the Dan geld. which they
transp .rted with them iuto England,
in their victorious descent upon tnat is
land. Betting there they held in SUBJ
lection, until they were in turn over
thrown py their own XII n drsd, the Angles
Saxons and finally the Normans. By the
amalgamation of these tribes, We have
the English nation, and through them
the mericau.
If these theories, based upon tradi.
ton, are curreLt, the AngIo-Saxons are
the lost tribes of Israel, The inbertors of
tue prosperity and greatness with which
the pages of the scriptures glow with
prrpntt.c splsndor. he remarkable
spread of the English people, the steady
| gIowtu OF It's institutions, bssrd upon
civil and religious freeIum, its world
wide com m cree. it's domination OF the
seas, it's literature, ranking with the
l. o best al nd best Its language, Decomin.
SO rapidly the universal tongue, gives
some credenoe to this new and astonish-
ing solution of the proplematic fate of
| thr ten the, 6of Israel carried captive
into Babylon over twenty-five hundred
years ago.
lne small remnant that returned to
Palestine under the leadership Of Ezra
and Nenemia we're completely pur fed
of all idolatrous tendencies and prac
tees. Tn Sc we're the descendants of the
Judean or southern kingdom OF Israel,
winch had maintained its political OK
isterce one hundred years after Jbe fail
of its northern neghbos. Tbev rebuilt
the walls of Jerusalem and the temple
ana ma ntained feeble national exist
ence, even after tae overthrow of the
Persian monarchy by Alexander the
Gr-at.
F ling under the Worldwide empire Of
tho no. ans their national igut was
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