The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30

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on the ground that the promise was
that there should always be "a man"
to reign on David's throne, overlook
ing the fact that the Hebrew word for
man includes the woman, Inc is used
in reference to either sex. But in
Ezekiel xvii, %, are the words: IT will
crop off from the top Of his young
wigs a tender one m will plant it
upon an high mountain eminent"
Dr.. Glover says that this tender twig
refers to a woman, the Princess Tea
Tephi, and through her down to Queen
Victoria, thus making Queen Victoria
a lineal descendant of King David.
The British Israelites add that no
one must assume from this that Queen
Victoria has any trace of Jewish blood,
for the house Of Israel is not the house
of Judah, and while all Jews are Israel
ties, all Israelites are not necessarily
Jews; hat the word 'Jew'' is only an
abbreviation of the word "~Judahite'
and simply means a descendant of the
man Judah. It is recorded in I. Kings
xii, that the Hebrews were divided into
the house of Israel and the house of
Judah. The house of Israel was car
ried away captive by the kings Of AS
syria about 700 B. c., and the house of
Judah was carried away to Babylon
COS B. c. After seventy years spent in
captivity, the house OF Judah returned
to Palestine: but the tribes of Israel
did not return and they have ever since
been referred to as the "ten lost
tribes"
There is quite an extensive literature
on this subject. Some of the books are
interesting, and all tend to prove that
the British empire and the kingdom or
house Of Israel are Identical. While it
is clear hat the covenant birthright
blessings entailed on the house of
Joseph or Israel have not been fulfilled
to the Jews, it is shown that every
promise made to Israel has been full
filled by Britain. According to the
bible, God gave to Abraham and his
seed certain special blessings exclu-
sively. These blessings the British
people throughout the world enjoy to-
udy, lIlcIelOIe, IL Is dlSueu, IIc D11lloA
people must must be of the seed Of
Abraham. It was foretold by the
prophets that the house of Ephraim-
Israel, in the latter days." should be
"a great and mighty nation" Gen.
xiii, 18). Great Britain is undisputa-
bly, great and mighty. In another
prophecy it is said that the seed of
Abraham shall possess the gates Of
his enemies" (Gen. xii, 10. It Is a
peculiar characteristic Of Great Britain
that she possesses great strategic posi-
lions in various parts of the world,
which give her advantages over her
enemies. Two Of these, among many
others, are the gate Of the Mediter-
nea and the gate Of the Red sea.
Another prophecy was that a "nation
and a company of nations" should be
Of Israel Gen. K 1D. Great
Britain and her dependencies form one
nation; yet, with her colonies, on which
the sun never sets, she may truly be
called a company of nations" The
Lord promised Abraham that he would
multiply his seed "as the stars Of the
heaven, and as the sane which is upon
the seashore' (Gen. xii, ID. The
increase in population of the Anglo
Saxon race in Great Britain and her
colonies and in the United States is
without a parallel in history. Isaiah
says that the Lord shall gather the
remnant of his people from 1.-THE ISL
ands of the sea" Elsa. XII, ~.
1.-THE north country is also spoken
Of as the place from which they shall
come Ger. xiii, 81. BALKAN, prophe-
sying happiness to Israel, said hat his
seed should be sin many waters" and
the words of the Psalmist, II will set
his hand also in the sea, and his right
hand in the rivers" nay well apply to
the great maritime nations Of Britain
and America, whose flags are flying in
every port Of the world. The Lords
people were to have "the heritage OF
the heather" (Psa. cxi., 81. Great
Britain is in possession Of a heather
empire in the east larger than the con-
tinent of Europe.
Some stress is laid on the fact that
the British lion is the same beast rep
resented in the heraldic emblem of
Israel, the lion Of David. Various cor
responsiveness Of customs are also re-
ferred to as proofs of the identity Of
the Anglo-Saxon race and Israel. One
Of these is the observance Of the Sab
bath. It is stated that the Anglo-sax-
ons and the Jews are the only people
who really observe the Sabbath; that
while to the people Of continental
Europe Sunday Is q day Of recreation
and amusement, to the Inhabitants of