The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-05

while he was yet in the land of Palestine,
renewing and confirming the promise that
had been made time and time again to
David and now crystallized in the writings
of jeremiah into this simple statement
David shall never want man to sit upon
the throne of the House of Israel" Now.
we ask the question, did Cod know what
He said, and did He mean what He said,
and has He kept His promise? We are
accustomed TO think, until we have studied
these things, Of the kingdom Of David as
being d dim, misty tradition Of the past,
preserved only in the records OF the Bible.
We are. accustomed to think of all these
ancient Bible stories as things that have 10
do with the ancient DAYS. ! am here to
tell you today, beloved, on the authority
Of this Book. that these things are not con-
nected merely with yesterday. They are
linked up by the promises Of God with the
developments Of today and they point with
unmstakabIe certainty to the strange hap
penings of tomorrow We who have tried
to study this subject have long known that
the great Queen Victoria OF England claim
ed that she was descended from King
David, but for many years it was simply
received as d kind of boast that could
never be proven. am very happy today to
be able TO tell you that that claim has
been proven. that that descent has been
traced and that not only Queen Victoria,
but OF course the present King of England,
are lineal descendants by the blood line
from David, the King of Israel, and here is
She evidence.
Here is Il chart, too small in print, of
course. for you to read from where you sill
but here is a chart that has been prepared
at the cost of great research time and
trouble This chart shows beyond the shadow
of a doubt the lineal descent of the kings
of England from the ancient kings of Israel
Starting here with Judah the son of Israel
himself, the line of descent has been traced
clearly and Enthusiastically down through the
successive kings of Israel from David on
down to Zedekiah. the last king of Israel
Then. as we saw last Sabbath, from Iede-
kiah's daughter, the beautiful Princess
Tephi, emigrating TO Ireland, guided by
the Prophet jeremiah, and he himself di-
rected by the promises of God Himself
there becoming united in marriage with
the new king Eochaid the Second and that
from them were descended all the future
kings Of Ireland, every one OF them listed
here. then the kings of Scotland from the
same line of descent. then the kings of
England from the same line of descent
down to the great Victoria, herself, and
from her to her son Edward the Seventh
and the present King George the Fifth
and thess is the historical evidence that
Queen Nictoria's claim was right that she
was directly descended from David. the
King of Israel, and that God has univer-
sally made good His promise. as He always
does, praise His Name, and that David
has never wanted for man to sit upon the
throne Of The House of Israeli because the
House of Israel was preserved in the
Anglo.Saxon race from whom come the
people of Ireland, Scotland and England,
and they and their descendants have been
always, as they are today, the House of
Israel. the descendants of the Ten Lost
Tribes and ruled over from the beginning
of their history down TO today by the lin
cal, lawful, loyal descendants of the House
of David, and God has made good His
promise and His promises and the prophe-
cies are. sure of fulfllment and the Ten
Lost Tribes are no longer lost, but found