The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-01-31
THE TEN LOST TRIBES or ISRAEL


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from thence he kept the stone of Israel"
sing the word thence in the sense of time
and not Of place, and the word shepherd in
The sense of protecting and keeping, the
meaning is peri city clear.
From that day on Joseph, the new heir
the birihrighl, kept the stone OF Israel
that l.rael had brought from Bethel as
he covenant sign with God.
The years passed by. The stone is kept
as wonderful memento and a pledge OF
Gods promise Finally, the day has come
when Israel has become a great nation, a
mighty people A wonderful temple Of Solo
mon is to be built at Jerusalem and once
more the stone appears, and if we can be-
'ieve the story that has come TO us, not very
clearly, but with strangely marked implica:
llo.:s at least. every king that was crowned
n Tor salem after the building of that won
derlul temple was crowned standing on
ne some OF israel And thsn the kingdom
was divided as we saw last Sunday, into
The Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom OF
Israel. Then the captors come and the
nation is captured and the people scattered.
I'D finally we come to the last king OF
Israel, Zedekiah, and his capture by the
sing OF Assyria, who put his sons to death
before his ewes and then put out his eyes,
bat left his two daughters alive, and then
the great God came to jeremiah, the
prophet, who was his mouthpiece at that
inc, and gave to him special charge that
he was TO guide these descendants OF the
royal line and that he. with Baruch, his
secretary, were to be with them and 10 keep
them from evil; and in a strange, wonder
full way jeremiah and Baruch and these
descendants of the royal line are preserved
amid the general destruction and chaos OF
that day and go down into Egypt. But
God had tod them they must not go into
Egypt and they did not 90, we find, willing
ly, but were carried there by force and then
,he promise of God was that those who could
escape should be preserved, and Jeremiah,
Barvch and their household, including the
/ Two prime sscs, escaped.
And now where shall they find an asylum,
where shall they find Il home! They knew
perfectly well that years before this the
! rribe Of Dan, when the land was appor-
toned, was given heritage near the sea
coast and the distinguishing characteristic
of the Tribe of Dan was they never would
stay where God put them. They were the
venturesome people. They pushed out, seek
ing new fields and pastures. They were
never content TO stay in one place and hav-
ing their home on the seashore and having
became seafaring, maritime people
Dan had pushed out. had made a large
settlement in Spain, and then, as we saw
last Sunday, had pushed on up the coast
and. just as God has promised 10 Abraham,
they had settled in the isles of the west,
none other than the British Isles as we
know tn m today, and while the rest of the
tribes were making the long weary round
by land and finally land in England the
descendants Of Dan were pushing their
way up the coast and making settlements
also with their newt found brethren in the
British Isles, and so where shall Jeremiah
lake the princess TO, where but to her own
people? What more natural than that he
should, having escaped from Egypt, get
into the ships of Dan at Joppa on the sea.
shore and go with his household, carrying
out the promise and the prophecy and the
command that God had made him that h,
was to be sent as Gods messenger to tn
people of the whole world. and that he wa
TO carry the message TO all the coasts o
Israel and to the Isles of Tarshish and tn
islands Of the west. And so jeremiah and
the princess took their journey in the ship
of Dan. stopped for while in Spain will
their brethren there, pushed on up the coas
intending TO go to Denmark, which is non,
other than Dams Mark, settled by and
named for the great Dan. But God had
better and larg-r purpose than thai
and He Who holds the winds in the ho
low Of His hand sent a great Storm upon
the ship bearing The precious burden and
instead of going 10 Denmark it was wrecked
on the northern coast of Ireland.
Just at that juncture the new king Of
Ireland, Eochad the Second, had just been
elected by the popular vote of his country
men. the Heremon, the crowned horseman
The supreme ruler of North Ireland, anu
was waiting the time when he was TO b.
crowned. But fortunately Eochaid had
comes to him that on the shore of his do
main company of lsraelites had beer
wrecked and in the company was the great
prophet jeremiah, Baruch his secretary, and
the most beautiful princess of her time OF
any time, none other than Princess Tsphi
the daughter of the blind king Zodckiah
and the heir 10 the throne Of David and 10
all the promises of God.
Eocbaid the Second, the wise young
King that he was. realizing that he himself
was a direct descendant of the same line
and that God had wonderfully provided
another descendant Of the same line,' wasted
no time in paying court to the marvellous
beauty and the equally beautiful character
Of Tephi, the daughter of Zedekiah, the
king, and in due time the match was ar.
anged, the beautiful love story was consum-
mated and the time came when they
should BE- married and crowned together.
But the Prophet jeremiah must have a
word now and he makes with Eochaid
he king, this condition. He could have the
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