The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-05
THE TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL

writers They found jewelry. They founC
carvings. They found monuments They
found all sorts of things of that kind and
every one of them bore the unmistakablt
stamp of their Hebrew origin.
Then as to the testimony Of the greai
historians of the past, il is simple matter
for us to go back and consult them and sec
what they say. Hundreds and hundreds OF
years ago the great historian Piolemy said
this: "The British Isles are settled bv the
descendants of the Hebrew people" An
other ancient historian Diodorus. said exact.
ly the same thing. The great Bishop
Gobat, of Jerusalem. writing from his stand
point, has left on record his testimony to
the same great truth. One of the most re-
liable of the English historians OF later
years, Mimpress, tracing it out from differ
ent stndpoint. has left on record his tcsti-
mony to the same great fact, and 276
years ago the splendid, reliable English
historian, Camden, tracing this thing way
back TO its beginning, left on record this
testimony I'VE. the people of Britain, are
unquestionably the descendants of the He
brew race" Then, if we could take the
time this morning To compare the anguag4
we should find strange and striking SINH
larity. We should find that the language
of our ancestors in their early days was
strangely like the language Of the Hebrew.
of Palestine and we could quote not one
but hundreds of names in the English Ian
guage that show beyond the shadow of Il
doubt their Hebrew origin, and the great
philologists the students. of language today,
have given us the GROWING argument from
that standpoint when they have put ii
down as their solemn conviction that the
English language of today is the only
language into which the Hebrew can be
literally translated.
But now to pass from these, let us go a
step farther and notice two tombs Not
a cheerful subject, but in this connection a
very helpful one. We can go to Ireland
today, just as barely had time to indicate
last Sunday, and ask for the tomb of Iere-
miah, the Prophet, and if we shall go to
the county called Ulster we shall be pointed
there to certain lake. and in the lake an
island, and on that island a well preserved
tower of ancient days, and adjoining that
tower an ancient cemetery, and in that
cemetery and connected with that tower
is pointed out to the traveller today the
lOlilD vi JClCIlldil llC 1 IOpuCl' lNOt ldi
of, we would be shown the well preserved
mausoleum of the beautiful Hebrew Prin-
cess Tephi. whose story told you the last
Lords day, and those two tombs-the tomb
of Tephi, the Hebrew princess, and the
tomb of her guardian, Jeremiah, are care
fully preserved in Ireland today, and it is a
strange wonderful fact that repeated efforts
have been made to get permission to open
these tombs and explore their contents and
that permission never has been granted, and
| dare to look into the future and say that
it never will be granted until the great, good
God is ready for some additional evidence
and then He will bring it to light.
But now we come to possibly the crown
ing argument of this particular line of
study. Go back, will you, to our Scrip
ture lesson, the covenant with David, and
read the plain unmistakable language of
Jehovah, speaking to this same jeremiah