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In this series I would like to introduce you to one of the most interesting characters of the 19^th century. He was a bright and shining star to many who waited for his news articles that were printed from coast to coast with publishers anxiously waiting his next draft.

In this web site we will present his teachings just as they were published without any corrections or additions. (Any noted comments will be signed by RS.)

His topics covered a wide range of subjects especially the connection of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic people to the ancient Israel of the Old Testament. He tackled and solved the difficult passages of prophetic Scripture like “Joshua’s long day” “The Dial of Ahaz” “Daniel’s 70^th week” “The millennium” “The Kings Daughters” “Lost Sheep of Israel Found” “Noah’s Flood” and a host of other Biblical subjects. He was a Master of Chronology in Biblical time lines and used it to refute the doctors of doubt who were a constant thorn in his flesh.

Though he never claimed to be a prophet, much of what he said was indeed prophetic. He like many others down through the ages looked with anticipation to the eminent return of the LORD and he set what he believed was a time of His return, yet, stated that even though he believed it, the LORD could extend His return to a later period with no correction needed in his chronological tables. (Which we will present at a later date.) Most of his work was written in his publication called “Our Race” as an attempt to awaken the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and kindred people to the knowledge of their ancient ancestors and their prophetic destiny. That they might, “Look to the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.” (Isaiah 51:1-2).

Though we have a large library of his books there are many other works he published that we do not have. We would appreciate anyone who could supply us with any other literature by Professor C.A.L. Totten printed or reprinted from 1880-1910 to include in our archives. RS

In reading his material we must remember it was written 115 years ago and was not designed for the Biblically impaired reader as he often uses quotations unfamiliar to those not acquainted with the contents of the Bible. Yet, he writes in a most colorful manner painting a picture that all can appreciate when reading with the spirit of discernment and understanding.

The following is a brief biographical sketch of some of his accomplishments written for the public in 1890. RS

“Mr. Totten’s full Christian name is so long as to have secured for him the nickname of ‘Alphabet’ at West Point…Charles Adiel Lewis…where he stood among the honor men for three years and finally graduated sixth in his class. He was born in New London, Conn., on February 4^th 1852, and is now in his forty-first year. His father was General James Totten, the one who fought with General Sigel, and who was Canby’s chief of artillery at Mobile.

At the age of twelve young Totten entered the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn., and was graduated in 1867 at the age of sixteen. He then entered the junior class of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., as a ‘university student,’ and while there became a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity. Indeed, so strong was the ruling motive of his life already developed…the desire to get at the root of all that savored of the mysterious---that his chief idea in going to college was to find out the secrets of some representative American fraternity---and particularly this one, which had already developed an Olcott of occult Indian fame.

After spending two years at Trinity during which he showed a marked ability in mathematics, he left Hartford to enter West Point in 1869. From the latter institution he was graduated with the class of ‘73, was recommended for the Ordinance, but was assigned as a Lieutenant to the Forth Artillery, which is his present regiment. Mr. Totten is of Welch extraction upon his mother’s side (Miss Julia H. Thatcher, of New London, Conn.), and Tyrone Irish pedigree upon his father’s side. He is a baptized member of the Episcopal Church, into which he was confirmed at the early age of thirteen, by Bishop Williams, now the Primate of America.

But in spite of early churching he became more or less touched with the spirit of the age and began to investigate matters for himself, so soon as he realized their practical import. The result was that while he was at West Point he became very liberal in his ideas, and almost an avowed follower of Buchner and the German school. As the orator of the class of 1873 he delivered their ‘Forth of July Oration,’ which was noticeably materialistic in its tendencies and conclusions, and exerted no little influence upon the Corps, and particularly upon his fellow classmates, who caused the speech to be printed for preservation. In the mean time General Upton, the ‘Commandant,’ sent for the young cadet and induced him to reconsider the premises of Buchner, in order to be certain of his bearings before confirming himself and others in so hopeless a philosophy. The result was a fair and candid review of the situation and a logical condemnation of the mere negations of materialism. This was final.

Going now to the very opposite extreme, he devoted himself particularly to the philosophy of Sweedenborg. His investigations were soon sufficiently positive to satisfy him that materialism was untenable, and so before leaving the Academy he receded altogether from his rationalistic views, and lost no opportunity of making his position public. His very first step upon leaving West Point was to seek further light. He therefore joined the Masons and still remains an enthusiastic and well-posted master in the craft, although he immediately took a demit from his New London Lodge (Union, 31) and has since then pursued his studies upon independent and rather transcendental lines. These studies, as is apparent from his writings, have ranged over cabalism, the purer forms of astrology (such as studied by Kepler, Bacon, Newton, and Berkeley) and arithmography, and, in fact, over a little of everything partaking of the occult and mysterious…but always with the view of getting the fundamental facts, and dropping each topic so soon as he had formulated, at least to his own satisfaction, a précis of its principles. According to some of his fellows he has been denominated a ‘rolling stone,’ but his own way of putting it is that he didn’t want any ‘moss.’

After serving a year with his regiment, Lieutenant Totten went to the artillery school at fortress Monroe for a year. He did not finish this course, but after distinguishing himself by several inventions and two essays, one of which was read by proxy at the graduation exercises of his class, he left to take the Professorship of Military Science at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. While at Amherst he became an ardent believer in Professor Smyth’s pyramidal theories, and in 1885 published the results of his studies in the form of a challenge to President Barnard, of Columbia College.

This volume entitled, ‘An Important Question in Metrology,’ received wide attention and has in reality never been answered. It abounds in what may be termed the mysteries of metrology in all of its branches, defined by him as the ‘science of measure, number, and weight,’ and carries the premises of the Astronomer Royal of Scotland to their legitimate conclusion. As may be presumed, the lieutenant is a firm opponent of the French metric system; in fact, it was he who originated the letter to President Arthur objecting to Barnard’s presidency of the Geographical Convention upon the World Standard Meridian.

Whether it was due to this letter or not, President Barnard resigned his appointment and Admiral C.P. R. Rogers was appointed in his place. This appointment seemed to be perfectly agreeable to the anti-metric people, and when the French delegates offered to accept Greenwich meridian if we in return would accept the metric system, the admiral pronounced the matter foreign to the objects of the convention, to the result of which the French, of course, dissented. It was at Lieutenant Totten’s instance that Secretary Folger struck off the ‘Centennial’ seal medal of the United States, recognizing the pyramidal reverse to our national heraldry, and since then he has written a volume, yet to be published, upon the mystics of the history and heraldry of this seal. In the meantime, as the author of ‘Strategos,’ The American game of war, or Kriegssipiel, he won a wide reputation in his own profession, and obtained the personal indorsement of Ramsey, then Secretary if War, as well as no little foreign honor, Von Moltke, Wolseley, Bollinger (superintendent of the Swiss Military Academy), and others recognizing the value and worth of his system.

As an inventor Mr. Totten has about a dozen patents, most of them covering professional topics (powder, sights, signal devices, etc.) and also running into such practical matters as standard scales, weights and measures, double postal-card, etc. Besides these he has several applications now pending in the office, one of which a general reconnaissance instrument, another, a mechanical battle telemeter, and yet another, an automatic electric position finder (for harbor defense), bid fair to be heard from at no distant date. The fact is, he has far more to show as the result of military work than of the studies, which have once more brought him into prominence.

While serving with his regiment in the West he invented a system of targets for small-arm practice, which led to wide experiment in the Department of the Pacific, and seems to have had at least a latent influence in causing the official army modification of the old Creedmoor targets. At this same time he collated, by the direction of the present adjutant-general, then McDowell’s assistant, a code of ‘Athletic Rules’ which has just been revised by him at the instance of the War Department, and is about to be printed for more general army circulation.*

Lieutenant Totten was twice detailed for National Guard duty as inspector and instructor at Niantic, Conn., and his labors won official recognition in orders upon each occasion. In connection with this detail he compiled a concise working Manuel of Guard duty,’ which is still in the hands of the C.N.G. Just before his detail to Yale he invented the Tex-Maine target system for heavy artillery, and in the light battery of his regiment was busily engaged upon military inventions, two of which are at this time before the ‘board of War.’ He accompanied the Estey Guard of Vermont to the Centennial in 1876, and last winter won high and official compliment from the late Major Kinney for the through way in which his instruction improved the drill and discipline of the Governor’s Foot Guard at Hartford. His ‘military Lectures’ before the seniors of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale have been widely published, and have elicited deep interest from various quarters, both on account of their vigorous independence of thought and the novelty with which he has presented the ‘American Military Problem,’ * (*Note: The Course for 1890 was published in the New Haven Register, Jan., Feb., and March, and that of 1891 appeared verbatim and weekly on Mondays in the New York Mail and Express, Oct., Nov., and Dec.)

In consideration of some of these scholarly attainments Mr. Totten has received the honorary degree of M.A. from Trinity, his quondam alma mater, and has been made a recipient of many more quiet testimonials. To the public at large, however, he is probably best known on account of his persistent religious studies. His calculation of the exact date of the conjunction which fixed Joshua’s Long Day, and of the circumstances surrounding the dial incident recorded in Hezekiah’s time, have brought his name before the whole world, and his determined publications upon the chronology, history, and genealogy of the Anglo-Saxon race have already begotten a rapidly growing appreciation for the quarterly devoted to the spread of these views, and of which he is the editor and author.

In view of all these circumstances it is absolutely ridiculous to pronounce this man a mere crank, or to condemn his latest ‘End of the Age’ calculations as pure visionary. We are therefore confident that a wide constituency will welcome our intention to ‘give him a chance’ to be fairly heard upon a topic which, if his views are sound, is certain to produce a profound interest and no little concern.

Lieutenant Totten is of slight build, and weighs about one hundred and thirty pounds; is energetic an active, and he says that he can get into his old cadet suit as easy as when he doffed it. Though a young man he is already decidedly gray, and consumes as much tobacco as he does the midnight oil.

He has been twice married, his first wife having been the daughter of Captain Lewis Smith, of the Third Artillery. By her he had three children, two of whom have resided with their grandparents in Washington since their mother’s death; and one of whom (named Tea Tephi, after the Heroine of the Anglo-Israeliteish history upon which he is so ardent a writer) has already joined her mother. The maiden name of his present wife, who is an earnest assistant in all of his labors, was Miss Mary Bunker, of Garden City, L. I., the daughter the daughter of Matthew Bunker, secretary of the Union Ferry Company, Brooklyn. By this second marriage he has a daughter, Muriel Gurdon, named from one of his maternal ancestors, a daughter of Governor Saltonstall. As far as ancestry is concerned he is an out-and-out ‘Yankee,’ and is related to the oldest families in Connecticut; while he avows himself proudest of his descent from Elder Brewster, upon whose chest, in the cabin of the Mayflower, that the famous compact was signed whereby, as Bancroft says, ‘humanity recovered its rights.’

In his belief Professor Totten is a self-convinced and avowed Christian. His studies have vindicated the Word of God as it is written, i.e., he accepts the Bible literally, and is a bitter opponent of the ‘higher criticism’ and of every phase of modern dogmatism. While still an Episcopalian, he generally attends the Second Advent Church in preference to any other in New Haven, and has lectured and spoken there several times upon Advent topics. He is as confirmed an advocate of Moses and the Prophets as he is of Christ and the Apostles, and says that repentance, baptism, the Eucharist, a belief in the all the articles of the Apostles Creed, and a practical use of the Lord’s Prayer cover all the essentials to salvation. He is convinced that these cannot be accepted and believed without resulting in ‘work’; but ‘faith’ he believes, is the fundamental principle of Christianity. He believes fully in the divinity of Jesus Christ; in His death as the blood atonement for man’s original sin, whatever it was; and in the literal bodily resurrection and ascension of the Lord, and it is His imminent personal return that he anticipates. As he puts it, he has no alterations or comments to offer upon ‘the faith once delivered to the saints.’ All this is clearly ‘orthodox’ if tried by the true and only primitive standard, and it is equally to be expected that the views held by the professor upon the millennial topics selected will be rigidly Biblical in their exegesis.

In conversation recently he replied, as to his position upon questions of modern doubt and Church controversy: ‘There is but one logical standard…the Bible! No one will be able, if revelation is a fact, to pull himself into the kingdom by the straps of his own theoretical boots. He will be left, as sure as there is a God of Abraham in heaven. I had rather be primitive in belief and positive in Faith, even on matters I do not understand, than agnostic, and trust to so-called luck. I don’t believe in it at all. Chronology has proved to me that Jehovah is, and that He is truth!’

One hundred and fifteen years ago the world had a different view of coming events, many religious predictions were made that never transpired. Professor Totten never claimed to be a prophet of the future only an interpreter of Chronology. Though he believed the second coming of our LORD was eminent, he was often misunderstood and misrepresented by the circus media that thrives on the sensational. Though his messages were not prophetical they were revelatory. He was like a candle on a lamp stand or a watchman on the tower of his day, who need not worry nor bear the burden of the blood of his generation. (Ezekiel 33:5)RS

When I discovered his works I was intrigued by his insight concerning the Word of God (JHVH) and his courage to speak up for Jesus in a time when the “Critics of Higher learning” were ‘denying’ the faith and removing the ‘Blood’ of Jesus from the hymn books, attempting to debunk the miracles and mysteries of the Bible. Here was a man who had the courage and intestinal fortitude to face the lions in their own arena. He believed the Bible meant what it said and though he received wide notoriety from the sensational press only a few understood the real content of his message, which was Jesus Christ, His Kingdom soon to be on earth and the veracity of the Bible. RS

(The following articles were taken from a series called “Our Race” by professor C.A.L. Totten series II No. 7 published in 1892 care has been taken to copy them verbatim the original of which is in our archives as the sample below.) RS (Note: Chapters 1-3 are typed in this series, chapters 4-13 will be photocopied in Totten 2 on Home page)

An American Tribute To England

*I am constrained most naturally to assign to this superlatively handsome, and certainly far too generous, introductory monograph of Professor Smyth’s its really logical and proper place as Prologue to the entire series of studies,…the which sufficiently accounts for its apparently illogical precedence (in so far, however, only as its merely nominal designation is concerned) over the preface to which he refers. This latter more particularly concerns the Study with which the Series commences, to which it is therefore intentionally relegated. C.A.L.T.

BY C. PIAZZI SMYTH, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., F.R.SS.A.; F.R.SS.L. & E., HON. M. INST. ENGIN.SC.,P.S.ED.,R.A.A.S. MUNICH AND PALERMO; LATE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND ASTRONOMER-ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND; AUTHOR OF “LIFE AND WORK AT,” AND “OUR INHERITANCE IN,” “THE GREAT PYRAMID” ETC. , AND OF THE EDINBURGH STAR CATALOGUE AND EPHEMERIS.

Having been favored by my friend Lieutenant and Professor C.A.L. Totten, U.S. Army, from across the Atlantic with an early reading of both the preface and a Digest of all the chapters of his forth coming important book on the solution of a grandiose problem of ancient and modern humanity, affecting equally both the United States’ great nation, and Great Britain with her many Colonies arranged around the world,-actually accounting for much of their past, and indicating not a little of their future; I find myself further invited by him, in terms I cannot ignore, to inform his co-citizen readers in the West, what mine, who have studied the subject here in the East, may be likely to think of this his latest and fullest publication on so absorbing a theme.

Permit me, if you please, to confine my answer, as above, to those who have “studied” the subject. For the result of such study, whenever pursued far enough, is invariably to find that it is a Scriptural one;- and every successive antagonistic dictum uttered against it by even the most worldly-learned of University Doctors, without taking the Bible for their guide and sure illuminator, does but land them in such absurdity of errors, as to strengthen instead of overthrow the findings of those who have, like Lt. Totten for this particular case, re-read their Bible pure and simple, without needless reliance on the hitherto so often prejudiced commentaries, and rather far-fetched spiritualization’s of very good men of the past, but by no means, as men, necessarily acquainted with all the ineffable intentions of the Almighty, the Covenant-Keeping God of Israel, to bring about in their future, but our present, time:- with responsibilities on all who read, and condemnation on those who neglect or despise.

With such restrictions, then, as to those to be reported exemplarily upon, I venture to affirm that all who have in this British nook and corner of the world been earnestly exercising themselves upon this same question through many years past, and are daily increasing their numbers, and strengthening their faith in the general character of its methods and eventual results, will be delighted to hear that one who is already so favorably known to them in other lines of literary research as Lieutenant Totten, and considered in those lines one of the ablest, as well as most hard-working, men of the day, signal for mathematical investigation, for extensive reading, for judicial soundness in weighing conflicting evidence, and finally for undaunted allegiance to whatever truth shall be ultimately developed, has, after years of examination from his more professional point of approach, obtained such clear and convincing views, as to have become inevitably impressed that the time has now arrived when he is bound to publish, and to let others partake of his magnificent findings.

No less an imperial epithet can be given to them by me; for, on one side and as regards the material world with the thousand-and-one facts of daily life which go towards constituting any one people and leading nation of mankind in the present age, his prime result there of solution has the recommendation almost sublime which attaches to Newtonian Gravity in the celestial spaces; viz., that from a single, all but a priori, assumption it explains all known facts of motion yet observed. While on the other, or the spiritual and religious side, Lieutenant Totten’s equally necessary solution there has the same importance among its compeers; for it explains in their first, direct, and simplest meanings of the written words, and on one and the same line of development, so many passages of Scripture very variously interpreted and most obscurely applied, hitherto.

And what is the effect of so unexpected a discovery on the Bible itself? It is twofold. First, it causes us to behold and acknowledge therein the accomplishment of a true miracle, and of the mightiest kind through the ages, consummated in our own days. And Second, it causes the Bible to become for the Neo-Israelite Anglo-Saxons of America and Great Britain with her colonies, as it was for the tribes of Israel of old, an infallible book for their national guidance in politics,- as well as a collection of Inspired instructions for each individual soul in religion.

“Is this overpowering thesis really, securely, and worthily set forth,” does any doubter demand anew, “in the moderately sized work which I am attempting, however feebly, to delineate from my retirement among the descendants of Ephraim Joseph and the Tribes his fellows, here in the East, to his brethren of Manasseh Joseph in the West?

I know of no abler, better prepared, and more original-minded a writer on the subject than the same little book’s most worthy author.

Wherefore I can only say to others, as I have already to myself, and with profit: Read, reflect on, and revolve every page of it in your souls, while yet there is time; for God’s purpose will not always wait for man’s reluctances.

A miracle of the Bible, affecting God’s covenant people, is undoubtedly being wrought out in our midst; and may divine Grace to perceive it be extended to all who do their best to understand the foundations on which it is laid.

I. BETWEEN THE LINES…..................…………1

PREFACE

It is a startling statement, and yet one founded upon ample evidence, that The Anglo-Saxon Race is the literal, lineal, and blood descendant of the Ten Tribes of Israel, whom Shalmaneser deported into Media circa 721 B.C., and who thereafter, and hitherto, have been so completely lost!

And if, indeed, an announcement so unlooked for, and at first thought so incredible, turns out, upon investigation, to be a Fact, it is one of sweeping import, not to themselves alone, but to all mankind.

The gospel of Emmanu-EL was no newer nearly nineteen hundred years ago in the streets of Jerusalem, than the one which preaches now, in ours, the tidings of Emmanu-Isra-EL, or that God, in these our days, and of the very “Stones” – the Saxae of the SAXAM! –has actually raised up seed to Abraham!

It is nothing short of a Miracle, stupendous beyond all others which were ever wrought, that… in these latter days of “Science and Free-thought,” of spreading disbelief, of triumph Mammonism, and almost of hopeless relinquishment of the search even by the few… we of the Anglo-Saxon Race should awaken to the demonstrable conviction that we ourselves are the actual descendants of Israel, literal sons of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob!

If we, who more than all other peoples have diligently sought for this missing Kingdom, shall actually find it in ourselves, marked with all the jots, and tittles, and minutiae of Identity, then such a resurrection of a Race, such an example of “dual existence,” or of suspended identity, such a fulfillment of the Scriptures before our very eyes, and in despite of every human probability, cannot but crash out all infidelity, and force conviction in the truth of God’s Eternal Word!

It is a truth wherein all Christian thought may reunite, an universal “blend” wherein all questions of the day may find solution. In it may faith become transmuted into FACT, and Religion, losing none of its truly spiritual strength, gain might untold in thus securing living form and substance, wherein to manifest the exceeding certainty of Jehovah’s Oath and Covenant. “His truth endureth to all generations” (Ps.cxvii.2); and, indeed, The Lord hath sworn in truth to David (Ps. Cxxxii.11), and will perform the truth to Jacob (Mic. Vii.20). Therefore, Ride thou prosperously on because of the truth (Ps. Xlv.5), O Israel… O Anglo-Saxon Israel! And display thy banner loftily because of it (Ps. Lx. 4) “upon the mountains of thy heights” (Ezek. Xvii. 23), and let all the nations see, and hear, and say It is the truth (Isa. Xliii. 9). For verily in it the substance of things hoped for grows into a continent whereon the human race may build securely henceforth and forever.

We have had the books of the Prophets with us for centuries, and in them vainly have we tried to see our neighbors by reflection. Till lately we have never dreamed of using them upon ourselves. Nor have we thought of studying therein identities for which we can account in but one way, …Identities which to accept is to overwhelm us with conviction and to condemn us if we fail to live thereby, while to reject them is to stultify us hopelessly, and to bring upon our own generation the blindness and perversity of every former one.

How undiscerningly we have dwelt amid these wondrous facts! And yet how plainly do they stand out when our eyes are opened! And how closely does the knowledge of them enlist the present generation into “the Church Militant,” engaged in the very same conflict that was waged by the earliest ages of Christianity! We have dreamed that the days of Miracles were over, and behold we are confounded with them upon every hand! We sought a sign, and lo, the sign of the Prophet Jonah, multiplied three “Times,” repeats itself; …for a people swallowed up in the belly of its own blindness is cast forth upon dry land and sent onward to its mission! We had not yet believed though one has risen from the dead; so unto us, with infinite forbearance, hath God literally sent not one alone, but raised a Nation from its grave … a Nation known unto us far better than all others, and unto all those known better than themselves, since it is our own, and the very one whose credentials we have so vainly striven all these centuries to fasten upon some obscure and worn-out remnant hidden in the wilds.

The truth which Noah so vainly preached, while he prepared the Ark, was not of more vital moment than the subject which we here present, if it be also true; and as it is true, the Anglo-Saxon Race, be it a willing witness or not, is the living earnest of prophesy fulfilling now, and well-nigh full.

It may not be, indeed, a Deluge that impends…we have the Bow of Promise over against such a cataclysm, …but it is to be as overwhelming a phenomenon in the moral, social, and political worlds, nor one wholly immaterial either (a sort of “Drift,” or Crusade, as it were, of Stones, or “Stonemen,” across the face of Universal Empire).

But aside from all simile, it is with deep concern that the Author of the following pages solicits, of those to whom they are dedicated, a candid hearing, and a suspension of judgment until they shall have verified or disproved them, context and consensus.

If worthy of credence, they contain the gist of what will be the Gospel of the Coming Dispensation, …A Gospel founded upon Moses and the Prophets, Herodotus and the Historians, Christ and the Apostles, …and its banner is one that may be fearlessly “displayed because of the truth.”

It is manifestly a difficult, as well as a delicate, matter to attempt to reason with Christians, with Sons of Judah, and with Gentiles, in the same argument: nevertheless, such is the potence of this theme, that it appeals with equal import to all three, as truth should do, and, unless it is accepted by them, leaves them, severally, in mutual view, upon the horns of a triple dilemma. Moreover, if it be received, it must be accepted at the expense of such mutual concessions, upon either side, as inevitably accompany all earnest search for truth.

The present aspect of European and Asiatic politics, the certain future of the English-speaking peoples, the fullness of the Gentiles, the general unrest of the age itself, the increase of knowledge, the running to and fro of men, and the natural anticipation of Judah for her promised return to Palestine, these, and the host of other circumstances which conspire to make our day significant, suggest to thinking men its lateness on Jehovah’s dial, and the nearness of a dispensation, for which creation, hitherto, has sorely travailed. In the mean while, the growing infidelity of the majority in every land serves but to increase this somber gloom, against which here and there only solitary stars of faith shine out in contrast.

At such a juncture, therefore, it is meet, right, and our bound duty, to urge at least Our Own Race, “to buy the Truth and sell it not,” and to tell them somewhat of their Origin and Destiny.

PREFACE

It is said that wine improves under the influence of an ocean voyage. This particular consignment has had several such trips; long ago it first came to us from the mother country, and it has been to and fro several times since then. We now wholly release it from “bond,” and send it back for general use, for it has at last arrived at the stage when even connoisseurs may be counseled to “buy the truth and sell it not.” It has been thoroughly tested here, and found to be good, so we trust its original consignees will recognize the value of its voyages in the ships of Tarshish, and that, in addition to its gain of age, it has lost nothing of its fine bouquet by its somewhat long storage between trips in Manasseh’s vaults.

It was shipped to us as the pure juice of the grape, and we have found the bill of lading true; so it is now shipped back without any artificial rectification whatsoever, albeit we have no little of the very same vintage here, since the ancient vine “ran over the wall,” and we, too, are of Areadia. It is indeed fit for a “feast of fat things,” this wonderful wine of latter day truth, “a feast of wine on the lees well refined,” It is in fact for just such a feast that it has been prepared of old (Isa. Xxv.-xxvii.), and as it were prepared “without hands,” seeing that the truth, after all, needeth no redemption.

In reality vintage decides value in such premises; and as this wine is of Lebanon, and of the slopes of Hermon, there is of course none better, for the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel. It is only the bottling, the seal, and the label that are ours. One cannot supply even the flavor of truth to that which lacks it, and conversely if the flavor be there, there can be little danger in quaffing it to quench thirst.

We are in fact concerned that this wine be more than merely tasted, for it is harmless though drunk in good old Anglo-Saxon draughts, and as it cannot but invigorate, in a sense the very opposite of intoxication, the sooner it is sampled the sooner will England and America recognize their mutual part in the drama of the future.

To drop parable and speak plainly, the time has now fully arrived when the federation of the English speaking peoples of the world around, is a thing greatly to be desired, and one that is sure to work for good to all concerned. The prophecy of its realization is clearly written against the unturned tablets of to-morrow, and the growing warmth between the two great halves of Anglo-Saxondom will inevitably bring its sympathetic characters into speedy and universal recognition, and insure their prompt fulfillment.

Albeit, then, we of the American Manasseh have, as it were, “run over the wall,” our roots are nevertheless twined with those of Ephraim-Britain, and the twain are as one in Joseph and Asenath. (Joseph’s Semitic wife in Egypt. RS) May God speed the day when as the nations typified by the Cherubim, our wings may touch above the earthly mercy seat, and the presence of the God of our Fathers return to its wonted place. Then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God shall bless us!

The establishment of the Fifth and Final universal monarchy is now due, for the “times of the gentiles” certainly run out with “this generation,” and the century now wanes! It is the Stone or Saxon Kingdom that now looms mountain like in the foreground, but its Capstone cometh from above! When fitly joined together it will last forever, and its earthly phase must fall into the keeping of some Race now upon the earth. It is within Anglo-Saxon reach, but it may not be had by them without right of inheritance, and a repentance meet for the exercise of a responsibility to great. The aim of the following pages, and of the succeeding Studies, is to show that the right is positively ours, and that the reward is worth special preparation and self- denial on our part. Whether or not we know the rock whence we are hewn, we cannot but contemplate a new crusade as one of the growing possibilities before Our Race. “The object is now Palestine restored, …and Israel Redivivus is the means towards this end. Already Britain’s protectorate is fully guaranteed over Holy Places, and if Judah looks to her, the edict will speedily go forth to rebuild the walls of Zion, and every Saxon flag on earth will crusade with the Tribes, and stand about them till the work be done! Amen!

Thus we wrote many years ago, and, when this wine first came to us across the sea, went up and down Manasseh’s land of Forgetfulness in vain, to find a publisher willing to lend his imprint to our labels. So coming home we at last began the task ourselves in 1890. Since then the theme has taken root in many quarters, and no longer begs for opportunity to voice itself from the high mountains of the press on both sides of the Atlantic, and the echo resounds from the coasts and colonies that belt the empire. May God save it!

For instance, we quote the following from Sir G.S. Clark, in the North American Review, 1894: “In the forefront of civilization are two nations but only one Race. Splendid possibilities of progress and of benefit to mankind are lost or impaired by the want of a union of means to a common purpose. The race fails, by a separation of its members, to exert the paramount influence for good, which lies within its easy grasp. Putting aside all interference with established institutions, I firmly believe that a real federation, in the higher sense, may be attained. Then as the twin stars brought hope to the mariner of old, so will the glorious flags of America and Great Britain promise abiding peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world.”

Now what is all this but the enforcement of the very same sentiment expressed years ago in this opening number of Our Race, to wit: “If we of America, who as before stated buckle this girdle of Anglo-Saxon Peoples together, reunite fraternally…in all, offensively and defensively, that this implies! …with Great Britain, the Great Ocean Empire would be strong indeed. The Race could then lie down in peace, and who would dare rouse it up? It could dictate disarmament around the earth, and fearlessly set the grand example, and its ancient Royal Scottish motto, ‘Nemo me impune lacessit,’ would be sufficient to the peaceful end in view.”

In the face of the thousands of Manasseh and the ten thousands of Ephraim, reunited under bonds of positive and avowed fraternity, whatsoever that implies, what place will the outside enemies of human peace then have in the international councils of earth, save to accede to whatsoever “all Israel” shall arbitrate as best for all concerned?

Sir George Gray, the “Father of Maories,” in a recent communication practically urges the very same conclusion; he says:

“The English-speaking race numbers today about 125,000,000, or one-twelfth of the human race, and of these nearly three-fifths are in North America and the adjacent islands. It can be said without disrespect to the Germans or French that in proportion to numbers there are today no people in the world so cultured, rich, enterprising and warlike, as those that speak our language.”

“Now if we could forget all the old family quarrels and unite in the interest of peace and the establishment of international arbitration…first made possible by Americans and at the expense of England…we could force the disarmament of every warlike nation, and change Europe from an armed camp into a land of prosperous soil tillers, and happy mechanics.”

“Such a condition would make obsolete the profession of arms; it would lift the awful burden of taxes from the shoulders of the workers, who in the last analysis always pay the nation’s bills, and it would leave men free to give thought to their mutual betterment, rather than to their destruction.”

Come, then, and let us reason together, and take counsel at the oracles. Do we not owe it to ourselves, aye, rather to the God of our Fathers, by whose overshadowing we are what we are, that we take measures to fetch all this about, and to become what He intends we must?

The Philosophy of History looks clearly to this end, and this end, by no means remotely contemplates the disarmament of nations, glad to relinquish war, and to pursue in peace the quiet of industrial arts. Again, God speed the day when, roused to the rock whence we are manifestly hewn, our two fraternal nations shall come solidly together, and in one New Empire inquire of God to do this for us, and to consummate the great work which He has in view with reference to all other races.

For the next step will be to bring in all the rest of the nations. A seal must be made before an impression can be taken, a die engraved before an icon can be struck off. So must Israel also be perfected ere other nations can be lifted up to her likeness. It therefore behooves us, “Brother John and Brother Jonathan,” to awaken to our vast responsibility in these premises, and I can conceive of no more effective way to hasten the result than to spread the truth of our Identity with the Ten-Tribed-Israel, Lost, but Found again in the “Victorian Age.” May God Save the Queen…unto the coming of the King!

Editor of “Our Race”

A STANDING PROMISE TO ISRAEL

In every age the drama of human existence has been haunted by a dim shadow of cyclopean proportions, whose many-phased identity has hitherto so mystified the plot that, with a depth of interest akin to what Ahasuerus might enlist should he appear in modern streets, the audience, seated upon the arena of the years, has never failed to hush, with strained expectancy, so soon as it appeared.

Silent, in the background, shrouded, and obscure, this figure has trodden the boards with grand majestic mien, and thought every actor on the stage of history has paid deference to its presence, it has never even intimated why or whence it came, nor whither it was going.

Almost as though impersonating Providence, it has been often seen to write, or act, between the lines; but ere its riddle has been solved the vision has faded out, only, however, to reappear anon, new-draped, to suit some passing scene.

Still the same proportions, but with visage ever deeply veiled, it has always played the role of a nation, but of one “diverse from all the rest.” Indeed it has never been reckoned in the cast, for this has moved along without it. And yet, as though a play within a play, its own story has been vividly consecutive, and to its fortunes those of all the rest have seemed most strangely joined.

The curtain is now rising on a closing scene of one of history’s great acts, and again this form appears. With varied interest man has followed, step by step, this grand spectaculum, and, as its scenes unfolded, has concluded now one thing, now another, until the very intensity of this double drama has wrapped him in its riddle.

But a genuine surprise at last awaits the audience, of its mysterious hero approaches the footlights and seems about to speak, to tell the secret of his role. Indeed, before he speaks the simple loosing of his garment has disclosed far more than words can ever briefly tell. He is identified at last!

Not only must we now acknowledge him, as he stands before us in the long-familiar character of the Anglo-Saxon Race, for he it is who has thus masqueraded in our midst, but the intellect of humanity is well-nigh staggered at the crowding possibilities also involved in his now fully proclaimed right to an origin we least anticipated!

Strange and unlooked-for is the disclosure, which thus dawns upon us, so that with awe we well may ask: “What, indeed, hereafter, may we not expect?”

As the quickened thought speeds backward over former passages in the drama, the past is understood. And as it shapes itself, the present, too, assumes new magnitude. For underneath his modern plaid a “coat of many colors” identifies him with a part played centuries ago by one whose dreams begot for him but exile, and for those who sold him, plenty in the days of famine.

There is blood-relationship and lineal genealogy involved in the revelations dawning on us. They link us to a mighty Race, and pledge to us a grander destiny!

The curtain has not fully rolled away…the huge proportions of the modern stage require a large one; so as it rises let us study what we see before us, for the drama will soon begin again and sweep us onward with but little time for retrospection.

It is upon the final decade of the current century that our curtain lifts. Its scenery is panoramic; the world itself lies spread upon the stage; for the first time all the actors stand arranged together, not one is missing, and Our Race is central to the group. It seems, indeed, as though the coming scene were in reality to be the final one of all.

When Bishop Whipple, in his opening address at the late Episcopal Convention, closed with the impressive words…”We are living in the eventide of the world, when all things point towards the second coming of our King,”…he voiced a conviction that is simply world-wide. For in protean form we find this sentiment responsively echoed among all kindred’s, tongues, and peoples. Not, perhaps, world-wide in the sense of individually believed, everywhere, and by all, but universal, rather, in that those, among all peoples, who are faithful, severally, to their own traditions, have, separately, light enough, in the darkest places, to point unto a dawn believed to be already far advanced into the twilight stage.

In the opening paragraph of that powerful volume, “Our Country,” which has lately swept the land with its editions, Josiah Strong addresses his audience in the same spirit: “There are certain great focal points of history toward which the lines of past progress have converged, and from which have radiated the moulding influences of the future. Such was the incarnation; such was the German reformation of the sixteenth century; and such are the closing years of the nineteenth century.”

Indeed, Turks and Brahmins, Jews and Christians, all unite in watching for some one, and a golden age; and all are agreed, at least in one thing, that an Advent is at hand.

Theosophists, too, and Kabbalists join in this common watch, and confidently announce that there is a mystic presence in the very air; and even infidels are convinced of the nearness of an era which they designate as that of “the Coming Man,” whom they, however, only hope to find in evolution and the like.

This hope is everywhere, and not only among deeper thinkers, but, ever and anon, it also stalks like a spectre through the common intellect, quickens the universal heart, and formulates an ill-defined unrest.

It will be agreed that all men are now ready not to be surprised at anything, and are always on the qui vive for some newer and more startling tidings out of rumor-land. Look, for instance, politically in Greece. All reports agree that the Greek populace is simply delirious with joy over the late royal marriage, and that no such excited public welcome has been seen in a European capital before our times. Why? Simply because the heir apparent has made a brilliant match with a Prussian princess? Not at all. The secret of the popular fervor lies in the old familiar tradition that the glories of the ancient Greek empire would be revived when a ruler named Constantine should wed a bride named Sophia. It is said that the young prince was avowedly named in deference to this tradition, and to the exuberant Athenian imagination there is nothing less than the hand of destiny in the fact that his German bride bears the name of Sophia.*(*Christian Herald.)

In Constantinople the Mohammedans have looked with growing dread, of late years, upon the face of the Saviour reappearing through the paint which centuries ago was put upon the dome of Saint Sophia to conceal it. This was when it was changed from a Christian temple to a mosque. There is a common belief that the edifice is now unsafe, will soon fall, and tradition states that with its fall “the Sick Man’s” rule will pass forever out of Europe.

In Italy there is a parallel tradition with reference to the Church of Rome. But a single niche now remains to receive the bust of a pope apotheosized. When the present Leo Xlll. dies, his own will occupy this last remaining niche, and there will be no room for that of his successor in the Papal Gallery. Does this portend a pedestal elsewhere…or what?

What indeed does this consensus of tradition mean, this concert of human superstition? Something, surely; and latent though it be, in shadowy vestments still, he reads but crudely through the lines of current human thought who does not feel impressed by the proportions of the intense expectancy that wraps a waiting world.

In the mean time it is with our own race that we are most concerned, and, as it now occupies the central place among the throngs upon the stage, let us draw nearer to the footlights and read its score upon the program.

Chapter II

Honor to whom honor is due. It was Frederick III. Of Austria who invented, for the fictitious empire of the Hapsburgs, the formula A.E.I.O.U.; but events have shown the true cipher and its reading to be

ANGLIAE Est IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO YISRAELAE…It is for the Anglo-Israelites to dominate the Universe. With this correction we adopt the formula, and rewrite itself as the human voice of coming generations.

This is the day of “false Christ’s,” “false prophets,” “false creeds,” “false weights,” and “false science.” It was foreseen of old, and none of these tares, which are to grow up with the wheat, until the harvest-time, is so ambitious, now, as the “false language”---Volapuk ---whose votaries aspire to make it universal, in the very face of facts which give the field already to the Saxon tongue. “The pure language” in which God’s people “shall serve Him with one consent” has not been left for modern genius to construct, and while “in the last ten years there have been no less than ten different attempts to produce a language which should be still simpler and more perfect than Volapuk,” the English language has prosecuted its conquests none the less effectively because without ostentation, and those who use it do not hesitate to translate the word of God into all other languages---except Volapuk---pending, in faith, the day when all men shall be glad to read it in their own.

As the present century draws near its close,…a century whose annals have cut themselves too indelibly into the tablets of history ever to be lost hereafter,…it is meet that we review our past a moment, so we may with more philosophy look on towards what future years have probably in store.

There is no fact so prominently before the human race to-day as that which records the unprecedented growth of the Anglo-Saxon race. It is a theme that has already focused the attention of all the other races, and has filled their wisest statesmen with concern. And it may well enlist attention; for if there be prophecy of facts, it is a subject calculated to exercise the self-preserving sentiment of all surrounding peoples.

If the “survival of the fittest” be indeed a sound principle of progress, then it legitimately sweeps into the “struggle for existence” not only the individual within a class, but, far more broadly, it must ultimately involve the very destiny of the class itself, and hence in its relentless working the fate of nations is wound up. Nor is this fate to be considered a remote contingency from modern standpoints.

Though it is sometimes true that statistics are misleading, those which stand as the exponents of present Anglo-Saxon greatness are far too powerful to be slightingly dismissed, if we are intelligently to discuss the equation of earthly human destiny. Prolific beyond all former precedent, this race is doubling at a ratio that has already grievously alarmed all the other and enlightened denizens upon our narrow sphere.

In the decade from 1870 to 1880 the world increased about 93/4 percent in population. In the mean time, Great Britain increased 101/2, the United States 31, Australia 561/2, Canada 141/4, and South Africa (Anglo-Saxon) 731/4 percent. No other nation, save Belgium, has increased over 11 percent, and France but 1.67 percent.

At such a rate of increase all other nations must in time be smothered out: and this is just what rival statesmen fear and yet are impotent to check. M. Prevost Paradol, commenting upon this topic, strikes its keynote as follows: “Two rival powers, but only one as to race, language, customs, and laws…England and America…with the exception of Europe, dominating the world. How is it possible not to recollect we could once have hoped that our race and language would be chosen by European civilization to invade the remainder of the world? We had every chance on our side. It was France which, through Canada and Louisiana, began to embrace North America; India seemed to belong to us; and were it not for the mistakes political liberty could have spared to our forefathers, the language and blood of France would, in all likelihood, occupy in the world the place the language and blood of England have irrevocably conquered; for destiny has spoken, and at least two portions of the globe, America and Oceanica, henceforth and forever belong to the Anglo-Saxon race. Moreover, nowadays, a book written in English is much more widely read than if it had been written in French; and it is with English words that the navigator is hailed on almost all the accessible coasts of the earth.

“However,” he continues, “this actual predominance of the Anglo-Saxon race everywhere out of Europe is but a feeble image of what an approaching future has in store for us. According to the most moderate calculation, founded on the increase of population during the last decennial period, the United States will number more than a hundred million of inhabitants at the end of the present century, without speaking of the probable annexation of Mexico, and of the extension of the American Republic to the Panama Isthmus. Brazil and the several states of South America weigh very lightly by the side of such a power; and they will disappear when the masters of the northern continent think fit to extend themselves. For instance, had the secession succeeded, there is no doubt whatever that the new Southern Confederation would have invaded Mexico much sooner than the reconstituted American Republic will attempt. At all events, the American continent is, in its whole extent, destined to belong to the Anglo-Saxon race; and, if we take into account the increase of speed which is so very notable in human events, it is very likely that such an important change will be accomplished in the course of about a century, or a century and a half.

“It is not the less certain that Oceania belongs forever to the Anglo-Saxons of Australia and New Zealand, and in that part of the world the march of events will also be very rapid. No doubt the discovery of gold greatly contributed to the rapid increase of the English populations in Australia, but immigration has not diminished since the production of wool has become more important than the production of gold. Agriculture will soon predominate, and the plough will soon convert the soil to pasture. Lastly, industry and the merchant navy will show themselves before long, for the Australians will soon be tired of selling raw produce which they can manufacture and ship themselves; already they announce, with some degree of pride, that they export coals into the ports of the far East. Most certainly, if the mineral industry is developed, the coals brought at so great an expense from Europe for the wants of Eastern shipping will be unable to compete with the Australian products. Truly it only suffices to look at the map to perceive the magnificent future reserved to the new states of Australia. Not only the European colonization of the remainder of Oceania will be their own work (and some day a new Monroe doctrine will forbid old Europe, in the name of the United States of Australia, to have a footing on one of the Pacific Islands), but it is easy to foresee that China, to which they stand nearer than any other civilized nation, will acknowledge them masters sooner or later. It is also certain that the United States will play a great part in the East from the day when their coasts on the Pacific will be in full activity, and when San Francisco, already so commercially busy with the East, will have become a powerful rival in the same quarter of the ocean. But Australia can beat the United States in speed; in any case she will ultimately contend with the United States for the commercial and political supremacy in the farthest East; for geography has its laws, and when two nations, equally civilized, contend for commercial or political dominion over any part of the world, it is the nearest one which has finally the most chance of being successful. Therefore, in all probability, China will be for Australia what India has been for England; and should England collapse one day, it is not the less probable that her Indian Empire would fall into the hands of Australia. But let us put aside all conjectures. Whatever power (United States or Australia) may dominate China, India, and Japan…it may be that England maintains her empire in these regions for a long time, or that she abandons it to the young competitors to whom she gave life…our children are not the less assured to see the Anglo-Saxon race mistress of Oceania as well as of America, and of all the countries of the farthest East that may be dominated, worked, or influenced by the possession of the sea. When affairs shall have reached that climax…and it is not too much to say that two centuries will suffice for it…will it be possible to deny, from one end of the globe to the other, that the world is Anglo-Saxon?

“Neither Russia nor united Germany, supposing they should attain the highest fortune, can attempt to impede that current of things nor prevent that solution…relatively near at hand…of the long rivalry of European races for the ultimate colonization and domination of the universe. The world will not be Russian, nor German, nor French, alas! Nor Spanish. For it can be asserted that, since the great navigation has given the whole world to the enterprise of the European races, three nations were tried, one after the other, by fate, to play the first part, in the fortune of mankind, by everywhere propagating their tongue and blood, by means of durable colonies, and by transforming, so to say, the whole world to their own likeness. During the sixteenth century it was rational to believe that Spanish civilization would spread all over the world; but irremediable vices soon dispersed that colonial power, the vestiges of which, still covering a vast space, tell of its ephemeral grandeur. Then came the turn of France; and Louisiana and Canada have preserved the remembrance of it. Lastly, England came forward; she definitely accomplished the great work; and England can disappear from the world without taking her work with her…without the Anglo-Saxon future of the world being sensibly changed.

“Even supposing that Russia should possess Constantinople, she will never be able to balance the naval power of the Anglo-Saxons, and her military progress on the Asiatic continent will be at once stopped when she happens to meet either England in India, the United States or Australia in China. Furthermore, no power, however grand or potent, can pretend to firmly extend its race and blood by domineering over and deriving profit from subjected people, when it is impossible to assimilate them, or to expel them from their native soil, or to replace them on that soil. For instance, had the colonizing work of England been confined to make profit of India, there would not be any reason, even now, that the world should belong to the Anglo-Saxon race. We must always distinguish a factory from a colony worthy of the name. India is but a factory; but North America, populated with emigrants, has been an English colony, as Australia is now, and it is through these two strong branches that the English race has taken possession of the two continents. Russia could not do that, even in the supposition that her good fortune should encounter no obstacle. Firstly, there is nothing to prove that the Russian race is naturally emigrant and colonizing; besides, countries which can be usefully colonized, and that can still be occupied in the world, are without importance compared to the two American and Australian continents invaded and definitely acquired by the Anglo-Saxons.

“And it is owing to the second motive that united Germany cannot entertain the hope to counterpoise the Anglo=Saxon in the remainder of the world; for, on the one hand, Germany is popular and prolific for emigrants, and on the other, supposing that her great fortune should be completed according to her own wishes, she would have with Holland (as she has already with Hamburg) a navy and a population of sailors at her disposal. But Holland could bring to united Germany only factories like Java and Sumatra, and could give no space proper to the foundation of a truly German colony. Therefore it is very probable that the tide, so rich, of German emigration would continue to flow, without any profit for the metropolis, into the veins of the United States of America, which have absorbed it hitherto. Moreover, should Germany, always jealous and proud, resolve to direct that tide of emigrants towards some war-colony over which her flag should wave, that war-state, the situation of which is not easily to be ascertained, would never counterbalance the American and Australian continents, henceforth belonging irrevocably to the Anglo-Saxons.

“Thus we can foretell through imagination that future situation of the world, and glance at that picture the main lines of which are, so to say, already sketched by the hand of fate. And if we are inclined seriously to ask ourselves in what time earth shall have taken that new form, we shall easily perceive that two centuries are scarcely necessary to bring to its apogee the Anglo-Saxon grandeur in the Oceanian region as well as on the American continent. That greatness once established, no one shall be able to menace it from without, like Rome, which was surrounded on every side by a barbarous world. There are no more barbarous nations, and the race which will be invested with the guidance of mankind will have to fear neither the competition nor the appearance of a new race.”

Professor Charles A. L. Totten M.A. Yale University 1890

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Contents

I. BETWEEN THE LINES…..................…………1

PREFACE

PREFACE

Editor of “Our Race”

A STANDING PROMISE TO ISRAEL

Chapter II