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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.”

Certainly this is remarkable testimony, and frank concession, from a non-Anglo-Saxon source! And it ably endorses the views of an eminent co patriot, Victor Hugo, who in 1842 wrote thus in Le Rhin: England holds the six greatest gulfs in the world, which are the Gulfs of Guinea, Oman, Bengal, Mexico, Baffin, and Hudson; she opens or shuts at her pleasure nine seas: the North Sea, the Englash Channel, the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Ionian Seas, the Aegean Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Sea of the Antilles. She possesses an empire in America, New Britain; in Asia an empire, Hindustan; and in the great ocean a world, New Holland. Besides she has innumerable isles upon all seas, and before all continents, like ships on station and at anchor; and with which, island and ship herself, planted before Europe, she communicates, so to speak, without dissolving her continuity, by her innumerable vessels, floating islands. The English people is not of itself a sovereign people, but it is for other nations an empire. It governs feudally 2,370,000 Scotch, 8,280,000 Irish, 244,000 Africans, 60,000 Australians, 1,200,000 Americans, and 124,000,000 Asiatics; that is to say, 14,000,000 of English possess upon the earth 137,000,000 of men.” These figures, startling then (1842), have grown unto still more enormous proportions in the generation since they were written; and yet, even then, this alien writer grasped the situation fully, and still further intensified his unsolicited testimony to the wonderful preeminence of the Anglo-Saxon race, by adding: “All of the places we have named in the pages just read, are the hooks of the immense net whereby England has taken the world.”

But still earlier was this growing precedence perceived, for in his Force Commerciale de la Grande Bretagne, M. Dupin wrote in 1826 as follows: “In Europe the British Empire borders at once towards the north upon Germany, upon Holland, upon France; towards the south upon Spain, upon Sicily, upon Italy, upon western Turkey. It holds the keys of the Adriatic and Mediterranean; it commands the mouth of the Black Sea as well as the Baltic. In America it gives Boundaries to Russia, towards the temperate regions. Under the torrid zone it reigns in the midst of the Antilles, encircles the Gulf of Mexico, till, at last, it meets those new states which it was first to free from their dependence on their mother-country, to make them more surely dependent on their own commercial industry, and, at the same time, to scare, in either hemisphere, any mortal who might endeavor to snatch the heavenly fire of genius, or the secrets of its conquests; it holds, midway between Africa and America, and on the road which connects Europe with Asia, that rock to which it chained the Prometheus of the modern world.

“In Africa, from the centre of that island devoted of yore, under the symbol of the cross, to the safety of every Christian flag, the British Empire enforces from the Barbary States that respect which they pay to no other power. From the foot of the Pillars of Hercules it carries dread into the remotest provinces of Morocco. On the shores of the Atlantic it has built the forts of the Gold Coast and of the Lion’s Mountain. It is from thence that it strikes the prey, which the Black furnishes to the European races of men; and it is there that it attaches to the soil the freedmen whom it snatches from the trade in slaves. On the same continent, beyond the tropics, and at the point nearest to the Austral pole, it has possessed itself of shelter under the very Cape of Storms. Where the Spaniards and the Portuguese thought only of securing a port for their ships to touch at, where the Dutch saw no capabilities beyond those of a plantation, it is now establishing the colony of a second British people, and, uniting English activity with Batavian patience, at this moment it is extending around the Cape the boundaries of a settlement which will increase in the south of Africa to the size of those States it has founded in the north of America. From this new focus of action and conquest it casts its eyes toward India; it discovers, it seizes the stations of most importance to its commercial progress, and thus renders itself the exclusive ruler over the passes of Africa from the east of another hemisphere. Finally, as much dreaded in the Persian Gulf and the Erythrean Sea as in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Archipelago, the British Empire…the possessor of the finest countries of the East…beholds its factors reign over eighty millions of subjects. The conquest of its merchants in Asia begin where those of Alexander ceased, and where the terminus of the Romans could not reach. At this moment, from the banks of the Indus to the frontier of China, from the mouths of the Ganges to the mountains of Thibet, all acknowledge the sway of a mercantile company shut up in a narrow street in the city of London.”

Mr. Vernadsky, a Russian, can certainly be trusted to treat this topic with the least exaggeration; and as he is a genuine hater of Great Britain, his unwilling testimony is all the more valuable. He says as follows: “Britain is a menace to the safety of Europe. She is the most aggressive power of modern times. There is no part of the world where she has not established her garrisons or her colonies. Her fleet dominates every sea. What power is there that has not suffered from her ambition? She has torn Gibraltar from Spain, Malta and Canada from France, Heligoland from Denmark, the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, the Gold Coast from the Portuguese, and Hong Kong from China. She has built up by the sword a military power in Asia which secures her government over two hundred millions in India. At Aden she holds the gate of the Red Sea. At Singapore she commands the road to China. From Fiji she dominates the Pacific. Her territory is vaster than that of Russia, and greater in extent than all of Europe, without Russia.”

Here again, and finally, Victor Hugo, in his eulogy of the “mother-country” of Our Race,…but only our modern foster-mother, for had Hugo’s vision climbed to higher pinnacles, and viewed as Balaam did, he had said even more than this:

“Over the sea, in calm majesty lies the proud island whose existence consoles me for a thousand continental crimes, and vindicates for me the goodness of Providence. Yes, yes, proud England, thou art justly proud of thy colossal strength…more justly of thy god-like repose. Stretched upon the Rock, but not like Prometheus, and with no evil bird to rend thy side, rests the genius of England. He waits his hour, but counts not the hours between. He knows that it is rolling up through the mystic gloom of ages, and that its chariot is guided by the iron hand of destiny.

“Dare I murmur that the mists will clear for me, that I shall not hear the rumbling wheels of the chariot of the hour of England? It will come…it is coming…it has come! The whole world, aroused as by some mighty galvanism, suddenly raises a wild cry of love and admiration, and throws itself into the bounteous bosom of England. Henceforth there are no nations, no peoples, but one and indivisible will be the world, and the world will be one England. Her virtue and her patience have triumphed. The lamp of her faith, kindled at the apostolic altars, burns as a beacon to mankind. Her example has regenerated the erring, her mildness has rebuked the rebellious, and her greatness has enchanted the good. Her type and her temple shall be the Mecca and Jerusalem of a renewed universe.”

Surely we all who sprang from her still have our part in all this future; and certainly we of Puritan descent and of Anglican origin, whether we be of “Old New England” or hail from other parts of this great Wessex of the Saxon race, may boast that we are eldest brother in this brotherhood of Isaac’s sons.

Nor do I hesitate…in thus ascribing to our racial Alma Mater all the praise and more that aliens give her…to wish my words may mean the whole of all that they imply; for I am too well convinced that those of my fellow-countrymen who are true to their descent, and look beyond it, higher up the stream, are well aware that all which can be uttered here, of her, is echoed back, from England’s shore, of us. We have quoted from strangers quite enough to show that it is no mere mutual-admiration society which binds these brother-nations to each other, …certainly it is no Anglo-mania, in its opprobrious sense, that leads me to indite my meed, …and that even Disraeli’s greatest rival is proud of “the daughter of my people,” whom we name Colombia, is born out by more than we could quote out of his writings. For instance…

Mr. Gladstone says: “There is no parallel in all the records of the world to the case of that prolific British mother who has sent forth her innumerable children over all the earth to be the founders of half a dozen empires. Her eldest daughter, the American Republic, has risen in round numbers in one single century from two to forty-five millions”…sixty-five this census will proclaim,…but the figures are as naught, since long ago they got beyond all accurate computation whenever they are sought and summed.

From the very nature of the case England is forced outward, from her little island home, into other lands; and all on whom she sets her colonial seal become English in the end. With us the process is exactly reversed, although the same result ensues: the people come, from all parts of the earth, to dwell beneath Manasseh’s flag, and her great seal marks their children for her own. Our common ancestral origin was by adoption; and just as Jacob made the Egyptian lads his own firstborn, so we, their children, are adopting, and adapting, all men to our ends. The underlying principle of all this is Hebrew, and finds its counterpart only in Saxon lands. “The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (Lev. xix.34); and “As ye are so shall the stranger be before the Lord.” (Num. xv. 15).

The outcome of the British process is Empire and as the tide fills up, and floods back to the central fount, “Confederation,” now already begun, will unite her “Company of nations” into one grand group; while, by the American plan, starting from a fundamental company of independent sovereignties, Centralization grows with age, and its outcome is REPUBLIC. With Ephraim it is Nationality, with Manasseh it is Popularity, and with the twain, at length, it is to be Fraternity. For the philosophy of this duel process is nothing short of an eventual union of two ever-independent ensigns wherein is welded MIGHT.

When the “Color Guard” of such a Race stands beside the standards of its eastern and its western halves, and behind them range the serried flags of countless states and nations, the armies of the tribes they represent will be invincible: and although, for weapons, they shall wield but olive boughs and palms, there shall be found none to fight against them.

We have purposely selected the foregoing extracts from out of an unwieldy mass of similar testimony, because they have the special merit of consecutive descent, are at once the absolutely unprejudiced, and at the same time the amazed, prophecy and fulfillment of Anglo-Saxon growth during the present century. They likewise are of special value in that they chiefly concern the main Anglo-Saxon trunk from whose sap and vigor all the growing boughs derive their life.

Each of these separate boughs has its own independent history, fulfillment, growth, and resource inexhaustible, and each has been the theme of glowing pens.

Concerning the brilliant outlook of our own great branch of Anglo-Saxon greatness, one cannot do better than peruse the testimony collected by Rev. Josiah Strong in his stirring brochure “Our Country,” the whole of which volume we endorse, and refer to, as collateral and “blind evidence” …wrought in wiser potence than it knew, and therefore all the more significant …upon the subject matter, and the truth, set forth in this present volume.

The Race, however, is our theme, and this is broader than the folds of any single flag that at present casts its shadows on the Saxon birthright.

As fruitful as the “bough of Joseph,” the Anglo-Saxons have luxuriantly overrun the wall that hedged them in two centuries ago, and now are spreading out into all the “desolate heritages” of the earth. Here they double still more rapidly, and crowd not only the ill-fated natives but all other competitors into the corners, for, Engle-men by name, they literally press, as with the horns of unicorns, towards the angles of every continent that stops the sea. Their ports are closed not day nor night, and in their busy marts more than half of the whole industry is already centered.

We are now nearing the close of our most prosperous decade; its statistics are as yet but crude, for they almost outgrow our powers of arrangement. But if any one is still at all doubtful of the future of Anglo-Saxondom, or disposed to question the statistical FACT that already, to-day, this race stands head and shoulders above all other peoples of the earth, and is moving onwards, in every line of progress, at a constantly more accelerated rate than they, we refer him to another volume which should be in the hands of every English-speaking statesman, “The Balance sheet of the World,” by the celebrated statistician, M.G. Mulhall, F.S.S., London. The edition for the decade just ending will not be out until late in 1890, but the figures collated in the edition of 1880 are sufficiently startling earnests of what may henceforth be expected.

Mr. Mullhall’s tabulated statement of the port-entries of all nations for the ten years under consideration shows that, while the tons burden of the world were 50,000,000, the United Kingdom, British colonies, and United States contributed 28,000,000, or more than half.

One half of the whole industry of the world is already in Anglo-Saxon hands. In millions of dollars the increase for the ten years was, for all the earth, 9330; while it was for Great Britain 1685, United States 2625, Australia 285, Canada 140, and South Africa 70; making a total of 4805 millions increase. To this increase can also fairly be added that of South American industry, 120 millions, the bulk of which is represented by British capital. In 1880 the industry of the earth, expressed in millions of dollars, was 10,120 for Great Britain and 10,020 for the United States. These two nations headed the list, being followed by France and Germany at about 6000 millions each, and by other nations at a far greater disparity. By industry we mean commerce, manufactures, mining, agriculture, carrying-trade, and banking.

But they are fraternal nations…brothers “John” and “Jonathan,” …and like the “ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh,” their united industry of 20,140 millions of dollars is three times as great as that of any other single race on earth. Truly these Hebrew names…John, “the mercy of the Lord” and Jonathan, “the gift of the Lord”…which their posterity delight in using, are well derived from their paternal Joseph…”increase” of “addition”!

During this full decade (1870-1880) more than one half of the increased consumption in cotton, wool, flax, jute, etc. has been within their domain, and in the decade now closing the proportion is still greater. This race produces more than 50 per cent of all the wool, and the United States alone 75 per cent of all the cotton, raised upon the earth.

The increase for the world in manufacturing has been $2,790,000,000, of which $1,620,000,000 has been among those using English pints and pounds and inches. That for all Europe (non-Anglo-Saxon) was but $1,000,000,000.

Of the 120 million tons increase in coal production (1870-1880) they owned 90 millions, or three quarters of the whole; five sevenths of the increase in iron was smelted in their furnaces, and out of it they wrought two thirds of all the steel that marked that decade’s increase; in every case far more than half1

In general terms, the study of commerce of the world for the past twenty-five years (1861-1885) shows that, out of $250,000,000,000 (giving the value of the exports and imports in round numbers), Anglo-Saxons have measured and re-measured far more than half.

Two thirds of the carrying-trade about the globe is done in Anglo-Saxon “bottoms,” and as a traveling race it purchases three fifths of all the railroad tickets sold the world around.

It is due to their business thrift and enterprise that we own two fifths of all the electric wires that nerve the business world, and over all of it send twice as many messages, per inhabitant, as the continental nations of Europe.

In this same decade two thirds of all the silver and gold drawn out of the earth was delved by Anglo-Saxon hands, and in there mints the bulk of it received the impress of their coinage. More than half of the coined specie in existence is used in Anglo-Saxon trade, and it has already accumulated more than one third of the earth’s surplus wealth.

It is but a question of time ere the Anglo-Saxons will control the whole of it; for they stand at the gates of revenue, and belt the earth with colonies which stride towards wealth and empire at unprecedented lengths, and share them only with each other.

They are better fed and better clothed than any race on earth, and per inhabitant are almost doubly richer than the whole worlds average! They are also less in debt. But three nations of the earth had, in 1880, effected any appreciable reduction of their national debt; these were Great Britain, the United States, and Denmark. The world’s public debt was then about 30 billions of dollars, of which Continental Europe was responsible for some 22 billions, while the debt of Anglo-Saxondom was, all told, but about 6 billions. It is also noticeable in this connection that while the debt of the Anglo-Saxon race is almost entirely held in native hands, that the rest of humanity is in foreign ones, and that far more than half of it is actually held by Anglo-Saxons as creditors.

This race, in fact, holds bonds and mortgages on all the world. It lends to all, and borrows naught from any, and thus it has inherited a promise made to Israel: and not this promise only, for as ISRAEL it is, indeed, “the head and not the tail” in every national classification.

We literally control the earth, as Joseph did in the land of Egypt, and are filling up its garners against the days of famine, and our posterity will yet counterpart that ancient story to the very letter!

In earnings the United States lead all other nations. Those of the Saxon race are more than two thirds the earnings of Continental Europe and more than one third those of the whole earth.

In 1880 Europe had a deficit of 380,000,000 bushels of grain, while the United States alone had a surplus of 370,000,000. The European deficit in meat amounted to 853,000 tons, while Australia alone had a surplus of 838,000 tons. The United States swelled this Anglo-Saxon surplus by 1,076,000 tons, and Canada by 170,000 more! Of all the grain surplus of the earth, 22,000,000 bushels, in 1880, 17,000,000 were held by Anglo-Saxons; and of the 2,144,000 tons of meat, the surplus on the hoof, 1,931,000 tons, was owned by America, Australia, and Canada.

And the crops and income have been equally as promising ever since in Saxon lands. For the current year we cannot yet begin to give the correct figures, but from our own country the returns were sufficiently formulated last thanksgiving day for Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage to strike these “Sparks from the Anvil” in the N.Y. observer, Nov. 28, 1889:

“Look to-day at the harvests. I do not suppose that for more than three or four times within the memory of anybody there have been such harvests as we have had this year. The grain-fields have passed their harvests above the veto of drought and deluge. The freight-cars are not large enough to bring down the grain to the seaboard. The canal-boats are crowded with breadstuffs. Hark to the rushing of the wheat through the Western corn ‘elevators.’ Enough to eat and at cheap prices. Enough to wear and of home manufacture. Clear the tract for the rail-trains that come down, bringing the wheat and the barley, and the oats and the hops, and the leather, and everything for man, and everything for beast.”

Taxation has declined in Anglo-Saxondom alone. In every other nation it has increased, both positively and relatively. Inexhaustible in resources, conscious of their strength, conservative, far removed from foreign strife and almost rashly confident, they have proverbially neglected all of those dire expenses for war which have so sapped the personnel and wealth of other peoples. Our own American military expenditures is relatively the least of all nations, and in absolute figures is less than one forth of the general European average. As an Imperial race, controlling subject millions, the war expenses of the Anglo-Saxons, including every species of back debt and future preparations, are literally insignificant.

Truly do they “dwell alone” and are “not to be numbered among the nations,” “Terrible from their beginnings and hitherto,” they are an undefeated people, for they have waged no unsuccessful foreign wars, and seem to be convinced, as though indeed they were called Saxons by inheritance in I-saac’s name, that no weapon formed against them can prosper or prevail.

But to what purpose shall we further itemize these well-known, oft-referred-to, and deeply significant facts? The world is already Anglo-Saxon; for bulk and resource, prospect and vitality, are the elements which go to swell the balance, which accumulates in their behalf, against all other races thrown together in the scale. They literally own its mines, coin its money, and control its industry; they raise its food supply, lock up its surplus, and conduct its trade; they stand at the world’s gates of commerce, invent its means of progress, and cultivate its intellect; they elevate its religion, stem its tide of errors, tone its morals, and faint not at liberating its oppressed inhabitance.

If “there were giants in those earlier days,” what shall we say of them in ours…a “kingdom of stone,” and of stability, inheriting “the earth and the fullness thereof,” as though by “birthright” it were theirs!

In population the United States already, and as but a single shoot of the Saxon trunk, come next after the Chinese Empire, British India, and the Russian Empire; in area, only the Chinese and the Russian Empire are before it. In density of population to the square mile Norway stands next, and twenty-six of the principal nations come before this country! What room is here for yet indefinite expansion! And what limit shall we set for Saxon influence in internal affairs, when all their heritages teem with children at their full?

In a century and a half their science and commerce have changed the face and future of the earth; already they outnumber the inhabitance of Europe, and over the face of the globe, where all other races have successively failed to maintain themselves in competition, they rule heathen empires, and occupy the isles and borders of the world.

“Men as they grow old are apt to become pessimistic in their philosophy and to waste their time in unavailing regrets that the former days were better than these. General Montgomery C. Meigs, U.S.A., is an exception to the rule, for he is full of the most optimistic views of cheerful prophecy as to the future of the country he has done so much to serve. He anticipates for us by the end of the century a population of nearly ninety millions (89,653,333), by the middle of the next century 381,763,837, and before its close, that is, in 1990 1,206,562,248, or a population nearly, or quite, equal to the total population of the globe at the present time. This will give 399 persons to the square mile, England having now 389, China 420, and Belgium, 434. ‘Such a nation,’ says General Meigs, ‘will have a power and a commerce and industry not heretofore known to the world. Our ships and those of our allies will bring the spare products of every land to our shores. Systems of interior land and water transport, perhaps mostly operated by electric power, will rapidly and cheaply distribute them.’ For New York City a population of thirty million is prophesied for 1990, and a total urban population at that date of 240 millions. These speculations appear in the number of science for Aug. 16, 1889.

“With reference to them, General Meigs says in a private letter to us:* (* Army and Navy Journal) ‘The facts are from the census reports and the best writers on the laws of population. The inferences are simply the results of applying these facts and laws to augur the progress of our country on the hypothesis that natural laws which have held sway here for two hundred and fifty years will probably hold good for fifty or a hundred years more, without a great change. Allison in 1840, after Malthus in 1789, asserted that from 1640 to their dates the United States had doubled its population every 231/2 years. The census reports of the United States show that this law has continued to our day.”

This assumption of General Meigs is thus not without the warrant of human induction,… all we have to go on in the scientific premises, which utter no dissenting voice; but beyond the pale of science we have corresponding promises to Israel, from the prophets of her race, and who, if the facts bear out the things predicted, stand uncondemned, and are worthy of credence in all things else to which they also testify.

“They shall increase as they have increased. And I will sow them among the people. And they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again…And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in His name, saith the Lord.” (Zech. x.8,9,12.)

“The destructive waste of civil war appears in a strong light, when it is shown that while we buried about four hundred thousand men on both sides, there are now in the united states some nine million fewer people than if peace had reigned among us in the five years following 1860. In these tables, it seems to me, the army and navy have an interest. Nations, of such magnitude as ours will be within the life of the rising generation, cannot afford to be without the means at command to make a quick display of powerful force, which will generally prevent the necessity of its actual use by the government responsible for the maintenance of tranquility and order. And it will become more and more necessary to provide and maintain a body of highly educated and trained men to cultivate the knowledge of military and naval science, free from the pursuit of trade, politics, and wealth, whose rewards will become more and more engrossing as population and wealth and luxury increase. Our grand children will be members of a commonwealth of 284 millions of citizens. No such empire has ever existed. When at height of power, Rome, the empire, had 120 million people. As its citizens and soldiers grew rich and luxurious, depending on force to maintain its power and integrity, it was no longer able to withstand the inroads of northern barbarians driven from their forests by the laws of natural multiplication and increase of mankind. What was to the 31 millions of 1860 an enormous and crushing expenditure for defense will be a trifle to the 280 millions of 1940.’”

It is sometimes ignorantly maintained that the remarkable increase of Anglo-Saxon population is due mainly to the present influx of alien emigration, which in time must cease. This is absolutely contrary to facts. In 1880 the total foreign-born population in the United States was but 6,679,943, or only about one person in eight; and the grand total of immigration to the United States, up to 1884, was not quite 12 ½ millions…less than one hundredth of all the eaglets that have been reared in Freedom’s eyrie!

No, the Philosophy of Facts disputes this vain and jealous animadversion, and investigation, upon every line of progress, serves only to enhance the Seal upon the Credentials which give to Anglo-Saxons the HEADSHIP among Adam’s sons!

“Amazing phenomenon! On all sides dead or dying nations; one trunk alone, the Anglo-Saxon, has life within itself, a life so vigorous that it is ‘filling the earth with its boughs’” (Gen. xlix. 22; Isa. xxvii. 6).

These are momentous questions, for around their answer hangs the whole Philosophy of History, and to sketch it is to write a glowing Romance!

The story of the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race involves questions so grand and so far-reaching, questions which run back throughout all written history, and which, sweeping on beside the stream of prophecy, map out the scheme of mans remotest future, that to consider them in brief, and well, is well-nigh but in vain.

What shall be said if in these latter days this mighty race of modern times, this giant of the human story, is now about to be revealed to us, as well as unto all mankind, as identical with Israel itself,…literal “Israel”…that Ten-tribed Kingdom “lost” amid the mountains of the Medes so many centuries ago!

The finding of these tribes is vital to the very integrity of the Bible. Hence they have been sought for far and near, and by none so earnestly as by explorers of the Saxon race. How still more thrilling will their romance be if at the last these very ones who have pursued the search most diligently shall receive the greeting: “O foolish people, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken; ye have but sought yourselves! Ye are the ‘blind people that have eyes,’ for upon you, O Israel, has blindness been allowed in part to fall until the fullness of the times. Look now ‘unto the Rock whence ye are hewn, and unto Sarah who bore you,’ for the day of thy manifestation, as JESHURUN, draweth nigh!”

Oh that one could begin at Moses and all the prophets, and expound unto OUR RACE, so literally “called in Isaac’s name” in all the Scriptures, the things concerning themselves! Oh that the Spirit of Him that teacheth wisdom to the simple would but touch our inner eyes, and that He who leadeth Israel like a flock would herd them into this fold! For if their “loss” has been a means “of light unto the Gentiles,” their finding again will be as life” from “the valley of dead bones;” and if their “casting away” has been a means of chastening them for sin, their reacceptance will mean nothing short of God’s “final effort” to redeem mankind!

The identity of the Anglo-Saxons of the British Empire, and of the United States, with Ephraim and Manasseh and the tribes their fellows, is a claim so startling to us who have hitherto been taught to think ourselves as of purely “Gentile” origin, that the first and natural impulse is to reject it wholly. But whoso is wise will ponder these things, and they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. The proofs are such as cannot be lightly gainsaid, and they have only to be examined to become as fruitful as the promises themselves.

For full fifty years this topic has been one of growing interest in Great Britain. Hundreds of thousands of volumes, dealing with it in every phase, have come from its press, and numerous periodicals and newspapers are constantly devoted to its discussion. The colonies have imbibed the zeal of its investigation; it has occupied the public stage, and numbers its believers by increasing millions.

Though it is of little import whether “any of the Pharisees have yet believed,” it is enough to state that it already numbers in the ranks of its earnest advocates at least a dozen bishops, some six hundred clergy, and hosts of the laity of the established Church. It has enlisted no little Royal patronage, and has stirred up a controversy the like of which has not since the days of the Reformation made so fair a bid to become wide, deep-seated, and concerned. In the mean time the grandeur of this truth has expanded more and more into a common ground upon which dissenting Protestants of every shade can reunite. In the “Unity of Christians” becomes possible at last, and in so great a consummation possibilities inhere which had lain latent otherwise forever! It is the “flux” of Christian thought, the “bond” that may unite “all Israel” once more, and guide them quickly to their certain destiny.

The truth of this Identity gains rather than loses strength in the controversy. Nor is it too much to predict that if it shall continue to grow in the future as it has been spreading in the past, then it certainly is destined, in a day not very distant, to become a dominant and acknowledged factor, in the policies of an Empire of a “Great People,” and of a Race, that hitherto have taken no steps backward.

As a political idea it is instinctive with puissant might. It sweeps into its scope all things terrestrial, lays down the lines of Empire with a rod of iron, and laughs at man’s diplomacy, and scorns a world in arms against it!

The seeds of it were latent in the writings, and the statesmanship, of Disraeli. Had he been premier in the Victoria’s year of Jubilee, who shall say that, looking towards the hope of Judah, and the manifest destiny of England, he might not have found occasion to add yet other titles to Victoria’s name?

As late advices intimate, the Pope of Rome is strongly urged to assume the title of “King of Jerusalem”! This appellation would be not only empty of significance, but be devoid of every guarantee, or hope of right, to exercise even a temporality therein. All Roman Catholic Christendom could not displace the Turk, though but a “sick man,” upon such a plea. This was anticipated, centuries ago, when Richard “Coeur de Lion” assumed it as a right, and the Crown of Jerusalem will never fit the Papal brow.

But, upon the other hand, how startling would it be, how pregnant with political import, should the ministry of Great Britain, returning to a vigorous foreign policy, actually occupy the Holy Land, and accompany the act with a proclamation conferring upon England’s sovereign the “Suzerainty of all Israel”!

What an Ensign that would be to lift upon the walls of Zion, to the scattered House of Judah…

And, “Evil!” indeed, might Britons cry, “to him who evil thinks!” if called upon in battle to maintain a gage thus hurled into the arena of “the Eastern Question”! For haply if the cause be just and founded upon FACTS, all who essayed to stem it would but find themselves arrayed, in vain, against “A CHOSEN PEOPLE,” and not one alone, if its two halves are England and America, and its progeny a thousand colonies!

The predictions concerning the future of the Israelitish nation are most explicit, and look towards an earthly grandeur of the widest international scope. Let us enumerate a few of them:

“This day will I begin to put the dread of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.” (Deut. ii. 25.)

The day thus selected for this beginning of Israel’s military might is in notable keeping with the strange methods, which always govern the councils of the Almighty. Viewed from the human standpoint, it was the least auspicious one in their whole history. They had wandered in the wilderness for thirty-eight years: “until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed” (Deut. ii. 14, 15). “So,” continues Moses, “it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, that the Lord spake unto me, saying, Thou art to pass over…THIS DAY….Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite,…and his land: begin, possess, contend with him in battle.” It is from this date that Israel truly recons its prowess in arms, and whenever, since then, she has fought upon the Lord’s side, the dread of her “thin red line” …”He has prepared the certain victory. “Annuit Coeptis !” …”He has prospered our beginnings,” even as Manasseh still records upon his seal: and down through all the ages, with the Scythians, Scots, and Saxons, and with Engle-men, and new Englemen…both “blue and gray,”… the dread and fear of them still make the nations pause, before they take up arms doomed not to prosper or prevail where ISRAEL is the foe! (Isa. liv. 17; 1 Sam xxvi. 25.)

Moses certainly viewed Israel in its latter-day development, when of its leading tribes he, also, uttered this:

“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; and they are the ten thousands of EPHRAIM, and they are the thousands of MANASSEH.” (Deut. xxxiii. 17.)

And did Balaam’s foresight look into the present day, and through it into Israel’s further future, when he uttered: “God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has, as it were, the strength of a unicorn; he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows”? (Num.xxiv. 8.)

After the ten tribes had been deported into captivity and lost, Jeremiah pronounced in their behalf this wonderful promise of future greatness: “Thou art my battle-axe, and weapons of war; for with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and the rider.” (Jer. li. 20, 21.)

“Behold, I will make [of] thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.” (Isa.xli 15,16.)

“And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth; they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.” (Mic. v. 8, 9; vii. 16, 17, 20.)

It is certainly a great and military power that is described in such passages.

And certainly a people who were to perform so great a work in human destiny as is accorded here to Israel must of necessity make use of just such means as are now in Anglo-Saxon reach. In commenting upon the contrast of history of the two nations, Tullidge, in his “Kingdom of Stone,” remarks: “It must command the assent of every believer in Divine Providence that England has been used as just such an instrument. This is a striking fact which is bound to force itself upon the attention, and call forth some expressions of surprise.”

The mission assigned to “Israel” by her various prophets…ie., Ten-Tribed Israel after her deportation…exactly agrees with what Daniel prophesied should be the mission of the successor to Rome’s temporal power. This successor was to be the “Stone Kingdom,” that “smote the image upon his feet which were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them.”

It was a world-wide dominion that Israel was to be trained to inherit, and this grander mission demanded the dure experience of a far longer pilgrimage than that from Egypt, which latter, even, needed forty years ere it fitted them to enter Palestine. Accordingly the prophets rise unto the theme so soon as Israel becomes “lost” in the northern wilderness. Thus Micah, immediately after the Assyrian invasion had led the tribes away, gives utterance to these words: Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.” (Mic. vii. 18-20.) This promise of mercy was not given to Judah, but unto “Israel,” as the other prophets imply, thus:

“And the Lord said unto me, the backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.” (Jer. iii. 11.)

“And when her sister AHOLIBAH [i.e., Judah] saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she [Aholah, i.e., Israel, or Samaria], and her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.” (Ezek. Xxiii. 11.)

“Thine elder sister is SAMARIA, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is SODOM and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways? (Ezek. Xvi. 46, 47. Jerusalem, the capital of “Judah,” is here addressed, and the whole chapter will bear reading in this connection, Samaria being “Israel.”)

The generally mistaken idea is that the Ten-Tribed Kingdom was guilty of a greater enormity of wickedness than Judah, but the foregoing Scriptures utterly refuse countenance to such a notion, and the following promises intensify the belief that these Ten Tribes are now in existence, somewhere, as a nation, and as one notably under divine favor.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure HER, and bring HER into THE WILDERNESS, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give HER vineyards from THENCE, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and SHE shall sing THERE as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.” (Hos. ii.)

Right here it is apropos to refer to another promise, extended later on to the other kingdom, Judah herself, and given, by the Lord through Isaiah, in Hezekiah’s day. It is found in 2 Kings xix. 30, 31, and is as follows: “And the remnant [i.e., Heb. As per margin, “the escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth”] that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a REMNANT, and they that escape [Heb. The escaping] out of Mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.”

Unto the wise, who having eyes, use them to see, and whose highest “criticism” of the Holy Scriptures is an earnest, faithful study to interpret them aright (and not to analyze them out of sight!), this prophecy was fulfilled in a most wonderful and orderly way. It had already been shadowed, as a promise to David, when Nathan came to him (2 Sam. Vii. 1-29), as God’s messenger, and said: “Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more…Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee a house…I will set up thy seed [Solomon] after thee, and I will establish the THRONE of his kingdom forever…If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him…But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul. Thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.”

Now it is manifest from the circumstances attending this promise that the place appointed and promised where Israel was to be planted in latter days was elsewhere, and it is equally clear that David’s seed was to go with the Royal Remnant, and take the throne and the scepter with them. It is likewise patent to us, in the light of written history, that they (Israel) did disappear, and that David’s seed and throne and scepter have for centuries been also so well hidden that most men have forgotten them, and this too to the discredit of our faith in Jehovah’s promise, as ratified by a covenant of salt and by an oath!

Moreover it is certain that this remnant did ultimately go out of Jerusalem, and out of human memory, in the days of Jeremiah, who was explicitly commissioned “to build and to plant ,” whose own disappearance is a MYSTERY, and who took with him the last children of David of whom we have any account in the word of God!

Since then the centuries have multiplied, and their “fullness” is well-nigh rounded. It is time to find these “hidden ones,” and Jehovah is touching the eyes of all who enter on the search with FAITH.

Certainly here are explicit promises; certainly they were minutely fulfilled up to the point where Scripture drops their threads; certainly their history has since that time been treated as a mystery; certainly it is a fitting theme for faithful study; and certainly, if its prosecution is ever to be rewarded, it is in secular history, and in these latter days that we must work.

The “cannon” of God’s Word was closed with John’s last words in Revelation, and when the “age of Prophecy” ended that of “Fulfillment” began. Its “cannon” is the record of human history; and although its writers are not inspired, we all believe that they are accurate enough to light our paths. Surely if the pages of modern investigation are admitted by disbelievers to be fit ground whereon to base their infidelity, they will be strong enough to back our faith, if it can be shown that when correctly read, and read “between the lines,” and illustrated living Anglo-Saxon facts, they supplement most wondrously the Word of God.

Let us now continue our studies more particularly with reference to “Israel,” unto whom, in the wilderness, the Royal Remnant of Judah and David eventually found its way. In point of time Israel was lost about a century and a half before Jeremiah and his wards; the latter followed them. It is primarily necessary to obtain a clear idea of Israel’s prophetic status after its deportation. This once obtained, and Jeremiah’s mission and subsequent similar disappearance being kept sharply in mind, the true import of these separated events – as chapters of the same general transaction, but purposely and so consummately disconnected as to have begotten our inattention – begins to dawn upon us, and the compass of Jehovah’s Romance, its thrilling motif, and its ever – broadening horizon loom grandly into view.

Hosea and Amos were specially commissioned to the Ten Tribes, and the former, very explicitly in his eleventh chapter, declares that God’s purpose was a kindly one, and that the deportation had an object, grand, remote, and not even yet fully comprehended by the Church. “How shall I give thee up EPHRAIM? How shall I deliver thee, ISRAEL? how shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger. I will not return to destroy EPHRAIM; for I am God and not man: the Holy One [of Israel] in the midst of thee.” And again in the 14^th chapter of Hosea says of lost Israel:

“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto ISRAEL: he shall grow as the lilly, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.”

In view of such promises as the foregoing, it is also manifest that this missing, i.e. unidentified, people must have been allowed to enjoy the privileges of Christianity, and perhaps been specially used for its peculiar spread, for which a long and painful training had so especially prepared them.

At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the Lord [Jehovah], The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness.” (Jer. xxxi 2.)

“Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.” (Jer. xxxi. 20.) Was it not unto “the lost unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” that the Apostles were sent upon that chief of mercy’s missions? And has that mission ended yet? Amos (ix) tells us that the house of Isaac was not to be utterly destroyed by the captivity. “For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.” And Jeremiah maintains that nevertheless, in spite of paradox, this scattered people still shall be a nation forever. “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves roar; the Lord of hosts is his name. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the Lord: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundation of the earth searched out beneath, I will cast off all the seed of Israel for all they have done, saith the Lord.” (Jer. xxxi.35-37.)

“Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitance of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord; unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God: Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.” (Ezek. Xi. 14-16.)

In his chapter on “The Anglo-Saxon and the World’s future,” Josh Strong, the author of “Our Country,” after having surveyed the outlook, aside from any bearing upon the identity of our race with Israel, exclaims in glowing tribute, and in words which to us have no hope of fruition unless we be of Israel, as follows:

“What is the significance of such facts? These tendencies infold the future; they are the mighty alphabet with which God writes his prophecies.” Aye, and, we may add, his fulfillments too! For this story, if it has a future, has likewise a past, a raison d’etre; for otherwise, if God be true, a true, and still more literal, “Israel” must supplant us , in our turn! But Mr., Strong goes on: “May we not, by a careful laying together of the letters, spell out something of his meaning? It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world’s future. Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. But the widening waves of emigration, which millenniums ago rolled east and west from the valley of the Euphrates, meet to-day on our Pacific coast. There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited and will soon be taken. The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history…the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. Then this race of unequalled energy, with all the majesty of numbers and the might of wealth behind it…the representative, let us hope, of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization…having developed peculiarly aggressive traits calculated to impress its institutions upon mankind, will spread itself over the earth. If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can anyone doubt that the result of this competition of races will be the ‘survival of the fittest’?”

If this be so, and we admit it as the inevitable trend of events, and if, as also we believe, the books of “Moses and the Prophets” are to be believed, then this surviving, fittest, race will and can be none other than “Lost Israel” redivivus! And we maintain, and argue here, from these same premises, that Saxons are the SONS OF ISAAC unto whom pertains the promises.

Let us now look closer at some of these promises, particularly those concerning increase.

“And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.” (Gen. xiii. 16.)

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.” (Gen. xvii. 4-6.)

“And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” (Gen. xxviii. 14.)

“The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth” (or, according to the margin, let them increase as fishes do increase., i.e., in shoals and schools!). (Gen. xlviii. 16.)

“When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” (Deut. xxxii. 8,9.)

“He shall cause them that come of Jacob [i.e., those who were to be “planted” in “the place apart”] to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the WORLD with fruit.” (Isa. xxvii. 6.)

Truly with Isaiah (xxvi. 15) may we exclaim, if Anglo-Saxons be this resurrected “Israel” of the latter days, “Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth”! (Isa. xxvi. 15.)

The Anglo-Saxons realize these prophecies of extra ordinary increase to a greater degree than do, or ever have, any other races of men. The populations of China and India do not enter protests to this claim, for they are now but the results of a development which has had thousands of years, within closed doors, to reach its present fullness, while Anglo-Saxon population has come per saltum, and in two brief centuries, from 6 to 120 millions. Nor is there any sign of a falling away of their ratio of increase. Quite the contrary. And indeed if they be Israel, it is expressly promised that this ratio shall not diminish; to wit: Zechariah, writing after the first and partial restoration of Judah only, and looking on towards the still greater “second time,” when both houses (Ezek. Xxxvii. 15-22) should return together no more to be plucked up, prophesies as follows…a prophecy which cannot refer to anything which has yet transpired:

“And I will strengthen the house of JUDAH, and I will save the house of JOSEPH, and I will bring them again to place them: for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. And they of EPHRAIM shall be like a mighty man, and their hearts shall rejoice as though wine: yea their children shall see it, and be glad, their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord. I will hiss for them and gather them; for I have redeemed them; AND THEY SHALL INCREASE AS THEY HAVE INCREASED.” (Zech. X. 6-8.)

“This race is multiplying not only more rapidly than any other European race, but far more rapidly than all the races of Continental Europe. There is no exact knowledge of the population of Europe early in the century; we know, however, that the increase on the Continent during the ten years from 1870 to 1880 was 6.89 per cent. If this rate of increase is sustained for a century (and it is more likely to fall as Europe becomes more crowded), the population on the Continent in 1980 will be 534,000,000; while the one Anglo-Saxon race, if it should multiply for a hundred years as it increased from 1870 to 1880, would in 1980 number 1,343,000,000 souls: but we cannot reasonably expect this ratio of increase to be sustained so long.” (?) “What, then, will be the probable numbers of this race a hundred years hence?…This race has been undergoing an unparalled expansion during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the conditions for its continued growth are cingularly favorable. We are now prepared to ask what light statistics cast on the future… Suppose we take no account of immigration, leaving it to offset any unforeseen check upon growth, we may infer from the first forty years of the century that the ratio of increase would not fall more than about one per cent every ten years. Beginning then with an increase of 30 per cent from 1880 to 1890, and adopting this falling ratio of increase, our population in 1980 would be 480,000,000, making the total Anglo-Saxon population of the world, at that time, 713,000,000, as compared with 534,000,000 inhabitants of Continental Europe. And it should be remembered that these figures represent the largest probable population of Europe, and the smallest probable numbers of the Anglo-Saxon race. It is not unlikely that, before the close of the next century, this race will outnumber all the other civilized races of the world. Does it not look as if God were not only preparing in our Anglo-Saxon civilization the die with which to stamp the peoples of the earth, but as if he were also massing behind that die the mighty power with which to press it? My confidence that this race is eventually to give its civilization to mankind is not based on mere numbers…China forbid! I look forward to what the world has never yet seen united in the same race; viz., the greatest numbers and the highest civilization.”

All this is blind evidence towards the consummation of our argument that Isaac’s lost sons and the Saxons now with us are one and the same people. From correspondence and conversation with Mr. Strong, the author knows his powerful volume, “Our Country,” was not written under the inspiring light of this inspired identity. Yet everything he has there so ably gathered and arranged lends itself wholly to the lofty origins we claim.

In his “Spirit of Hebrew Poetry,” another volume filled with latent evidence on this grand theme, Isaac Taylor sums up his conclusions on the affinities between our race and the “Jewish” as follows: “We feel assured that no one will be inclined to bring up any exception against the validity of these conclusions, which very strongly fortify the line of argument we have marked out.”

“It is plain that the Israelites, at the time of the Assyrian captivity, must have been a most highly gifted people. Is it natural to believe that in the course of a few years a people so well able to take care of themselves’ melted into air, into thin air’? Shall we maintain that He who through long centuries had trained them with a view to carrying out the purposes, which had not then begun to be fulfilled, allowed them to perish from the face of the earth? Let us believe anything rather than what is so dishonoring to His holy name.”

Bishop Butler tells us that “There is no manner of absurdity in supposing a veil on purpose drawn over some scenes of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the sight of which might, some way or other, strike us too strongly; or that better ends are designed by their being concealed than could be by their being exposed to our knowledge. The Almighty may cast clouds and darkness about him, for reasons and purposes of which we have not the least glimpse or conception.”

It is in this light that, now its object has been gained, we must view the blindness into which Israel, if Saxon, has hitherto been suffered to work out its destiny. That Israel’s early schooling predisposed it to accept Christianity in lieu of Leviticus, which it had mixed with Baalism, and thus found, wanting, is but natural.

“Among this people religious thoughts of a most exalted nature were common to all. They were profoundly earnest and serious, with feelings of awful reverence towards the Most High, whom they believed to be always present among them.”

It was out of “Israel” that such heroes as Joshua, Jephtha, Sampson, and Gideon arose, such prophets as Hosea, Nahum, and Jonah, and such spirits as Samuel. The genius of such a race could not be crushed by any trial and captivity, and we have every reason to believe that the very object contemplated in their deportation, and entire removal from direct Mosaic influence, prepared them all the better for their later and far grander mission among men. And if as the Scriptures plainly show, “Israel,” though driven out, was to be kept in national existence, it must have been for some worthy end; and it is as certain that if henceforth, and still, in existence, they must themselves must be in complete blindness as to their lofty origin. And that they are hitherto (save in a relatively small and new school of Anglo-Israelites) thus blind, their whole history as written, and their unanimous commentary on the Bible story, show. It is, with God’s help, therefore,…if so be it now at last be His appointed time, and I believe it is,…that the present volume is penned and published, and, in spite of years of opposition of every sort, at length goes forth to bear the TRUTH to all who wait for it.

The grandeur of their work is thus all the more conspicuous, in that they have been led to bring about the grand result unconsciously, and so stand themselves as much amazed, when light shall dawn upon them, as the surrounding peoples among whom they have travailed, and whose conviction, as to God’s integrity, they shall thus have forced.

In the succession of empire, each dominate race has impressed some one great fact indelibly upon its life and civilization, and the salt of the Saxon’s vitality is Faith…faith grounded now immovably on facts of which itself is the embodied realization.

Neither the race itself, nor the world, now familiar with its story, and both soon to be let into its full purport, can ever after escape the deep significance of the lesson thus forced upon humanity by the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob!

But all of this is yet contingent upon the fact that we are, as a race, identical with literal “Israel,” and it is in the might of this idea alone that Anglo-Saxon civilization is to survive the coming years, and can hope to ride upon the crest of race dominance into the golden age. For failing to retain the comb of such a wave, it must succumb unto a rival, and in turn go down among the races that are dead already.

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

This is the end of Chapter III