| Show i for the descant NEWS i 4 ARE WE OF ISRAEL 2 91 J 11 1 BT BY ELDER GIORGE CHAPTER VI I 1 I 1 ras 46 numerous identifications considered refigio religion n and law laus of ibe aa ancient anci ent northern races free masonry language it would almost be impossible 0 f 0 enumerate the multitude mufti tude of likenesses that have been found by authors predisposed in that diorec 1 tion uon between the habits manners customs personal appearance etc of the israelites and anglo angio saxons to give even a cursory glance at these thew identifications would occupy more space thanie than we feel would be lie desirable we will simply mention tiona a few that have been advanced by various writers and then proceed to a short consideration of their jaws it be observed however that some bome of their identifications fixations ficat ions lons are very remarkable ft whilst others in our opinion are 11 44 and would be advanced ed by ua none tie fie but zea zealots lots great similarity has hag been bein claimed between the form ot of the jewish and saxon heads leads and the great beauty of both races hu haa been advanced as a proof of common ancestry the tho style of dress of the early northern euro nations has also aiso been claimed to be distinctively Israelit iab lab the care with which both people kept their records or chronicles ha has haa also aiso salso alao been largely commented upon one author claims connection between the two in the manner that they mustered their forces in battle and thein their jovo jove of distinctive or tribal b banner banker a r giving rise in europe to the thoc system 81 in of herald heraldry ry and tho th development of chivalry their division of the people into ti things gg hundred sand saud thousands has been a strong argument in favor of the saxons jewish descent the three great yearly convocations of the pe people ople opie are also said to have taken place on the same dates as the three great feasts of if the jews the saxons marriage ceremonies their respect for women rud mud cand aud the great misfortune which the latter esteemed it fo to be without children are sere also averted to as links in the chain of evidence one author mr ed hine pursues a different line of argument and makes the history of the english nation nations its constitution bioni laws insular position ac fulfill fulfil tho the varied prophecies of the tho ancient servants of god with regard to the ten tribes to our mind however these fulfilments of ancient prophecy are often strained and frequently untenable in the religion of osythe the ancient scandinavians terrible and bloodthirsty as were many of its rites students have found striking anal ogies to the religion of ancient israel so much so that it is consider ed one of the strongest proofs of the ancestry of this people in jacob and it is claimed that the further we trace the matter back through the centuries the greater does the likeness become least we should be considered as straining this point we will quote the language of another thoy althey they the anglo saxons and aud their heir brethren of the north of ea ewa rope are described as having been acquainted with the great doctrine of one ono supreme deity the author au thoro of everything that exl the eternal the living the ancient the living and awful being the searcher i into concealed things the being that never chanreth cha ngeth who hud mid go verneth i during the age direct eth eve everything grything that is high and ever even that is low of this glorious being i esteemed it impious to rna ina make a an any visible representation or to ima lma imagine ine lne it possible that he could be con fined within the walls of a temple these great truths the same bame samaan as we janow know were taught to israel had in a great measure become lost or obscured S before the peoples coming into B britain etain but this very obscuration tion itself speaks of their ori gin it having chiefly taken place places itis baidin ssi sai Jin din consequence of their receiving a mighty conqueror from the east as their god in hum human arl all na ture correspondent to the expectation of israel with regard to the messiah this supposed god incarnate ia Js thought to have presented himself among these people ople opie tape about the same time as the true messiah appeared among the Jows Jowa s Is it probable that hat tidings of jesus jesusy visit to the ten tribes could have been conveyed to them or have reached them in a vague or form the name of this pretender was odin or woden and he was wag esteemed the great dispenser of happi happl happiness nebs nees to his followers aa as well as fury f ury to his enemies when W woden oden was removed fr from am them they placed his bagein their most moat holy place where was a kind hind of raised place or ark as if I 1 in in imitation of 0 that at jerusalem where between the cherubim the divine presence was supposed to abide before this elevation or anic aric in this most holy place on ou which the tho syr symbols abols of their worship were placed they had bad an altar on which the holy fire burned continually and nean near neacil it was a vase for receiving the tho blood of the victims and a brush for sprinkling the blood upon the people 1 le reminding ua US again of 0 what was done in hi ancient israel they had generally one great temple for lor the whole nation and jn in one of these it is particularly noticed they had 12 arleas presided over by a high under their charge the religious concerns con cerna of the whole this said sald to have been von ot of the m moat ost oat splendid description of incredible grandeur and magnificence it was at apsa la sweden aa A a nearly related to this branch of our subject it hag has been remarked that free masonry was first known in europe amongst these people a fact that will have its weight amongst latter day saints in the middle a ages oes aes these lodged df free masons built the cathedrals of bf europe and it is asserted thai the english cathedrals appear to have been built after the fashion of the temples that they frequent frequented eld eid previous to the their I 1 r conver conversion a i on to christianity ti and these cathedrals it has been ob observed seem evidently to be built bulit after the design of the temple at jerusalem lidd this they have their most hal holy place the altar and their holy place the choir and the court outward from thence fur the body of the people it is also somewhat lemur lemar kahle that the only gentile people of olds old oid amongst whom anything like ilke free masonry was found were the lon ion hansfor ians Jans for whom we stated in a previous ou chapter some claim an Is ancestry their tei tel temples dedicated to bacchus and other aethen deities were built by lodges who had ancret signs sins etc and conducted their affairs much after the manner of the masons of the middle ages but thel strongest of all the supposed identifications of the two races raees stronger even than the reli rell of the subject is the peculiar mosaic tendency of the tho ancient Nor norseman semans laws so great is the similarity that most writers on this subject have been greatly puzzled to account T to 0 those who have attentively studied the institutions of moses and compared them with the saxon baxon there must appear a similarity as will be apt to lead to the conclusion that the baxon saxon commonwealth was thus framed after their becoming acquainted quain fainted ted with christianity this however ao however wever does not appear to have been the case they brought these institutions with them into england and left similar institutions among the people in the north of from time Jm memorial immemorial 11 limited monarc monarchy hys constitutional law and representative govern government men t an effi efficient clent elent civil police and trial by jury are among the most knost important legacies left the english nation by their anglo saxon fore fathers and these may all be easily traced to an origin and to this thia they have been traced even by those who were v ere ero obliged in rather an un philosophical wa way WAT y to account for cats caes 11 among the anglo saxons the theory of their constitution seems to have b ben been en that every ten men or heads of f families should chose one from among them to act for them in the tho council of their little community consisting generally of ten such compartment compartments compart ments menta Ef or wards ten of these wards warda formed a byth ty thing or parish and ten of these ty things formed a hundred the eiders elders of which thus chosen were supposed to meet for the manage of matters belonging to the ten things ty in general whilst each tithing took charge of the ai fil lil birs adys that especially belonged to itself the county which was still more extensive corresponded to the tribe in israel the word county or compte seems to be derived from the hebrew mord word signifying to rise up to stand and refers to the rod or ensign of the tribe to which they congregated themselves in the larger assemblies of the people the nation of israel we have seen were at an early period of their history given proper rules for their association cia cla tion such euch as were equally adapted for a small society or for a large largo one the people were given gy I 1 ven tc have a mutual oversight of each zach other in tens each ten had one who represented depre anted and acted for them eee bee let chap deuteronomy bo so I 1 moses took the chief of your tribes wise men and known arid made them heads over you captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens 1 and officers among your tribes thelah of primogeniture so prevalent in dif dlf different lerent degrees amongst the nations overrun overran by y the goths goehs and vandals and their kinsmen strikes us as being a relic of mosaic law according to the hebrew law the first born son received a double portion oli bix f in n his fathers estate the law greatly resembles this it would almost appear that this double was conferred 0 amongst the hebrews heble Hebie ws anthe on the eldest male mala child to compensate in some degree for the loss losa of the priesthood held by him of right in patriarchal days but under the mosaic dispensation vested in the hoube of aaron with a certain class of scientists the language of a people has great weight in determining ita its origin this test has been applied to the uhe langua language bg 0 ot tb the e angio anglo saxons and it haf has j been beon e 0 n found that a number of hebrew words exist almost snafter un unaltered arter after in our modern english tongue on this point the author of our i israeli tish lish origin odgin writes A As a to language it ia granted that ahlas thi of could nut not identify a people or distinguish israel for example from the tho Canaan ites still it may maya expected be that thai a bufi euf 4 i would remain of the he red 4 brew brow toli towi to WI lell of this people the saxons acquaintance therewith and such ia Is the case it 16 has hag been oh ob served by br linguists that h very great dealoe deai deal of the ancient language A of israel exists in the modern lani lan aul ani an i i grages of europe and that it is through a gothic medium that this penti plentiful ful fui supply of hebrew hi hab has as come bo so much hia fia haye have io these lan ian an I 1 grages been thrown into inida a haure hebrew mould that a french abbe has liars lately proposed tomake to make use of the hebrew as a grand ige ife key y to these languages another writer referring to tb mr Wil Wila ons sons statements re remarks markee 41 there is no reason to doubt that in common with the wave of bf nations speaking the indo germania dialects which overflowed euro Zuro europe europa pei n u the breaking up of the roman empire the anglo saxons came camel from the zend speaking districts of asia and while mr wilson adduces reasons from the language of the anglo angio saxons and danes for believing that a long and intimate le association had existed between these people and the eer Per persians slabs before the former moved westwards he also proves the ex existence exi exl stanca of a large admixture of hebrew words Inthe in the language of the anglo angio sax ons and not the least jn lin the scottish branch of that people iq in this he sees a proof of the descent of these people orom from the tribes were kings of their native land and aud planted in the cities of media and persia they had retained in their new abode much of their hebrew mother tongue while gradually adopting the zend as the body of their new language an Aw additional and most important confirmation of mr NV ileona idea has haa been bleen supplied by prof C P smyth this la ib seen in inthe the circumstance that the anglo saxons pos maa mam aaa A aai aar L a in e exactly so far as it extended with the metrology common to the temple of jerusalem and the great pyramid by way vay of illustration we extract from hines forty seven identifications a few he brow brew words with their english torm form 2 HEBREW sever bever shaver er sabbath Bh Shabba abbath tb kitten aul qui T to N X gum i s gam mim light A j ia iiii HT T tar udd cri c ri 1 taju 1 ba sam balsam T s crocus i ciocu um m I 1 ethnic by rey Rev 3 31 Goods lr i to be continued i K Z I 1 I 1 f i |
