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Excerpt from The Lost Ten TribesBy REV. JOSEPH WILD, D. D.Late Pastor of Congregational Churches at Brooklyn, N. Y. and Toronto BOSTON, A. A. BEAUCHAMP I 9 I 9 |
Jacob's Stone.Tara. Lothair Croffin was changed
into Tara at the time of the wedding. Tara means law. Thus began the
seed of David to take root, and from there it spread over all
Ireland, then to Scotland, thence to England, and Jacob's Stone in
Westminster Abbey marks the journey of David's throne, and has
always kept with the seed, and they have been always crowned on it.
Ezekiel's riddle is at once solved. The tender twigs were Zedekiah's
daughters. One of these twigs was planted by the great waters in a
land of traffic. Our Episcopalian friends intended by their
beautiful service to aid the members of their communion to read in
order, and through the Bible, or a given portion of each chapter,
once per year. But strange to say, this 17th chapter of Ezekiel,
they have left out both of the The royal standard of England has
nine lions on it, and a unicorn. Let anyone set this standard before
him as a map, the right hand will represent East, the top North,
left West, the bottom South. The unicorn comes from the East, it has
a chain around its neck. So the Tribe of Benjamin came that This genealogy has been completed by the faithful and very persevering labours of Rev. F. R. A. Glover, M.A., and Rev. A. B. Grimaldi, M. A., and later writers. The chart is supposed to be as near perfect as any such thing can be. Thus do we see how God has kept His word to David, and with this view, English and American history are at once understandable. The future is assuring and grand. God will assuredly overturn till His throne once more is planted in Jerusalem.
Discourse XVI. — Jeremiah and St. Patrick.The Prophet's Commission — His Life — The Tribes in His Day — Landing of Jeremiah in Ireland — What He Brought With Him — Colonization of Ireland — Jeremiah the Founder of the Ancient Irish Government and Religion — Tea Tephi and Heremon — The Ancient Irish Flag — The Harp and Lion — Season of Ireland's Historical Prestige — Causes of Her Decline — St. Patrick a Benjamite — Hozv Rome Destroyed Jeremiah's Memory Among the Irish — Destruction of Tara — Ulster Never Conquered — Irish Independence — Ark of the Covenant. "See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant." — Jer. i. 10. In these words we have set forth the Divine commission given to the prophet Jeremiah. Never before, or since, was such a commission given to mortal man. It is not that Jeremiah is constituted a prophet for his own people, or over his own nation, and country, but he was divinely appointed and set over the nations and kingdoms of the earth, with an authority "to root out, pull down, destroy, and throw down." Surely he was rightly named, for the word Jeremiah means the exalted, or appointed one of the Lord. By common consent, the Jews gave him the first place and name among the prophets. Up to the time of the Babylonian captivity he was second, Isaiah being first. But after the captivity on the re-arrangement of the holy canon, his name was put first, and ever after he was regarded and accepted as the patron saint of Judaea. He was born of a priestly family, about 641 B.C., in the priestly town of Anathoth, which was situated a few miles North of Jerusalem, in the territory of Benjamin. His work and commission awaited, because they antedated his birth, for he says (chapter i. 4), "Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah's life work, extent and devotion, can only find a parallel in the majesty and compass of his commission. It is the extent of this commission that I wish you would specially notice, for it is neither tribal nor national in its limitations. He was ordained a prophet unto the nations. Hear the voice of his wailing (chapter xv. 10), "Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth." Consistent with the vastness of this
commission is the recorded fact that he was forbidden to marry in
his own land, for "the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Thou
shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and
daughters in this place" (Jeremiah xvi. 2). The claims of a wife and
Try now, and reasonably and
patiently follow me while I trace the wanderings of Jeremiah to Old
Ireland. You will be surprised to find how intimate Irishology and
theology are. Ireland's first name was Scuite's
Land, or the Island of the Wanderers. Her second name was Scotia
Major, and Scotland was Scotia Minor, and England was Tarshish, and
Dannoii and Baratamac, or Land of Eirin. Yar in-Eirin means the land
of the setting sun. Hibernia is a Hebrew word, and means Two colonies settled in Ireland : the first, the Phoenicians, who were the Philistines or ancient Canaanites ; the second settlers were the Tuath de Danan, meaning the Tribe of Dan. The words are Hebrew, yet in Irish. For further information let anyone read "Pinnock's Catechism on Ireland." The Phoenicians were a seafaring people; pressed by Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, they finally left Canaan, and settled in Ireland. We find nine-tenths of Irish historians agreeing on this. Then the monuments teach the same — ancient inscriptions, one of which written was, "We are Canaanites who have fled from Joshua, the son of Nun, the robber." The people who show tourists the seven churches of Glendenlough, say they are Hittites and Hivites. Again, ruins of Baal temples. Cromlechs, round towers, go to confirm the same. Customs — Baal fires, on May eve, in Irish Ninna-baal-tinne ; funeral wakes, or cup of consolation, forbidden to Israel when they sought to copy after the Philistines. '"Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for father or mother" (Jer. xvi.7). The Irish language came from the Phoenician, the alphabet of both being composed of sixteen letters originally, the only alphabet in the world so agreeing. From the Irish came the Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, and the Manx from them all. The second settlement of Ireland is what puzzles historians of to-day — not the old historians, for they, nine out of ten, admit that the Formorians, Firbolgs and Tuath de Danans, were one and the same people. They were a divine folk. The Tribe of Dan was a seafaring Tribe, trading from Tyre to Tarshish for tin, and so became acquainted with the British Isles, and during Ahab's persecution many of them fled; so of the Simeonites who settled in Wales. This shows us why the North and South of Ireland should be so distinct to this day in religion, enterprise and general characteristics. When the tribe of Dan finally left Palestine, they with the other Nine Tribes went North, settling in Denmark, as in the North of Ireland, leaving their names on rivers, hills, cities and things. It is this that accounts for so many
words of a Hebrew origin being found in the Irish language. General
Valiancy has compared thousands and finds them thus related to the
Hebrew. Instance: Jobhan-Moran, Chief Justice; Rectaire, Judge; Mur-Ollam,
School of the Prophets; Ollam-FoUa, If to Irish history we join Bible
history, all is plain. God promised David repeatedly that he should
always have his throne and on it his seed. The permanence of David's
throne makes it a fit type of Christ's. Now, Jeremiah took charge of
Zedekiah's daughter when Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews Jeremiah well knew where the Tribes of Israel were in his day. He knew that Judah, Levi, and Benjamin, were in Babylon, filling in the seventy years of captivity, and the small remnant that Nebuchadnezzar left of them in Judah were scattered hither and thither. The Nine Tribes, or Israel, were settled in Central Asia, and were spreading Northward and Westward. This he knew, as easily as Peter did centuries after, when he wrote his epistle to the brethren, scattered abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Asia ; or as James, who dedicated his epistle to the Twelve Tribes which were scattered abroad ; or as the Blessed Master, commissioned and sent His disciples after the lost sheep of the House of Israel. The place and locality of the Nine
Tribes were known to the Jewish nation in the time of Josephus, the
historian, for he speaks of them, and gives them a fraternal letter
which the House of Judah sent unto the House of Israel. You are to
keep in mind that it is after this the Tribes of Israel are to be
lost. All prophecies after 700 b.c up to this, our day, and till
about 1888 a.d., that had reference to Israel, plainly mark out the
dwelling-place of these Tribes, and yet these prophecies not being
understood, till these latter days, Israel was as plainly lost as if
there had been no such prophecies. These prophecies were first sent
North, then West, and then to the "isles of the sea." The law of the
Gospel of Jesus would be sent to these Tribes: till then the "isles
had to wait for the law." In due time this law was carried to them
by the missionaries of the Tribe of Benjamin. This very thing and
time the prophet had foretold, for he says: "Wherefore glorify ye
the Lord by the Urim; the name of the Lord God of Israel in the
islands of the Western sea." How true, indeed, "the isles of the sea
saw it, and feared." Jeremiah knew that the Tribe of Dan were a
seafaring people, and in their trading they had become acquainted
with Northern Europe and the British Isles. During the persecutions
of Ahab thousands of them had left Palestine, settling in Denmark —
this word Denmark means the circle of Dan. In course of time they
crossed the sea and took possession of the North of Ireland,
settling in the province of Ulster. The Tribe of Simeon, that had
ever cast its lot with Dan, left Palestine and settled in Wales.
Read the prophetic benedictions of the patriarch Jacob in the light
of these historical facts, and they will stand out in sunlight
brightness. "Dan shall judge his people as one of the Tribes of
Israel." In his oneness, all alone he shall go out first, mark out
and prepare the way of the other Tribes ; and the royal seed, the
ruling power, shall hide itself in him. "Dan shall be a serpent by
the way; an adder in the path that biteth the horse's heels so that
his rider shall fall backward." Yes, Dan will be hid among the
Gentiles. He will bite them, sting them, frustrating their purposes.
Then exclaims Jacob: "I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord." Dan
did wait, until the Thus the prophet, who was the
rightful custodian of all these things, carefully cared for the
same, leaving them in charge of Dan. All but the stone have been
concealed till the latter day. For on this stone have been crowned
all the kings and queens of David's line. The Phoenicians, or Philistines, were the ancient Canaanites. They took early possession of Ireland. On this point the old as well as the new historians generally agree. But there was another early settlement in the North of Ireland, whom the historians called Tuath de Danan, which simply means the folks of the Tribe of Dan. They introduced into the Irish language hundreds of Hebrew words, with many customs and legends of the Hebrews. They were very distinct in their enterprise and religion from the other settlers. About the year 580 B.C. there appeared before this people a strange man, whom the historians call Ollam-Folla, which means a Divine teacher; the name or title is in Hebrew. This man, whoever he was, soon wielded great power in their midst. What he commanded they seemed ready to do. He very soon inaugurated wonderful reforms. He gave them a parliament ; made them give up their idolatrous customs. He founded a college to train students to teach and preach his religion. It was called Mur-Ollam, school of the Divine. Here again the narne is Hebrew, although in Irish. This wonderful man had with him a fair young princess, whose name in Hebrew-Irish was Tea-Tephi, which means the beautiful one from the East. This lovely princess was married to the governor of Ulster, Heremon. He resided in the city of Lothair Crof[?n]. In the agreement of the marriage, among many things, he was to accept her religion, give her joint authority, and build the Mur-Ollam, or college, and sustain it. Also to change the name of the city from Lothair Croffin to Tara, which means law ; to adopt her standard or banner emblem, the harp and lion, and to be crowned on the wonderful stone called in Irish-Hebrew, Lia-Fail, which means stone of destiny, sometimes called Eben Gedoulah, the precious stone. From this Tea Tephi we get our female goddess of liberty, who on old coins is seated upon a lion with the Davidian harp in her hand. Our text tells us that Jeremiah was
to plant and build up. Here he planted, and here he did build. He
planted and built a throne, a college, and a religion. Turn to
Ezekiel, chapter xvii., and read the famous riddle. Tea Tephi is the
tender twig that was cropped off from the high cedar, King Zedekiah,
and planted among the merchants by great waters on the mountain of
Israel. She was the tender one that was to take root downward. To
Jeremiah the Lord said, "Verily it shall be well You will notice that there are three
overturnings, and as Scriptural language is emphatic and not
superfluous or tautological, these overturnings mean something. Turn
to history, and you will find this throne has been turned over just
three times — first, from Jerusalem to Ireland ; second, through
King Fergus to Scotland ; and third, through King James, from
Scotland to England. This throne can never be turned over again, for
Jerusalem will be incorporated into the British Empire. The throne
has turned over till it got home again ; hence, as surely as we
live, Palestine will go into the hands of England. The throne,
religion and education established by the prophet have ever kept
together. This is the secret of Ireland's prestige and marvellous
pre-eminence in centuries past. The college of Jeremiah was the patron-saint for
Ireland for a long time. Simeon the Welsh had and have David ; and
as surely as the Welsh have kept their saint, so surely ought
Ireland. St. Patrick is looked upon by many as a mythical person. I
believe, however, that he was a veritable man. The best authorities
make out that he was born at Bonavena. In ancient Gaul, near what is
now called Boulogne, some time about 387a.d. He is reported as
having died March 17th, 465. in the county Down. His father's name
was Calpumius. Young Calpurnius, or St. Patrick, as he was
afterwards called, had a hard |