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L > rd said to him , " 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" ( chap , xxviii . 12--15 ) .

These promises were never fulfilled while the children of Jacob occupied the land of Canaan , for even in the time of David , when the kingdom had reached its utmost limits , it had not been spread to the west

nor to the south , although all the nations on the . east ofthe Jordan , as far north as the Euphrates , had been rendered tributary to him . He had obtained possession of" this land , " which had been promised to Abraham

and his seed , but the more comprehensive promises , which made his seed as the stars of heaven , as the sand on the seashore , and as the dust ofthe earth—the progenitors of nations and' the fathers of kings—were never fulfilled

while the kingdom of Abraham's seed—the twelve tribes—remained a peoj > le . And , I need hardly add , that since the dispersion of the tribes , they have never been fulfilled in the history of the Jews ; that is , the descendants of

Judah and Benjamin ; and it is never likely to be . They do not materially increase in number , and they make no proselytes , as they did before their final dispersion . True , they form a vast network of consanguinity of race .

and of unity of f . iith , which embraces the two hemispheres . They are to be found from Siberia in the north , to Van Bremen ' s Land in the south , and from Kamschatka to Cape Horn . But this cosmopolitanism which they alone

possess , and which is of so remarkable a character as to confound human reason , is not combined with a corresponding existence of numbers . We can get only at an aproximate estimate of " these , for there are not many

countries that have a decennial census , as we have . But though geographers and statisticians are not agreed as to the number of jews existing in the world , they do not differ so materially that we should hesitate to say that the children

of Judah are . comparatively few . Ilassell gives them 3 , 930 , 000 ; Bergham , 4 000 , 000 ; Bilbi , the same ; Maltc Brim , 5 , 000 . 000 ; Johnston , 6 , 000 , 000 ; Harschman , 5 500 , 000 ; and J . Alexander , the latest writer , 6 , 798 , 000 . Taking

the numbers at the highest estimate , and making every allowance for Oriental hyperbole in the record of the early promises , in the comparisons with "the stars " of heaven , the " sand on the sea-shore . " and "lhe dust of the earth . " we

cannot perceive any congruity between the posterity promised to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacub , and the comparative handful of the Jews known now to exist throughout the world , eighteen centuries after their extinction as a nation .

Interpret the promises as we may , the least thing implied is , that the posterity of the patriarchs should be incomparably larger than any other people , and that they were to be , in fact , the

fathers of nations , and kingdoms , and peoples , north , east , south , and west—in every part of the globe—while the blessings or possessions of the great deep , or the islands dotting the surface of the mighty ocean , were also to be theirs .

Where or in what people shall wc look for the fulfilment of these prophetic promises ? Nowhere , and in no people but the Anglo-Saxons and their kindred races—the Getne—the ten tribesthe Israel ofthe Mighty one of Jr . c jb — -who were

to become the most multitudinous of all people , and in whom all the nations or peoples of the earth were to be blessed . Take a map of the two hemispheres , ar . d make a mark wherever

these people are not to be found . I do not say make a mark where they are to bc found , for that would be to make die map an almost entire blot . We have seen the c iiirse

which their ancestors , the Getai , or troths , took after they had been invaded in their possessions on the Euxine , by Darius , Alexander , and Attila . From that region , lying

between the Black Sea and the Adriatic , ihey poured into Italy and Spain , occupying a considt-raMe poriion of those countries ; and OflivaTd , and onward , they pushed uatil the

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greater part of Europe was occupied by them . Gaul was laid hold of by the Franks , another branch of the same great family , while Britain came into the possession of the Anglo-Saxon branch , after they had erected free commonwealths in Germany , Civnbria , and Scandinavia . In fact ,

Europe , as I have said , fell almost entirely into their possession ; and , in later times , they have spread themselves over a great part of the other quarters of the globe—Asia , Africa , America , and Australia , with the islands pertaining to them , in the Atlantic , the Pacific , and the Indian Oceans . To me it seems that no one

can contemplate this great fact without feelings of wonder and amazement . And , then , look at the position which they now occupy , as the little n .-st whence they havesent out their mighty broods ; and whence they seem , more or less , to control or to influence all other peoples , either

potentially or diplomatically . Glancing again at their possessions , it may be truly said that there is scarcely any place of importance , in any part of the globe , which they do not inhabit , excepting their own land of Canaan , the time for which has not yet arrived . And I must not omit to

observe , that , wherever this race goes , it carries with it the blessings of religion and civilisation , if not without many drawbacks , yet so favourably contrasting with what it supplants , that the words of the psalmist suggest themselves to the mind : " He gave them the islands for the

heathen . . . that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws . " "The isles shall wait upon me , and in mine arm shall they trust . " " Wherefore , glorify the Lord in the valleys , even the name of the Lord God of Israel , in the isles of the sea" ( Ps . cv . 43 , 45 ; Isa , li . 5 ; xxiv . 16 ) .

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FREEMASONRY AND JUDAISM .

The weekly articles furnished by our Bro . Carpenter on " Israelitism and Freemasonry " are highly interesting and instructive . They show , on his part , great painstaking in his

researches , with a desire to be concise and accurate . It is therefore with great confidence that the iion-student may spend his reading hours in contemplating the sublime and providential

dealings of the Almighty with the favoured progeny of Heber ( one that passes over ) , whom St . Luke has named in his genealogy as being the direct lineal descendant of Adam , who was the son of God .

But lhe biblical student should ever bear in mind that Jewish history is different from that of any other nation , it being a representative history . Indeed , the Tews have no history which they

can claim as being peculiarly their own , as each episode in Jewish histoiy has as much to do with some other nation as with its own , and the combination is a lesson for all time . All that

the Jew can claim is that he is the trustee appointed by Jehovah to bear' record to His Oneness anil inanity , and the iaiaurtal destiny of the human race . According tj the

foreknowledge of God , man , whom He hid created upright and predestinate \ to immortal life and endless bliss , ha 1 found out many inventions and fallen into the lowest depths of vice and

misery . Man , without some knowledge of God , however imperfect , would not be able to livethe eartli would be without form and void , and darkness would be upon the face of the deep .

The light which had been called into existence by Almighty fi .. t must be preserved , or the end of all creation must come . All the spiritual trees of man ' s spiritual garden ( the son !) were

placed under his subjection ; he was to cultivate and enjoy the fruits of temperance , chastity , and charity . One tree alone was not to be touched , UioUjjh within his reach ; the tree ol '

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knowledge — in other words , of self-derived intelligence . It is said : "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made . " The serpent corresponds to that principle in man which is called low cunning , or worldly wisdom . We know the character of an individual when he is called a

serpent , or a snake in the grass . This principle then intruded itself ( we are compelled to personify principles , although it is well known they they are impersonal ) to the woman . By the woman in sacred writings is meant the Church ,

winch is always represented as the spouse of Jehovah— " Thy maker is thy husband , Jehovah of Hosts is His name ; " and when the nation is upbraided for leaving its true and living God in order to serve the God of other nations , it

is always as a husband upbraiding his wife for committing adultery and whoredoms with strangers— " Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement , whom I have put away ? for your transgression is your mother put away . " And

when that New Jerusalem , or New Church , which St . Jobn describes as descending from God out of heaven , she is said to be " as . a bride adorned for her husband . " Thus the Adamic Church fell through its own violence and lusts , and great

was the fall of it . The Golden Age was no more Jehovah declared that He would put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent— " He shall tread upon thy head , and thy foot shalt bruise his heel . " By the

seed of the woman is meant the true Church , and the Lord as its head , and by the seed of the serpent is meant envy , malice , pride , and all uncharitableness , which should bruise tbe

heel of the lowest principle of the Church . This explanation may appear far-fetched and fanciful , but it is the language of Holy Writ . Human language would fail to express Divine things . God in his revelations to men uses His own

language of nature , which is His own Book , and the objects in nature give the dictionary by which to read it ; and when we are studying the Word of God , we must abide by the words of the Apostle addressed to the Romans : " For

the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen , being understood by the things that are made . " Under this guidance dl things will be made plain , and " That God is lijdit , and in Ilini there is no darkness at all . "

Mankind then had sunk into the a vful condition of a fallen race , and the merciful providence of Almighty God was to be employed in rescuing him from the sad effects of that fall without infringing upon man ' s free will and moral

responsibility ; but hov was this to be done ? Man was too degraded to elevate his thoughts above this earth , and so Jehovah himself became incarnate by taking up . in Himself the human fr . imc in the womb of a virgin , having no human

fuller , and appeared among men as a man of sorrows , growing up as a " tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground , " and when degraded nature saw Him , there was no beauty that He should be desired .

The Jews were made the custodians of the promises and the harbingers of this glorious advent . Their prophets announced that the desire of all nations should appear in Bethlehem , and the angels sang to Jewish shepherds the

heavenly anthem , " Unto you is bom in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord . " Il was the dawn of lhe morning when this song was sung , and a long and evil day has

passed since then . " Time seems to roll over us thick as every cloud ; " but the day-spring from on high seems not to he far distant when the chorus shall be completed , and there shall be ' •peace on earth and goodwill toward men . "

It is in the nature of man to concern himself more about what he ought to THINK than what he ought to DI ; but it is nowhere said that man shall be judged by his thoughts , but by his deeds . He should think good things , but he should bring forth the fruits ofthe spirit , for by their fruits ye shall know them .

But , to ictiirn to the Jew . Idolatry , wilh all its evil consequences , had become rampant and threatened ihe destruction ofthe human race , to avert which the Almighty made the seed of