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274 APPENDIX. may then be of the tribe of Judah. APPENDIX. circumstantial difference Any this distinction, we might with better grace say, it is a mere acciden- ted for at least as between thei and the other Jews may be accoun of the white easily, as we can account for the different com; lexions _tal expression, or a mere expletive. But when we find the thing exactly fulfilled lor so many centuries; Tha (the Jews ure dispersed, xions among the differavd black Jews; or for the differentanycomple other difierent tribes of men. among or , natives our of ent tribes their name to be wien all from sprang ‘They Noah. appear aid Kuown from tween then Why Jews. themselves call The them, and believe they are Jews? shall we not the after tentribes cr credit separa- .| =s Tones ‘ amined; rich tone but I OVery } ch wish it J part be examined ‘ to of| plain‘yn facts. fy. s. with rate } CQ, a have candour, ane te 18c pieplainly y O a ae thousands doubts Sa the Ai th ere stiner more otaer the ten of the years; inmbes civil we have world are heen for be- warranted to of it notwithstanding) that there isa that the ten tribes would have been, and people Some on have than ee reader. fen times as earth. mue the Hindoo Jews er o th The question i chibi ily And it is cheerfully sul iit jdeue 2 objected to Ww the as a 4 os followine effe ct against the a in 7 such traditions and relicvious among the natives of America “may among all or most of heathen nations? Let such be asi preceding pages . a . iO knows theory but :customs, bbs Re as are suidsaic to be found _ve found ed in their pal eon a Win < : {2a Who} Y¥ ho KuOWS sb Dut much of “4 the fi gear christian Re ae rites ofie the ? q ? may ae be found among all or most of the ¢ a a> Ie ) < S <f O turn: » € 4a : ti¢ heathen nations ? is . 5% na . . origin sags Rives these 1 ites are from heaven, and are not of heathen ie i a we ae a more saring case ; but is perhaps upon the same See apeitg s he objection must be tuo loose and general, if pee ani aa : : If such7 rites « a a and religious traditions Yasas are found thea tesa perbeIC adduced, can be found among any ee sieie. ev the fact and something is other hea ed. But idly tosay. who | a S 1s accomplshonlyY humHuman writines, eYs WNO an aces easy way of answering swering not re but tlkKNOWS——Is + heck : s§, butthe word of God itself. And it is ; b That pice some Gitar then m ahah ‘ . P ay 1e tradit; traditionary Ay and : ; notions of ; the flood, of the ark, of the con of sacrifices, have ‘ been 7 handed down in hea 3 isti fact, as addine anfar incorfrom being ing denied, denied, th that Christians glory Lee revelation, Andes . contestible argument to the divinity of Seas : at some nations living in the twilie ee of ancient of the 1;112° ht shinin etwinght rays some caught revelation, ; ; : as dc ° in the the Tee eee «aig alae bible ‘ig itd entand Nose eeof the bible morality wj shredsis ofadmitted various pe heathen, as a manifest’ fact a ei a first ps ites act, Says character of 0 ; Neit] er Plato Tat bachelor : tle w< ian. Ur nation;5 ~* Neith nor Aristo Je~ : Gir shone . 4 were . dis ereeal eet er A MOV Philo EC h MLOSOphy . u 5 Z ‘ 2 i re e the church. th a mace mat This distinction Xi Jicted Isai.Isa}, Sh itAk is predicteu aral Pr we restoration Of the final the assemble ations, and fe tbe nations, ion ess ane ner word 0!> shajl sh: set up an ensien sean 8tne / pecthe “And a Of ey vt wahep from : = for he ‘42: isperse . the dispersed ke together P e ather togell gather and uteasts of Israe}, z i, of texts tad number ofa one is This se corners of tie earth.” and fulfiiec Had not providence illustrated ‘zine thisthis distinction. nizing dis acknowledgment : three groundless Sah oe ted in different regions * 4 e and with the above evidence in favour of ten tribes ; and what will be the result? idea of their having been But this does not accord with the earth. ‘The ten _ same vicinity.: the or in found in a measure intermixed, oo one from and from sea to séas; tribes were to wander northeast, 12. 11, viii Amos ; word of the treme ocean to another, ‘na famine fully to answer To this descr! pWhile the American natives appear of that people in Hindostan. , d : tion; the same cannot be said been noted,) ) that God woul | (as has e et _ Weare led to believ oe be for and safe-keeping a0 Ficnish a place of retreat No they might be kept, and that s; year 2500 ne : Isracl for t hear the unto led W ould Israel then be © tre among the nations. res empi d wde cro the of any populous _Hindostan >__ory into isp ersed through: The Jews were to be disp It is imadmissible. east? Jews. aie e to be kept and known as facts are the cities and nations, and wer and it; ids Fact forb ten tribes. 4 ahi this cannot be said of the the ag over such, as ‘The Jews have been known neve stubborn things. have The ten tribes in all aocs since their dispersion. the worid,. ti eee : POD © from ost ; + , dispersed disperse ch between V4 |} . beeaornized wee known; but ; been oae have L et reen ” in|” this : book Saree distinction recosniae’” © ected to the pig to be thorovrenly axtiat or this subject + and Tsoo’"'veare: both to the Jews and el, —should be $0 In love that Israel,—loug ages before the restoration, ‘This new. their own. of instead name his with Jadah, as to adopt say the Jews, black and clan of Jews, half way between the white they and fact, a be to this Grant en Arabian Jews are their brethr no doubt are of the descendauts of Judah. the house of Israel were to be 8 The two ancient branches of ed. This seems to W Braeut long lost from each other ; as has appear of tne ry for’ . Were, planted In regions very different from the populeus regions of the East Indies. . ‘ a Compare the evidences which have been adduced in favour of the hypothesis, that the natives of our continent are the tribes of Jsra- they shal] envy each oer racl. after their final restoration, that nature «f the ease, admits the nor ion, predict this Neither more. ions, Jews manifest meaning in this inspired and repeated distinetion As we 1] ae any other manifest facts be denied as this! But this fact does And such was their inveterate ention, were never called Jews. be likely to assum? mity agacnst the Jews, that they would never It 1s prenoted, been has as own, their of their name in a rejection of Isp es branch two dicted, in Isai. xi. 13, as one pecvl irity of these no the belief that they were to be planted two say—(all on account of. as the European Jews fr.m their aversion to them they have a stance ciweum some From their whiter complexion. But this forms Jews. black and white the n betwee shade half way than against no greater objection against their being of the Jews, : ' tribes. their being of tie ten 9. They as outcast and unknown And they appear not to be so white not so black as the black Jews. 75 ethics, had not the light of divide Sect twilight made by the radiations from 28 rn oe Was not born in aiter til] Greece, f ‘ = Cc : t} a- ° 1e rs Jews Nebuchadnezzar.=e Pythago‘ hers, and the c olemporary of h halfa centuNo in% E ro ta by pedtoa Bt est puri ras,. theerearit ties n oo Pp o philosonp > Grecian : r a TS Thales, the founder of the first % ry after that event of the Jewish Mato : micla A and Chatdea \' x120 with the Jewish Hes ae pent twenty ee oypt years where. shy Ph ide- 4 He visited site long beforewithbeentheknown. Pe tle couversed _ nad rian Zor Tat ‘ me } prophets. Thales Duvelicd Cv ’ : mM bees bursuit ofee kuow— ;