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Show insisted that the custom HSISLO — os the lil C110 prove of our: Saviour5 uA tHe ae ; - - . > Ss 3% of others. phylacteries 2 . : } final tn et ; os phytactery 3° ry is ads Christ RE \ oy We was : ‘na of their time of their aa ‘ thetr e we x that ; OF them Rae and iS - those these of wearing P time 4 fectation in having STATE PRESENT PHE 94 e . “Ter general ihe did e i + is. keh eke Withee? cel el than conciude then the wearing o a noted custom in Israel at tae _ expulsion SEE oe ~~ gte 2 ; ; i as AE "AAS i} if RAC se ens utmost er s my Gas —S. gence. ’ ng ~ ‘ TO ry j- yellow; might e 5 country,r 7 Théy 2° they would i f le would : most oa naturallyET the most precious contents } cr3 \Ww itn AP ¢ become in their holy _ 3. of lilPp .. ¢ ‘ % cy “7s 7 7 , 3 Pi ic S } as oe ~ : almost . (> = IM ies = ¥ y r 1 } < 4] 5 that Pa their know Rete area tO TRUE eh Or es a wee e reading had long been lost, some chief, or high ee OO or old beloved ee a ue wise keeperr (Keepe man, : ee ahaa tradition)ey of of their th ? precious Jeaves would get lost, or parted, Nik 2S: leaves naturally sew thhem in a fold of raw oeskins with ee ee ‘oht waia r me and j en 1 brouzht this keep roi! secs thisa. ros still ‘ ti the ark Pa noted the sinews of an animal, (the most \- x precious fearing these a 3 i 7 ary carry tt i ; ip { Y i i s aatoht annet naturally be e ex pec a \belt. Ail this is what Deit. might most 4AM Tiicthine e expsafeaw might naturahy have been bthus Swit Geb Ours tedin suciia Phis thing | awd oa _ case. = shes . 7 mig Bs ~e thin : IoOT i ¥Y down DPOURIIL to Ss} a period near to the } time Ww = Us E yr} 7 DitticGa enernans were Pittstield sjpernal Indie n Hill, natives last occupied a | pneane a f2 owner then mignt ‘9 the early part of last century. lis ownesit was buried 2 fit & eee ee s<¢ probable) he ‘S ~ a it there with : - or (what is i st rob Ie) it :was_ | <7 pee oe or high priest; and hence was provit 4 some chiei, or hie UPaAisiteet : i fallLy TRIE ‘tted to aesus» nae ee! ee es the This! venture (on stx > Toragel) is byto say no means a ton the Indians are of Israel) ts by no haat left it pares Jew ted some modern Ss that that Sori ~ , aes improbabie, as: tatea sou t Was sfound. The style o peesF the ‘ : 42 1OUunG. “ ° ee the situation In which it ee sais appears to be indian 3 ae f these parcnments apy Eas oO ; ee wouid be like Ly preser vation No modern as Jew ro wouk buat not Jewish. si] of jacteries ina roll ors raw hide his precious leaves Or oe hide, sewed with the sinews OF an he leave: leave sround. them, ~ « snimal. Indian had he done it, on id he sacrifice sacri ~“Sooner would he 225 he informed long one have of This view of the was This was dark and writing were in good these written been preserved subject may give an Indian parchmeuts as weil as the intelligible in Stockbridze to Dr. West, that _his fathers had buried. not long ago, a book which they could not read. And it may give a striking view of the vigilant care of the Watchman of Sn This is so far 3 from being ne improbable, gaa Nedg a moral certainty. After a ceaturies. - vit parchment And _ view of the account of the old ation formerly kept the holy law in the ark. ere jation formerly Ke] : hrough ever so many such a phylactery would be safe through ever so many n- which other. 3 >] tnem but the thus manuscript, before the Christian era. preservation. % Wherever : this to . Therever they went then, they would they wen Dy e E* sa ° Ce phylacteries with them. If theyx on care. have these them 2h 1 re parchment written long 13 natural to believe thac israei, being in exuiement, wot -eserve these frazmeats of their better days with the cE Arabic from Canaan. And it 1s cilement, would os ISRAEL. It is incredible. Mr. Merrick observed that the colour of these parchments was dark yellow.) Doctor Thomas, of Worcester, showed me, among his Antiquarian curiosities, an Ry ax AND rudely to profane the most sacred symbols of religion! no re St cases ee F not JUDAH Nor would Hill under en his ile than: thus ) Israel, who never slumbers, in relation to laying in train this singular item of evidence among many others, which should combine to bring to light that outea st people, who were to be exhibited to the world ip the last days, The government and vigilance of the God of Jacob have ever been wonderful. And great things have been found to depend ona strange combination of mi- hute events, that the unremitting High might appear the more consp care of the Most icuous. In ancieut Israel many such instances might be pointed out. And when God’s bowels shall yearn for Kphraim, earnestly remembering him still, and about linally to restore him, it will prove that he has not been unmindful of that providential train of evidence, which must eventuall| identify a people long outcast and lost from the knowledve of the literary and civilized world. with his ancient beloved children of Abrah am. Show a people on earth who have a greater claim from the most natura and of evidence, l than our natives, to % descendants of Isr ael; be received as and it is hoped that to such Cialin po Onjeclioun will be offered, |