THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH NATION.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 223, 25 February 1875, Page 3

THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH NATION.

A public meeting was held at the Town Hall, Woolwich, on 'December Ist, for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr Edward Hine, who lias come to the conclusion that the lost ten tribes of Israel, who disappeared after being carried into captivity by the Assyrians 72b 8.G., are about to be revealed in the English people. He stated that the Jews of the present day are descended from the tribe of J udah, and are not to be confounded with the Israelites who, according to prophecy, were to remain a holy people even after they were lost, destined to break the yoke of their oppressors, and, after many years of wandering, to settle in the western islands with a lineal descendant of King David upon the throne for ever; that they should so multiply that they would have to occupy other countries, becoming the chief of nations, a power incapable of defeat, a country distinguished for its Christian character, its missionary labors, and its philanthropy. Having quoted very many passages of Scripture in proof of these predictions, he declarcdthat they must have been fulfilled, or thcmJhble was not verified, and that there *ras no known nation upon the earth wmch corresponded with the Scripture the English. He stated also that hy historical researches the socalled whom he believed to be the lostroribes of the children of Israel, had beeiumstinctly traced to the spot where the Iswmlites disappeared, the cities of the Medes, but that they could be traced no further. He advanced a great number of identies in proof of his argument, and even referred to the structure of English churches 'and various phrases in the Book of Common Brkyer as evidence of our Israelitish descent.