THINGS TO COME.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 4

THINGS TO COME.

[To The Editor.] Sir, — I read the report in Saturday's Express of the British-Israel lecture on "Things to Come." How true it is that the Bible has suffered more at the hands of its friends than at the hands of its enemies! This British-Israel theory is built upon verses wrenched out of their context, upon forcedv interpretations, upon baseless assumptions and unhistorical data. And now, the lecturer tells us, this war is in all probability not the last one; another is to come in about 1952 of 31 years' duration. The Great Pyramid and misapplied Scripture texts are advaneed to prove this. As if we have not enough of present horrors without an effort being made to show that we have yet those of another war to face! Let the lecturer give us a few solid proofs. He said that the Normans when they invaded Ehgiand were the tribe of Benjamin, the last of the trifees to reach that country. Let us have real proof of this, for a start. And fancy ranking William the Conqueror as one of the seven great servants of God! Some of the

things put for ward to back up Fritish-Israel teaching are so childish that it is a wonder anyone is deceived by them. In a previous' lecture we were told that the 13 stripes on the American flag support the belief that America is the thirteenth tribe, Manasseli. And I suppose that the four arms of the swastika prove that the Germans belong to the fourth tribe. Finally let it be notified that the Encyclopedia Brittanica says: "The theory of AngloIsrael rests on premises which are deemed by scholars both theological and anthropological to be utterly untonnrl "

"TRUTH."