WITH the open Bible in our hands, and the marked distinction of Israel the Ten Tribes, from Judah the two tribes made known to us, nothing could be more perplexing in the study of Scripture than to suppose that lost Israel must be now under the Mosaic law, retaining the seal of circumcision and the rites of the Temple Service, because it follows that a people destined by God to be as the dust of the earth for multitude never could have become a lost people if they had preserved the Levitical Service in their midst. This would I have become impossible. That they should be lost, scores of Scriptures testify to. The Jews themselves, as -an entire body, confess it. The whole routine of the Mosaic law was a training school to bring Israel to Christ. St. Paul, who wrote to the Israelites in Galatia, told them-" The law was -our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ" (Gal. iii. 24). He could not have been addressing Gentiles, because they were never under the Mosaic law, therefore could not have been under- the training. - "But Now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held," "being dead to the law by the body of Christ" (Rom. vii. 4-6). It was Christ's great mission to redeem Israel, as Cleopas said when unknowingly talking to Jesus, " We trusted that it had been He which should have REDEEmED ISRAEL" (St. Luke XXiV. 21). Christ himself said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (St. Matt. xv. 24). Simeon, the devout man, was "waiting' for the consolation (redemption) of Israel" (St. Luke ii. a5). Anna, of the tribe of Aser, was one that " looked for redemption -(verse 38). Hence, how beautifully comes out the instruction, "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (St. Matt. x. 6). So that it becomes plain that the redemption of Israel must have taken place daring the time of their exile, and not when they were in possession of the land. Hosea. testifies to this, "And it shall come to pass, in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people "-i.e., in the very place, where they became `called "-by another name," which we have already seen was only really effected upon their settlement in " the isles," so that in that place, during' the time of their exile in the isles, "there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God" (Hosea i. 10). St. Paul tells us the same thing (Rom. ix. 26), and both associate the event as to take place in exile, and prior to their return to the land being effected, Hosea saying that "then "-i.e, when Israel are identified and discovered, a Christian people-" then," not before, "shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head" (Hosea i. 11), a Scripture proof that they must now exist in two divisions; and St. Paul tells us that, when this work of identifying Christian Israel shall be effected, the Lord will make the whole, thing a "short work" "upon the earth" (Rom. ix. 28). This "gathering together, appointing "one, head," an* the return, has not yet taken. place; therefore it must be a yet future event, and it must be preceded by the identity of Israel as a Christian people, which is the great work we have put our, hands to. The Bible would be utterly valueless if the Old Testament was contradicted by the New. It is not, there is a perfect harmony between the two; and it • is most evident that the Old. Testament supports the declarations of the New, by speaking of lost Israel as being a Christian people during their exile. "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light" (Isa. ix. 2). "The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel" (Isa. ix. 8). Glorify "the Lord God of Israel in the Isles of the Western Sea" (Isa.- xxiv. 15). "Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. . . I said not unto the seed of Jacob,` seek ye me in, vain" (Isa. xlv. 17-19). " In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory" (Isa. xlv. 25). "The Lord HATH redeemed his servant Jacob" (Isa. xlviii. 20)..; "Thou art my servant, 0 Israel, in whom I will be 'glorified" (Isa. xlix.' 3). "The isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust " (Isa. Eli. 5). C0 Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel (Jer. iii. 23). "Thou shalt know the'' Lord, . and I will sow her UNTO ME in the earth" (Hosea ii. 20,-z3). ; "The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people, as a dew from the Lord" (Micah v. 7). "Israel shall blossom, and bud, and fill the face of the world with .fruit '0` (Isa. xxvii. 6). The many Scriptures given to Judah are all so contrary to these that they cannot in any way apply to .the Jews. We have not to fear man but to reverence Scripture. 'Therefore Christ, talking to the Jews, said, "Therefore say I unto, you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to A' NATION =bringing forth the fruits of righteousness "i.e., Israel's nation (St. Matt. xxi. 43). "Therefore let all ..the house of Israel (lie., the Ten Tribes) know assuredly that God ' hath made that same Jesus whom ye (i.e., the Jews) have crucified both Lord and Christ" (Acts ii. 36). The Ten Tribes were to come to a knowledge. of the wicked deed of The two tribes Hence, Christ, speaking to the representatives of the Ten Tribes, says, " It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but unto them (i.e., the Jews) it is "lot given" (St. Matt. xiii. 11). "That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted" (St. Mark iv. I2). "If I tell; you (i.e., the Jews) ye will not believe" (St. Luke xxii. 67). "Ye believe not because ye (i.e., the Jews) are not of my sheep. My sheep (i.e., the Ten Tribes) hear my' voice, and I know them" (St. John x, s6). The prophets and the whole integrity of the Bible would have been destroyed if the Jews, as a people, had received Christ; as Christ, our best guide, said of the Jews, "They could not believe, because 'that Esaias said" (St. John xii. 39)-i.e., if they had believed, the prophet would have been false-a thing impossible. So that Israel, the Ten Tribes, must be Christians, under Christ. The Jews, or Judah, must be under the Mosaic law, God having made "one vessel unto honour," the other "unto dishonour" (Rom. ix. 21).

THE IDENTITY finds us a Christian people, having the Jewish people about us still under the Mosaic law, and who must remain under that law until they can say, "Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord (St. Luke xiii. 35) Until this, time Judah -and Israel will constitute God's two witnesses-Judah the standing witness; Israel the discovered, the overwhelming, witness, of the latter tires. The Almighty must have both. Thank God, he has them.

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