THE Ten Tribes were exiled, but not literally lost, in the days of the Apostles., This is 'evident, from the fact that when they were sent after them they found them in the region already indicated, with their synagogues abounding everywhere. The Gentiles could have nothing to do with their synagogues; therefore, as an institution, they could only be allotted to Israel. It would be impossible for Israel to have . become freed from the Mosaic law until after Christ's death, because redemption could only come to them from that event. Hence, we are plainly told that "the law was until John" (St. Luke xvi. r6)-i.e., until the days of Christ. So that it was right that the Apostles should find them still under the law of Moses,-which they did, for we read of them earnestly contending for circumcision, a Mosaic rite, and also laying, great stress upon genealogy, (Titus iii. 9), which plainly indicates that they would up to that time be found clinging to the mosaic institutions, a very special one being that of keeping their different tribeships separate and., distinct, - It would be impossible to conceive that at the time St. Paul went to them: that he could have found the tribes so mixed up together as that their distinctiveness could have become lost. The very fact of their contending about `genealogy would prevent such a' state of things.' Hence Paul must have found them in separate divisions,, each tribeship being preserved. These facts preclude the idea that Israel was literally lost either to '_themselves or to ' others in St. Paul's time. But the time was at hand when they would lose their identity; and how could this be effected? Mainly by giving up circumcision and genealogy. If these two rites were maintained it would have become utterly impossible for this people ever to have become lost, because in themselves they would have vigorously preserved their identity. St. Paul knew this, and he knew that the prophecies must be fulfilled and all scripture accomplished, and that the prophecies would begin to take effect from his time-the blessings upon Israel, the curses Upon Judah. Hence he enjoins them, with the voice of authority, to give up circumcision (r Cor. vii. r9), and to forego the perpetuation of genealogy. "Avoid foolish questions and genealogies " (Titus iii. 9). " Neither give heed' to fables and endless genealogies" (r Tim, . 4; Titus . r4). No such tribeships being now known upon the face of the earth is conclusive proof that Paul's commands were abided by. Hence, from this point of time the different tribes still distinct would drift away from each other-would, through the lapse of hundreds of years,_ lose all communication with each . other. Each losing all trace of their ancestry, would become as distinct peoples, without having any idea of a common origin ; and yet, by the fixed decree of God, each having the same terminus to their wanderings. Arriving at this point, at different times, iii different ways, their prophecies would compel them to re-unite, but under the impression that they were a mixture of races.; and in. this way would their identity become destroyed until God's time arrived to remove from them their' blindness (Romans xi. 25).

THE IDENTITY, which will become more plainly manifest as we proceed, is secured by the fact that this is exactly the way that the British nation has been composed. We are under the impression, that we are a mixture of strange people; yet, upon inquiry, we `are able to trace that we have all come from the same part of the earth,; Media. Just as Israel must have been re-formed, in the same way we have been formed-we have blended together into one harmonious and solid ration, with the great fact before us, that while there are other nations comprising mixtures of different races, yet nowhere do we find that they merge into that beautiful. unity of thought and action as we have done. We have done exactly what lost Israel was to have done.

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