AN inheritance is a possession. With us the term is confined to property; each person's inheritance is something localised, separate and distinct from properties adjoining. But the Lord has been pleased to apply the term to a people. He careth not for funds, or estates; but, in looking down upon' the different nations, He has selected one-only one-out of. the many, to become his peculiar possession-His inheritance. It pleased him to accept the prayers of one man, to take the people of Israel as His own inheri tance; for Moses said, " If now I have found grace in Thy sight, 0, Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us, for it is a; stiff-necked people ; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and TAKE US FOR THINE INHERITANCE" (Exod. xxxiv. 9). The Lord did this; for Moses told the people that the Lord had brought them out of Egypt "to be. UNTO Him A PEOPLE OF INHERITANCE, as ye are this day' (Deut. iv. 20). Thus Israel became the special property. of the Lord, and when they sinned and the Lord was angry with them, they still continued his inheritance, for Moses prayed, 0, Lord God, destroy not Thy people and Thine INHERITANCE." "They are. Thy people, and Thine inheritance" (Deut. ix. 26, 2q). And Solomon, whose wisdom led him to glory in the fact, said to the Lord, "For Thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth to be THINE inheritance." ."For they be Thy people, and Thine inheritance" (1 Kings viii. 51, 53). And a "wise woman," at a lime of civil war, said to Joab, " Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?" (2 Sam. xx.. 19): David prayed the Gibeonites that they might "bless the inheritance of the Lord" (2 Sam. xxi 3) . " The people whom he has chosen for His own inheritance" (Ps. xxxiii. 12). That the captivity could have no power to destroy God's covenant with Israel as His inheritance, long' after this event the prophet prays the Lord to "Return, for thy servant's sake, the tribes of thine inheritance" (Isa. lxiii. 17), That the. Lord has no intention of discarding His possession,, He distinctly tells us of a time when three peoples shall become blessings in the midst of the land; three separate peoples, "Whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed: be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, MINE INHERITANCE" (Isa. xix. 25). Thus, no people can be considered the inheritance of the Lord but the nation of Israel; and that it is a misconstruing of Scripture to apply this term to the Church, or any section of professing Christians.

THE IDENTITY is a very valuable one. The British people, in a national sense, have been led to accept this term as being applicable to themselves. They have not yet considered it as solely applying to themselves - that matters not. God applies it to Israel, and we have agreed to apply it to ourselves. God has done what he said he would do: He has led us by a way we have not known (Isa. xlii. 16), and caused us to accept in ignorance what was really a truth. Thus we have been led. to a distinct avowal that we are the Lord's inheritance-consequently, the people of Israel. This avowal on the part of our nation is made every Sunday when we pray to God: "Lord, save thy people; and bless THINE HERITAGE. Govern them; and lift them up for ever." So that the British have for ages been confessing before' God their Identity with Israel True, it has-been done in blindness; but all who open their minds to receive this truth will go to our National Church with entirely new feelings of joyfulness; and as they make their confession to the Almighty that they are his "inheritance," his " chosen people," new rays of glory will illuminate the soul-new hopes will inspire the mind-that will tune the heart to sing for gladness, touching those chords of emotion that alone' can render worship adequate, satisfying, and delightsome. Reader, way this be your experience, and I am rewarded.

We believe the political resurrection, of the three nations to be, very near at hand. We have long held the. Germans to be identical :with the Assyrians; and shall be prepaid, in due course, if no one in the meantime will take this matter in hand, to come forward ourselves with proofs. As to Egypt, we hold that few men have been honoured by showing, fulfilled prophecy more than our own countryman; Sir Samuel Baker. His sagacity has given a power to Egypt which will raise them in the scale of civilisation, and more than regain the estate they once lost. As to the Lord's " INHERITANCE," the British people will soon make good our heirship, by which deed we at once remove from us all the doubt, uncertainty, and ineffectiveness of present legislation, and. immediately have presented to us our whole outlying national future, in a well-defined line that shall snake, for the first time in our history, true statesmanship easy, and give. to us a glory unsurpassed by any era.

Our task is not completed: There are many telling and conclusive identities needful to bring forward before many Scriptures become intelligible. We therefore. propose to issue a second. part to this work, giving Thirty additional identifications, making, in all, Seventy-Seven Identifica- tions of the. British.Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.

EDWARD HINE.

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