he
Saviour. The time of their departure would be coincident with the siege
and destruction of their beloved city. So cried Jeremiah down through
the centuries, "Oh, ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee
out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up
a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem, for evil appeareth out of the North and
great destruction "(Jer. vi. 1). If any of you are mindful to examine
history, you will find that war came, that the destruction was terrible,
and more, you will find that the Benjaminites escaped. These points
profane historians thoroughly confirm. Having fulfilled their
God-appointed mission with the kingdom of Judah and in Jerusalem, Heaven
gave them to be light-bearers to the whole world; first to specially find
their own brethren of the House of Israel, and carry them the Gospel, and
they would carry it unto all the earth. Thus the Saviour said, "Go not
in 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." Peter in
his epistle tells where these lost sheep were scattered. Agreeable to
the Saviour's command they went forth, and preached as they went, and so
carried the Gospel of Jesus with them. As a Tribe they finally settled
in Normandy, and gave to France her Protestantism, which, from that day
to this, Catholicism has not been able entirely to uproot, though it has
made several desperate attempts. They finally, however, as a Tribe,
under the Norman conquest, entered England and united with the other nine
Tribes. Their advent, and the way they came, is very graphically
symbolised in the unicorn on the royal arms of England. The unicorn is
looking Westward, and is attached to the crown by a chain--showing that
it came from the East.

With these facts in one's mind, read those difficult passages in Romans,
and all will be plain. Take, for instance, Romans xi. 17: "And if some
of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert
grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of
the olive tree." Here it is manifest that we have three parties
mentioned. The branches broken off mean Judah and Levi, the wild olive
stands for the Gentiles, the people in among whom they were grafted, or
root of whose fatness they were partakers, mean the Israelites. The hope
of Jewish restoration is nicely set forth in verse 24: "For if thou wert