time the prophecies attaching to
them. In all the world they are estimated to number some nine millions.
The Jews include the children of Judah and Levi; these Two Tribes only.
The Jews themselves consent to this statement, and allow that the
descendants of Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher,
Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin, are lost, but not extinct. They are in
the world, for God has not cast away His people for ever. If the Two
Tribes give us nine millions, how many should we expect the Ten Tribes to
furnish? Most certainly not less than forty-five millions. To the Ten
Tribes the special promises of fruitfulness were given. To the Ten
Tribes belong a greater portion of prophecy; and in the history of the
world more is allotted to Israel than to Judah. Indeed, the world's
history pivots on the Ten Lost Tribes.

I believe you know the God-revealed distinction between the words Israel
and Judah. You know that they have a distinct history. Their place and
work, promises and blessings, chastisements and rebukes, are as distinct
and different as silver and gold.

The spiritual heirs of Abraham are all who are embraced in the saving and
atoning covenant of grace in Christ. I do not say all who believe, for
there will be more in heaven without faith than those with--namely, all
those who have died before the years of responsibility, with many of the
Pagan world who, never having heard of a Saviour, have therefore never
denied Him. In a spiritual sense, they are children. I believe in this
matter with Paul, who says, when writing to the Romans, chap. ii.: "There
is no respect of persons with God; for as many as have sinned without law
shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law
shall be judged by the law. For when the Gentiles, which have not the
law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the
law, are a law unto themselves; which show the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts
the meanwhile accusing, or else excusing one another." Thus, under the
law which governs the Pagan, I presume many will be saved and many lost,
just as under the law of the Gospel. In Abraham all nations were to be
blessed, spiritually. In this sense Abraham's seed embraces persons of
every age, clime, and race.

But who are the seed of Abraham according to the flesh? We answer, the
descendants of the Twelve T