ey sought to copy after the
Philistines. "Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to
drink for father or mother" (Jer. xvi. 7). The Irish language came from
the Phoenician, the alphabet of both being composed of sixteen letters
originally, the only alphabet in the world so agreeing. From the Irish
came the Gaelic, Welsh, Cornwall, and the Manx from them all.

The second settlement of Ireland is what puzzles historians of
to-day--not the old historians, for they, nine out of ten, admit that the
Formorians, Firbolgs, and Tuath de Danans, were one and the same people.
They were a divine folk. The Tribe of Dan was a sea-faring Tribe,
trading from Tyre to Tarshish for tin, and so became acquainted with the
British Isles, and during Ahab's persecution many of them fled; so of the
Simeonites who settled in Wales. This shows us why the North and South
of Ireland should be so distinct to this day in religion, enterprise, and
general characteristics. When the Tribe of Dan finally left Palestine,
they with the other Nine Tribes went North, settling in Denmark, as in
the North of Ireland, leaving their names on rivers, hills, cities, and
things.

It is this that accounts for so many words of an Hebrew origin being
found in the Irish language. General Vallancy has compared thousands and
finds them thus related to the Hebrew. Instance: Jobhan-Moran, Chief
Justice; Rectaire, Judge; Mur-Ollam, School of the Prophets; Ollam-Folla,
Divine Teacher; Mergech, a Depository; Tara, Law; Tephi, Prince of the
East; Lia-Fail, Stone of Destiny; Eden Gedoulah, Precious Stone.

If to Irish history we join Bible history, all is plain. God promised
David repeatedly that he should always have his throne and on it his
seed. The permanence of David's throne makes it a fit type of Christ's.
Now, Jeremiah took charge of Zedekiah's daughter when Nebuchadnezzar took
the Jews captive. He went to Egypt, then escaped, God promising to keep
him whithersoever he went. So he disappears. No account of his death in
the Bible. He had charge of the ark of the covenant, royal seed and
Jacob's pillow--the stone of Israel. Irish histories, some twenty of
which we find agree, say that about 585 B.C., a divine man landed in
Ulster, having with him the king's daughter, stone of destiny, and ark,
and many other wonderful things. The people of Ulster, of Dan,
understood the old adventurer. Jeremiah married Tephi, Zedekiah's
daughter, to Eoiacaid,