lled all her brothers and kindred, and put out the
eyes of Zedekiah and took him a captive to Babylon, where he died.

Look also at the British nation, learned as they are, yet no historian
can tell who the English were originally. Sharon Turner, the best and
most trustworthy on the origin of the Saxons, fails to solve the
question. He traces them into Central Asia, but there he stops. They
here form part of the Aryan race, speaking the Sanscrit language, from
which came the Greek and Latin. And from this place and people came
forth the Goths and their language, and also the Saxons and their
language came to view here. The German and Saxon both seem to have come
forth from the Aryan stock.

The very place the Saxons came from is the very place where the Lost
Tribes were carried captive to by the King of Assyria, about 725 years
before Christ, as we read in the second book of Kings, seventeenth
chapter. Take the very word Saxon. This word comes from the Sanscrit:
Saka Suna. Saka means era, epoch, or date, and Suna means void, without.
Hence the word Saxon means a people whose origin is unknown--void of
date. True, Nebuchadnezzar saw no hands cutting the little stone out
from the mountain. The origin of the English nation is hid because God
cast away His people for a time--not for ever. It is this view of the
stone kingdom that corresponds to the prophets, to history, especially to
the English history.

The very island itself is insignificant, and no doubt was once joined to
the continent of Europe. The formation on both sides of the English
Channel--that is, on the French and English coasts, are the same--namely,
chalk. The ocean in time past washed through a passage, and thus
prepared a place for exiled Israel to rest in, and renew their strength.

Why should this small island and a few and scattered people become so
powerful, so as to sweep the sea, and dictate on land, constantly engaged
in war, and though small, winning victory upon victory, and like the
stone, growing stronger and stronger, after fighting the whole of Europe,
giving liberties in religion that oftentimes imperilled her safety at
home, opening her ports to all the world, and venturing to compete in
trade with all nations?

How came they to take India, a country of so vast an extent, so powerful,
rich, and chivalrous a country, at that time composed of sixteen separate
and powerful nations, speaking thirty-six different languages, and