MANASSEH-"A PEOPLE AND GREAT."

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 12

MANASSEH-"A PEOPLE AND GREAT."

TO THE EDITOR OT "THB mux K Sir,—l observe from your 1 sth inst. that an address was de&JtfL at a meeting of the local Association combating my rieif!? vanced at a prior meeting, tribo of Manassoh 13 ed bp tho Japaneso people. **' lecturer is said to ha\« omummi. about a dozon points in Japanese lacked pi oofs of IsnaMi identity that arc held by the Jjriffil Well, no one. surelv, ever expertJßj, iind Manasseh showing the sa&erajg*? of resemblance as Iphraim. tt<iA|l? tinies foretold for the tiro Joseph were widely dnerso. Mnjlf was to become "'a multitude' <s"<&s tions," he was to bo greater sfaM& elder' brother (Mainsseh), however, to "become a great." 1" one respect, the t?ftffi| of Joseph answered to the' sM%q seription; for Jacob propwSil "Joseph is a fruitful bough j whoso branches run over Ephraim (Britain) and Mwfot! (Japan) are both fruitful, and awS' amid plenteous wateis, tliey colonising Powers—their over the wall." Not having hSSmthe points of aliened inerated by the lectin or, I aniK a ]>osition to reply to them 1 may, howover, ho allowed to iff the proofs positive and weiie, that T adduced in favour of ttajKG ese claim to bo "of Israel." 1 *jß" are: (1) They state that tneuvrnffi tors travelled across Asm toKpwiiJr thence reached .la-pin. (2) that their Imperial f inuly is^m^S 3 Tribed Israel; (3) then WffltlliSl from Hoshea, tho list King Wilbl infis show that their ancestertlSfe Hebraic features and dress; (4)T«PIi red vessel which thev hiehly prufiir on it a Hebrew inscription> (iliP Japanese have tho oharnctenatiasil Hebrew people, thus* (a) feraaditall puslifulness, (c) mental copatitS tmconquerahleness, and (e) cotofll instinct; (6) the 'Japanese havlffi popular emblem the Lion and Ml —the lion .representing Jndahfyiiiffi unicorn Israel; (7) there is Btffim well near Kyoto called ttws Uzumaisa" (Syria), winch hemlS inscription "Israel", (P) Atifisfii there is a venorolilo temnlti/ffll "David's Shrine." These &JM dences, with five subdirisionf MB are not to bo'lijjhtlv dispose&oily no attempt seems to have beenUffi 111 that direction. I submit %!« are as convinehin; proofs thatjS Alnnnsseh as there are for Srififfi identity with Ephraim —Yours >«il t J. LTDDTSLL KM Devonport, April 14th, 1923^3