BRITISH ISRAEL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 3

BRITISH ISRAEL.

AN INTERESTING LECTURE

Evidence in support of the contention that the British are the lost tribes of Israel was adduced in a lecture on British Israel given at the Public Library last evening by the Rev. P. H. Pritchett. Philology, ethnology, and history were the sources of the evidence quoted by the lecturer, and added interest was given by the screening of a number of lantern slides. The lecture was given in aid of the funds of the Children's Library, and Mr Ernest Bell introduced the lecturer. Mr Pritchett said a surprising number of persons read the Bible and did not bother to find out exactly who the Jews were, and who knew that it was contended that the Jews represented only two of the tribes of Israel. The other tribes had never returned to Palestine, and ignorance of this fact, information concerning which could so easily be obtained from the Jews themselves, was inexcusable. He showed from the prayer recited at the Wailing Wall at Jerusalem, and from the evidence of rabbis for centuries, along with official Jewish papers that the restoration of the Kingdom of Judah was impossible without the- finding of, and co-operation with, the other 10 tribes. He claimed that the British were the lost House of Israel. Only two of the historians he had quoted were conscious advocates of British Israel, and yet their evidence was proof conclusive. Finally, Mr Pritchett cited the evidence of 12 philologists, proving the very close relationship of Hebrew with ; early English, especially the language of Wales.