MR. REES'S LECTURE ON "THE LOST CHILDREN OF ISRAEL."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4424, 18 January 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR. REES'S LECTURE ON "THE LOST CHILDREN OF ISRAEL."

To the Editor of the Herald. Sir, —In your Weekly of the Sth instant, I see a letter written by Mr. H. T. Hickton, criticising my letier of November last on the above subject. Mr. Rees and Mr. Hickton, both gentlemen accepted, apparently, that the word Saxon meant Sassen, and Sassen " settlers," as stated by me; but Mr. JEteea contended, and Mr. Hickton also, that then the Sassen as Settlers were immigrants, and not aboriginals. But 1 beg to tell both gentlemen that they are wrong, as the Sassen were aboriginals ! The old Teutonic race at Christ's life time, lived under a kind of servitude by her native princes and (GauGrafen) counts, and were afterwards settled by the same permanently on a piece of ground, and called then the Sassen ! Theße Sassen were bound to serve their feudal masters in war time, or to do weekly a couple of days of work for the same, called the Hcrrendienste. The conscription is still at thiß day a tail of the former, and the payment of the tenth of all animals and cereals to the feudals, and latter to the clergy, was of the latter. The Cherusier Prince Herrman, or Herminius, was one of the tribes of the Teutonic race, who slew Varus, the commander of the Roman Legions, at about Christ's time in the Teutobnrger foiest, between Detmold and Paderborn; a monument is lately erected for him there. Some hundred years afterwards Attila's hordes displaced several of the European nations, and bo the Sassen on the Lower Elbe, Oder, and Weser rivers. The old Teutonic tribe® were a very fair-complexioned, blueeyed people, and not at all similar .to the dark-skinned, and dark-complexioned sons of Jacob, but I am rather inclined to think that Hengist and Horsa's Sachsen tribe would answer well enough to be the sons of Esau, who was fool enough to sell his birthright to his brother Jacob for a meal of pea-soup I My Saxon cousin, Mr. Hickton, desired me to shew if the lower part of Germany was at that time a land which wouldanswer to all the biblical prophecies as a fit and proper place for the Lord's own children. I say it waa not. According to the earliest historical records of Germany, a little before Christ's time, the whole land was mostly covered by dense forests, swamps,' Ac., and invaded by bears, wolves, &c., and only good enough for the Lord's stepchildren—the warlike, hardy Teutons. But Ireland, according to the tales of her natives here, with plenty of potatoes and buttermilk, built the land where milk and honey is flowing, and was therefore a fit place for Jeremiah and his ten tribes, and she can claim in full to be considered the lost children. I have no time nor inclination to bether my head with Mr. Hickton's bewildering histeric biblical figures. If Mr. Hickton or any one else believe to find all knowledge in the Bible, he may shew me the proof that the prophet has pointed out Ireland, England, or Germany as the allotted place for the lost tribes, but I think he cannot, and believe that the lost tribeß are squattered over the whole surface of-the earth. For myself, Ido not much believe in prophecies, nor will Mr. Rees, when he says that the Anglo-Saxon, as the children of Israel, will find their way to Palestine, as the. present disturbance in the East led to believe. I think the English statesmen are not such fools as to care for that dry, barren Palestine —(what else is it at the present, time) —but would rather like a good slice of lower Egypt, with the Suez Canal as the keyto both seas.—l am, &c., C. N. Blucher, C.E. Farm Heimbury, Dairy Mat, January 10, 1876.