A Readings of Signs of the Times Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was present recently at the opening meeting of the British Israel Congress at the Central Hall, Westminister. Lord Gisborough, who presided, said that British Israel was tha answer to the late Mr. Bradlaugh's challenge that there was no race, in the world to-day to which the promises given to Abraham applied, therefore the prophecy was false, and the Bible a lic. They claimed that the British yace was the people to which the Bible promises applied and. which was to be the great instrument through which God would carry out His scheme for thy universe.
The word British was derived from two Hebrew words, "Brit" or "Brith," meaning a, Covenant, and "ish,'? a people. The name ritish covered America, and together they were the Convenant people. They maintained that in the history of the British people every word of God's pledge Abraham had: been carried out step by step through the centuries.
An apology wag received from My. W._F. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, one of the patrons of the Federation, who was detained by the Imperial Conference.
The Rev. W. E. Woodhams Denham said the British Empire. and the Confederation of the Anglo-Saxon corresponded __indubitably with all the magnificent! prophecies in the Scriptures. All the signs of the times pointed to something great coming. Arm-aged don, which would decide finally between the right and the wrong, was coming, and after that British Israelites looked for the coming of the Great King to restore all things and transfuse all things with His.divine spirit.
The Rev. W. Pascoe Goard pointed out that the missionary effort of the world to-day depended in the main upon Britain, her overseas dominions, and the United States. There were 30,000 missionaries at work, and all but 1,900 of them were of our race and language. This pointed to the fact that God was convincing the world that this was the nation which he had chosen and ordained to his service.
Monastery, on a lonely island in the Arctic, where 300 "politicals" live, were particularly appalling. Filth, want, and misery aware indescribable, and the guards of these victims of Bolshevik tyranny were former thieves, murderers, and highwaymen who were given their liberty on condition that they kept sharp eye on thy enemies of the - Soviet. There is no room for free and decent people under Bolshevik - régkme, was the conclusion Miss Steimer arrived at.
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