p. 5 | THE LOST TEN TRIBES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Feb 22, 1899

THE LOST TEN TRIBES.

“THERE are no lost tribes,” is Mr. L. N. Demlitz’ verdict in The Andover Review. The ten tribes were never bodily deported to Assyria. Most of the Israelites were left behind in the country they always occupied. At the fall of Jerusalem, Titus carried off only the inhabitants of Judea, who were sent across the Mediterranean to Italy and Spain. Hadrian afterward led the Galileans into captivity, and located them on the lower Rhine. From them—the “ten tribes”—the bulk of the Jews of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Roumania are sprung; and these have in very modern times sent offshoots to Northern France, Holland, and the United States. Between Israel and Judah there has always been a rooted antipathy, and in America the Jewish families will not associate or intermarry with those of Israelitish descent. But the latter form more than nine-tenths of the Hebrew nation to-day.—Religious Intelligencer.