Excerpt from Parnell and the Prophetic Destiny of Ireland: Sermon Delivered in Bond Street Congregational Church, Sunday, October 23rd, 1881

Now, any man undertaking to plead the Irish cause should first learn to know the mind of God in reference to that country, for even Ireland is. Not left out of the Divine calculation of my text. It is not said that. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, He left out Ireland but it is said that when he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Who are the Irish? Perhaps they are in the way of these chil dren of Israel. If so, they will have to move. May be the whole secret of the unrest of that country lies in the fact that it is assigned to Israel, and that a portion of the inhabitants not being Israelites, are consequently in the wrong place. It won't do, my friends, for the Hon. Mr. Parnell, the Home Rulers, the British Government, the Catholics or Protestants to leave out this Divine quantity, or set at naught the Divine intention in this matter. Find out first what is the Divine will touching Ireland, then agitate and fight it out on that line. Then will be granted success, quiet and plenty, otherwise confusion, strife and bloodshed. I state a fact. When I say that Ireland was first settled by the Phoenicians, called in history sometimes Philistines and Canaanites. And about the seventh century, b.c., another people settled in that island called Tuath de Danan that is, men of the tribe of Dan. They finally settled in the North of Ireland, while the Philistines settled in thesouth. Tradition, history, pro phecy and Providence all agree on this point of Ireland's double settle ment. In this double settlement is to be found the real source of Ireland's internal trouble. These two people were always different in religion, enterprise, and their general make-up. The poor Philistines were always.

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