Excerpt from The Lost Ten Tribes

The following Discourses are presented to the public in book form, in response to the request of numerous friends. The reader will remember, however, that the vast subject of which they treat cannot be fairly and completely presented in such a volume as this. Also, it should be borne in mind, that the language style, and structure, are sermonic.

When I first entered the ministry, I made up my mind that I would try and thoroughly understand the Scriptures. I soon found that a large portion was of a prophetic nature. I set to work according to the usual method, but to my sorrow I soon discovered that the method and rules in general use for Scripture exegesis, were very defective and unsatisfactory. The fact was forced upon me that the true method, or key of interpretation, was not in use. I was always persuaded that the Bible was a unit, and that the principles contained in such a unit were beautifully related, and because of such a faith, I wondered more and more as I grew older why we had not a better key of interpretation. Men spiritualised at random, without any kind of a rule, except their own fancy. In this manner they expounded the material history of the Old Testament. The whole arrangement was a Babel.

I had faintly discerned that the Scriptures made a distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah, and that the prophecies belonging to one could not, in fairness, be applied to the other, and that some prophecies applied to both. It always seemed strange to me, that the people which God said He had chosen for Himself, should not be known. The Jews were always known, but where was "Israel, His inheritance"? Just at this point of my experience I came across a book, entitled "Our Israelitish Origin, " by the late John Wilson, the reading of which confirmed me in my convictions, and aided me to a better knowledge of the good Book of Providence.

After some twenty years of experience, I began to teach the principles of interpretation embodied in these Discourses. The public were interested and profited with the same, as was manifest from the large and constant attendance thereon. By personal interviews and letters, I have been gratified to learn that many have been savingly and truly converted to God through these Discourses. Especially has this been the case with those who were infidel in faith and action towards God and His Word.

For years I have also been greatly interested in Pyramidology, in the teachings of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh in Egypt. If one wants to go further and be specially informed on Pyramidology, why, let them get "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, " a work by Professor Piazzi Smyth, AstronomerRoyal of Scotland.

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