ARE WE OF ISRAEL? BY ELDER GEORGE REYNOLDS "Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the world with fruit."--_Isaiah_. SECOND EDITION. GEO. Q. CANNON & SONS CO. PRINTERS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, 1895. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introductory--The promises of God to Abraham and his Posterity--The seed of Joseph in America--The Journey of the Ten Tribes Northward--Ephraim mixed with all Nations--Testimony of Prest. Brigham Young. CHAPTER II. Israel a Maritime Nation--Tyre and Sidon--The Lacedemonians claim relationship with Israel--The Ionians, Etrurians, Danes, Jutes, etc.--The various captivities of Israel and Judah--Media. CHAPTER III. The Land of the North--Jeremiah, Ether and Esdras' Testimonies--The Course of the Israelites Northward--The Jordan, the Don, the Danube, etc.--The Land of Mæsia and Dacia-The Getæ Zalmoxes. CHAPTER IV. Israel's Journey Northward--Esdras and Modern Revelation Compared-The Testimony of Jesus to the Nephites--Ephraim to be gathered from all Countries--The Coasts of the Earth--The Ancestors of the Latter-day Saints. CHAPTER V. The Origin of the Anglo-Saxons--Derivation of the Word Saxon--The Goths and Vandals--Overthrow of the Roman Empire--The Mythology of the Ancient Scandinavians--Baldur--Their early Literature. CHAPTER VI. The Numerous Identifications Considered--Religion and Laws of the Ancient Northern Races--Free Masonry--Language CHAPTER VII. Salvation a Gift to all--God's Covenant with Abraham--Proselytes--The Dispersion--Conclusion. ARE WE OF ISRAEL? "Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the world with fruit"--_Isaiah_. CHAPTER I. _Introductory--The promises of God to Abraham and his Posterity--The seed of Joseph in America--The journey of the Ten Tribes northward--Ephraim mixed with all nations-The testimony of President Brigham Young_. The belief that the Latter-day Saints hold that the great majority of their number are of the house of Israel, and heirs to the promises made to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, like many other portions of their faith, has received the ridicule of the unthinking and the contempt of the ungodly. However, it is not our present intention to answer such, but to seek to adduce evidence outside of the sure word of modern revelation, to prove that the Latter-day Saints have good reasons, drawn from history and analogy, for believing the words of their Patriarchs who, in blessing them, pronounce them of the house of Abraham and of the promised seed of Jacob.