Politicians of Europe have, in the pride of their hearts, arrogated
to themselves that power, which appertains to the Creator; they have
imagined that they hold the world in the hollows of their hands, and
the misery or happiness of millions of human beings has weighed as
nothing in their estimation, against the interests of what they have
designated “our sphere of influence,” but they have forgotten what they
need to be reminded that the Creator is mightier than the creature and
that the eternal law of heaven and earth changeth not for politicians.
“And the First Morning of Creation wrote;
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.”
“Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are
the work of thy hands.
“They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax
old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall
be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.”
When the heavens and earth shall perish, shall wax old as a garment
and be changed as a vesture; whence shall endure the power and
principalities, the empires and spheres of influence of him who is
called man?
“As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the
place thereof shall know it no more.”
THE ORIGIN OF THE ARMENIANS--THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO
ARMENIA--DECLINE & GRAND REVIVAL.
“God shall enlarge Japhet and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and
Canaan shall be his servant.”
For the interpretation of this blessing of Noah’s to his eldest son,
and of how it may or may not have met with its fulfilment, I shall
leave to theologians to discuss, and only record it here as a quotation
from Genesis. Beyond the story of his connection with the flood, and
this blessing with which his father blessed him, and the genealogy
of his sons, we read nothing more in Genesis, of Japhet, this mighty
father of the Caucasian race.
The genealogy in Genesis runs thus:
“The sons of Japhet, Gomer and Magog and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meschech, and Tiras.
“And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
“And the sons of Javan; Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodamin.
“By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every
one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.”
Only the names of the three sons of Gomer, and the four sons of Javan
are given in Genesis, and by these we are told were the isles of the
Gentiles divided. So much for Genesis.
Later history records that these Gentiles spread themselves over part
of that stretch of terra firma which now goes by the name of Europe,
developing their own families, and their own nations, and originating
their own tongues, and also they spread themselves over other parts of
the surface of the globe, populating where they could, ruling where
they could.
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