It is a curious fact, and well worth noticing, that the famous witness of
the Lord of hosts in Egypt, the Great Pyramid, forecasts what the number
of Israel and Judah would be in the year 1882. As Israel is symbolised
in the Grand Gallery, it is found that the cubic contents of the same, in
inches, is about 36,000,000; thus by some this is interpreted to mean
that inches stand for individuals, and if so, then England proper will
have this number in 1880. Whether this is a true interpretation or not,
we all know that these figures will be about right. The Queen’s Chamber
of the Pyramid symbolises the number and condition of the Jews.
From these two prophecies, so sublimely fulfilling, let me invite your
attention to another that is now maturing. It, too, is parallel with the
other two. We refer to the peculiar growth, power, and progress of the
English language. After Israel went into captivity, they were to lose
their language and take or form another. “For with stammering lips and
another tongue will He speak to this people” (Isa. xxviii. 11). We will
all agree that the English language is not the Hebrew; and if we are
Israelites, then indeed God is speaking to us in another tongue, for few
of us read His Word in Hebrew. It is read to the millions in the
English; hence the millions hear God speak to them in another tongue than
that of Hebrew. Between the English and Hebrew languages there is an
intimate relation, especially back a few years, before the English had
grown so much. The Hebrew was a very limited language; not numbering
more than 7,000 words. The English is now said to number about 80,000.
The most lavish writer does not use over 10,000; the common average is
about 3,000. In the English we have not less than 1,000 Hebrew roots.
This, comparing the languages a few years back, is a large percentage.
In names of persons and places the Hebrew is very prominent in England.
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