was a sacred number of the Hebrews, and such an abomination to the Egyptians that Sir Gardner Wilkinson speaks of five as being the evil number of Egypt still. That number is marked O on their watches (Murray's Handbook, 1864, p. 142), and 5X5, or anything made up of five was repulsive to Pharaoh's people.

With the representation of the Shekinah considered as a unit and the camp of the Hebrews as four-square, we have the formula 1+4=5, the marching column of five, and the measures of the Temple of Solomon, 5, 10, 20, 30 cubits. The Ark of Noah and the New Jerusalem Temple are measured by the 5X5 inch cubit of the Pyramid. Four great heathen monarchies have desolated Jerusalem. The coming nation which shall possess the world-power is the fifth, and in the fifth thousandth year of the Great Pyramid. Five crosses on the altars of Christendom mark the five wounds in the body of Israel's King; no wonder that to the Egyptians it was an evil number.

The President's flag may be noticed here, although it is not strictly a national flag. Note the four and five. According to Army Regulations, March 28, 1898, the presidential banner is of scarlet silk or bunting, with a fivepointed gold star in each of the four corners, in the center a large fifth star; within this fifth star a smaller star forming a blue field, upon which is emblazoned the American eagle with wings outspread. On the scarlet field around the large star are other gold stars, one for each State in the Union. The flag is floated over a military or naval station during a presidential visit.

In the Army and Navy of the United States there is no flag, except the "Flag of the Cross" in times of divine service, ever allowed to float above this Star-spangled Banner, the beloved and old historic Flag of the Union-one and inseparable.

We have been thus particular that the reader may see that the flag of the Republic of America was not derived from Gentile sources, but direct from Israel. Like the obverse side of the seal, with which it compares, it has most of the Hebrew numerals. Especially is the Divine Trinity distinctly marked. The three lions on the British shield correspond with the three colors,-red, white, and blue of the flag, a true trinity of colors. The thirteen stars are arranged in "stripes" of three and four in a line,-together forming a six-rayed star, thus representing a double trinity, the same as the double trinities of lions on the British shield. The number seven is found in the narrow stripes on the shield, on the breast of the eagle, and in the number of stars after deducting the double trinity six (the number of the wide stripes on the eagle's breast). And, finally, the thirteen stars, the number of the sons of Jacob, are grouped into one star having six rays, making a third double trinity. Both the Stars and Stripes, like the British crosses, are set in a field of blue.

"Now fling them out to the breeze

Shamrock, thistle and rose.

And the star-spangled banner unfurl with these,
A message to friends and foes,

Wherever the sails of peace are seen,

And wherever the war-wind blows."

THE CAP OF LIBERTY.

The Goddess of Liberty is not unlike the goddess Diana, as usually figured (Acts 19: 35). Liberty is inscribed upon the band coiling her waving locks and also upon the cap at the top of the standard which she bears. The number of letters in the word Liberty is seven, the symbol of perfec

tion. Diana was the goddess of the "sylvan shade" and her name was derived from Dan, the Hebrew, as was Danae of the Greeks, the subject of the "golden shower,”—a type of feminine purity and power in the union,-the white-winged Argos (Argurios), our Ship of State. Her position in the constellation of the seven planets, as they were called, is easily traced to the Phoenicians. Phoebus-the sun-like the sun-god of the Phoenicians, was her brother. She was called Phoebe, which answers to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians (1 Kings 11:5). Her nymphs represented Dan going by sea, and her fifty children are typical of Dan's multiplied posterity.

In volume Ist we have showed that Asia-Minor was settled by the Greeks and mostly by this tribe. We associate the great goddess Diana of Asia with our Israelitish ancestors when we remember that even the Iliad of Homer is a possible reminder of Bible scenes-(1) Troy may correspond to the city of Shechem. The former was overshadowed by Mount Ida, the latter by Gerizim. (2) Shechem is disgraced by the defilement of Dinah, and Troy by the violation of Helen. (3) Abimelech was brought to authority while dwelling under an oak (Troy had its sacred beech) which might have been the sanctuary where Abraham worshipped. Jove is represented as often appearing to the Greeks. Troy was rased utterly and Shechem was sowed with salt. Thus, the Thracians, Greeks, became Thr-Asian when in Asia. These facts are recognized in the honorable place the Cap of Liberty bears among the emblems.

"Stretch forth! stretch forth from South to North;
From East to West, stretch forth! stretch forth!
Strengthen thy stakes, and lengthen thy cords,
The world is a tent for the world's true lords,
Break forth and spread over every place,
The world is a world for the Saxon race.

Britain sowed the glorious seed,

In her wise old laws and her pure old creed;

And her stout old heart and her plain old tongue, And her resolute energies ever young,

And her free bold hand and her frank fair face,

And her faith in the rule of the Saxon race,

Feebly dwindling day by day,

All other races are fading away,

The sensual South and the servile East,

And the tottering throne of the treacherous priest, And every land is in evil case,

But the wide-spread realm of the Saxon race.

Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen all,

By one great name on your millions I call;
Norman, American, Gael or Celt,

Into this, this fine mixed mass ye melt,
And all the best of your best, I trace,

In the gold and the brass of the Saxon race."

Republican-born, from tide to tide,

Nursed at the springs from the mountain side,
Fanned by the breeze and rocked by the gale,
Deep-seated and firm, she cannot fail ;

For her Shield and Eagle and Stars shall shine,
Over land and sea, in their ancient prime.

Hebrews everywhere, faithful and free,
Lords of the land and Kings of the sea;
Ye hundred of millions, my word is to you,
With courage and zeal be honest and true,

Love and be loved, as brothers embrace,

That the world may be blessed in the ancient race.

THE NEW ENSIGN.

We may expect at no distant day a federation of the Saxon peoples when all the Hebrew tribes will be under one administration. An effort is being made to establish a commercial union between Canada and the United States and also with the Mother Country. Some even go so far as to favor a political union. Since the war with Spain the oldtime friendship again appears and a more intimate union may be necessary for defence in the West and far East. God is moving in a large circle.

What is the voice I hear

On the wind of the western sea?
Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear,
And say what the voice may be.
""Tis a proud, free people calling loud
To a people proud and free."

Answer them, sons of the selfsame race,
And blood of the selfsame clan,

Let us speak with each other, face to face,
And answer as man to man,

And loyally love and trust each other

As none but free men can.

-Alfred Austin.

We may look for the "lost other" one to be knit again in close brotherly fellowship, for is not Manasseh to have his allotted portion in "Palestine restored" (Ezek. 48:4, 5)? and may we not believe his standard will wave on high with that of Ephraim, when all Israel again possesses the land God gave to Abraham and his descendants for ever? That the Scriptures teach us that there will be one and only one Universal Government to all the tribes of Israel, there can be no doubt. Of Jerusalem restored in a new colonization,