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The Coronation Chair. " Behold the ' Lia Phael ' ! " 
 
 Frontispiece. 
 
Uictoria 
 
 Queen of flnglo=T$rael 
 
 A PROSE EPIC 
 BY 
 
 NELLIE DEANS TAYLOR 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS BY 
 
 AUGUSTUS GEORGE HEATON 
 
 new york & washington 
 
 The Neale Publishing Company 
 
 1903 
 
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THE LIBRARY OF 
 CONGRESS. 
 
 1 wo Copies Received 
 
 AUG fl 1903 
 
 Copyright Entry 
 
 CUSS A- XX* No. 
 
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 COPY 8. 
 
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 Copyright, 1903 
 By The Neale Publishing Company 
 
'frhe Author has adopted the style of old 
 English used in the King James ver- 
 sion of the Bible, with due reverence, to 
 show the apparent unity of the history of 
 Israel and Anglo -Israel. 
 
Dedicated 
 
 to 
 
 mr$. Anna maria Dandridge $mitb 
 
Preface 
 
 This writing is not intended to 
 be of a controversial nature. A 
 number of traditions and authentic 
 facts, with the strange coinci- 
 dences noted, have been thrown 
 together into a prose epic, which it 
 is hoped will be acceptable for its 
 literary merit, and as suggesting 
 a solution of the marvelous do- 
 minion of the Anglo-Saxon race 
 in all parts of the earth. 
 
 Rosewll" 
 
 June 20 , 1903. 
 
 ix 
 
Uictoria 
 
 Queen of flnglo-Tsrael 
 
Uictoria 
 
 Queen of flttglo Israel 
 
 /^V ow it came to pass, after Israel 
 \£r was carried away from the 
 land of their fathers, in captivity 
 and punishment for their idolatries 
 and sins against the God of Abra- 
 ham, Isaac, and Jacob, that the 
 Lord scattered them among the 
 nations of the earth " as fine as 
 wheat" (as the prophets had 
 
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 spoken), "yet was none lost," save 
 to the histories and knowledge of 
 men. 
 
 But the tribe of Judah remained 
 yet at Jerusalem, according to the 
 promise of the Lord unto Solomon 
 (I Kings xi : 13), while the lost 
 tribes of Israel wandered to and 
 fro among the nations, " persecuted 
 but not forsaken " ; till many for- 
 got the land of their fathers and 
 were forgotten of them. 
 
 And as they sought out a new 
 land, where the soles of their feet 
 might find rest from the sins and 
 oppressions of the nations, a rem- 
 
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 nant gathered themselves into " the 
 islands of the uttermost parts of 
 the West," now called the Islands 
 of Britain. And they dwelt among 
 the people, and became of one blood 
 with them, and sought to be brave 
 and true of heart. 
 
 So the Lord remembered His 
 people (though they knew Him 
 not), and His promise to the chil- 
 dren of Jacob, that He would turn 
 when they turned unto righteous- 
 ness, and that verily no weapon 
 formed against them should pros- 
 per. So that when Julius, sur- 
 named Caesar, over-ran all the 
 
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 earth, lie subdued not Britain, for 
 the sake of the remnant that was 
 therein. Yet Caesar made him 
 strongholds there for a time. 
 
 And the tribe of Judah, which 
 was left as a remnant at Jerusalem 
 in Judea, abode there for an hun- 
 dred and twenty years, after the 
 lost tribes of Israel were carried 
 away ; but in the reign of Zed- 
 ekiah, the last of the kings of 
 Judah, he and " all but the lowest 
 sort " of his people were carried 
 captive unto Babylon b}' Nebu- 
 chadnezzar. 
 
 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of 
 
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 Babylon, slew all the sons of Zed- 
 ekiah before his face, and put out 
 his eyes, lest, seeing other sights, 
 he should forget that dreadful mo- 
 ment ! But Jeremiah the Prophet 
 took the king's daughter Circa, a 
 little maiden of tender years, and 
 fled with her into Egypt, to Tah- 
 penes, the palace of Jeremiah, 
 which is known to wise men unto 
 this day. (The palace and its 
 mural inscriptions were discovered 
 in Egypt by Dr. Petrie, the archae- 
 ologist, in 1886. See also II Kings 
 
 xxv : 26.) 
 
 And he dwelt there in peace, for 
 
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 a remnant of the people fled also 
 into Egypt. 
 
 Now Jeremiah the Prophet was 
 the father of Hamutal (see II Kings 
 xxiv : 18), the wife of Josiah and 
 the mother of Zedekiah, kings of 
 Jndah; so that the royal maiden 
 Circa was the great-grandchild of 
 Jeremiah the Prophet. 
 
 And the Prophet knew that Her- 
 emon, a prince of Israel, dwelt in 
 the " uttermost parts of the West " 
 (now called Ireland) and that his 
 people called him " Tuatha de 
 Danan," which in the Celtic 
 tongue is " Prince of the Tribe 
 of Dan." 
 
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 And Jeremiah the Prophet took 
 the royal maiden Circa, and the 
 Coronation Stone, which he had 
 taken in his flight from the Temple 
 at Jerusalem, and he set forth across 
 the seas, until he came to the land 
 of Heremon, which is Ireland as 
 is known at this day. 
 
 Now, the Coronation Stone, 
 known of many as the " Dominion 
 Stone/' is the pillow whereon Jacob 
 slept when he saw the vision of 
 the angels of God ascending and 
 descending the ladder of Heaven. 
 And Jacob called the place "Bethel" 
 (the House of God), and he set up 
 
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 the stone for a pillar, and ponred 
 oil upon it, and consecrated it to be 
 an altar nnto the God of Jacob, who 
 snrnamed him Is-ra-el (a Prince of 
 God), and blessed him and his seed 
 forever (Genesis xxviii : 13 and 
 xxxv : 10, 11, 12). 
 
 And all the kings of Jndah, from 
 Sanl and David, even unto Zed- 
 ekiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar car- 
 ried captive unto Babylon, were 
 crowned beside the Coronation 
 Stone, which they kept in the 
 Temple at Jerusalem, from the 
 days of Solomon till Jeremiah fled 
 into Egypt with the stone and the 
 maiden of the royal line of David. 
 
" And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon 
 him and gave him the testimony. (And behold the king stood by a 
 pillar, as the manner was.) And they made him king and anointed 
 him ; and they clapped their hands and said : 
 
 " 'God save the King ! ' " 
 
 (II Kings xi: It, U.) 
 
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 And it came to pass when Her- 
 emon, Prince of the Tribe of Dan, 
 beheld Circa, that his soul longed 
 for the maiden, for she was very 
 fair, as Sarah, and Rachel, and 
 Rebekah were fair to look upon. 
 
 And Heremon besought the 
 Prophet to give him the maiden 
 to be his wife. Then Jeremiah 
 opened all his heart unto Here- 
 mon, and told him that Circa, his 
 great-grandchild, was of the seed 
 royal of Judah, a Princess of the 
 Line of David ! 
 
 And at Tara he gave him the 
 maiden in marriage, and blessed 
 
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 them and crowned them beside the 
 Coronation Stone, and left it to be 
 a sign unto them, and to their 
 children, a witness to God's cove- 
 nant with Israel, their father. 
 And Heremon and his people 
 called it " Lia Phael " (The Stone 
 Wonderful), for it was the sole 
 witness of Jehovah's promise unto 
 Jacob : " Thy seed shall be as the 
 dust of the earth; thou shalt 
 spread abroad to the west and to 
 the east, to the north and to the 
 south ; and in thee and in thy seed 
 shall all the nations of the earth 
 be blessed. 
 
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 U A nation and a company of na- 
 tions shall come ont of thee, and 
 kings shall come ont of thy loins. 
 I will keep thee in all places 
 whithersoever thou goest, and will 
 bring thee again into this land, 
 the land of Canaan." 
 
 And the Irish people of old 
 called their altars " Bethels," as is 
 known of the wise to this day. 
 And in the fulness of time Paul, 
 the Apostle, traveled to " the ut- 
 termost parts of the west " and 
 founded the Early British Church, 
 and the people knew thus the 
 God of their fathers as Emmanuel 
 (" God-with-us"). 
 
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 What need to tell of the gather- 
 ing of the scattered and lost tribes, 
 the Angles, the Jutes, the Saxons, 
 and others into the Islands of 
 Britain, and of their wars and of 
 their mighty acts ? For these 
 wars are written in the chronicles 
 of all nations and are known of 
 all men. 
 
 And it came to pass that Fer- 
 gus I carried the " Lia Phael," the 
 Coronation Stone, from Ireland 
 into Scotland, and placed it in the 
 seat of his Coronation Chair, in 
 the royal stronghold at Scone. 
 For it was precious to him and to 
 
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 all the Scottish kings of the line 
 royal of Heremon and Circa. 
 Bnt in the year 1299 Edward I, of 
 England, made war npon Scotland 
 and carried away the royal treas- 
 ures and the Coronation Chair, 
 from Scone to London, his chief 
 city, and he placed it at Westmin- 
 ster Abbey. And from that time 
 all the Kings and Queens of En- 
 gland have sat upon the Corona- 
 tion Chair when crowned, even 
 unto this day. Thus, when 
 James, the King of Scotland, came 
 to Westminster Abbey to be 
 crowned King of England, he sat 
 
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 upon the seat of his fathers, upon 
 the Coronation Stone, the Li a 
 Phael, the Bethel, the pillow 
 whereon Jacob slept ! 
 
 Now James loved the word of 
 God ; and he was learned and very- 
 wise, and thought much on all 
 these things. And he placed the 
 Scottish Lion, the Lion of the 
 Tribe of Judah, on the shield 
 of Anglo-Israel, even as it is unto 
 this day. And he called together 
 his wise men and he bade them 
 seek out the Word of God from all 
 strange tongues, and he caused it 
 to be written in the tongue of the 
 
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 common people, that all the people 
 might know the Lord and His 
 Word, "which giveth wisdom unto 
 the simple. " And the word of God, 
 this English Bible, is known of 
 men as the King James Version 
 even unto this day. 
 
 And the people waxed strong 
 and multiplied and honored the 
 Lord, His Word, and His Sab- 
 baths. (For the Lord had afore- 
 time delivered them from the 
 invincible Spanish Armada, 
 and had scattered their enemies 
 from the coasts of Anglo-Israel 
 with a mighty storm wind.) And 
 
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 the people increased yet more and 
 more, till the bounds of the Is- 
 lands were too narrow for them, 
 and they spread abroad over the 
 seas and the islands thereof " to 
 the west and to the east, to the 
 north and to the south," even ac- 
 cording to the promise of the God 
 of Israel at Bethel. And they 
 carried with them the Standards 
 of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah 
 unto the uttermost bounds of the 
 earth, and through the people of 
 Anglo-Israel have the ends of the 
 earth been blessed with Freedom 
 and Law, and with the love of God 
 
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 and of his Sabbaths, and of " the 
 open Bible," for by the month of 
 the Psalmist the Lord hath pro- 
 claimed : 
 
 "jUDAH IS MY LAW GIVER." 
 
 Now when James was long dead, 
 there were wars and rumors of 
 wars, more than can here be told. 
 But after many days there was 
 peace among all the Nations and 
 Tribes of Anglo-Israel of the Is- 
 lands, and of Ango-Israel beyond 
 the Sea, which is the United 
 States of America, a people made 
 up of " a Company of Nations," 
 
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 from a family of thirteen colonies, 
 even as the sons of Jacob, with 
 the half-tribes of Ephrium and 
 Manasseh were thirteen in num- 
 ber. 
 
 And in those days Victoria was 
 Queen of Anglo-Israel of the 
 Islands, and these be the genera- 
 tions of Victoria. 
 
 For she is of the seed of James 
 of Scotland, of the line of Fergus, 
 of the line of Heremon, and Circa, 
 the daughter of Zedekiah, the son 
 of Josiah, King of Judah, and of 
 his wife Hamutal, the daughter of 
 Jeremiah the Prophet. 
 
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 Now Josiah was of the seed 
 royal of David, the son of Jesse, 
 who was of the seed of Jacob, son 
 of Isaac, son of Abraham, u the 
 friend of God," nnto whom the 
 Lord said: " Thy name shall be 
 Abraham, a father of many 
 nations. I will make thee exceed- 
 ing fruitful and kings shall come 
 out of thee" (Genesis xvii). 
 
 Now Victoria's first name was 
 " Alexandria," and she was wisely 
 and tenderly reared by her mother, 
 and they told her not that she was 
 next heir to the crown of England. 
 
 But when she was near to years 
 
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 of discretion, they gave her a table 
 of the genealogies of the English 
 Kings and she saw that she was 
 next in line to the King, her nncle, 
 and he was well stricken in years 
 and had no child. Then Victoria 
 knelt down and vowed a vow 
 to the Lord, the God of her 
 fathers, that she would serve Him 
 and rule the people in the fear of 
 Him all the days of her life. (See 
 Mrs. Oliphant's history of "The 
 Queen.") 
 
 And when her uncle, William 
 the King, was gathered unto his 
 fathers, Victoria was crowned by 
 
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 the Archbishop in the Temple at 
 Westminster, and he gave her 
 the English Bible, even as the 
 High Priest of old gave nnto her 
 fathers in the Temple at Jerusa- 
 len "the testimony," which is the 
 Law of Moses. 
 
 And she was anointed with oil 
 and was crowned Qneen, and the 
 people of Anglo-Israel cried with 
 a lond voice, "God save the 
 Qneen!" (II Kings xi 19-12.) 
 
 And she sat upon the seat of the 
 Coronation Chair of Scone, where- 
 upon every Queen and King of 
 Anglo-Israel hath sat for 800 years. 
 
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 Now the chair is of black oak, 
 wrought in the Gothic manner, 
 and carved with signs and names 
 of great men of old. And under 
 the seat of it is a stone, which is 
 thirty inches long, eighteen inches 
 wide and twelve inches thick ; and 
 behold it is the Lia Phael of 
 Heremon and Circa, from the 
 pillar of the Temple at Jerusalem, 
 whereby their Kings were crown- 
 ed, "as the manner was" (II 
 Kings xi:i4), and beside which 
 they made their covenant to rule 
 in the fear of the Lord God of 
 Israel (II Kings xxiii:3). 
 
"And she was anointed with oil and was crowned Queen, and 
 the people of Anglo-Israel cried with a loud voice : 
 " ' Gon save the Queen ! ' " 
 
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QUEEN OF ANGLO-ISRAEL 35 
 
 And Anglo-Israel rejoiced 
 greatly at the coronation of the 
 Queen; and they called her no 
 more Alexandria; they named her 
 " Victoria." 
 
 And in her the nation hath been 
 greatly blessed, so as never before, 
 and in all the regions of the earth. 
 Yet had she great sorrow; for 
 Albert, the husband of her youth, 
 was taken away in the midst of 
 his days, and the Queen, and her 
 sons and her daughters, and her 
 people mourned for him greatly, 
 and for the love of him the Queen 
 remained a widow all the days of 
 her life. 
 
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 But the Lord blessed her and 
 multiplied her exceedingly; for 
 her sons and her daughters, unto 
 the third and fourth generations, 
 have sat upon her knees; and 
 behold there are fourscore sons 
 and daughters of Victoria, the 
 Queen of Anglo-Israel, and of 
 thein are Kings and Queens of 
 many nations, even as God prom- 
 ised in his covenant with Abra- 
 ham, Isaac, and Jacob. 
 
 He hath multiplied the people 
 also exceedingly and they " dwell 
 and have dominion in the tents of 
 Shem" (India and other Asiatic 
 
QUEEN OF ANGLO-ISRAEL 37 
 
 possessions), for their hand is in 
 the neck of their enemies (Gen. 
 xlix:8), and they spread abroad 
 more and more, over all lands and 
 islands npon the face of the earth.* 
 And behold the snn never sets npon 
 the dominions under the standards 
 of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah ! 
 
 *The British Empire is thrice the size of 
 Europe, with treble the population of all the 
 Russias; it extends over 11,000,000 of square 
 miles ; it occupies the fifth part of the globe ; 
 it contains over one-fifth of the human race, that 
 is, 350,000,000 of people ; it embraces four con- 
 tinents, and more than to.ooo islands, 500 prom- 
 ontories and 2,000 rivers. It is estimated that 
 the British Empire possesses one-third of the 
 sheep upon the earth, one-fourth of the cattle 
 and one-twelfth of the horses; and the total 
 shipping under the British flag is 10,452,000 tons. 
 
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 And seeing what marvelous 
 things God had wrought in her 
 day, and how He had magnified 
 her and her people, Victoria, the 
 Empress-Queen, caused a proc- 
 lamation to be sent forth to all 
 lands that she would keep the 
 sixtieth year of her reign for a 
 jubilee unto the Lord. 
 
 And when the day set in mem- 
 ory of her coronation was fully 
 come, behold there were thous- 
 ands and tens of thousands of 
 people of Anglo-Israel, and of the 
 States beyond the seas, and from 
 all the whole world, who came to 
 
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 London, her chief city, to greet 
 Victoria and to witness the glori- 
 ous pageants in honor of her. 
 
 For there were twenty score 
 vessels of war for her naval 
 review, hundreds of furlongs of 
 floating steel ships, besides the 
 naval display of all the great 
 foreign powers. 
 
 And on the set day for the feast 
 of the Coronation, the Queen and 
 all her house arose up early in the 
 morning and went up quietly to 
 the house of the Lord, and par- 
 took of His Holy Feast, in great 
 humility and thankfulness. 
 
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 And later the processions form- 
 ed, and there were fifty princes of 
 the blood -royal riding npon 
 horses, and there were princesses 
 and noble ladies, glittering with 
 orders and jewels, riding in car- 
 riages. 
 
 And there were soldiers with 
 helmets and breast-plates and 
 uniforms of scarlet and green and 
 blue and gold, with flags and 
 pennons of many colors, glowing 
 and waving, with all the people 
 shouting and cheering. 
 
 And there was a pause for a 
 short space; then a chariot with 
 
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 eight cream-colored horses came 
 onward, bearing the Empress- 
 Queen. 
 
 And the voice of the multitude 
 was as the crash of a peal of 
 thunder when they greeted 
 Victoria, and the people sang 
 together as with one voice, u God 
 Save the Queen!" 
 
 And the procession moved on 
 to the Temple of Saint Paul, and 
 the Archbishops came forth and 
 blessed her in the name of the 
 Lord; and the people waiting 
 without in throngs and multitudes 
 stood silent and uncovered while 
 
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 the massed choirs of the London 
 Churches chanted : 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God; we 
 acknowledge Thee to be the 
 Lord ! » 
 
 And the people remained silent 
 and with bared heads, even until 
 the Archbishop had given the final 
 blessing. 
 
 And the people that had come 
 from other lands were astonished 
 at their reverence and at their love 
 for their Queen. 
 
 And Alexandra, the wife of the 
 Queen's eldest son, gave a great 
 feast on that day to the poor of 
 
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 London, and she fed bountifully 
 tens upon tens of thousands, even 
 to the number of fifteen score 
 thousand souls. 
 
 And the people of the United 
 States, of Anglo-Israel beyond the 
 seas, rejoiced also in the glory of 
 the Empress-Queen, for are they 
 not the "Lion's Whelp"?* 
 
 And there was feasting and re- 
 joicing in London for many days, 
 of Anglo-Israel and of the stran- 
 gers within her gates. 
 
 *The gathering of the people of the United 
 States in little over a century suggests a further 
 winnowing of the Lost Tribes and a fulfilment of 
 Jacob's prophesy regarding Judah, " Unto Him 
 shall the gathering of the people be." (Genesis 
 xlix: 10.) 
 
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 And one of those that stood by 
 and saw all these things, the glory 
 and the greetings, and the tributes 
 from all nations upon earth, said : 
 "Behold, O Empress-Queen," all 
 the triumphs of ancient Rome, all 
 the pageants of all the earth, are 
 as nothing to this thy jubilee! 
 Whence is it that the Lord of all 
 the earth hath thus blessed thee 
 and magnified thee above all the 
 kings and rulers that are upon the 
 face of the earth ? " 
 
 And the Empress-Queen, Vic- 
 toria, the daughter of the seed of 
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, spake 
 
 LofC. 
 
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 not one word, but for answer laid 
 her hand upon the English Bible, 
 the Word of God, which, with the 
 English standards of the Lion of 
 the Tribe of Judah, hath gone forth 
 into all the earth to accomplish the 
 thing whereunto He sent it, till 
 in the last days "the knowledge of 
 the Lord shall cover the earth as 
 the waters cover the sea ! " 
 
 And behold the u Lia Phael," 
 "the Stone Wonderful," of the 
 seat of the Coronation Chair, which 
 was the sole witness of the bless- 
 ing of God unto Jacob, was as it 
 were a testimony of the faithful- 
 
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 ness of Him who promised : " Thy 
 seed shall be as the dust of the 
 earth, as the stars of the heavens 
 innumerable, as the sands upon 
 the sea-shore which no man may 
 number ! " 
 
 And behold now this Princess of 
 the royal line of David hath been 
 called to go the way of all the 
 earth ; and the peoples and the 
 princes and the chief men and 
 women of all known nations have 
 united in tributes of love and sor- 
 row, and her princely dust rests 
 with that of the husband of her 
 youth, in the hope of a joyful res- 
 
" As the dust of the earth, 
 As the stars of the heavens innumerable, 
 As the sands upon the sea-shore 
 Which no man may number." 
 
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 urrection, when the God of her 
 fathers shall give her " the Crown 
 of Life " reserved for them who are 
 "faithful unto death!" 
 
 Once more a King of the Tribe 
 of Judah hath received the crown 
 and the testimony, having been 
 anointed with the oil " as the 
 manner was " in the Temple at 
 Jerusalem, and Victoria's son sits 
 upon the seat of the Coronation 
 Chair, the pillar of Israel at Bethel, 
 the Lia Phael of Heremon and 
 Circa, the Dominion Stone of 
 Fergus of Scotland and Edward of 
 England, which keepeth its solemn 
 
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 vigil while the cry goeth up from 
 thousands and tens of thousands of 
 Anglo-Israel of the Islands and 
 beyond the seas : 
 God Save King Edward VII ! 
 
AUG 11 1903