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Author: John Taylor

History and tradition combine to give us a picture of the earliest missionaries of the Christian faith to the southern part of France. We find many well known characters from the New Testament who sowed the seeds of the Gospel to the peoples of Provence and elsewhere.

The history of this period is often criticized because it is compounded both of written records and local legends. This book shows with absolute clarity that legends and records dovetail in together, each being substantiated by the other. Of particular interest are the references culled from Churches founded by the Saints who were companions of Jesus during His ministry. Such evidences can only be obtained in the places concerned, and the pilgrimage made by the author to the Churches of France and nearby countries have produced most impressive proof of the antiquity of the Church planted among the Celts of Western Europe and Britain.

Because of his strict devotion to detail and much time spent in travel to those sites where his subject matter was located the author was able to, within the pages of this excellent work, combine history and tradition to give us a picture of the earliest missionaries of Christian Faith to the southern part of France. It depicts their selfless devotion, their achievements, and in some cases their martyrdom for the sake of the Faith of Christ.

Here, in this Faith strengthening book, we find the names of such well known characters from the New Testament as the two Maries, Martha, Lazarus, Zaccheus, and others, who sowed the seeds of the Gospel to the people of Provence, and elsewhere.

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Author: Col. J. C. Gawler

An 1880 reprint of the Tribe of Dan's early enterprises and their settlements and connections with the Scythians. Traces the Danaans or Danes of Scandinavia, Ireland, and Scotland back to the Tribe of Dan.

The Tribe of Dan, by its enterprise and vigour, has made itself one of the most conspicuous branches of Jacob's family. Its ancestor was the son of one of the concubines, and was the firstborn of Rachel's household. "God has judged me", said Rachel, and she called his name "Dan", which means to judge, to rule; and this word, perhaps on that occasion first started as a surname has been perpetuated as a title in the Gothic, Anglo-Saxon and English. In these languages Din, Dun, Don and Dan, signify ruler, master. The expression is repeatedly used by Shakespeare, Spenser, Chauser, Prior and others. The Spanish, too, from close contact for ages with the Hebrew, has engrafted it in their title of Don; it is in use in the universities to designate a professor or university official.

How often do we see in the Bible that the name of an individual, foreshadows the character and career. Dan's name given by Rachel implies authority and vigour, and Jacob, when bestowing his blessings (Gen. 49:16), repeats and confirms it: "Dan shall judge his people", said the venerable patriarch, and proceeded to name other characteristics implying great wisdom and astuteness. The serpent is the scriptural symbol of wisdom (Gen. 3:1; Matt. 10:16) : In dealing with foes his plans would be laid with wisdom and secrecy, and his action would be unlooked for and rapid.

Thus begins the opening chapter of this 1880 reprint of the Tribe of Dan's early enterprises and their settlements and connections with the Scythians. The Danaans, or Danes of Scandinavia, Ireland and Scotland are traced back to the Tribe of Dan.

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Author: Miss E. O. Gordon

A thorough analysis of prehistorical, pre-Christian, Britain. This scholarly account includes detailed descriptions and information of an ancient land with its strange mounds and circles that bear witness to Britain's early culture and religion. Gordon begins with the following:

'The history of a nation is the history of its religion, its attempts to seek after and serve its God,' says an old writer. Of no nation or country is this more true than of Great Britain, where from the standing stones of Stennis in Orkney, to the Maen Ambres in Cornwall -- the prehistoric remains of open-air sanctuaries -- artificial mounds and scientifically constructed astronomical circles, bear witness to the vigour and vitality of a national religion, which has already passed from the primitive into the metaphysical stage, and embodies abstract ideas, astronomical observations and a high and pure code of morals. From the comparative study of antiquity in Chaldea, Arabia, Persia, and Palestine, we now know this religion to have been Druidism, one of the oldest religions in the world, and in its Asiatic and Semitic form of Buddhism, the religion still of one-half of mankind.

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Author: R. W. Morgan

That St. Paul planted Christianity in the British Isles over five centuries before the arrival of St. Augustine is well-documented from little known sources by the Rev. R. W. Morgan, in 1860. His research determined that Christianity was first introduced into Britain by Joseph of Arimathea around 36-39 A.D.; followed by the apostle Simon Zelotes; then by Aristobulus, the first bishop of the Britons; then by St. Paul.

It's first converts were members of the royal family of Siluria...that is, Gladys, the sister of Caradoc, Gladys ( Claudia ) and Eurgen his daughters, Linus his son, converted in Britain before they were carried into captivity to Rome; then Caradoc, Bran, and the rest of the family, converted at Rome.

Two of the most rigid Roman Catholics of their period, Polydore Vergil in the reign of Henry VII, and after him Cardinal Pole ( A.D. 1555 ), affirmed in Parliament, that "Britain was the first of all countries to receive the Christian faith." Genebrard stated "The glory of Britain consists not only in this, that she was the first country which in a national capacity publicly professed herself Christian, but that she made this confession when the Roman empire itself was Pagan and a cruel persecutor of Christianity." Another example of this opinion, was well expressed by Sabellius when he said "Christianity was privately confessed elsewhere, but the first nation that proclaimed it as their religion, and called itself Christian after the name of Christ, was Britain" . . . and numerous other instances where the fact of the Christian faith being first established in England, was known and acknowledged in an official capacity, are mentioned by the author.

Morgan supplies historical facts that support the claim of the early arrival in Britain, following the crucifixion of Christ, of Joseph of Arimathea and his company, including Lazarus, Mary, Martha, Marcella, and Maximin. They came at the invitation of certain high ranking Druids from Marseilles into Britain around 38 - 39 A.D., building the first church on the Isle of Avalon.

Of particular interest to the Christian reader is the connection between St. Paul and the Royal Silurian family of Britain. Evidence abounds that Paul was on good terms with the mother of Rufus Pudens, with Pudens himself, with Claudia his wife, and Linus. The children of Claudia and Pudens were instructed in the faith by none other than Paul. The eldest was baptised Timotheus, after Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus, the apostle's "beloved son in Christ." Paul lived, according to all evidence, with the Claudian family, whenever he was in Rome, whether he was in custody at large or free. The close relationship Paul enjoyed with the Claudian family in Rome, provided him with a golden opportunity to journey to Britain, and because of the strong influences of that family in their native country, to receive a warm, and enthusiastic reception on his arrival.

Because of its vast quantity of footnotes and documentation, this book is a must as a reference tool for any library, as well as being an entertaining account of the early expansion of the Christian faith.

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Author: Helene Koppejan

Strange Indeed - but true!

The dying Jacob's blessing to his son Zebulun foretells what would befall his future descendants. Many Scripture passages indicate that the Zebulun people are found today in the Netherlands.

"Some years ago I happened to overhear a conversation that mentioned a film that purported to identify the Netherlands with one of the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel that disappeared in Assyrian captivity. The film had been produced by a Dutch family living in Glastonbury, England. I immediately went to Glastonbury where I met a fellow researcher in a subject I had been studying for many years. What a thrill to meet Helene Koppejan whose painstaking research, I found, contributed so much to my understanding of the Dutch people.

Helene had not only produced a film on the strange parallel between the Netherlands and ZEBULUN, a tribe of Israel, but also a book on the same subject. I had wondered in the past about the possibility of the Dutch being of Zebulun because of Jacob's blessing on Zebulun. These prophetic blessings made reference to ships and the Dutch were one of the greatest maritime nations of modern history. After viewing the film Strange Parallel I was firmly convinced the Dutch were predominantly of the tribe of Zebulun.

Helene shared my desire that her work be made available to the people of the United States, many of whom are of Dutch descent, and graciously gave me permission to publish this American edition of her book Strange Parallel." - E. Raymond Capt