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basis as Reuben and Simeon and the other sons. of Jacob that became tribes of Israel.

"And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine."

CHAPTER IV.

1. When Moses marched out of Egypt, they standardized the British "hollow square." 2. The banner Americans and English marched under.

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3. How Johnnie Bull got the name Engleland. The French can never understand the Englishman, but can the Yankee, Canadian or Australian.

5. How the Englishmen look to many outsiders.

6. John Bull got his Drinkatite in early Bible days. Does he still retain it?

7. Has Ephraim (England) changed his spots? Not that you would notice!

8. Are British regular soldier officers a stubborn stiffnecked generation? Try them. 9. A typical wounded Tommy and his high standard of duty.

10. Tommy from the uttermost parts of the earth, with God's help, won the war.

11. John Bull a lovable brother when you understand the character behind his mask. 12. What British civil servants and soldiers and sailors have done for the heathen for centuries!

13. President Harding's views of the profound duties God has thrust upon us AngloSaxon-Celts.

CHAPTER IV.

Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt about 1492 B.C., and the same number of years after Christ, the American Continent was discovered by a Spanish Jew, and it has proved no less a land of deliverance to millions of Israelites, Jews and Gentiles alike.

When leaving Egypt, the people marched in sections or groups of three tribes on each side of the Ark of the Tabernacle, and here we get the first example of the British "hollow square,' used by their fighting troops for centuries to repel attacks.

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Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, children and grandchildren of Jacob through Rachel, marched on the west side of the Tabernacle under a banner having a bull's head on it. The word "bull" in Hebrew is Engle, and the tribe of Ephraim later, in their wanderings up and down and across Europe, gradually came to be called by the name of their flag, "Engles" or "Angles." When Ephraim and their followers invaded Britain, does it seem strange that they called the section of the Covenant land they took possession of Engle or Bull Land, and that the name has stuck

down through the ages in the names of Johnnie Bull and his country Engle (or Bull) Land? Also when they came to America they established a new Engle land in Massachusetts. As the Assyrians, the modern Huns, have run true to type through several thousand years, so surely does Johnnie Bull or Ephraim carry down from early Bible days his then prevailing characteristics.

To-day the average Frenchman and most Europeans think the typical Englishman is a proud, haughty mortal, impressed with his own national superiority, which he shows in a manner and with an air that offends them all; but the aforementioned Englishman neither comprehends nor bothers about it. On the other hand, the Yankee, Canadian or Australian, has quite as large an opinion of his particular importance to this world and will tell you all about it without any side or effort to suppress himself, in a way that isn't done "at 'ome" and that shocks the Englishman to the core; but which the Frenchman and European understands and is not offended at. Why?

Isaiah 28:1 says, "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim," and in the 3rd verse for fear they should be overlooked, these characteristics are again repeated: "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet"-as they were at the time that chapter refers to. O, drinking stiff-necked

Ephraim of Bible days, how are you now? Well, after over three years close association with him in all his moods and tenses, I'm of the opinion that he hasn't changed much more than the leopard has his spots. His crown of pride he still wears with an effort hardly concealed, to make himself believe he has none. He would have his drink until he became drunken three thousand years ago and he will have it yet. Some pubs in London are to-day filled with drinking and drunken women. The bulk of the hardy upstanding yeomanry of centuries ago are gone and the war showed such a large percentage of recruits of "class 3" calibre that it appalled the country. Had it not been for the old-fashioned lion hearts discovered in those "class 3" physiques, and brought to the surface by the war, it would have fared much worse with our Allies.

I once asked a war correspondent why it was the newspapers always plastered Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and occasionally the Scotch and Irish with peans of praise for their good fighting work and hardly mentioned the English who formed over sixty-two per cent. of all the British armies on all our fronts. Well, he rather thought, you know, that they didn't expect it. They sure didn't get it anyway! Many times I've felt cheap at seeing only Canadian troops mentioned by the newspapers in a fight when I knew that three-quarters of the fighting,

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