THE COMMERCE OF TYRE AND
THAT OF ENGLAND.
I. Spread of Phoenician com-
merce in Britain, 110. Extract from
Early Man in Britain, by Professor
Dawkins, 110. The merchants
and merchandise of Tyre as enu-
merated by the prophet Ezekiel,
115. First group of countries and
merchandise connected with the
ships of Tyre, 115. Second group
consisting of metals and minerals,
116. Third group of countries, or
"the merchants of Tyre," with
their various imports, 117. The
Geographical or Ethnological con-
nection between Ezek. xxvii. and
Gen. x., 129. List of thirty-eight
places mentioned by Ezekiel, 130.
Classification of Tyrian imports
-minerals, gems, raw materials,
manufactured goods, animals,
vegetable productions, 131. Thirty-
eight imports from foreign lands
specified, 132. Analysis of the
merchandise of Tyre and of the
trades involved, 132. Interesting
Assyrian relic in the British
Museum, with bas-relief of Phoe-
nicians, 134.
II. The Commerce of Modern
England, 136. Special imports
from various Colonies, 138. British
Commerce with reference to the
United Kingdom herself, 139; to
the World, 143. The output of
coal, 139; of iron, 141. Value of
imports to London, 142. Value
of the sea-borne commerce of
British Colonies, 142. Total value
of the imports and exports of the
United Kingdom, 144. Contrast
of her commerce with that of the
whole world, 143, of France and
of the United States, 144. The
registered number of British
vessels and their tonnage, 145.
Aggregate tonnage of the British
Mercantile Marine proper, 145.
Total number of vessels that
entered the ports of the United
Kingdom in 1903, 146. The supre-
macy of Great Britain in com-
merce, 146. The great influence
of England due to her character
and commerce, 147. The Provi-
dence of God recognized therein,
148. Commerce, in itself, not
conducive to spiritual life, 148.
Distribution of land and water
may have respect to the eternal
purpose of God, 150. Commerce,
at present, too much saturated
with dishonesty and fraud, 151;
but should it exist during the
Millennium, it will be conducted
in righteousness, 152.
ence between the Prince and the
King, 156.
The spiritual application of these
types, 157. The City of Tyre re-
presents the people of England as
a nation, in its political, social, and
religious aspects, 157. The Prince
of Tyre sets forth the ecclesiastical
rulers of the English Church, who
wield a political as well as an
ecclesiastical influence, 160. Their
assumed title of successors to
Apostles, 161. Their worldly posi-
tion detrimental to their spiritual
character, 161. True relations of
Church and State illustrated by
the examples of David and Uzziah,
163-4. The King of Tyre sets
forth the mystery of Kingship in
Christendom, and represents the
Monarchy of England, 165. King-
ship has intruded into the spiritual
domain of the Church, since the
time of Henry VIII., 166. The
union of Kingship and Priesthood
a spiritual sin, exemplified in
the Papacy, 166. Monarchy, like
"the anointed cherub," should rule
by the grace of God, for the pro-
tection and blessing of the people;
167. A few Kings in Christendom
are still anointed with the holy
Chrism, 167. Outline of the Ser-
Ivice for the Coronation of King
Edward VII., 168. Stability of
the English Monarchy a cause of
thankfulness to God, 170.
THE PRIVILEGES OF TYRE AND
THOSE OF ENGLAND.
Hewn stones and cedar trees sup-
plied by Hiram, 175. Geology of
Jerusalem, 176. Foundation-stone
of the Temple, 177. Stones with
Phoenician inscriptions made by
the masons of Hiram, 178. Dis-
covery of Vase during excava-
tions, 179. Cedars of Lebanon,
179. The skilled Tyrian workman
Hiram (distinct from King Hiram)
chief artificer in the construction
of the Temple, 181. Brass-work
wrought by him, 181. Destruction
of the Temple, 182. King of Tyre
being "in Eden, the garden of
God," 183. Coasts of Tyre hal-
lowed by the presence of our
Lord, 185. St. Paul at Tyre, 186.
Early Christian converts, 186.
Phoenician idolatry, 186. Tyrian
Christians and Martyrs, 187.
Cathedral, 187. Church built by
the Crusaders, 188.
II. Privileges of England. Literal
-Insular position, 188. Shake-
speare's panegyric, 189; England
a refuge for Royal and other
exiles, 189; Immune from the
French Revolution, 189. Spiritual
Privileges Civil and Religious
Liberty, 190; The preaching of
the Gospel, Circulation of the
Bible, 190. Work of Missionary
Societies, 191. This land chosen
by the Lord for the restoration
of Apostolic Ministry, 192. Ana-
logies between this work and
the building of the Temple at
Jerusalem by Hiram, 192. Promise
of the Lord to pour out His Spirit
"in the latter days"; Prayer for
outpouring of the Spirit, in 1826,
193. Spiritual work in Bavaria,
Scotland, and London, 194. Pro-
phecy once more heard in the
Churches, 195. Warning voice
has bidden Christendom prepare
for the return of the Lord, 196.
He may help His Church in
time of trial and perplexity, 196.
England seems the most suitable
country for this work, 197. Pro-
phetic address to England_by
Jane Lead, 1697, 197. Five
privileges of the King of Tyre
spiritually applied to England,
198. Fire a symbol of the Holy
Ghost, 201. Gifts and graces of
the Spirit set forth by precious
stones, 202. Four spices, form-
ing sweet Incense, typify Inter-
cession in the Christian Church,
203. This Apostolic work is
antitypical to that of Zerub-
babel who reset "the Altar
bases and relaid
upon his
the foundations of the Temple,
204. Christian men should not
look for miracles, 205. Apostles
preached not only "the common
salvation," but also the Gospel of
the Kingdom, 205. Extract from
The Door of Hope for Britain, 206.
Many religious revivals taking
place, 207. Testimony of Apostles
presented to the crowned heads
of Europe, 208, first to Rome,
Austria, and France, 209; Apos-
tolic work different to all others
in its nature and object, 209.
Monarchies of Europe have since
been agitated, but England has
remained tranquil, 209.
216. Pride; self-deification, 216;
trusting to his impregnable posi-
tion, 217. Tyre like a "Holy
Island" to many lands, and
boastful of her ancient sanctuary,
217. Isolation, 218.
III. Sins of the King of Tyre,
218. Violence, 219. Pride, 219.
Defiling his sanctuaries by the in-
iquity of his traffic, 220. Neglect
of privileges, 221. Israel set the
nations a bad example, 221.
B. The Analogous Sins of ENG-
LAND, 222.
I. Sins of the People or Nation
of England, 222. National Pride
rebuked by the Prophet; England
may have sinned in her pride
both national and personal, 223.
Patriotism lawful, exemplified by
our Lord and by St. Paul, 225.
Sins of a Christian nation more
aggravated than those of the
heathen, 226. Pride more hein-
ous in Britain than in ancient
Tyre, 226. Extracts from The
Door of Hope for Britain on our
national sins, 227. Spiritualism
an abomination to the Lord, 228.
Increase of murders may be due
to alien paupers, 230. Drunken-
ness a national reproach, 231.
Impurity, 231. Unrighteousness
in trade, as seen in the matter of
light weights and short measures,
232. Perjury and swearing, 232.
Suicide on the increase, 234. In
1888, a Pan-Anglican Episcopal
Synod held in England, 234.
II. The Sins of the Rulers of the
Church of England, 235. Episco-
pacy claims the same position as
Apostleship, a repetition of the
sin of Diotrephes, 235.
Sins of the Church of England
in boasting of her Liturgy and
Succession, 237. Priding herself
on her Antiquity, 237. Extract
from pamphlet by Edmund
Foulkes on the relation of the
Church of England to that of
Rome, 238. The Church of Eng-
land one of the bulwarks of this
land, 240; but sectarian in spirit
because of her independence or
isolation, 241. She has forgotten
her heavenly calling, and often
sunk to the level of a temporal
institution, 242. The Bishop of
Rome claiming rank as a tem-
poral Sovereign, 242. English
Bishops formerly took princely
rank, 242. Since the time of
Henry VIII., monarchs of this
land have assumed the position
of ecclesiastical heads of the
Church, 243. Testimony of the
Apostles to Archbishops concern-
ing the sacrilegious robbery of
Church property, 243. Election
of Bishops vested in the King,
243. Claim of national inde-
pendence, apart from the Church
Catholic, 244. Traffic in holy
things, 244.
Pluralism once a
crying evil, 245. These sins
spring from mingling things
spiritual and temporal, 245.
III. The Sins of the Monarchy
of England, 246. Spoliation of
Monasteries an Act of the Crown,
246. Inefficiency of the "Con-
stitutions of Clarendon," 247.
Penalties of præmunire, 248.
Clergy forced to yield to will of
the King, 248. The Church has
become an engine of Govern-
ment, and is fettered by her
political relation to the State,
having no power to legislate or
act in Convocation, 250. Quota-
tion from Green's History of the
English People on the position of
the English Church, 231. Spolia-
ation of Church property, at the
beginning of the Reformation, led
to the anomaly of lay impro-
priators; and to the impoverish-
ment of vicars, 252. Extract from
The History and Fate of Sacrilege,
by Sir Henry Spelman, showing
the disasters which befell Royalty
and the aristocracy, owing to the
spoliation of Church property,
252. There should be a national
confession of these spiritual sins,
255. The restored Apostles pre-
sented a Testimony to the Heads
of Church and State in Christen-
dom, and to the English Bishops,
256. This was never formally
condemned or repudiated, 256.
Rev. John Keble's sermon
Oxford on "National Apostasy,"
257. The Archbishop of Canter-
bury's recent invitation to prayer
for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, 260. Non-payment of Tithe
another sin for which the Church
must be held responsible, 260; the
fulfilment of this duty would
change the face of Christendom
and of society, 262.
Neglected Privileges entail pro-
portionately greater Judgments,
264. Judgments of God founded
on absolute justice, 264.
I. The Fudgments of TYRE de-
clared by Joel, Amos, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, and Zechariah, 265. Five
ostensible causes, 266. (1) Wars,
Phoenicia was invaded by the
Assyrians, Babylonians, and Per-
sians, 266. (2) Sieges, Tyre be-
sieged by Shalmaneser, 266; by
Nebuchadnezzar, 269; by Alex-
ander the Great, 272. (3) Fire
came "out of the midst" of Tyre;
she was destroyed several times
by fire, 273. (4, 5) East Wind and
the Sea, 274. East wind might
break her ships, 275. Allegori-
cally, the East Wind might refer
to the invasion of Tyre by the
Chaldeans and Persians, 276.
Destruction of Tyre of such
magnitude that it caused a
general bitter lamentation, 276.
Contrast between the populous
city and "a barren rock," 277.
Rise of Alexandria a great blow
to Tyre, causing a diversion of
her trade, 277. Tyre subsequently
captured by the Saracens and by
the Turks, 278. Modern Tyre a
wretched town, 279; ruins on all
sides; columns of magnificent
cathedral strewn under the water,
280. Testimonies of travellers to
its present desolation; harbours
nearly obliterated, 281. Froude's
sonnet on the desolation of Tyre,
283.
II. The Judgment of ENGLAND.
I. As Tyre was destroyed in the
letter, so may disaster come upon
Christendom and upon England,
283. General dangers which
threaten England; Judgment fol-
lows sin-Pride entails humilia-
tion, 288. Britain's Pride in
her wisdom, beauty, and ancient
monarchy may be humbled, 289.
2. The dangers which threaten
the Church of England and her
rulers, 290. Spoliation of the
Church may be the judgment on
her pride and exclusive spirit, 291.
3. Judgment on the Monarchy
of England, 292. This might be
endangered by anarchy and revo-
lution, which are features of the
age, 294.
(a) The Judgment of England
on her shipping. This might be
destroyed by war and by storms,
297; or might suffer a gradual
decline, especially as the result
of the Repeal of the Navigation
Laws, 299.
(b) England might suffer Judg-
ment by the loss of Colonies, as in
the case of the United States, 300.
Indian Mutiny, in 1857, a terrible
judgment, by which her Indian
Empire was endangered, 301.
(c) The Judgment of England
on her Commerce. This might
decline and be injured by her
enemies, 302. Free Trade and
Protection, 303. Quotation from
Nineteenth Century, 304. Rivalry
of the United States and of
Germany, 306. The late South
African War regarded as a
Judgment, 307. Russia may
threaten our Indian Empire, 309.
Destitution among the poor and
the unemployed in all our great
cities, 311. Universal Strike of
labour would involve untold
misery, 315; as witnessed in
Venice and Russia, 316.
Judgment on England may
spring from herself, 317. Quota-
tion from Marie Corelli, 318. Ex-
tension of the Roman Catholic
Church in England a national
danger, 318.
Of the direct Judgments of God,
four are mentioned in Scripture,
319; the Sword, Famine, Noisome
beasts, and the Pestilence. These
have a literal, as well as a spiritual,
application to England, 322. The
warnings of God not the decrees
of an unalterable fate, 325. Eng-
land, like Nineveh, may repent;
and the Lord may show mercy to
her, 325. Ancient Empires have
perished and modern Empires
may follow the same law, 327. A
time of tribulation seems immi-
nent for Christendom, 329. The
Lord may weep over Christendom
as He did over Jerusalem, 331.
England's redeeming qualities,
332.
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