Editorial: Dixie's flag and Joseph's Armcrossing

Editorial

An interesting note about the Dixie flag and the biblical crossing of ancient Joseph's arms when giving his blessing is noted below.

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Those who understand the arith� mography of the Scriptures, it is known that the num�ber thirteen is significant of rebellion, but all that we can say about it here is that the first time this number occurs in the Bible it is with reference to Rebellion (Gen. 14:4). Surely that people whose characteristic number is thirteen did rebel in 1776, and prospered in it, too.� They also prospered in 1814, in another little affair concerning the acquisition of a vast stretch of territory known as Louisiana.

This people have also had rebellion within their own borders, and it is a remarkable fact that, although thir�teen was not the number of states in the Confederacy, the Confederate Congress, in 1863, formally adopted a battle flag for the Confederacy, and also a Confederate flag.� The Battle Flag was a white field with a blue cross of this (X) shape, in which there were thirteen stars.� The flag for the Confederacy was white, with a red field in the Dexter chief corner, bearing this same (X) cross with its thirteen stars. Here again is both rebellion and the birthright cross of the house of Joseph. In his struggle the government also prospered, and it was essential that it should thus prosper, not only in this case, but also in the others of which we have spoken, in order to fulfill a prophecy concerning one feature of their history, namely:� "Shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to undo the heavy burdens, and let the OPPRESSED GO FREE, and that YE break every yoke?" These are the reasons for which Our Race go to war.� England freed her slaves in 1838 and America freed hers in 1861.

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When Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, he was under the necessity of crossing his hands in order that he might get his right hand on the boy that the Holy Spirit was designating as the one whom God had chosen as the birthright inheritor; and in thus crossing his hands Jacob necessarily made this sign (X), or the sign of the cross.� This is the pre-Christian cross of which relics are found along the trail of Israel, as they were being sifted through the nations to the isles of the Northwest, and which Ignatius Donnelly finds not only in Egypt and Ireland, but almost everywhere else. Donnelly's object in discussing the pre-Christian cross is to prove that the cross has been a sacred emblem ever since the creation of man, and that it originated in the garden of Eden, because of the four rivers which parted in Eden and became four heads. Donnelly finds that in Egypt, Assyria and the British Isles, the pre-�Christian cross was emblematical of creative power and eternity. He also finds carved on Egyptian monu�ments (see cut) a very ancient sacred emblem, which he says Sir Gardener Wilkinson says was called "The cross-cake," which is, as you see, a cake with a cross on it, and as soon as we read this in Donnelly's "Atlantis," instantly we associated the Egyptian Cross-cake with the following:� "Ephraim is a cake not turn�ed."� We know that Ephraim was associated with the cross that Jacob made, that he came from Egypt, and if he was not in some way associated with that cake with which are associated both Egypt and a cross, why should God use the metaphor, "cake," in a prophecy concerning Ephraim's people?� Here is a question for all grades of skeptics, from the "Higher Critics" up to the honest infidel, to answer.� Thank God, that, when it comes to this question of critics, there is a superlative degree; i.e., Highest Critics!