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The House of Israel

legislature elected by universal suffrage. As one would
Norway -- Israel's Northern expect, almost all Norwegians are of the Protestant
faith, Lutheranism being subscribed to by the great ma-
Flank jority, and a relatively high number of missionaries are
maintained abroad. The maritime skill of the Norwe-
gian needs no undue emphasis here, but it is not gener-
The Kingdom of Norway ("The Northern Way") is, ally recognized that Norway's merchant fleet is one of
both geographically and ethnologically, one of the the largest in the world. She is an active member of the
most fascinating components of modern Israel. Occu- North Atlantic Treaty Organization and is able to pro-
pying the western and northern part of the Scandinavian vide the armies of her allies with excellent facilities
peninsula, its very extensive coastline, which stretches for training in Artic warfare.
right up for some hundreds of miles into the Artic Cir-
cle, is deeply indented with numerous fiords and -- Reginald H.W. Cox, The Link.
fringed with hundreds of small islands. In spite of the
fact that it is a beautiful country of spectacular scenery
which annually receives more visitors than it has in- A Chair, Ten Shields, and a
habitants, Norway is nevertheless one of the least Tale to Tell
known countries of Europe.

The Norwegians have all the marks of an Israel people When the Coronation Chair [in Westminster Abbey] is
still outside the Commonwealth and can, with reason- examined closely, it appears that it was designed to ex-
able certainty, be numbered among the remnant of the hibit the Stone [of Scone -- Jacob's Pillow Stone],
woman's (Israel's) seed who, according to Revelation which used to rest on a platform nine inches from the
12, would fail to reach the sanctuary of the Appointed floor, supported by four crouching lions. The Stone
Place in the isles [Britain] north and west of the prom- could be viewed [before it was moved to Scotland]
ised land. The four million people who now comprise from the front and sides of the chair, but according to
the population of Norway are, indeed, a remnant. The an article published in 1838 in the Gentleman's
great mass of Norsemen from the ten-tribed disper- Magazine, London. it was not always so.
sion who reached and settled in this northern outpost
were destined to move out to help settle both the large The author, J.R. Planch, wrote at length concerning the
and the small nations which now comprise the Com- coronations of the English Monarchs, of the Chair and
monwealth of Israel. Stone, and of the ancient regalia. Excerpts from this
publication were printed in 1889 in the Rev. W.H.
This secondary migration, which has been going on for Poole's book, Anglo-Israel or the Saxon Race (pages
more than a thousand years, can be said to have started 502-504) and reveal some startling facts:
in A.D. 793 when we have the first recorded raid on
England. The subsequent settlement of the northern "The wooden chair was made for the stone, and has
and eastern counties of England and the Isle of Man ever since been its repository. Edward [I] determined
did not satisfy this roving impulse. In 851 the Norwe- to have it made of bronze and it was actually com-
gians established a kingdom in Dublin [Ireland] and, menced, but it was ultimately constructed of wood;
twenty years later, they invaded and settled in Iceland. and that fragment of the old Hebrew race was em-
In 911 Rollo established a kingdom in the north of bedded in new Plantagenet oak.
France and in 984 the Norwegians settled in Green-
land. In more recent times the Norwegians have played "In the wardrobe account of Edward I, among the en-
a vital part in the colonizing of Canada and the United tries of the year, we read, 'To Mr. Waller, the painter,
States. for the costs and expenses incurred by him about mak-
ing one step at the foot of the new chair in which the
The Norwegian has always shown a marked love of stone from Scotland was set up, in the month of
freedom and since 1905, when the union with Sweden March; and for the wages of the carpenter, and for
was dissolved, Norway has been a constitutional mon- painting the said step; and for gold and divers colours
archy, the government being responsible to a bought for painting the same, together with the making

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