A Star in the West Or a Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Preparatory to Their Return to Their Beloved City Jerusalem [Hardcover]

ABOUT THE BOOK: A very bright and protentous star having arisen in the last making glad the hearts of Gods people and urging the friends of Zion to unusual and almost miraculous exertions in spreading the glad tiding of Salvation among the distant nations of the Earth, the compiler of the following sheets, Animated by the blessed eastern prospects can no longer with hold the small discovery that has been made of a rising star in the west, from the knowledge of this who and zealous and anxious to behold the returning Messiah coming in his own glory and the glory of the Father, attended by all the Saints, which Star may in the issue, turn out to be the star of Jacob, and became a guide to the long suffering and despised descendants of that eminent patriarch, to find the once humble babe of Bathelhem, as the wise men of the east were of old directed in their distant course, to discover in the stable and the manager, the great object of their adoration, joy and hope, even him who “was born king of the Jews”.