'You will now remark that since we are justified in relating Ezekiel's

prophecy to a time yet future to the present, can we discover the identity of

all those nations as they exist to-day?

'Before I venture into this most alluring inquiry I must be emphatic in

drawing a clear line of positive distinction between the actual revelation of

Holy Scripture and the accumulated results of human speculation.  Let me say

with every emphasis that Holy Scripture is one thing and human speculation is

another.  Where Scripture statement is concerned, we dogmatize.  Where human

speculation is concerned we deduce.  With regard to what I have said so far,

in the degree that I have been faithful to the Scripture, I am justified in

just that degree of dogmatism.  Now, however, I venture out on to quite a

different ground.  That is why I call your attention to it.  Not dogmatism

but deduction constitutes the concluding section of my address.  If my

deductions prove to be incorrect, they are merely my deductions and I make no

claim to infallibility.  My incorrect inferences, however, do not render the

Scriptures unreliable.  The Scriptures remain uninjured by any false

conclusion at which I have arrived.

'You still have your touchstone, the Scriptures, by which to test any

opinions I may venture.

'Well, to begin, I commend to your private study the nations,

enumerated in Bereshith (Genesis, chapter 10).  Amongst them you will find

some to which reference is made in the Ezekiel prophecies.

'Let us marshal before us in Scripture nomenclature these nations that

relate to the gargantuan Gog in "the end of days".

'We begin with Gog.  The Caucasus Mountains stretch from the Caspian

Sea to the Black Sea.  I am informed that the word "Caucasus" is derived from

two Oriental words meaning "Gog's Fort" or "Gog's Fortified Place".  It is

interesting to observe that the Caucasian Mountains constitute a natural

fortress guarding present -day Russia.  Of Magog, Pliny says "Hierapolis

taken by the Scythians was afterwards called 'Magog'".  The Scythians and

tribes beyond the Caucasus were known to the Arabs as "Rus", and to the

Greeks as "Ros".  Again modern Russia seems indicated.  I have, of course,

studied the Hebrew text of the Scripture relative to the translation of the

Hebrew word "roch" in Ezekiel 38:3.  I simply quote Bishop Lowther who says

"Rosh, taken as a proper name in Ezekiel, signifies the inhabitants of

Scythia, from whom the modern Russians derived their name".

'Meshech is related to the Moschi, east of Black Sea.  Hence the

appellations "Muscovy", "Muscovites" and the modern "Moscow", a city together

with Leningrad, in the very same longitude as Jerusalem.  Examine your map.

'Josephus says the Thobelites were founded in Tubal.  A conjecture

later than Josephus attributes the derivation of the modern Tobolsk from this

word.  Scripture says Gog, Magog, Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.  Human opinion

deduces these ancient designations as having current reference to modern

Russia, certainly a "great anti-theocratic power" in the world today.  Gog's

partisans Paras, Cush and Put appear to be a regular Mohammedan Pan -Islamic

confederacy if these three ancient names have current application to Persia,

Ethiopia and Libya.  And what of Gomer and Togarmah?  The country populated

by the descendants of Gomer was anciently called "Cimmeria".  These people