"and Vandals also claimed descent from Ingvja, and "their princes were called Ingvineones."-"Ingulf was "the Secretary of William the Conqueror."-" Ingve"thild has become Engelke, or Engel, and is in fact

now merged in the idea of the Greek angel. The same "fate has befallen other names in Germany and France, "where that best of all puns, as far as results were con"cerned, that of St. Gregory between Angeli and Angli, "has been constantly repeated in nomenclature. The Eng, Ing, or Engel, already by a forgotten tradition "from Ing, was well pleased to be dedicated to an "angel. Ingram, once Ing's Raven, became Engelram, "and thought he was of angelic purity in name, if not "in nature; and either he or Engelhard passed into "France as Enguerraud, the chief Christian name of the "brave house whose proud saying was,

'Je suis ni roi, ni comte aussi,

Je suis le Sire de Coucy;'

"and the English called it Ingeltram, when Isabel the "daughter of Edward III. made her love match with "the brave Lord de Coucy, whose loyalty was so sorely "perplexed by his connexion with her family.—-Engel"frid, Engelschalk, Engelberga, and Engelbert are pro"bably originally German angels in connexion with peace, discipleship, protection, and splendour: and Professor "Munch thinks the Northern Ingobert an instinctive attempt to nationalise the last. On the other hand, "he leaves to Ing, Angilbald, Angiltrud, Angelrich, as in fact may be always done with every name of the "kind that can be traced to an owner prior to the time "when angels were popular ideas amongst our northern " ancestors." And at page 167 she says-“The

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Frisians, or Angeln, occupied the country about the "Elbe and Weser, and were gradually peopling "Southern Britain, known from them as England. "Their tongue was what is called old Low German.—

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Again, Malachi is Malach-jah, Hebrew for angel or "Messenger of God. The Septuagint always translated "Malach by Ayyeλos (Angelos) even in that first sen"tence of the Prophet which in our version bears his "name. Angelos had simply meant a messenger' in "Greek, as it still does; but it acquired the especial "signification of a heavenly messenger."-She gives the English names as, Angela, Angelot, Angelina, Angelica, represented in Germany by Engel, Engelchen, Angelina, Angelica, and in France by Angele, Angeline, Angelique. In addition to this I would point out that the word Ayyeλos in the Septuagint is in the German Bible. translated "Engel; " and that in old nursery rhymes. in Germany our country is called Engel-land and not England; that Egbert called his kingdom "Anglesland," and that in France at least they seem to have no doubt of our Angelic character, for we are to them. "Angleterre," which seems to be most simply derived from "Ange-terre," the letter 1 being put in to fill up the hiatus in pronouncing these words-and that any German lady, wishing to praise the beauty of her friend's child, would call it an "Englisches kind," or angelic child. From all this I must affirm that England is "the land of Angels," and that the English princes Archangels" or chief princes of the angels; for however far we may go back into the distant past we still can find no other meaning for England than the "Land of the Brightness of God." And we find that

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says of the angels, "Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire." *

Admitting then thus much, we have still to prove that one of the English princes of the present day is alluded to: and here we have besides the indirect evidence given in the last chapter, the most positive proof in the words themselves. For as " John Bull” is the patronymic of an Englishman, Michael is that of a German, their equivalent to John Bull being "Deutsche Michael;" and, moreover, as the individual is alluded to as "Michael, that great Prince," and not "that great Prince Michael," and as the husband is head of the wife, the father coming before the mother, so it appears to me that he must be German by birth, i.e., by descent from his father; and a "Prince of the Angels" by right of his mother. This compels us to fix on one of the princes of the present day, and, when we find that Prince Leopold fulfils every condition required, that he is indeed the 4th Prince of the Angles, or Angels; that his very name Leopold, a name never before held by a Prince of England, means "the Prince of the People"-that is, of God's peculiar people; the coheirs with the ancient Israel of all God's promises; and also that as David, the leader of the Jews before Christ's first advent, was the 8th child and youngest son of Jesse, so Leopold is the 8th child and youngest son of Victoria; I, for one, can have no doubt but that Prince Leopold is really intended, and that to him his Royal Brother, then Regent of England, will entrust the glorious duty of personally superintending the restoration of the Jews to their own land; and that at * Heb. i. 7.

the final gathering at Armageddon he will command the English army, opposing Antichrist and his followers; and thus Michael and his angels will even on earth fight against the dragon; and the dragon shall fight and his angels, but they will not prevail, neither will their place be found any more on earth.*

* Rev. xii. 7, 8.

CHAPTER V.

WHO IS THE PRINCE OF THE COVENANT ?

Ir Prince Leopold is the person intended in Dan. xii. 1, if the Princes of England now alive are the human representatives of the archangels, it follows that the Prince of Wales, being the eldest and first in rank, must be the type of "the Angel of the Lord," and so in Esdras we find him, though 15th Ruler of England, called also an "Angel of the Lord," his representative name, " Malachy," having been shown by Miss Young to bear that signification. Now I have before said that I cannot believe that every time this expression is used in the Bible, our Lord Himself is meant. I doubt very much whether He ever openly manifested Himself before His incarnation even to Abraham; God Himself occasionally appeared, and at other times he was represented by an angel; one undoubtedly of immense power and glory, but still a created being. If it was our Lord, it certainly was not Him in His own form. He may have temporarily, and on one or two occasions, assumed the form of the Angel of the Lord, but I cannot admit that He actually is the Angel of the Lord. It is possible that it was He who talked with Abraham regarding the destruction of