Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-11-15

! same local termination as the Sepoys in the Oh
regiment Bombay Native Infantry. 3. Some o
them read Hebrew, aud they have a faint tradition
OF the cause-ef their original exodus from Egypt
a: Their common language is the Hndoo. s
They, keep idols and worship, and use idolatrou.
ceremonies intermlxed with Hebrew g. Thew
clrcamcise their own children. Z. They observe
the Kippor, or great expiation-day of the Hebrew,
but not the Sabbath or any feast or fast DAYS. g.
They call themselves Gorah Jehud;, or White
Jews; and they term the Black Jews CoNah Je-
hmdi. D. They speak of the Arabian Jews as
their brethren, but do not acknowledge the Eu.
ropean Jews as such, because they are of fairer
complexion than themselves. TO- They use on
all occasions, and under the most trivial circum
stances, the usual Jewish prayer" Hear, 0 Is.
rael, the Lord our God is one Lord" IL. They
have no cohen, (priest] evite, or kasi, among
them, under those forms but they have kas
reader who performs prayers and conducts their
religious ceremonies; and they appear to have
elders and chief in each community. who deter
mine in their religious concerns 70 They ex.
pect the Messiah, and that they will one day re.
turn TO Jerusalem. They think that the time OF
his appearance will soon arrive, at which they
much rejoice, believing that at Jerusalem they
will see their God, worship him only, aud be des-
pissed no more.
uNCr,NGE ABLENEss OF THE JEWISH CHARACTER.
lemrora mutantur, ct nos muta,Jur in j..
lis is a saying that cannot be applied Ia the
scattered remnant Of Israel. Time passes, .Eut
the Jews stand still. The desert of Arabia was
only type ofthe present populous and cultivated
world, through which he now journeys to the
promised land. His ancient faith still guides
nm through the wilderness of men, and .the
shadow OF his prophet-chief stalks before him.
ike pillar of cloud, along the earth. The arms
OF his warfare indeed are different, because the
passengers he encounters OH his route are So
He no longer falls in with ga quiet aud secure
people upon whom he may fall with the edge of
the sword, and sweep them, from the tottering
grandsire to the graded infant, from the face Of
the earth; his bow and his spear are broken his
shield is beaten to the dust the voice Of cursnq
has gone forth against him, a.ld he is scattered
abroad upon the world vagrant and an outlaw
lie cannot stand up before his enrp es and he
therefore creeps. He cannot breast the torrent
which would overwhelm him; and he, therefore,
goes round about. The fatal prophecy which
broke his nation in pieces has been fulfilled
=" hereVcr the cross was planted, it became in his
lhHaci Imagination, an upas tree, and wo to the
Jew who fingered under It's branches! The Jew
has no part III the customs and institutions Of his
ieliow-men. What are tie governors of the
world to HIM who turns his lace every day to the
east IN expection of the coming of his lawful
prince The Jew wants no political emancipa-
ton at the hands Of any other than the Messiah:
he makes. no complaints, as certain s'agita-
tors" were told, even few days ago, at meet
ing OF his people in London he may be despis-
ed, but he despises more bitterly in return; he
may suffer, but he knows well how to revenge.
The changes which have taken place in manners
and institutions within the last two or three CEN
turies have, no doubt had their effect both on the
moral and physical situation of the Jew; but the
basis OF his character remains the same II is
true, he still contributes, in the most liberal
countries OF Europe, to the support Of laws which
he has no hand in making, and upholds with the
sweat Of his brow, religion which his soul alb.
hors; but we know some classes of Christians who
are yoked neck by neck with the despised Jew in
these labours of hate and besides, the latter has
neither wish nol pretext to escape from the depra-
datioD,-hi hourly expected Messiah being not
merely God and priest, but temporal prince,
who shall revenge his injuries, build up the tenn
pie OF his ancient faith, and gather from the ends
OIL the earth the scattered remnant of Israel into
that glorious land denominated alike by Jew and
GENTLE the dolly" In the meantime he is pre-
cisely what circumstances have made him. De.
MED access to honorable employments, he has re-
course to the most base he is a usurer traffick-
er in old clothes and stolen goods,-n any thing
which can turn the penny, apd spoil the Egyptian.
Inc instances which arise among his people of
learned and amiable men, and yirtuous and beau
tiul women, are only exceptions to the general
rule; the remnant matches with the piece, and
the comparatively free Jew of the nineteenth cen.
tury Identities himself with the cringing bonds
man Of the seventeenth, and he again with the
cunning sPocr OF his taskmakcr, who first stole
forth on that dreary pilgrimage into the deser,
which is not finished to this day
London Weekly Rerew1
CURIOUS DISCOVERY
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