Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-16

find no solution ofthis mental darkness Ill 'no:e
who have Moses and the prophets for tneir
guide, and millions Of whom have ilfed ior cen .
turtles amidst the civilization and literature Oh
Europe, but in that curse which Gud pi ohounC-
ed on rebelious Israel, shat he will smiie him
with madness, and blindness, and establishment
Of heart;' and declares Of him, that he shal
grope at noon day as the blind gro2eth IN
darkness
The Jewesses Of the presen, day are said to
be treated as inferior beings, having neither re-
ligious nor moral instruction. Books are pun
into their hands, calculated to fill their minus
with impure ideas, and with false notions oil
tie divinity. An equally mischievous effect in
rollutug the minds OF boys is produced by an
instruction which they are compelled 10 become
acquainted with in childhood.
III the ways Of Judaism are foul, rough, and
uninviting, tina. by which The baptized Jew has
to return TO il, fully maintains that character
He must lie down with his face 10 the earth,
on the threshold Of the synagogue tor CON
siderable space of time, in order that his breIh-
rem, as they enter and leave il, may wipe their
feet, spit, and trample on his body.
The rabbis constitute sort oil nobility, and
every parent is anxious that his soh should at
tain it. Therefore,
When boy displays peculiarly acute mnd,
and srudous habits, he is placed before the
twelve folio volumes OF the Talmud, and It's le-
glop- of commentaries and epitomes, which
he is made to pore over with an inIenseness
which engrosses his faculties entirely, and often
leaves him in mind, and occasionally ia body,
fit for nothing else; and SO vigilant and jea-
loss discipline is exercised SO 10 Ence him
round as to secure his being exclusively TAI
mudicaI, and destitute ofevery other learning
| or knowledge whatever, that one individual
has lately met with three young men, educated
as rabbis, who were born and lived 10 manhood
in the middle OF Poland, and yet knew not one
word Of its language. To speak Polish on the
Sabbath is 10 prophane it-so say the orthodox
Polish Jews. If the age Of fourteen or fifteen
years, or still earlier (for the Jew ceases to be
minor when thirteen years old } this Tamud-
ical student realizes the hopes Of his childhood,
he becomes an object Of research among the
wealthy Jews who are anxious that their daugh-
rers shall attain the honour OF becoming the
brides Ut these embryo santons; and often, when
he is thus young, and bis bride sill younger,
the marriage is completed, that as early
chance as possible may be taken ofthe Messiah
being born in the family. The evil of such pre-.
cocIous marriages might easily be imagined
even were the husband less unified by his ed
uc alton for the state Of wedlock, for the charge
Of family, and for the business Of life than he
is. l. is BY exercises in abstruse caSuIstry aud
Inspirations Oh words and letters that the dig
nifty Of rabbi is obtained; and the worth of his
abors, when hebas ascended this Tree o! knowl-
edge, may be estimated by thai of he ladder on
which ne mounted. Boston Courier.
Lock OUT FOR VILLAIN 1T will be rccol-
iected by our readers, that S. P. Judson an
nounced To the public, las, week, that he was
robbed q his pocket book, aiming two thou
just reached me 0siy9d .Aalllrs-at the fremont
special order is given 10 have he said uofo,Ju-
maze Hr. Judson forthwith arrested, on accoun,
OF his vananies in thai and otner places. We