The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-05-22
RESTORATION OF TIE JEWS

this ancIent people 10 the possession roi
Palestine. will be literally fulfilled, is
gaining ground among the sOundest
:. biblical inierP refers. The following
ARTICLE from Blaekwood's Magazine,
- possesses considerable interest
alt IL impossible TO read the ScriDtu-
raj references to the future condition Of
Palestine, without discovering crowd
Of the pIainest and most powerful iUdi
cations that il shall yet exhibit totally
different aspect from that of lie present
state. Enthusiasm, or-eVen the natural
interest which we feelIn this memorable
nation may color the future 10 Us too
brightly; but unless language Of the
most solemn kind and uttered or the
80. most solemn occasions, and by men
divinely commissioned for its u:lerance,
is wholly unm meaning, we must look TO
some powerful. unquestiOnable and
~splendld display Of Providence 10 favor
OF the people Of Israel.
"The remarkable determination of
European politics toward Asia Minor,
Syria, and Egypt, within these lew
years, the not less unexpected change
- of manners and customs which seemed
10 defy all change; and the new life in
fused iRto the stagnan. governments OF
Asia, even by their being flung into the
20 whirl Of European interests, look not
unlike signs of Tie times. 1t may be no
- dream to imagine IN these phenemeDa
the proofs of-some memorable change
in the interior Of thing prepara-
tives for thatgreat provdenial restora-
. ,iou of which Jerusalem will yet be the
l.. scene ifnot the centre; audlhe Israel.
ite'hmseiE, the especial agent Of those
high transactions, which shall make
Christianity the religion Of all the earth,
and make man-what he was created
to,bs-ouly "a little lower than the
angels.
".The statistics Of the Jewish popu-
laiion are among the most singular CIR
-eumsiances ofihis most singular of all
the people. Under all their caIamities !
and dispersioDs, they seem to have re-
,smained at.nesrly the same amount as
in the days Of David and Solomon, new
or much more 10 prosperity, never much
less sfier ages of suffering. Nothing
like this has occurred 10 the history of
any other race; Europe in general hav>
ing coupled it's population within the
last hundred years, and England nearly
irebled her within the last century; the
v proportion ofAmerica being still more
rapid, and the world erowdlng constant
iy in an increasing ra,lO. Yet the Jews
reeom 10 stand still in ths.vsSt and gem
eral movement. The population of Ju-
dea, in lis mos, palmy days, probably
did not exceed, if it reached four mil
lions. The numbers who entered Pal
esliue from the wilderness were evideul
ly not much more than three; and their
census according TO the Germain stat
istics, which were generally considered
TO be exact, is now nearly the same as
that of the people under Moses-abou'
three millions. They are thus distrlbu-
tied:
in Europe, $4,000, of which a.
bout 55S. 900 are 10 Poland and Russia
.snd453, 900 are in Austria.
In Asia, 735, 900 Of which 10000
are in Morocco.
fEn.America North and South, $1,000
If we add 10 these about $4,000 Sa-
smaritans, the circulation in round mum
.4bers will be about 3,lS0,0O0.
This was the report in 1925, the mum.
bers probably remain the same. This
extraordinary fxeduess id the midst Of
almost univ ersal increase, is doubtless
not Without a reason-if we are even
10 look for it among the mysterious OPP
erailons which have preserved Israel
separate race through eighteen hundred
years. May we,not naturally conceive
9 that apeOple thus preserved without ad
'vauce or retrecessiOn; dispersed yel
combined broken, yet firm; ~ilhor,
country, yet dwelling in all; every where
.insul,ed, yet every where infuenliaI
without nation, yet united as no nation
ever was before or since; has not been
appointed TO effer this extraordinary
, contadlclion TO the common laws Of So
cieiy, and even the progress of nature,
without cause, and that cause, one OF
~fnal benevucnce, universal good and
divine grandeur"
We spprobrud 'horo ie como orroT 10
the above statistics, and The number OF
Jews throughout the world may be es-
vlimated at nearer Elk millions than three.
There are million 10 Poland and Rus
sia; 10 all Asia there are full two mil
lions; half million in Austria, in the
5Barbary States and Africa a million,
in all Europe two millions and half
We do~not think during The most splen =.