Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-05-01
THE, JEWS.


Of eloquent article on the Jews and
Jerusalem, states that the population of
Judea, in its most palmy days, did not
exceed 100000. The numbers who
entered Palestine from the wilderness
were evidently not much more than three;
and their census, according to the German
statists, who arc generally considered to
be correct, is now nearly the same as that
of the people under Moses--about three
millions. They are thus distributed:
In Europe, 100000 of which 655,-
600 are in Poland and Russia, $4,000
arc in Austria.
In Asia, 72S,C00, of Which 100000
are in Morocco.
In America, North and South, 500
If we add 70 these aboat $4,000 Sama-
ritans, the calculation in round numbers
will be about 3,lS0,00O.
This was the report in 1S25-the
numbers probably remain the same.
The writer remarks:
This extraordinary fixcdness in the
midst Of almost universal increase, is
doubtless not without a reason--if we
are even to look for it among the mystic
rious operations which have preserved Is
rael separate race through eighteen
hundred years. May VIC not naturally
conceive, that people thus preserved
without advance or retrocessi0n; dis
persed, yet jewellers in all every where
insulted yet every where influential; with
out nation, yet united as no nation ever
wasbefore or since-has not been appoin-
ted to offer this extraordinary contradict
ton the common laws ofSociety land even
the common progress of nature, without
d cause one of filial bevevolence, univer-
cal good and divine grandurc9
lie observes further:
"The remarkable determination of
European politics towards Asia Minor,
Syria, and Egypt, within these few years;
the not less unexpected change of man.
ners and customs, which seemed to defy
all change and the new life infused into
The stagnant governments of Asia, even
by their being flung into the whir of Eu-
ropean interests, look not unlike signs of
the times. 1t may be no dream, to i'm
agine in these phenomena the proofs of
some memorable change in the interior
of things-somc preparatives for that
great providential restoration, of which
Jerusalem will yet be the scene if not the
centre and the Israclite himself the cs-
pecial agent of high transactions, which
shall make Christianity the religion of all
lands, restore the dismantled beauty of the
earth, and make man what he was crea-
ted to be-" only little lower than the
angels"
A correspondent of the same number
of Blackwood, thus paraphrascs some of
the predictions of Malachi:
sound on the rampar:,
A sound at the gate,
hear the reused lioness
Howl 10 her mate. |
In the hckct al midnight,
They roar tor the prey !
That shall sut their red Jaws !
At the rising Of day. l
For wrath is descending
On Zyon's proud tower; |
II shall come like q cloud,
1t shall wrap like IA shroud, |
Till, Ike S0IOln, she sleeps
In a sli phurous shower.
For behold the day cometh,
When all shall lie lame;
When, Zion the sackcloth
Shall cover thy name;
When thy bark DER the pillows
Ofdeath shall e driven;
When thy tree by the ligh,nings,
From earth shall e riven;
When the oven, unkndIed
BY mortal, shall burn;
And like cha.ilhou shalt glow
In that furnace of WO!