Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-06-03
RETURN OF THE JEWS TO THE
HOLY LAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

SiN' roi Tic ihioIuatlon OIL SUch OF y0ul
readers as sympathiso with the Jews in ,hei,
present dispersion, and who desire their res.
toration to the land Of their fathers, here.
with send you extracts from a German news.
paper, which 'betoken movement among
the continental Jews in relation TO the late
crisis in SYRIA" as the editor remarks:
1--WE have country, the Inheritance Of our
fathers, finer, more fruitful, better situated foI
commerce, than many of the most celebrated
portions ofthe globe. Environed by the deep
delled Taurus. the lively shores Of the Eu-
pirates, the lofty steppes of Arabia, and oil
rocky Sinai, our country extends along the
shores of the Mediterranean; crowned by the
towering cedars of Lebanon, the source of d
hundred rivulets and brooks, which spread
fruittulness over shady dales, and confer
wealth OH the contented inhabitants. A glo-
rious land! situate at the furthest extremity
Of the sea which connects three quarters of
the globe, over which the PhGnIcans, our
brethren, sent :heir numerous fleets to the
shores of Albion and the rich coasts OF Lii
thuania, near TO both the Red sea and Persi-
an gulf; the perpetual courses of the traffic
of the world, on the way from Persia and In.
dia to the Caspian and Black Sea, the CEN
trail country OF the commerce between the
east and the west.
"Every country has its peculiarity--every
people their own nature. Syria, with its eX-
tensive surrounding plains unfavorable to reg
nlar cultivation, is land Of transit, OF com
munication, OF caravans. No people on the
earth have lived SO true to their calling from
the first, as we have done. " are trading
people, born for the country where little food
nd ic firm icho hy
almost spontaneously to the temperate inhab-
itants, but not for the heavy soils of the ruder
north.
'ln no country ofthe earth are our brethren
so numerous as in Syria; in none do they
live in as dense masses, SO independent ofthe
surrounding inhabitants; in none do they per-
severe so steadiastly in their faith in the pro-
mise OF the fathers, as on the beautiful shores
Ofthe Orontes. In Damascus alone live near
$4,000.
:'fhe Arab has maintained his language
and his original country; on the Nile, in the
deserts, rs far as Sinai, and beyond the Ior-
dan, he feeds his focks. In the elevated
plains of Asia Minor the Turcoman has con-
quered for hlmselfa second country, the BIRTH
place OF the Osman; but Syria and Palestine
are depopulated. For centuries the battle
field between the sons of Altai and of the a.
rabian wilderness, the inhabitants OF the West
and the halfnomadic Persians, none have been
able TO establish themselves and maintain their
nationality; no nation can claim the name of
Syrian. A chaotic mixture of all the trib S
and tongues, remnants of migrations from the
north and south, they disturb one another in
the possession Of the glorious land where our
fathers Tor So many centuries emptied the cup
OF JOY and wo, where every clod is drenched
with the blood of our heroes when their bo-
dies were buried under the ruins ofJerusalem.
"The power of our enemies is gone, the
angel of discord has long since mown down
their mighty host, and yet We do not bestr
yourselves, people of Jehovah! What him
ders? Nothing but your own supineness.
''rhink you that Mehemet Ali or the Sui
tan in Stamboul will not be convinced that it
would be better for him to be theprotector ola
peaceful and wealthy people, than, with inf
mite loss OF men and money, to contend
against the ever-repeated, mutually provoked
instructions Of the Turks and Arabs, ofwhcm
neither the one nor the other are able to give
prosperity to the country?
Sour probation was long, in all countries,
| from the North Pole TO the South. There is
| no trade, no art, which we have not practsed,
no science in which we cannot show splendid
examples. Where will you find better pro.
chalmers Of civilization to the wild tribes oil
the Eastl
"People of Jehovah, raise yourselves from
your thousand years slumber! Rally round
leaders; have really the will {; Moses will
not be wanting. The rights of nations will
never grow old; take possession of the land
of your fathers; build third time the temple
of Zion, greater and more magnificent than
ever. Trust in the Lord, who has led You
safely through the vale Of misery thousands
OF years. He, also, will not forsake on in
your last conflict"
| These extract show that the Jews are ex.
| hortiDg one another TO return to and take pos
session of their fatherland, now that their Goo
is drying up the waters of the great river Eu
phrates,' to prepare way for them, by the
combined forces of Turkey acting against the
Egyptians. as predicted in Daniel XII, 4O-43,
| Rev. XVII. IL.
For this is the year ordained of God for re-
Installing the descendants of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, in their own land, no more TO be
dispossessed of it by the Geniiles. (Jer. xxi
ID, I5.) And, when returning, God will
give them the tabernacle, and the ark, and
the altar of incense, which he commanded Je
remiah TO hide in hollow cave in Noun
| Nebo, when their ancestors were going int
captivity in Babylon. For then the Lore
shall show them these things, and the glor,
Of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also
as il was shown unto Moses, and as whel
Solomon desired that the place might be hon
orably sanctifed' See 9 Mac. H., I-S.
From the subjoined calculation, drawn from
scriptura data, it is obviously proved that til
wear 1910 terminated the '2,3O0 days. O
years, ordained by God for giving the Jew
over to the Gentles, by them to be trodde
under foo, for their transgression of the dali
sacrifice (Dan. viii, 10, Ia; Luke xxi
2O-24.) We may therefore expect the Jew
TO 'be received unto mercy in eir own LIANT
this present year 1871, and 10 commence I,
milling thelr cities and the iemrle aS In 20