Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-03-19

citizenship, and even now are denied some of
| its advantages.
| A bye-word among the nations, the Jewish
people have been preserved amid all the agita-
ton and tumult of the world. There is some
thing very striking and impressive in the idea.
The Jews have been compelled to turn their
attention to the accumulation of money! In
every age they have been celebrated for their
wealth. Rich as Jew, has become proverb.
| Their supposed wealth has brought upon them
cruelty and persecution. Their real wealth is
a known fact. But modern Jews can do some
! thing more than make money The melting
music of the "Midsummer Nights Dream" the
melancholy strains of "Elijah;" the solemn mu.
| sic of Paul" owe their origin to Felix Mem
delssohn-a Jew. Who has not been enchant-
ed with the beautiful tictions lyric poetry, and
| charmed with the graceful melodies of Ileine?
The pictures of Bendemann, the Jew, are de-
scrlbed by connoisseurs as worthy of-all praise
Liberty has found free spoken apostle in the
Jew, Boerne. Rossini was Jew; Memerbeer
Jew. There is an earnestness, a spirit of poe
try and melody in the outcast people, that will
still do greater and mightier things.
The world owes much TO the Jews. They
were the librarians of its revelations in their
laws we recognise the grand outline of moral
obligation; in their poetry we find the highest
excellence; and in their ethical aphorisms, bo-
dy of the soundest practical wisdom. There
are deeper obligations which we owe to the
Jews. Christianity was originally founded,
professed, and propagated by them. There
are gories yet in store for that people. Their
history is yet to be eyentful. There is a bright
light resting on the future-a haven across the
melancholy seas-a haven they must reach ut
last. All history is something more than re-
cord of facts. The facts of history are connec-
ted; and to trace and expound the principles of
this coEnexion, to exhibit the history as one or.
ganic whole, is the highest Office Of the histo-
rian. Nowhere is this connexion better seen
than in the annals Of judaism.
According to the most recent and exact sta
tistlcs, the Jews number at this moment very
nearly the same as when they left Egypt under
Moses-somewhere about three millions and a
half They have used every dialect, have wan
dered on the banks of the Nile, BY the waters
of Babylon, the Jordan, the Tiber, the Thames,
the Mississippi; they have mingled, but never
united with other nations; arms, climate, ge-
MUS and politics cannot explain it. We turn
to our records to find out the cause-their his
tory is prospective, and leads us forward to
time when their wanderings shall be over, and
they shall recognize in HIM, whom they now
reject the brightness and glory of their race.
There is evident purpose in the preservation
of the Jews. We disregard the idle curl of
the wave, but when every wave is moving in
the same direction, when the tide is clearly seen
at work--we find law of nature, we seek
cause and find it in the skies. So is it with all
more especially in Jewish records,
Did and new--there is design HI them all
every circumstance is connected-it is no
chapter of accidents but the Development of
great and glorious plan.