Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-08-31
POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF THE
JEWC

The existence of the Jews is the living mira
Gle of the world. They are scattered and down
trOddcn, and yet according TO the most accurate
statistics, are as numerous as they were when
they left the land of Egypt, the returns made to
Bonaparte giving about three millions. Expa-
triated, they become citizens of the world and
wherever tolerated, they commence traffic and
become thrifty. Everywhere they are at home
They may be banishcd, but cannot be expelled !;
be trodden down, vet cannot be crushed. Only
in the United States, France, Holland, and Prus-
sia arc they fully citizens but in spite of Brit
ish statutes, the Russian ukase and Turkish
curse, they prosper still. The great nations of
antiquity, the Egyptians and Assyrians, the Ro-
mans and Saracens, rs well as the modern Turks
and Christians, have attempted to destroy them,
but in vain while penal laws and cruel torurcs
have only served to increase their number and
reinforce their obstinacy.
But the Jews exist not only as a monument
and miracle; Jewish mind has excrtcd pow
crful influence on the world. Favored by Ma
poeon, the Hebrew race at once developed
power which had never been suspected. Soult
Ncy, aud Massena, who thus altered his name
from Mannassah, to escape the odium of being
Israete, were all Marshals of France under the
eye of the greatest warriors Of his age. In pol
tiles the Jews have Mettcrnich in Austria, DIS
racl in England, Il convert to the Christian faith
while the Autocrat of Russia has had Jew
for his confidential counseor,and spain Prime
Minister of the same race, and Russia her Min
lister of Finance. In the United States, Jews
begin to figure in our national councils; Mr..
Yuec, late member Of the House, and Mr.. Soule,
recently Senator from Louisiana, being of the
Hebrew stock. Mr.. Cremieux, one of the most
eminent lawyers of France, was what we should
call Attorney General upon the flight of Louis
Philippe.
In money power the Jews hold in their hands
the destiny of Kingdoms and empires, whose
governments become bankrupt, and their sove-
rengs turn beggars, at Hebrews nod Half
n dozen Jews can do more to preserve the peace
Of Europe by sitting behind their desks and per-
sistingly saying No! to the royal applicants for
money, than all the Peace Congresses and Con-
ventions in Christendom. The Rothschilds, the
Barings and Sir John Montefere, are all Jews,
and with their banking establishments scattered
over Europe and ASIA WELD sceptre more pow
erful than monarchs hold.
Coming to the literary profession, and inqui-
ring into the lineage of many of the most distin-
guishcd scholars and men of science, we find the
Jews prominent here as well as in active life
The most renowned in Astronomy have been
the Jews, as the Herschels in England and Ara
20 in France, the Astronomer Royal under Lou
is Philippe, and who has filled the world with
his fame Those German works which are del
uging the world, are for the most part the pro-
duction of Christiauized Jews, as those of Heng-
stenberg, Tholuck, Schleirmacher, Gresenius,
Neander Nebuhr, and others, whose learned
treatises, Biblical criticisms, didaeic theology
and general sacred literature are found in the
library of every Theological Seminary, and in
the hands of every theological student. Spino-
"a, the famous in6del, was Jew, and so are
Ronge and Czerski, who took the lead of new
religious reformation in Germany in our day.
Such have been, and are the Jews. Mysteri-
ous nation! Inexplcable enigma! A living,
perpetually omnipresent miracle A race so
indomitable, SO imperishable, must have been
raised up and preserved for some grand purpose.
Congregational Journal.