The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-21
The Hebrew Race

There Is, perhaps, no more striking
chronological phenomenon showing the
tenacity o. blood and of race, than is
exhibited in the history of that people
that traces its origin for forty centu-
rles through the revolutions of en-
pires, back to that period when Abra-
ham and Lot fed their focks together
in the great plain of the cities of Sod
ON and Gomorrah. At this very day,
in whatever cline this peculiar people
may be found, whether amid the SHOWS
of Canada, or the burning sands OF
Arabia: or if we trace them to the
dim twilight of the early ages, or view
them in the broad civilization OF the
nineteenth century; the blood OF the
Hebrew race preserves its purity, and
like the pillar of fire in the wilderness,
is a standing miracle through all
chimes and times.
They are, in truth, the same people
to-day, marked by the same PECULIAR
ties, the same Abrahamic features, and
the same religious faith that their an
cestors possessed, when Moses led
them through the waters ofthe Red
sea, and Pharoah and his hosts were
engulphed beneath the returning flood.
No man can account for the strange
preservation of this race, except upon
the hypothesis of the interposition of
Divine Providence Within the period
of their historic existence empires have
arisen like short-lived mists arise from
the sea, and have gone down in the
long night of ages to rise no more,
and even whole races have sprung up
and have disappeared, having been
swept from the face of the earth.
They are, indeed, the chosen Of God,
and unless all inspiration is lie, they
are preserved for a more glorious ex-
hibitiOn of Divine power than the Gen
tile world ever was. Wherever we
trace them, whether on the fertile
banks of the Nile, the absolute slaves
of a cruel tas<-master, or basking in
the splendOrs that surrounded the glory
of the temple of Solomon, the same
indcmitable, unfaltering faith in that
God who had preserved them, is one
of the most sublime exhibitions that
He has displayed upon earth.
Upon the ruins of that rude sacri-
fetal altar, which in faith Abraham
erected nearly four thousand years
ago, mighty city sprang into exist
ence, rivaEng the splendors of Thebes
and IadmOr. In the revolution of
Empires Jerusalem persisted, and the
of the descendants of Israel
were driven from the homes of their
fathers, and scattered over this broad
earth. Still their faith is as strong to
day in the God of Jacob as was that of
their fathers whenJ Joseph welcomed his
brethren in sight of the Pyramids Of
the Pharaohs. Amid the the muta-
tons of time and the vicissitudes of
life, they still worship at the same altar
and kneel with reverental awe before
that God, who on Horeb's rugged
mount disclosed to Moses his external
self existence in the awful words, l AM
THAT | AM
Expelled at various periods from
almost every cline, prescribed and
prosecuted by the whole Gentle
world, they still cling, with unwaver-
ing faith to that law, which God de
livered to their fathers amid the thun-
lers of Sinai, and believe them with a
which time cannot destroy,
that he will one day restore them to /
that Inheritance now desecr9ted by
the Infidel Turk. In short, they have
been oppressed, imprisoned, banished,
robbed, outraged and murdered for |.
past; and yet, in the meek
ness and humility of a spirit that finds |
no parallel on earth, they have bowed |
under their numberless
in the firm belief that
Heaven will yet avenge their wrongs.
A religion which gives such signal
of the splendors of moral /
worth and intellect grandeur dis
played, on every page of the inspired /
zee I'd, ought to teach US of what |
q and materials the Hebrews nature is |
composed, and we may boldly chal-
enge the history of Greece, Rome,
France, England, or any other nation
If ancient or modern times, to show us
| people exhibiting so many virtues
md adorned with such varied talents
IS we can find everywhere and at all
ines emblazoned on the annals of the
Hebrew race.-NorfOlk Journal