Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-15

cent creation, said the lady. 81 have
built a nest in the chink of the hills,
that | might look upon Arabia; and the
palm-tree that invite you to honor my
domain was the contribution of my
Arab grandfather to the only garden
rear Jerusalem. But want to ask an
other question-what, on the whole, is
the thing most valued in Europe 2"
Tancred pOndered and, after slight
pause, said, l think know what ought
TO be most valued in Europe; it is some-
thing very different from what, | fear,
must confess is most valued there.
My cheek burns while l say it; but /
think, in Europe, what is most valued is
money"
"0n the whole, said the lady, q he
that has the most money there is the
most hcnored ?"
''Practically, I apprehend So"
''W hich is the greatest city in
Europe p
Without doubt, the capital of my
country, London"
"Greater l know it is than Vienna
but is it greater than Paris 2"
'Perhaps, double the sizs of Paris.
"Ahd four times that of Stamboul
What a city Why It's Babylon How
rich the most honored must be there.
Tell me, is he Christian p
Il believe he is one of your race and
faith"
"And in Paris-whO 3, is TIE tae richest
"Tho brother, I believe, of the richest
man in London"
81 know all about Vienna" said the
lady smiling, Caesar makes my country
men barons of the empire. and rightly, |
for it would fall to pieces in a week
without their support. Well, you must
admit that the European part of the
curse has rot worked very fatally"
Il do not see, said Tanered thought
fully, after short pause, ''that the final
dispersion of the Hebrew nation is it all |
essential to the great object of the Christ
ian scheme. II Jew did not exist,
that would equally have been obtained"
And what do you hold to be the es-
Scuttdl ObJCCI VI tllC OA4tSlldu
The Expiation."
"Ah I" said the lady, in tone of much
solemnity, ''that is a great idea in har-
mony with our instincts, with our tradi-
tions, our customs. 1t is deeply i'm
pressed upon the convictions of this land.
Shaped as you Christians offer the doc
trine, it loses none of its sublimity; or
its associations, full at the Same time of
mystery, power and solace. A sacrifcial
Mediator with Jehovah, that expiatory
born from the chosen house
Of the chosen people, yet blending his
with the human elements, appointed be-
fore all time, and purifying by his atom
ing blood, the myriads that preceded
aud the myriads that will follow us,
without distinction of creed or cline.
This is what you believe. acknowledge
the vast conception, dimly as my brain
can partially embrace it. l understand
this much the human race is saved, and
without the apparent agency of a He
brew prince, it could not have been saw
ed. Now, tell me: suppose the Jews
had not prevailed on the Romans to
cruelty Jesus, what would have become
Of the Atonement p
81 cannot permit myself to contem-
plate such contingencies, said Tancred.
''The subjuect is too high for me to
touch with speculation. l must not
even consider an event that had been
by the Creator of the
world for countless ages
"Ah p said the lady, "pre-ordained
by the Creator Of the world for count
less ages! Where, then, was the mex !
piable crime of those who fulfilled the s
5enefcent intention The holy race sup
Piled the victim and the immolators. !
What other race could have been en-
trusted with such a consummation? Was I
not Abraham prepared to sacrifice even ;
his son And with such doctrine, that
embrace all space and time nay more,
shoas and eternity with divine persons
for the agents, and the redemption of the
whole family of man for the subject
you can mix up the miserable persecu-
lion Of single race And this is prac- j
teal not doctrinal Christianity. 1t is
not found in your Christian books, which {
we're all written by Jews; it must have {
been made by some of those churches &
10 which you have referred me- Perse-
cute us Why, if you believed what !
you profess, you should kneel to US
7 GU raise statues to the hero who saves t
4 country. We have saved the human q
race, and you prosecute us-for doing
it,"
II am no prosecutor" said Tancred, Il
Eith emotion, "and, had I been SO, my
visit to Bethany would have cleansed &
my heart of such dark thoughts"
"We have some conclusions in com l
mon, said his companion, rising. "We s
agree that half Christendom worship a !
Jewess, and the other half Jew. Now, 5
let me ask you one more question '
Which do you think should be the su- &
perior race the worShipped or the wor-
shippers p
Tancred looked up to reply, but the {
ady had disappeared.