Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-03
THE JEWS IN NEW YORK.
Their Charlie s-What Industry and
Patience is Accomplishing for Them.


Patience is Accomplishing for Them.
They have certainly by private
contributions among themselves
gone far beyond any other people in
this country, perhaps beyond any in
the world. No people have ever
given more practical evidence of
their faith in their own religious be
lief than the Jews. No people ever
gave better example of industry,
temperance, morality, education and
iberality, or made fewer claims upon
the charity of others than those of
the Hebrew denomination in this
city Their hospitals and their other
benevolent institutions are not only
princely, but they do not suffer by
comparison with those Of any other
people.
There is something almost sublime
in passing through Broadway and
other streets, to see not only the
rich but the poor with their shops
closed-thus without any reduction
of expenses giving OnesiXth of
their time in confirmation of their
faith in the religion they profess.
It's true they love their gold, and it
is also true that they love their re-
IgiOn better. Christians may be
equally good, but they make no pc
cuniary sacrifice like this. The in
dustry, patience and economy of the
Jews are rapidly and justly securing
for them in almost every city in the
Union q commanding influence and
large share Of the trade In al
most all places of importance there
are men whose names are an honor
to any community.
The late Hartman Hendricks of
this city, during long life, was
ever known and beloved as kind,
noble and generous in all the rela
tons of life; no act of his could
ever be construed into oppression;
the widow and the fatherless always
found themselves safe in his hands;
no business was allowed to intrude
upon his Sunday (Which was Satur
day. till after the sun was down,
when he generally left his house for
his Office; there drew perhaps two
or three checks for objects of be
nevolence, took his letters and pa
pers and returned quietly home.
One of his daily devOtions was prob
ably reading Heb xiii. 10Th: ITO
do good and to distribute forget
not, for with such sacrifices
God is well pleased" And
again: "Turn not thy face from
any poor man" This he carried
out. Before he left his home in the
morning for his office, his daily Gus
tom was TO provide himself with
silver of various denominations,
| and follow the above divine injunc
tions. If he met an old man, poor
and detected, he would hand him a
dollar--a person of less claim half
| that sum-but to all something, as
he could judge of the necessities of
their case. In large transactions
the benevolence of his character was
equally we'll illustrated At the time
of the great fire, in 1885, when con-
fidence in insurance stocks was pros
trated, and the capital of the Man
haitian Fire Insurance Company
was lost-in which Mr. Hendricks
had long held a commanding in
fluence-he at once proposed to his
directors to reOrganize and sub
scribe for the new stock, and agreed
to furnish the whole capital, at sim
pie interest, giving the profits to
those who would unite and reinState
the company. His name is an honor
to his family and to the community.
| The Jews now are fast becoming
among our largest real estate hold
ers. In addition to the many prince
| ly estates by inheritance, they prob
ably own many millions of dollars
in this city, all the proceeds of their
own industry, frugality and mcom-
promising contempt of all Difficult
ties. That iron determination knows
no defeat; it commands success,
and as often as another class, 10y
their folly and extravaganza, are
obliged to sell the earnings of theil
fathers, these people, by industry
will he able and ready to buy.-Nc''
York Post.