Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-27
JEW AND GENTILES.

Israeltes live and flourish IN all centuries
and all climes, beyond any other race and ma
ton the reason is, the God of their fathers
promised it, even before they became ma
tion. At the same time, the Ruler Of the
world uses instrumentalities, and accomplish.
es his designs by the operation OF natural
laws. A large number of the observances
imposed through Moses and Aaron had two
main ends in view-to prove their obedience
and to preserve their lives to enable them to
live healthy, happily and long. The result is,
that of the people who have ever lived the
Jews only, retain their name and nation and
lineage. Hence their existense to-dayls the
greatest miracle connected with the Christian
religion, for it is founded on the Bible, and
the simple existence of the Jews as a people
demonstrates the fact that the Bible is the
Word of God
DR.. Neufville, of Frankfort-the birth.
place of Rothschilds states that, in round
numbers the average duration of the lsraelites
in that city is forty-nine years; that of the
other population is thirty seven-years. e..
During the first five years of life, Jewish
deaths are but little over one.half as many as
Christian.
One-fourth of Christian children die before
they are seven years old, while three fourths
of the Jews live to an age Of twenty-eight
years.
Only one quarter of the Christians live
to be sixty years old;a fourth of the Jews
live to the age of seventy-one.
Itis stated, on the authority of Glotter,
that in the Austrian dominions, while Of one
thousand of other nationalities who live from
seventy to hundred years, there were seven
ty.fve Germans, while of thousand Jews,
one hundred and twenty lived to over seventy
years. The reasons usually assigned for these
favorable results are that the mode of life of
the Jews in reference to their eating and
drinking, and personal habits, tend directly
and efficiently to this better showing. "a
There is, however, another element-that
of general thrift The ability to make mon
ey and save it, and have it on hand ready to
make profitable investments, gives certain
degree of independence and quiet of mind,
and feeling of elevation tending to the pro-
motion of a pleasurable serenity that is
worth millions of money.
1t is for the same reason the Friends, called
Quakers, have an average of eleven years
more than the worlds people" They are
thrifty, clean and Industrious, enconomical
and Of a quiet temperament. But there is to
the Jew sentiment, which gives to him a
fixedness, a settled feeling, which is Of great
value-his unalterabe faith that there is a
God.
No people on the globe are farther from
idolatry than the Israelites; their faith is fix
ed, no doubts no uneasiness, no feeling about
for the truth. for it is within them upon
it they are willing to stake their existence
in all the emergencies Of life. 1t is emphat-
ically true of them, "their faith is fixed,
trusting in Jehovah"
1t then follows that the great promoters of
longevity are:
First. Cleanliness.
Second A proper mode of quiet, consisting
mainly in the avoidance of gross and fat
foods.
Third. Pecuniary thrift.
Fourth. A fixed religious sentiment-a
sentiment which, amid the perturbatons and
storms of life, enables its fortunate possessor
to maintain composed, equable and conf
dent frame of mind.
But, as people, the American-the rep
resentative Yankee-has no composure, no
quietud& no serenity; he has no rest until he
finds iEp the grave.-Halps Journal Of