The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-08-21
4 Sermon From Jsha Paul OA the
lRMA.

"You've got the Jews all over with you, y
said gentleman from one of the other no
tells u me last evening; they shu, down OF
them over at our house; won't have EN-"
like that; proscri ption o! all kinds is good
l like to hear one man say that he hates an
Eng'iShman. and ano her that he can't
atan;; an freshman. For Ii shows that their
Quotations are not finished; each has some.
thing in lite TO look forward To. Ii they
live long enough they will come to the con-
clu-ion arrived at by the grea, French travel.
Ter, who declared tnat after visiting every
part OF the world he had made up hi. mind
that il was iGhabiled only By Inen and wo-
men fu, religious ro'crip;ion is especial
ly pleasing 10 the naked eye 50 far as tus-
ire-s dealing ia concerned. an officer o! one
of your most prominent banks, to whom
re:.ested the observation, remarked tina, Of
ali he men who had dealings with his bank,
he found the Jews the most honest, the most
faithful in the performance Of the very spir-
j; Of their cJniraci-, the most Trustworthy in
all money transac.ions. And il il not 40?
Among the piupers who fill our streets and
onr a.yiuins, CIR hospitals aai cur iiils, do
you fad Jew? They feed their own poor,
they take clro of their own SICK. Like the
bea. modern engines, they consume their
own smoke ard rubbish. But, aside from
these material facts, there is a poetry aud a
grandness ab out the Jewish charac,e. which
has always moved me 10 reverence. A ma
ton without country, people without 4
home, flowing through and penetrating all
majors, ye, not comrningiing with a single
enc, preserving all their individasliries, their
religion, their language, their Customs, In
tao; the same now "a when led
by the clond by day, and the
pillar of FIRE a; night they went dry .shOd
through the c.oven sea and encamped in the
wilderness beneath the same stars which now
stud the heavens. Snow me people like
this IN all history; people around whom
all the grand poetry of the Bible clusters; a
people rich in TRADITION beyond all prece-
dent. who have yet preserved the minutes,
of those traditions while dynasty after dy-
nasty has crumbled around them, and nation
after nation has faded from of the face of the
earth; a people who have chung TO the faith
OF their fathers, TO the one God whom their
fathers worshiped, asking no change and
seeking no change, while creed after creed
has had its day, and decay and incessant
wars over doc,rinal points have desola,ed EN-
pires. Nv sympathies in the play, let me
confess, have always been with Shylock
Houseless and homeless, spoiled Of his
wealth and robbed of his daughter, he is
driven out in.hi- old age to childiess penury
and for what? Insui,ed and spat upon,
his religion reviied and his house dishon-
ored, he took no revenge in cowsrdly muir
der, after The Christian pattern; he sought
bu, the fultllment ola contract, the terms OF
which he had complied with, and would
have complied with, probably, had positions
en- rever.ed. Would not Shylock, think
Won, have barred hi- breast to the knife in
fnltllment OF his bond without the spiritless
'us- that Antonio made about? Such il
Jexish faith; depend upon it the vile Jew
would not have shelte ed himself from the
fulfillment of bargain which he himself
sough. under the bubble about a drop Of
blood. won't have Jew.;" talk about
.the beat society Of New York." you do DO,
know VIA, it il until yon have mingled with
Je~s, gone among the Rsbbis, sat at their
feet, and, in admiration OF manners and
learning which p,ss all previous experience,
of a gracious gentleoe-s which makes the
tolera;ion afforded you BY any other sect
seem boori-h rudeness, recognized ''soci-
ely" TO which few can hope permanently to
attain, a courtesy which comes of the schol-
arship and culture of ihon-ands Of years.
Wont have Jews" indeed.