The Morning herald., 1876-03-02
THE UNCHANGEABLE JEWISH
RACE

noted Its last annual report. ror Alaiy
wears zone Jew" was the sum Of con$er-
sion, this year the fruition has been great
er-"Five Jews" says the report, shave
placed themselves undrr instructions Of
whom three were converted"
Seriously, is it wise to maintain an Or
ganization, with paid secretary and
paid missionary, who control and spend
many thousands of dollars per annum,
made up of monies cast into the treasury
of the organization, with as pure and as
worthy motives, as those of the widow,
who, in the presence of Christ, gave her
mite in the Temple, for the purposes of
religion; to purchase the adhesion ofthree
persons, to any Denomination of Christian
ity when the experience of the past, with
out exception, proves that return to the
Jewish belief is always concomitant Of
age, ill-health, or impending death. We
have known professionally three converted
Jews, and in our experience they were the
perfection of consummate rascality-dritt-
ed from the faith of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob; scoffing at the Lawgiver Meses;
sneering at the "New Dispensation," al
though pensioned believers Of its doc
trines, like rudderles5 ships upon the
ocean, they were moral wrecks, acting any
role which procured profit. This is strong
language, but true to the letter.
WE have no faith in the usefulness Of
this organization, and the money and
piety expended were better used, togather
into their affiliated denomination, the
street Arabs who infest every sunny spot,
in winter, and every shady nook in sum-
mer, to profane Sunday-and teach each
other vice. In the 1874 years which have
come and gone, since the cruciixion Of
our Lord, save the change in the Apostolic
times, but few Jews have honestly be-
come Christians.
The jews have religious history. of
which they may be proud. Every form Of
persecution which the malignant iugenu-
ity of man could devise, they have been
subjected to-aEd have survived all. To-
day they are more numerous, and more
solidly impress the world, than at any
other period of history.
Through robbery, insult, torture and
every conceivable form of outrage and in
justice, they have marched on through the
ages and centuries, preserving the faith
and pursuing the course marked
out by their prophets and guides !;
and can they now be coaxed or cajoled
into abandoning what they have SO
long adhered to in spite Of persecution in
its most terrible forms? We have no
confidence in the sincerity of Jewish con-
verts to Christianity, and do not believe
that the Association for the conversion of
the Jews will find that Christianity has
gained anything by the capture of the
Israelites referred to in the last report OF
that institution.
Were it not true wisdom, to leave
the " chosen race" to Providence, the
seal Of the Creator is upon them. They
have borne it through Egyptian bondage
as the mural paintings Of the pyramids
show, through the desert, under the
judges, end the glory and greatness of their
kings. The tears shed while a captive
people, by the waters of Babylon, efiaced
not line OF the physiognomy of the
race. Religious. political aud socia.
ostracism for eighteen centuries have made
no change. The Jew cannot be altered
as other men, by change of cline anC
condition. To-day the unerring stamp O
the race, is to be found in every place o
exchange, or mart of commerce in the
civilized world. The husbandmen of tn,
valley Of Nistula, the horse dealer ofthe Ii
banus, the itinerant trade of Persia, tn,
! shopkeeper Of Wilmington, are as much
like each other as twin brothers. Why
No man knoweth. To our mind Jew, fo
some wise purpose of Providence, is a Jew
and as rule it spoils him sadly to max,
him anything else