The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-05-25

preston anu outward violence that
have ever destroyed and blotted out
the nations of the earth have been at
work with unprecedented strength for
nearly eighteen centuries, aud stiil the
Jews are peopte-a distinct people, Il
numerous people-unassimilate with
any nation, though mixed up with all
nations. Their peculiarities are undi-
minished; their national identity is TN
broken. Though scattered upon all
winds, they are perfectly capable of be-
ing gathered again in one mass.
Though divided into the smallest par
ticles by numerous solvents, they have
resented all atfinities, and may be trac-
cd unchanged in tho most confused
mixtues of human beings. The laws
of nature seem to have been suspended
i'll their case. 1t is not merely that a
stream has held on its way through the
waters of a lake, without losing the
color and characteristic marks of it,,
own current, but that II mighty river,
having plunged from a mountain
height into the depth of the ocean, and
been separated into its component
drops, and thus scattered to the ends of
the world, and blown about by all
winds during eighteen centuries, is still
capable of being diSutlited from the
waters OF the ocean, its minutest drops
having never been .assinlil;,ted to any
other, arc still distinct and ready TO be
gathered, waiting the voice that shall
call again the outcasts of Israel and the
dispersed of Judah"
Thus miraculously have this ancient
people been preserved in accordance
with prophecy, furnishing Il perpetual
proof OF the truth of Gods word. There
arc this day four millions OF Jews scat
tered over the north l,.,
of Jehovah that shall call them to Zion.
How can skcptic look into the face
OF II Jew, recall his strange history, SO
improbable, so contrary to all analo-
gics, and then remember that he is in
this nineteenth century what W;tS clear
ly predicted three thousand two hun
dred years ago that he should be, and
still doubt the superhuman origin of
these Holy Scriptures. Every jew is a
living witness of the divinity of God's
word. There can be no insane pratinc
here about tho indeiniteness or anti
guilty Of the prophecies. The Jews are
among US, and they are what this old
Bible thirty-two centuries ago declared
that they should be. And yet
THEIR CONQUERORS AND OPiIsEss1lSS
HAVE BEEN ENTEEMIN IArrED.
The distinct prophecy is der. xxx.,
11): s'I will make Il full end OF the ma
tions whittier I have driven thee"
This is repeated i'll relation to the par
ticular nations that were oppressors OF
Israel; for examples: GAS Babylon hath
caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain OF all the
earth"
The fact that /. course of events is
predicted does not alter their moral
character. The nations that opprcss-
cd Israel did not intend to obey the
Lord. They We're impellel by their
own greed and wicked passions We
are not to understand that the Lord di-
rectly caused these m;slign opprtssio1s
But He foresaw and overrulel them in
carrying out His own purposes. sIIc
maketh the wrath of man to praise
Him.
And has not God made e., full end
Of all the nations" that oppressed
Israel: They have been swept from
the earth as with the bosom of dcstruc-
ton. Egypt, her earliest oppressor,
became 'shasest among the Kingdoms"
Asyria and Chaldea spoiled the Jews,
raVaged their country, carried their
children into captivity, and their very
names are cXpunged from the map of
the earth. The Macetloni:,ns overrun
| and enslaved Israel, and for centuries
Macedon has been Overrun by aliens,
and is to-day ground under the heel of
the Turk. Rome sent her devouriug
eagles to gather around the dying car
cass, and the Cloths, like torrents from
the mountains, inundated their whole
land. In their turn the Goths dis:,p-
pcared, and mongrcl races, speaking
strange languages, occupy the pro-
ViHceS that were once the Roman en-
pire. But the Jews! They saw in
their splenlor the glorics of Memphis
and Palmyra, of Babylon and Tyre
and NineVeh. They watched the era
die and the sepuicilrc OF Maccton and
of Rome. Mighty empires rose, nour-
ishcd and fell around them, and now
they wander over their ruins and MAN
age the finances and commerce oi the
dcbaScd intruder into the ancient terri
tories, "thc same people as when they
left Judea, preserving in themselves 4
monument of the days Of Moses and
the Pharaohs unchanged as the pyra-
mids of Egypt which they arc rcputcd
to have built. You may call upon the
ends of the earth, and call in vain, for
one living Representatives ofthosc pow
criui nations by whom the people of
israel were successfully opprcssed.'
Were not the prophecies inspired by
JehoVah that three thousand years ago
described so minutely the condition of