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

'h"iA AAA>A tAle JeWlSn llllanclef or
tr;.desclnan. Do not these prophecies
read like history? Gould they be
trucr descriptions had they been writ
ten yesterday, instead Of three thousand
years ago?
are infinitely described in prophecy.
''fhou shalt be oppressed and spoiled
crermore." ssOppresseu and crushed
alway.' "The Lord shall make thy
plaques wonderful" BY all nations
they have been oppressed and perse-
cutcd, driven from country to country,
robbed and peeled, their children stolen
from them to be trained in ;ln alien
faith, forced to hide any indications of
wealth, made slaves in Spain and else
where, immured in prisons and inuui-
sition dungeons for no crime, only
because they We're Jews, burned mt the
stake for adherence to their faith, mas
sacred by fanatic mobs. In the eleventh
century 1900 of them fled from the
wild fury of a British mob aud barri-
caded themselves in the palance of
York. When their defenses failed
they put their own wives ami children
to death and then set fire to the palace
and persisted in the flames French
armies We're raised to exterminate
them. Popes and kings have COM
bined to annihilatc them. Their sons
and daughters have been ttsiven to
another people," In Damascus i'll our
own century they have been subjected
to most barbarous cruelties, and the
abduction and forced baptism of the
sons Of the Motaris u few years since
prove that Papal venom against them
has not yet been exhausted. Jeremiah
said 700 years before the siege of
jerusalem: 'sTlie hands of pitifui won,-
Ell have sOdden their own children;
they have been their meat in the des-
truction Of the daughter of my people,"
Josephus relates that, during the fam
inc OF the siege of Jerusalem, when the
people, in haggard hunger, gnawed
shoes and girdles, and the soldiers the
leather off their shields, a lady Of rank
who had had all her property plundeI-
ed by robber bands, at last in her des-
perate hunger found Il lamb. The
scent Of the cooking food brought the
hungry wolves to her dwelling. With
fierce inprecations they demanded a
share. She brought it out and bade
them eat. 1t was the half-eaten body
Of her infant child.
Here is another prediction, Deut.
xviii, 81: aye shall become an as
constituent and a proverb among the
nations whittier the Lord shall lead
thee;" and again, Jer. XIV, 8, 81 win
deliver them; to be removed into all
the Kingdoms OF the earth, for their
hurt, and to be reproach and q pro-
verd, a taunt and a curse in all places
whittier shall drive them.D
Has it not been SO? Have we not
heard it, Gas close as a Jew;" GAS
aVaricious as a jew" GAS hard-heart-
ed as a jew" Often, doubtless unjust
and slanderous, yet there is essential
truth i'll Shylock's description of this
universal prejudice: sIIe hath disgrace
e'l me; laughed at my losses; mocled
at my gains; scorned my nation;
thWartcu my bargains; cooled my
friends; heated my enemies, and what's
his reason FL am Jew! You call me
misbelicver, cut-throat, dog, and spit
upon my Jewish gaberdine; you did
Eolu your rhcum upon my beard, and
foot me IT'S you spurn Il stranger
over your threshold; still have borne
it with u patient shrug; for sutferauce
is the badge OF all our tribe'
notwithstanding their expulsion
from their own land, their dispersion
among all nations, the expressions and
crueltleS they have endured, against all
preccdents and probabilities the Jews
have continued a
DISTINCT AND uNABsoREED NATION.
This is perhaps the most wonderful
feature in their wonderful history.
Look at these predictions. Thus saith
the Lord: tsrhough l make IA full end
of the nations whittier have scatter
Ell thee, yet will not make II full end
or thec."-Jcr. NNN., II, IG, 2S. ssYet
fnrall that, when they be in the land
of their enemies l will not cast them
away, neither will i allow them to ,les-
troy them y.'-I4ev. XVI. "A
How contrary this to the general ex-
pericnce OF the world. CONQUERED M
tious become extinct when the con-
querors take possession of their land.
and settle permanently in it. Those
not eNtcrminateu by the violence of
war haVc become analgainat,.}. ub-
sorbed, like the SaNons by the Nor
mans OF England, and as the abori,i-
nal tribes of this country arc fast be-
coming destroyed or absorbed by the
dominant race. This has been the
usual history of conquered races. Yet.
in the case of Israel, without "a govern
inent, withouta center upon which to
rally, the whole nation cxilcd and VET
forming no colonies, without anv re-
cognizcd bond of union, scattered as in
dividuals and families, not as tribes.
isolated from each other, driven as
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