The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-04-05


II. d. Cbavuv 11ifss ltom 1ondon 10
/ o11Srve tksk O. Jewilh pres u
America i disposed y question saafe-
ment msde ~ No Conserving he gather-
"a leaders 81 f1tnel, bUth in America and
Eneisnd. chow ! fert haf6faf disposition
s. feep 8 quiet 8 possible Ire faes that
| Judsism. IKE other religions, has had TO
u1dorr0 the Inevitable division into
lawiDes." which our time demands.
There are Jews Of The letter and Jews Of
tie shirt: supernafuralish and rational.
is1v. those who look for literal and those
| Who look only for spiritual fulfillmenn Of
sncik1it prophecies and hopes However
Unpleasant Il 1is3 b 70 ne liberal and
| free thinking Jew Of America, the facts
which / have ssatcd c0nceznink the ter
dcncy Of their fpce to Father id Palestine
| Is unquestionnb16. The phenomenon has
/ been sufficiently pronounced 70 call forth
| 1 work by the Rev. james Hell, b. A.,
come time q clefgyinah In Jerusalem.
EWkfch, along with & good deal OF fanati-
lcfsfn. contains some interesting facts
| The work is entitled Palestine Repeo-
pied: or, Scattered Isrsel's Gathering. A
Sign of the Times" Mr.. Neil shows
| that the population Of Palestine is double
what it was ten years sgo, the new com
ers being Jews, and chiefly from
Russia. Three years ago such an
influx took place to 6aphed, one OF
| the four holy cities In 9alilee, that there
Lwefc no houses TO receive them. and many
had to camp out A plot of ground near
| Jerusalem was sold for twenty times its
former price. Building goes on by night
as we'll as day. Two little colonies have
settled lust outside Jaffa Gate The real
causes Of this immigration are, first, that
only recently could Jew own land in
Palestine without becoming a Turkish
subject: and. secondly, the new law in
Russia (1674) by which all Jews must be
enrolled for military service. II is prob
able that Russia until now contained one
third of the Jewish race; and just as they
| begin to feel the pressure of these military
demands upon them of Russia, albeit
these mean their relief from some pre-
vious burdens, they find the cid Oppres-
sions of the Second Woe" las they used
/ to call the Turkish rule which shut them
up in one wretched quarter of Jerusalem)
removed to large extent. But it is evil
dent that a large proportion of the new
emigrants in Palestine are animated by re-
/ ligious enthusiasm. This was shared by
Christian enthusiasts also, al is particu-
larly the case with German colony there
| known as the Is Hoffmanites, their leader
being DR.. Hoffman, but calling them
selves the " Society of the Temple" They
are about a thousand, mostly from
| Wuftember, and have branches at
Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haiffa, where they
\ are industrious mechanics and tradesmen,
and greatly promote the welfare of the
! country. OF course the jealous mission
airy, Mr.. Neil, regards all such facts as
mere secondary agents in the divine plan,
with which plen he is obviously familiar.
Six thousand years of prevailing evil are
/ to be now followed by a millennium of
| 800, 600 literal years. This Is new light.
According to Virgil, the ghosts of the de-
4 parted remained in Elysium 600 years
before they were 'reiI carnate on earth,
and the sacred cycle has found its place
in the millennial theory. But Mr.. Neil
has multiplied the number by 800. on the
queer ground that Peter specially ex.
plains that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years and a thousand years as
one dayl" You will not be surprised to
learn that the Mount of Olives is to be
cloven with valley Zach. XIX and
Mount Zion to be mfraculously elevated
| and crowned with mile square temple,
events which will at once fulfill prophecy
| and improve the features of the country.
Fanatical no doubt; but yet fanaticism is
| still one of the forces which must be in
cluded in every wise forecast. 1t es-
pecially is notable to find this Christian
missionary writing with admiration OF
| Sir Moses Montefiore on account of what
| he has done for the Jews in Palestine.