The New York herald., 1879-07-28

and Jews stand their rights. but to avoid all
excitement and attempt no demonstration, anu es-
pecially hold no indignation meetings All that was
necessary without direction had been done by the
newspapers. sss..
REV. JUSTIN d. FULTON D. D.
The Rev. Dr. Justin d. Fulton made very pointed
illusions to Mr. Corbn and the Jews in his morning.
sermon in the Centennial Baptist Church. Clinton
avenue, Brooklyn. They came in very aptiy In his
application of the text. Thou hast dealt well with
thy servants, Lord according to thy word"
lie showed. by many quotations from the Old
Testament Gods peculiar for those
who kept the covenant. Adam. said he.
was failure. but God was true Abraham. on the
other hand who had determined to serve God. could
say that He had dealt well with him. God took
of him. He said. "Get thee out of thy country and
from thy kindred and from thy fathers
house unto land that will show
thee. and will make Of thee q great nation,
and will bless thee and make thy name great. and
thou shalt oe blessing; ana Will neip them that
thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
How true this is in the past all history proves But
the great promise is yet to be fulfilled.
The persecution of the Jews will not be paying
investment. The Sabbath desecratipg. beer and
whiskey selling hotel proprietor may desire to cater
to men who, apart from their families. drink and
revel, and may treat with disdain the men who
temperate aud who 80 with their families for recrea
ton and refuse to spend great sums in drink and
nger long with their famiiies but in the end they
will be blessed who recognize in the Jews the de-
scendans Of Abraham and the heirs to promises yet
untulflled and to be redeemed. II the United
States holds the place in prophecy which
many believe. If there is significance in
this movement toward agricultural employment.
then the time may be near at hand when the veil
shall be lifted from their eyes when they Shall see
in Christ their Saviour and shall enter into posses
sion OF Inheritance provided for them when they
shall obtain rule. prominence and power. The Jews
deserve praise for their temperance. their frugality.
their desire to have their families share with them in
their recreations aud enjoyments. Let boorishness
be put down and nastiness be excluded but let
the prosecuting spirit OF race or religion disappear
forever. Take Moses still further illustration.
How wonderfully God took care OF him according to
His word! So we might say OF Joshua OF samuel.
OF Jonathan, of David, OF prophet. priest and king
Consider the promises OF Gods Word.
REV. DIR. NEWMAN.
At the request of several gentlemen the Rev. DR..
Newman gave his views Of the Jewish question
which has agitated the community for the last two
weeks. He accordingly selected Haman and Nor
decai his subject last evening and took his text
from Esther. VI. 13-"And Haman told Zeresh. his
wife, and all his friends everything that had befalen
him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife.
unto him. II Mordecai be of the seed Of the Jews.
before whom thou hast begun to fall. thou shalt
not prevail against him, but shalt surely
fall before him." Haman and Mordecai.
said the Doctor. representative men
Haman Amaketite and descendant
of the old King Agag. whom Samuel the prophet
had slain. Although foreigner he had risen to the
proud position of Prime Minister in the court Of
Persia. He must have been man OF great intellect
and courtier of no ordinary grade to have gained
such ascendancy the royal mind. His love
of power had been gratiicd by the King and his
vanity fattered by the obseq devotion paid him
by the people. On his finger he wore the royal
signet, the impression from which gave unlimited
authority to all his commands and placed the
destiny of nation in the hands Of its possessor:
He was ambitious, proud, sensitive. crafty aud
cruel. His lofty spirit could brook 10 rival. and
the shadow of opposition kindled his wrath. The
only man in the Empire who did not fear his dis
pleasure Mordecai. the jew. who occu-
ped the humble position Of one of the
He was one of the Jewish captives who had refused
to return to JeruSiem under the leadership of Ezra
He reminds US OF Hamlet-of noble heart. grand
intellect and unwayeriny integrity. There was
nevertheless, an air OF severity about him. hanghy
unbending spirit. whose high sense OF honor scorned
worthy. Sulien. proud and indifferent to his own
fate, he dehed his enemy to do his worst. When
Haman. with his retinue came from the palace all
the people paid him the reverence due to the Kings
favorite but Mordecai, the jew, who sat like
statue. not oven turning his head to notice him.
But this conduct aroused the deadly hostility
of the naughty Haman The latter however. scorning
to be avenged on one man. sought the slaughter OF
all the Jews in the Kingdom OF Persia. The decree
ISSUED the news tell like thunderbolt Morde
cai and he resolved the awful catastrophe.
1t was a war of races the part OF Haman. 1t was
prejudice that he had inherited from Agag. his
cestor. We can account for his wrath other
hypothesis. As the Prime Minister of Persia Hanan
should have been above being offended by the in
civlty OF one occupying such an humble position.
But he knew that Mordecai was jew. and sought to
punish him for the deeds OF his ancestors and to-day
history repeats itself
PUNISHED FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
The oil races continues. and in that the
Jews have taken no little part. They the bitter
enemies OF the people whom they found IN the
promised land and slew them the right hand and
on the left. or all people known in ecclesiastical
history their religious hatred has been most in
tense. They slew their prophets. they martyred tho
apostles and put to death the Son Of God Yet in
this better day in the history the world, preju-
dice against race and religion should cease. Let the
dead pas. bury its dead. Through nineteen
turies the Hebrews have bitterly suffered from tho
spirit whch they manifested in the days Christ aud
HIS apostles. They have been prescribed aud perse-
cuted by thousands. Seven times they have been
banshed from France. They were exiled from Spain
and England and their prosecutions in Italy, Ger
many and Russia are bey ond belief: Yot like their
ancient olive. they still survive With few
ceptions they ENJOY political and religious liberty in
the great nations OF Europe. but America has been
to them their promised laLd Here they have pros
pered in other country, and noted Tor their
wealth, their Intelligence and their charity. 1t is
true they distinct people and have given no
have their political. commercial and social rights.
in which they arq)to be protected. iut they are
not more distinct than the Irish and the Germans
in their national characteristics. The man the set
of men who would persecute the Hebrews would
persecute any other nationality III the country who
stood in the way of their business prosperity. There
are just mean men among Yankees as among
Jews, and who are as keen IN bargain and stngy
Mt watering place. AS Christian Americans have
no pre-cininence over the Hebrew, only we excel
them in all that is beautiful in piety. dodike in
charity noble in patriotism and world wide In phi
lanthropy. 1t s character that makes the lnan,
whether jew or Gentle, bond tree white black,
Protestant or Catholic or Hebrew As God IA the
centre OF the universe and Christ the OF the
Church. is the centre of the nation, no matter
whence he comes. what his nationality or what his
form of religious belief.
CHICAGO LANDLORDS LIKE JEWS