Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-08
ICoMMUNICATED
The Preservation of tue Jews.

10 cjluoo. 10 doubt, with many Of my TEL.
articles Which undertake to establish. through
the columns Ct the Gaz,tte. "the Divine 90
thori,y Of the Bible" must concur with tho
wri!er that tho present existerc, of the Jews,
if not uiraclc, is marvellous fact that chal-
lenecs ,he attention Of every thoughtful man.
| have elsewhere and 90 another occasion, IN
noticing that the genius Of this people, SO GALE
bruted 10 antiquity. but ostracsed for centuries,
is sgaio taking its proper place 10 the world,
Written tt them:
Without, uuti lately. city of refuge, they
have weIdersd over the earth. Al the causes
that ever clnSpiro to bot cut ratlors have
been exercised upon them 10 vaio. Empires
have riseu aud fallen; natioUs gGoRu, matured
sud persisted. They have survived them all.
Otbsr nations perish on their oTn soil. and
lose them elves IN their conquerors. Saxon
a5d Briton, Vandal and Etruriau, Goth and
Castiiiau, where are they? Their Ianes are
bu. IL oaairctss sounds, echoes that survive
the toryu.s that made them. The 1sraetes
| traficEcd ia their marts nation thcD; they
trathck over their graves nation now. They
have seen nations perish amid the fields they
planted and undor columns reared TO attest
!heir immortality; and YET they have lived Oh,
tho unique spectacle OF time, a homeless peo
pie. Tney beer charmed life else how could
these waters pass unchanged through every
sea p
a fac: is q word of God. A ssries OF suoces
| slve facts evolved by the processes OF lime
| cohcreat, Tar reaching, peculiar and seen CT al
msu-as universal 10 extent as the world itself,
urf in
| of Importance 10 everybody. We hive among
US go historic rGce--eood ctizers. active bust
| ness ner, with no less public spirit than The
rest OF IT,; true Americans, many OF them native
Firginiaus, aud yet We know and they know,
| that they differ from Us in peculiar mapnsr.
| We know that they have been part OF, aud
yet separate from, every historic nation Of The
globe Tor eighteen hundred years. and still live
in A'eXaudris, 10 Egypt, as in Alexandria, 10
Virgiuia.
What does this TACT mean
\ writer, whose article appeared 10 the
Washington Republican at the same date with
"Pm's article in The Gsz,ite, and whom, |
think, recognize as one Of The leading Israel.
ties Of Washington, sOys that the jewish race
continues because it has mission to dissent
pate among men-:hu dootli 30 OF the atty Of
God.
| I'M tells us hat inc Jews arc "a iVlng
cpis!c' to prove "the Divue authority CT the
Bb'r."
Which OF thes, Is right ? Is either. neither,
or both right?
have some thoughts On the sat cot TO make
rub j.. and would like to agree with Phi if
| Cat. Il is essential, however, that when
wor5s ert used their meaning shonId be clear
| would. therefore. beg PM TO tel! me-
| yph ri l,rr hn 4 Int nf hn
thpliiy ct Que book of tho Blbls is proof also of
the Divine au;horIiy Of The score OF otber books
houGd up 10 the same volume? Whether he
means ,Lst tic iospircd foresight of Isaiah
proves the D.vio!!y Ct the SoUgs f Solonon ?
It he mcaCs this; if ho asserts that by some
Divine authority thu Who'll, Of the many books,
pamphlets, 'clcrs, historic sketches, poems
acd soo2s, from Genesis 20 Revelations, have
been made o"e integral whole, will be be kind
euCush to tell NE when aod where this Was
done? paus, for reply. ALpHA.