Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-22
THE ANTI-JEwIsH CRUSADE.
Henry Ward Beecher Protests Against It-He Recalls the Debt Humanity Owes to the JewIsh Race.
New York world.l

assembled in Plymouth Church lasi evening, Mir Beecher having an- nOunced al lhe morning service thai he should in the evening preach on the persecution of the Jews Tn Ger many. He said after brief tntro- duction:
 have been asked 10 unite with other ministers of the gospel in 6 re- spec;ful remonstrance against the in- clpieHJ steps of persecution of the Jews which have been taken in Ger many. When Plymouth Church re- fuses to j"in in any national move medt for the amellOratiUn of men, or in defense of the weak, or for the succor of the atfi iicted, anywhere in all the world, it wIll no longer have req son for Its own existence. l am sure --warm a. other hearts are-I am sure ! l should be almost unjust if did not ! ulfiIm that no more earnest anu eager man can speak in behalf of the Jew. ish people in every land than l. When m appeal Is made 10 the people of America on behalf of the Jews II comes with peculiar force, Inasmuch us We are indebled 10 the Jews more than all her people put together. ! To them VIC owe the earliest form of The commonwealth established by ] Moses. We owe the rights of for eIgnCrs in strange land to the doc. | trines If the Oll Testament as estab- | lished by the great lawgiver. We are indebted 10 thus people more than 10 | any other for IhU huVsehOld, for the | education of children a. theIT first duty of cilizen-hip. We are indebted lo them above all nations of antiquity | for he conception of womanhoOd with it~ civilIZiug influence; for any ] people that has Darbaric ideas of wo- men will always be led U barbarism. and among all the peoples of the Or. | tent a long way before und higher | than any Of them stood the Jewish ! people un the subject of womanhood, , ! anu there, perhaps, only in antiquity | and in the Orient woman was permit | ted Co be legislat"r, judge, prophet, ! artist, orator, poet, or whatever God ! had inspired her ti be. At time when woman lu Greece livet in pro- ! found ignorance. when an intelligent woman was accounted courtesan, in | Palestine Women were found leading | on the nation in almost every path of | excellence. We owe 1, this people | me laws and customs which protect ! the liberty Gt labor and the labOrer, | which protect the poor and suffering. | We are indebted tO them for the earli- est form of hnd-renure which pre- vented the lands frOm being absorbed by the few and kept them within the reach of the men who titled the soil. l will not say all lhe lands. but the | chiefesl nations have suffered from a contrary policy and tEe confusion that | England is undergoing at present is | that which has been brought about by the land laws and habits of that great | empire. We are indebted tO the Jews | for he moral ideas which govern the | Christian world. The Old Testament with its wealth of wisdom is ours be- cause the Jewish people wrote and preserved an' handed 1t down 10 us. | The New Testament Is Jewish, and when il pleased God to give His Son entrance into human life q sweet Jew i ish maiden was chosen. St. John was Jew, and the Apostle whose en. ! thusiasm carried the spirit of Christ into all the world was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and whatever we have Of authoritative Christian canon we de- rive from them. The Jews have given us all this and they have received in return from the hands of ChrlSten- dom long continued prosecutions without parallel. Nowhere else, and upon no others have such mOn- strous and inhuman cruelty, such shameful injustice, such inCesSanI 1 persecution been raIncd. The whole race of Israelites seem to have been typitied in the fables Ot the " Wander ing Jew" Every mans hand seems tu have been turned against them ! Whyg From reasons derived from that religion which teaches love. As in rhe days of our Lord there were men possessed of devils, so since thai day the Church has been possessed oi hatred. These people, wlth all then pcrsrcutiuns, have thrIven. They have not been cOnspiratUrs agains
 government, they have not been idle drones lying upon the bosom of state charity Nowhere else has there been such industry as among this people. Tie; have not been rebelliOu- tC church doctrine nor cOrrupteis Oi youth. Everywhere, for hundred, and thousands Cf years, they have brought thrIlt. wise industry. public wealth, inle iisrpre and cIvIllZatiOI
 m their train IHCre is not m tho human race such a lineage; there is
 not such lineage in alI time witf such distinguishing excellences. And yet they aie to-day the most desplsec
 pe0pl-, and to-day the old fires tha
 nae b en ukrd out seeh likely tt
 break out ugIIn here and there, tho
 hluo.iy hand 10 be raised again. O
 all the nations of Eurnpe. we Ough
 to hope that Germany would be lh'
 la-I tO "prn the persecution, and tha
 the German people would be the las
 LI sanction such injustice. Nor will
 We believe that they will. Let u
 hope that Ihe voice of America speak
 ing To it's fuih rlaud will be hearC
 pleading for liheriy of all withou
 ui>linCtinn of race or caste or classes.
 MT. Becchtr here read few line of petition complaining that th'
 Jews were mUre prO>per"ns than tn
 native Germans, and obtained live iihoOd without having to toll as har' as the latter. Then commenting ol
 what he had read, he said: Well,
 think if any such thing as that hat
 taken place in America my prid would never let me say that our pOpu lalIon went down under the superio . intelligence and superior brains the Jewish people. What are we go ing to do! Are we going 10 plucl out the brainss l have this tU say ' hat in America, if the Jew in fai
 field without favor can surpsss tn
 Christian let him do it; let him go u and let others go down; and not her , alone, but everywhere throughout th . whole world, for the causes Of >ucces
 are so many and SO fundamental Una if in fair field and open field, allow ing a sufficient time, any raca surpas
 ma r-.. r,nsf suhu1it h