Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-02
Vitality OF the Jewish Race.

The members of the Jewish race have.
APP 90 the present period of history, pre-.
vented the most remarkable of all the
tleahties, and those of them who ara
united to the other races by ties of
ol0od, though not by any profession or
tenglous indication, are hardly less
privileged. In England and Wales we
compute the number of professed Jews
= aoes not exceed $4,000, some saw not
ever 10000; but in addition to these, if
physiological readings be true, and I
teei sure they are, there is an enormous
Chrlstianized Jewish population which,
under exceedingly broad and Protestant
PRINCIPLES, accept the Christian faith
with tendency to Puritanic SIMPLICITY.
and slkbnt Judaic method, and in which
the names, the beliefs, the traditions of
Tue Jewish people, as rendered in their
sacred writings, find their repetitions.
But notice now, in regard to vitality,
the most truly typical Of the Semitic
eype-those, namely, who profess and
call themselves Jews-and it is thew, I
specially repeat, who show an excep-
donal tenacty to life. under circum-
stances which at first sight would seem
to cause the utmost resistance to life. l
have investigated this matter with the
greatest care, and, not to trouble YOU
by repeating in detail what I have
already published. may state in brief
terms that during all ages of life, under
all conditions of life to which it has been
subjected, under prosecutions the most
painful, under suppression of liberty the
most determinate, under residences in
confined quarters of towns that were
practically prisons, under isolation the
most pitirui, under cOntempts the most
cruel, the Jewish family has maintained
vitality aud health which is at once a
d model to the other families of men
among which 1t has been destined. or 1
should rather have said permitted, to
exist. The Jews are not free from pro-
ciivities to disease of serious constitu-
ssonal kind. They are comparatively
Tree from consumption; they are very
free from these zymotic diseases or pes
eIiences, smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever, and such like, which carry off so
largely the children of other races; they
: are very free, that is to say, they have
been very free, from the diseases which
spring from poverty; and they are very
free from the diseases which spring from
'dleness. ostentation, and luxury. The
: particular hereditary disease from which
experience they are more disposed
80 that malady than either Saxon or
Celt, but it is not sufficiently widespread
. 70 effect the general results of the tena-
cious life pertaining to them. For the
benefits they have received in the way
OF life and health the Jewish family has
been indebted to wise sanitary laws and
regulations bequeathed to them from of
aid, to thrift and provision for the NOR
TOW, to peacefulness of heart, to domes-
tic virtue, and most of all to sobriety.
1T is hard to tell whether, when set free
from every political and religious op-
preston, left to make their own course
in open competition with other people,
receiving from their fathers the wealth
of their past, wealth of wisdom, wealth
of simple LONELINESS, wealth of riches,
wealth of vitality. they will retain and
bank the same treasures or take out and
squander all. At the present time it is
as if the finger of prophecy was point
ing to the last-named fate.-Dr. Rich
ardson, u, Frazer's Magazine.