The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-09-27

You seldom-so seldom that one
might say never-hear Of drunken
Jew, thievfsh Jew, a suicidal Jew
or pauper Jew. Not for years has
there been ten Jews at one time in
an English prison. Never does a
Jew appear in the divorce court.
Never does Jew abandon his wife
or family. Not in half century has
there been convict Jewess out of
their great number in this seductive
city. The schools, their charities,
their cohesion and cooperation would
make a thoroughly good United
States in the sense of oneness.
have seen 1000 children at one OF
these free schools, and / doubt if
more quick.wItted and more jealous
scholars are in all Christendom,
With unanimlty Of voice perfectly
harmonious they all pronounced their
creed of IS articles, which need not
here repeat, though I should like to
do SO for the benefit of some of our
scribes. London Jews are composed
of three distinct communities The
Reformed, the A shkenaism, or Polish
German Jews, and the Sephardin, OF
Portuguese and Spanish Jews. The
Sephardin are Of the oldest Jews in
London. They boast of a long and
proud lineage. and rath er look down
socially on all other Jews. But it is
a mild sort of looking down that a
Christian would call putting on
airs p Their religious services,
though different in detail, differs in
nothing of faith with that of the Ash
kenaism. The Pentateuch, the To-
rah, is their common ground of be-
lief. win not stop here to enter
upon the two laws given to Moses on
Mount Sinai, the one written and the
other the unwritten, though this
would be of interest just now, when
continental Europe is importing the
subject as subterfuge for practices
)called "Jew: batting" that no Chris
tian can justify. The law, transmit
ted by word of mouth from genera
ton to generation until after the de-
struction of Jerusalem, when it was
then written, is in itself, by this
event alone, a marvel for our minds
To scholarly Jew the history Of this
Mishua must be of wonderful inter-
est. From what little I have studied
of it / see in it one OF the miracles OF
mind. Taken together with the
Gemara and the two Talmuds, there
/ is no such marvellous mentality. Here
must pause. for l have overstepped
the example of good works and of the
London Jews. Twill by-and-by say
more. III
s| sE MONOTHETSTS. .a,.-.
When I was a younger scribe 8
tgood Virginia gentleman named DR.
Walden asked me to look over some
MSS. he had complied on s'Monothe
ISM" I did SO and prearranged then
for publication. He was then resi-
dent and large owner of land in St
Paul, MINI. For my compensation
he offered me some lots in st. Pau
that then were near "the woodlands
Wild I refused them, or any com
|pensation, and to-day they are th'
fashionable quarter of the city tina
boasts being like old Rome, for al
roads, certainly railroads, lead to it
l"MilliOns in it," but not one cent il
1.-The book.
The Monotheists of London teacl
Iof Heaven and happiness being OBJ
tainable only by one God alone. Ye
so Indifferent are the congregation
that they will not be satisfied witt
this simplicity of an undivided Deity
They want something more,'' ant
are inveterate Oliver Twists in thi
respect. It is this wanting of some
thing more that is the rock on whic
most-of us split. while the remainde
'lsplit ON the rock of something less
The Monotheists number fully 5000
in London, and do not include wha
are unkinGly called the "Aggressiv
,iUnitarians.' whom a journalist latel
said ''had a Monotheist sideshow 9
their own" I am glad to see thi
journalist has had to do penance fo
this fling at a really respectable POI
tion of London's religious sects.
! PoLYTHEIsTs.
I tremble at their name, for it
LEGION tenfold For the moment
will merely mention few of thel
Q and their titles, while on future da
I may describe them in detail. I
lbegin with, there are the Christadel
phians, the Peculiar People, the Sal
Ideman1as, the Southcottians, tt
3 Campbellites, C the Progress Pulpiter
: the Shining Light Secularists, Il
; Moravians, the Swedenborgians, tt
, Irvingites, the Apostolicals and tt
e Irregulars! They are all ready
n s'To serve the truth, where'er tits foun
II On Christian or on heather ground"
ii Far be it from me to hinder the1
Il for in this age man is a liar and Il
e truth is not in him more and mo
D. every day, by golly,' as darkey on
e, said to me. Some of these enumer
= ted mansions in the kingdom are tr
Z, ing to ones descriptive power
ofI What on earth shall I say of the NJ
J.. BILE army of Christadelphians or {
IS Apostolicals? How can I do justi
j. to the Shining Light Secularists
,l- 1.-The dark.lantern Ranters? How G.
b. they do justice to themselves, su
re rounded by Salvation Army a
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