Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-02-19

more, and now of Oxford, England,
the greatest living Mathematician ; in
psychology, Lazarus; in history,
Gretz and Jost on the stage, Rachel !;
in political economy, David Ricardo,
and in Philosophy, Spinoza. These
are few of the many Jews, who are
world-rcnowned, who have not been
business men,"
The Jews that took up business,
did so because their fanatic persecu-
tors drove them to it. Eugene Law
renee, in "The Jews and their Per-
secutors," explains the Inherited ten
denotes of the Jews to engage-in trade.
Among other things, he says ut is
a Jewish rather than Greek OF Ro-
man culture that has controlled the
conduct of modern families and ma
tions In one instance only have the
Jews consented to change their habits
Of life, and in that we discover the
works of their perpetual suffering.
From active and successful husband
men, and tillers of the soil, they have
been transformed into merchants and
money-lenders. They seem to have
wholly lost that love for nature and
that agricultural skill that made Pal
estine a land of plenty. Until the
Sixth Century they were chiefly
an agricultural people. But when
the universal prosecutions fell upon
them, when they were hunted from
Babylonia and Persia and began that
remarkable series Of wanlerings from
city to city and from realm to realm,
that has lasted for more than a thous-
and years, the manners Of the race
changed. They became a nation of
traders. They were forced to snatch
opportunities of gain from the midst
of their wanderings. They became
the most acute and untiring of trad
crs. This is why 50 many of them be-
came merchants, and their sons fol
lowed in their footsteps"
When we judge the Jewish race,
which has its faults like every other
race on earth why do we select the
lowest as the types? There are Jews,
and Jews. Just as you will find good
and bad Gentiles, 50 you will good
and bad Jews. All Jews even now
are not Cuisines men," You will
find them in every profession-they
are lawyers, doctors, teachers, scien-
lists, artists, musicians, poets, schol-
ars, actors, and last but not least,
journalists. 1t took a western Jew to
resuscitate from its death-like and
peaceful slumbers that excellent pa
per, the Ne,o York World, and he
brought it out into the full light of
the day till now it has no equal in
this country. The wife of this same
Jew, on New Years day, distributed
to a crowd of poor people, whom she
had gathered together, food, clothing
&c, to the value of $500. Sir Mo
ses Montefere, the English Philan-
thropist whose Tooth birthday all the
world celebrated in October last, is
noted for his charity to Jew and Gen
tile; his missions to the East have
been i'll the interest of Christians as
we'll as Jews, who were prosecuted by
the unbelicving Eastern rulers. His
charity knows no creed, no race. Him
all the newspapers, which are the
true exponents of tho best opinions,
uC4ISHlCo LII fiOHoI luz
The Jews are noted for their
charity, they never allow one OF
their faith to suffer; their insti-
tutions of charity are many, and
they are literally supported without
appeal to men OF other faiths than
theirs; neither do they refuse to con-
tribute to objects of charity, education
and the like that christian gentlemen
undertake. There are Congress
men, Senators, Governors, May.
ors and Legislators who are Jews
one of the chief Justices of South Caro-,
lima was a Jew and was known as &
model and upright man. Senator
Vance, the pride Of all North Carroll
IA, Talmage, Beecher, and men OF
this stamp, have different opinions Of
the jew than the vulgar man. They
estimate and regard men occording tc
their mental and moral worth, not &C
cording to outlandish and silly super.
stitions that were old hundreds Of
years ago. The Jewish Code of Eth
les is beyond doubt an institution as
{ admirable as exits anywhere, the hv.
gienic and dietary regulations being
especially good.
As conclusion, let me- quote from
Lawrence again: "But tho most re
markable trait in the story of the
Jews is the singular devotion they
have always shown to mental culture
and the priceless benefits they hayt
reaped from their sedulous care of ed
=ucation. The schoolmaster has savcc
them from the fate of Babylon ant
Tyre. 1t was because they were edu
Gated to industry, neatness, docility
and order that they survived the per
secutions of Priests and Kings ant
have beheld the distinctions of al
their foes. In our country, the com
mon school system has no more siren
uous supporters than the disciples o
the Talmud. The lesson of the Jewisi
Story, indeed, is that education alone
can preserve the permanence of races
and that the perpetuation of nations
and of institution rests upon the in
teilectual cultivation of the people
that the school house is more poten
than fleets and armies aud that tht
schoolmaster is the modern king"
Hinston, ~ C.
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