Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1889-03-07
ROSEBURG REVIEW
TIE JEWS IN oUR MIDST.
Alabama Christian ADVOCATE !

w are not SO sure Dut WndG lll6
Christians OF this country have made |
great mistake in their treatment of the
Jews. We seem to have fallen into |
the idea that we are helping on the full
fillment of prophecy by reviling and
ostracising the people once chosen and
honored of God, but now abandoned
and forsaken.
It is true that they are denational-
lied, and wander to- lay without ma
tional center, or even shrine or tenn
pie upon which they can lavish the
wealth of their patriotic sentiment;
but they are neither forgotten nor aban-
doned. God still has his eye fixed
upon the wandering posterity of Abra-
ham, and when their period Of exile is
full, will open to them pathway
palmer than the one that led through
the wilderness to the promised Canaan
beyond the Jordan. Nearly two thou
sand years since the dying Saviour said,
Daughters of Jerusaler, weep not for
me, but for yourselves aad your child
ren." In his expiring moments he had
a clear vision of the doom that awaited
them, and through the agolfies Of the
cross and smoke and fame of the burn
ing city walled out prophecy concern
ing them which finds literal fulfill
ment in our very midst to-day.
For centuries the winds of every
nation have borne to the ears of in
suited majesty the story of their op-
pressions, while the redeemed pages OF
history in almost every land have been
stained with their blood, and the end
is not yet.
They are not heathens, but conssi-
tute portion of the most enlightened
and lawabiding citizenship of every civ
llized country.
Still, nothing is being done to bring
them to the Saviour, who loves them
still. They are working out their in
dividual and national destiny alone and
unaided.
Are they approachable on the sub
iect of Christianity We have found
numbers of them so, and from conver-
sation with them have learned that
: they felt most keenly the loneliness of
their situation, and the doubt and un-
certainty of the future that awaits
them.
If the Church would only put Paul's
Epistle to the Hebrews in the hands
of every Jew IN the land, it would
eventually bring a gloriofs harvest of
results. An effort to convince and
save these remarkable people would be
far better than to abuse them, and
charge them with numbering the Son
of God, and so on. They possess some
of the most remarkable national traits
of any people in the world, and we
frankly confess to our high apprecia-
tion of that good old Abrahamic blood.
1t would certainly be great pleasure
to us to preach Christ to It congrega-
tion of Jews, and we have sometimes
indulged the hope that it might yet be
so before the close of our earthly min
istry.
They are here, under the very sun
light of the gospel, and is it possible
that they cannot be reached and saved
by it9 When the apostle said, "lo,
we turn to the Gentiles," is it possible
that this meant the perpetual aban-
donment of this people2 We think
not, Some of them have been reached
converted, and saved, and surely others
may be.
Invite your Jewish ncighborto your
church and to your home. Put some
good books into his hands to read
and perchance God viii honor your
humble instrumental, by revealing
to his long estranged cf.ild his precious
Son, who died for the Jew as well as
for the Gentle.