Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-24
CHARACrERIsTIcs OF THE JEWS.


 The Voice CT Jacob Hut che Hands of Esau-Rev. pr. M. B. Chapman at che Eirst M. E. Churoh-The Supremacy of fTruth-A Few Preliminary Words About she Steeple. Before beginning his sermon yesterday morning Rev. Dr. M. B. Chapman of the First N. E. church in referring to the shaky stssple of the church said he was glad to see go many of "the unterri6ed" present. Any- one with half the eye of mechanic can see that our stesple t stronger now with its present supports than 1t has been since it was built. The new spire will be replaced during the week by another and somewhat smaller one.
 He chose his text from Genesis xii, %: "Ths voice was Jacobs voice, but the hands were the hands of Esau." If the Bible was created by modern assemblags of eccle- siastics 1t has surely been carefully edited. Iss heroes are not always perfect. Human naturetn all of its phases is here faithfully photographed. So finely is this done that you can recognize types of it's men and women any day upon Chapel street. There sistency of character which we cannot help but admire. Isaac admired his boy Esau, worldly and sensual as he was, and endesv- ored to bestow his whole possessions upon his favorite child. Tho family was in this way split and divided upon the rock upon which many family meets with disaster. Competition may be the life of trade, but it is the death of the home. Rebecca | rises equal to the occasion and Jacob coun- terfeits Esau and receives the whole posses- sion. Thus the devils conquest was made. Rebeeca and Jacob had the spells, Isaac and Esau the experience. In this illusive world success does not always succeed. To the end of their days they were punished. As echo follows song, 50 sorrow tracketh wrong, on, on, on. I tell you, the way of the trans- gressor is hard.
 | Your chief concern is not your interest, but your duty. Do right, though the heavens fall. Rsbecea blindly followed her interest, not her conscience, and went wrong. That family of hers was to be in the midst of divine revelation for two thousand years: l Upon that family the destiny of the world has swung. The football of nations, the outcasts of the earth, the hiss of men, that | wonderful race has flowed down destined and sharply defined in the history of the race. Wherever you find Jew, the world over, his chief characteristic Is the sub s,.v S foff''hGugn t7s 4en d0sgsd YI s9 ts6- whether in the Shylock of Shakespeare or in the shylocks of the Bowery, the remarka. bla characteristics of Jacob. His voice is the voice of Jacob, bis hands are the hands of Esau. Rebecca saw that in Esau the family would have been swampsd iD the vortex of ssnsuality and sin. Might she not then, to save her family, deceive weak old mani In society we are forced to do and sap great many things we don't believe, or society would become intolerable. We are compelled in self-defense to practice more or less deception. Whether this was the argu- ment of Rebecca or not, we hear 1t often in these days. A man goes into busineas with the resolve, If he can be prospered, to endow o theological seminary or missionary socie' ty. How many churches are there whose system of work would astonish an asylum of lunaticsl How many suppose 1t right to commit any blasphemy to save soulsa Heaven is too dearly bought. How many honor truth aa virtue, but distrust 1t as policy The straightforward is always the polite.