The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14
"CHRIST-KILLER." ="
An Unkind and Uncalled for Express
sion we Some Times Hear.
EDaIlas (Texas) Herald.l

dallas (Texas) Herald.l
In this goodly town, not long since,
a little boy of Hebrew parentage, on
returning home from school, said:
"Father, what is the meaning OF
Christ-killer?''
"Wny do you ask, my son? said the
parent.
because, while one of the boys was
angry with me to-day, he called me
a little Christ-killer.
1t is needless to say to the reader
that volumes are embraced in that
incident. 1t illustrates, in tones
unmistakable, the imprudence and in
justice of thousands in this land oi
civil and religious liberty. 1t illustrates
the blindness OF that ignorance which
fails to realize the true character and
true history of the Hebrew people. 1t
ignores the lights of history. Omitting
all allusion to thegrand tenets of Chris
tianity in which we are humble but
sincere believers, it sinks into the
oblivion of prejudiced ignorance, the
grand truths of Hebrew history for
1875 years. 1t fails to grapple with
the sublime truth that to the Hebrew
race, more than any other source, we are
indebted for the preservation of history,
learning and letters during the centu-
ries of the dark ages-that to that race
in Spain, through hundreds of years,
civilization owes its preservation, and
other countries of Europe debts OF
gratitude mountains high in the long
road from barbarism to wealth, ele-
gance and refinement 1t spits upon
the fact that Hebrew beggars and
Hebrew drunkards are rare as dia-
monds. 1t refuses to know that the
Hebrew poor never, in any country
on earth, become law charge to the
public. 1t forgets that for eighteen
hundred and seventy-6ve years the
Hebrews have, with rare exceptions,
been prescribed and prosecuted race
to the ends of the earth, and yet, that
to-day they are law givers in the most
enlightened, prosperous and liberal
countries of the world. 1t refuses to
acknowledge that the Hebrews have
all this time been the friends ol
humanity, the patrons of learning, o1
science, of commerce, Of liberty.
Despite the jibes and filings of un.
thinking men, women and children,
no Hebrew has any cause to hang his
head in shame by fair comparison
with any other race GA nation
without country they have done
as much and are now doing as much
the world over, as any other nation, to
break down the battlements of hate
and spread over the world the spirit
of peaceful intercourse and true
humanity. The American Mason o.
to-day may go to any Masonic Lodge
at the uttermost part of the earth and
enter the portals of that great embodi'
ment of ofbenovelence, and there, as Z
friend and brother, tried and true, he
will find a Hebrew. Go into tht
streets seeking aims for the distressed
and the last man to say nay will be ths
Hebrew.
These thoughts rushed upon us OF
hearing the above incident related ane
we felt the blush of shame tingle ou
cheek. 1t is sad to realize that at thi
age mere thoughtless prejudice i
allowed to sway the judgment of ou
children in mattersso sternly appealing
to our sene of justice and our knowl
edge. How much better to pluck tn
beam from their own eyes and leav
the mote in the eyes of Others!