The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-16
SOMETHING OF THE JEWS.
A Beautiful Tribute TO Gods Chosen
People.
lGeorge r. Wendllng in N. Y. Hera

George II. Wendllng IN n. I. deralu.J
There Is not drop of Jewish blood in my
veins am not connect ed with the Jews by
| the marriage OF any nearo distant kinsnan
I owe no Jew dollar and no Jew owes me.
| speak from the vantage ground or absolute
| Independence II is a splendid race. splendid
| in their patience, In their love for one anotb-
| er, In their endurance, in their sagacity and
| lem perate habits, aud splendid IN their In
| flexible adherence 10 their Mosaic Ideals
DO you want an aristocracy of blood and
birth? The Jews are the purest blooded peo-
pie and have the best established decent In
| the world Not Mirabeau in the French Con-
Burgesses, nor "Sam' Adams in old Colonial
days ever said more thrilling thing than
| DIsraeli said In the English Commons In re-.
| ply to the charge that he was Jew: "Yes, L
orable gentleman were brutal sayages In an
unknown island mine were priests IN Inc
Ternple!'
Do you seek an aristocracy of talent? The
great church historian Nesder was Jew;
Napoleon's marshals, Soult and Massena,
| were Jews; the brilliant and cynical Heine
was Jew, and-but the worlds roll OF sol
diers, authors, musicians, painters, poets.
philosophers and hnanciers, contain more
Hebrew names than could recite In many
hours g. a.g y -. y
Are you looking for an saristocracy Of
wealth? The combined financial power Of
the Jews In Europe can prevent the floating
OF almost any national loan which may be
put upon the markets OF the world. ~
| lt is q SPURIOUS, IaiS6 SDtistidulty thnI 1dteD
Jews. The mystery Of the incarnation found
ex preston IN the flesh and blood or Jew,
and, therefore. In sense we worship q Jew.
We get our ten commandments-theV very
foundation OF our ciyillzatlon-tnrougn tns
Jews. We sing Jewish psalms, are uplifted
| by the passion and poetry OF jewish propn-
cts and rely on Jewish biographies for the
| only history we have OF Christ We get our
| Pauline theology from Jew, and we catcn
our clearest glimpse OF the nexuworld through
the sublime apocaiyptic vision OF n Jew.
Then forsooth, we Christians turn about ana
have conversed with teachers Of philoso..
ply Tho spoke slightingly of the Jews and
| yet were teaching with enthusiasm ldeas
which they had absorbed from Malmonloes
and Spnoza. the two greatest philosopher.
omitling Kant, since Plato's day-both OF
| them Jews.
I have heard musicians denounce Jews and
then spend days and niSh,s trying 10 inter;
pret tile beauties of Rossin1, Meyerpeer anu
MendelssGhn-all Jews.
talked the other day with a gifted actress I
and heard both her and her husband sweep
Whole race of Jews. and yet that Womah
would give half her remaining lie Ii s3e
could only reach the heights which the gr9at
queen OF tragedy, Racnnel, trod Win sYch
majesty and power-and lsacnaei was ~ 'S"-s
Here In Washington have heard aspiring
politiciuns when beyond The reach OF the re-
porter's pencil, snesr al Jews ana sgE H. vas was
of India, and IL was u Jew VINO was ioZ years
the adrlot and saeaciOus chairman OF Inc ma
tiOnal committee Of one Of our great polltlcal
parties The brainest man In the southern
Con nfederacy was Juda ?. Benjamin, Jew,
and Chase when managing our nat ionai n
nances In q perilOus time owed mucn oi nis
success 10 the constant advice OF q New YORK
Jew. -
That you never see Jew tramp or Jew
drunkard Is a proverb, that you never meet
n lew beggar is common place, and IL Is
statistical fact that there are relatively fewer
houses furnished by the Jews than any other
race contributes. ~ -
Convert the Jews Let Us first convert our
modern Christians to genuine Christianity.
Suppress the Jews A score Of Russian Czars
cannot do IL. Every people on earth mas
tried 1t and failed. They have outlived the
Tudors and the Plantagenets, the Romanons,
Charlemagne, Constantine, the Ba oylonian
kings and the Egyptian Pharohs. 1t was
Gods own race for 900 years, and the AWFUL
persecution II has survived for 1000 more
stamps II 8 race still bearing some myster.
ious relation to the plans OF the Eternai.
The beauty and fidelity of Jewish women
command my homage, and among @ealtny
of JewesSes, their culture and nigh breedlng,
blended with sortlof Oriental grace and dig
nifty, put Them among the most charming wo-
men in the world.
The belief that the Jew Is more dishonest
than the Gentle Is .one-half nonsense ana tne
other hall prejudice and falsehooo. The anti
Jewish fe' ling which now seems 10 he rlslng
again Is uuchrisiitn, inhuman, and un-Ainer-
lean No man can share IL who believes In
the universal fatherhoOd OF God and the uni
yrrsal brotherhood OF man. II Is born OF the
devil aud Is detestable.