New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-22
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THE REV. DR. ID. G. WYLIE'S TRIBUTE.

HE POINTS OUT MANY THINGS FOR WHICH
THE WORLD Is INDEBTED TO THEM
AT the Scotch Presby terrain Church. Ninety fifth
ST. and Central Park. West tne Rev. DR.. David
G.. Wyl!c spoke last night on THE Worlds obi
cation to the Jews"
THE records OF this people" said he go back to
the Creation and their history an;edaes the fall Of:
Troy 400 years the founding of Athens 800 and the
founding OF Rome 1.aN years visit the land Of
Art and Song. palaces fortresses. temples In
ruins. the best specimens of classic art scattered.
and you say-this Is antiquity. Yet the people Of
Israel had history OF stirring interest centuries be-
fore.
This people" said Or. Wyiie. IS known by many
namcs-Hebrews Jews. Israelltes the Chosen
People. Call them what you will. they wonder
full. Il marvellous people in their mission. in their
persistcncy OF belief in the manner in which they
have maintained their identity and in the work
they have done for the world. y persecut"i and
scattered nation. find them for time in Pales-
tine In Egypt. Babylon and Assyria, and see them
driven from France Spain. England. Germany and
Russia. at various times and for various reasons.
America Is In reality the only land in which they
have had true liberty.
They are a nation great in that they were called
OF God. received groa; mission and their greatest
minds illuminated by Gods spirit have transmitted
| a revelation to the world"
As to the worlds obligations TO the Jews the
literature. 1t Is impossible TO civze nation with
out literature. The literature OF the Hebrews IS not
voluminous II possesses quality rather than guam
ty: IL Is largely confined 10 the Hebrew people ana
has neither great epics nor great tragedies IL Is
n spiritual literature lifting mems thoughts above
| the world God. IT Is n God-brcathcl, inspired
literature which creates and moulis character. The
| Jews have given the world the best social ana
moral laws Many Of the social laws have been hci!
| W TO ridicule and st. strange 10 say. th"y are
| being revived by for sanitary reason AMI the
scientist OF the nineteenth century indorscS the
sanitary measures OF the Jews which were IN vogue
before the Christian TIE moral laws OF the
Hebrews the immutnblc principles or righ,.
Justice equality, and not on cXpeIency These laws
some OF which We find IN the Ten Commandment.
teach US to do our duty to each other and TO God.
| and II faithfully obeyed Earth would become an
| Eden. In social moral and ethical principles the
| laws OF the Jews stand pre-cmincnf. From this
people cam. OF the best and nobeSt characters
we know Of AMI the Jewish heroes are models %.
righteous living and noble acting. who Ieft deep
| impre ssion upon the world. .
| ''They gave 10 a true conception or Coz th,F
! received revelation and transmitted IL 70 'he
| world Holy Pure, Just Good Merciiul ana One.
| is their God and this conception they chng
tenaciously Call them exclusive stir necked " you
will but had they not possessed this CHARACTERISTIC
| We would have to-day no pure monptheisin man -
| debtor 10 Rome and Greece for art. language ara
aw 10 Israel for true religion. and We ~ CHRISTIANS
should especially feel obligated 10 this people Tor
from them came the Saviour or the WorlG' VINO
IIImsclf said: Salvation Is Of the Jews