Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-19
THE JEW-WHO HE IS.


 In this utilitarian age of ours we so naturally lose sight of the sentimental side of life, that gentle side, which, like the gulf stream, flows through the ocean of years and softens all nature with it's warmth and tenderness. We view each other from every day standpoints aud rarely stop to consider the significance of our environments. When we begin to talk of traditions, to trace from generation to generation, the power of heredity, we are apt to do so, chiefly from a scientific outlook. We do not see the beauty of it i. all until we feel the influence of the gulf
 lcna of sentiment, which causes roses
 Pgiaiassamines to bloom yQon
 and passing i9Yf fellow men
 of greeting, a smile of well
 f perchance merely nod of recog- milton, did you ever stop to think how we of the present day represent the hopes, aspirations and ambitions of the long gone pasi9 As you go into the marts of trade, as you bargain and sell, does 1t often come to you that perhaps the man with whom you are deal ing came from people who, through all the ages, have made their mark in every civilized country on the globe7 This you are bound to do if your companion boasts of Hebrew blood, and you know anything of the history of the human race. Think of it, this man who may modestly price you his wares may have in his veins the blood of the Princes of Israel. Unless we take little leisure-and there can be no better time for such thing than this bright Sabbath morning-and refer to the pages of history, we cannot appreciate the power and dignity of the Jewish race from the time when Abraham was promised children "as the sands upon the seashore, :" nnto this day, when art, literature and music have been enriched by the product of he genius of this peculiar people. The story of the Jews is the early religious his- tory of the world. Abraham, father of h is people; David, sweet singer of Israel, and wise king as we'll; Solomon, gifted be- yond all others of his time. Moses with whom God comm uned, and to whom He gave the Comman dments which now gov ern the people of earth. Joshua, brave leader and warrior, prophets of old, who saw in visions Gods dspensations to- wards the children of men, all down through the centuries, until the time of John the Baptist, all these were the pillars upon which God built his religion-and they were all "Hebrews of the Hebrews. "
 And when in the fulfuess of time our Blessed Lord came to save and deliver 1t is told with marvellous accuracy, the links that bind Him to the Jews of old. Only after His crucifxion did it come into the hearts of men to revile these chosen people. Wherever they go, they keep in tact their nationality-without government of their own for centuries, with the world against them, with every reason to expect them to be abolished by the other nations of the earth, they have remained as dis tinct race as when the tribes of Israel were numbered or they made bricks without straw, under the burning sun of Egypt. Leaving the religious side of their history and coming to later times, all students must admit the wonderful con- tributions made by Jewish men and women towards the elevation ard cultivation of the world. Just here quotation from the Rt. Hon. Benj jamin DisraeIi, himself Jew, yet who rose to the highest office to be reached by any subject in England, that of first minister of the crown, tells in eloquent words some of the Hebrew names made famous in art and literature
 You never observe great intellectual moye- ment in Europe in which the Jews do no, Breauy paTuciphte. The nrst jesuits were Jews; that mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe. is organized and principally carried on by Jews; that mighty revolution which is at this moment preparing in Germany, and which will he. in facl a second and greater reformation, and of which so little is yet known in England. is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews, who almost monopolize the professional chairs of Germany. Heander, the founder of spiritual Christianity, and who is Regius Pro- lessor of Divinity in the Univ ersity of Berlin, is Jew. Beuarz, equally famous and in the same university is d Jew. WehI, the Arabic