The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-05

could successfully live and fight the
nations that, in ignorance Of his sub
lime mission, strove 10 stamp him from
the earth and bury his mighty religion
amid the chaos of the past.
Such is the story Of the martyrdom
OF the Jew and such the guilt that
brought il on him. In reading the
black history of the past you marvel
at it, and you may we'll do so; but far
more the marvel, he has survived it.
But only one endowed as he was, and
still is, only one hardened and Steeled
as he was for his worlds mission in
the school of trial and agony as he was
could have Outlived il. Only Jew
destined to live and live until the Gods
purpose, his mission, is fulfilled, could
have passed through such a furnace
fire of misery from century TO century
and come forth from the heat and
flame with not dOwny feather
singed by the flame OF percussion.
And if he has survived these cen
turtles of all pain it must be because
Providence intended him TO live; it
must be as the Bible teaches us, there
is mighty task to be done for our
God, which only Jew can do, which
only Jew shall do; no other expla-
escape from all that has been done TO
ruin and degrade him and his religion
is possible. This. he that drew the
plans of civilization, laid its founda-
ton, started it's upward climb, and this
mason working under the leadership
of God Himself must finish the work
he has begun. He that first conceived
the great truth-One God over all, one
brotherhood of all, peace among all
that great truth he must make SUI
preme with all, and for that God has
spared him; for that he has been
wanderer in every land; for that he
has withstood ALL for that he must, he
shall, he cheerfully and happily wan
ders until the people of the Messiah
shall become the Messiah of the people,
until the despised of men shall become,
as they are fast doing, the distin-
guished among all nations.
What a strange story! What strange
irony of fate is the story of the Wan
dering Jew. The story invented by
priestcraft for the disgrace of the Jew
really proves, upon closer scrutiny, the
Jews greatest glory. L do not mean
his rejection or ill-treatment of the
martyr of Galilee; L mean the promise
of Immortality that legend contains
Thou shalt live forever But how
of today? He is breaking away from
the low callings once enforced upon
him by cruel laws, and today devOting
himself to the grander pursuits; he is
exchanging the store for the school
and the bourse for the university. He
has permitted others to wrest from
him the honor of being the greatest of
bankers and merchants; but none shall
ever again take from him what he is
tOday-frSt in the learned professions:
poet, lawyer, painter, actor, statesman.
doctor, musician. He is all these, and
the thousands of years of oppression
have left no mark upon his mighty
spirit. He has come forth from the
depth where cruelty and hatred placed
him, straight to the front and he
stands there, saying to all the world,
in voice as clear and sweet as birds
song: Behold me; give me a place
among the noble of earth; I have
earned it; 1, too, have the right to be
exalted, for, as we have been brought
so low in our day of humiliation, we
shall be exalted so high in our day of
triumph
THE phrases, Rich as a Jew Mean
as a Jew are changing to Wise as a
Jew Good as Jew and before his
work will be done the phrase will have
changed to Divine as Jew The age
of persecution has passed; the age of
equality is here. The snow of sorrow
is changing to the sunshine of joy. In
the horizon of his being a new, bright
day is dawning for him, and when, at
length God calls him home. he will
find peace from his wanderings in the
promised land, first having done on
earth his Fathers work, which could
only be done by "A Jew"
At $50 this morning there will be
religious services at Progress hall, and
at 10 o'clock prayer for the Govern
| ment, and English reading, inter
spersed with Hebrew prayer.