The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-24
A DEBT TO THE JEW
,s OWED BY THE WORLD. SAYS
REV. DIR. McCORKLE.
PAID TRIBUTE TO THE RACE.
- SERMON IN WHICH HE DIS
CUssED INSPIRATION OF THE
SCRIPTURES.

rbs lew of To-day What Christian
c,xiIixation Has Made Him-De-
generations a Blessing to Human
,tx-Has Taught the World Prin-
oiDIes of GOvernme ent-Science,
philosophy and Literature Indebt-
- IN Him-The Sermon One of a
sertes on Inspiration of the Scrip
lures.
.orbe Debt of the World to the Jew
.as the title under which Rev. DIR.
william P. McCorkle of the First Pres
bvterian Church last night preached
another of his series of sermons on
the inspiration of the Bible. AS has
been the case on former occasions, he
was heard by a large and attentive
congregation.
The text of the sermon was taken
f,oro Genesis, xxii:7, "And in their seed
shall all the families of the earth he
blessed"
Faults of the Jew.
I'm our last lecture" said DR..
NcCorkle, "allusion was made to
the faults of the Jew. Several
facts, however, are plain to every stu
dent of history and of human nature.
when we speak of shortcomings of
Israel. One is, that these faults are
precisely such as his prosecutions have
engendered. What Lord Macaulay says
Jews everywhere: they are precisely
what any sect, what any class of men,
treated as they have been treated,
would have been. If all the red-haired
people in Europe had, during centu-
ries. been outraged and oppressed, ban
ished from this place, imprisoned in
that, deprived of their money, deprived
Of their teeth, convicted of the most
improbable crimes on the feeblest evil
dence, dragged at horses tails, hanged,
tortured, burned alive; if, when man
ners became milder, they had been
subject to debasing restrictions, and
exposed to vulgar insults, locked up in
particular streets in some cities, pelted
and ducked by the rabble in Others
excluded everywhere from magistrates
and honors, what would be the patriot
ism of the gentlemen with red hair?
what Christian Civilization Did.
THE Jew of to-day is what Chris
tian civilization, in it's making, has
made him. If he is cunning in driving
bargain, 1t is because he has schemed
and shifted for so many centuries to
avoid injustice and robbery. If in some
instances his glance is furtive and rest
less. 1t is because he has inherited the
watchfulness characteristic of the
hunted animal. The cast of the Jewish
features in repose is 'habitually grave
and sad, as though the very plough
share of sorrow had marked its fur
lows across their faces forever An
other fact is, that, with all his cunning,
the product of so many centuries of
persecution, the Jew has never excelled
tne Anglo-Saxon, the Spaniard, or the
IIanan, IN sheer, downright rascality,
nor even equalled them.
II We speak of cheapening a bar
gain as 'Jewing,' we have another
phrase in common use that is even
more sig1ificant-"That beats the
Jews! 1t means that there are nights
ana depths Of meanness which the sons
~ Aoraham have never attained. The
the scattered Nation called attention
70 the tact that outside of Boston there
mere so Few Jews in New England
,Ihey nave managed to endure with
Ohg-sunering patience the knout of the
SEar and the bowstring of the Turk
Out they have fed for life from the
P'esehce OF the wooden nutmegs and
ieIt-handec gimlets of Jonathan And
gepSine Stoes as his opinion that the
51Iine 5.di.,ln guessing Yankee, with a
!1cAh'll1e and pine shingle. could in
I"o hours time whittle the smartest
~" T.. IN New York out of his homestead
Ill lhe Abrahamic covenant
Law Abiding People.
ia a rhird fact is, that wherever he
80, 80 even under the most tyrannfcal
Wte hIIeht, the Jew is law-abiding
VINO ever heard of a Jew eracinp the
sahows? AS for jails and nenitentia-
n5 ngs' they are sort of real estate in
voi' 0il hebrews never invest, nor do
~ ~ near OF their becoming involved
tioaI1I. Ioom Drawls. Pauperism is prac-
ny unknown among them, save
~ unusual circumstances, because
tra..l'rew ile'Drew saves his brother from ex-
Ind,,s.Maht want py giving him employment.
tioa lIy' frugality and thrift are vir-
e. eaes m which they excel. And wber-
c',sI tne Jew has been accorded his
S.H and religious rights. as in this
vna idHu or ours, ne has developed
izsnlliy IN an the element of good cit
ar,hIp. You have Hebrew families
mn rong you, whose names are svno-
ms ms OF all that is virtuous and praise
WY IN deed and character. The
fnt',ri IONS are now, that in the near
Tho the bar, the medical profession.
~ - IiVrum and the bench, the ranks
sciehce and of lftera ture already he
isb ing 70 be recruited from our Jew
Il, - equation, will be still more large
I'M J5-lhforced from the same quarter
tba Jewish brain and culture forge to
~ :, 'front.' among the dominant forces
VIE century now dawning.
A Blessing to Humanity.
fa,,1.ut but whatever may be said of the
bie or the Jew, he has been. in eli
~, senerations, a blessing to human
fi,n. IN me story Of the ages since the
f,me,. @ OF Abraham, is but record of the
fs,,ihilihent of the promise made TO the
,io. OF the faithful. The Jewish ma
bCr.. M aas been the greatest and the most
Tssl,incsht OF humanity's teachers.
.ar NieI i prophesied that they should be
a. Instruction. as well as a taunt
me reproach among the nations.
s,'io,, 'i prediction has been abundantIy
r,','i'sd. II the history Of the Jewish
pr' ~ an object lesson I'm Divine
~, lnence, Il IN equally a lesson as 10
't iulhlment of luepfred nroDhoo,,