The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-24

science, invention and philosophy"
THE speaker dwelt at some length
upon the indebtedness of the literature
of the world to the genius of the Jew
ish race. '"Hhe Bible" he said, lis but
an epitome of their choicest literature
and if we were to take out of classic
English literature all it owes to the
Bible, it is safe to say we would
make it mortal and doom it to swift
decay by taking away its soul. We
would take out of Dickens the death
scene CT little Nell, and much beside;
we would deprive Scott and Thackeray
and George Eliot, and all the foremost
of our English novelists, of the wisest
and the sweetest things they ever
wrote, and the noblest characters that
ever walked and breathed in their
pages. We would rob modern poetry
of its finest essence and vitality, and
would leave little save the infidel RI
bsldries of Byron, the free-love and
atheism of Shelley, and the coarse an
imalism of Swinburne.
The Father of Banking.
Mr.. McCorkle showed how the world
was indebted to Jews for our modern
system of banking, and how in COM
paratively recent times the hand of the
Jew had been upon the helm of state
in England, Germany, France and
Spain. "These great nations were bet
ter governed then than now, making
good the word of the prophet Micah,
The remnant of Jacob shall be dew
from the Lord, as the showers upon
the grass, as the lion among the beasts
of the forest The Jewish is the i'm
perial race of the world, and destined
still more efficiently to shape the de-
crees of many a throne"
Concluding, Mr.. McCorkle showed
fndnhfnd tha low
religiously They have been the
priestly, as well as the imperial race,
of the ages. They have given to the
world the doctrine of the divine unity,
and through the ministry of their
prophets that doctrine has won cred
ence throughout the civilized world. TO
them we owe that code of ethics wnlch
is the core of modern civilization. Ihelr
literary genius was specifically deVel-
oped, enlightened and sanctif1ed Tor the
enlightenment of the world. The Chris
tian religion is but the fulflment and
DEVELOPMENT of the Jewish. Their art,
which had attained rare expression
both in painting and sculpture, ages
before Zeuxis painted grapes that de-
ceived the birds, or Phidias made the
cold marble seem instinct with llte,
eliminated in the mosaic, the painting
and the sculpture of their Tempe
which. in it's architecture, its materials,
and it's adornment, was the most splen-
did structure of antiquity. 1helI
music reached it's fullest development
in those grand oratorios, in which,
with flute and sackbut and harp, they
celebrated the praises of Jehovah.
impartial in History.
.orbair historians justified the ways
Of God to man, detailing without rear
no oXfnnIlAtlOn. the
virtues and the vices, the grandeur ana
the infamy, of successive rulers ana
successive generations. Their choicest
drama, we find in Job. that oldest
choral melody of mankind, and In that
Song of Songs, the first drama that
ever celebrated the triumph OF pure
love over the seductions of wealth ana
rank. bringing us a breath OF divine
purity from that distant past. Their
lyric poems were psalms OF praise thaI
have inspired the hymns of all after
ages. their epic poems prophecies in
which the solemn tread and distinct ut
terance. of coming centuries is heard
and the awful glories of a future world
unveiled to mortal eyes.
'tThe first great prophet of pure re-
ligion after the flood was a Jew. The
greatest leader of the church or God,
next to Christ himself, was a jew;
Jesus, the greatest teacher and pro-
phet Of the ages was of the line and
off spring of David; the full sunrise
of the Gospel day enraptured the JOY
of a Jewish festival, when Jews, de-
vout men, out of every nation under
heaven heard from Galilean fishermen
the story of the cross, and carried the
glad evangel to the ends of the earth.
Salvation is of the Jews, and the Chris
tan world believes that the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and
that the crown of universal empire now
adorns the brow of a Jewish prince,
whom we hail to-day-Jesus, the King
of Kings and Lord of Lords. "