Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-04-20

The world is his debtor for a matchless
| literature and a code of morals unsur-
passed.
| The social economy of the Jews
taught the liberation of slaves, the
sanctity of human life, the liberation
of debtors every seven years, kindness
to poor, education of people, the divis-
ion of inherited property, the inalien-
alton of paternal inheritances, the dis
enlargement of all luxury and ex-
| trava gance,-those regulations which
made disproportionate fortunes diff
cult,-the vast accumulation of which
was one of the main causes of the de-
| cline of the Roman empire, and is nov.
| one of the most threatening evils of
modern civilization.
All the civil and social laws of the
Jewish commonwealth tended to tbs.
elevation of woman and the cultivation
of domestic life.
| In what ancient nation We're seen
| such respect to parents, such fidelity to
husbands; such charming delights as
at Obededom; such beautiful simple
tiles as Ruth cleaning in the fields of
BoaZ; such ardent love as in Solomon's
Songs; such glorious friendships as
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the nation as in Queen Esther.
! With his faith the Jew has con-
quered the human race. Lew Wallace
makes his Ben Hur to conquer the
Roman; and in his prince of India,
the God OF the Christian and Moham-
medan is the God of the Jew. With
his strange capacity for power, the Jew
has stood unseen behind the throne,
and welded the sceptre of kingdoms.
While homeless vaga bond with a
| pack on his back yesterday, he has
been a Rothchild with a mortgage on
an empire today.
| An alien in all her countries, his hand
has been felt in the politics of Europe.
Lord Baconsfield is one of the foremost
diplomats. Within the memory of men
living, the diplomacy of England ard
France Germany, Russia and Spain,
has been guided by these outcast Jews,
these Ish-maels and Hagars of man.
kind
In literature, Zolo; science. art and
philosophy, e. g. Adler; the Jews have
been among the foremost The Or
iental sunlight in their blood" they are
the intellectual monarchs of the world.
Tortured, flogged, spit upon their
name flung at them as an opprobium,
by superstition, hatred, and contempt
how proud they have remained
To be the perpetual victims Of disas-
ter and persecution, the constant OBJ
jects of scorn and contumely has been
the fate of the Hebrews. Throughout
all history their plaques have been
wonderful
Their sky has been brass for them,
and the earth beneath their feet has
been iron.
IF there are ranks in suffering.
Israel takes precedence of all the ma
lions. If the duration of sorrows and
the patience with which they have en-
dured ennoble, the Jews are among the
aristocracy of every land
The benefactors of the human race.
they have been awarded with the
dungeon and the inquisition.
In the face of their wonderful
achievements. would you still despise
the Jew. and put a slight upon the Of
flee he has served the world?
Take the Jew from history, relin-
quish your faith in his God for the
grandest system of religion the I'M
aided mind has ever conceived, Or be-
an intaSogation point after Immortality,
look into the star-sown heavens with
out thinking of God, and contemplate
dissolution and say you can't tell
Scattered throughout the entire world
we find the Jews today, as peculiar as
in the days of Abraham. Four thousand
years of history behind them. the
promise of future temporal power be-
fore them, with the exalted faith that
has kept them one throughout the cen
turtles, they wait the advent of their
coming king. Already the Gentle IS
beginning to forebode the final suprem-
acy of Israel. The fires of persecution
quenched, they are pushing past the
Anglo-SaXon into places of power
They have an inherent force sufficient
to make them the strongest nation
upon the earth; with the natural mill
tary genius that produced Marshai
Marsena and a Judas Maccabeus, with
the wealth of Christendom in their cof-
ferS, they wait the summons to call
them together. The Jews wrote the
first page of history-it will be given
them to write the last, and when the
great volume is forever closed, the
name of Israel will appear in history
that spans the history of man.
The Jews today seem hardened
against our efforts to lead them back
to their former faith but it is the long
centuries of cruelties that has hardened
them. Our duty as Christians is to deal
with them in the spirit of our blessed
Master-and that spirit is love May
the Hebrew-Christian churches of New
York and Jerusalem-the one in the
cid world, the other in the new, be ike
John the Baptist, forerunners to the
new salvation movement.
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