The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-30
THE JEWS
The VICTORS
Great Sermon Preached by a
Pastor of Norfolk.
MANY STRIKING TRUTHS
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Rev. Dr.. G. S. Blackwell Tells How
Ruin Has Overtaken Those Nations
Who Have Driven Out
the Jews.
MANY STRIKING TRUTHS

most interesting sermon Sunday night
at the First Baptist Church OF Norfolk,
his subject being '"rhe Jews Victims and
Victors In the Tragedy of History" He
said:
1.-THE angel OF the Lord appeared unto
Moses In fame OF fire out OF the midst
of n bush. and he looked. and behold, the
BUSH burned with fire. and the bush was
not consumed. And Moses said, I will
turn aside and sec this great sight, why
the bush IL not burnt. 49, And the
Lord said put Off thy shoes from of thy
feet. for the ground on which thou stand
est Is holy ground."-Exodus 1896.
With uncovered heads and unsandaled
feet let us draw aside and tcAo!i this
burning. but unconsumed bush-which
represents the Jewish race passing
through centuries OF hottest fires OF hate
and persecution. and yet still nnorishng
ms no other race OF men. Why is the
bush not consumed? Is the lire not hot
enough? For thirty-slx hundred years
one-lialf OF tho time one-half OF the
Jewish race has lived In captivity and
exile. Hated prosecuted. banished. wrong
ed, robbed, scattered and slaughtered.
Refused Justice and civil rights; with no
prince. temple nor government they could
call tnelr OWL yet tilefJeWS nave outllNeu
the tyrants who have conquered and OPP
call their own, yet the Jews have outlivad
wealthy. moral and learned than any
other.
SECRET OF yIRILITY.
The secret of the observation-disclosures
and virility OF this race Is in this: AL
mighty God IL using them as His living
my hand tho Bible-a book translated
into the speech OF every living PEOPLE
throughout the earth. This book has an
atmosphere peculiar to itself Its con-
tents deal with supernatural facts. The
& book must have supernatural living wit
ne5ses TO establish 1t In the faith of men.
SO. wherever tho book has gcAe. the Jew
with his supernatural race history has
also gone Wherever the missionary, has
carried and translated the book the Jew
follows for trade and speaks the SAND
tongue and reproduces the peculiar life
and atmosphere OF tho Bible. His presence
forced the arch infidel OF modern days
to admit that the Jew himself was the
one unanswerable argument in favor of
the supernaturalness OF the Bible.
"a TO this end the jew has remark
nble longevity:
or 10000 Hebrews born on the same
day. there will be to.6is males and 1876
the 10000 Jewish infants will have es-
tablshed in most remarkable way
their superiority In point OF vitality.
for only S.o3l will have died. as COM
! pared with 14.102 In the English expert
Y encc and 1870 Americans.
q Striking as this difference is. II will
II be found to DO practically maintained
throughout tho later stages OF life. At
the end OF five years only 1854 Jewish
8children out OF the 10000 will have
English children 24e7D will have Joined
III the great majority. and America Will
4 stil keep her bad pre-eminenco with
= GG.0l2 angels.
Making leap to middle age the
deaths at fifty years Of ago Will have
been 28,51D Jews. as compared with 49.07a
English, and at the age slxty-five the
mortality returns Will stand at 37.442, and
"'Al'' ExTREMp OLD AGE
But the full force OF the comparison
is hardly seen until tho point OF ex-
treme old age Is reached At eighty-flve
wears no fewer that 25.185 OF our 10000
Jews will DO still living. while the sur
vlyors of the English band will be
meagre 1860.
practical exemption from plaques and
pestilences excited the supersutious in
the middle ages to persecute them on
the ground that they were in league
with TIN, devil. who protected them In
The midst of the ''black death"
Only a few years ago every Gentle
ohysician thought to bleed the patient
was his first duty. But Hebrew doc
tors did not follow such practice even
IN the dark ages. for they remembered
was in the blood" Moses had antici-
pated for them the germ theory and
eayed millions OF precious lives. While
in the GENTLE homes open vessels
were everywhere pant-beds for germ
culture" the Jews were taught in Num-
x,gp
which hath no cover found upon 1t Is
unclean."
"a The laws OF the Jews have pro-
1ected them irresistibly onward and to
for tho boasted interchangeable laws OF
Darius the Mede"? Who observes the
bloody laws of dreaded Draco? Who
cares for the laws of good Scion? Who
trembles before the tramp of Roman le-
eions, as they come to execute Roman
laws? Who SO servile and weak rs 70
obey any Of these laws to-day?
BASIS OF LEGAL CODES.
"But the law given to Moses. the
Jew, on Mt Sinai. is the basis OF the
legal codes In every clvl'lzea laho ,, on
earth All other law-giyers, Ike
praco, I.ycurgus, Scion. Justlnian,
gayo laws to people. whose civiliza-
tion had grown up through centuries
They had the advantage OF We pas:
but Moses gave laws to mnlutuae o. y,
u,
was perfect on this day he announced
1t, and never changed an iota' 1t was
not a trial, an experiment to he amendeo
and repealed every few years, as our
laws" ,,
SIT was absolute and though the weak,
ness of evil human nature oft rebellea
and cried for change, the Ten, com.
mandments are yet the sheet anchor OF
every constitution and OF every COCO
among the highest civilizations. II Rus
Ella to-day is angry with the Jew. 1t IS
because the barbarism of her laws Is out
Of harmony with the decalogue.
"This law OF Moses, preserved by Its
sanitary regulation the Jews from dis
eases; kept the family life upon high
plane of purity; 1t controlled the I'M
pulses of their baser natures; secured
tho vigor of their offspring; guarded the
moor from oppression; held back the rich
and strong from tyranny; provided for
every woman husband; gave to every
nan home, where he could dwell; So
4 a. t1,.a GRO r,,ty