The colored American., 1903-05-23

slaughtered recently, were doubters,
scofferS.
The Jewish nation were familiar
with all the predictions made by
Christ concerning the nation. But
they paid no attention TO His warnings
yet every prediction He made came
true, as for instance, this: And great
earthquakes shall be in divers places. -
Two of these are recorded byTacitus-
one at Rome in the region of Claudius,
another at Apamea, in Syria, where
were many Jews. So destructive was
the one at the latter place, we are told,
that the tribute due TO the Romans
was for five years remitted. One at
Crete, one at Smyrna, one at Miletus,
one at ChiOs, and one at Samos; in all
which places Jews resided.
The famines predicted by Christ
were likewise fulfilled. The one fore
told by Agabus. noted in the Acts of
Apostles, was dreadful and of long
continuance. 1t extended through
Greece and Italy and was most severe
ly felt at Judea, and especially at Je-
rusalem. The Russian horrors about
rusalem. "Pestilences too." the Saw
iOur adds. Two instances of this sig
nal Judgment before the last Jewish
war are worthy of note. The one took
place at Babylon where many jews re-
sided, the other at Rome which destroy
ed thousands of them.
Never were people Scourged, scat
tered, and peeled as the once chosen
people of God, in all the centuries
from GolgOtha to the morning of the
Xxth century. So that this new Rus
sian horror Is not to be marvelled at.
1t is simply in fulfillment of the pro-
phecy concerning the fate of this peo-
pie, stiff-necked and obdurate in spite
of the intangible evidence that the Mes
siah for whom they look is already
come and has been here since the third
day when he burst forth from the
prison house Of death, and showed HIM
self to his disciples and Mary and to
others at different times before his as
cent into heaven. Some Jews the
world over are coming TO think differ
emily of Christ the rejected one; many
Of them believe in His Divinity and
would acknowledge His as the true
Messiah if he should again reveal him
self to mankind.
An Ohio Rabbi, whose name l cannot
now recall, few weeks ago declared
that if Christ should come to earth the
Jews would receive and acknowledge
him as the true Messiah.
The Russian horrors about
which We have been reading are mild
in comparison with some of which
JosephuS tells US, though the proba-
biilty is that history (Which is con-
stantly repeating itself in one form or
another) will repeat itself in the case
of the Jews who after 1900 years, OF
suffering and persecution and slaugh-
ter are-sOme of them-juSt as firmly
welded as were their fathers in oIden
time to the ingenious falsehood of the
Roman soldiers, who, to save them
selves, declared that they had been
overpowered while they watched at
the tomb, and that the body of Jesus
had been stolen.
There are none so blind as those
who VIII not see. Every prediction
made by Christ concerning the Jews
will be fulfilled, and they will be
scourged and punished until they
shall say, Blessed is he that cometh
in the name of the Lord" For He is
their king and their Lord For whom
the Lord loveth He chasteneth" Jeru-
salem will yet become the chief CITY
OF the world-the city of God-and
peace and prosperity VIII again bless
ii, and the chosen seed of Israel who
shall be as the sands of the sea and
the Philippians and the Tibyans who
are of the same stock shall be at his
steps
When Robert Toombs of Georgia.