The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-06
20, long awaited moment,

Dawn on the Jewish heart.
When Judah's lingering sorrow
Shall from his soul depart;
When In the olden homestead.
And under Heavens ward.
A nation mid the nations.
His place shall be restored
How pathetic the story OF the wander
ing Jew He has been robbed Of his
country. DISTINGUISHED, and has suffered
death in thousand forms at the hands
Of all nations from Babylonian oppres-
sion TO Russian. Roumanian and Ger
man persecution in our day. He has
wandered up and down the earth for
twenty five centuries, clasping the Bible
to his heart. and Is. himself, and in his
prophetic history. living witness to It's
divine origin. And he stands before tho
world to-day. his face furrowed with the
sorrow OF ages. imploring Its rulers to
give him back his country, of which
they had despoiled him.
He has conferred upon humanity Its
greatest blessing. One-haf the Christian
world worships the Jewish Messiah. and
the other half Jewess, and the question
of the superiority Of the Jew is no longer
debatable. What Gentle nation has given
to the world such teachers as the He
brew prophets? What Gentle people has
produced such a class of instructors as
the Jewish apostles? Have any Of the
nations produced legislator like Moses /:
a poet like David. or a preacher like
Paul? What man OF refined taste would
compare the feeble and sensual lays of
Shakespeare and Tennyson with the sub
lime o1es of Isaiah and the lofty poetry
of the sweet Psalmist of Israel?
These great prophets. apostles, legisla-
tors and poets--the worlds nblest teach
ers-are the gifts of the Jew. They stand
out In bold relief and In clear-cut out
lines upon tho worlds horizon, in their
solitary grandeur. unapproached and un-
approa enable, whether we consider the
men or the message they delivered to the
world. The captive Jew that stood upon
Mars HILL under tho very shadow of the
chryselephantine statue of Minerva upon
Metropolis of Athens. surrounded by
squares, acres. indeed, miles of statuary
and sculptured marble, bronze and ivory
and gold, attesting tho poetic taste and
age OF Pericles, under whose rule Athens
rose in sculptured grandeur tho wonder
of all succeeding ages: and IL he looked
out from under the Acrorolis he would
catch In one sweep of his eye the grove
of the academy in the distance. where
thought and reasoned the philosophers of
sGreece-the great teachers of the pagan
world. Yet this captive Jew delivered be-
fore the philosophers of Athens n phlos-
ophy more profound than any ever taught
In all the schools OF Greece, and which
will outlIve the everlasting granite upon
WHICH -At'iellS vas ''' - .'''S q" WV ~ '''o
ages to upllft, enoble and bless mankind.
when Grecan philosophy shall have been
remembered no more, The star OF Jacob
has already risen over the hills OF old
Judea, and.
"Flaming in the forehead OF the morning
sky
of the twentieth century heralds tho ap-
proach of their coming restoration; for.
'Behod, the days come. saith Jehovn,
that It shall no more be said Jehova
bringeth up tho children OF Israel out of
the land OF Egypt, but Jehova liveth. that
brought up tho children of Israel from
the land OF the North (Russia, where one
half of the Jews reside). and from all
lands whittier he had driven them; and
will bring them again into their own
land that gave unto their fathers"
Jeremiah. xvi: 1S-l5l
]. w. WILLIAMS.
Richmond, Va, June !, 1909,