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

executing divine judgment, and JOS
ephus, a Jew, recorded it.
Hadrian so completely overcame the
Jews that their political existence was
annihilated. and they never regained
political recognition.
However, this was merely the Begin
ming of their prosecutions. They were
sold as slaves and carried into every
country of Europe. The sky over them
grew darker. Their lands and goods
We're confiscated. They were denied
civil rights, thus becoming race of
| outlaws to be maltreated, plundered
and outraged at pleasure, with no pos
sibility of redress. III 1890 a. D., the
Jews We're banished from Great Britain
and forbidden to return for 400 years.
| Seven times We're they banished from
France. In Germany they were counted
as slaves of the emperor.
| In 1892, the same year that Ferd:-
nand and Isabella assisted Columbus to
discover America, they banished the
Jews from their realm, and in thres
years they were banished from POrtu-
gal. The sufferings of all other nations
has not been a 1.-THE of what this ill
fated race has endured.
! ]. w. Hays says" Political destruc-
ton. when it visited the Jews, was not
attended by it's usual consequences
The world refused to forget the He
| brews. Their entire history is trag-
| edy. but the climax is in the Middle
ages. Driven from the land of! their
| traditions and the home Of their race,
they met whereer they wandered the
welcome of the sword. Protestant
united with Catholic in their persecu-
ton. Jews We're starved in the dun
geons of Italy and Spain, massacred In
| Germany and France, and drowned
within sight of London bridge. Some
of the grandest names in Medieval
history are found upon the roll of Jew
ish persecution. Richard Occur de
| Lion, Martin Luther, and Savonarola.
proclaimed the gospel of intolerance.
Through all the mad chaos of the
Dark Ages, in defiance of prescription.
massacre and exile, the character of
the Jew endured without change.
Wrapped in the robes of prejudice
and tradition. holding in his frantic
clutch the Torah and the Talmud, and
cursing the name OF Christian as he
met the dagger of persecution, the Jew
is the only element that comes un-
changed through the changes of the
Middle Ages.
Reason is a grander argument than
force. Tolerance has taken place of the
inquisition. Religious persecution Is
today a grim memory of the past, but
the Jew still wanders, IAN astonish
ment, q proverb, and a by-word among
all the nations of the earth
But the God of the Jews reigns. As
this chosen people who toiled in the
brick-kilns of Egypt, suffering under
| the lash of the task masters until their
cries came up to Heaven, at last reach
ed the limit of their suffering, and the
sha ckles that bound them We're broken,
so that in one night Israel stepped
forth free nation. Just SO the hour Of
deliverance from their universal bond
age has come, and with the single eS-
ception of Russia, (ands may we not
hope the present Car will take off
their chains) Israel is today a free
people eight million strong.
The present condition of the Jew is
Just as wonderful as his past history.
Since that great catastrophe, the cruel
fiXion of Christ, the Jew 'wanders like
a specter through the successive cer>
turtles of history a witness of the truth
both Of the promises and Of the threat
enings of prophecy, q standing monu-
ment to the truth of Christianity.
This brings to our minds the legend
of the Wandering jew" who is un-
ceasingly impelled onward without re-
pose through successive centuries, till
the Lord whom he rejected reappears
land is accepted.
The Jew holds a unique place in mod
ern history He is dispersed among all
nations, yet blends with none. Eighteen
centuries have had no effect upon him,
have effaced none of his striking pecul-
iarities Climate has not even changed
his facial expressions. He has preserv-
ed his nationality without country,
his religion without a worship, and his
hopes without a foundation.
He is not a heather, for he has no
dedicated idol. He is not Jew of the
olden type, for Judaism demands
temple and sacrifice, priest and 81
theocracy.
(The Jew in Bible times was very
particular about the observance of the
Sabbath-his day of rest. The modern
Jew virtually has no sabbath he pro-
fesses to keep Saturday as his Sabbath.
yet he carries on his secular business
the same as on every other day. Their
present dissertation of the seventh day
of the week would make a devout Jew
of Nehemiah's time rend his clothes
and sit in sack-cloth and ashes. He
repudiates the Christian Sabbath, ouc-
wardly observing it simply because the
civil law requires the cessation of bus
mess and pleasure. Thus practically
they are without Sabbath)
The Jew is loyal to his adopted coun-
try. His religion is not antagcnistic to
the government. His religion is spir-
itual, and not temporal Unlike Romal,-
! ism, Judaism is not secular power
and does not demand of its subjects
obedience to a temporal power, which
is antagonistic to all civil governments.
| The Jewish religion never teaches him
he must rule or ruin, Thank God.
A Jew in America is an American. in
England an Englishman. in France, is
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