The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-03-11
REV. M'GARVEY
Answers Mark TWain's Cues
tons Concerning The
Jews.


church at Lexington, March l.
He answered Mark Twain's ques-
ticc y Harper monthly some time
ago: "Why are the Jews still with
us" question which no man can
answer except by aid of the
Bible.
The writer has referred to the
well know fact that every one OF
the ancient nations, which were
contemporary with the Jews when
they were an organized nation, has
utterly persisted, yet the Jews are
yet with us. He might have add
ed, that the Egyptians once held
them in bondage, that the Assyr-
ians and the BabyloniaDs carried
them captive and scattered them
in other lands; that the Persians
and Greeks ruled over them for
centuries, and that the Romans fl
nally devastated their country with
fire and sword, slew a million of
them, carried the rest away as
slaves, destroyed their city and
temple, and scattered them in the
dispersion in which they have now
lived for two thousand years with
out country. He might have
made his question still more perth
nent by adding, that twice in their
early history DEGREES went forth
from mighty kings, that every man,
woman and child of Jewish blood
in the whole earth should be put to
death. The first of these was the
we'll known decree of Ahasueerus
instigated by Haaman, that on a
given day the whole race should be
slaughtered; and all the race was
then in his dominion. The second
was between the close of the Old
Testament history and the opening
of the New, when Antiochus ~,
whose dominion included them,
vowed to eXterminate them, and
sent against them army after army
thought sufficient to accomplish
the task, every one of which was
defeated by a handful of heroes
under Judas Maceabeus. tbs was
the most heroic war in defense of
life and religious liberty of which
history contains "a record. Read
it in Josephus or in the first book
of Maccabees.
After all this, and after they
have lived among all nations for
the last two thousand years, de-
spised, prosecuted and robbed in
every barbarous way, the question
why they are yet with US acquires
enormous emphasis. They are not
only with us yet, but they are here
in as great numbers as ever, with
more gold at their command than
Solomon ever dreamed of, owning
great business blocks in all of the
great commercial cities, buying and
transporting all the fat cattle that
our country ships to Europe, own
ing and editing most of the great
newspapers in Europe, and many
in America, holding the leading
positions as lawyers and physicians
in Europe, and sometimes rising
like Lord Beaconsfeld to the very
highest places of political power.
These amazing facts do not answer
the question, "Why they are yet
with u.s." but they show to a de-
monstration that no power less than
that of God himself can have pre-
served them.
If we turn to Gods word our
question is easily answered. When
the progenitor of this race was a
childless man of seventy-fye with
a barren wife, God called him away
from his kindred into a strange
land, and said to him, 81 will make
Of thee a great nation, will bless
him that blesseth thee, and curse
him that curseth thee, and in thee
and in thy seed shall all the ma