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

equally of Jews, Christians and Mo-
hammedans. in their warfare with Idol
airy In this sense he is the progenitor
OF all those nations, tribes, and peoples
VINO acknowledge, a personal God, SUI
preihe and eternal in universe which
he created-"The only true God" We
are indebted to Abraham for the coVe-
haht OF promise; to the patriarchs for
their Illustrated lessons in faith; to
Moses for the law and commandments;
10 David for the Psalms, the mouth
piece of Christian experience, which
SpurSeon called 1.-THE throbbing heal I
OF the Bible
We Christians are even indebted to
the Jews for our Saviour. He was born
of Jewish mother. reared in Jewish
village, gave the Gospel to a Jewish
people. and gathered about Him Jewish
disciples. What has the Christian
world done, what can they do in max
ing suitable returns for these priceless
benefits. Isaacs blessing on Israe
ought to help US in our attitude toward
the Jews cursed he every one who
curseth thee, and blessed be he that
blesseth thee" God may punish the
Jew, but he will not have us afflict him.
When will we all learn the principles
of religious liberation? Did the Puri-
tans understand them, with all their
professions?
Do we tolerate in our hearts, those
who differ from us? Do not men look
daggers, though they dare not use
them? If we had the power, would We
not SEX to produce conformity with or
notions, like Queen Elizabeth, or oliver
Cromwell, or Archbishop Land?
There is not perhaps a village in
America where true catholicism
reigns. There is not a spot upon the
globe where there is not some form of
religious persecution. And when people
have not fundamental principles to
fight about, they will fight about tech
nicalities.
The past history of the Jew is simply
wonderful. 1t has not parallel and
never will have unless it will be their
future history.
As Eugene. Empress of France is
now called 1.-The fatal woman" the Jew
might be called the fatal race. There
was a time when Israel stood alone IN
history, the mightiest nation of the
globe, during the reigns of David ana
Solomon. For several hundred years it
was considered an honor to be Jew
The recorded annals of the Hebrew
nation date far beyond the period
where Grecian and Roman history fade
into legend. The lost volume of those
annals has not yet been written.
The Jews We're a nation a the dawn
of history; give them a country and a
king, and they exist today a nation OF
eight million people.
Their preservation throughout the
centuries as a distinct people becomes
a double miracle, when we consider
that in maintaining their unity invio-
late they have bid defiance to world
that has united to crush them.
Through the furnace heat of four
thousand years of slavery and perse-
cution their character has come out
unchanged.
The galley slave of Ben Hur is but
faint picture of their prosecutions.
They built the Pyramids beneath the
lash of the Egyptians. The tears Of
Hebrew captives made salt the Baby
lcnian waters, and added to the glitter
of Assyrian ivory and gold.
Strange to saymost of thepersecution
was in violation of Gods law and 4
direct fulfillment of their own writings.
In the the 2Sth chapter of Deuter-
onomy. Moses describes the calamities
that will befall his people if they will
not hearken to the voice of the Lord
their God and obey His command
ments.
History has shown us that they did
TO
serving Baal, Moloch and all the Gods
of the heather. They even set up their
images in the sacred enclosure of the
temple.
The prophecies of Moses, Isaiah,
jeremiah. etc, were carried out when
Israel was besieged and after a bloody
conflict was carried captive to Babylon
and there endured all the hardships of
a cruel slavery. From that time until
the days of Christ, a period of about
600 years. their country was the battle
field of the nations, and they were re-
peatediy the victims of the scourges OF
war, pestilence and famine.
The political history of the Jews is
a weary tale of shifting scenes Of
power and humiliation.
Away back in the time of the Phar-
aohs their national existence began.
In the year 30 of the Christian era, the
legions of Titus encamped about the
city of Jerusalem and closed the drama
of their national life. When the Jews
rejected Christ, He predicted the down
fall of their city, the utter overthrow
of their temple, and the partial de-
struction of the people.
He told of the false Christs that
would arise and deceive the people. of
earthquak es, famines, and pestilences,
of the prosecutions of Gods children
and of their settlement among tho
nations.
Has the prophecy of Christ come
true? What are the facts in the case"
No sooner had Jesus of Nazareth been
crucified, risen and assembled to Heaven
than many false Christs arose and, ac-
cording to Josephus. succeeded in de-
ce;v;3g the multitudes Of the Jews and
leading them into the wilderness, where
they became rebellious and We're slain
In just 81 years after Christ made his
prediction about Jerusalem and the
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