The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-12-29
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JEWS THE COMING PEOPLE.

Fulfilling Their Destiny and Proving
Bibles Divinity, DIR. Young Says.
The Rev. DR.. S. Edward Young.
pastor Of the Bedford Avenue Pres
byterian church. in Brooklyn, Ieliv-
cred a sermon yesterday morning in
which he hailed the Jews as the
coming nation of the world. DIR.
Young took for his text this passage
from Deuteronomy:
Thou shalt become an astonish-
ment, a prOverb, and byword
among all people. from the one end
Of the earth even unto the other. I
will get them praise and fame in ev-
cry land where they have been put
to shame.
In his sermon the pastor said:
"One million sermons establishing
the Bibles divine authorship are
New York City's one million Israel
ties. Here bear they witness-a ma
tion for $500 years without a gov
ernment Of their own, for only 700
years out of 5000 years united and
independent; exiled all from Pales-
tine by Emperor Hadrian, earlier
driven from Rome; banished from
England In 1900, from France in L.
Ss5. from Spain in 1892; every king
dom. empire. and republic against
them officially, socially, commercial
ly. enthusiastically, until the Declara-
ton Of independence at Philadelphia
in i776, and the majority Of man
kind against them today; their land
never ruled by them since $50 B. c.;
their twenty times taken city, Jeru-
salem, in the hands Of enemies dur
ing these past seventy-five genera
tions; for nearly two millenniums no
centralized religious system-yet be-
hold the Jews as numerous as ever
distinct, known as Jews wherever
they go; their ancient ideals still
cherished; their beliefs incorporated
into Christianity and Mohammedan-
Ism; their progenitors the writer's Of
the thirty-nine books of the Old Tes-
lament and the twenty-seven of the
New, Jews fast becoming the leaders
Of our twentieth-century world!
FULFILLED are the multitude Of
prophecies of woes and wanderings
uttered by Moses and the seers Of
Isarel in entire opposition to what
the people would have wished them
to predict, fulfilled in every smallest
detail. Beginning to be fulfilled are
those prophecies that declared: I
will get them praise and fame in ev-
cry land. where they have been put
to shame. Do not Hebrews this
minute hold the balance Of power in
this city In business and at the vot-
Ing booth? Is not their birth rate
highest, their death rate lowest /?
Their diseases produced by drunken
ness and immoral vices-are they not
fever than those Of other races? In
proportion to population do not Jew
ish graduates Of our schools and
winners Of prizes far ou*number
Gentiles? Who own most of the de-
partment and minor stores Of Ameri-
can cities? The cotton trade-elimi-
nate Hebrews therefrom and where
would the market be tomorrow To
which nationality belong the men
who control European finances-the
Rothschilds and the rest? Who loan
TO each nation hard up for funds ?
Jacobs descendants.
Cart away every book and maga-
zine article produced by Israelite tai.
ent-wha. void in literature! Run
an anti-Semite pruning hook
throughout Christendom's education.
al fcrces-the educators We would
lose! Even the Mohaminedan Semi.
nary at Cairo. Egypt, was raised tc
Its present glory by President Alb.
basi, Jew. Can you figure out the
mathematical improba bility that all
these prophecies reaching across
three millennuims should Just hap.
pen to be fulfilled? Could any one
else than the Almighty speak them ?
Shall we not rely absolutely upor
what God says in the rest Of His
BOOK? Shall We not trust every
promise of the Great Master who
said; Jerusalem shall be trodder
down OF the Gentiles until the times
or the Gentiles be fulfilled ?',-N. Y
Times.