The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-25

thiZe with whatever dignilied effort
may be made in this direction. But,
after all, it is the Jew of history and
prophecy and achievement that counts
and not the Jew of the comic paper
and a decadent stage, the Jew who
has filled the earth with wisdom, the
Jew of religion and literature and sci
ence and finance and philanthropy
and art and culture and government
and heroes, that counts in any honest
appraisement of what he is and what
ne has accomplished. He stands alone
among men of endurance under suf-
ferlng and sacrifice for prosecutions
that have bloodied all pages of history
Tor loyalty to his faith when languish-
ing in dungeon, broken on the rack,
tortured by fire, cut asunder with the
sword, dying in agony on the scaffold.
This is the Jew, and not the cheap
and repulsive creature of caricature
and unthinking passion that counts in
the judgment of the discriminating
world.
In his History of the Jews Prot.
n. Graetz says, THE Jewish race
during its dispersion of nearly 1000
years may be fifty compared to a
polyp. Though it was often wounded
and cut to pieces, the parts severed
from the whole did not die, but began
an Independent existence, developed
organically and formed a new root
stock. Driven from their original
Palestinian home, the scattered MEM
bers Of this peculiar national organism
assembled on the banks of the Eu-
pirates and Tigris and in the palm
district Of Arabia. Doomed to ruin
there, they emigrated to Spain with
the Arabs. the most cultured people of
the Middle Ages, and became the
teachers Of Europe, then plunged in
barbariasm. Expelled thence, weaken
ed in heart and numbers, they pro-
ceeded eastwards and, again they
found no resting place, they settled
in the north always following advanc-
ing civilization, and with every burn
ing pile set ablaze for convicted or
suspected persons their numbers
have increased and their glory has
filled the earth. There are unworthy
men among them, thousand of them,
but they do not represent the race
the only real aristocratic race among
the sons of men. Their family tree
was rooted ''in the beginning" The
promise was made to Abraham by the
Almighty: Il will make nations Of
thee, and kings shall come out Of thee.
And l will establish my covenant be-
tween me and thee and thee and thy
seed after thee in their generations,
for an everlasting covenant unto thee
and to thy seed after thee and all
the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him." In reliance upon this
promise and upon the assurance of
the royal Psalmist David that 1.-The
truth Of the Lord undureth forever"
the Jews have rested their case, hop
ng in the mercy of God.
They do not agree with their Chris
tan neighbors; they have rejected the
Christ of the Christians, but they look
for Messiah yet to come and they
have suffered for their belief even un-
to death. They have, however, taught
the sublimity of living and dying for
what they believed to be right and
they have set an example to ali tho
world of patience under suffering.
Some of their neighbOrs think that
they have either gone too far in adapt
ing themselves to the so-calleds lad
vanced thought of the age" or not far
enough; that they have sacrificed
some of their own commandments and
laws and customs without advantage
to their system of religion, but
through all the changes Of time and
place and condition they have main
tanned the purity of their race and
worked for the good of humanity. In
all the realms of thought and SER
vice they have held place and achiev-
ed large results and made great con-
tributions to the sum of human hap
piness.
With his record in the humanities
what does it mtater to the B'nai Birth
whether or not the Jew is DETAINED by
the vulgar and misjudged by the
righteous? Let him be Judged rather,
by what he has DOME. c. Hemphill,
in Philadelphia Ledger.
POLK MILLER JS DEAD