The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05
IN The RELIGIOUS WORLD
What the Church Folk Are Thinking
About and Doing.


good craftsmanship, as we'll as a wise
ieflslous observance. Even so do ma
oons To-Day mark their great days
ana commemorate their great men.
me family life Of the Jew was
SOllOlfed and made sacred by this
passover memorials: even as TODAY the
laH1liy altar binds the home into a
oneness such as is promoted by no
other single function. But the Pass
over did more. This common usage.
accentuating a common history and |
a common delivery. has unified the
Hebrew people. 1t has been one means
Tor the welding together of the Jews,
VINO nave been called "the miracle
OF history since they have main
tanned their identity through all the
centuries. This common memorial
supper binds the rich AND the poor
together; 1t makes the ROthsChildS of
London and Paris one with the op-
pressed Jews in Kisheneff.
The mysterious solidarity of the
Jews makes Zionism a determining
factor in all oriental politics. AS a
man from the east said to me the
other day, apropos Of foolish war talk
In the States: Nowadays no nation
a go to war unless financed by Jew
ish bankers, and the Jewish bankers
vii! not lend money to any nation,
which has given refuge to their op-
pressed fellow Rebrew, even as Amer
lea and Great Britain have done"
The first high purpose Of this great
PASSOVER feast was to stress the fact
that the Jews were chosen people.
with a peculiar mission for God in
the world. 1t set them apart as re-
cipients OF the divine favor and care.
and custodian of the truth Of the
one God, supremeover all the ma
tons.
The Dread Egyptian Night.
There was a great cry in Egypt"
l heard the women Of an Egyptian
family wailing one day in Cairo over
the death Of a loved one. 1t was a
new sound to me, which, alas. I have
heard often repeated throughout the
east. This western world knows it
not. We should be glad hat the
heart-harrowing wall never rises to
our ears. Lamentation is an orien-
tai usage. The death-cry of the east
has in it SO much Of heart-break. SO
much Of loss and longing, that no
occidental cares to hear it again.
The Imagination is not equal to the
} task Of filling the whole Of Egypt with
that indescribable wall, when at mid
night h death angel smote the first
: born of all the people. The calamity
2 must be analysed to be understood
$ The grief in Pharaoh's household is
! itself enough to think upon. Equally
| great was the grief in the hut of the
. peasant, where the young mother hug
ged to her heart b still body of he1
. only son. In dungeon and in palace
!, this universal human calamity was
] felt No other plague could have
reached so far OF lave beer felt Sc
deeply as this.
Cruel? That depends. I heard {
missionary talk philOsOphically thu
other day about the necessary evi
ola few hundred people losing theil
e lives that a nation might be deliv.
S cred. The Judgment Of history always
5, has gone solidly for his philosophy
Every war has been a testimonial t.
it. 1t is expedient hat some die tina
the many may be saved. Gods owl
e Son was not too great a price to pa,
n for the emancipation of a race from
S, sin. Il the near view, with nothin,
e else in sight but the suffering of tn
} Egyptians. the death of the first-bor1
1t was a horrible calamity. In the lonl
l. look, it was but q sad incident in
great and beneficient providence.
t. The first purpose Of this last awefu
n plague was accomplished. Instant
T. there arose a clamOr to expel tn
is Hebrews. The lesson was not los
upon the people. They saw the con
ID Injection between their oppression G
A. the Jews and their defiance of th
III God of Israel with this immeasnrabl
s; calamity. IN a night they drove on
t: the children OF Israel. crying, TAX
re both your flocks and your herds. as y
or have said, and be gone"
q, The Historic Going Forth
~ These slaves, suddenly emancipate
Of by the edict forced from Pharaoh 6
We so fearful a cost, were not fuEnishe
I'D for travel. They had no money an
be few supplies. Therefore they resor'
ed to the oriental usage, askinS "bact
sheesh' Of their more fOrtuna'
in neighbors. The old version translate
ad this passage that they borrowed
gh jewels from the Egyptians. There
d. no warrant for this in the origin;
cir text, and the revised version, max
he it clear tha4 they asked anu u
he egyptians freely gave. albeit mo'
he lavishly than they would have dc
es under less critical circumstances NJ
ali were willing to give up their all
of they might only get opt of their SIG
I'm these people whose presence oroug
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