The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-03-29
A Timely Recognition

Today the beginning of the Passover week. the festival of
the jews commemorative the deveance from egyp
tan bondage probable sixteen hundred before Christian
Era and which celebration has been of the ties that
bound the Jew to the principles of monogame thus
TO modern civilization anchor of refuge which modern re
gons have ever since attached their Faith Hope Salvation
Senator James A. Reed Missouri in recent speech on the mm
grafton question paid this beautiful tribute the Jew which we
modesty reprint this opporune time tribute the
Seek the of the centuryod horrors he has endured
ana you Will enter the of ignorance where dws the
pent of superstition and its pesenta offspring persecution
The Jew has been and in places still an oucast simply
and only because he has sady refused abandon the God of
his fathers.
For this 5000 ago were his burdens in Egypt made
than he could BEAR For this cities burned the walls of
his capital azed his temples destroyed affairs desecraed his
people saughere for this into capvv bv Syrian
and Babyonian despo his desert sown with
tne bones otnudered millions Yet in spite of ALL for fifteen
hundred years the Jew chung the horns his altar cherished
his temple and reverenced his God
For fifteen centuries the world enveope the night of
bgoy ignorance and night umined by single torch
of truth, held aloft by the hand of the Jew
The Jew alone during all that period terror vice. TYRANNY
despair and oahsome doay taught the doctrine one Supreme
God lie alone followed code of laws which embraced every
principle essential liberty morality religion His laws and
his religion those of the other the earth as
star of ndescbabe glory shining through the clouds of
rent sky a of blood
Then the dawn of Christianity glory fell first up
on the land of the jew The God mother Jewes The
Twelve Disciples Hebrew fishermen who spread their nets
along the shores of the of Galilee.
From this get religion from sacred writings
our morals 1t preserved the greater part of knowledge
ancient history The ubmes examples of poetry and the
tenderest expressions of exalted devotion from the pens of in
spired Jews
Oberate the work of the Jew before Christian era and
you destroy the old Bible and the Ten Commandments Strike out
the work of the Jew of the Christian and you obeate the
New Testament
Your religion the fundamentals of laws your ideas of
virtue your preeps of moaa these you get the Jew
From the lips of the Jewess sublime
DO unto others would they should do unto YOU
If you some of the Jews cuced the Savior answer It
was also Jews who followed Him to Calvary It Jew who
drew the nails from the 1t Jews who reverenv bore
the body the epucher It Jews who the glory
the resurrection 1t Jews He appeared with whom
He walked and talked.
1t these Jews who went into all the world teaching
His word They BEATEN the imprisoned they were fed
wild beasts by those they save They gave their lives
70 the propagation OF Christianity The has been
prosecuted by those whom part of the race converted
But civilization has progressed the light of reason has
penetrated the night of ignorance man has emerged from the
JunGe OF barbarm and approached the sun plains civza