The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-12-14
JEWRY'S FINE HOUR

What the capture OF Jerusalem means TO the NhIlSt
ian world in sentiment and affection be measured
in those terms of standing scale the hybcrbo
OF imaginative craftsman in the language but after al
This is far precious hour for the Jew. Christen
dom has rescued its shrine from the hands of the
believer but Jewry there is the sudden fulfllmen
OF the re-birth of Zion 1t is breaking/o the day
10 Which the orthodox of the line o. Judah and of Ben
iamn and the House of David have prayed and hoped
and lived for since that day when under the Roman hee
and the grations from the ravages Of the Holy Land
the worlds most tenacious and spiritual race scat
tered to the four winds of heaven; to become Anglo
Saxon with the English Prussian with the Germans
Latin on the Mediterranean, the travail of the race
with the Russiansbut always unbreakably steadfasty
and nobly the Jew.
For with the taking of Palestine by the British goes
there promise made in Downing street and the estab
kshment of settled policy by the great world empire
beaded at Windsor. The Jews of England have been
od that that day when the warning OF the Chrstons
among themselves is over the valleys of the Euphrates
and the Tigris shall bound for them the valley of the
Jordan and that there shall be restored Gods Chosen
People the land for the winning of which they came
dOWH by cloud ana Ire from the long bondage 10
Egyptian And this will be done it should be
Capable few other races have been, of nationa
entity suffering and striving against radi
ion cherished by Christian peoples who sev"rally cru
city the Christian Chs -New Yo' time again in he
aatonaI and individual CON the Jew has stubborn,
aud nobIyS with monumental sacrifice and genius FOL
martyrdom chung to his destiny and held his faith to The
time when Israel would more her head among
the nations settling her traditions and ennobling he
lineage, to be racialy the people without
C4untry." The Middle Ages the darkest trial anC
England, crueest of ALL repent and bow to the
genius of the Jew and make of him the greatest
her Englishmen France to them owes in that per
Gected civilization of hers than ever has been admtet
written, and today even in Russia ignorant and thu
passionate the prejudiced and purblnd Muscovy, thu
Jew finds himself free for today they Jewish leader
who are riding the whirlwnd in that Petrograd ate
barred to the Semitic.
1t is on the of the Jews greatest influence hi
strongest permeation of the various divisions of TIL
worlds civilization, that we find him turning at las
with certainty to the far-o little land one of the grea
prizes of the war, there to up the Judah Fo
the City of David and the Hill which his line buide
the great Temple belongs to the Jew Precious
to Christians if the Christian is believer he mus
admit the same Deity that gave the Christians their So
vior Palestine the of Israel laid for the
land and among them Graded His true religion Jest
was Jew and though they were Jews who crucife
Him they were Jews who died for His sake and took H
Tegion to that seat in Italy whence it given to til
world
In better hands the Holy City could not be TIL;
only small percentage of the worlds Jews will ev,
go back we know They too sodly and complete
part OF the various countries and lands into which the
have resolved themselves for there to be any consde
able return to the pastoral life of the Palestine pair
and valleys. But the Zonistic movement is areac
strong enough to institute there Jewish nation Jev
fSi national consciousness and to-ordinate-equal
safeguarded and administered with the Chrstian-tl
seat of the Jewish faith,
1t is great day for Jewry and great day for Chris
cndom, but not forget is also sad day f
fhe of Saladin We must remember that to ii
Mussulman Jerusalem has been equally holy city
IS not Mecca but is and while he has been hars
It'll the Christian at times he has had veneration f,
lie Christian places and the Jewish landmarks of trad
on and has protected them 1t is apparent that whe
'e withdrew he withdrew in reverence certainly not
venge the city for the loss of its ruership 1t
berepeated in gratitude that it was the Tur
md the Prussian and Bavaran of the front in Fla
crs turned that precious old heap of ruins over
INC conquering, advancing English and French-Tt
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