The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

country to other parts thereof, being ex-
 plotted for what money could be wrung
 from them under pretenses of safe re-
 fuges for the time being which were ex-
 tended them for consideration by this
 or that prince or potentate who acted,
 doubtless, in collusion with some brother
 prince or potentate who simultaneously
 handed down decree of expulsion which
 he in due time revoked, himself offering
 the safe refuge to the Jews when the
 time came for his aforementioned broth CT prince or potentate to hand down his decree of expulsion, that he might have his turn at the mill or till at which
 the accumulations of the Jews were to be sweated out of them, fill the pages of history since the enactment of that tragedy of tragedies; that tragedy of all times which hath many prologues and epilogues the dispersion of the Jews. But our own times are not bare of epilogues; nor are we. lacking in these never-end- | ing decrees of expulsion, that there may | be before our eyes fulfillments of the jots and titles of the law.
 | No sooner does Finland assert her free dom than she celebrates the event by , the adoption of a decree expelling the i Jews. who were given until the 5oth
 day of September past to quit her newly freed soil, the very refinements of un- feeling, minimizing liberty finding fur ! ther expression in the pains and penal ties denounced against those who, after that Dies Irael, should offer to the wan derers of this earth, crust of bread or a cup of water Greece, too, pro 1 posed to- drive them from the parts Of Saloniki in which they had settled upon
 their expulsion from Spain in the year l 1492 and in the press during the past ] week we have read of the indiscriminate massacre of these unfortunates in the eel
 lars and basements of one of the large cities of Poland, in which in the fear of their hearts they had taken refuge. And yet these harsh cruel decrees, these pogroms, are of the jots and titles of that law which must be fulfilled to the dot and jot according to the prophet. 1 'Jehovas will scatter thee among all the peoples, from the one end of the earth | even unto the other end of the earth. Among those nations thou shalt find no ease, and there shall be no rest foi | the sole of thy foot; but Jehovah vii give thee a trembling heart, and failing of the eyes and pining of soul. Tn! life shall hang in doubt before thee, ane I thou shalt fear night and day, and shat have no assurance of thy life" Tn tht morning thou shalt say, would 1t were | event and in the even thou shalt say would it were morning! for the fear O thy heart which thou shalt fear, and 10 | the sight of thine eyes which thou snal sec, Oh, heavens, what an epitome O I the history of the Jews from the tint oe their final and effectual dispersion l under the thoroughgoing Hadrianus t J this year of grace, 1918, with it's decree
 of Finland and of Greece. and it's mas
 sacres in Poland. though, be the heavens
 praised, this land of the free is guilties
 or their persecution, and may 1t so con
 tinue that it may escape. And Jehovai l~r ot.v-a
 emies, and on them that hate thee, tha
 persecuted thee.'' Hadrianus whose sa
 I lient trait was curiosity, going upon th'
 ground of Judea, there fathomed the SC