The Washington times., 1919-12-21


They were err factors and bank.
ers before We knew how to read,
laey we're alse ear aryt physicians.s
While Christians taught that the
hrst Joint OF the thumb was under
the personal care of God, and other
parts OF the body supervised by
other divine personages, Maimon-
t4es, Jewish physician to the Sui
tan Saiadin, IN Egypt, was writing
on pofsons and antidotes," Great
ing new Hebrew words to translate
the works of Greek philosophers
and scientists, writing ''On Natural
history and "On Asthma with
many philosophical works, includ-
fug his famous ''Moreh Nevochim,"
2 Guide to the Perplexed," that en-
eeavored to make the Old Testa-
nsnt clear to human reason.
Jews while others stayed at
home. visited all peoples, learned
nom ell peoples. and taught them
al. They dwelt free from persecu-
don among the Arabs. taught them
and learned from them. In the
early age Of faith" Arabs, in
knorledge, we're as far ahead of
f Christian contemporaries as
odern scientist is ahead of an
Ian bushman. With their
- ledge and teaching the Jews
i. leyed temporal and spiritual
ysr In the middle ages, just as
ar day they annoyed the Car,
eaie .pcsachtng OF liberty in
- dp6ese4 t6btssk shey Asei
1ne1 ~ Nnnielaaaxnaeny
e1e4 zoootfn1, for In
~ tyJtciAn to the French
81 Charles the Bald. was assert
~ have devoured At one meal, Ia
0&presence OF the court, wagea
lad OF hay, together with its
, hOryes and driver.
When the Christians had reach
ed that highly interesting stage
OF crednlity. another Jew, Isaac,
Ban Soleiman, in Egypt, was writ
ing On Fool and Remedie,' On
the Pulse On Fevers,' On Phil
osophy. On Melancholy AN Intro
duction Of Logic etc. The titles
OF these works show the clearness
OF thought that inspired them"
Jewish physicians were forbidden
to treat Christian patients, or to
have Christian employees. IL you
think the human race backward
now, which II certainly is, read the
history OF the middle ages, and the
very earliest centuries OF Chris
tanity. The old crone that brought
. corpse to life by lashing II with
q snake viii interest you. And
the story. much later, of King
James and the witches-all explain
the hatred OF Jews whose scientific
Uen explained phenomena by nat
Gral causes. Read this:
sWhen Il Was affirmed that Agnes
SaDPssa, with two hundred other
Scotch witches, had sailed In sieyes
from Leith to North Berwick to
held q banquet with the Devil,
James I (afterward King of Eng.
lsnd) had the torture applied 10
Tie wretehed woman and took
mach pleasure In putting appro.
Pirate Questions to her after the
raekfAs had been duly prolonged.
slt then came out that the hun.
ereA crones had baptized and
drowned q black cat, thereby
raising q dreadful storm In which
Ne ship that carried the Hing had
narrowly escaped being wrecked.
ep09 Als Agnes was condemned to
Tie flames.
sShe died protesting her limo.
eooee, and piteously calling on
,yes1s to have mercy on her, for
CRbtan men wodld not"
That accusation was believed.
and II meant death to any man to
deny IT, Only a few years separate
Us from King James, his black
eat, and his witches. Many today
half believe In witches, and others
consult spirits, and turn tables.
Do you wonder that Jewish lead
ers Of thought were hated when
they endeavored to replace such
nonsense with scientific truth?
Not for their religion. but for
their knowledge, Jews were hated
and burned AS the late Mr.. Jacobs
points out in one of his books,
while the Albigenses, semi Chris.
dams, were burned alive for deny
ing the divinity OF Christ lex
President Taft Unitarian, would
have been burned In those days),
Jews denying the Christian relig-
ion, absolutely, from top to bot
tom, were permitted to 90 their
Ways, subject only to certain dis
abilities and intermittent persecu-
toas-
In fact religious authority held
that Wna fMno~<~nt 80 Ia>x a.