The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-09

taken in the study of the prosecutions or i the Jews, a matter to which but little i | thought has ben given heretofore, were 1t | not wonderful that none of the reviewers l has given thought to the significance of this never-ending persecution in the light of the law of Moses. Few ever dream l that the law of Moses is other than a sort of code of civil conduct and of ritual 1 istic forms and observances, the great Jaw of destiny embodied therein being quite unnoticed. l Isaiah and Jeremiah were by no means unmndful of this same law of destiny, | their prophecies being inspired of the very letter of that same law of destiny em- ! bodied in the 18th chaper of what we call Deuteronomy a word entirely unknown to l the Hebrew tongue, and which has Teen l fastened on the book through the trans laton given to the 18th verse of the flth | chapter of the book in the Greek text | thereof The correct name of the book Is | Dvorim, the words Yea, indeed; Words; words of absolute truth not ore | tot or title shall pass from which until all things written therein shall be fnl- l filed says the prophet Who can read the 5th chapter of Jeremiah, beginning at
 verse H. and so following through the I | his great book of the law as the inspi- ration of the prophet. The laws says: | Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation Of fierce countenance that shall not regard the person of the old nor show favor to the young, and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground, until
 thou be destroyed; that all shall not leave
 the grain, new wine. or oil, the increase
 of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock,
 until they have caused thee to perish.
 And they shall besege thee in all thy
 gates until thy high and fortified walls come down wherein thou trustedst throughout all the land"
 Jeremiah conceiving that the time of fulfllment of this great law of destiny had arrived, and inspired of the law, fore tells: "Lo, I will bring a nation
 upon you from afar, o house of Israel,
 said Jehovah;si it is a mighty nation, it is
 an ancient nation, a nation whose lan- lguage thou l<nowest not, neither under standest what they say.''
 Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men" And they shall set up thy harvest, and thy bread thy sons and daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy breay thy sons l; and daughters should eat; they shall eat up the flocks and thy herds they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees; they , shal beat down thy fortified cities, where in thou trustest, with the sword" Jere-
 miah's Inspiration is perfectly clear He
 believed implicitly in that great law of destiny and as he believed he wrote.
 Isaiah was as palpably inspired of that
 great law and the great prophet of the
 Jews in whose mouth Jehovah promised he would put his own words, speaklng or
 the things which were to happen lm- Il! sA,. 1xrt Q Jews his delivery to the Gentiles. nls death and resurrection, says: These be the days in which all things which are written shall be fulfilled" foretelling that the Jews would fall by the sword, and that they should be led away captive into all the nations
 Jeremiah was mistaken in his applica- ton of the law of destiny, for it was not A nation from afar that came against the Jews in his times but their next door neighbors; neither was 1t people whose language they did not understand, but T people whose language they did under- Fl stand, the Jews standing on the walls or Jerusalem saving to the invaders: You ! need not speak in the Jews language, we understand vours" Neither was Jerusa = : lem invested as at the time of Titus. but
 a rampant was built up against the walls land the invaders s'went over the top," 10 luse recently familiar expression.
 1 But under Titus a nation did come against them from afar, yea, also, and from the west as the eagle flieth; and a
 people whose language they did not un- derstand Josephus himself Interpreting between the Romans and the Jews being quite unconscious of the fact that he was one of the prime actors in the fulhlimens of these same things written in this great law of destiny. e"Dvorin1' The Romans did not understand the vernacular of the Jews and the Jews dlI not understand Latin there being fulfillment of a very little of the law The prophet (Jesus, Likewise says that the Jews are to be led away captive into all nations, and they
 are here today, scattered over the race oi
 this earth among all nations, even in ac- cordance with the very letter of that law of destiny which reads. And Jehovah will scatter thee among all the peoples from one end of the earth even unto the }. other end of the earth"
 Il "And among those nations thou shalt find no ease. ana there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovan will
 give thee a tranlbling heart and failing of the eyes and pining of the soul: anc . thv life shall hang in doubt before thee
 and thou shalt fear night and day. ans . shalt have no assurance of thy life ''Ir
 the morning thou shalt say, Would Il
 were even, and at even thou shalt say
 Would it were morning! for the fear O.
 thy heart which thou shalt fear, and fol : the sight of thine eyes which thou shal
 see"
 What has been the history of the Jews
 during the great dispersion of nearly 2oe
 Iyears' continuance but a fulfilment Of tn' w very letter of that great law or destiny if not one jot or title shall pass from whicf . until all things written therein are fui 'e filled The little captivity of 70 years Il hut an eniso5e and episo1e truly wher ic compared with the ptic enacted durins O, 20O0 years of dispersion among all th' to peoples of this earth. How very littl' does this stupid world stop to think o 10 that law of Moses as other than as pro A posed at the outset, and vet it is palpahl. in an unalterable law of destiny, so far a' ie the Jews are concerned. it's fulfilments however, breathing that spirit of trutf
 which the prophet n-omised he wouf
 send, but which he said the world wcnlf
 not receive because it could not see him
 The prophet told us plainly that unless h.
 went he could not send the spirit of truth
 for the truth of all truths haa to he ful
 filled in the prophet first; to-wit: That tho
 words of God were in his mouth. and hat