Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

Billy Sunday is strong for the
Jewish nation, and in his sermon
| last evening at the tabernacle paid
the people OF that race the highest
honor possible. Without a coun-
| try and without a flag, driven from
place to place, they have still
maintained their purity of race.
"Ah hail to the Jews" Continuing,
he said in part:
In Genesis, the thirty-second
chapter, the tEenty-eighth verse,
Power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed" 1t is not nee
/ essary for me to consume my
strength and your time to give
you the story in detail. For there
/ is no character in all history with
whom the average man or woman
! is more familiar than Jacob. Some
one has named him the Peter of
the Old Testament; and the history
of Jacob is largely the history Of
/ the Jewish nation in epitome; and
think that the existence and the
history of the Jewish nation is one
| of the stupendous monuments of
| the inspiration of the Bible.
acle of history. 1t makes my
blood boil to hear a man speak OF
( the Jew as a Sheeny or a Christ
killer. If ever you walk the streets
of glory and are kept out of hell it
will be because of your repentance
and faith in the shed blood of !
Jew, for humanity speaking, Jesus
Christ came from the Jewish ma
ton.
Disraeli, in his response TO the
tauRt of O'Connor, made his fam
Gus defense OF his nation-the
Jews.
He said, Eyes I am a Jew, and
when your ancestors were naked
savages wandering through the
forests, mine were high priests in
the Temple of God" And a Jew is
just as distinctiyely a Jew today
as he was six thousand years ago.
All other nations have lost their
nationality by marrying and inter
marrying and assimilating, but not
the Jew
, Some of the shrewdest fnanciers
of the world are Jews. You pay
tribute to the Jew for the suit you
have on, and the dress you wear;
for they control the tailoring and
the 'custom-made business of the
United States. There is not cabi-
net in Europe that hasn't had Jews
in its membership. 1t was really
the. banking house of huhn-Loeb &
company of New York that refused
to loan Japan any money to prose
cute the war, that really FASTENED
peace.
If you visit a poorhouse you will
not find single Jew father or
mother living off the county. You
won't find a Jew among the heboes
or weary WiIIies panhandling for
a hand-out. a Jew organized the
New York pure milk supply-my
friend, Nathan Strauss.
1t was Jew that gave the mon
ey that sent Columbus on his Foy-
age of discovery. Isabelle had to
hook her jewels and they were
hooked to a jew And the map Co
lumbus used was drawn by Jew.
One of his officers was a Jew, and
his doctor and interpreter were
Jews. And the interpreter was the
first one to land upon the new soil.
Three of George Washingten's
staff were Jews. Colonel Frederick
North was a Jew, and gave George
Washington $65S,00O to prosecute
the Revolutionary war; to help
make possible our American indie
peldence.
Jews Select America,
And the Jews have been living
in every land, but they have select
ed America as their home. In 1865
the British government. which had
the whole control of this country,
gave them the right to make this,
my friends, their home, and for
two thousand years they have been
without a home, without a country,
without a flag. And when twenty
million boys and girls in the public
schools of America rise and salute
and pledge allegiance to the Stars
and Stripes, $50 900 of the patriots
are Jews. And it is the only IA
ton that God selected through
which to reveal Himself to the
world, and they have outliVed the
TudoFs, the StuaFts, and the Plan
tagenets. They have Outlived the
RomaBeffs of Russia; they have
eutlived the tyranny of Spain; they
have outliVed the dyRasties of
France; the glory of ChaFlemange;
or the name of julius Caesar; or
the conqueFing power of Alexander
the Great; and the BahyloniaR
kings in Egypt and the Pharaohs.
All hail to the Jews! Sc l have
come to call you, sirs, back to
your God.
There were three classes of
Jews. First, those who believed
in God, but didn't believe in the
resurrection or anything of a spiF-
ituaI nature They were not look
ing for a Messiah. Second, an
other class of Jews that believed in
God, believed in the resurrection,
and were looking for a Messiah.
and when he came and rebuked
their sins and told then they were
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES them the hot
end of the poker-they nailed Him
on the cross. Now listen, there was
third class that believed in God.
believed in Christ, and accepted
Christ as their Savior.
We Gentiles we're heather. We
had ne religion and you preached
your God to us. You preached your
Christ to US. We believed in your
God and in your Christ and in your
prophets. So 1 come to call you
back to your own God. So we were