The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-19

Inc average Jew, knowing
nttle about his people, tells you
shat Jews are hated for their re-
igion.
Average Christians have the
same erroneous idea.
Jews centuries ago spread
xnowledge that kills superstition.
Ineir leaders were educated
when others were grossly iono-
rant Superstition was profit
epie, and jews interfered with it.
They travelled all over the
world, studied and wrote learn
edly on medicine and other sci
ences when Christianity's only
cure Tor disease was a miracle.
The Spanish Jews knew well
what was going on among their
co-religionists beyond the Eu-
pirates. As Cabanis says: "They
were our factors and bankers be-
Tore we knew how to read; they
were also our first physicians"
While Christians taught that
the first joint of the thumb was
under the personal care of God
and other parts of the body su-
pervised by other divine person
ages, Maimonides, Jewish ply
sician to the Sultan Saladin in
Egypt, was writing "On Poisons
and Antidotes," creating new
Hebrew words to translate the
works of Greek philosophers and
scientists, writing "On Natural
History" and "On Asthma" with
many philosophical works, in
cluding his famous "Morch Ne
vochim," "Guide to the Per-
plexed," that endeavored to
make the Old Testament clear to
human reason.
Jews, while others stayed at
home, visited all peoples, learned
from all peoples and taught them
all. They dwelt free from perse-
cution among the Arabs, taught
them and learned from them. In
the early cage of Faith" Arabs, in
knowledge, were as far ahead OF
their Christian contemporaries as
modern scientist is ahead OF an
African bushman.
With their knowledge and teach
Aing the Jews annoyed temporal
and spiritual power in the Middle
, Ages, Just as in our day they
annoyed the czar with their preach
ing Of liberty in Russia. ,.
Jewish doctors, because they did
cure, were called magicians; many
were burned. Zedekias, for NE
stance, physician to the French
King Charles the Bald, "was as
serted to have devoured at one
meal, in the presence Of the court,
. wagon load of hay, together with
its horses and driver"
When the Christians had reached
that highly interesting stage OF
credulity, another Jew, Isaac Ben
Seleiman, in Egypt, was writing
~On Food and Remedie," ,""On the
Pulse" "On Fevers," "On Melan-
choly," ""An Introduction to Logic"
etc. The titles of these works show
the clearness Of thought that in
spired them.
Jewish physicians were forbid
den to treat Christian patients or
TO have Christian employees. II you
think the human race backward
now. which it certainly is, read the
history Of the Middle Ages and the
very earliest centuries of Chris
tianity. The old crone that brought
a corpse to life by lashing it with
. snake will interest you. And the
story. much later, Of King James
and the witches will explain the
hatred Of Jews, whose scientific
men explained phenomena by nat
ural causes. Read this:
"When 1t was affirmed that
Agnes Sampson, with two hun
dred other Scotch witches, had
sailed in sieves from Leith to
North Berwick to hold a ban
ouet with the devil, James l
1afterward King of England)
had the torture applied to the
wretched woman and took much
pleasure in putting appropriate
questions to her after the rack
ing had been duly prolonged.
7sIt then came out that the
two hundred crones had bap-
t;zed and drowned black cat,
thereby raising a dreadful storm
Sn which the ship that carried
the King had narrowly escaped
being wrecked. Upon this Agnes
was condemned to the flames.
"She died protesting her inno-
eence. and piteously calling on
Jesus to have mercy on her, for
Christian men would not"
That accusation was believed,
and it meant death to any man
20 deny it. Only a few years
sonsrate us from King James,
S;s black cat and his witches.
Msny today half believe in
witches and others consult spirits
and turn tables. =,
Do you wonder that Jewish
leaders of thought were hated
rshen they endeavored to replace
such nonsense with scientific
for their religion hut for