New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-09-21
Sees RETURN OF
JEW TO own LAND
Is a Matter Of World Signih-
canoe, According to Speaker

The year OF jubilee for the Jews
has begun and the Jew Is returning
to his promised land, according 10
&c. A. Wise. vice president OF the In
tcrnational Bible students, who
spoke in New Britain yesterday, He
took as his subject The Year of
Jubilee"
Mr.. Wise based his lecture on the
text, And We shall halow the 5oth
year, and proclaim liberty through
out all the land unto all the inhah-
tants thereof; II shall be jubilee
unto you: and We shall return every
man unto his possession and We shall
return every man unto his family"
Mr.. Wise showed that In this way
every 50th year was TO Israel year
Of jubilee, a time Of rejoicing and
restitution, In which broken families
we're reunited and lost homesteads
We're restored.
He said the Scriptures indicate
that there were designed to be 10
of these jubilee periods Of 50 years
each before the antitypical jubilee
Of the times Of restitution would be
due. God, through Moses had fore
warned the Jews, that II they we're
disobedient to the laws to which as
nation they had pledged them
selves, He would punish them for
lit. Then shall the land enjoy her
ISabbaths as long as It lieth desolate
and ye be In your enemies land, In
> Chron 36:17,2o, he said, the full
IflIment Of this prophecy is record
ed. ito fulfll the word Of the LORD
hy the mouth Of jeremiah, until the
land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for
as long as she lay desolate she kept
sabbath, to fulfil three score and ten
wears" From this It Is evident, the
sneaker said, that Israel had failed to
observe properly the sahbatic years
3of which the jubilees were the chief
Thus at one time God caused the
Hebrew people to suffer Punishment
from their land, and caused the land
to remain idle as many years as
There would be jubilee periods"
In reference TO the actual time
when this Jubilee system was made,
Mr.. Wise said in part; The jubilee
system was made to date from the
time they entered the land, that Is
they entered during the year which
began October /, 1875 3. c. The ac-
ItIal time Of their entry vas in the
Ispring. and hence the first year OF
THE first 50 year period was but six
months long; but as the years were
crop years 1t was sufficient In length
Ito be counted as whole year. From
1.-The fall Of 1875 B. c., to the begin
ming of the Christian era are
1575 IA years. The total period of
20 jubiIees is $500 years. The diff
ference between these is 1924 IA
Years. 1924 full years ended De
icember 81, 1924 and three-fourths
of year longer brings us to Oct.
II, 1925, the full end OF the 10
iubilees."
In connection with this MIR, Wise
said that the jubilee of the Jews had
actually begun In that they were
getting possession Of their land and
on the 18th day Of March. 1925 the
first ship of the American Palestine
line sailed out OF New York harhor
under the Hebrew flag; the first
time the flag has been raised in 20
centuries.
Mr.. Wise concluded IN saying,
This arrangement of the jubilee
provided by God through their lead
er and typical mediator Moses,
through itself a blessed boon, fore
Swallowed a still greater blessing
which God had in view the release
of all mankind from the debt Of sin
and its bondage and servitnde."
Mr.. Wise has just recently return
ed from an extended European trir
aud says he realizes as never befor-
the need Of the antitypical jubilee
since witnessing the terrible condi-
! ton which prevail in the various
2 countries at the present time.