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The Jews in History.The Jew still walks the earth, and bears the stamp of his raee upon his forehead. He is still the same being as when he first wandered forth from the hills of Judea. If his name is associated with avarice and extortion, and spoken in bitterness and scorn, yet in the morning of history it gathers round it recollections sacred and holy.The Jew is a miracle among the nations. A wanderer in all lands, he has been a witness of the great events of history for more than 1,800 years. He saw classic Greece when crowned with intellectual triumphs. He lingered among that broken but beautiful architecture which rises like a tombstone over the grave of her departed splendor.The Jew saw Rome, the “ mightyheart1' of nations, sending its own ceaseless life’s throb through all the arteries of its vast empire. He, too, has seen that heart cold and still in death. .TJMfiSblc being. The shadow of the Crescent rests on Palestine, the ^ signet of a conqueror’s faith-still the Jew and his religionsurvive. He wanders a captive in the streets of his own once queenly Jerusalem, to meditate sad and gloomily on the relics of ancient power. Above him shines the clear sky, fair as when it looked down on the towers of Zion; but now, alas! beholds only a desolate city and an unhappy land. The world is^ his home. The literature of the ancient Hebrew triumphs over all creeds and schools and sects. Mankind worship in the sacred songs of David, and bow to the divine teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who also was a son of Abraham. Such is the Jew. His ancient dreams of empire are gone. How seldom do we realize, as we see him in our citystreets, that he is the creature of such a strange, peculiar destiny. Neither age, nor country, nor climate have changed him. Such is the Jew, a strange and solitary being, and such the drama of his long and mournful history—Pewand Plow.
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Bowling Green Review
Bowling Green, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 05, 1877
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