| Show THE JEWS The remarks of Cardinal MANNING to a delegation of prominent Jews that waited upon him recently and the continued persecution per-secution that that people are subjected to in the great empire of Russia keep the House of Judah in tho eye of the world The cardinal car-dinal on the occasion above alluded to said For nearly forty years London has been my home In that time all tho forms of suffering poverty and vice have come before be-fore me I can therefore bear witness to the charity and generosity of my Jewish fellowcountrymen I have found them forward in all good works In the flare of your children your sick your poor you give us a noble example of generosity and efficiency There are believe only three indestructible elements in the history of man The peoplo and the faith of Israel the Catholic church which sprung from it and the world which has persecuted both This certainly is testimony of a very respectable re-spectable character as to the good conduct of the Jews who live England and we can but wonder how it is that a rape spoken so highly of England should bo accounted worthy only of bonds imprisonment imprison-ment despoliation and banishment in Russia Rus-sia Is it because the arbitrary forms in government that obtain in Russia goad them to desperate acts of retaliation by which they pull down the vengeance of the Russians upon them 1 Is it this that is the cause of their trouble or is the house of Judah still suffering from the effects of having rejected their GOD 2 If the latter be the cause as we believe it to be what a terrible thing indeed it is for a people to be without GOD as a friend Let it not bethought be-thought that we justify Russia in her ill treatment of the Jews because wo assign as a cause of their t terriblomisfortunes the withdrawal of the friendship of GOD It is a case of where offenses must needs come but woe unto him by whom they come It is not good morals to say that because theiord withdraws His sustain I L ll l s I ing power from a nation that other people are justified in oppressing them I Russia however is not the only nation that has been guilty of oppressing the Jews In tho free government of England where now they are so highly spoken of by Cardinal MANNING they have been as inhumanly in-humanly treated as they now are in Russia What they now suffer in the latter nation they have suffered in Germany and Austria and in nearly every nation where it has been their lot to find an abiding place It is j this singular fact that leads us to the conclusion con-clusion that it is not the arbitrary the cruelly despotic form of the Russian government gov-ernment that their sufferings can be attributed at-tributed to Their fathers tbok the fearful responsibility of rejecting for themselves and for their posterity the Lord of heaven and earth Their cry was Let Him be crucified and His blood be upon us and on our children And lot the unbeliever in JESUS CHKIST say what he will let the scoffer mock but be is confronted con-fronted with the fact that from that day oppression grief scorn hatrea and calamity have dogged the footsteps of that people whose sufferings have been sufficient to enlist the sympathy of adamantine ada-mantine hearts Stripped and peeled by their oppressors scattered among all the nations of the earth without a temple without a gathering place without a nation na-tion they have preserved themselves a distinct dis-tinct people but have been so preserved only to bo despised scorned mistrusted oppressed op-pressed It is these facts which lead us to belive there is virtue in the prediction of the great head of the Christian church t the effect that Jerusaluin shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fult led and also in that other prediction addressed to the samo people peo-ple Behold your house is left unto you desolate For I say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall bay blessed is he that cometh in the name of theLord The fate of the Jews since their rejection of the son of GOD has been in strict keeping keep-ing with what is foreshadowed by the predictions pre-dictions here quoted and well may Bishop LiGnxroor say to unbelievers in the Jewish Jew-ish scriptures You may question if you will every single prophecy in tho Old Testament but the whole history of the Jews is one continuous prophecy more distinct and articulate than all You may deny if you will every successive miracle which is recorded therein but again tho history of the Jews is from first to last one stupendous miracle mira-cle more wondrfuland convincing than all One of the strongest things in connection with the cruelties practiced upon the Jews is the source from which they comefrom the Christiansfrom the Christians who owe so much to the Jews I From the Jews the Christians received the Bible that book of books which has done so much informing in-forming not only the religion of tho civilized civi-lized world but in which they found also the basis of their laws From whom also so far as his earthly parentage is concerned the Lord JESUS CUltIST descended One would think that these considerations I would be sufficient to engender a kindly feeling in the hearts of Christians towards the house of Judah but it does not As pertinently asked in that extraordinary book believed in by so many of the people of Utahthe Book of Mormon What do the Gentiles mean Do they remember re-member the travels and the labors and the pains of the Jews and their diligence unto me in bringing salvation to the Gentiles 0 ye Gentles have ye remembered the Jews mine ancient covenant people Nay but ye have cursed them and have hated them and have I not sought to recover them An indictment as true as it is strange But stretched above the horizon of the Jews however threatening the clouds maybe may-be immediately about them is the splendid bow of GODS promise Tho Lord has given them the assurance of His word that He I has not forgotten them They if they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted for GOD is able to graft them in again Blindness in part only is happened hap-pened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles bs come in And so all Israel shall be saved Meanwhile they stand as a warning to people more favored than tbey are now Let the Gentile nations learn the lesson their misfortunes teach that it is a terrible thing to reject GOD a calamity indeed for GOD to withdraw His friendship from a nation |
