BY G. SANDERSON $ E. CORNMANJ
VO&OTOB 26, NO 51.
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POE TR ‘Yv^-
. LUES
On the distruction of the old Willow Tree that
•stood on the green at the corner of the Wrist
Church % the late hail slot m.
There stands the old willow,
Its branches hung'down;
At once.the beauty „
And pride of our town;
The sun in the morning
Reams bright on its boughs.
And perfum’d with dew drops, --
It offers iCs vows.
A sad mournful change
Hath pass’d over the scene,
And standing, the willow.
No longer is seen!
The storm, cloud in fury
And anger hath pass’d,
And e’en the old willow
Hath bow’d to the blast.
And waving in beauty -
Adorning the green,
Its pendulous branches
No longer are seen;
No more will the ciders
Be seen meeting there,
To offer to Heaven
For sinners a prayer.
The soft balmy zephyr
That floatStO'er the plain,
Its lone hanging branches
Shall stir not again ;
When passing the wild bird
Shall poise on its wing,
And plaintively o’er It
A requiem sing.
Tho* oft it had triumph’d
O’er tempest’s deform;
Yet bowing so long *
To the whirlwind and storm,
It yielded at last; •
And a hail driving cloud '
Encompass’d the willow.
And furnished a shroud. •
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the American Volunteer.
THE PAST.
The past 1 what is the past but the sepul
chre to .which oblivion consigns the chaos .of
entombed virtue; and {he charnel house of
shameless guilt? ’Tis ihe memory of scenes i
—and events - that-now, exist-only in the-cell of
the heart, engraved upon its tablet. ’Tis
■ the harbinger of futurity—ihe repository of
those Saturniau dreams which in early youth
cheered my buoyant spirit and taught me to
anticipate in long perspective—an almost
pempiternity of pleasure;-. The past! me
thinks I hcar some'wearied spirit say it is.
pleasing to resort to the past—to recall vis
ions that have long singe departed, faded,
blotted from the'page of the present.,.. It . is'
_ _pJea_sing_;to _reyert_ toi_my_infantile days,
. when my mind was pure and spotless,-as
my fair brow and the bright auburn tresses
wliich clustered o’er if; or when with the ad
venturous daring of youth I recklessly scal
ed the steep ascent and attained the summit
of ambitions fondest hopes. They pass be
fore me as spectred. shadows, pictured by_
the phantom pen of illusion;; yet as. I cogi
tate on the.past I almost seem to realize the
-Paradisical '"existence in- the poet’s fabled
elysium. The future-is of occular imprr
transibility, and poor impotent man shrinks
from attempting to penetrate mystery, chok
ed in obscurity. but of the'past we do know
’tie the record of time—the Chronicler of the
world. Guided by experience inoursecu
■ lar pursuits we. profit by it—we discover er
ror; hnd : substitute truth—wo fee the mis
administration'of government and. are-pre
pared to remedy the evil. The past—-those
reverend chronicles of the. origin, progress
and decline of grandeur and greatness*—thou
art the repository, of the accumulated trea
sures of ages—-the storehouse of science and
- arf-r-King® nave roll’d - in ..thy_. wasteful
AIIE It IC All V Oim Eli R.
flood”—in thy course thou hast trodden
crowns and sceptres —thrones have crum
bled before thee, and the proudest fabricks
of government have been swept away as
with the blast of destiny. O. B. C.
In -1828 the. whole number of this people
scattered throughout the world, was estima
ted at 2,700,000, and distributed as follows:
Europe 1,674,000; Africa 480,000; Asia
542,000; Polynesia 2000; America 32,000.
They belong to the different sects of Rabbi
nists, Caraites, Samaritans, Yuhudis, Mala
bars, &c., and are found in almost every
country except Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and
Spanish and Portuguese America. The a
bovc estimate can onlybe regarded as an
approximation to the truth, and is probably
considerably lower than the actual number.
The European Jews are divided between the
several States in the following ratio:
In the Austrian Dominions, Hun-
gary, Gallicra, &c.
Russia, and .Russian Poland,
Turkey in Europe. _• 312,000
Prussia, and Prussian Poland, 153,000
France,
Bavaria,
Netherlands,
Great Britain, (including Hanover,) 35,000
Denmark and Sweden,
The Smaller German States,’ 32,500
Italian States, 30,000
, . Total,. . 1,674,000
In Asia then- were abont ~jo,ooo in the
Turkish Dominions, making an aggregate
under that government of 562,000; Persia
contains nearly 100,000; there were 15,000
in the United States; 12,000 in British Ame
rica; and’iibout 5,000 scattered through the
Dutch, French, Danish and Swedish colo
nics.
For the Volunteer
Our lot is cast in very wonderful times.
VVc have reached, as it were, Mount Pisguli
in-our march; and we may discern from its
summit the dim though certain outlines of
coming events. —The tide of action seems to
be rolling back from the west to the east; a
spirit akin to thatof Moses, when he beheld
the Land of Promise in faith and joy, is ris
ing up among the nations;—whatever con
cerns the Holy Land is heard and read with
lively interest; its scenery, its antiquities, its
past history and future glories engage alike
the traveller and the divine,—hundreds of
strangers now tread the sacred soil for one
that visited it in former days; Jerusalem is
once more a centre of attraction; the curious
and devout flock annually thither from all
parts of America and Europe, accomplishing
in their laudable pursuit the promise of God
to the beloved City: ‘Whereas thou hast
been forsaken and hated so as no man went
through thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, the joy of many generations.’ ,
It would indeed be surprising if (he wide
diffusion of knowledge among all classes of
the civilized world did not create a wider
diffusion of interest for the history and local
ities of Palestine. All that can delight the
eye, and feed the imagination is lavished ov
er its surface; the lovers of scenery can find,
there every form and variety of landscape;
the snowy heights of Lebanon, with its ce
dars, (he valley of Jordan, the mountains of
Carmel, Taber, and Hermon, and the wa
ters of Galilee, arc as beautiful as in the
days when David* sang their praise, and far
more interesting by the acclamation of re
. ininiscences. The land, unbroken by the
toils of the husbapdman, yet ‘enjoys her
.Sabbaths;’ but Escliol, Basham, Sharon, and
Gilead are still there, and wait but the ap
pointed hour (so we may gather from every
narrative) to sustain their to flow*
as of old, with milk and honey; to become
once more'‘a land of brooks and water, of
fountains, and depths that spring out of val
leys and hills; —a land of wheat, and barley,
and . vines; and trees, and pomegranates,
-.olive, oil. and honey;’ and to resume their
j ancient and-rightful titles, ‘the garden of
the Lords’-’and -the-glory-of.- all -lands.’—-
What numberless recollections are crowded
upon every footstep of* the sacred soj|. —
Since-thev.batfle.' of the fijfe kings against
four, recorded in the 14th chapter of Gene
sis, nearly two thousand years Before the
time of our Saviour, until the warsaof Na
poleon, eighteei), hundred-years after it, this
narrow but wonderful region has never ceas
ed'to be the. stage of remarkable events. If,
(hr the sake of brevity, we omit the enumer
ation of spots signalized by the exploits of
the children of Israel, to-whlch, hpwhvct l ; a
traveller may be guided by-Holy -Writ with
all the minuteness and accuracy of a road
book, we shall yet be engaged by the scenes
of many brilliantand romantic achievements
of the ancient and modern world. Take the
plain of Estdrselonjilone, and the ancient val
ley of Jezreel, a scanty spot of twenty-five
miles long, and varying from six to fourteen
in' its breadth; yet more recollections' are
called up here than suffice -for the annals of
many'nation’s'. Here, by the banks of that*
ancient,river, the jiver Kishon, ‘the stars iir
their courses fought against Sisera, the ob
ject-of the immortal song of Deborah and'
- Barak; and here, tob. is Megiddo, signalized,
by the death of the good Josiah. Each year,
in a long succession of’.time, brought-fresh'
evenfs; the armies of Antiochus and of Rome,
Egyptians, Persians. Turks and. Arabs, the
fury of the Saracens, and .the.mistaken piety
of -the Crusaders! have found, in their turn,
the land-‘as the garden of Eden before them,
and have left it a desolate wilderness.’ 1 Nor
did iiescape the ferocious - : ne of a revolu-
CAROL HALL,
THE JEWS.
From the London Quarterly Review,
State and Prospects op the Jews.
ia_gripj
“ NOT BOUND TO SWEAR IN TIID WOIIDS OF ANY MASTER.” Horace.
CARLISLE, Pa. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1839-
tionary war; the-arch destroyer of mankind
sent his armies thither under the command
of Gen’l. Kleber, arid in 1799 gave the last
memorial of blood to those devoted plains.
But how small and transitory all such re
miniscences to those that must rivet the at
tention and feelings of the pious Believer! : —
If Johnson could regard that man as little
to be envied, who could stand unmoved on
lona, or Marathon, or any spot dignified by
wisdom, bravery or virtue, what must we
say of one who cared not to tread Mount
Zion or Calvary, or could behold with un
moistened eye,
“Those holy fields,
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, ‘
Which eighteen hundred years ago, were naU’d
For our advantage, on the bitter cross?"
We have heard, indeed, that Jew persons
can contemplate the Holy City for the first
time without emotion; not long ago it was
brought to our knowledge that two young
men (and they not especially serious) on ar
riving-withih sight of its walls and moun
tains, struck by the religio lad, ‘How dread
ful isdhis place! this is none other than the
house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven,'’
slipped involuntarily) from the camels, and j
fell into an attitude of adoration. - j
This interest is not confined to the Chris
tians—it is shared and avowed by the whole
body of the Jews, who no’longer conceal,
their hope and belief that the time is uht far
distant When the Lord shall set his hand a
gain (he second time to recover the remnant
of his people Winch shall be left, from As-1
Syria, and from Bgypfl'aJhd/from Petros, and-j
from Cush, and from Jfjam, and from Shinar,.
and from Hamath, and'from the islands of j
the sea; and shall set up an ensign for the j
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of:
Israel, and shall gather together the disper
sed of Judah frym the four corners of the
earth.
Doubtless, there is no new sentiment a- '■
mong the children of the dispersion. The.
novelty of the present day does not dim in
the indulgence.of such a hope by that most
venerable people—but in their fearless con
fession of the hope, and in the approximation
of spirit between Christians and Hebrews,
to 'entertain the same belief of the future
glories of Israel, to offer up the same
er, and look forward to the same consuni-1
niation. In most former periods a develope-1
ment of religious feeling has been followed ;
by a persecution of the ancient people of'
Cod; from the time of Constantine to Leo ;
XII. the disciples of Christ have been stim
ulated to the oppression of the children of
Israel; and heaven alone can know what
myriads of that suffering- race fell beneath
(he piety of the Crusaders, as they marched j
to recover the sepulchre of-Mheir Saviour
from the hands of the Infidels. But a mighty
change has come over.the hearts of (he Gen
title-; they seek now tli£ temporal and eter
nal peace on he Hebrew people; societies are )
established in England and Germany to dif
fuse among them the light of the Gospel; and
the increasing accessions parent in
stitutions in London, attest the public esti
mation of its principles and services.
Encouraged byjjiese proofs of a bettered
condition and of The sympathy of the Gen
tiles, who so lately despised them, the chil
dren of Israel have become far wore ojten to
Christian intercourse and reciprocal inquiry.
Both from themselves and their converted
brethren we learn much of their doings,
much of their hopes and fears, that a few
years ago would have remained in secret.—
One of them, who lately, in the true spirit
of Moses, went a journey into Poland, unto
his brethren, and looked on their burthens
informs us that ‘several thousand Jews of
that country and of-Russia; have recently
bound themselves by an oath that as soon as
the way is opcn.for them to go to
they-will-immcdiatcly go thither,-and there
spend their time in fasting and praying un
to the Lord, until he shall send the Missiah.
••••••* Although-it j
was, he continued, ‘‘comparatively a short.-
time since I had intercourse with my breth
ren according to the flesh, I found a mighty
change in their minds and feelings in regard
-to-the-nearness-of-.theic-deliverance—Some,
assigned one reason, and-some another for
the opinion.thcy entertained; but all agreed
in thinking.that the Time is at hand.’ Large
bodies, moreover, have acted on this im
pulse; we state on the authority of another
gentleman, Ipmsclfia. Jewish Christian, that
the- number of the Jews in Palestine, has
been multiplied twent;
within the last; forty
thousand of that peopli
there they amount' now
thousand; and ,we can ct
from other sources, that
470.000
450.000
60,0p0
55,000
80,000.
5,500
in multitude by large a,
very recent'English tr
many Jews on their roav
invariably replied to liis cnquui*,... .—.vtney
.were going.thither to.die in. the land of their
fathers. For many years past this desire
had prevailed among the Hebrevvsj old Sau
dys had recorded it in his account of Pales
tine—butit has been reserved for the present
Slay to see the wislvso completely gratified,
“ft. variety of motives stimulate the desire:
the devout seek to be interred in the soil
that.they love; the’ juperstifious, id avoid the
disagreeable alternative of being rolled un
der the'earth’s surface,, until they arrive in
that land' on the great morning of the resur
rection."” But Whatever be the motives of a
people now blinded' by igporance, who does
not see, in fact. a d ji : of the faith
which animated* the death beds of the patri
archs; of Jacob and of Joseph, who ‘when he
died, made mention'of the departure of" the
children of Israeland .gave ; commandment
Concerning his bones !’ In all parts of the
earth this extraordinary people, whose name
and sufferings are in every nation under
Heaven, think and feel as one man on the
great issue of their restoration —the Utmost
east and the utmost west, the north and the
south, both small and large congrtgations,
those who have frequent intercourse with
their brethren, and those who have none, en
tertain alike the same hopes and fears. Dr.
Wolf heard these sentiments from their lips
in the remotest countries of Asia; and Bu
.chanah asserts that wherever he went among
the Jews of India,.he found memorials of
their expulsion from Judea, and of their be
lief of a return thither. At Jerusalem they
purchase, as it were, one day in the year of
their Mussulman rulers;and being assembled
in the valley of Jehosaphat, bewail the ov
erthrow of the city and the temple, and pray
for a revival of its glory.
Though, they have seen the Temple twice,
and the city six times destroyed, their con
fidence is not abated, nor is their faith gone;
for 1800 years the belief has sustained-them,
without a king a prophet or a priest, through
insiilt, poverty, torture_and_death; and now
iiVthe nineteenth ectitirryrin the midst of
the ‘march of intellect,’ and what is better,
in the' far greater diffusion of the-written
word of God both among the Jews- & Chris-’
tians, we hear from all a harmonious assent
to the prayer that concludes every Hebrew
festival, ‘the year that approaches* Oh bring
to Jerusalem.’ This belief has not befcn be-'
gotten and sustained by rabbinical bigotry;
i of the reformed Jews
I have excluded from their liturgy every pe
| tition for restoration, and even for the Mes
! slab, yet it prevails more strongly,_il possi
| ble, among the converts of Christianity.—
We have now a letter before us from a He
brew proselyte, dated but a few weeks ago
at Jerusalem, which the writer was visiting
for the first time; his heart overflows with
patriotism, and the remembrance of hjs an
cestry: he beheld the land of his fathers, to
be hereafter his; ‘theirs not by'unholy war,
not by stratagem or treachery, but as the
gift of Him who is to be the glory of his
people of Israel.’
It is only within the last few years that
the Jews, as a body, have been known be
yond the'circlc of curious and abtruse read -
ers. Thoir-pursuits and capacities, it was
supposed, were limited to stockjobbing, mo
ney lending, and orange stalls; but few be
lieved them to be a people of vigorous intel
lect. of unrivalled'diligencc in study, with a
long, list of ancient and modern writers,.
whose«works —though oftentimes mixed with
other matter, much of which is useless, and
much pernicious, and calculated tar more to
sharpen than to enrich the understanding—
bespeak most, singular perseverance and a
bifily. The emancipation of genius, which
began under 1 Moses Mendelsohn- about the
year 1757, brought them unlooked-for fame
on the stage of profane literature—the Ger
man, which had hitherto been rcgaided as
an unholy language, because,Ahe favorite
study of the liberalized Hebrews; thence
they passed to the pursuit of the various sci
ences, And of every language, whether liv
ing or deadjjheir commentators and critics,
philosophers and historians, condescended
to a rate with the secular Gentiles, and
gave, iiVtheir success, an earnest of the fruit
that their native powers could reap from a
wider field of mental exertion.
Thaif''ihe Jews should be'degraded and
despised is a part of their chastisement, and
fulfilment of prophecy; but, low and abhor
red as they still are, we now hail for them
the dawn of a better day, a day of regenera
tion and deliverance, which raising them a
like from Neology and Rabbinism, shall set
them at large in the glorious liberty of the
gospel. This desirable consummation, though
still remote 1 , has approached us-morerapid
ly within the last few years. The Societies
at Bhsle, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Berlin,
Posen, and Breslau, for promoting Christi
anity among the Jews, have been eminently
prosperous; but the London Society, the .first
m date, is likewise the first in its magnitude
and success.’ ’ •
_„ltisa Y.cryJmportantfeatureJ n.the.ge n
erality of the'eonversions, that they have ta
keil place among persons of cultivated un
derstandings, and literary attainments. We
are not to be told that those excellent socie
ties have operated with success on ignorance
and poverty, purchasing the one'and persuad
ing the other, where either necessity or in
capacity lay passive before them.—These
Jewish converts, like their prototype, St.
Paul, brought iip at the feet of their Gamal
iels in all the learning and wisdom of the
Hebrews, nuw“preach the faith which once
they destroyed.* s —We haye already men
tioned that several 1 haVe‘ become ministers of
the Church of Englarld; on the continent we
find many among the'Lutheran and Reform
ed clergy; they have also their .physicians,
lawyers, head and assistant ihastero. of-the
G,erraan Gymnasia; there are three profes
sors and two. lecturers; formerly Jews,', in
the University of Breslau; five professors in'
Halle; in Petersburg a professor of medicine;
in Warsaw, Dr. Leo, a convert, is. one of
the most celebrated physicians; in Erlaugeh
we find Dr. Stahl; addin Berlin Dr. Nean
der, the celebrated church historian', fully
proves that poverty of intellect is not .an in
dispensable preliminary to Jewish conver
sion. , . .
But even where the parties have not been
fully brought to the belief and profession of
the Gospel, a mighty good, has resulted from
the .missionary exertions. 'Ancient antipa
thies are abated, arid prejudice’s are subdued:
1 the 'name, of Christian ds less-odious to the
ears of the Jews; and jnany of the nation.
adhering still to the faith of their forefathers,
ceased to uphold the Talmudical doctrine,
that the Gentiles are beasts created for the
purpose of administering to the necessities
of Israel. They have conceived a respect
for our persons, and still greater for out;in
tellects; an ardent desire is now manifested
by the Jews to hold conversation’with the
missionaries; along the north coast of Afri
ca, in Palestine and in Poland, they have
visited them in crowds; and many, doubt
less, have borne away with them the' seed
which a study of the Scriptures will ripen
into conviction.
As a conseififence of this more friendly
intercourse between Jew and flfmtile, we
must mention the kinder feelins£entertain
ed by the, Hebrews towards a converted
brother. We have heard, indeed; from the
lips of a proselyte, that he had, even within
the last four or five years, observed an im-
f movement in this respect among his own re
ations, and the same fact is there amply"
tested by the opinion and experience of Mr.
Herschell. . .. .
We wish we could say that this sentiment
is universal; but, alas, we know many and
lamentable exceptions; There are Jews in
all parts of Europe who dare not avow their
Christianity, so great is the fear of public
■ reproach or domestic tyranny, In Constan
tinoplc, Tunis,' and Turkey generally, where
the Jews have a phlic'e, .'and' authority over
their own.body, conversion is, as dangerous
as,_in Ireland itself. Whenever a Hebrew
is suspected of wavering in his Rabbinical al
legiance, lie is imprisoned and bastinadoed;
‘and no later than January of ,thjs year a
young man in Tunis who had discovered ah
inclination to the hated faith, was assaulted
so" violently by his-relations that ‘he fainted
on the spot,’ says the missionary, ‘and lin-,
gered a few days when he died.’ Neverthe
less, conversions, even there, as in Ireland,
are constantly on the increase;- it being still
the good pleasure of God that the blood of
the martyrs should be thfc sped of the church.
■ A desire, corresponding to this change ol
sentiment, is manifested to obtain possession
of the word of God, and they eagerly demand
copies of the Society’s editions otedho Old
Testament in Hebrew. In the rest two
years 5400 copies have been sold by Sir.
Stockfpldt, in the Rhenish provinces; sev
eral thousands On the coasts of Africa- by
Mr. Ewald; and in Konigsburg, Mr! Bcrgh
feldt'sells copies to flip amount of ohe hun
dred pounds annually'. In Poland and Je
rusalem, the missionaries can dispose of all
that are sent; and the last report-of the So
ciety informs us that a-less additional num
ber than twenty .thousand, copies would bo
utterly inadequate to the demands of the
Israelites in all parts of the world. It is al
so very_ observable that the translation in
the vernacular dialect has excited the live
liest interest ainong the long neglected fa
milies of the Hebrew nation'.—All this indi
cates a prodigious change; hitherto (hey have
cared-little for the legends oOPalmud and
“Rabbinical preachments; they now betake
themselves to the study of Scripture, and
will.aCcept the Pentateuch printed and pre
sented by the hands of Christians!' This a
bundant diffusion of the HebrOrV Bible has,
more than any other cause, Contributed to
abate prejudice and conciliate affection.
But a more -Important undertaking has
already been begun by the zeal and piety of
those who entertain an interest for the Jew
ish nation. They have designed the estab
lishment of a church at Jerusalem, if possible
on Mount Zion itself, where the orders "Of
our service, and the prayers of the .Liturgy
shall daily be set before the faithful in the
Hebrew language. A considerable sUm has
been collected for this purpose; the mission
aries are already resident on the spot; and
nothing is wanting but to complete the pur
chase of. the ground on, which -to creeb-the
sacred edifice
"File growing interest mainfested for these
regions, the larger investment of British
capital, and the confluence of British travel
lers and strangers from all parts of the world
have recently induced the Secretary of Slate
for Foteign 'Affairs to station there a repre
scntafivej.Of ..our. Sovereign,.in,the..persoii-of
h'Vice Consul. This gentleman set sail for
Alexandria at the end of last September—
his residence will be fixed at Jerusalem;-but
his jurisdiction will extend to the whole
country within the ancient limits of the
Holy Land; he is thus accredited, as it were;
to the former kingdom of David and-the
Twelve Tribes. • ■ . ; ■ -
•The appointment has been conceived and
executed in th'e spirit of true wisdom. We
have done a deed which the Jews regard as
an honor-to -their-nation;-and have thereby
conciliated a body of well-wishers hi every
people under heaven, Throdghoutjhe east
they nearly monopolize the concerns of
traffic and finance; and maintain a secret but
uninterrupted intercourse with their breth
ren. in-lhe.-westi~-Thousands-visit Jerusalem
inevery ycar,from all parts,of.the globe,
and carry back to their respective bodies
that intelligence which guides their conduct,
and influences their sympathies, . So rapid
and accurate is their mutual.communication,
that Frederick the Great confessed the ear
lier Si superior intelligence obtained through
the Jews on all affairs of moment. Napoleon
knew well the.value.of an Hebrew, alliance;
and endeavored to reproduce in the capital
of France,'the spe’ctacle of the, ancient San
hedrim, which, basking iri the sunshine of
Imperial’favor, might give lawa.to fhe.whole
body of the Jews throughout the habitable. ■
world, and aid hitn£iib doubt,' in his auda
cious plans against-’Poland and the East,—
Hia schemejijt.iß true, proved aborfifejUbr
ihe.inas? ofthe Israelites were by no.mieans
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inclined to merge their hopes in the destinies
of the Empire—cxchnngfiZion for Montmarr
tre, arid Jerusalem for. Paris. The few lib
eral believers whom heattraoted tp his
ruined Ins prospects With the people by their
impious flattery; and averted the whole body
of the nation by--blendirig,-on the -15th of
August, the cipher of Napoleon and Joseph
ine with th 6 unutterable name of Jeho
vah, and elevating the imperial eagle above
the representation of the Ark of Covenant.
A misconception, in fact, of the character of
the people lias vitiated all the attempts of
various Sovereigns to better their condition;
they have sought to amalgamate them with
the body pf their subjects, not knowing, or
not regarding the temper of the Hebrews,
and the plain language of Scripture that “the
people shall dwell alone, and-shall riot be
reckoned among the nations.”
It is a matter of very serious reflection
that the Christians themselves-have cast in
numerable stumbling blocks in. the way of
Hebrew conversion. To pass over the weak
and ignorant methods that men have adopted
to persuade the Jews, let us ask whether the
Christians have ever afforded this people an
opportunity of testing the divine counsel, ‘by
their fruits ye shall know them?’ . What is
the record of the'Christian periods of the
second dispensation?—A history of indo
lence, plunder; and blood, that fill even now
the heart bfevery thinking man with’indig
nation and shame! Was this the religion ot
the Messiah? Could. this be in their eyes
the fulfilment of those prophecies that prom
ised security and joy in his.bappy days when
his.officers should be .peace and his exactors
righteousness? What, too, have they wit
nessed in the worship, and doctrines of,.
Christian states? The idolatry of the Greek
and Latin churches, under which the He*
brews have almost universally lived, the
mummeries of thcii ritual, and the hypocricy
of their precepts, hive shocked and aVertcd
the Jewish mind. We often times express
our surprise at.tlie stubborn resistance they
oppose to the reception of Christianity; but
Christianity In their vlew.is synonimous with
image worship, and its doctrines with perse?
cution; they, believe that in einbracing tlic
dominant faith tliey must . violate the two
first commandments of the Decalogue, and
abondon that witness, which they have nobly
maintained fur eighteen hundred years,, to
the unity of the God of Israel. „
It well imports us to have a care that we
no longer persecute or mis-lead this once;
loved nation; they are a people chastened,
but hot utterly cast-oil; “in all their affliction -
H e was afflicted.” For the oppression ot
this people there is no warranty-in (he Scrip
ture; nay. (ho reverse;'their oppressors are
menaced with stern judgments; I am jualoun
for Jerusalem and for-Zion with a great jeal
ousy, and I an very sore displeased with the
heathen-that are at case; for I,was but a lit
j tie displeased, and. helped fonmrd the ajjlic-
This is the language oT the prophet
Zachariah; and we may trace in the pages of
history the vestiges of his never slumbering
Providence,, No sooner hitd England given
shelter ,to (he Jews under Cromwell and
Charles, than.she started forward in a com
mercial career of unrivalled and uninterrup
ted prosperity; Holland,. embracing the
principles of the Reformation, threw off the
yoke of Philip, opened her cities to the He
brew people, and obtained an importance far
beyond her natural advantages; while Spaiiij
in her furious and bloody expulsion ot the
race, sealed her own condemnation. (How.
deep a wound,’ says Mr. Milinan, 'was in
flicted on their national prosperity!}}' this
act of the ‘most Christian sovereign,’ cannot
easily be calculated; but it may be reckoned
amongst die most effective causes of-the de
cline of Spanish greatness— - - . •
Sentence- or .Septimus-Hunter;" TiriT
Quack Doctor. —This man, was on Satur
day found guiltyuf manslaughter in the.4fli
degree, in having through his criminal igno
rance of his assumed profession, causecTtlie
death of Mrs. Justine Co/.zens, was brought'
before the court of General Sessions, Kcw
York, on Tuesday, to receive his sentence.
-Thn prisoner-declared-that he was ; -wholly
innocent-of. .the. heinous and murderous
charges. The Recorder, in addressing, the
prisoner; .remarked that a‘clearer Chse of
gross and criminal ignorance had probably
never been established before a jury. Had
the-jury rendered an unqualified: vcidfct of
"guilty, of manslaughter, in, the ,4th degree, 5 ?
the court would have felt it tfieir, duty;; to
inflict the fullest penalty of the law, which
would be two years in'the State 5 s Prison and
a fine of $1,000..' acconly
pahied their verdictJiy a/recommendatiotrtd:
mercy,must, however, operate in mitigation
of punishment, and the, fine would, in. con
sideration thereof, be wholly remitted, and
the judgment of, the Court stand recorded,
'•lmprisonment in the penitentiary for one
year. , l~&altimareSun.^--^~-~——'~ slL ~—
' LAZINESS.—One fired day afarniei*
went forth to his. mo wing, lot; where ihehad
hired half'a dozen «hcn.tp ; cut',.
grass. He came upon 1 .them, suddenly. an,S '
louml them all-lying under ah .apple free..
* Well/; said the indignant ' farmer, ‘l’ll
give an extra half doliarto thelazieSt-fel*
loWamongatye! , L ; ;1 "r.-.'.v ’ >
ir, All ’jumped upon their fedt.to.claiih ;tho
donation, but one mapAvlio laid still.), Ao.-.s
, . ’Ah!’ said has
won the money., Hdrt.’ rtijr{ JT9«Wt
■money.” / ■
• Ttf which Indolence replied, ‘Won’t ypit
please put:it in my pocket? * ' .m! s p
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