THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 21 September 1917, Page 2

THE JEWISH PEOPLE

THEIR Rj,Ttß\ TO PALESTINE

The part and'prospects of the Jew in the present worid crisis formed the subject of a special address by the Rev. A. T. Thompson, formerly f Alasterton, to the congregation (if St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church a Chiistchurch on Sunday evening, ot'ng from Milman'.s "History of the Jews," he said: "Their perpeti ity, their national immortality, is at » the most curious problem to the political inquirer; to the- religious man a subject, of profound and awful admiration." Vet the history and the place that the Jews o<, ;ipictktoda.y>,were a mere matter of V.rihitont of'the statements of'the Riblc', the book that- was their very own by creation and inheritance; and the world's by adoption. An intelligent and thoughtful' man who had visited Egypt in the early stages of the war had been impressed more than all else; by the sight of a regiment of Jews 'from Palestine, now offering ■ their services to free the? laud- of their ancestor, from the blight of the Turk. The ..low. m spite (if his, disfranchised position among the naifons of the werid, to- , dav. was perhaps great"" and- more i numerous than <?t any time m his history. |

■■•'■voim vvlio examined history and fcliix facts of world .progress had to make a fritnk admission* of great indebtedness "to the .Tow. To- ■ V in tlio world wisis lio was .beatf- ■ {up; a responsibility and making" a «orntributi6n out of all proportion to bis numbers. The Jews were sufferr'tt'g .beyond the snffpri'rtgs'of all peoples in thU war. Tlioir positions of responsibilitv at'the sumo time were: OTrftHsittn. When Gevnvmy trr repudiate the "scrap .of" paper," the" man who stood n» in iN> '■'' Germany to defend the 1 honour of" Court, and formerly First Chief JusBritain was a Jew—Viscount Gohchen, Jfirruassador at thV German Court, awd formerly First Lord of the Admiralty. The' Lord* Chief Justice of Tsh'glancl<—Jjord Reading—was ' a Jew, and was publicly honoured by Mr - Asqiiitli' for his sound' financial arrangements to meet the war crisis. In the tixnilifesonie times with TreJand, a Jew, Sir Matthew Kathan, was appointed' Secretary for* Ireland. Several members of the Cabinet wer" Jews, and tin* head of the Allies' (Financial Comin'snion was a Jkw. In Germany, Miciinelis was a Jew, Herr Ballin was a." Jew/ and the man who stood up in the Reichstag to defy th Kaiser was p -T^ y — Jn France lately five members of Cabinet were, Jews; Jew; Belgium's Ambassador at'' the British Court—Hyman—was a - Jew; and tho host-hated m*n' ni Gpr»>!iny who tore to shreds all the mnch'inations of von Bnlnw before Tfnlv entered the war. was a Jew—M'alfnno. T'm «n..<iiMmi,,v niM ; n Jv./v to-day—Barzillai—was a Jew.

What, reward avrmited the Jnwv for his part in the great war? Mr Thompson asked. Denied in most countries the privileges of that country, the Je,w was still held 'ogntiier ■by common bonds amounting aimoot to nationality; and the national spirit had grown with.a desire for a settled home and country. Their eyes were turned towards their traditional home, and even before the war. 100,000 Jews had settled there, while in possibly every Jewish, household was to be found an 'alms-box for Palestine. Their own prophecies, now the world's Bible, told of their return. Apart from their own . williugness.>toi go, matters of world policy might, force tho situation .and no interests. wm-e more immediately concerned, than those of Britain,. Britain' was* committed to break the power of the Turk, and Palestine in the hands of an enemy world Powrtvwassa-i wedgein the heart of the Empire; It.lookbd! as if things were mo\ing for the fulfilment of the prophecy. "Jerusalem; shall bo trodden underfoot until thetimes of the Gentiles be fuelled.'"' How near or how far Were 'they from' that fulfilment? 1)0 YOU EX JOT WHAT YOU

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