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ARTICLEXLVIII. (Concl).
TURKEY (Continued.)
(33.) PALESTINE:
Land and the People
and the Book.
The
In 1903 the population of Syria
and Palestine was, roughly speak
ing, reckoned somewhat as follows
(the Turkish government having
no institution in the nature of a
census): Moslems i,5oo,ooo;Chris-
tians 700,000; .lews 80,000; Druses
100,000; Metawileh 25,000; and
Nusairiyeh 55,000 (Murray). “The
area of ancient Palestine proper is
’now occupied by about 650,000 in
habitants, or about 62 persons to
the square mile” (Baedeker). Ac
cording to Murray, the approxi
mate numbers living in Jerusalem
alone in 1903 were 42,000 Jewish,
13,850 Christian (i. e.‘, Creek
Orthodox 6,500, Latin Catholics
^500, Greek Catholics 200, Arme
nian 850, Syriac too, Kopt 100,
Ayssinian 100, Protestants 1500),
and 7,700 Moslem, making a total
residential of 63.550 people in the
Holy City. Does this not irfdi
cate the drift of the Jewish tide,
however slight it be in relation to
the whole number of Jews in the
'world (about 12,000,000; of whom
no leas than 700,000 are in New
York City alone)
It in noteworthy that the Land
of ■ Israel as promised by God to
the descend ants of Abraham is not
less than 300,000 square miles,and
has never yet been possessed in all
its fulness by them. God’s prom
ise relative to the land remains to
be fulfilled. As the boundaries
are given in Gen. 15:18; Ezek.
'47:13, 48.1, it is “a good land and
a large" (Ex. 3 8)—twice and a
half as large as Great Britain and
Ireland As a talented converted ^ Some of thedh
Jew, a true prince of the Davidic our way back to
house, very properly says: “Chris-jtion is
tians who do not believe in a fu
ture possession by Israel of the
whole land winch God has promis
ed them really give occasion to the
enemies of God to blaspheme; for
it there be no future occupation of
the ; land by Israel, the solemn
word of God on which His oath is
staked would fail of fulfillment.
(Gen. 15:8-18). What though
generations may pass, and instead
of the fathers may be the children,
‘heaven and earth may pass away,’
but God’s oath and promise can
not fail. It is very remarkable
that when we come to the future
redivision of the land in the
last chapters of Ezekiel it is no
longer merely from Dan to Beer-
sheba with which the prophet
deals, but faith and inspiration
combine to claim all the promised
Palestine are foreigners. They
have come from every country on
earth. They live principally in
their four holy cities—Jerusalem,
Hebron, Tiberias and Safed; but,
under the fostering care of Baron
Edmond Rothschild and others,
Jewish colonies are springing up
in many parts of the Holy Land,
and some of them are really in a
flourishing condition. * * Of late
years there has been a remarkable
influx of Jews into Palestine, but
the Turkish government is striv
ing to hinder their settlement by
every means in its power. The
Jews of Damascus and Aleppo are
quite distinct from those of Pales
tine proper. They have as good a
right to the title of natives as any
of the inhabitants of Syria. They
are Arabs in language, habit, and
occupation, in so far at least as
their religion will permit. Some
of them are men of great wealth
and corresponding influence.”
(Murray). But of the Turks
(“few 1 in number, strangers in race
and language, hated by every sect
and class, wanting in physical
power, destitute of moral princi
pie, yet the depots of the land")
the Arabs have a proverb that
“though a Turk should compass
the whole circle of the sciences he
would still remain a barbarian.”
In Palestine the Jewish colon
ists show themselves able farmers,
their people are hard at work and
at the front as builders. The class
of Jews in the land are the lower
and laboring class apparently, and
they striae any observer of condi
tions as there but to prepare the
way for a larger and better and
more refined ingathering of their
people.
P'urther,,Is Zionism (the modern
expression of the national hopes
and sentiments of the Jews) in its
persistent efforts without meaning
or moment? We think it is a
strong indicator of the way the
Wandering Jew'gives vent to his
longing to get back to “Home,
Sweet Home” in his native land.
say, “We must buy
Palestine, salva-
to be by money ” Some
think, “if the Jews can regain
Palestine and establish a govern
ment, even under the suzerainty
of the Sultan, it will give them a
national standing which will ex
punge Aim .it from the
other nan world, and
make 11 1- ad Jews to
live condui iui-.j .a any nation
they may desire.” Others are
waiting the clear openings of, God’s
providence for their return at the
most opportune moment. And, as
in all bodies, there are the indiffer
ent and the doubting; some striv
ing to reconcile the genius of
Judaism with the demands of
modern times; while others have
flung to the winds all national as
well as Messianic hopes and thrown
away their faith in the inspiration
! of the Scriptures, practical Neolo-
land contained within the bound- 1 gists,- some becoming declared-
aries of the original covenant in, agnostics. It is the last mentioned
Gen, xv. This, by the way, is a; kind that ridicule and decry the
sufficient answer to those who ask Zionistic movement as an. enor-
whether there is room - enough in mous blunder (only tending to in-
Palestine for the 12,000,000 Jews crease Anti-Semitism) and not a
at present in the world. Note also j religious move at all, as purely
that according to thebe same last, economic and nationalistic in
chapters of Ezekiel, there is to be 1 character; while some on the other
a different location of the twelve j wing of j udaism denounce it as a
tribes at,the redivision of the land. | usurpation of God’s prerogatives.
What can we make of this, if there | But the sign is plain,notwithstand-
be no future restoration of Israel j ing their differences and the hu-
to the promised land? (Rev. j man attempt to erect a “Godless
David Baron of the Miidmay Mis- j State.’’ (Ad contra see Jer. 16:14;
sion, London.) 130:6 /; Zeph. 2:1-2; Isa. 52:3 ;
Please observe, “The Jews of ■ God is in it and o'er it all, and has
said, "I will make a full end of all
the nations whither I have scatter
ed thee, but I will not make a full
end of thee” (Jer. 36:11, R. V.)
Yea, saith the Lord, “I will bring
again the captivity of my people
of Israel, and they shall build the
waste cities and inhabit them; and
I will plant them upon their land,
and they shall no more be pulled
up out ot th^ir land which 1 have
given them, saith the Lord thy
God" (Amos 9:14-15: ct. Isa. 66:-
13).
Let us never torget that answer
of the chaplain of Frederick the
Great when asked for the strong
est argument in a word for the
Bible and Christianity: “Israel,
your Majesty!” Yes, indeed,
“Israel;” in other words, “the
Jews,” are such. Says a distin
guished writer—“What nation
hath subsisted as a distinct people
in their own country so long as
these have done in their dispersion
into all countries? And what a
standing miracle is this exhibited
to the view and observation of the
whole world!”
Not long since a M. PL minister
introduced a Christian Jew to a
congregation (containing not only
Christians but many Jews also) as
one that hhd forsaken the God of
his fathers; but he was inimediate-v
ly corrected by the one introduced,
in this notable and not-to-be-for-
gotten language:—“My brethren,
to accept Jesus Christ, as I have
done, is not to abandon the God of
our fathers, but to accept the
highest and best that God has
given us!” Christians, heed that;
it is true in the purest and noblest
and fullest sense. There is not a
little justice in the remark of Dr
Schwartz, “You Gentile Chris
tians take all the sweet promises
to yourselves, but leave all the
curses to the poor Jews." And
well does Dr. D. W. Torrance of
Tiberias, Syria, ask: "Are the
Jews not a factor in the world?
Will you find any nation of so
small a number exercising so much
influence in the world? There are
twelve millions of them in the
world, but in finance, in art, in
literature, and in science, they are
in the foreranks. Can we, as
Christians, undertaking the evan
gelization of the world, put the
Jews away in the background? No
they are all over the world, they
speak every language, and, if they j
were permeated with the love of!
Christ, what missionary could you I
get that would keep pace with!
them?” Too much has the spirit
of a pseudo-Christianity in the
East toward the Jew been—“If I
can catch you I’ll crucify you for
having crucified my Saviour,” and,
sad to say, too, many Jews enter
tain a revengeful, feeling toward
all designated by the term “Chris
tian,” whether true or false Yet,
notwithstanding such unseemly
and deplorable antagonism still
extant in some parts of the world,
there is a growing willingness of
the Jews to hear the Gospel of
Jesus the Messiah, and “during
the 19th century at least 100,000
Jews have been baptized, among
them many eminent men.”
In a recent meeting of Vnission-
aries (in London) representing all
parts of the foreign field, the Rev.
L, Zeckhausen (of Cracow, Aus
tria) in speaking of work among
the Jews described missions to
God’s ancient people as the touch
stone of consecrated Christian life.
He believes that the 90 per cent,
of jews distributed amongst pro
fessedly Christian nations have
been placed there to test the real
ity of Christian character and love.
The Gospel is proving as powerful
to convert the Jew today as in the
days of the Apostles. No fewer
than 1,250,000 Jews have left the
synagogues for the Church of
Christ since the middle of the 18th
century. In the 19th century, ac
cording to statistics, the propor
tion of Jews who accepted Chris
tianity was one in forty Can
Christians show the same percent
age of converts amongst the
heathen? In the United btates
alone there are not less than r2,-
000 Christian Jews. “We are los-
ins ourselves amongst you,” added
the speaker; “we cannot help it;
but we are united with you to the
same Master, and we do not look
upon you as aliens.”
Scattered and sifted and peeled
among the nations of the world
for centuries, even now the Jew
stands out a Jew still. Thopgh for
long time a hissing and a curse, a
proverb and a by-word and an as
tonishment among the peoples, he
fills the world with his confident
belief in a brilliant and happy fu
ture. Is there not some truth in
what Disraeli declared—that one
half ot Christendom worships a
Jew and the other half a Jewess—
Jesus and Mary? And did not Je
sus Himself say, “Salvation is
from the Jews?”—(Jno. 4:22.)
The perpetuator of monotheism
and of the Messiah on the human
side, a homeless and peculiar
pie, and a despised and maltreated
yet potent race, on the other, tht
Jew dwells alone and is not reck
oned among the nations.—(Nuni.
23:9;) but his time of uplift by and
rehabitation of and devotion to
the Lord is a-coming! The Lord
in the past entrusted them with
the Oracles of God.” —(Rom.
3:1, 2;) and Israel is still "God’s
sun-dial” for the nations to count
prophetic time by.
Q, wlio shall dure despise the Jew,
whom God hath not despised,
Nor yet forsaken in His wrath, though
long and sore chastised?
From many a distant laud the Lord
shall bring His peoplo forth,
And Zion be the glory yet and wonder
of the earth."
Whenever you meet him, treat
the Jew courteously and righteous
ly and lovingly. Wherever he
abides in unbelief, there reason
with him out ot the Scriptures that
Jesus is the Messiah he is is look
ing for, One who has come and is
to come again, One who has suf
fered once for the sins of men and
is again to appear as the King and
Judge of nations. Whatever tfifc
Jew has been, is, or may be or do,
consider his high origin, his keen
distress, his golden destiny, for the
sake of Jesus, the Son of God man
ifested as the Seed of Abraham,
tor the blessing of all the families
of the earth, the Seed of Promise.
IIL But what of THE LAND AND
the book? some one asks. In the
brief space at our command we re
ply with several worthy testimo
nies from such as have been there
in steady research, or engaged in
missionary labors for long time, or
simply as tourist passing through
the Land:
“No fable, however cunningly
devised, no myth or legend com
ing into existence at a later age,
could have adapted itself so pre
cisely to the topographical details
of the scene as does the Bible to
the Land.”—(Dr, Manping. )
“There are more than 840 places
noticed in the Bible which
are either in Palestine or the des
ert of Beersheba and Sinai, and of
these nearly three-quarters have
now been discovered and marked
on maps. ”—( Major Conder.)
“Omitting those which may in any
sense be doubtful, and these for
the most part are unimportant or
have bare mention in. the record,
it cannot be said of one that re
mains that its local features are
out of harmony with the history
connected with its name."
“Palestine is a land of sacred
memories. Some of them, still re
tain the tones of the living voice,
while others are bleached and fad
ed inscriptions recording on the
tombstone what was done when
the breath of life was warm * * *
The Bible )§ a book that is meant
to Be. studied, a$d to be tajkefi on
its merits ak a record of the past,
and, above all that, it is to be
loved and reverenced as the voice
of Him who through it speaks for
ever and to all nations.”—(Dr. G.
M, Mackie.)
“The close correspondence be
tween the locality avowedly chosen
of God for the unfolding of His
purpose of grace and the Book in
which this revelation is made
known, can only be explained on
the assumption that both owe
their origin to the same intelligent
cause, and have been prepared and
adapted for the predetermined end.
* * * Its framework is the set
ting ot the Bible, and wherever
tested it has been found that the
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