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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 (Continued on page 7.) FOR SALE The National Collection Agency of Washington, 1). 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