PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 149, 9 June 1891, Page 2

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — Your issue of May 30 contains A letter from an English Englishman, who signs himself " Live and Let Liye " on 'the subject of the Russian persecution of the Jews. He asks for a satisfactory reason why the unfortunates should not settle in England's colonies. Permit me, in reply, to give a most satisfactory rea--Bon why they should, and also endeavour to show why the Jews, and indeed the " oppressed in other countries, seem to look to the English for aid and sympathy. Why do you, my English friend, and many another of our nation, sympathise with these Jews, simply because that although long centuries have intervened since we were two destirict nations (such as America and England now are from one parent stock) living next to one another in Palestine, haye long lost knowledge of our ' nationality, ' yet the claims of nature assert themselves, and draw us together, and we are compelled to show by our actions that' "blood is thicker than water." What other nation is protecting the Jews as we do? In London they are so numerous, that they haye 80 synagogues there^ and many of the wealthiest and worthiest citizens are Jews. They are also among the most loyal of the Queen's subjects. Lord Beaconsfield, himself of Jewish extraction, knew all this, and at the Berlin Congress checkmated their and our mortal enemy Russia, and obtained an English protectorate, over Palestine. and the Euphrates valley, with Cyprus as an .outpost, against such a"day as is now coming on the Jews. Students' of the prophecies know that the Jews are to return to their land again out of the countries of the north, and that . the sister kingdom of Israel is to put themthere.. Can we not see the commencement of the fulfilment of these predictions — they must be accomplished. People will say, "Oh yes, but it is all in the natural course of events." liet~ them think so— but that which is" going on now, was told 2500 years ago. Again, why do Jews and other oppressed races look to the English for help ? Because this century has witnessed in America and elsewhere, that we have done our 'best to act out another . Baying of 2500 years ago, that in the fulness of time Israel should " unloose the captiyes* ■ chain, and let the oppressed go free," ana. that, sir, England has set the example; of doing. _ln Palestine there are scores of towns, with - from 100 to 500 houses in each,' quite entire, they were built when the Jews and Israelites lived prosperously in their own country — but since their dispersion have been empty for hundreds of years — kept, no doubt,' by an unseen hand, ready for the time that is approaching. Is it not wonderful that in that Holy Land, as it is called, those building s should have survived all these centuries. The ' country is absolutely "empty — and that's just the place where these thousands of Jews, will go to eventually. No other place is so suitable 'for them, and there are too many, as the Star says, to come here en masse without proper provision. It will seem the most" natural things in the world, when we are used to the idea, that Palestine should be re-peopled by its old inhabitants'; and also that they should be protected there by that part of the nation which was to " inhabit the waste places of the earth," " the isles of the sea," and to become like'" stars of heaven for multitude," and' haye possession extending like a " belt round the world." The Bible says all this was to be done by that chosen nation, and no nation in 'the world is doing is' but Anglo-IsraeL—l am, &o\, - F.W.W.