THE JEWS AS THEY ARE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1764, 25 October 1883, Page 3

THE JEWS AS THEY ARE.

Tin? accounts of the recent persecutions of the Jews in Russia, Hungary and other parts of Europe would appear incredible if they wore not so well vouched for. j The sufferings of the Jews in the worst era of persecution are being re-enacted. 'I he Jew stands out before the world as an object of pity and commiseration, reverend, like for awful and mysterious woo. To what can these frightful blots upon the civilization of the nineteenth century be attributed? In Russia, and even in Germany, it was alleged that the fact of the Jews being a wealthy and money-lending class, was the, chief cause of the popular antipathy against them, just as it seems to have boon the true inwardness of the hightoned scoin of Signors Antonio and Bassanio against the venerable pawnbroker Shylock, in the Merchant of Venice. "But no such theory accounts for the furious liots against inoffensive Hebrews in Hungary. There it seems to be one of those furious outbieaks of religious fury to which the Clnistian orthodoxy of the masses has at different epochs been liable. If it were not for the seriousness of these butcheries one would be tempted to recall the story of the Christian near home, who knocked down a Jew whom he casually met in the street. Being asked for an explanation he said with an oath : " Why, you crucified Jesus Christ." "I ?" said the astonished Jew, picking himself up, " Why, Jesus Christ was crucified nearly two-thousand years ago." " Yes," replied the village Clnistian, " but I only heard of it yesterday." \V hat have the Jews done in Russia, in Austria-Hungary, or in Germany, any more than in Great Britain, France, or in Ameiiea, to provoke so much ferocious ciueltv ? They have not peisecuted Chri&tians, nor robbed their chinches, nor btoken the laws of Christian countries. On the contiary, the Jew is eminently conservath c, avei&e to In ute force, sober in his habits, and law-abiding. One of the gieatest and certainly one of the most successful statesmen of modern times, the Lite Karl Beaconsfield, was a Jew, although his father, like the groat ton of Moses Mendelssohn, quietly withdiew fiom the synagogue, and enteied the Chiistian Church. His reasons for doing so were simple and natnr.il enough, and certainly wcie free fiom any taint of fanaticism, hypociisy or cant. " Theie have been three gieat educational religions," said he, " in the progress of the world — the Jewish, the Pagan and the Christian. As the culture of the world was once Jewish, and at another time Pagan, so now it is Christian, and if we would now Keep pace with the religioiib development ot society, it is our duty to confoim to Chiistianity, which is pure in its ethics and philanthropic in all its motives. The gicat composer and his sister joined the Luther church, while his brother and sister and othei members of the family became Roman Catholics, using their own taste as to the particular foim of Cluistianity they would adoi t, but all agreeing that the best form of icligion m these times is the Cinistian. Some of the, greatest benefactors of the modem world have been Jews, and we aie glad to notice that the aged and noble Sir Mosos Montefiore, now ncaily 100 years old, who, when the young Queen Victoria was crowned, was High .Sheriff ot London and Middlesex, has expressed his deep sympathy with the recent victims ot the Russian, Hungaiian and other outrages, and has contributed alaigesum to their relief. It would be well if Christian priests and mmisteis e\ery\vheic taught the imiount of their flock to what an extent they arc indebted to the Jew. But for Judaism thoie would ha\e been no Cliitetianity, and Jesus was a. Jew of the noblest type. We owe to the eatlic&t piupaiatoiy faith not only our own moial and .social law*., but the most beautiful spiutunl songs and philosophic precepts tli.it aie iound m any language. The Jews of today thiouuliout the woild, whethei they be the Rothschilds, who say c eiiipiios from dissolution, or simple lo\ti«i of their fellow Kien, l'kc good old Kiah in "Our Mutual Fiicnd, 1 ' dc&eive the lespect of Christians and the piotection of all Christum Government«. Their pei sedition in any so called Christian country is a disgiace to its i elision and a scandal upon its boasted civilisation. — S. F. News Letter.

Tiih following is Josh Billings' notion of a thoioughbied gentleman :— A bobtail coat, a penny papur Roller, a white cotton weskifc, yaller tiowsors without any cloth into the legs, shiny letherboots, pair of yaller gloves, and inside of 'em all a thing got up in imitation of a man, but, as the kounterfeited say poorly executed, and not kalkerlated to desove. Must.i&h indispensabul, and brancs onnecesfeary. Fine specimens on exhibition. At a friendly club gathering one evening one of tin; menibeis exorcised his ability for telling yarns by giving a recital of seveial liish " bulks," to the amusemeut of his companions and the indignation ot a patriotic Hibernian who was persent. The son of Erin at last aiosc and lemaiked indignantly — " Faith, and do you know «I. at I think, Mr. D. ? I think, indddc, that not more than one half those lies they tell ahout the Irish and true." Clerical Mishaps.— We gather the following annecdotes from an amusing paper in the Argosy :— A cloigyman officiating at a christening, forgetting to ask, and assuming from its lusty cries that the child was a boy, proceeded with the service as written, when he was somewhat discomfited by a buxom lass with: -'Please, sir, he's a she." Of another clergyman it is related that, once reading the burial service, without knowing the sex of the departed, he paused at the grave, and whispered to one of the bereaved, "Brother or sister?" The man very innocently replied, "No relation at all, sir ; only an acquaintance." The following " familiar dialogue " is taken from Senhor Pedro Carolino's Anglo-Portuguese phrase-book. It is evidently a conversation between a lidinp-mastor and his pupil. The pupil is very contemptuous of the mounts that are provided for him, and criticises them freely — "Here is a horse who have a bad looks. Give me another ; I will not that. He not sail know to march, he is purey, he is foundered. Don't you are ashamed to give me a jade as like ? He is imdershoed, he is with nails up ; it want to lead to the farrier." "Your pistol are its loads?" (This must be chaff on the part of the riding master.) "No; I forgot to buy gunpowder and balls. Let us prick. Go us more fast ; never I was seen a so much bad beast ; she will not nor to bring forward neither put back." "Strek him the bridle, hold him the reins sharters. Pique strongly, make to marsh him." " I have pricked Mm enough. But I can't to make mai'ch him.' 1 "Go down, I shall make march." "Take care that he not give you a foot kicks." " Then he kicks for that I look ? Book here if I knew to tame hix." A male convict at the French penal colony of Cayenne recently obtained permission to marry a female convict ; but, as the man was a widower, the governor declared it was necessary first to obtain a certificate of the death qf bis first wife. A communication was addressed to the authorities ; but the mail returned without reply. The convict insisting that the ceremony should be no longer delayed, the governor said, " But what is there to prove that your first wife is dead,?" The reply of the convict was satisfactory on this point—" I'm here for having skilled her I" and the nuptial ceremony went On. Rats and MiOB.-r-If' you wish to destroy them get a jacket of Hill'sMagjc Vkrmin Killer in packets, 6d, 9d, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or. from T,' BY Hru by enV closing an extra stapip,, , ( , ;