The war and the Jew- a bird's-eye view of the world's situation and the Jews' place in it (1917) (14563177139)

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Title: The war and the Jew: a bird's-eye view of the world's situation and the Jews' place in it
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rohold, Sabeti B
Subjects: Jews World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cincinnati, The Standard Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ectual abilities, is at once thrown into wretched poverty, the brunt of the terrors falling upon hundreds of thousands of refugees. Can the Watchman on the Walls of Zion be silent at such a dark time of Israels sorest distress*? The words of the Prophet Isaiah (LVIII. 10-11) should be a timely message to Gods 66 THE WAR AND THE JEW people: If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday, and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Zionism While we do not think it is part of the Christian Churchs duty to assist in the restoration of the Jews to Palestine while in unbelief, we should rather seek to point them to Moses and the Prophets, and urge them to flee from the wrath to come and turn to God: *For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye Me
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Dr. Mosei Nahum ZIONISM 67 and ye shall live; but seek not Bethel, nor enter into Grilgal, and pass not to Beersheba, for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Seek ye the Lord and ye shall live. Amos 5.4-6. But as watchmen upon the Walls of Zion, we must take a real interest in every movement within Israel. We have seen such hopeful awakenings, a rejuvenation of the whole Jewry. Forty flourishing colonies sprung up in the deserts of Palestine and Galilee; waste places rebuilt; Hebrew become a living language throughout Palestine; ancient songs revived, and a new national hope almost established. And now, the war only fourteen months in existence, all these fond hopes and aspirations of poor Israel have evaporated. 68 THE WAR AND THE JEW The catastrophe that befell the Jewish hope in Palestine is very hard to realize. It is a very conservative estimate that during the past century not less than £100,000,000 has been spent by the different Jewish philanthropists, suc