The world: historical and actual . sus Christ and hismission. Christianity belongs tothe present, albeit its roots drawnourishment from the past. AHebrew chronological table willbe found in the Tables of Refer-ences. In taking a. general surveyof the whole world, past andnationality stands out conspic-distinctive characteristics. are that nationality. They are indeed apeculiar people. Despised and persecuted, dis-persed and maligned for nearly two thousandyears, they remain steadfast and apart, clingingwith tireless tenacity to their immemorial customs,the Hebraic blood unmixed and pu
The world: historical and actual . sus Christ and hismission. Christianity belongs tothe present, albeit its roots drawnourishment from the past. AHebrew chronological table willbe found in the Tables of Refer-ences. In taking a. general surveyof the whole world, past andnationality stands out conspic-distinctive characteristics. are that nationality. They are indeed apeculiar people. Despised and persecuted, dis-persed and maligned for nearly two thousandyears, they remain steadfast and apart, clingingwith tireless tenacity to their immemorial customs,the Hebraic blood unmixed and pure, always andeverywhere. Wherever found (and they are almostubiquitous) they are as distinctly the children ofIsrael as if intermarriage with other nations were present, onenous for its an absolute impossibility. With a history as spe-cific as if it were the record of a day, they take nsback to the very foundation of all existence, andshow us the founder of the nation, Abraham, in hisrelations to the whole human family. He was an. An Arah Sheik. Arab Sheik and belonged to a tribe of Bedouinshepherds, which sacrificed their first-born to ap-pease the gods of their idolatry. Abraham, whowas born about B. C. 2200, enjoined upon his de-scendants the substitution of a sacrificial beast fora human being, assuring them that he did so by theexpress command of Jehovah, whom they shouldworship in all singleness of devotion. The story ofthe rescue of Isaac by divine interposition is told 68) V? Jq_ te, THE JEWS. 69 with minuteness, and must have produced a pro-found impression. Then, too, he took care to re-move to a region of country remote from his ances-tral home. When, in later time, the history of theJews began to be written, the record was carriedback to the very morning of creation, and each gen-eration given from Adam down, together withmany details, such as the sacrifice of Abel, the wick-edness of the antediluvians, the Deluge, the Towerof Babel, and other incidents too familia
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