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]26 THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS [chap, xm
robe—with lofty cap and arctic furs—with forehead pale as the
Siberian snows, or dark as the Egyptian soil from whence they
come.
There are perhaps fewer Jews in Palestine than in most coun-
tries of Europe. There is no rural Hebrew population there,
though they have acquired both wealth and influence in Acre and
Damascus. There are not probably in the whole of Syria above
30,000 souls: and they say their number on the whole earth is
not above 6,000,000.
They are very zealous students of the Prophecies, and in-
geniously distribute, between Solomon and other heroes of their
race, the promises with regard to Shiloh that are absolutely ful-
filled. Their hope of the Messiah is as strong as ever, and, in
their prayers for the day of atonement, they have the exclama-
tion, " Woe unto us, for we have no mediator!"
The Moslem hates the Jew above all other nations, following
up Mahomet's quarrel when he refused to hearken to his voice,
or accept his flattering invitation: there are only seven degrees
of eternal punishment in the Moslem's future world, and the
sixth is appropriated exclusively to the reception of the Hebrew
race : the hypocrite occupies the seventh, the opprobrium of
which is not complete in that it is the lowest, but in that it is be-
low the Jew.
Hamburgh contains so many of this people that it has been
called the lesser Jerusalem, but Poland is the country wherein
they mostly abound. Here they have stately synagogues, richly
endowed colleges, and courts of Judicature, even for criminal
cases. In Hungary, the revenues were farmed by them, until
Ferdinand the Second published an edict forbidding their employ-
ment. In this country took place, in the year 1650, a most ex-
traordinary assembly, convened to decide whether the Messiah
was come or not. Three hundred Rabbis and an immense mul-
titude of Jews assembled in the Plain of Ageda. Some of the
Rabbis expressed a wish to hear the Protestant divines upon the
subject, and two Roman Catholic priests proposed to preach on
their own account. Then rose a stormy cry as of old in Jeru-
salem, " We will have no Christ!—no man-God !—no virgin !"—
and they tore their hair, and rent their garments. The question
robe—with lofty cap and arctic furs—with forehead pale as the
Siberian snows, or dark as the Egyptian soil from whence they
come.
There are perhaps fewer Jews in Palestine than in most coun-
tries of Europe. There is no rural Hebrew population there,
though they have acquired both wealth and influence in Acre and
Damascus. There are not probably in the whole of Syria above
30,000 souls: and they say their number on the whole earth is
not above 6,000,000.
They are very zealous students of the Prophecies, and in-
geniously distribute, between Solomon and other heroes of their
race, the promises with regard to Shiloh that are absolutely ful-
filled. Their hope of the Messiah is as strong as ever, and, in
their prayers for the day of atonement, they have the exclama-
tion, " Woe unto us, for we have no mediator!"
The Moslem hates the Jew above all other nations, following
up Mahomet's quarrel when he refused to hearken to his voice,
or accept his flattering invitation: there are only seven degrees
of eternal punishment in the Moslem's future world, and the
sixth is appropriated exclusively to the reception of the Hebrew
race : the hypocrite occupies the seventh, the opprobrium of
which is not complete in that it is the lowest, but in that it is be-
low the Jew.
Hamburgh contains so many of this people that it has been
called the lesser Jerusalem, but Poland is the country wherein
they mostly abound. Here they have stately synagogues, richly
endowed colleges, and courts of Judicature, even for criminal
cases. In Hungary, the revenues were farmed by them, until
Ferdinand the Second published an edict forbidding their employ-
ment. In this country took place, in the year 1650, a most ex-
traordinary assembly, convened to decide whether the Messiah
was come or not. Three hundred Rabbis and an immense mul-
titude of Jews assembled in the Plain of Ageda. Some of the
Rabbis expressed a wish to hear the Protestant divines upon the
subject, and two Roman Catholic priests proposed to preach on
their own account. Then rose a stormy cry as of old in Jeru-
salem, " We will have no Christ!—no man-God !—no virgin !"—
and they tore their hair, and rent their garments. The question