rom them, individual prejudice
against those from whom our blessed Saviour sprang, and who gave birth
to the apostles of the Christian faith, is as deeply seated, as in the
days when faggot and fire were the ministers employed for their
conversion.

How can it be that we, in our age, look down with cold or scornful eyes
upon this once "chosen people"--chosen when the material world was in
its youth--those children of Israel, whose history is the foundation of
our faith? We read _our_ Bible, which is _their_ Bible; our code of
conduct is based upon _their_ commandments, which are _our_
commandments; _our_ salvation is gained by the Jewish sacrifice of the
lamb without spot or blemish; _our_ apostles, the promulgators of the
fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies, and the founders of the New,
were Jews. We are especially blessed in triumphing in a hope
fulfilled--while to them the promise is yet to come; they linger and
wait century after century for what they lost, and we won: this is their
sorrow, and hard to bear is their punishment--but it should not detract
from the honor and glory which was, and is, theirs from ages past. The
condemnation we give them is unworthy of us, and undeserved by
them--_They brought no wrath upon us by their blindness_; and we should
remember the time will come when we shall be gathered--Jews and
Gentiles--together from the four quarters of the globe, from the east
and from the west, from the north and from the south, "And there shall
be one fold and one Shepherd." But of what do we, in these days, chiefly
accuse the Jews?--of being a Mammon-making, and a Mammon-loving
people?--Ought we not to look to ourselves in that matter, and remember
the old saying about houses of glass, and throwing of stones? There are
but too many evidences of late before the world, of the Mammon-worship
of _our own_ people, to render any bowing down to the molten image
remarkable in the children of Israel; yet it is marvellous how those who
think and reason on all new things, give in to old prejudices without
question or examination--clinging with childlike tenacity to foul
traditions, as if they were established truths.

We no longer politically outrage a people who have been, at all times,
LOYAL, peaceable, and industrious; we do not confine them to any
particular quarter of our great city; nor drive them out of it like
rabid dogs; we suffer them to make money and keep it, and we borrow it
for our own wants