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TO THE TWO

ELIZABETHS

The Child and The Maiden.

A Bud-A Blossom-but so many fall,

Chilled by harsh wind against earth's garden wall,
Men noticed not-for the fierce, leopard pace
Of modern life soon graveyard mounds efface;
The sleepers, mid that City by far sea,
Forgotten then by all the world but me-
And where their couch perchance I may not tell.

But THE KING saw where Bud and Blossom fell
So some fine morning, when He comes again
To banish from The Earth woe, sin and pain—
To bring back Israel to their ancient place;
Rending the veil-and banishing disgrace;
That selfsame day-HE shall remember where
The Two are sleeping-mid the trumpet blare-
The Bud and Blossom, then shall hear His voice,
Spring up in Beauty of His Royal choice,
All gloriously resplendent in His grace;
Then, They (and I) shall first behold His facei
And We shall come in Royal splendor set-
Lo, the Pierced Feet once more on Olivet!

Kansas City, Mo., December, 1904.

THAT JEW!

CHAPTER I.

THE PEOPLE OF THE RESTLESS FEET.

The Jew-you will find him everywhere; no matter what continent, what country you may go to, you will ever find the tell-tale face of the Child of Abraham. Where the city, or town of any size in the civilized world, where you cannot see above some store, or factory, a name that strikes you at once as the name of a Jew?-a race, some representative of which you meet in almost every street of the cities of the world. They are indeed the children of the restless feet. They seem readily to be acclimated in every land under the sun, but never amalgamated, never lost, never losing identity, never absorbed by the surrounding people; no matter how long they live in any country, in the midst of any people, they are still Jews. And it is a fact, they are at best only tolerated, we may add, with grim jest, by the freest and most enlightened nations of the world. Fain would the rich Jews be rid of their race taint-they would fain be counted American, English, French, German, Russian-yet they are, notwithstanding their protests, prayers, beseechings, tears, threats and promises-simply Jews.

In France, Germany, Russia, even in England and America, in every land, in every nation, no matter what the tongue, in the islands of the sea, whenever the Jew comes to a Gentile's eye, there is, oft unconsciously, within the heart a certain contemptuous sneer, unuttered perchance by the lips but nestling in the mind-"that Jew!"

Surely the knowledge of Jewish isolation must at some time or other have been brought home to the mind of every Gentile man and woman in the world. It is a glaring fact, that one should not put aside, and banish from one's thoughts lightly,

as a singular thing, but of no real importance. And yet such a conclusion as "of no importance" is fatal in some measure to every Gentile of the civilized world. This Jew Question is one of the most vital importance—for on it hangs the most momentous event, which, when it happens, will affect the earthly and eternal welfare of every living creature on the face of the earth.

The Jew Question will not down, and cannot be put down, neither settled, nor put out of sight, either by the love or the hate of the combined Gentile nations.

It is therefore a most important duty-I say most emphatically, Duty of every Gentile, to look into, to ponder with sincere and honest consideration, this, of all, the most far reaching and vital to every Gentile this wide world over-this Jew Question.

And on this question it is vain to turn to History, Philosophy, Jurisprudence, or the learning of the past ages, for the solution. We have only one source of information-perfectly true in every line, without a fleck or single flaw (except perchance some stray mistake of the Ancient Copiest) in the entire volume. If one turns to this volume and prayerfully desires information, taking the words in their utmost simplicity, driving from the mind any spiritualizing, he will find his soul flooded with a light from the eternal throne, as to the unchanging purposes of JEHOVAH towards-this Jew. And mingled with the Jew, the purpose of God towards the Gentile, and also the future of this great world. The Jew Question has been the puzzle of the ages-a source of vexation and trouble to the kings and emperors of the world-they have flattered and murdered, tolerated and despised; human ingenuity has been racked as to the best means to get rid of them, to work them ill of every conceivable kind, to blot them from the earth, but all to no purpose. They laugh and mock at emperors, kings, warriors, statesmen, and all in authority-the great ones that would slay have passed away-and there, yet unconquered and unvanquished stands-this despicable Jew!

In this question there is a trinity, a trinity composed of a book, a people and a land, the three inseparable; all linked together, as it were, with a golden chain by the hands of

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