Restoration and Conversion of the Jews

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... RESTORATION AND CONVERSION OF THE JEWS. The history of the Jewish race, their present condition, and their future destiny, together with the peculiar and wonderful circumstances and considerations connected with the subject, stand, for interest and importance, unparalleled and alone. Through them are we possessed of the knowledge of the origin of the human family, and the history of the early ages of the world. Thoy alone, of all the nations of the earth, can trace back their origin to the first of men, our common progenitor, who came forth from the plastic hand of his Maker a model of human perfection. Among them alone was preserved the knowledge of the true and living God, during the lapse of idolatrous ages, when the Gentile world were causing their children to pass through the fire as a sacrilice to Moloch, or prostrating themselves in adoration before a crocodile or a cat, or falling down, at the sound of ravishing music, before a golden god. In their behalf, Jehovah bared his arm in the sight of all nations, pouring out his fury on the land of Ham; cleaving for them a passage through the deep; slaking their thirst in a desert region with water from the flinty rock; allaying their hunger with "angel's" food; and causing even the sun and the moon to stop their career in mid heaven, for the destruction of their foes! Their Moses chronicled history divine, and attuned his lyre to notes of heavenly minstrelsy, and promulged t"he moral code announced by the Deity amid the thunderings and lightnings of Sinai, long ere Sanconiiithon saw the light, or the people of Homer, of Solon, and Lycurgus were numbered among the nations. Their Joshua led Iheir valiant hosts to victory and to i niquost, while as yet the land of the Macedonian hero was...