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THE PRESERVATION OF THE JEWS. 



was not only foretold, but the cause of it 

 given. The Scriptures declare that the 

 Messiah was to have appeared before 

 the destruction of the temple ; and the 

 time of his expected advent, according 

 to Jewish traditions, coincided with that 

 event. It is eighteen centuries since the 

 destruction of the temple, before which 

 the Messiah was to have come ; and the 

 Jew still " hopes against hope," and, if 

 it is left to himself, will do so till the day 

 of judgment, for such a Messiah as his 

 earthly mind seems to be only capable 

 of contemplating. Has he never read 



the New Testament, and reflected on 

 the sufferings of him who was meek and 

 lowly, or on those of his disciples, in- 

 flicted by his ancestors, for generations, 

 when he has come complaining of the 

 sufferings to which his race has been 

 exposed ? He is entitled to sympathy, 

 for all the cruelties with which his race 

 has been visited ; but he could ask it 

 with infinitely greater grace, were he to 

 offer any for the sufferings of the early 

 Christians and their divine master, or 

 were he even to tolerate any of his 

 race following him to-day (p. 503). 



