E. W. Bullinger
E. W. Bullinger
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August, 1897 | Vol. IV July 1897 - June 1898 | Main Index
The Official Organ of Prophetic Conferences.
E. W. Bullinger
August, 1897
JEWISH SIGNS
In the first number of the Welt, Dr. Theodor Herzl's new Zionist paper, he boldly expresses his opinions on the coming Congress and what it may effect. He points out that the Congress has not been summoned to raise an anti-Christian agitation, but to enable Jews to consider a purely Jewish question—the solution in many countries of a difficult problem.
"'We do not,' he says, 'hide our heads in the sand; the Jewish question exists, and it is becoming worse from day to day; where it is not to-day it will establish itself to-morrow.' How wide are the effects of persecution, and how bad the situation actually is, cannot be accurately known. These are the facts that are being brought together, and these facts the Congress will review in order to arrive at a correct solution of the difficulty. Of course, the central idea will be the return of the Jews to their fatherland, and this is to be done by negotiating with the Sultan, and the support of the powers, not troubled by Jewish difficulties, for the settlement of the Jews and the cultivation of Palestine on an ordered plan. To accomplish this the Congress will have to devise proper plans. Nothing is to be done in hap-hazard fashion, and whilst it is impossible to foreshadow what the Congress will resolve, we do know that it will be actuated by the knowledge that it is supported by the masses of the Jews, that its delegates come from all parts of the world, that it is an assembly convened to afford even the poorest Jew a happy and a wider horizon than has hitherto been his lot."—Jewish World.
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"The railway from Beirut to Damascus, and thence into the Hauran, is now completed, and is one of the most remarkable in existence. The country through which it passes is of the highest historical interest, and the engineering difficulties which had to be overcome were exceptionally great. The distance traversed is about a hundred miles, and the two mountain chains of Lebanon and Antilebanon have to be crossed before Damascus, 'The head of Syria,' and the oldest city in the world, can be reached."
"'Ye shall be left few in number among the heathen.' Basnage estimated that about 200 years ago there were only about three millions of Israelites in the world, though in the palmy days of their kingdom there were probably seven or eight millions in the land. It is surely a sign of the times that within the last fifty years there has been a rapid and great increase of Jewish population everywhere. Kellogg, in his very able work published thirteen years ago, tells us that the then lowest estimation of the Israel nation he could find was between six and seven millions; but he goes on to say that, according to the high authority of Herzog's Real-Encyklopadie, the whole number of the present Jewish dispersion is to be reckoned at no less than thirteen millions. And this was written more than thirteen years ago, while the increase is continuing by leaps and bounds, the increase being in a much greater and more rapid ratio than the Gentile population among whom they have been scattered. Truly the day of Israel's redemption is at hand."—Rev. David Baron.