Where is Greece whose phalanxes swept through their fields and spoiled their vineyards?
Where is Rome whose iron legions took their city, put thousand on thousands to the sword, destroyed the beautiful temple once hallowed by a Saviour’s feet and then drew a ploughshare over Zion that it might become a ploughed field as foretold? The Rome that sculptured on its triumphal arches the figures of the captive Jews it had led in boastful mockery at the chariot wheels of returning conquerors?
These nations in their ancient glory have disappeared, the Lord as He promised has made a full end of them.
But what of Israel?
The Jews have answered for them.
There are fifteen millions of Jews to-day.
They are the most vital and vigorous race on the earth. They are five times the number of all Israel who left Egypt; and they are but a sixth part of them—two tribes, Judah and Benjamin.
They are the money makers and money loaners of the world. They are the merchants, the bankers, the musicians, the professors in school, in college and university. They are the philosophers, the scientists, the electricians and chemists. They have furnished prime ministers, statesmen, judges and generals. Such a statesman as Disraeli who glorified England, such a general as Massena whom Napoleon characterized as the “child of victory.”
If to-day you should seek a representative in every department of human genius and endeavour you would find that representative to be either a Jew or a Jewess.
Fifteen millions of Jews!