The Jews’ Terrible Legacy
“His blood be on us, and on our children,” said the Jews to Pontius Pilate, when the latter sought to stay the purpose of the Jews to put Jesus to death. Fateful words! Little indeed did the Jews realize their awful significance. In the gruesome news from Russia there comes to-day a reminder of those words. Jews murdered, slaughtered by the thousand, regardless of age or sex! The blood of the innocent One was upon the men who crucified him, and even to this day it has not ceased to be on their children. Terrible legacy bequeathed to their unborn posterity! The Jews in many places have been the victims of the professed followers of Christ, especially where deep religious fervor has been joined with the basest instincts and passions of the carnal mind. The Jews have been persecuted and killed by many people as a mark of their devotion to Christianity. Christianity is not responsible for these crimes, but they have come in a train of events set in motion by the deluded men who rejected Christ in the days of Cæsar Augustus. There the seed was sown of which their children are yet reaping the terrible harvest.