L. A. S by L. A. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

L. A. S

By L. A. S.

SOME facts bearing on the question of the fate of the “holy land,” in which, owing to the “Zionist” movement which aims to restore Palestine to the Jews, very many people are interested, are given in the Chicago Record Herald of August 13. The writer, Mr. William E. Curtis, states that no republic would be feasible there, owing to the hostility of the sultan to that form of government. A protectorate maintained by the powers of Europe might be possible, but there is nothing in the geographical importance or commercial value of the land to warrant any interest in that country on the part of the powers. There are about sixty thousand Jews now in Palestine, and the sum of one million dollars is sent yearly to that country by Jews in other lands for various purposes connected with the project of another Jewish Palestine, but much of this fund is expended to no purpose. It is interesting to note that, according to Rabbi Meyer, of San Francisco, who recently investigated conditions in Jerusalem, “nowhere in the world are there so many Jewish converts to Christianity as in the holy city itself. In Christ Church, which is maintained by the English Missionary Society, the assistant rector, the boy choir, and a large majority of the congregation are composed of those who were formerly orthodox Jews. The proselyting done by the various missionaries in Jerusalem” the rabbi says, “is bold and constant.” He agrees that there is very little in these facts to encourage the Zionist project of a restoration of Jewish supremacy in that country.