The Hope of the Race

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 38.

The Hope of the Race

Regarding the recent Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland, it is reported that much division exists among the Reformed and Orthodox Jews. The American delegates suggested that the modern Zion be founded on the island of Cyprus instead of in Jerusalem. This, of course, met with violent protest. The report says: "The conclusions of the leaders, now announced, that it will take at least ten years to reach the point aimed at,—the revival of the Jewish nation,—are bitter food for these unfortunates [the Jews of Eastern Europe], relieved only slightly by the assurance that colonization upon a large scale can begin soon." The city of Salem can never be reached by the method of strife. Would that the earnest ones might see in Jesus just what He is,—the hope of the race.