THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT by L. A. P.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

By L. A. P.

DR. MAX NORDAU, the noted French Jew, in an interview in the Independent, looks upon the condition and prospects of the Jews in Europe as very hopeless. He says the sentiment against the Jew is increasing rapidly, and attributes this feeling to the peculiarities of religion and customs of his people, and to the fact, in addition, that they are in the minority. They are scapegoats, he declares, for all the evils, national and otherwise, that can not be conveniently shifted elsewhere. In Roumania, and Galicia, and Russia their condition is deplorable, Germany and England grant them greater liberties, but he sees evidences even in the United States of discrimination against the Hebrew. He likens their condition in Europe to that of the foreigner, especially the white man, in China.

Well, this is a very literal fulfilment of the word of the Lord concerning the Jewish nation when they should forsake Him and become like the nations around them. Dr. Nordau asserts that the Zionist movement must succeed, or the Jew must die, but admits that a long time may ensue ere its accomplishment is realized. Others think it will succeed, but it will not in a national way, as they view it. The hope of the Jews is not in return to Palestine, but return to the God of hosts, belief in the prophecies relating to Christ, and a recognition of His efficacies as their only means of salvation. L. A. P.