survived very long, but became amalgamated with its captors, the two nations merging into a single people. This has hap pened to every nation with but one exception, and that is the Jew. Throughout his history, the Jew has known periods o f greatness. Indeed, there was a time when the Jewish nation was probably one o f the greatest, if not the greatest, nation o f the ancient world. A las! the Jew has also known periods o f captivity, dispersion, persecution and distress, the extent o f which only totally depraved minds could conjure up. Repeated efforts have been made to exterminate him totally, but in every instance he has emerged a Jew, still distinct from his captors and persecu tors. Instead, they have been the ones who have been exterminat ed. There is absolutely no conceivable explanation for this phe nomenon apart from the fact that Almighty God has ordained the perpetuity o f the Jew throughout history. One o f the last addresses that Moses gave to the children o f Israel before his death is recorded in the 28th chapter o f the book o f Deuteronomy. He related to the Jews how God would bless them if they would hearken unto His voice. But he also told the Jews how God would punish them i f they disobeyed his commands. History records that the Jews disobeyed God’s commandments. History also records how that the punishments o f God were meted out upon the Jews exactly as He had fore told in this prophecy in Deuteronomy. Among other curses for disobedience this one is described in 2 8 :37 : “ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.” Other prophetic pas sages in the Old Testament relied somewhat upon this state ment and speak o f the persecution which will come upon the people in the nations into which they have been driven so that the Gentile people will hiss at the Jew and despise him and do everything possible to drive him out o f their borders. But even as God prophesied that this would be the case, He also stated that the nations which favored the Jews within their realm would be blessed and the nations which persecuted the Jews would be cursed. History has likewise proven this to be abso lutely true. Bible students believe that one o f the reasons God has so signally blessed the United States is because, officially at least, it has looked with a degree o f favor upon the Jew. An article recently appeared in the May 12, 1969 issue o f The University Bulletin, published by the University o f Cali fornia at Berkeley, entitled, “ Berkeley Study Shows Anti-Semi tism Pervades every Stratum o f Society.” It states that anti semitism in one form or another is present in every stratum o f American society and is potentially dangerous— and not just to Jews. This study shows that “more than 1 /3 o f the popula tion is anti-semitic in the sense that they hold a large number o f traditional anti-semitic stereotypes.” Some o f the finds o f the study state, “ 37% o f the population o f the United States have a negative image o f the Jews. They believe the old canards that the Jews engage in shady business practices; that they are too powerful, too shrewd and tricky, too clannish, too ambitious, too bossy; more loyal to Israel than to America, and even the one that was thought to be put to rest long ago, that the Jews were in control o f international banking.” More than 1 /4 o f the population defend the right o f social clubs to exclude Jews from membership. Another 29%, while opposed to this in prin ciple, would do little or nothing to combat social club discrimi nation in practice.” The Berkeley study shows further that the Cont. on Page SI
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