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PALESTINE AND 
THE POWERS 

Or the Intentions and Aims of Russia, 

Germany, Britain, and Turkey, regarding 

the Zionist Movements in the Light of 

Prophecy 



BY 

FRANK G. JANNAWAY 

Aiiikor of " Palestine and the Jews," "'Salvation Army and 
the Bible," " Satan's Biography," and other works 



NEW EDITION 

Illustrated with Original Pictures and Maps 



LONDON : ELLIOT STOCK 
7, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.G. 

1918 



THE JEWISH CHRONICLE says:— 

" Mr. Frank Jannaway's name is familiar in Jewish circles ; 
he knows the Holy Land from within. His knowledge is as 
extensive as it is thorough ; and his views are always sym- 
pathetic to us. He sees Palestine as the land of the future, and 
every new development is to him the fulfilment of a prophecy. 
. It is not often that a Christian visitor sees so deeply 
beneath the surface as Mr. Jannaway does. It is this fact that 
makes his book so valuable. He can see the beats of the human 
heart beneath the ragged garment, and the flash of ideas amid 
the squalor of poverty. I do not know of one book on Palestine, 
except Mr. Jannaway's, that does not make some reference to 
the dirt of the Jewish quarter." 



CONTENTS. 



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List of Illustrations 

Preface - - . 

A Remarkable Jew 

A Remarkable Prophecy - 

Fifty Curses 

Hadrian's Edict - 

The Dying Turk 

Zionist Propaganda 

Turkey opens the Door 

Unwalled Villages 

A Grand Outlook 

Dry Bones 

Sure Word of Prophecy - 

Theodore Herzl 

Israel Zangwill 

The Basle Programme 

Ten Years Later 

Jewish Colonies at Jeru- 
salem - - - 

191 1 and Since 

A British Protectorate 

Good and Bad Colonies - 

A Jerusalem Prison 

The London " Standard " 
Fables 

Typical Water Supply 

" We have Seen with our 
Eyes " - 

Jerusalem a City of Jews - 

A Touch of Human Nature 

The Jew at the T6p 

The Jew at a Premium 

The Coming Jew 

The Wonderful Jew 

The Incomparable Race - 

The Jew Financially 

Jaffa 



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TelAbib'- - - 58 

Petach Tikvah - - 60 

Rischon-le-Zion, - - 60 

A Lovely Garden City - 6i 

Educational Establishments 63 

The Ratisbonne Institute 64 

The Lamel Settlement - 66 

Other Jewish Institutions 67 

Abraham's Vineyard - 67 

" Neither Bars nor Gates " 68 

Blood Ritual - - 69 

Just a Foretaste - - 70 

Jew versus Gentile - 71 
The " Jewish Colonial 

Trust" - - - 72 
Jewish Colonies in Galilee 73 
The Technicum - - 74 
Jewish Colonies in Sam- 
aria - - - 75 
Other Jewish Colonies - 76 
Agricultural Establish- 
ments - - "77 
The Meaning of Zionism - 79 
Russia & Germany's Greed 79 
Russia and Germany's Pre- 
parations - - 81 
The Russian Tower - 82 
Russia the Colossus - 83 
Germany's Finger in the Pie 84 
Germany's Preparations - 85 
Germany's Intentions - 86 
Russia's other Allies - 87 
Britain's Intervention - 90 
Merchants of Tarshish - 91 
The Young Lions - 92 
Britain an Outsider - 93 
Cyprus and its Secret - 94 



VI. 



Contents 



Beaconsfield or Gladstone 

Mr. Asquith 

Beaconsfield a Tool of Pro- 
vidence 

Russia and Germany 

The Suez Canal 

Britain's Unpreparedness — 
God's Opportunity 

Why Britain wll Fail 

Palestine Protectorate 

God Glorified — Not Man - 

Jerusalem Delivered 

Jacob's Trouble - 

Britain's Navy Doomed - 

Britain's Merchant Service 

Armageddon 

Armageddon not in Europe 

A Convulsion of Nature - 



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96 Godless Socialists 

97 Angels 
The Great Day of Judg- 

99 ment - - - 

100 Joy for the Jews - 

1 01 A Strategic Retreat 
Ofi Jaffa - 

102 Lord Kitchener - 

103 Colonel Conder 

104 A Punitive Expedition 

105 God's Ways 

106 An Ideal King 

107 A Good Time Coming 
io8 Isaiah's Glowing Pictures - 
no Dr. John Thomas and 
HI Egypt 
112 
113 Comprehensive Index 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Rfap of Palestine, showing Jewish Colonies 
Sir Moses Montefiore's Alms-houses 
The Turkish Empire in 1683 and 19 18 
The Jews' Wailing Place, Jerusalem 

The Railway Terminus, Jerusalem - - - 27 

Meah Shaarim Settlement, Jerusalem - - - 28 

A" Box " or " Tin "Colony - - - " 4^ 

Tel Abib (Young Zionists Drilling) - - - 58 

Rischon-le-Zion : Main Street - - - - 62 

The Lamel Settlement : Avenue with Mr. David Yellin - 66 

Bezalel Institute of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem - - 71 

Rosh Pina, Agricultural Colony - - - - 73 

Zichron Jacob Colony (Zammarine) - - - 75 

Russian Tower on Mount of Olives - - - 82 

Jerusalem, as seen from the Russian Tower - - 84 

The German and Russian Towers, as seen from Jerusalem 100 

The Port of Jaffa (Joppa) - - - - 1 19 



PREFACE. 

" ir\ON'T do it. Books on Palestine are a glut 
J— ^ on the market. The Gentile doesn't want 
them and the Jew won't have them. You'll have 
to get rid of them as remainders." 

Such was the advice and warning of a city pub- 
lisher to whom we submitted copy of our recent 
pubh cation of " Palestine and the Jews." We 
ran counter to his well-meant advice and are not 
sorry. The Gentile did want it, and the Jew would 
have it. So much so that the whole of the first 
edition went in a few months, and now the second 
is exhausted. 

At the end of this Preface we furnish the evidence 
for believing the book was and is wanted, and in so 
doing assure the reader that the whole of the infor- 
mation which called forth such flattering letters 
and press notices is incorporated in this the third 
edition, for although the second edition has come 
and gone, the book is not out of date, for the simple 
reason that it, is made up of facts — facts of history, 
facts of geography, and " The sure Word of 
Prophecy." 

That we have not misread prophecy as bearing 
upon the present situation is borne out by the fact 



X. Preface 

that every prophetic interpretation in this, the 
third, edition is identical with that in the first 
edition ! 

At the outbreak of the Great War we had for 
years read from prophecy that America would 
have to take her place side by side with Great 
Britain. This we repeated in all our lectures in 
the United States and Canada in the winter of 19 14. 
Many of our audiences, especially in New York, 
advised us to " Drop that idea, for it will never be." 
We were pointed to the chief business houses and 
commercial firms — German ! German ! ! German ! ! ! 
But there was no misreading the prophecy of 
" The Merchants of Tarshish, and all the Young 
Lions thereof " ; and therefore we had to decUne 
to withdraw or revise the statement found on page 
142* of our book, which reads : — 

"In due course the United States will 
take her place among the Young Lions " 

and that we should 

" See the English-speaking races of the 
world one great and united family." 

Another example of the same fact : on page 156 f 
we stated without any qualification : — 

" Britain must safeguard all approaches to 
the Suez Canal. At present that is not done, 
as we can personally testify. Hence Britain 
must, of necessity, obtain a Protectorate of 
Palestine, which has been long looked for by 
students of the writings of Israel's prophets." 

Comment is not needed ! 

* Page 92 of present edition, f Page loi of present edition. 



Preface xi. 

We could multiply these examples, but will leave 
it to the reader of the following pages to note such 
as he scans the book. 

We have not the least doubt British statesmen 
are somewhat of the mind of King Agrippa, to whom 
Paul put the question : " BeUevest thou the pro- 
phets ? " and to which question Paul himself added : 
" I know that thou belie vest." We so conclude 
from letters in our possession, but which letters 
being marked " Confidential " and " Not for 
publication " must remain sealed communications. 
Actions, however, speak louder than words, and 
what those actions are, all who have eyes to see 
cannot fail to see. To all such we say : " Read 
Israel's prophets " and " Watch Palestine." 

Here we take the opportunity of thankfully 
expressing our indebtedness to Mr. T. Hirsch, 
Manager of the Jewish Colonial Trust, London ; 
Mr. D. Levontin, Manager of the Anglo-Palestine 
Co., Jaffa ; Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, of the Pales- 
tine Exploration Fund ; Mr. Israel Cohen, of Berlin, 
Editor of Zionist Work in Palestine ; the Societe 
Co-operative Vigneronne, Rischon-le-Zion ; Mr. E. 
Hatch well, Petach Tikvali ; Dr. A. Ruppin, Tel 
Abib ; Mr. Herbert Loewe, M.A., late of Cambridge, 
now of Oxford ; Mr. Ginsberg, of the Palestine 
Trading Co. ; Mr. F. Renwick, Palestine Manager 
to Messrs. Cook & Sons ; and all those other good 
friends whose names will be found in the following 
pages. 

Frank G, Jannaway. 

99, Stockwell Park Road, 
London, S.W. 9. 



xii. Preface 

NOTE. 

The evidence referred to in the foregoing is that the 
work has been appreciatingly acknowledged in 
unsolicited letters from the Chief Rabbi of the British 
Empire ; the Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and 
Portuguese Jews' Congregations ; Rt. Hon. H. H. 
Asquith, M.P. ; Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P. ; 
Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Grey, M.P. ; Rt. Hon. 
Herbert Samuel, M.P. ; Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P.; 
Col. Sir E. Hildred CarHle, M.P. ; Col. Sir C. M. 
Watson, K.G. ; Sir Moses Montefiore ; Sir Robert 
Anderson, K.C.B. ; Sir C. Waldstein ; Lady Batter- 
sea ; Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild ; Prof. Flinders 
Petrie ; Prof. Boris Schatz ; Rabbi E. Stemheim ; 
Prof. Hechler ; Dr. M. Adler ; J. L. Garvin ; 
Jacob Moser ; D. Levontin ; J. L. Maxse ; Leon 
Simon ; Lucien Wolf ; Herbert Loewe, M.A. ; 
Gabriel Costa ; J. Foster Fraser ; Dr. Turoff ; 
Dr. E. W. G. Masterman ; Dr. L Abraham ; and 
many others interested in the affairs of the Holy 
Land. 



JEW AND GENTILE OPINIONS REFERRED 
TO IN FOREGOING PREFACE. 

" The Chiei' Rabbi wishes me to express to you his sincere thanks for 
your book, ' Palestine and the Jews.' " 

E. V. Hyamson 
(Secretarv to the Chte/ Rahbi of the United Hebrew 
(Congregation of the British Empire). 

" Will prove most helpful to those who are interested in the Holy Land and 
would like to get first hand information as to the actual status and spirit which is 
now stirring in the old home of my people." 

Moses Gaster 
(Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregations). 

" Your book is most valuable." 

Herbert Loewe, M.A., Oxford, 
(Elected to first Research Studentship in Jerusalem). 

" Please accept my best thanks for your kindness and courtesy in sending 
me ' Palestine and the Jews,' which I have read with much interest." 

Joseph Cowen 
(Presi^ient English Zionist Federation). 

" The List of the Colonies is a most valuable piece of work." 

Leon Simon, B.A. 

(Editor of " The Zionist "). 

. " Have read with great pleasure your fine book, and delivered it to our 
Institute Library." 

Professor Boris Schatz 

{Bezakl Institute, Jerusalem). 

" Have found your book most interesting." 

Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P. 

(Chancellor of the Exchequer). 

" Am grateful for your book and appreciate the interest you, as a 
Christian, take in my race." 

Jacob Moser 
(Lord Mayor of Bradford, 1910-1911). 

" Am looking forward to the reading of your book ' Palestine and the 
Jews' with much pleasure." 

Sir Moses Montefiore, D.L. 
(Ex-President English Zionist Federation). 

" It will be of great service to me." 

LuciEN Wolf 
(Ex-Editor of " The Jewish World "). 

" .A storehouse of facts. ... I shall find it most useful." 

pR. E. W. G. Masterman 
(Palestine Exploration Fund, Jerusalem). 

" Have perused it with great pleasure. ... It contains much interest- 
ing matter." 

I^. Levontin 
(Managing Director Anglo-Palestine Co., Jaffa). 

" Full of interesting facts. I believe no such lists of facts concerning the 
Colonies has ever yet been made." 

W. H. Dunn 
(Abraham's Vineyard, Jerusalem). 

" The book will doubtless have a deservedly wide circulation." 

C. C. Walker 
(Editor of " Tke Christadelphian '"). 



xiv. Jew and Gentile Opinions 

" I should like to quote from it in my lecture on ' Britain and Russia.' It 
is the most up-to-date information on Russia's preparations, and not generally 
known. I suppose there would be no objection from the Censor's point of 
view ? ' ' 

S. A. Garside. 

" A refreshing work, which, unlike many books, thoroughly justifies its 
existence by the solid information it contains." 

ISLIP COLLYER 

{Author of " The Bible and Modern Scepticism"). 

" Will at once be recognized as a standard work on Zionism, and a reliable 
source for unimpeachable statistics." 

Edward Chalunor. 

" The information it contains is striking ; and is connected with Prophecy 
n such a direct and simple way that anyone can hardly be excused who fails to 
appreciate it. . . . It will be a valuable addition to our literature." 

T. W. Gamble. 

" Excellent. A quarry for lecturers." 

£. A. Ladson 
{Editor of " Jews and Zionism "). 

" A mass of valuable information." 

Mrs. E. a. Finn 
{Widow of the late Briiish Consul at Jerusalem). 

" Very, very good." 

Henry Sullev 
{Author of " Temple of Ezekiel's Prophecy "). 

" An eye-opener. . . . Valuable information concerning the great 
colonizing projects in Palestine, never before published." 

" PoLLOKSHAWS NeWS." 

"Rich in information about the origin of Jewish colonization." 

"The Jewish Daily World." 

" Crammed with up-to-date facts and figures concerning Zionism, obtained 
first-hand by the author during repeated visits to the Holy Land." 

" The Chatham Observer." 

" It brings in a concise form information that can be used with effect by 
speakers." 

W. H. BOULTON. 

" Excellent ; and ought to be of much service." 

G. F. Lake. 

" Apart from your interest in things Israelitish we should have known very 
little as to how far, and rapidly, these things have advanced." 

Joseph Bonds. 

" Extremely interesting. . . . The book contains a comprehensive list 
of Jewish Colonies and a map showing their positions ; also a number of excellent 
full-page original illustrations." 

" The Travellers' Gazette." 



loo copies were requested for the 1914 Zionist Congress. 



Palestine and the Powers. 



A Remarkable Jew. 

IT is reported that nineteen hundred years ago 
the Roman Emperor Tiberius received a letter* 
from one of his officials which ran thus : — 

" There has appeared a man here, in Pales- 
tine, who is still living, whose power is extra- 
ordinary. He has the title given him of the 
Great Prophet ; his disciples call him -the Son 
of God. He raises the dead, and heals all sorts 
of diseases. He is a tall, well-proportioned 
man ; there is an air of serenity in his counte- 
nance, which at once attracts the love and rever- 
ence of those who see him. His hair is of the 
colour of new wine : from the roots to his 
ears, and from thence to the shoulders, it 
is curled, and falls down to the lowest part of 
them. Upon the forehead it parts in two, 
after the manner of the Nazarenes. His 
forehead is flat and fair, his face without 
any defect, and adorned with a graceful 
vermilion ; his air -is majestic and agree- 
able. His nose and his mouth are very well 
proportioned, and his beard is thick and 

* Concerning which see Mosheim's " Ecclesiastical History," 
Vol. I., Chap, iv., pp. 26, 27. Note (b). 

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2 Palestine and the Powers 

forked, of the colour of his hair ; his eyes 
are grey and extremely lively ; in his reproofs 
he is terrible, but in bis exhortations and instruc- 
tions amiable and courteous ; there is some- 
thing wonderfully charming in his face with a 
mixture of gravity. He is never seen to laugh, 
but he has been observed to weep. He is very 
straight in stature : his hands are laige and 
spreading, and his arms very beautiful. He 
talks little, but with great gravity, and is the 
handsomest man in the world." 

This interesting Jew, it seems, could always get 
a crowd to listen to him ; and, whatever they might 
have thought of his theology, they had to admit his 
daily walk was beyond reproach. 

" Never man spake as this man." 

" He went about everywhere doing good," 

was the unanimous verdict of all who came within 
the sound of his voice, and the reach of his hand. 

Well might Max Nordau, one of the greatest 
Jews of our times, say as he did say, although he 
disclaimed his Messianic claims : — 

" This man is ours. He honours our race." 

Well, this Jew had been pursuing his usual good 
work of relieving the afflicted to such an extent as 
to arouse the curiosity even of a tax gatherer, and 
make him climb up a sycamore tree in order to have 
a better view of so remarkable a philanthropist. 
The incident culminated in the two becoming host 
and guest to each other. Thereafter, followed by 
an admiring throng, the Hebrew benefactor set 



A Remarkable Prophecy 3 

out on the long and interesting journey from Jericho, 
away and up to Jerusalem — away nearly twenty 
miles, and up over four thousand feet. By and by 
they reached Bethany, after leaving which, there 
on the slopes of Olivet, Jerusalem came into view, 
as it still' comes into view, for the topography has 
not changed. The scene, with its associations, 
was too much for this sympathetic and patriotic 
Jew. Tears came into his eyes as he affectionately 
beheld the Holy City, and he then gave utterance to 

A Remarkable Prophecy. 

Looking intently upon the city, he exclaimed : — 

" If thou>hadst known, even thou, at least 
in this thy day, the things which belong unto 
thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine 
eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, 
that thine enemies shall cast a trench about 
thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee 
in on every side, and shall lay thee even with 
the ground, and thy children within thee ; 
and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon 
another ; because thou knewest not the time 
of thy visitation " (Luke xix. 41-46). 

All the world knows how that prophecy was ful- 
filled to the very letter, under Titus and Vespasian, 
by the Romans, when over a million Jews were 
slain, and hundreds of thousands taken captive. 
We know, too, how that terrible work was repeated 
65 years later, when the Jews, having recovered 
themselves, waged rebellion in tjicir endeavour 
to remove the Roman yoke. It was in the reign 
of Hadrian, when they were led by one Bar-cochba, 



4 Palestine and the Powers 

or " Son of the Star," as he was called — one of 
the many false Christs. Historians place the awiul 
sequel as second only to the horrible work under 
the Titus invasion. The desolation of the Holy 
Land generally, and Jerusalem in particular, was 
then complete, and the prophecies uttered by Moses, 
1, 600 years previously, were fulfilled absolutely. 

Fifty Curses. 

The curses God had threatened against Israel 
in the event of disobedience all came to pass. They 
are to be found in the Book of Deuteronomy, 
chapter xxviii. There, in verse 15, God said : — 

" It shall come to pass, if thou wilt not 
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, 
to observe to do all his commandments and his 
statutes which I command thee this day ; that 
all these curses shall come upon thee and over- 
take thee." 

Among those curses we note, in verse 25 : — 

" The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten 
before thine enemies ; thou shalt go out one 
way against them, and flee seven ways before 
them ; and shalt be removed into all the king- 
doms of the earth." 

In verse 37, too : — 

" Thou shalt become an astonishment, a 
proverb, and a byword, among all nations 
whither the Lord shall lead thee." 

Jesus Christ gives us what might be called a 



Hadrian's Edict 5 

microscopic, albeit comprehensive, digest of that 
chapter of Deuteronomy in Luke xxi. 24 : — 

" They shall fall by the edge of the s^yord, 
and shall be led away captive into all nations ; 
and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the 
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be 
fulfilled." 

That twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy 
contains fifty distinct curses, not one of which 
remains unfulfilled. The Romans did the main 
portion of the work under Titus, Vespasian, and 
Hadrian ; and the cost of quelling the Bar-cochba 
rebelHon by the last-named Emperor, both in hfe 
and money, was so enormous that he vowed the 
Jewish people should never again be allowed to 
assert themselves in Palestine. He sought to carry 
out his determination by expelling all the Jews from 
the Land. He razed their venerated city to the 
ground, and built thereupon the new Roman city, 
Aelia Capitolina. 

Hadrian's Edict. 

He issued an Edict about the year a.d. 135, 
forbidding any Jew to settle in the Land. And that 
Edict held good for over 1,700 years. 

The reality of the Hadrian Edict will be better 
reaUzed when we note that even so recently as 1827, 
when Sir Moses Montefiore visited the Land, he 
could not find more than 500 Jews there. And they 
were the scum of the race, the poorest of the poor ; 
mere nomads, pilgrims — and even they were only 
there on sufferance. It cut Sir Moses Montefiore 



6 Palestine and the Powers 

to the quick to behold so lamentable a condition 
of affairs in the Land of Promise, The diary which 
he compiled of his visit to Palestine, written for 
private circulation, is now before us, and is painful 
reading. He sought the permission of the Porte 
at Constantinople to erect alms-houses where the 
poor old Jews might, at any rate, end their days in 
peace ; for, of course, in those days especially, the 
permission of the Turkish authorities was absolutely 
necessary before any building could be erected for 
Jewish purposes. The Edict of Hadrian had never 
been repealed, though it was, in some respects, 
obsolete. He did ultimately obtain a firman from 
the Porte, as a result of which he had built outside 
the south-west walls of Jerusalem twenty-seven two- 
roomed cottages, and a windmill for corn-giunding 
purposes. The firman had been obtained in 1838, 
and Sir Moses Montefiore was granted an audience 
with the Sultan in 1S54, but owing to obstacles 
existing at the time the consent was obtained, the 
buildings were not erected till 1856. 

But this condition of things was not always to 
obtain. Christ said, as recorded in the text last 
quoted, it was only to be 

" Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." 



The Dying Turk. 

Not the least among the Gentiles to tread down 
Jerusalem and all she represents has been the Turk. 
For many a long century he has parted God's Land 
among his Pashas for gain. In jthe book of Reve- 
lation the Ottoman Power is referred to as the 



The Dying Turk 7 

" Great River Euphrates." That book contains a 
divine programme in symbol. The last symbolic 
event prior to " the kingdoms of this world " 
becoming " the kingdoms of oi|r Lord, and of his 
Christ " is thus given : — 

" And the sixth angel poured out his vial 
(of the wrath of God) upon the great river 
Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried 
up, that the way of the Kings of the East might 
be prepared" (Rev. xvi. 12). 

All the previous items of this symbolic programme 
have been fulfilled, as history has shown, and all 
in keeping, too, with interpretations arrived at 
long before they were fulfilled. And in keeping 
with such interpretations Turkey began in 1820 
to dry up rapidly. Appearances did not favour 
such an interpretation, as an extract from the 
Annual Register (London), 1820, shows. The 
extract reads : — 

" The • Ottoman Empire, by a long and 
unwonted good fortune, found itself, at the 
commencement of the era (1820), freed at once 
from foreign war and domestic rebellion." 

And yet, from that year onwards, to our own times, 
the symbolic Euphrates has been slowly but surely 
evaporating. Now, as we have seen, and do see, 
all the long-closed gates of the Holy Land have been 
opened to the rightful owners ; and where there 
were but 5 Jews previously we now find 100 — 
instead of 500 we find 100,000. The Turk could 
only keep the Jew outside until the Times of the 
Gentiles were fulfilled. 



8 Palestine and the Powers 

Zionist Propaganda. 

The reality of the " downtreading " and the futility 
of attempting to end the " scattering " before the 
" time appointed," are seen in the many attempts 
made during the past two or three hundred years. 
We will reproduce a list of these attempts, for 
which we arc indebted to Professor Dr. Leon 
Keller, of Czernowitz University, and which the 
Professor says " Dr. Herzl had before him " ; and 
he goes on to say : " Since Josef Nassi, the Jewish 
Duke of Naseos, recognized that the life in its own 
land, that is to say the resettlement in Palestine, 
as the only possible future for the Jewish people, 
has again and again been brought forward by Jews 
and Christians, by believers and heretics, by sages 
and fools." 

The movement started by Sabbatai Zewi (1626- 
1676) resulted in no tangible consequences for 
Palestine, owing to its Messianic character, but 
it had the effect that the Zionistic idea as pro- 
pounded by Josef Nassi was not mentioned again 
in Jewish quarters during more than 100 years, 
because the plans of several Colonization Societies 
to settle the Jews in Curasao (1654) or in Cayenne 
{1659),* ^s well as the idea of Maurice of Saxony 
to make himself the sovereign of a Jewish State 
in Palestine (1749), originated from Christians. 

It was not until the eighteenth century that 
fearless and magnanimous Jews came forward with 
new ideas of salvation. 

In 1777 the Rabbi Israel of Polock, Rabbi 

* See Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 
III. 62. 



Zionist Propaganda 9 

Mendel of Witebsk,; and Rabbi Abraham Katz 
of Kalish, went to Palestine, and from there made 
propaganda by letters to their East-Em'opean 
co-religionists for the colonization of the homeland. 

In 1878 the journalist and dramatic author, Mor- 
dechai Manuel Noah ( 1785-185 1), appealed to all 
the Jews of the world to acquire Grand Island, a 
territory situate in the Niagara between Erie and 
Ontario, in the State of New York, and to found 
there a Jewish Commonwealth under the name of 
" Ararat." {In 1825 a start with a view to the 
reaHzation of this plan was actually made in 
Buffalo, but it did not succeed. Noah, however, 
referred again to this idea in his paper, Discourse 
on the Restoration of the Jews, 1845.) 

In 1819 a Mr. W. D. Robinson pleaded for a 
Jewish Settlement on the Missouri ; and in 1825 
another Englishman did likewise for a similar 
scheme in Florida. . . . 

In 1835-1S40 the celebrated Hebrew BibH- 
ographer, Moriz Steinschneider (1816-1907), at the 
University of Prague called for the first time for 
a Jewish National sentiment — and had an appre- 
ciable response from amongst the Jewish students. 

In 1840 Moses Montefiore submitted to the 
Governor of Syria his plan of Jewish immigration 
into the Holy Land, but without success. This, 
however, did not shatter his conviction as to the 
future of Israel in Palestine. 

In the same year the Frenchman, Ernest 
Laharanne, in the paper Uher Neue Orientalische 



10 Palestine and the Powers 

Frage {The New Orienlal Question), raised his 
voice in favour of an Independent Jewish State in 
Palestine. 

In 1849 Barthclmey, in the Sicclc, approached 
the Rothschilds that they should use their power 
and influence for the purpose of securing for the 
Jews their old, old home again. 

In 1854 S. D. Luzzatto (1800-1865) wrote to 
Albert Cohen in a Zionistic spirit, as the latter pro- 
ceeded to Palestine on a tour of study. 

In 1857 Juda Ben Salomon Alkalai, the Rabbi 
of SemHn, published his paper, Goral Ladonai, in 
which he made the suggestion of founding a Company 
with a share capital for the purpose of the purchase 
of Palestine. 

In 1861 the Rabbi Hirsch Kalischer of Thorn 
(1795-1875) succeeded by dint of persistent pro- 
paganda in forming the first Colonization Society. 

In the same year Dr. Leon Pinkster (1822-1891) 
joined forces with E. Solowejczyk for the publica- 
tion of the Russian periodical Zion. 

In 1862 Moses Hess {1812-1875), who came 
forward with a philosophy of the Jewish National 
idea in connection with the paper published by 
Kalischer, Rome and Jerusalem, established a land- 
mark in the drawing up of the modern Zionist 
programme. 

In 1863 Henry Dunant, the founder of the Geneva 
Convention, identified himself with the Zionist 
programme. 



Zionist Propaganda ii 

In 1864 Professor Gratz, the historian of Judaism, 
published a study entitled The Rejuvenation of the 
Jewish Race, in which stress was laid upon the 
national character of the Jewish people, and in 
which the salvation of the Jewish Question by 
Zionism was demanded. 

In the same year Abraham Petavel pleaded for 
a Jewish State in the paper, Devoir des Nations de 
rendre au Pcuplc Juif sa Nationalite {Obligation of 
the Nations to Restore to the Jewish People tJmr 
Nationality). 

In 1868 J. Frankel did likewise in the paper 
Du retablissement de la Nationalite Guive {Re-estab- 
lishment of the Jewish Nationality). 

In i86g a banker in Nancy, Lazar Levy Bing, 
made propaganda for the colonization of Palestine 
by the Jews ; and at the same time Dob Beer 
Gordon advocated the Zionistic idea in the 
Hamaggid. 

In 1873 Dumas, the younger, in his work La 
Femme de Claude, causes the Jew Daniel to express 
the idea of the Jews. 

In 1876 Henry Dunant founded the " Inter- 
national Palestine Society " ; and in the same year 
Daniel Dcronda, by George EHot, was pubhshed. 

In the same year, too, Perez Smolensky (1840- 
1885) advocated the idea of National Zionism in 
the Hashachar. 

In 1879 t^^c English author, Laurence Oliphant 
(1829-1888), travelled in Palestine and Syria with 



12 Palestine and the Powers 

the express intention of instituting Jewish immi- 
gration on a large scale. 

In 1880 the Chaplain of the British Embassy 
at Vienna (the Rev. William Hechler) published a 
leaflet entitled The Rcsluration of the Jews, in which 
the religious and practical reasons were briefly 
stated. 

In 1S81-1882 the persecution of the Jews in 
Russia broke out. This event on the one hand 
shook the Russian Jew, who favoured assimilation, 
rudely out of his dreams ; on the other hand the 
Jewry of the whole world was brought face to face 
with the problem, " What can be done with the Jews 
in the East ? " The answer to the question of 
Jews and Christians alike was " To Palestine." 
Moses Lob Lilienblum (1843-1910) showed the way 
in the Dcvcch la Abor Golin. Gabriel Charmers, 
who had just returned from a tour in Syria, advo- 
cated in the Revue dcs deux Mondes (June 15, 1888) 
with great ardour the immigration ideas of OHphant. 
Emma Lazarus, of New York, wrote her spirited 
Epistle to the Hebrews ; and lastly appeared at 
that time Auto-Emancipation. 

In 1882, on the initiation of Perez Smolensky, 
" The Jewish National Students' Corporation " 
was founded at Kadimah. M. T. Schnierer was 
the first President. 

In the same year the Rabbi Samuel Mohilewer 
(1824-1898) called together the Zionist Society 
at Warsaw. 

Also, in the same year, the first Colonies were 



Zionist Propaganda 13 

founded on the soil of Palestine. The Roumanian 
Jews, whose Committee of Galatz had raised 100,000 
francs, founded Zaramarine (to-day called Zichron- 
Jacob) and Rosh Pina in Galilee. The Russian 
Jews refounded the village of Petach Tikvah, 
which in 1878 had been founded from Jerusalem 
and had been practically deserted. 

A future historian will describe the sufferings of 
these pioneers and path-finders. However, the 
enthusiasm for the resettlement in Palestine helped 
them to overcome all adversaries and obstacles. 
Societies of the Friends of Zion (Chovevi-Zion) 
sprang up, which, with Baron Edmund Rothschild, 
of Paris, as the head, spared no effort in preserving 
the hopeful germ from destruction. 

In 1884 this " Chovevi-Zion " held a Conference 
at Kattowitz (Upper Silesia), with the object in 
view of creating a centre and an organ for the 
Zionist Movement. 

In the same year the " Chovevi-Zion Association " 
was formed in Russia, which in memory of Moses 
Montefiore was called " Maskereth Mosheh." In 
Germany the Society " Ezra " was founded. 

In 1885 K. W. Wissotzky was commissioned by 
the Russian Montefiore Association to go to Pales- 
tine ; and, subsequently, on the basis of personal 
investigation he recommended several colonies for 
vigorous support. 

Also in 1885 Nathan Birnbaum founded in Vienna 
the Zionist journal, Lelhst-Emanzipation {Anto- 
Emancipation), and at the same time the Society 



14 Palestine and the Powers 

" Admah Jeshurun" (later called "Zion") sprang 
into existence. 

In 1887 the Second Conference of the Chovevi- 
Zion was held, this time at Drusgenik ; and in 
1889 the third and last was held at Wilna. 

In 1890 the author, Alexander Zederbaun, was 
successful in obtaining from the Russian Govern- 
ment the official recognition of the " Society for 
the Assistance of Israelites (Jews) carrying on Agri- 
culture and Industries in Palestine and Syria " 
{Gesellschaft zur Untersfrifzung ackerhaiind gewerhe- 
treibender Israeliten in Palestina and Syrien). This 
organization, called in short " The Odessa Palestine 
Committee ", was in a position to expend yearly 
between thirty and forty-five thousand roubles on 
the colonization of Palestine.* 

In 1890 also the Jewish National Students' 
Corporation, " Hasmonaea," of Czernowitz, was 
founded. Its first President was Schnierer. 

From • this time onward the Zionistic Jewish 
National idea gained daily in depth and following 
in the academic world. In Vienna, the Societies 
" Unitas ", " Ivria ", " Veritas ", and " Zephirah " ; 
in Prague, " Maccabcea " (now Bar-cochba) ; in 
Czernowitz, " Zephira ", and others. 

In 1891 Paul Dimidoff, of Charlottenburg, directed 
his warning to the West-European Jews under the 
title Wo Hinaus P {Where will it lead top). He 
suggested that the Jews should establish as many 
colonies as possible in Palestine. 

♦ The Colonies founded by this Societj' are described in 
subsequent pages. 



Turkey Opens the Door 15 

In the same year was published the paper The 
Jcioish Question and the Future {die Judenjrage und 
Zuknuft), by Gustavo Cohen, of Hamburg, who 
spent the best years of his hfe as a merchant in 
South Africa. 

- ^ In 1892 the EngHsh Chovevi-Zion founded the 
quarterly journal Palestine. 

In 1893 the novel Judea in the Year 6000 was 
published by Max Osterberg-Verakoff, in which 
the Zionist idea was elaborated on the lines of 
Pinsker. 

In 1893, too, Dr. Nathan Birnbaum combined the 
Zionist and Jewish National ideas in the Paper 
The National Re-birth of the Jewish People in its 
own Land as a means of Solving the Jewish Question : 
An Appeal to the Good and Noble of all Nations. 

And in 1896 the Jewish Villages of Palestine 
were represented at the BerHn Exhibition of 
Industry. 

The foregoing facts were set forth in the peri- 
odical entitled Heimkehr [Hoinewards) of the Jewish- 
National Academic Society "Emunah", of Czer- 
nowitz. 

Turkey Opens the Door. 

In keeping with divine prophecy, the Sultan of 
Turkey, in the exercise of his sovereign rights, 
issued a decree proclaiming that the " Land of 
Promise " was closed no longer to the descendants 
of Abraham, but that it was open for them to return 
and settle there as farmers and husbandmen. That 



i6 Palestine and the Powers 

was in 1856. The change was so unexpected that 
one newspaper writer, who knew something of 
prophecy, asked : — 

" Can this be the first decided movement 
towards the accomplishment of prophecy rela- 
tive to the history of this wondrous people ? " 

Some years prior to that a student of prophecy — 
Dr. John Thomas — wrote * and printed the follow- 
ing conviction : — 

" I believe there will be a preadventual 
limited colonization of the country by Jews. 
. . . And that the prosperity of this colony 
. . . will be the cause of the country's 
invasion by the Russian ' clay ', styled ' Gog ' 
by Ezekiel, It will be the sign of ' The Time 
of the End', indicative of the speedy return 
of Christ." 

Now, why did Dr. John Thomas have that con- 
viction ? Solely because of what he had read in 
the prophetic Scriptures, which he accepted without 
any reservation as the inspired and infallible word 
of God, He implicitly believed Christ would fulfil 
His promise : — 

"If I go away, I will come again " (John 
xiv. 3). 

He also believed that as Jerusalem was, accord- 
ing to Christ, " the city of the great king ", it would 
only be under the heel of the Gentiles 

" Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." 

*Herald of the Future Age, 1849. 



In 16S3. 




Thk Turkish Empire in 16S3 and 1918. 




S t » 1 Of S /I H aK A 



In 191b. 



[ To fill e page 16. 



Unwalled Villages 17 

He likewise believed the apostle Peter when he 
told the Jews, as recorded in Acts iii. 20, that Christ 
would only remain away 

" Until the times of restitution of all things 
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all 
His holy prophets since the world began." 

Having those convictions, he searched further 
the Scriptures, with the result that he discovered 
it was distinctly revealed as a " Sign of the Times ", 
indicative of " The Time of the End ", and the 
" Second Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ ", 
that there would be, just prior to His Second Coming, 
a partial, though very pronounced and unmistak- 
able, return of the Jews to Palestine. 

Unwalled Villages. 

He cited in particular certain verses from the 
thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel's prophecies, and 
in particular verses 11 and 12, which read thus : — 

" And thou shalt say, I will go to the land 
of unwalled villages ; I will go to them that 
are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwell- 
ing without walls, and having neither bars nor 
gates, to take a spoil, and to take a prey ; to 
turn thine hand upon the desolate places that 
are now inhabited, and upon the people that 
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten 
cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of 
the land." 

The context of that remarkable prediction leaves 
us without any necessity of guessing when it will 
be, or where it will be, for such context informs us 



i8 Palestine and the Powers 

it will be in " the latter years ", and that it will be 
upon "the mountains of Israel." That is what 
we read in verse 8 ': — 

" After many days thou shalt be visited ; 
in the latter years thou shalt come into the 
Land that is brought back from the sword, 
and is gathered out of many people, against 
the mountains of Israel, which have been 
always waste ; but it is brought forth out of 
the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of 
them." 

For the moment, leaving the question as to what, 
or who, the invading power thus addressed as 
" thou " is, let us note that for twenty-five, long 
centuries it has been on record that at some future 
time, termed " the latter years ", the Land of the 
Jew, which has been uninhabited and desolate, 
would be re-inhabited and blooming ; that Jewish 
colonies would be established " on the mountains 
of Israel " — " unwalled villages ", " dwelHng safely 
all of them." 

But, be it noted that for seventeen hundred 
long dreary years — 1,700 years ! — there was not 
the slightest sign of any such movement. From 
the time of the Hadrian Edict, a.d, 135, till, as we 
have said, the Sultan of Turkey opened the Land in 
1856, there was no apparent reason for thinking 
the Jew would ever be free to return to " the land 
of his fathers " (humanly speaking ; for, of course, 
it was emphatically a matter of divine prophecy) 
Even in 1856 there was by no means any rapid 
return. At first it was very slow business— a 



A Grand Outlook 19 

matter of " here a little, there a Httle " ; and that 
is just what God inspired His prophet, Ezekiel, 
to say it would be. That prophet, being himself 
one of the captives in a foreign land, would be able 
to appreciate the glorious messages he had to con- 
vey to his fellow-captives. 

A Grand Outlook. 

Look at chapter xxxvi. In verse i we have this 
soul-inspiring command : — 

" Thou son of man, prophesy unto the 
mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of 
Israel, hear the word of the Lord." 

In verses 10 and 11 : — 

" I will multiply men upon you, all the house of 
Israel, even all of it : and the cities shall be 
inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded : 
and I will multiply upon you man and beast ; 
and they shall increase and bring fruit : and 
I will settle you after your old estates, and will 
do better unto you than at your beginnings : 
and ye shall kn6w that I am the Lord," 

In verse 24 : — 

" For I will take you from among the heathen, 
and gather you out of all countries, and will 
bring you into your own land." 

And in verse 35 : — 

" And they shall say, This land that was 
desolate is become like the garden of Eden ; 
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities 
are become fenced, and are inhabited." 



20 Palestine and the Powers 

Dry Bones. 

In the following chapter (xxxvii.) we have the 
evidence that it would be a gradual process. Ezekiel 
is there given a word picture in vision as to how it 
would be all brought about. The long-scattered 
Jews are there represented as so many " dry bones ", 
in graves in a valley in a foreign country. In verse 
II he is distinctly informed 

" These bones are the whole house of Israel." 

And they are represented as lamenting thus :• — 

" Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : 
we are cut off for our parts " — or, as it is better 
rendered in the Revised Version — " we are 
clean cut off." 

The prophet was all intent, as well he might be 
in view of such an exciting picture. He watched 
the " dry boives ", and what did he see ? He saw 
just what he had been previously told to prophecy. 
In verses 4-6 : — 

" Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto 
them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the 
Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these 
bones : Behold, I will cause breath to enter 
into you, and ye shall live : and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord ; and I will lay sinews 
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put 
breath in you, and ye shall live ; and ye shall 
know that I am the Lord." 

Ezekiel saw it all. He saw the sinews come 
upon the "dry bones," and "the flesh" and 



Sure Word of Prophecy 21 

"the skin"; and then he saw "the broath " 
enter the resuri<-y^tecl bodv\s, with the result, to 
use the words of Scripture, verse so; — 

" They hved, and stood upon their feet, an 
exceeding great army." 

The meaning of it all was told to Ezekiel 
in language found in verse 12 : — 

" Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O my 
people, I will open your graves, and cause you 
to come up out of your graves, and bring you 
into the land of Israel." 

It is not every Jew who is prepared to accept 
such an assurance from the prophets of Israel. 
For instance, the present Lord Chief Justice (Lord 
Reading) told Mr. Stephen Graham he did not think 
it hkely that the Children of Israel would return 
to Palestine ; but his interviewer, who had travelled 
far and wide among the Jews, replied, " Neverthe- 
less, the air just now is full of prophecy about the 
return of the Jews. The Jews themselves are whis- 
pering much about the fulfilment of the old 
prophecies, and though it is not likely that the 
Rothschilds and the great financiers will go to 
Jerusalem, I believe there may be something in 
the possibility of re-establishment of the Jews in 
Palestine as a nation." 

Sure Word of Prophecy. 

Has not God been as good as His word ? Has 
He not been at work among the " dry bones " of 
Israel ? Have not the Jews themselves lamented 
their dry-bono condition for over 1,700 years ? It 



22 Palestine and the Powers 

is not many years since that their representative 
organ, The Jewish Chronicle, in a- leading article, 
printed this laniep/t ; — 

" We are passing through critical times. 
We want a first-class brain to gnide us ; and 
a first-class personality to shake the dry hones 
of Judaism." 

When Sir Moses Montefiore visited the Holy 
Land, was not Israel complaining in the words of 
the prophet Ezekiel : — 

" Our hope is lost ; we are clean cut off " ? 

That is the sum and substance of what is contained 
in the diary of his visit kept by Sir Moses Monte- 
fiore, and which we have had the pleasure of read- 
ing. He grieved at having to admit that in the 
whole land only 500 Jews and Jewesses could be 
found ; and they — oh, " Tell it not in Gath ! 
Publish it not in Ashkelon ! " Drop the curtain 
over such a sorry picture, and let us look at things 
Jewish since then. Truly, the "dry bones" are 
being transformed into " an exceeding great army " 
of ardent nationahsts, as full of hope as the " dry 
bones " were of despair. Just think of these facts, 
which can be verified at any good library : — 

In 1827. — Not more than 500 Jews in the 
whole of Palestine. 

In 1856. — The Hadrian Edict annulled, and 
the Jews invited to return. 

In 1875. — " The Jewish Colonization Fund '* 
founded. 



Theodore Herzl 23 

In 1896. — Dr. Theodore Herzl startled the 
whole of Jewry with his idea of a " Jewish 
State." 

In 1915. — One hundred thousand Jews settled 
in Palestine. 

Theodore Herzl. 

Not only did Dr. Herzl gain the ears and many of 
the hearts of his fellow-Israelites, but he roused the 
whole civilized world with his suggestion of Pales- 
tine for the Jews as a Judean State. And no 
wonder ! Let us reproduce the closing words of 
the pamphlet which had such a marvellous effect : — 

" Therefore, I believe that a wondrous genera- 
tion of Jews will spring into existence The 
Maccabeans will rise again. 

" Let me repeat once more my opening 
words — Jews wish to have a State, and they 
shall have one. 

" We shall live at last as free men on our own 
soil, and die peacefully in our own home. 

" The world will be freed by our liberty, 
enriched by our wealth, and magnified by our 
greatness. 

" And whatever we attempt there to accom- 
plish for our own welfare will react with bene- 
ficent force for the good of humanity." 

This wonderful man — this Jew — was lionized 
everywhere, except in Russia, Interviews were 



24 Palestine and the Powers 

obtained by him with the King of Italy, with the 
German Emperor, with the Pope at Rome, and — 
with the Sultan of Turkey, who has Palestine in his 
grasp. 

Israel Zangwill. 

True, Dr. Herzl died July 4th, 1904, but not with- 
out having set in motion a movement to which no 
mortal power can put a stop. Admitted that in 
the eyes of many the death of Dr. Herzl and the 
introduction of Mr. Israel Zangwill as leader of " the 
Territorial Scheme " (which was formulated the 
following year, and means anywhere for the Jews 
except Palestine), apparently gave a set-back to 
the Zionist cry of " Palestine for the Jews " ; but 
it was only apparent — not real — as all who have 
eyes can now see. 

Mr. Foster Fraser in his Conquering Jew voices 
the mere surface thinker, when he says, " The 
Zionist Movement, inaugurated to promote the 
realization of the Hebrew's dream throughout the 
ages — the return to his native Land after more than 
eighteen hundred years of homeless wandering — 
suffers, as do many movements with idealistic 
aspirations, from lack of unanimity of opinion among 
its supporters. Many distinguished Jews, while 
most desirous of centralizing the race in some land 
they might call their own, are by no means sure that 
the Holy Land offers, in modern days, the condi- 
tions essential to the successful establishment of 
a self-supporting Jewish State. Sites in other 
countries, particularly in British East Africa, are 
under consideration by the Jewish Territorial 



The Basle Programme 25 

Organization, of which Mr. Israel Zangwill is presi- 
dent." 

Extremes meet. And it seems to us that such 
was so when the gifted playwright was placed in 
the chair vacated by the devout and enthusiastic 
Zionist. But though they were Hnked by the 
" chair," they were, in real Hfe and aspirations, as 
far apart as the Poles. We say this with every 
desire to be absolutely fair with Mr. Zangwill, and 
therefore here state that he has written us disown- 
ing any intention of excluding Palestine from his 
Programme of the Jewish Territorial Organiza- 
tion. But our impeachment remains. Mr. Israel 
Zangwill is not a Zionist in the sense or to the extent 
that his predecessor, Dr. Theodore Herzl, was. 
With the latter it was wholly and solely " Palestine 
for the Jews " and " Judea a State" ; and neither 
Argentina nor South Africa found any place in his 
projects or schemes. With Mr. Zangwill it is 
different, and he docs not deny it. 

The Basle Programme. 

Genuine Zionists do not need telling or reminding, 
but outsiders do, that the first article of the Basle 
programme runs as follows : — 

" Zionism strives to create for the Jewish 
people a home in Palestine secured by legal 
guarantees." 

And now what do we find are the relative positions 
of the aims and schemes of the two men ? " Terri- 
toriahsm" has fallen flat — nay, it is to all intents 
and purposes " as dead as a door nail," and its 



26 Palestine and the Powers 

creator is a success in what more befits him — novel 
writing. On the other hand, " Zionism " is more 
aUve than ever it was. Since Herzl died more than 
thirty thousand Jews have gone back to Palestine ; 
and the Holy Land is more " the Land of Israel " 
than ever it has been since the Bar-cochba rebelhon. 

Upon this subject we can speak with the authority 
of an eye-witness. In igoi, the writer and his wife 
(with Mr. C. C. Walker, the Editor of The Christa- 
delphian) went the round of Judea. That visit 
created an appetite for more information ; and 
so, in the same company, the next year we again 
visited the Land. We leisurely did it from north 
to south, with the aid of tents, and horses, and mules. 
We saw much more than we saw before ; but 
not sufficient to arouse one's enthusiasm very 
high in what we may term the Zionist ther- 
mometer. 

Ten Years Later. 

Ten years rolled by, and with them came a grow- 
ing desire to again " view the Land " ; and there 
came not only the desire, but the opportunity. 
Well provided with letters of introduction from 
some of the best known Zionists of Germany and 
Great Britain, we decided to avail ourselves of the 
opportunity, but determined on a prolonged 
stay in and around Jerusalem itself, which is really 
the hub of the Zionist wheel. At the same time, 
we did not shut our eyes to Zionist progress outside 
the Jerusalem radius — for progress there has been. 
And then (1914), two years later, we paid another 
visit to the Land of Promise, and found that the 
progress of the Jew was more than maintained. In 




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Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 27 

Palestine, as a whole, in place of the 500 nonde- 
script Jews in the Land when Sir Moses Montefiore 
visited it in 1827, there are now 500 two hundred 
times over ! — Jews who are fast supplanting the 
unbusinesslike Gentiles, whether the latter be Chris- 
tian or Moslem. Of these 100,000 Jews, 70,000 to 
80,000 live in and around the Holy City itself. 

Whereas, even so comparatively recently as 1882, 
a thriving Jewish colony, or ghetto, was somewhat 
of a phenomenon, there are now no fewer than 
57 within trumpet call of the walls of Jerusalem. 
With the aid of some of the good friends we made 
during our last two visits, we have been able to 
tabulate them in chronological order, thus : — 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes, 

In and Around Jerusalem, with Dates 
WHEN Founded. 

In 1852 : 

Mishkenoth Shaananim (D'^JJ^Ji' ^^^22t^D. 
" Dwelling-places of Ease " or " Security ") . Known 
as the "Moses Montefiore Alms-houses", and owe 
their origin to a legacy of Juda Touro (Yehuda 
Thora), of New Orleans, America. With the aid 
of the Montefiore Fund there are now 26 Tenements, 
with about 130 occupants.* 

* The known population of many of these colonies averaged 
five to a tenement ; therefore, all have been reckoned on that 
basis. 



28 Palestine and the Powers 

In 18O0 : 

Meah Shaarim [U^I]^^ T]^J2, " The Hundred 
Gates "). Excepting the Alms-honscs above named, 
this is the oldest, as well as the largest, Jewish 
Colony in the Land. It was founded by a 
Building Society for promoting Jewish buildings in 
Jerusalem. It has 600 Tenements, with a popu- 
lation of about 3,000. 

In 1869: 

Nahalath Shebah {n}!2tl/ rbn}, " Heritage of 
Seven", or "A Seven-fold Heritage"). Founded 
by private individuals. It has 180 Tenements, 
and about 900 inhabitants. 

BiRKET Mamilla (D^^I^Q ^"iDD nDHD. " The 
Pool of Mamilla"). Colony of the Mughrabim, 
founded by private Mughrabi (African) Jews. It 
comprises 35 Tenements, with about 175 inhabi- 
tants. 

SuKKATH Shalom {U^bi:/ JlIllD, " Booth", or 
" Tabernacle of Peace "). Founded by private 
Jews. It has 30 Tenements, and a population of 
about 150. 

In 1872 : 

Beth D.wid (in fy^l "House of David"). 
Founded with the donation of a rich private Jew. 
It has 10 Tenements, with about 50 occupants. 

In 1S76: 
MiSHKENOTH IsRAEL (Hj^-):^'' illJ^C^'C ''Dwelling- 







H 

■Si = 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 29 

places of Is/acl "). Founded by a Building Society 
for promoting Jewish Buildings in Jerusalem. It 
has 125 Tenements, and about G25 inhabitants. 

In 1879 : 

NissiM Bak (p3 UV^l the name of a Rabbi). 
Founded by a Building Society for promoting 
Jewish Buildings in Jerusalem. It has 160 Tene- 
ments, and about 800 inhabitants. 

Eben Israel {'7^11:''' p»S, "Stone of Israel"). 
Founded by a Building Society which built every 
year not less than six houses, and expected, at the 
end of seven years, every one of its members to have 
his own house. It comprises 130 Tenements, and 
about 650 inhabitants. 

In 1880: 

Beth Yaakob (np;;^ r\^2, "House of Jacob"). 
Founded by a Building Society of 70 members, 
which decided to build ten houses every year. It 
has 40 Tenements, and about 200 inhabitants. 

In 1882: 

Mazkereth Mosheh inWD Tyiy?2. " Remem- 
brance of Moses "). Founded with money from the 
" Moses Montefiore Fund ". It has 150 Tenements, 
and about 750 inhabitants. 

Ohelei Mosheh {n^f2 h^i^H. " Tcnls of Moses"). 
Also founded with money from the " Moses Monte- 
fiore Fund ". It has 130 Tenements, and about 
650 inhabitants. 



30 Palestine and the Powers 

In 1884: 

Yamin Mosheh {r\\l*f2 ]^^\ " ^ ^^^ Right Hand 0} 
Moses"). Founded with the aid of the "Moses 
Montefiore Fund ". It has 160 Tenements, and 
about Soo inhabitants. 

In 1885: 

Beth Israel ('^^"lu^''' TV2' " House of Israel"). 
Founded by a Building Society for promoting Jew- 
ish Buildings in Jerusalem. It includes 230 Tene- 
ments, with a population of about 1,150. 

Battei Mosheh (j"l3itDin ?M^?2 Tli, " Houses 
of Moses"). Founded with a donation from Moses 
of Wittenberg, for the Poor. It has 39 Tenements, 
with a population of about 195. 

Shekonath Hatemanim (D^J;DA1 n^l^ty, " Abode 
of the Temanites"). Founded with contributions 
of London Jews for the Yemen Jews. It has 18 
Tenements, with a population of about 90. 

In 1887: 

Machaneh Yehudah (nilT r\T\}2, " Camp of 
Jiidah"). Founded by a speculative Building 
Company. It has 170 Tenements, with about 850 
inhabitants. 

In 1888: 

Shaar Hapinah (nrsn IV^. " Giiit^ of the 
Corner"). Founded by a local speculating Jewish 
Company. It has 40 Tenements, with about 200 
inhabitants. 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 31 

In 1889: 

Battei Ezrath Niddachim (D^m^ TM'^V ^ri3 
]SV'7vi', " Houses of Succour for Refugees "). 
This Colony is in Siloali, and was founded by a 
Society for helping persecuted Jews. It has 150 
Tenements, and about 750 occupants. 

Nahalath Tzevi {^2)i rhr\2, " Heritage of Tzevi ") . 
Doubtless in honour of the Jewish benefactor, 
Hirsch, whose name represents Gazelle, which is 
the meaning of Tzevi). Founded with money 
from Baron Hirsch 's Fund for the Jews from Yemen. 
It comprises go Tenements, with about 450 occu- 
pants. 

Shaarei TZEDEK (pf^ ^"IVti*, " Gates of Righteous- 
ness "). Foimded by a local speculating Jewish 
Company. It has 45 Tenements, with a population 
of about 225. 

, Ir Shalem ichz* TV' " ^% 0/ Salem ", or 
"Safety"). Founded by a similar Company. 
It has 15 Tenements, with about 75 inhabitants. 

In 1890 : 

Shebeth Tzedek (pT^ 2D^^> " Dwelling-place of 
Righteousness"). Founded by " Urfa ", for poor 
Persian Jews. It has 250 Tenements, with a popu- 
lation of about 1,250. 

Benei Mosheh (nj^^ *^22, "Sons of Moses"). 
Founded for poor Jews, and built on a site given 
by the Central Committee of the Ashkenazi Jews 
It has 80 Tenements, with about 400 inhabitants. 



32 Palestine and the Powers 

ZlCHRON ToBiAH (H'^QltD ]My, " Memorial of 
Tobiah", sec Ezra ii. Co; Zech. vi. lo). Founded 
by a local speculating Company. It has 40 Tene- 
ments, with a population of about 200. 

Battei Shimon (nj;;2J^ ^r\2, "Houses of 
Simeon"). Founded by the Scphardim Community 
for the Poor. It has 25 Tenements, and about 
125 inhabitants. 



hi 1891 : 

Shaarei Yerushalaim (D^'7:^'1T ^1V^*> " Gales 
of Jerusalem "). Founded by a local speculative 
Jewish Building Company. It has 50 Tenements, 
with about 250 inhabitants. 

Nahalath Shimon (]i;;bJ^ rhtl2, " Heritage of 
Simeon"). Founded by a similar Jewish Building 
Company, and has 36 Tenements, and about 180 
inhabitants. 

Kerem Shelomoh {T]}:h^ DID, " Vineyard of 
Solomon"). Founded by a speculating local 
Jewish Company. It has 30 Tenements, with about 
150 inhabitants. 

Ezrath Israel i^t^'^^"^ TT\1]), " Succour of 
Israel"). Founded by a similar Company. It has 
26 Tenements, with a population of about 130, 

Eben Yoshua (l/ci'liT ]3X, " Stone of Joshua "). 
Built by a Jew, partly for business. It has 12 
Tenements, and about 60 inhabitants. 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes ^^ 

In 1892 : 

Ohel Isaac {pT\^^ v'Hi^, " ^(^'li of Isaac"). 
Founded by the local Hungarian Community for 
poor Jews. It comprises 220 Tenements, with a 
population of about 1,100. 

Ohel Shelomoh i^^^hlV bil^, " Tent of 
Solomon"). Founded by a speculating local 
Community for the Poor. It has 50 Tenements, 
and about 250 occupants. 

Beth Abraham (Dn")3J^ TV2> " House of Abra- 
ham "). Founded by a local speculating Company. 
It has 38 Tenements, and about 190 inhabitants. 

Agudath Shelomoh Miland {ndjt^ TM")}^ 
'l^h^f2^ "Solomon Miland Band"). Built by a 
well-to-do Jew. It comprises 35 Tenements, and 
has about 175 inhabitants. 

Dameshek Eliezer ("iti;'^'7J<5 pJi^D"T' " Eliezer of 
Damascus ", but also see rather Genesis xv. 2, R.V. 
margin). Founded by the Horodnah Community. 
It has 25 Tenements, and about 125 inhabitants. 

Shebeth Achim (D"^nj< n^I^. " Dwelling-place of 
Brethren," allusion to Psalm cxxxiii. i). Founded 
by a speculating local Jewish Company. It has 
6 Tenements, and about 30 inhabitants. 

In 1893 : 

Rehoboth (mninn- "Broad Places "). Founded 
by rich Bokhara Jews. It comprises 200 superior 
dwellings, with about 1,000 inhabitants. 



34 Palestine and the Powers 

Nahalath Zion (ntj; rhr\2^ " Heritage of Zion "). 
Founded by the " Alliance Israelite Universelle ". 
It has 60 Tenements, and about 300 inhabitants. 

In 1894 : 

Kenesseth Israel ('7J<"it^^ TlDJD, " Con- 
grcgaUon of Israel"). Founded by the Central 
Committee of the Ashkenazi Jews. It has 120 
Tenements, mth about 600 inhabitants. 

Ohel Simchah {DHDt^ vTli^, " Tent of Joy "). 
Founded with money provided by Jews in Hungary. 
It has 16 Tenements, and about 80 inhabitants. 

In 1895 : 

Juret el Enva (n.v^:K bi^ nir\i^}^ Local 
reference: near the Valley of Hinnom), Built 
by a private Jew. It comprises 80 Tenements, 
with about 400 inhabitants. 

In 1897: 

Nahalath Yaakob (^p;;^ rhr\2, " Heritage of 
Jacob"). Founded by the Warsaw Community, 
Comprises 50 Tenements, with about 250 inhabi- 
tants. 

In 1902 : 

Battei Nathan (]ri3 "^TM> " Houses of Nathan "). 
Built with money from " Nathan of Chicago ". 
It numbers 50 Tenements, with about 250 inhabi- 
tants. 

Battei Mosheh Menahem Vodner (iJlim 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 35 

DnJD nj£')!D ^il2. " Houses of Moses Menahcm 
Vodner "). Erected by Moses Menahem Vodner, of 
New York, It has 20 Tenements, with about 100 
occupants. 



In 190 



J 



battei yaakob badodah (mnn 2pv^ ^ryi, 

" Houses of Jacob Badodah "). Built with donation 
from Jacob Badodah, of Warsaw. It comprises 
50 Tenements, with about 250 inhabitants. 

Battei Kolel Minsk {pi}y^f2 hb^D ^n3, " Houses 
of the Minsk Community"). Founded by the 
Minsk Community. It numbers 8 Tenements, 
with about 40 occupants. 

In 1905 : 

ZiCHRON MosHEH {r]lL*?2 ]My, " Memorial of 
Moses"). Erected with the aid of the "Moses 
Montefiore Fund". There are 130 Tenements, 
with about 650 inhabitants. 

//; 1906 : 

AcHAVAH (mnj«5> "Brotherhood"). Built by a 
local Brotherhood Association. It numbers 40. 
Tenements, with about 200 inhabitants. 

In 1907 : 

Shaarei Hesed (ion ''"lyti^. " Gates of Mercy"). 

Erected by a General Charitable Association. 

There are 40 Tenements, with about 200 inhabi- 
tants. 



36 Palestine and the Powers 

Shekonath Rabbi Tzadok {p']'^i; >21 T^2^^ly, 
"Abode of Rabbi Tzadok"). Founded by the 
"Alliance Israelite Universelle ". It numbers 15 
Tenements, and about 75 inhabitants. 



In 1908 : 

EsHEL Abraham (Dni3i»^ hwi^, " Tamarisk Tree 
of Abraham", or "Grove", see Genesis xxi. 33). 
Built by Georgian Jews. It has no Tenements, 
with a population of about 550. 

GiBEATH Shaul {^^i^ r\l!22> " High-place of 
Saul " : see i Sam. xv. 34). Built by a speculat- 
ing Jewish Company, It comprises 30 Tenements, 
with about 150 inhabitants. 

In 1910 : 

Battei Mendel Rand (T^T ^12?2 Ti3, " Houses 
of Mendel Rand"). Erected with donation of 
Mendel Rand for the poor Ashkenazi Jews. There 
are 26 Tenements, and about 130 occupants. 

Yegia Kapaim (D'^D^ V^2\ " Lifting-up of 
Hands " ; i.e., " labour of hands ", see Gen. xxxi. 
42). Built by the "Workmen's Association". 
It numbers 20 Tenements, with about 100 inhabi- 
tants. 

Battei Kolel Zebenberger (iy\'2 \1^ "UT^UDV, 
" Houses of the Zebenberger Community "). Erected 
by the Zebenberger Community. It has 16 
Tenements, and about 80 occupants. 



Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 37 

Battei Dov Hornstein (pjot^'jlin 2^1 Ti3. 
" Houses of Dov Hornstein "). Erected with dona- 
tions by Dov Hornstein for the poor of the Volin 
Community. It numbers 15 Tenements, with 
about 75 inhabitants. 



1911 AND Since. 

We cannot trace, and therefore cannot record, 
the founding of any new Colonies or Ghettoes during 
the past six or seven years ; but that does not mean 
that Zionism has receded. Not by any means. It 
simply means that Zionism, in common with all 
sections of society, and all movements, has been 
more or less affected by the troublous times of the 
last few years. The Turko-Italian war of 1911-12, 
and the great European war, commencing 1914, 
both directly affected the three seaports of the Holy 
Land (Jaffa, Haifa, and Beyrout), thereby inter- 
fering with the tide of Zionism. But only short- 
visioned people will look upon such as a waning 
of the movement. We admit that on the outbreak 
of the Great European war a few thousands of Jews 
hurried away to British protected Egypt, and a 
few to America. But the latter were very little 
above the yearly average, and the former will, no 
doubt, quite as quickly hurry back to the Land as 
soon as the war is over. Hundreds of Italians left 
Palestine when war broke out between Turkey 
and Italy in 1911, but thousands went back when 
peace was proclaimed. And history will repeat 
itself, for there is no doubt that where thousands left 
in 1914, tens of thousands will hurriedly return as 
the result of peace ; especially when it is fully 



38 Palestine and the Powers 

realized what a British Protectorate means. Wc 
make bold to predict that the undcsired period of 
interrupted progress will liave the same effect that 
enforced idleness has, and that the reaction will be 
great. 

The Foreign Office of the British Government 
has already raised the hopes of Zionists beyond all 
description by its message to the Jews through Lord 
Rothschild in the now historical letter of Mr. Bal- 
four, in which he conveys the following message from 
His Majesty's Government, which had been sub- 
mitted to, and approved of by, the Cabinet : — 

" His Majesty's Government view with favour 
the establishment in Palestine of a national 
home for the Jewish people, and will use their 
best endeavours to facilitate the achievement 
of this object, it being clearly understood that 
nothing shall be done which may prejudice 
the civil and religious rights of existing non- 
Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights 
and poUtical status enjoyed by Jews in any 
other country. 
" Foreign Office, Nov. 2, 1917." 

Then, too, wc must not forget that the divine 
programme requires that the outcast Jews shall be 
in Egypt at the Time of the End, for the prophet 

says : — 

" It shall come to pass in that day that the 
Lord shall set his hand again the second time 
to recover the remnant of his people which 
shall be left . . . from Egypt " (Isaiah 

xi. II). 



A British Protectorate 39 

A British Protectorate. 

We shall refer in later pages to the obtaining of 
a British Protectorate over the Holy Land — for 
a while — sooner or later, in order that Britain may 
do the work God has assigned her in the Prophets, 
but we will here draw attention to the fact that even 
the Germans of Germany as well as the German 
Zionists detect which way the wind is blowing and 
adapting their sails thereto. Note these telegrams, 
for instance, reproduced in all the leading papers 
of January 7, 1918 :— 

Baron von dem Bussche, Foreign Under-Secre- 
tary, in receiving a Zionist deputation, declared : 

" We appreciate the desire for the develop- 
ment of their civilization cherished by the 
Jewish minority in countries where they have a 
strongly developed life of their own. We meet 
them with full sympathy and are ready to give 
benevolent support to their efforts in this 
respect. As regards the aspirations in Palestine 
of Jewry, especially Zionists, we welcome the 
recent statement of the Grand Vizier Talaat 
Pasha, expressing the Turkish Government's 
intention, in accordance with the friendly 
attitude they have always adopted towards 
the Jews, to promote a flourishing Jewish settle- 
ment within the limits of the capacity of the 
country, local self-government corresponding 
to the country's laws, and free development 
of their civilization." 



40 Palestine and the Powers 

Renter's Agency also cabled the following on 
the same day : — 

M. Jacobus H. Kann, Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of the Zionist World Organization at 
the Hague, criticizes the recent statement of 
the Grand Vizier on Turkey's attitude towards 
Zionism, and recalls Great Britain's generous 
offer of Uganda and El Arish to Zionism at a 
time when the Turkish Government absolutely 
opposed Zionist aspirations. " If the Turkish 
Government had acknowledged the righteous- 
ness of our claims to Palestine," he added, 
" as Great Britain did in the generous state- 
ment to Lord Rothschild, then we should be 
ready to discuss means to satisfy our claims." 

And as regards the German Zionists, the following 
information is as enhghtening as it is cheerful : — 

"The Jewish Press Bureau at Stockholm 
announces that a conference of the German 
Zionist Federation, recently held in Berhn, 
unanimously voted a resolution thanking the 
British Government for their attitude regard- 
ing the establishment of a Jewish national home 
in Palestine." 

It does not matter at all to the Zionists what 
Power protects their interests in Palestine so long 
as they are protected, and from all we saw in our 
repeated visits to the Land we were convinced that, 
as far as Turkish rapacity would allow, the Colonies 
would continue to thrive, not to say survive, 
in spite of the war, and our conviction has been 



Good and Bad Colonies 41 

confirmed by the latest reports from the invading 
British Army concerning the Jewish Colonies 
between Jaffa and Jerusalem. None of them has 
suffered to the extent pessimists wanted to make 
out. 



Good and Bad Colonies. 

We would not for one moment have our readers 
imagine that all the foregoing Colonies are every- 
thing, or anything like everything, that we could 
wish. Far from it. Many of them are wretched 
enough in all conscience. Some of them can 
only be described as places to " exist " in. 
In fact, many of them are known as " Box " 
or " Tin Colonies ", so-called from the temporary 
character of their construction. The less said about 
their sanitary arrangements the better ; although, 
in sheer justice to the poor, pitiable Jewish occu- 
pants, we must say the fault does not lie with them, 
for they are but the victims of circumstances. 
We have no hesitation in saying the average Gentile 
of the same class would come off even worse under 
similar conditions. 

But we must not dwell too much on the dark side 
of things. The sunny side is getting brighter and 
brighter, as we shall see when we come to treat of 
that charming Jaffa suburb known as Tel Abib, 
founded and practically controlled by Dr. Arthur 
Ruppin (see page 59, etc.) ; and that equally charm- 
ing Jerusalem suburb, controlled by Mr. David 
Yelhn, and known as the Lamel Settlement (see 
page 66, etc.), 



42 Palestine and the Powers 

A Jerusalem Prison. 

Most people are said to be " creatures of environ- 
ment ", or " victims of circumstances ". If that 
be so, then clearly the Jew is not entirely to blame. 
The Syrian circumstances and environment are 
notoriously bad — bad in the extreme. They are 
Turkish ! We had once been told that if we would 
know something of official Turkish dirt, we must 
visit a Turkish prison. With such in mind we had 
for years wanted to get inside one of these penal 
establishments, or " Blood prisons " as they are 
called. We had a glimpse of one at Acre in 1914, 
just between the bars, as it were. We were informed 
that the only certain way of getting inside was to 
transgress the Turkish law. There were two ways 
of doing such. One was to commit violence of 
some sort against one's fellow-man, and the other 
was to offend the " Powers that be ", spiritual or 
otherwise. Bible precepts would not allow us to 
adopt the first way, although bribery would soon 
have made a way of escape out of the prison after 
we had sufficiently satisfied our curiosity. And 
as to the second, we could not adopt that way as 
the resultant durance vile could not so easily be 
ended even by means of baksheesh. 

The British Consul's endeavours to get us a per- 
mit ended in a flat refusal from the Governor of 
the prison at Jerusalem, as "no Europeans, for 
the present, are allowed to visit the prison." We 
then heard that native relatives of prisoners await- 
ing sentence were allowed to have an interview, and 
if we could find one we might possibly get through 
with him. We discovered one from Samaria, and 



A Jerusalem Prison 43 

as he was an ex-dragoman of nearly threescore and 
ten, and therefore " knew a thing or two ", we rehed 
on his promise to get us to the desired haven, of 
course to the tune of the usual baksheesh considera- 
tion. But just as we thought all was well, and we 
had passed the various sentries on guard, and other 
officials, even to the swearing of our guide " by the 
beard of Mahomet ", we were unceremoniously 
brought to a standstill at the last door, and escorted 
back to the entrance, and solemnly warned never 
to appear there again unless we wanted to be kept 
there. It transpired that some one or other of the 
officials recognized us as having been on a similar 
errand upon a previous occasion with our friend 
Mr. Dunn, of Abraham's Vineyard, and feared the 
reasons for our curiosity. 

Not to be entirely " done ", we got our guide to 
get us a look at the Remand prison. We succeeded. 
The sight of the poor prisoners we shall not soon 
forget. They were herded together in a barred place 
like wild animals. No furniture of any description ; 
not even a single sanitary appHance of any kind. 
Their food was pushed through the bars to them. 
The floor was filthy beyond describing in these 
pages. We could well believe what we were told 
was the reason we were not allowed in the Blood 
prisons. They had been so neglected, in spite of 
Government grants, that the Governor was afraid 
Europeans might write their experiences, and such 
reach the ears of the Sultan, and cause trouble. 
What we saw was bad enough — horrible ! What 
must those be like which we wore not allowed 
to see ! 



44 Palestine and the Powers 

The " London Standard " Fables. 

What we have written about the Turkish prisons 
is true also of Turkish cities, towns, villages, and 
things generally. The " Unspeakable Turk ", or, 
as Mr. Gladstone so expressively put it, the damnable 
Turk, remains so still. The improvements in Pales- 
tine, if not entirely due to the Jew, are certainly 
not in any way due to the Turk. He does not 
improve, nor do things while under his control, 
in spite of the fables which sometimes appear even 
in the leading daily papers about the modernity of 
Eastern places and customs. Here are extracts 
from a whole column of such nonsense which was 
published recently in the London Standard : — 

" Where Jaffa gate once stood, to be closed 
at sundown against all stragglers of the night, 
is now a broad open avenue of imposing aspect." 

" Many of the picturesquely narrow and 
crooked streets in the heart of the city have 
also been widened and straightened to admit 
of the clamorous passage of electric tramcars 
and whizzing taxicabs, which are often 
hampered by the serene disdain of some 
obstructing countryman mounted upon his 
primitive and slothful ass." 

" Electric lights are everywhere, flashing 
their message of the New in public buildings, 
hotels, private houses, and street lamps, and 
in glittering signs of potted foods and patent 
medicines." 



The " London Standard '* Fables 45 

" Motor cars are quite common, too, and it 
sometimes brought a laugh to the lips to see 
a solemn turbaned Turk or Arab sheikh in 
flowing caftan, whirl by- in a handsome touring 
car of the latest model." 

" Even the watering carts, exactly like those 
you see in your own London streets, have 
replaced the bearded Jew with his goat-skin of 
water, while an alarm of fire promptly brings 
out a clattering rush of petrol-driven engines, 
ladder trucks, and water towers of the most 
improved patterns." 

" There is also an excellent system of water 
supply and drainage." 

The Standard printed all that rubbish on the 
authority of an alleged " President of the Wesleyan 
Theological Seminary, Boston, U.S.A." — the Rev. 
S. F. Graham. There is no such Seminary, with 
any such President, and never was. We personally 
explored Boston for such a " Rev." and found that 
he was as much a myth as any one of the many 
improvements he is alleged to have reported to 
the London Standard. Evidently the Standard 
editor was caught napping, but had not the courage 
to say so publicly, although he has been assured 
that the entire string of so-called improvements 
is a tissue of lies. The improvements did not 
exist except in print in his paper. We men- 
tion this matter because we find the fictions 
are being repeated on the pubUc platform as 
gospel. 



46 Palestine and the Powers 

Typical Water Supply. 

Not the smallest of the troubles of the Jewish 
Colonics is the problem of the water supply. It is 
a problem indeed. Of constant /water supply, as it 
is known in all other civihzed cities, towns, and 
villages, Jerusalem knows practically nothing ; 
for of what adequate use is the intermittent flow 
through the 3I or 4-inch pipe which brings water 
to that paltry outlet over the Lower Pool of Gihon. 
And even less adequate are the little springs in the 
valley of the Kidron, known as the Virgin's Fountain 
and Job's Well. Barely sufficient is the supply 
for one Colony, let alone the whole of this now 
densely populated city, with its fast-growing suburbs. 
The inhabitants have to depend on their cisterns, 
in which are collected " the early and the latter 
rains ", and, we might add, the filth they bring in 
their train. Most of these huge cisterns Or reservoirs 
are underground, and in some cases about thirty 
feet square, the inlets at the top being level with 
the roads ; hence the inflow of filth from the roofs 
of the houses and the byways. We were foolish 
enough to look down the hole by which the water 
is drawn up from one of these cisterns, and we shall 
never forget it. When we expressed our surprise 
that cholera did not result from using such water 
our guide, who was an ex-medical officer of 
the Turkish Government, simply and smilingly 
exclaimed he did not think cholera germs could 
live in such water ! Filters are entirely unknown 
to the inhabitants, but the people are beginning 
to learn the advantages of boiling the water for 
drinking purposes. 



** We have Seen with our Eyes " 47 

So long ago as 1863, Dr. John Irwine Wliitty, 
the eminent civil engineer, devised a simple and 
inexpensive means of reproviding Jerusalem with 
a constant flow of water from the Pools of Solomon 
at Etham, beyond Bethlehem, some seven miles 
in a direct line from the city. The pools there are 
said to be furnished with water ^rom a sealed foun- 
tain connected therewith. He estimated this 
scheme would only have cost about five or six 
thousand pounds, but, Hke most other schemes for 
improving the Holy Land, it all ended in smoke. 



'* We have Seen with our Eyes.'* 

Day after day we spent our whole time visiting 
any and every place or building that was Jewish — 
colonies, ghettoes, institutions, schools, and business 
houses — all of which showed beyond the shadow of 
a doubt that the God who i^spired Ezekiel to write 
and foretell the uprise of Zionism, the establishment 
of unwalled villages upon the mountains of Israel 
and the reclamation of the waste places, has been 
at work carrying out His programme. And not 
only so, but that Jesus Christ to whom 

" All power is given ... in heaven and 
in earth " (Matt, xxviii. 18) 

is still carrying out the work the Father has given 
Him to do. The programme is given in symbol in 
that marvellous " Book of Revelation," at the open- 
ing of which He assures us, chapter i., verse iS : — 

" I am he that liveth and was dead ; and 
behold, I am ahve for evermore." 



48 Palestine and the Powers 

And what is not the least interesting part of His 
programme is, of com'se, what is to happen at the 
end, so that we might know when to expect Him 
to fulfil His promise contained in those words : — 

" If I go away ... I will come again " 
(John xiv. 3) ; 

or, to use the language of the Apocalypse, chapter 
xi., verse 15 : — 

" The seventh angel sounded, and there were 
great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms 
of this world are become the kingdoms of our 
Lord, and of his Christ." 

The event previous to that he describes in the 
following words, found in chapter xvi., verse 12 : — 

" The sixth angel poured out his vial upon 
the great river, Euphrates ; and the water 
thereof was dried up that the way of the Kings 
of the East might be prepared." 

Interpreting the symbolic Euphrates on Bible 
principles, it represents the Turkish Empire, seeing 
it runs through the territory belonging to that power, 
and siu"ely we have evidence enough that Jesus has 
been gradually drying up that empire in whose 
grasp the Holy Land has been for so many centuries. 
The capital city of this Land is fast changing its 
complexion, although it is still the most cosmopohtan 
city of its size in the world. No less than 45 tongues 
are said to be spoken there. Jerusalem is no longer 
a Moslem city ; or an Ai-ab city ; it is no longer 
a Latin or Greek city ; but a city of Jews. 



Jerusalem a City of Jews 49 

Jerusalem a City of Jews. 

We will illustrate this fact with a little incident 
that has left an indelible impression on our mind. 
It happened upon a certain Saturday afternoon. 
We wanted to purchase a number of articles as 
presents, and, among other things, decided upon 
some Turkish fezzes, which are worn in the Land 
by nearly all the Jews, as well as the Turks and 
Christians. As the result of enquiries as to the best 
market, we were directed to " Christian Street ", 
so-called because it is the principal thoroughfare (!) 
in the " Christian Quarter " of Jerusalem. The 
other " quarters " are the Moslem, the Armenian, 
and the Jewish. Off we went to Christian Street, 
and what did we find ? That out of every twenty 
shops or bazaars on an average only one was oj^en 
for business. What was the matter ? We asked 
the first man we met who could speak English, 
and he told us it was always like that on Sabbath 
day. But we urged it was Saturday, not Sunday ! 
*' Yes ", he replied ; " but this ' Christian ' Street 
is now mainly occupied by the Jews." It thrilled 
us, and we could not help turning to Romans xi. 
15, which runs thus : — 

" If the casting away of them be the recon- 
ciling of the world, what shall the receiving of 
them be but hfe from the dead ? " 

Yes, " life from the dead " very aptly expresses 
the uprise of the Jew in these " latter years " in 
his own land. Where the Jew is allowed a free hand, 
the ordinary Gentile " hasn't a look in." 



50 Palestine and the Powers 

The more we have seen of the Jews, the more we 
have been drawn to them, and the more we love 
them ; for intimate acquaintance with them enables 
one to endorse the implied judgment of Mr. Stephen 
Graham, when, in the course of some very interest- 
ing facts in his work, Russia and the World, he speaks 
about " The Jews with that sweet reasonableness, 
kindness, and common-sense, which distinguish 
their life when they are not too embittered by perse- 
cution." 

A Touch of Human Natnre. 

During our round of visits we came across more 
than one incident which increased our respect and 
love for the Jew. At one of the Jewish Colonies we 
visited the literary head thereof, or, as we should 
call him in Britain, the village schoolmaster. In 
his back garden we found fifty or sixty children. 
On asking what it all meant, he introduced us to a 
young Jewess — his bride — they were married but 
two or three days previously. But we were more 
curious than ever to know what this company of 
children in their best clothes meant. He then 
informed us that his wife and himself did not think 
it right to be happy without trying to make others 
happy at the same time, and therefore the first few 
days of their honeymoon they were spending at 
home trying to make their neighbours happy by 
means of teas and the like ; and to-day was the 
children's turn ! 

But we came across an even more touching 
instance of unselfishness than that. A young Jewish 
couple had decided on their first week " over the 



The Jew at a Premium 51 

hills and far away " in Galilee by themselves ; but, 
on the eve of their marriage, in paying a few visits 
to friends to say good-bye, and to receive congratu- 
lations, the bride came across an old schoolmate 
who had married three or four years previously, 
and had two little ones and a sick husband. On 
calling, she found the latter dead. The newly- 
married couple had no honeymoon in Galilee ! They 
stayed at home, and spent the money in buying 
the widow a sewing machine ! Not many Gentiles 
make such a sacrifice as that. 

The Jew at the Top. 

Just another incident to show " which way the 
wind blows." A card was handed in to us one even- 
ing at " Olivet House ", the well-managed and home- 
like hotel of Mr. and Mrs. Hensman and nephew, 
where we were staying. On it was printed, " Isaac 
Nissenbaum, Clokes Pressed." We interviewed 
him, and enquired the object of his coming. " Oh ", 
he replied, " I have come to clean your clothes." 
Yes, they sadly needed cleaning after all the rough 
exploring we had been doing ; but we had no others 
to wear while these were being cleaned ; that, how- 
ever, was no obstacle to " Isaac." " You take them 
off, and go to bed, and I will bring them back nicely 
done in two hours." " Isaac " was as good as his 
promise. No wonder the Gentile is being ousted by 
the Jew. 

The Jew at a Premium. 

There is a remarkable opinion expressed by 
Rozanoff, the Russian writer, in Fallen Leaves. We 



52 Palestine and the Powers 

might almost term it an involuntary prophecy. He 
says, " The Jew always begins with service and 
serviceableness, and ends with power and mastership. 
In the first stage he is difficult to grapple with. 
What are you to do with a man who simply stands 
and puts himself at your service ? But in the second 
stage no one can get equal with him. . . . We 
are all running to the Jews for help. And in a 
hundred years all will be with the Jews." 

We have often wondered whether Rozanoff 
and those with similar anticipations are aware that 
what they think possible or likely is an absolute 
certainty ; that the day — not The Day of the Ger- 
mans, or of the Russians, or of the British — but 
" the Day of the Lord ", when the Jew will be the 
head of all nations, and not the tail, as he has been 
for all these long centuries. It is as certain as that 
day always follows night. All Israel's inspired 
prophets tell us so, and they are either to be abso- 
lutely relied upon when they tell us " Thus saith 
Jehovah " ; or they are to be rejected as self- 
deluded dreamers. We are writing for those who 
still have unbounded faith in the prophets of Israel. 

Prophet after prophet proclaims the same story, 
and paints the same picture. 

The Coming Jew. 

The Prophet Zephaniah thus portrays it {iii. 
20) : — 

" At that time will I bring you again, even 
in the time that I gather you : for I will 
make you a name and a praise among all 



The Coming Jew 53 

people of the Earth, when I turn back your 
captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord." 

Isaiah's divinely inspired pictures are simply 
enrapturing. Just a sample or two : — 

" Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will 
lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my 
standard to the people ; and they shall bring 
thy sons (the sons of Zion) in their arms, and 
thy daughters shall be carried upon their 
shoulders. 

" And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, 
and their queens thy nursing mothers : they 
shall bow down to thee with their face toward 
the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet ; 
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord ; 
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me " 
(ch. xhx. 22, 23). 

" I will also give thee for a light to the Gen- 
tiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto 
the end of the earth " (ch. xhx. 6). 

" And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, 
and kings to the brightness of thy rising. 

" And the sons of strangers shall build up 
thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto 
thee. 

" The nation and kingdom that will not serve 
thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be 
utterly wasted. 

" The sons also of them that afflicted thee 
shall come bending unto thee ; and all they 



54 Palestine and the Powers 

that despised thee shall bow themselves down 
at the soles of thy feet " (ch. Ix. 3, 10, 12, 14). 

And Zechariah is very descriptive, not to say 
picturesque, in his prophecies. Hear him : — 

"Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; in those 
days it shall come to pass that ten men shall 
take hold out of all languages of the nations, 
even shall take hold of the skirt of him that 
is a Jew, saying, we will go with you : for we 
have heard that God is with you " (ch. viii. 23). 

The Wonderful Jew. 

Yes, the wonderful Jew ! What a past ! What 
a present ! Of course, we mean the Jew in the sense 
Paul spoke of him in his Epistle to the Romans, 
where he calls them (ch. ix. 3, 4) : — 

" My brethren, my kinsmen according to 
the flesh. Who are Israchtes ; to whom pcr- 
taineth the adoption, and the glory, and the 
covenants, and the giving of the law, and the 
service of God, and the promises," 

In that sense we endorse the language of Mr. 
Madison Peters, who, in the conclusion of his 
interesting work, The Jew as a Patriot, remarks : — 
" The Jew has given to the world the knowledge of 
the only true and living God. He has given Moses, 
who, in the twelve United States of Israel, gave to 
the world the first republic, and whose laws after 
thirty-three hundred years still form the basis of 
the civilized world's jurisprudence, Jesus, the ideal 
of the race ... of whom Strauss said, ' he 



The Incomparable Race 55 

remains the highest model of rehgion within our 
thoughts ' . . . of whom Renan declared, 
' Whatever will be the surprises of the future, Jesus 
will never be surpassed ' . . . this Jesus was a 
Jew. Dr. Max Nordau voices many when he says, 
' Who then could think of excluding him from the 
people of Israel . . . this man is ours. He 
honours our race, and we claim him as we claim the 
gospels — flowers of Jewish literature, and only 
Jewish ! Our Bible, the Old as well as the New 
Testament, was written by Jews. What would the 
world have been without the Bible ? . . . 
Liberty, charity, and brotherhood find their only 
place of abode in Bible countries ... for 
this Book we are indebted to the Jews '." 



The Incomparable Race. 

Incomparable in many ways — certainly in matters 
of health. And the reason can only be traced to 
the fact that they are bound by certain sanitary 
and other laws to which the Gentile pays no atten- 
tion — we mean the laws of Moses. True, the Jews 
only partially obey them ; but what might not 
result from a whole keeping thereof, if such good 
results accrue from only a partial obedience ? It 
is on record that in High Street, Whitechapel, the 
death rate among Jews is only 28 per 1,000 ; whereas 
in the same street the death rate of the Gentiles 
is 43 per 1,000. It is a fact also that, given the same 
number of Jews and Gentiles, there are 143 still- 
born among Gentiles, and only 89 among the Jews. 
It is also on record that, on an average, out of 1,000 
Gentiles, 750 die before they are 27 years of age ; 



56 Palestine and the Powers 

whereas with the same number of Jews, their 750 
have not disappeared until 53 years have passed. 
We are not surprised therefore at being told by 
such an authority as Hoffman of Berlin that " the 
Hfe of a Jew is 50 per cent, more valuable than 
that of any other known people." 

And when we turn from the Jew physically to the 
Jew mentally, or, rather, intellectually, we still 
find him in the fore-front. In all the schools and 
universities the world over the Jews are head and 
and shoulders over the Gentiles. In statesmanship, 
in medicine, in music, in law, in science, at all the 
examinations the Jew leads the way. If our readers 
are sufficiently interested, and can spare the time 
and money, they will find overwhelming evidence 
in those 200 pages entitled The Conquering Jew, 
by Mr. John Foster Fraser. We do not doubt 
for a moment the truthfulness of the story that, 
when the late Sir Moses Montefiore begged Prince 
Paskievitch, the Russian Governor of Poland, to 
do something for the education of the Jews, he 
exclaimed : " God forbid ; the Jews arc already too 
clever for us. How would it be if they got a good 
schooling ? " 

The Jew Financially. 

Upon this detail the Jew is even more to the front. 
In The Separated Nation, by S. Bonhomme, we 
read, ' ' Some years ago, the house of Rothschild was 
applied to by the Russian Government for a loan. 
The elder Rothschild went to St. Petersburg, 
where he was waited upon by the minister of finance 
of the Russian Government, Count Canerin, a 



Jaffa 57 

Lithurian Jew of pure Hebrew descent. The loan 
was connected with the affairs of Spain. From St. 
Petersburg Rothschild proceeded to Madrid, where 
he had a conference with the Spanish Minister of 
Finance, Count Mendazibil, an Arragonese Jew of 
pure Hebrew descent. Thence he proceeded to 
France, where he conferred with the French Premier, 
Marshal Sault, a Parisian Jew of pure Hebrew 
descent. A final interview was held at Berlin with 
the Minister of Finance of the Prussian Government, 
Count Arnim, a Prussian Jew of pure Hebrew 
descent. Negotiations were now ended : Roths- 
child offered the Czar their terms, and he accepted 
them." 

It is said on good authority that the Holy Land is 
virtually under mortgage to the Rothschilds, a 
mortgage which no Gentile power dares to meddle 
with.* 

Jaffa. 

Humanly speaking, the Jew will be the making of 
Palestine. During his exile there has been no pros- 
perity there. It has only made headway since 
he has been permitted to found colonies there. 
Twenty-five years ago the imports and exports of 
Jaffa were practically nil, whereas now the imports 
amount to nearly one milhon sterling, and the 
exports to nearly a million and a quarter. 

Jaffa is really the principal seaport of the Holy 
Land, and several days can well be spent there by 
the friends of Zion. We don't mean in the manner 
in which Jaffa is " done " by the ordinary tourist 

* The Separated Nation, p. 171. 



58 Palestine and the Powers 

in visiting the alleged house of Simon the Tanner, 
or the house of Tabitha, interesting as such may be 
to the sentimental and credulous ; but in visiting 
the flourishing Jewish Colonies in the vicinity, 
which have sprung up in recent , years, and which 
we propose in the next few pages to describe briefly. 
To our readers who can speak Yiddish we would 
say, make your headquarters at the " Kaminitz 
Hotel ", while in Jaffa. But our British and 
American friends we would recommend respectively 
to Mr. Hardegg's " Jerusalem Hotel ", and the Hall 
Brothers' " Hotel du Pare." Both the latter are 
well situated away from the filth and riff-raff of 
Turkish Jaffa, and in close proximity to the offices 
of Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son, whose advice and 
help even the most experienced travellers frequently 
find invaluable. 



Tel Abib. 

Talking of Jaffa, you no sooner land there than 
you are made acquainted with a new and remarkable 
suburb. It is wholly Jewish, and is known by the 
name of Tel Abib. It was mere waste land a few 
years ago. Now it is a charming residential 
neighbourhood. It has a population of about 
1,500 inhabitants, and comprises more than 
200 residences. These are not huddled up 
together, as in cities and towns — terrace fasliion, 
with thin walls which permit one's spoken secrets 
to be heard next door — but charming little detached 
cottages, each surrounded by its own grounds. 
They are erected on building society lines, with 
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Tel Abib 59 

the flourishing financial offshoot of the Jewish 
Colonial Trust or Bank, whose managing director 
at Jaffa is Mr. D. Levontin, to whom we were greatly 
indebted for his valuable information and introduc- 
tions. With such capable directorship the com- 
pany is bound to go ahead. The moving spirit of 
the place is Dr. Arthur Ruppin, an out-and-out 
enthusiast in the work. 

The inhabitants include about 50 trades-people, 
30 teachers, 25 skilled workmen, and sundry 
physicians, engineers, lawyers, and other pro- 
fessionals, all mainly employed at Jaffa. The 
Settlement has well-paved and well-lighted streets, 
main drainage, good water supply, and trees at 
the sides of the roads, forming charming avenues. 
It also possesses a Hebrew college, school of music, 
school of needlework, synagogue, and a pubUc 
reading room. 

The building conditions which obtain at Tel 
Abib are especially interesting. Here is a brief 
digest of the principal ones — 

I. — Every house must stand on its own 
grounds at least 700 square yards, two-thirds 
of which must be garden space. 

2. — Every street must be at least 39 feet 
wide, and a certain space left between each of 
the houses. 

3. — Public gardens must be laid out, and 
never built upon. 

4. — Shops must be concentrated, and only 
erected on certain reserved spaces. 

5. — The owners of the houses are all under 



6o Palestine and the Powers 

bond to contribute for paving, lighting, clean- 
ing, fire watch, etc. 

6. — Every male inhabitant to take turn to 
guard alternately during half a night with the 
paid watchman. 

A very interesting detail about this remarkable 
Jewish suburb is the fact that the people's language 
is not Arabic, nor the Yiddish of Whitechapel, but 
the Hebrew of Moses and the Prophets. 

Petach Tikvah. 

We next paid a visit to the colony of Petach 
Tikvah, which lies about a two hours' ride to the 
north-east of Jafia. It is the richest and largest 
Jewish agricultural colony in Palestine, and has a 
population of about 2,300. It w^as founded in 
1878 by Jerusalem Jews, and was greatly aug- 
mented in 1882 by exiles from Russia, including 
many highly-educated students. It possesses 
two hotels, a concert hall, committee buildings, 
pleasure gardens, several schools, and, of course, a 
synagogue. The colony also possesses 40,000 
eucalyptus trees as an antidote to malaria, render- 
ing the district very healthy ; it also has a large 
number of fine orange groves. Petach Tikvah 
comprises over 5,000 acres. 

Rischon-le-Ziou. 

In the opposite direction to Petach Tikvah, 
about two hours' ride from Jaffa to the south-east, 
is the well-known Jewish colony of Rischon-le- 
Zion, which in plain English means " First to Zion ", 
a phrase found in Isaiah xh. 27, associated with 



**A Lovely Garden City.*' 6i 

prophecies of " good tidings " for the Holy Land in 
general, and Jerusalem in particular. It was called 
JRischon-le-Zion because it was at the time of its 
establishment the first Jewish colony met with in 
the Land on arriving at Jaffa. It was founded in 
1882, mainly with the assistance of Baron de Roths- 
child, by Jews driven from Russia during the terrible 
persecution then being carried on in that country. 
It was financed by Baron Edmund de Rothschild. 
It comprises about 1,200 acres of land, which have 
been planted with over 1,000,000 vines. It gives 
occupation to 1,000 Jews, and at times provides work 
for more than double that number. The wine-making 
plant and machinery once seen are never forgotten. 
We were amazed. It possesses the largest wine 
cellar in the world. The cellar contains 104 large 
vats, each of which holds nearly 60,000 pints of 
liquor. The latest returns show an annual output 
of over 600,000 gallons of wine. The colony 
possesses an hotel, synagogue, good shops, and up- 
to-date schools ; also a large stock of horses, cows, 
camels, sheep, and poultry. The place has been 
truly termed 

" A Lovely Garden City." 

Our friend, Mr. John Foster Eraser, the author of 
The Conqiienng Jew, opens his eyes with surprise at 
a certain unnamed optimistic American diplomat, for 
having reported after a recent tour of inspection 
of the Jewish Colonies ; "I was transported with 
joy at the sight of the colonies. One must go to 
Palestine to acquire a correct impression of the 
Jewish people. One must see the land admirably 



62 Palestine and the Powers 

cultivated, the gardens filled with flowers, the well- 
planted vines^ the pretty avenues, and the well- 
kept roads. Hundreds of Jews are at work in making 
the land fertile, and they have the satisfaction of 
knowing that success attends their efforts. One 
cannot but be struck by the Russian girls (Jewesses), 
who soon after their arrival in Palestine are trans- 
formed into bright young women." 

Yes, one must go to Palestine to realize the 
Movement. The diplomat just quoted evidently 
possessed the eyes of a Joshua and a Caleb ; and 
it is only the faith and spirit of such optimists that 
ever accompHsh great things. If a pessimistic 
visitor, after a leisurely visit to such Jewish Colonies 
as Tel Abib, Petach Tikvah, and Rischon-le-Zion, 
remains a pessimist still, then we venture to label 
him past praying for. 

These colonies are all well within reach of Jaffa, 
and have much to do with the tremendous increase 
of the imports and exports of that place. 

We admit that these three colonies are to be 
ranked as the pick of the Jewish settlements in the 
land, but there are scores of others equally im- 
portant in their way in other parts of the country, 
of which we shall write later on, especially in the 
Holy City, of which it is written in Psalm Ixxxvii, 
5, 6 :- 

" This and that man was born in her, and 
the Highest himself shall establish her. The 
Lord shall count when he writeth up the 
people, that this man was born there." 




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Educational Establishments. 

A very important feature in these unwalled 
villages is that of education. Jewish schools are 
springing up with great rapidity, which compare 
most favourably with Gentile educational establish- 
ments. 

At Tel Abib there is the Gymnasia Ibrith, or 
Higher Grade College for boys and girls, over 700 
of whom are being educated there, under the princi- 
palship of Dr. B. Mossinsohn. The headmaster 
is Dr. Joseph Greher, whose wholeheartedness in 
his work was most manifest as he conducted us 
through the numerous class rooms of the magnifi- 
cent building ; up-to-date in every respect, from its 
kindergarten class to a well-equipped chemical 
laboratory. 

We next visited the Tachkemoni School, at the 
same Jaffa suburb. Formerly under the care of 
Dr. Schlesinger, it is now conducted by Dr. T. 
Engel, from Frankfort. It is a school with a very 
pronounced orthodox Mosaic flavour. Biblical 
Hebrew is the language used. In fact, we noticed 
pupils were using the wTitings of Moses and the 
Prophets as class books. Worship of the Deity 
and reverence for elders are marked features. 

While at Jaffa we spent some time at the " Higher 
Grade School for Girls ", of the Odessa Committee, 
the principal of which is Dr. Turoff ; 400 girls 
are being trained there. Dr. Turoff, in conduct- 
ing us round, was particular in reminding us it was 
entirely Jewish — " Only i Gentile girl in the whole 



64 Palestine and the Powers 

school, and her father is a proselyte." This Odessa 
Committee is known generally as the " Choevevi 
Zion " (" Lovers of Zion "). 

At Jerusalem there arc quite a number of Jewish 
schools of no mean repute in the way of results. 

The Ratisbonne Institute. 

This was the only " Jewish " establishment that 
was a failure. It is a huge building, erected and 
maintained with the money of one Alphonse Ratis- 
bonne, a Strasburg Jew, a banker. He was con- 
verted to Roman Catholicism by a vision of the 
Virgin Mary, and as a result founded this Institute 
to train 100 young Jews in various trades, but in 
the Papal religion ! We found only 3 Jews in the 
whole establishment. No wonder ! How could it 
be expected that any intelligent Jew could ever 
renounce the One Jehovah of the Bible for the 
triune deity of a corrupt and apostate " Christen- 
dom " ? If our Jewish reader would but read a 
book entitled Christendom Astray, by Robert 
Roberts, and which is to be found in over 600 of 
our Free Libraries, he would see what an injustice 
he does those two Jews, Jesus and Paul, in alleging 
that they ever renounced the One God for the pagan 
trinity worshipped by " Christendom ", falsely so- 
called. Our esteemed friend, Mr. Herbert Loewe, 
of Oxford, the pleasure of whose company we had 
both on the Mediterranean and in the Holy Land, 
has truly asked, in his excellent essay on " The 
Orthodox Position " : " If it is hard to believe in 
a Unity, how much harder must it be to believe in 
a Trinity ? " When, however, we pointed out that 



The Ratisbonne Institute 65 

the contention of Jesus was : " The Lord our God 
is one Lord " (Mark xii. 29) ; and that the conten- 
tion of Paul was ; " To us there is but one God " 
(i Cor. viii. 6), he, with his characteristic frankness 
and honour, wrote : " I am very sorry that I have 
overlooked your brotherhood, not only in my pam- 
phlet but in my article ' Judaism', in Hastings' 
Encyclopcedia of Religion. I quite see your point 
that many Jewish objections to ' Christianity ' fall 
to the ground in your case, I will never again in 
writing, or in speaking, omit to draw attention to 
this point. The difference in our view of Jesus 
would probably be one of degree, and not of prin- 
ciple ... In the meanwhile, please be assured 
of my sincere regret that I made such inaccurate 
statements." 

Jesus and His Apostles are as clear and emphatic 
as are Moses and the Prophets in their doctrine as 
to the Unity of the Godhead. But we can quite 
see that the blame for our friend's inaccurate state- 
ments lies at the door of those professing, albeit 
false, followers of Jesus who have added, and still 
retain, the abominable Athanasian Creed, Indivi- 
dually, however, they are rightly getting more 
and more ashamed of, and disgusted with, such a 
creed. " Christendom ", as generally known, is 
astray from the teaching and religion of that Jew 
of Jews — Jesus of Nazareth. The God-fearing and 
Bible-loving reader will soon discover that to be so 
by perusing the book already referred to, entitled 
Christendom Astray. Nowhere in the Bible is Jesus 
said to be " God the Son ", but always " The Son of 
God." 



66 Palestine and the Powers 



The Lamel Settlement. 

There is the Lamel Settlement, worked under the 
control of the " Hilfsverein " ("Help Society") 
of German Jews, founded by Freifrau von Lamel. 
Its moving spirit is Mr. David Yellin, who wields 
an immediate and telling influence over more 
than 1,700 Israelites. In connection therewith 
there are sundry technical, sewing, singing, 
and other classes for these German Jews and 
Jewesses. In connection with this Lamel Settle- 
ment, and the influence it has generally in Jerusalem, 
we might mention that at a recent election for a 
councillor for the Municipality of Jerusalem, Mr. 
David Yellin was elected as one of the honoured 
10 councillors who govern the city. A most telling 
fact that, when we remember that for 17 centuries 
the Jew has been an outcast. 

Then there is the " Evelina de Rothschild School 
for Girls ", at which are educated over -700 pupils, 
under the principalship of Miss Annie Landau. 
We were sorry to hear of the prevalency of eye 
disease among the scholars, which, of course, is 
not peculiar to this school. Miss Landau is adopt- 
ing up-to-date measures to stamp out the evil. 
We personally witnessed the good work she is doing 
in this and many other directions. And we must 
not forget the boys' and girls' day schools, run by 
the " London Jews' Society ", as well as the board- 
ing school of the same organization. The French 
Jews also have their schools — the " Alliance 
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Abraham's Vineyard 67 

Other Jewish Institutions. 

As to other Jewish institutions which have sprung 
into existence, it is utterly impossible to enumerate 
them all, much less to describe them in detail. 
We can but mention a few typical ones. Not the 
least noteworthy is the " Bezalel Institute of Arts 
and Crafts." It was founded by, and is under the 
management of, Professor Boris Schatz, with the 
object of utilizing Jewish talent for Jewish ends. 
The professor is one of the most energetic Jews we 
ever met — never so pleased, apparently, as when 
he has two things to do at the same time. He did 
not found the Institute until 1905, and yet already 
finds employment for some 600 or 700 Jews and 
Jewesses. The annual turnover now runs into five 
figures sterling. 

Abraham's Vineyard. 

Another good institution is that founded by Mrs. 
E. A. Finn, widow of a late British Consul, on a 
plot of desolate land north-west of Jerusalem, It 
is known as Abraham's Vineyard, and is managed 
by Mr. W. H. Dunn (son of the late Admiral Dunn), 
whose love for the poor willing Jew is equalled by 
his tact in managing such a motley crew as we saw 
there from time to time. If a Jew is hard up, wants 
work, and is willing to work, Mr. Dunn will obhge 
him. If he is ill and cannot work, Mr. Dunn will 
send him to one of the Jewish hospitals. If he is 
well and won't work, Mr. Dunn will send him about 
his business. Employment is sometimes found for 
over a 100 Jews — cistern digging, soap making, wall 
building, and garden work. We enquired the 



68 Palestine and the Powers 

nationality of the Jews then at work, and found 
all sorts — Russian, German, Spanish, American, 
Roumanian, Persian, Egyptian, Yemenite — all in 
keeping with Jeremiah xxxii. 37 : — 

" Behold, I will gather them out of all 
countries, whither I have driven them in mine 
anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath ; 
and I will bring them again unto this place, and 
I will cause them to dwell safely." 

** Neither Bars nor Gates.*' 

To one well versed in the writings of " Moses and 
the Prophets " it is impossible to walk about Zion 
and the other Holy Places without some text or 
other coming prominently into mind, and the fact 
of some prophecy or other being fulfilled coming 
into evidence before one's very eyes. For instance, 
while roaming about that remarkable colony called 
Meah Shearim, with its 3,000 inhabitants (all 
Jews), and which was foimded in i860 (see page 28), 
we were forcibly struck by the fact that between 
some of the houses — which are part and parcel of 
the colony, and form, as it were, a wall thereto — 
removed gates were lying against the side walls 
of the end houses : gates which had once been hang- 
ing in position, so as to be shut at night, and thus 
close the colony against all outsiders. The sockets 
were still intact in the brick walls of the houses. 
We enquired of our guide and companion. Dr. 
Maurice Franklin, why they were not still in posi- 
tion, and thus answering their evident object. It 
appears that when this colony was founded, the 
gates of Jerusalem were always shut between 



Blood Ritual 69 

sunset and sunrise for safety's sake, and when Mcah 
Shcarim was built it likewise was made to accom- 
modate itself to such conditions. A year or so, 
however, before our visit, the Turkish soldiers, 
acting on instructions from the authorities, came one 
night and removed all the gates from their sockets 
or hinges, and placed them where they now stand. 
At once our mind reverted to Ezekiel xxxviii. 11, 
where we read of certain villages 

" That are at rest, that dwell safely, all of 
them dwelling without walls, and having 
neither bars nor gates." 

A coincidence, merely ! 

Nay, surely something more than that. Here was 
a walled village, with bars and gates — the only 
Jewish Colony which was not in keeping with the 
letter of the text above cited-^now taking its place 
with the other " unwalled villages ", and " having 
neither bars nor gates." 

Blood Ritual. 

While engaged in our investigations, we had ample 
opportunity of discovering how false the " Blood 
accusation "is. It is a wicked charge, for which 
the Russians are mainly responsible, and for which 
there will be a terrible reckoning by-and-by with 
the God of Israel, Who has said, " Cursed is he that 
curseth thee" (Numbers xxiv, 9). The odious 
charge is always associated with the Passover Feast, 
and so we took the opportunity of catching unawares 
the Jewish bakers in pS-eparing for it. Space would 
not allow us, even did the purpose of writing this 



70 Palestine and the Powers 

book warrant it, to enter into details of all we saw, 
but such would have convinced the most sceptical 
of the groundlessness of the abominable charge of 
mixing Gentile blood with the Passover bread. 



Just a Foretaste. 

Of course, the complete fulfilment of the gracious 
promise to " restore again the Kingdom of Israel " 
will not be till their Messiah appears, when will be 
reahzed by the whole House of Israel that of which 
the present partial return and colonization is but 
an earnest or foretaste. Ezekiel, in chapter xxxvii., 
verse 21, thus vividly foretells it : — 

" Thus saith the "Lord God : Behold, I will 
take t-he children of Israel from among the 
heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather 
them on every side, and bring them into their 
own land : 

" And I will make them one nation in the 
land upon the mountains of Israel : and one 
king shall be king to them all : and they shall 
be no more two nations, neither shall they be 
divided into two kingdoms any more at all." 

Then there are in Jerusalem 11 Jewish hospi- 
tals and clinics entirely confined to the treatment 
of Jews and Jewesses. There are also 6 Jewdsh 
orphanages or homes. Likewise a " House of 
Industry ", where Jews are employed by the 
" London Jews' Society ", making Holy Land 
mementoes of olive wood from the Mount of Olives, 

At Jaffa there is the " Fabrique de fer ", an 




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Jew versus Gentile 71 

institution where young Jews are taught to work in 
iron, and make gates, safes, ploughs, and other 
useful goods. Although this workshop had only 
been in existence about six years, the master had 
already turned out several competent workmen, 
who were in receipt of the full pay received by 
skilled craftsmen. 

The business of Jerusalem is clearly in the hands 
of the Jews. 

Wherever one looks Jewish names stand out pro- 
minently over the various stores and bazaars. On 
every hand we note the names — Isaac, David, Abra- 
ham, Joel, Israel, etc. And it doesn't matter what 
kind of shop or business, they seem able to adapt 
themselves to anything and everything. Every- 
thing becomes grist to the mill of the Jew. They 
are tailors, drapers, shoemakers, fruiterers, grocers, 
blacksmiths, printers, carpenters, and hotel-keepers. 
The hotel owned and managed by Mr. Kaminitzwe 
recommend to Zionists, especially those who can 
speak Yiddish. 

Jew versus Gentile. 

Canon S. A. Barnett, the President of the Toynbee 
Hall, Whitechapel, London, E., who lived in the 
very heart of East-end Jewry, was right when he 
wrote, " The poor Jew is, as a rule, more capable 
than the poor Gentile. He can shape an ideal in 
his mind with something of a poet's power. Hence 
he is able to work with intelligence and a success 
which does not always follow mere technical edu- 
cation. He has dreams which he can enjoy in his 



72 Palestine and the Powers 

hours of leisure without being diiven to seek dreams 
through drunkenness. He has a sense of equality 
which gives him self-confidence, and enables him 
easily to take the place he gains in the world. He 
is very persistent. He endures hardships, and faces 
opposition, with a courageous perseverance. He 
takes up a new pursuit ; he enters new conditions 
of life ; he begins again and again after failures, 
with an energy and resourcefulness, if not greater, 
certainly more patient than that of the Anglo- 
Saxon." 



The Jewish Colonial Trust. 

We must not forget the many offshoots of the great 
" Jewish Colonial Trust ", with its capital of 
£2,000,000 sterling. Evidently the fact of being able 
to show Script testifying that we were among its 
earliest shareholders was a kind of open sesame to 
Jewish institutions that would otherwise have been 
closed to us as mere ordinary Gentiles. Among the 
" Trust's " offshoots we would particularly mention 
" The Anglo- Palestine Company ", " The National 
Fund ", " The Palestine Land Development Com- 
pany ", " The Land Donation Fund ", " The Pales- 
tine Planting Association ", " The Olive Tree 
Fund ", " The Palestine Industries Syndicate ", 
" The Culture Fund ", " The Hygienic Institute ", 
" The Central Library in Jerusalem " ; these are 
all lively institutions, and members of a family 
which is rapidly increasing. 

And note, this movement is not confined to Jaffa 
and Jerusalem, it extends throughout the Land. 



Jewish Colonies in Galilee "jz 

Jewish Colonies in Galilee. 

If we travel north to the Galilean districts, there, 
at Safcd, we find no fewer than 12,500 Jews in 
that rapidly growing Palestine city. If we wend 
our way into the very heart of the country, to 
Tiberias, there we find, in a population of less than 
10,000, no fewer than 8,000 Jews. At the port of 
Haifa, too, we come across more than 3,000 Jews. 
Elsewhere, among the plains of Galilee, there 
are 16 Jewish agricultural colonies, including Rosh 
Pina, a charming settlement of over 800 Jews. We 
shall never forget our horse-ride through that 
flourishing place. 

Then, too, in this GaUlean province, we might 
particularly mention Yamma and Begden, founded 
in 1902, and possessing about 7,000 acres of land, 
and between 4,000 and 5,000 Jewish inhabi- 
tants ; Sedjerah, established in 1899, with nearly 
5,000 acres, and over 200 inhabitants ; Metulah, 
founded by Baron de Rothschild in 1896, and having 
about 3,500 acres, and over 300 inhabitants. 
Tobacco and wheat are the chief products of this 
colony. Yessod-Hammalah, established in 1883, 
owning 2,500 acres, and 300 inhabitants is in good 
repute for its inexhaustible supply of water from 
Lake Huleh. Milhamie, founded in 1902, with over 
3,000 acres, and about 150 inhabitants. Mescha, 
founded in 1902, having about 2,500 acres, and 200 
inhabitants; Mishmar Hayardin, founded in 
1890, with 1,000 acres, and a population of over 
100. Then there are the smaller colonies or settle- 
ments of Dailaika, or Dajania, Chinnereth, 



74 Palestine and the Powers 

Mahanaim Merchavia, Migdol, Mizpah, Poria, 
and others. 

The Technicum. 

In approaching Haifa from the sea, one's atten- 
tion is immediately called to an imposing building 
of attractive elevation. It stands out more pro- 
minently than aught else in the district. What is 
it ? It is a Jewish Technical College, the foundation 
stone of which was laid in 1912, known as the 
Technicum. The site comprises no fewer than 
50,000 square yards. Towards its cost, £50,000 
was raised with very little trouble. 

Herr A. Finklestein, the Director-in-Charge, 
to whom we had a letter of introduction, kindly 
showed us over the whole establishment, including 
its many workshops and main schools and class 
rooms. Its estimated cost is over £100,000. They 
have smik a well through the solid rock over 300 
feet deep. The only fear the promoters have is 
that the University will be able to turn out yearly 
more teachers and skilled artisans than Palestine 
will be able to find employment for, and that emi- 
gration will result, which is not the desire of Zionists. 

By-the-way, we might here mention the fact that 
the influence of the Zionists with the powers-that- 
be is seen in the fact that while the war was raging 
between Turkey and Italy, and dynamite was con- 
traband, the Jews were able to get it through to 
Haifa, and proceed with their blasting operations. 

Considerable indignation has been aroused in 
Jewry of Britain, America, France, and Russia, 



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Jewish Colonies in Samaria 75 

at the fact of German Jewry taking advantage of 
a war-created situation to buy the entire Techni- 
cum, " lock, stock, and barrel," as the Jewish 
Chronicle calls it, at the " knock-out price of 
£11,000 ", not a sixth of its cost ; but, from our 
standpoint, the incident is merely an incident, 
although very confirmatory of what we have already 
wi-itten and shall write on German intentions in 
Palestine. 

Jewish Colonies in Samaria. 

Coming southward to the Samarian districts, 
we find 10 colonies, owning among them 40,000 
acres of land, included in which is the well-known 
colony of Zichron Jacob, founded in 1882, compris- 
ing 5,000 acres of land, and a population of over 1,100 
Jews ; Chedera, established in 1891, with about 
7,000 acres of land, and 200 inhabitants ; Kefar 
Saba, estabHshed in 1894, with about 1,500 acres, 
and 35 inhabitants ; Athlit, established in 1897, 
with nearly 1,200 acres, and 50 inhabitants ; Chef- 
ziBAH, established in 1905, with 500 acres, and one 
or two families. Zichron Jacob, already referred 
to, or Zammarine, as it is known to the Turks and 
map students, is one of the very few agricultural 
colonies. It was founded over 30 years ago by 
Rumanian Jews, helped, or rather subsidized, by 
Baron dc Rothschild, and is a really charming place ; 
although, when the Jews first settled there in 1882, 
the district was so unhealthy that the natives 
shunned it. Among the first public buildings to 
be erected by the new owners was an isolation annexe 
to the Communal Hospital, wherein to locate infec- 
tious diseases. That it has never once been used 



76 Palestine and the Powers 

during the whole of those more than 30 years speaks 
eloquently for the constitution of the Jews. We 
spent a very happy time there, " doing " the place 
thoroughly under the guidance of Herr Graff, the 
Zionist proprietor of the Hotel of the Colony. The 
position of the settlement from a picturesque point 
of view is very fine, and Mr. and Mrs. Lange, the 
well-known friends of Zionism, made no bad choice 
in the cliff on which they have erected their charm- 
ing villa, commanding, as it does, a vista of the whole 
coast from Acre to Caesarea. The Colony of Zichron 
Jacob is replete with every necessary requirement. 

More southward still, among the hills of Judea, 
to say nothing of the 57 ghettoes or colonies already 
referred to on pages 27 to 37, there are at least 15 
agricultural colonies, comprising 15,000 acres of 
land, and of which the Jew is making full use. 

Other Jewish Colonies. 

Perhaps it will be as well to mention the names 
and localities of some of these other Jewish Colonies. 

Round about Judea there are quite a number of 
small ones. There is Ain Ganim, with a population 
of over 100, mostly refugees from the Caucasian 
Mountains. It was founded by the Odessa Com- 
mittee in the year 1908. Between Jaffa and Jeru- 
salem there are about 20 Jewish colonies, nearly all 
agricultural. True, some of them arc very small, 
but they are like the thin end of the proverbial wedge 
— a wedge being driven in by the force of circum- 
stances, which includes the cruel persecutions in 
Russia and other countries. Artuf was founded 



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by Bulgarian Jews in 1896. Beth Arif has two 
colonies, one being a settlement of the Athid Oil 
Works, established in 1906 ; and the other an estate 
of the Jewish National Fund, with olive and other 
fruit tree plantations. Bir Jacob was founded in 
1809, by the Odessa Committee, for workmen, 
mainly Caucasian Mountain Jews. Ekron was 
founded by Baron de Rothschild in 1884, ^or agri- 
culturists from the south of Russia, Ezra was 
founded in 1883, by a handful of Jews from Petach 
Tikvah. Kafa Saba also comprises detachments 
from Petach Tikvah. Kastinie, or Kastinjeh, 
was established by the Odessa Committee between 
1888 and 1896. Katra was founded by students 
expelled from Russia in 1882. Mozah was founded 
by the Independent Order of B'nei Brith (Jerusalem 
Branch) in 1890. The Cologne Colonization 
Society also helped in the formation of this colony. 
Rechoboth is an important colony of about 600, 
and was founded in 1890 by rich Russian Zionists. 
Wadi Chan in, or Vadi-el-Chanin, is situated near 
Rischon-le-Zion, and was founded in 1882-7, and 
numbers about 200. 



Agricultural Establishments. 

We must not forget, too, that farming is taught 
the rising generation of Jews on up-to-date lines. 
There is the Jewish Agricultural Experiment 
Station, near Haifa, founded in 19 10, the managing 
director of which is Mr. Aaron Aaronson ; and there 
is the much older Agricultural School at Mikveh 
Israel, not far from Jaffa, the principal of which is 
M. Loupo, of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. It 



78 Palestine and the Powers 

was founded in 1868, with land given by the Turkish 
Government — about 600 acres. Pupils from the 
school are to be found in many of the newly- 
formed Jewish colonies. 

As regards newspapers, Jerusalem can boast of 
one daily and four weekly ; and Jaffa one weekly. 
There are also three bi-weeklies. All these papers 
are printed in Hebrew. < 

We must, however, call a halt in our recital of 
the work being done by Jews in Palestine, or we 
shall make a much bigger volume than we intend ; 
for it would be easy to fill hundreds of pages with 
information concerning Jewish institutions which 
have sprung into existence during the last few years, 
and which we have personally inspected. 

But, do not misunderstand us. We do not mean 
to suggest that this movement on the part of the 
Jew to the Land of his forefathers — the Land of 
Promise — vast movement as it is, is by any means 
a complete fulfilment of the prophetic promises 
referred to in the foregoing pages. It would indeed 
be a poor sequel to the past 25 centuries' history of 
the Jew if it were so. Nevertheless, we do contend 
that the migration of the Jews to Canaan, which has 
been, and is still, going on, is an absolute fulfilment 
of those prophecies concerning the Jew and his land 
just prior to the return to the earth of his Messiah, 
and which Time is so frequently spoken of by the 
prophets of Israel as "The Time of the End", 
" The Latter Years ", and " The Latter Days." 



Russia and Germany's Greed 79 

The Meaning of Zionism. 

Not only is this partial return of the Jews to 
Palestine an earnest ; it is a foretaste of what is 
to be in the near future, when, as God says : — 

" Behold, I will take the children of Israel 
from among the heathen, whither they be gone, 
and will gather them on every side, and bring 
them into their own land : And I will make 
them one nation in the Land upon the moun- 
tains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to 
them all : and they shall be no more two 
nations, neither shall they be divided into two 
kingdoms any more at all " (Ezek. xxxvii. 
21, 22). 

And when, as regards the Land itself, God 
says : — 

" And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas 
it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed 
by. And they shall say. This land that was 
desolate is become like the garden of Eden ; 
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities 
are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then 
the heathen that are left round about you shall 
know that I the Lord build the ruined places, 
and plant that which was desolate : I the Lord 
have spoken it, and I will do it (Ezek, xxxvi. 
34-36). 

Russia and Germany's Greed. 

Meanwhile, and until that glorious time comes, 
all that is required is that sufficient colonization 
shall have taken place to arouse the cupidity of 



8o Palestine and the Powers 

the invading Power referred to as " Thou " in 
Ezekiel xxxviii. ii, 12, which reads thus : — 

" And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land 
of unwalled villages ; I will go to them that are 
at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling 
without walls, and having neither bars nor 
gates, to take a spoil and to take a prey ; to 
turn thine hand upon the desolate places that 
are now inhabited, and upon the people that 
are gathered out of the nations, which have 
gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst 
of the Land." 

The question, the interesting and important 
question, then arises — What Power is there addressed 
as " Thou ", whose greed is bent on the Holy 
Places ? God has not left us to speculate on the 
matter, for, in verse 2, He fully answers the ques- 
tion. That verse runs thus : — 

" Son of Man, set thy face against Gog, 
the land of Magog, Prince of Rosh, Meshech, 
and Tubal." 

The Authorized Vefsion renders it " chief prince 
of Meshech ", etc., but it should read as given in 
the Revised Version, " Prince of Rosh." Now, 
Rosh we have no difficulty in identifying with Russia. 
In 1640, Bochart, the eminent Orientalist, declared 
that Rosh was the most ancient form under which 
history makes mention of the name of Russia. And, 
he goes on to say, " It is credible that from Rhos 
and Mesech (that is the Rhosci and Moschi) of whom 
Ezekiel speaks, descended the Russians and Musco- 
vites." Gesenius, the well-known lexicographer 



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(quoted by Dr. Smith, in his Bible Dictionary), 

authoritatively says, " Undoubtedly the Russians." 
And Bayer, in 1726 (also quoted by Dr. Smith), 
said : 

" Mention of the Russians under the name of 
Rosh is found in a Latin Chronicle imder the 
year a.d, 839." 

To cut a long history short, but to further clinch 
this identification, we would call attention to Dean 
Stanley's corroboration in his affirmation that 
" Russia is the only modern nation mentioned in 
the Scriptures." 

" Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal " clearly 
points to the Autocrat of the Russians, Muscovites, 
and Siberians ; in modern language, " All the 
Russias." 

Russia and Germany's Preparations. 

But is Russia hkely to engage in such an invasion ? 
Is there any apparent attempt or undertaking on 
her part in the Land to lead us to conclude that she 
has any intention of acting in the way described in 
Ezekiel xxxviii. 11-13 ? Yes, there is evidence, 
overwhelming to such an extent that it beggars 
description. The achievements of Russia in and 
around Jerusalem alone can only be adequately 
appreciated by those wJio have personally surveyed 
what she has done and is doing. On the west side 
of the city, not far away from the principal gates, 
she has obtained over 40 acres of ground, surrounded 
it with huge walls and gates, and erected within 
the enclosure quite a number of buildings. In 



82 Palestine and the Powers 

addition to what the Russians are pleased to describe 
as "accommodation for pilgrims/' but which we, 
who have learnt to " call a spade a spade ", consider 
far more suitable for barracks capable of housing 
some 10,000 of troops, she has there the Imperial 
consulate and offices, a large hospital, a cathedral, 
several schools, a market, a post office of her own, 
and shops where any and every article of everyday 
requirement can be purchased. This Governmental 
settlement, known as the " Russian Quadrangle ", 
covers more ground than the whole of the Temple 
area. 

But that is not all. As we stood upon the outer 
edge of the east side of the Russian Quadrangle — 
from thence we had an uninterrupted view of the 
whole of Jerusalem below us, and of the Mount of 
Olives beyond and above — there, right up on the 
top of that Mount, stood, in bold relief against the 
skyline, a huge and high tower, which also belongs 
to the Russians. 

The Russian Tower. 

This tower, known as the " Belvidere Tower ", 
is over i6o feet high, which, in view of the fact 
that the Mount is 200 feet above Jerusalem, means 
that any sentry on duty at the top of the tower 
would have a most commanding view of everything 
going on in the streets of the city, and all around. 
From that tower signalling could be carried on with 
a fleet in the Mediterranean off Jaffa ; in fact, 
during our last stay there, searchlight practice was 
carried on during the night. In addition to the 
tower, there has been much building carried on 




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Russia the Colossus 83 

by the Russians in the immediate vicinity, on land 
also owned by them. The. property is walled in 
with up-to-date stone and brick walls, and is kept 
in the most perfect condition. 

Russia the Colossus. 

Very few people really know Russia. Until 
we visited it we had no idea as to its colossal magni- 
tude and greatness. It occupied quite a second rate 
place in our estimation ; and as to Poland, it prac- 
tically stood nowhere. The best and most pictu- 
resque, as well as the tersest description of Russia, 
is that of Mr. Stephen Graham, in his racy and 
instructive volume, Russia and the World, in which 
he makes a comparison of Britain, Germany, and 
Russia. He says, " As nations go, Britain is like 
a man of 45 ; Germany like a man of 30 ; but 
Russia like a genius who is just 18." And again 
the same writer remarks, " Russia, the silent one, 
silent for 25 years, and then silent for 10 years more 
is speaking now, or about to speak. The spirit 
moves mysteriously in her. She begins to know 
that a new time is at hand." 

It is a remarkable fact that Russia, too, in rela- 
tion to the Jews is colossal. That country still 
contains more of the descendants of Israel than all the 
rest of the world put together. Out of 12,000,000 
of Jews in the earth, between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 
are under the sway of the Czar. It is remarkable 
too that more Russian pilgrims visit the Holy 
Places annually than from any other country. 

But in the near future, not Russian pilgrims but 
Russian soldiers — Cossacks and others — will go to 



84 Palestine and the Powers 

these places, and among the others (as wc shall 
presently show) will be Germans under the leader- 
ship of Russia, for there is not the shghtest doubt 
that whatever may be the details of the terms of 
peace and the division of spoil at the end of the 
European upheaval, Russia and the Allies will 
come to the top, and Russia will be the head, and 
at her beck and call will be ultimately every power 
except that of the British Lion and all " the young 
Uons." 

Germany's Finger in the Pie. 

It will be noticed by the careful Bible student 
that God, through Ezckiel, also speaks of " Rosh " 
as "Gog, of the land of Magog." So we are con- 
fronted \yth the question, " Who is Magog ? " A 
clue to the right answering of that question is found 
in the writings of so ancient an authority as Jose- 
phus, who informs us that " Magog founded the 
Magogae, or Scythae ", which Diodorus Siculus said 
inhabited the north of Gaul. That clearly suggests 
that the territory occupied by the Germans is the 
" land of Magog " ; so that in this remarkable 
prophecy of Ezekiel concerning " the Latter 
Years ", we have evidence that Russia and Germany 
will be jointly interested, and will act shoulder to 
shoulder in an invasion of the Mountains of Israel, 
and a capturing of the unwalled villages, till then 
'' dwelling safely all of them." 

Naturally, the interested reader will be constrained 
to ask, " Is it at all likely that Germany will play 
'second fiddle' to Russia? " In that matter we 
shall do well to keep in mind the old German 



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Germany's Preparations 85 

Emperor's dying advice to his grandson, William 
II. : " Treat Russia with the greatest possible con- 
sideration when you come to the throne." And 
the effect of that advice upon the movements of 
Germany with regard to Palestine, our intimate 
acquaintance with the " lay of the Land " obtained 
first hand on the spot, has made manifest that the 
continual aim of Germany is to worm itself into 
things Palestinic, side by side with Russia. 

Germany's Preparations. 

A httle to the north of the Russian settlement on 
the Mount of Olives, the German Government have 
bought a large tract of land, and erected thereon 
buildings, known as " The Victoria Augusta Settle- 
ment ", not the least significant erection being a 
very high tower similar to the Russian tower already 
referred to. It is situated about midway between 
the Russian Tower and the beautifully situated 
estate of the late EngHshman, Sir John Gray-Hill. 

And, further, with regard to the position taken 
up by Germany around the Holy Places, let us here 
quote from an article which recentlj^ appeared in a 
Jerusalem newspaper, from the pen of a well-known 
Jewish wiiter : — 

" The German Emperor, with his wonderful 
enterprise and enthusiasm, has recently caused 
foiir very large and imposing German buildings 
to be erected in and about Jerusalem : a large 
Protestant Church within the city ; a great 
and massive Roman Catholic Church outside 
the walls to the south : an immense Roman 
Catholic Hospice outside the Damascus gate ; 



86 Palestine and the Powers 

and the fourtli, a Protestant Hospice on the 
Mount of Oh'ves : the latter, a very large and 
imj)osing erection, and beautifully decorated 
within. Round the latter extensive planting 
has been made, and is being continued. Part 
of the very large piece of land surrounding 
it consisted of a bed of flint, and this has been 
cleared away at great expense for the purpose 
of planting." 

Then, too, we learnt that the German Emperor 
had borne the expense of completing a good road 
from the Jerusalem railway station at the south- 
west of the city to his " Victoria Augusta Settle- 
ment " on the north-east, to which we have already 
referred, and which Settlement could easily be used 
for military purposes whenever occasion requires. 

Germany's Intentions. 

Then, too, the designs and aims of Germany are 
most apparent in another channel. I refer to what 
has become known as " The Language Question." 
It arose out of the founding of the Tcchnicum at 
Haifa, and which we have dealt with on pages 74, 
75. The German Curators of the Technicum 
resolved that German should be the official language 
of the Institute, and not Hebrew, which the Zionists 
as a whole desired. The decision of the Curat orium 
aroused the whole of JewTy outside of Germany. 
Meetings of protest were held everywhere. The 
Jews of the United States were especially wrathful, 
and enormous meetings were held everywhere. 
In New York, Boston, Baltimore, Rochester, 



Russia's other Allies 87 

and Philadelphia, meeting after meeting was 
convened. 

The Russian Jews were also against the German 
decision ; and even went so far as to establish at 
Moscow a publishing house for the purpose of issu- 
ing text books in Hebrew for general use at the 
Haifa University. Meetings of protest were also 
held at Jerusalem, Jaffa, and other centres of 
Zionism in the Holy Land. Likewise the Jews of 
Britain were equally opposed to the German 
demands. Large protest meetings were held at 
Manchester, London, Leeds, Sunderland, Notting- 
ham, Glasgow, and Dublin. 

We are not concerned with the pros and cons of 
this language question ; and only mention it here 
as showing the trend of German desires and aims in 
relation to movements in and around the Holy 
Places. 

We must also add here that the great majority of 
the 100,000 Jews now in Palestine speak the German 
dialect. 

Russians other Allies. 

The other Powers besides Germany on the side 
of Russia are mentioned in the 5th and 6th verses 
of Ezekiel xxxviii., thus : — 1 

" Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them ; 
all of them with shield and helmet ; Gomer 
and all his bands ; the house of Togarmah of 
the north quarters, and all his bands ; and 
many people with thee." 



88 Palestine and the Powers 

And, in verse 7, Russia is addressed in these 
words : — 

" Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, 
thou and all thy company that are assembled 
unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them." 

There is no more trouble in identifying this com- 
pany than there is in identifying Rosh as Russia. 

Persia we all know. And the eye, if not the 
thumb, which Russia has on Persia we also know. 
We could fill a volume with articles from indepen- 
dent sources as to the mind and desire of Russia 
in the direction named. Here is just a sample, 
quite sufficient for our purpose, from the Daily 
News, December 6, 1911 : — 

" The greatest uneasiness prevails in official 
quarters in Constantinople over Russian action 
in Persia. Turkey has many and great interests 
in Persia, and takes the line that the Porte 
must be taken into account by Russia, in any 
discussion affecting the fate of Persia." 

And the Daily News some time ago stated : — 

" A secret alliance actually exists between 
Persia and Russia, and has done since 1878." 

At the end of the year 1912, too, when M. Sazonoff, 
the Russian foreign minister, visited England, to 
be present at a conference on the problem of 
Persia, -he met with a very much mixed reception 
on his arrival in London, all in consequence of the 
known Russian policy in Persia. The whole of 
the Russian Press, it was reported, had taken for 



Russia's other Allies 89 

granted that in any partition of Persia, Russia would 
have the lion's share, or, as one witty editor truly 
put it — " the bear's share ", including its capital 
city, Teheran. 

Ethiopia, we are informed by no less an authority 
than Professor Sayce, " corresponds with the modern 
Soudan, now possessed by Britain, as the result of 
the briUiant exploits of the late Lord Kitchener." 
As to the fate of the Soudan and other Egyptian 
provinces over which Britain has a protectorate, 
when Russia comes with " all his bands ", we 
must leave that for a later chapter ; suffice it 
to say Egypt will succumb to the King of the 
North. 

Libya, or Phut, as it reads in the margin of the 
A.V., has been identified with Tunis and Algiers, 
and it so appears on a very old map now before us. 
This is now possessed by France, which, under the 
name of Gomer, is said to be also under the guardian- 
ship of Russia at the time of the end. 

Gomer, like Magog, was a son of Japheth. Jose- 
phus informs us that Gomer founded the Gomari, 
whom the Greeks called Galatae. Strabo says all 
the Galatae were called Galli by the Latins. It is 
common knowledge that from Galli comes Gaul, 
the former name of France. 

Lastly, as an ally of Russia in this overflowing 
of Palestine and Egypt is mentioned Togarmah, 
of the North quarters. Here again, on looking at 
any ancient map, we shall see Togarmah marked on 
territory north-east of the Euphrates, fast falling 
under the rule of the Czar, as have Kars and Batoum, 



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There we have the Latter-day Confederacy wliich 
is to march against the Holy Land and Egypt, 
and be met en route by antagonistic and defiant 
Britain. With the single exception of Germany, 
it is easy to see them all getting into the grasp and 
lead of Russia. And as to Germany, we shall, in 
a subsequent chapter, show how she can, quite 
naturally, fall into line with the rest at the required 
moment. 

Britain's Intervention. 

Now arises another question — as important as it 
is interesting — it is this : In the event of a Russo- 
Gerraan invasion of the Holy Places, would the 
Confederacy be allowed a " walk-over " ; or will 
some Power come forward and exclaim " Hands 
off ! " ? Even that question God has not left unan- 
swered. He has distinctly answered it in the same 
chapter (xxxviii.) of Ezekiel, at verse 13, which 
reads : — 

" Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of 
Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, 
shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a 
spoil ? Hast thou gathered thy company to 
take a prey ? to carry away silver and gold, 
to take away cattle and goods, to take a great 
spoil ? " 

Who is Sheba ? 

Who is Dedan ? 

Who are the merchants of Tarshish ? 

Who are all the young lions thereof ? 



Merchants of Tarshish 91 

The reply is Great Britain and her Colonies, and 
the United States of America. That conclusion 
is forced upon us beyond all doubt, when ^e look 
at the evidence. 

As to Sheba, which all authorities tell us is Aden » 
it has been in the possession of Great Britain since 
the year 1839, ^^ ^ result of unfulfilled promises of 
the Sultan of Turkey to compensate us for an 
unwarranted attack and plunder of a British war- 
ship in 1836. 

As to Dedan, which all authorities agree is Muscat, 
there has been a Treaty with Great Britain since 
1839 ' and during the rebellion of 1883, the latter 
showed her claim to its submission by sheHing it ! 

Merchants of Tarshish. 

As to Tarshish, although the interpretations have 
been various, all of them point to Britain. One 
set of interpreters claims Tarshish to be Tartessus, 
which, under the name of Gibraltar, was ceded to 
England by the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713. Others 
assert that it was India, the English history of which 
is known to every schoolboy. Then again, others 
said that certain Bible statements warranted us in 
saying Tarshish was none other than Chittim, or, 
as we call it now, Cyprus. That came into our 
possession in 1878, under the Anglo-Turkish Con- 
vention at the Treaty of Berlin. Tarshish has also 
been identified with Britain because " the products 
of Tarshish that enriched the Tyrian fairs (Ezekiel, 
xxvii. 12) include the minerals that Britain produces, 
the source of which was known to the Phoenicians, 



92 Palestine and the Powers 

whose Barath-anak (land of tin) gives us, through 
the Greek, the name of Britain, the Cassiterides, 
or tin islands, alluded to by Herodotus (iii. 115)." 

Regarding the phrase, " Merchants of Tarshish " ; 
if Britain be not pre-eminently a merchant power, 
where shall we find one ? She is proverbially known 
as " a nation of shopkeepers." 

The Young Lions. 

' ' And all the young lions thereof. ' ' Why, it would 
be impossible to find a more appropriate or striking 
symbol of the Colonies of the United Empire than 
that of " young lions." Of that fact we have proof 
in our very coinage and royal standard. We believe 
the lion was first used by England as a symbol by 
Richard I., when at war in the Holy Land — hence • 
Richard " creur de lion." The mother lion is seen 
in every Imperial coat-of-arms. Almost every time 
the question of an international war comes up, and 
is discussed in our daily papers, our Colonies are 
referred to as "young lions", ready at hand to 
help the Old Mother with Dreadnoughts and what 
not. 

And we have not the sHghtest doubt that in due 
course the United States will take her place among 
the Young Lions.* What more becoming than to 
see the English-spealdng races of the world one great 
and united family ? All we saw and heard during 
our visit to the States on the outbreak of the Great 
European War confirmed this opinion, in spite 

* This was written in 1913 : now in 1918 it has become an 
accomplished fact. 



Britain an Outsider 93 

of the tremendous influence of Germany in United 
States circles — commercial and social. 

The symbolism is complete in every detail, 
and says, as plainly as symbols can say, that Great 
Britam and her Colonies will, at all costs, antagonize 
any interference with the unwalled villages of the 
Holy Land on the part of any Russo-Germanic host 
, and company.* 

This conclusion is in keeping with all we know of 
the sympathies and temper of the British nation. 
Where can we find a political party — Conservative, 
Liberal, or Socialist — that would sit quietly by while 
Russia and Germany — or any other Powers, for 
the matter of that — invaded the Holy Land ? And 
that, too, in order to spoil the Jew. Or for a still 
more ulterior reason, to use the Holy Land as the 
road to Egypt and the Suez Canal, in order to 
blockade the latter, and thus cripple " the mistress 
of the seas " — Britain, who " rules the waves." 

Britain an Outsider. 

Britain has been, and is still, the friend of the 
Jews, in spite of the fact that her tangible assets 
in the Land of Palestine are nil. We speak what we 
do know ; and were it not that we are assured it 
is all right, inasmuch as it is in keeping with the 
divine programme, as contained in the Holy Scrip- 

* Aud events have justified the interpretation, for in the House 
of Commons on December 12th, 1917, the Premier (Mr. Lloyd 
George), read a telegram from General Sir H. AUenby, in which 
the latter spoke of his entry into Jerusalem surrounded by 
" Guards representing England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales. 
Australia, New Zealand, and India, but with the Military attache 
of the United States of America." 



94 Palestine and the Powers 

tures, we should grieve at the cold shoulder which 
our country gives to the Holy Land, and the pitiable 
fashion in which she has allowed all the Powers, 
weak and strong, to worm their way into the country 
and business of the Land of Promise. In 1912, 
when we were staying in Jerusalem, we got into 
conversation with one " in the know " : one in 
close touch \vith things diplomatic. He assured 
us that for many a decade our Consul's instructions 
in general were : " See all, hear all, report all, and 
promise nothing."* And he might have well added, 
" And do nothing ", an attitude she will soon 
abandon, for the Prophet Ezekiel (xxxviii. 13) 
distinctly and unmistakably declares she is to be in 
a position in which she can say to the northern 
invaders " Art thou conw to take a spoil ? " which 
she could not say unless in actual possession, and 
that she will be.j 

But, as we have said, it is all right. Just as it 
should be, as we shall see directly ; for, although we 
have no actual assets or foothold in Palestine itself, 
we are not far off. We own a Httle island not far 
away from its coast. We refer to Cyprus. 

Cyprus and its Secret. 

When" Mr. Benjamin DisraeH, in 1878, went to 
Bcrhn to take part in the Convention that had been 
arranged to deal with Turkish troubles, no one 

* The Great War has now changed all this, and Britain's apathy 
has turned into intense interest. 

t Possessing this conviction what a thrill went through the 
Prophetic student on reading Mr. Massey's stirring details of 
the progress of the British Army in Palestine, and the Formal 
Entry into the Holy City on December 11th, 1917. 



Cyprus and its Secret 95 

dreamt he would return therefrom with anything 
in the shape of baksheesh, or a bribe ; and yet 
that is what he did come back to England with. 
In spite of all the nonsensical talk about " Peace 
with honour ", he returned to Westminster with his 
pocket bulging out with the Island of Cyprus as a 
gift for Queen Victoria. What was the explana- 
tion ? for surely some explanation was needed, just 
as much so as if a friend had succeeded in settling 
a quarrel between two other friends, and had 
accepted a bribe from one of them. For some 
time it remained a secret why Mr. Disraeli had 
accepted Cyprus as a present for his Queen and 
Country ; but the secret did come out, and is now 
public property. 

Mr. Justin McCarthy, the historian of the century, 
in his comprehensive work, History of Our Own 
Times, in volume III., page 90, says : — 

" Another secret engagement was that 
entered into with Turkey. The English 
Government midertook to guarantee to Turkey 
her Asiatic possessions against all invasion 
on condition that Turkey handed over to 
England the Island of Cyprus for her occupa- 
tion." 

In the New International Encyclopccdia we read, 
in volume V., page 714 : — 

" By a Treaty between the British Govern- 
ment and the Ottoman Empire, June 4th, 1878, 
the former promised to defend Asiatic Turkey 
against further aggression by Russia in return 
. for permission to occupy Cyprus " 



96 Palestine and the Powers 

In Chambers' i^ncyclopccdia, on page 644, of 
volume III., we read : — 

" On July loth, 1878, Cyprus was occupied 
by the British, under the provision of the cele- 
brated Turkish Convention, by the terms of 
which the island is to be occupied by Great 
Britain until Batoum and Kars are restored 
to Turkey by Russia." 

Until ! 

In his History of Our Own Times, volume III., 
page 97, Mr. McCarthy further says : — 

" Lord Beaconsfield now declared it to be the 
cardinal principle of his policy that specially 
England, above all, was concerned to main- 
tain the integrity and the independence of the 
Turkish Empire ; that, in fact, the security 
of Turkey was as much part of the duty of 
English statesmanship as the security of the 
Channel Islands or of Malta." 

Beaconsfield or Gladstone ? 

Naturally, the Treaty and bargain gave rise to 
much comment in political circles, and many lead- 
ing articles and letters appeared in the world's Press. 
Such comment and discussion are well summed up 
by Mr. McCarthy in Volume IV. of the History of 
Our Oiun Times, on page 267, where he says : — 

" The London newspapers, with the con- 
spicuous exception of the Daily News, were 
entirely on the side of Lord Beaconsfield. . . 
There was no London paper of any literary 



Mr. Asquith 97 

name, no daily papers lying on club tables, 
which had not declared themselves emphatic- 
ally in support of Lord Beaconsfield against 
Mr. Gladstone." 

But why Cyprus ? '' 

That question received a very cogent and ade- 
quate reply in a speech which Lord Beaconsfield 
delivered some time afterwards in the City of 
London. Mr. McCarthy neatly expresses it thus, 
in Volume IV., page 265 : — 

" Lord Beaconsfield afterwards explained 
that Cyprus was to be used as * a place of 
arms ' ; in other words, England had now 
normally pledged herself to defend and secure 
Turkey against all invasion or aggression, and 
occupied Cyprus in order to have a more effec- 
tual vantage ground from which to carry on 
this project." 

We have said that no English Government would 
ever allow any interference with the Holy Land — 
Conservative, Liberal, Radical, or SociaHst. The 
Daily News might protest, as it did, but the nation 
would be against it, even though supported by a 
second Gladstone. 

Mr. Asquith. 

Our present Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), Radical 
as he is, is determined to stand by Lord Beacons- 
field's bargain ; for at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, 
at the Guildhall, London, he used the following 
ominous words (November loth, 1913) : — 

" There is one other matter — and I fear only 

H 



qS Palestine and the Powers 

one — in these recent troubles in the East, which 
gives us cause for satisfaction. It is that the 
Asiatic Provinces of Turkey have not been 
involved in the conflict. It is the desire of 
His Majesty's Government that the integrity 
of these dominions should not be infringed. 
(Hear, hear.) Wc could not see without lively 
concern anything that threatened the Holy Places. 
. . . We wish to see no invasion of the 
territorial integrity of Asiatic Turkey. ... . 
We, in Great Britain, gladly offer any help 
which the Turkish Government may ask in the 
prosecution of that direction. (Hear, hear.) " 

But, it may be asked — in fact, we were frequently 
asked during our lecturing tour through the United 
States and Canada : " How can that sort of talk — 
how can those assurances be reconciled with Britain 
going to war against Turkey, and taking the 
offensive in regard to the present Mussulman 
possession of the Holy Places ? " 

In reply, we would remind the interrogator of 
Mr, Asquith's words at the Lord Mayor's Banquet 
Guildhall, just after we had entered into war with 
Turkey. He then said : — 

"It is the Ottoman Empire, and not we, 
who have rung the death-knell of the 
Ottoman dominion." 

The situation can well be illustrated by an imagi- 
nary case of two friends. Brown and Jones. Brown 
assures his friend Jones that he can rest assured of 
his help and protection in the event of his ever being 
attacked by his enemy, Robinson, and that he will 



Beaconsfield a Tool of Providence 99 

never stand idly by and see him robbed. But 
supposing Brown sees his former friend Jones losing 
his reason, and playing into the hands of the thief 
Robinson, a man who has shown himself totally 
devoid of all honour, good faith, and common 
humanity. If Brown then interferes and takes 
charge of or assumes a protectorate over all Jones' 
possessions, would any sane man charge Brown with 
breaking his word, or running counter to his pledge, 
or assurances, or guarantees ? That is a very fair 
illustration of the attitude of Great Britain toward 
the demented Turk, and his swollen-headed political 
advisers, and " blood and iron " instigators.* 

On looking at the map of the Mediterranean and 
the Holy Land, we cannot "fail to see the foresight of 
Mr. Benjamin Disraeli in selecting Cyprus. It 
occupies a position just off the coast of Syria that 
enables her to act as a sentry and protector of the 
Holy Land against all unfriendly, avaricious 
intenders upon the country covenanted by God to 
the Jews. 

Beaconsfield a Tool of Providence. 

Mr. Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) was 
a Jew ! 

He may not have known that he was being used 
by a divine hand to carry out the programme set 
out in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation, but the 
fact remains. And it was not the first time that God 

* This is now an accomplished fact, for as one paper stated — 
" Centuries of Ottoman dominion over the Holy City of Chris- 
tians and Jews have ended . . . and Jerusalem is liberated from 
the thraldom of the Turk." 



100 Palestine and the Powers 

used a ruler to carry out His will against the ruler's 
knowledge or intention ; for of a certain king of 
Assyria it is recorded that, although he fulfilled 
God's purpose, 

" He meaneth not so, neither doth his heart 
think so" (Isaiah x. 7). 

Now, although Great Britain has no effective 
standing in Palestine itself, Cyprus is the next best 
place as a suitable base ; or, as Lord Beaconsfield 
termed it, " A Place of Arms ' ' ; and now, as the result 
of the Turks throwing in their lot with Germany, 
Britain has occupied Cyprus, and turned it into a 
veritable arsenal and powder magazine, ready to 
cope with any movement or action on the part of 
Russia or Germany, who, as we have seen, are both 
well- placed to carry out any designs of invasion 
they may have. 

Russia and Germany. 

Yes, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, 
Russia and Germany will, by some means or other, 
ultimately meet, come to an understanding with 
each other, and row in the same boat * — not the 
least unlikely reason for their so doing being their 
mutual hatred of any Power except themselves 
being mistress of the seas, which, beyond all doubt, 
Britain is, and will continue to be, until her sliips 
are broken by Him (see Psa. xlviii. 7), Who, even in 
the days of His weakness had power over the waves 
(Mark iv. 39), and to Whom " all power has been 

* In view of what has happened, who will say Truth is not 
stranger than Fiction ? 



The Suez Canal loi 

given " (Matt, xxxviii. i8) by Him " Who hath 
measured the waters in the hollow of. his hand" 
(Isa. xl. 12). 

In view of the fact that " Britain rules the waves " 
and that while she does so it will be utterly impos- 
sible for any power to reach the Holy Land from the 
Mediterranean, it is e\ddent that the only chance of 
Russia and Germany to get there will be from the 
north, overland, which is quite in keeping with what 
a prophet of Israel was inspired to foreshow ; for 
the confederacy " Gog of the land of Magog " (or, 
as we have seen, Russia and Germany) is thus 
addressed in Ezek. xxxviii. 15, 16 : — 

" Thou shalt come from thy place out of 
the north parts, thou, and many people with 
thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great 
company, and a mighty army : and thou shalt 
come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud 
to cover the land ; it shall be in the lattei days, 
and I will bring thee against my land." 

The Suez Canal. 

But there will be another, an ulterior, reason for 
their invasion of the Holy Land, and that is the 
desire and expectation of getting to the Suez Canal, 
Britain's highway to her Indian and other posses- 
sions. Close that vital waterway and Britain's 
sea supremacy will have been crippled. To pre- 
vent such, Britain must safeguard all approaches 
to the Suez Canal. At present that is not done, as 
we can personally testify. Both on the north and 
on the east, the Canal is open to the attack of the 



102 Palestine and the Powers 

enemy, hence Britain must, of necessity obtain a 
protectorate of Palestine, which has been long looked 
for by students of the waitings of Israel's prophets.* 
Being in possession of the Holy Places as the natural 
sequence of such protectorate, Britain, as the modern 
" Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof ", will 
be in a position to say to Russia and Germany, as 
the modern " Gog of Magog " : — 

" Art thou come to take a spoil ? Hast thou 
gathered thy company to take a prey ? to 
carry away silver and gold, to take away 
cattle and goods, to spoil ? " (Ezek. xxxviii. 13). 

Britain's Unpreparedness — God's Opportunity. 

Hence, unless Great Britain wakes up to the situa- 
tion, Russia and Germany will be irresistible ; and 
that Britain will not wake up until too late is certain 
from what we find stated in the divine programme. 
There we arc told that, as the result of the 
Roshian or Gogian supremacy (in other words, the 
invincibility of Russia, Germany, and Company), 
Britain will be utterly powerless to stay the invasion 
that will follow the present war, and, as a conse- 
quence, Jerusalem will fall. Note the words in the 
prophetic programme : — 

" Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and 
thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 
For, I will gather all nations against Jerusa- 

* And is now being fulfilled ! No one knows it better than the 
German politician. In the Leipzig Neueste Nachric/iten, for 
December 10th, 1917, the Editor said, " The occupation of 
Jerusalem, with tlie Jafla coast, frees the Suez Canal and Egypt 
from every menace, while the English command of India is 
strengthened." 



Why Britain will Fail 103 

lem, to battle ; and the city shall be taken, and 
the houses rifled, and the women ravished : 
and half the city shall go forth into captivity, 
and the residue of the people shall not be cut 
off from the city " (Zech. xiv. i, 2). 

Why Britain will Fail. 

Not only will Britain be defeated in the region 
of the Holy Places, as we see from the foregoing 
testimony, but she will also be defeated by the same 
King of the North in Egypt, in spite of all she may 
accomplish as the result of the great European war. 
Although at first, under the Gladstonian administra- 
tion, Britain was unwillingly drawn into Egypt, 
and, finally, willingly and inextricably identified 
with her, yet beyond doubt Egypt will be wrested 
from her protector, for Israel's prophet tells us that 

" At the time of the end shall the King of 
the South (that is south of the Holy Land, 
namely, Egypt) push at him, and the King 
of the North (Russia, the latter day Assyrian, 
now in possession of Constantinople and all it 
represents) shall come against him like a whirl- 
wind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and 
with many ships, and he shall enter into the 
comitries, and shall overflow and pass over." 

And the prophet then goes on to say : — 

" He shall enter also into the glorious land 
(and to Israel's prophets there was only one 
land glorious — the Land) and many countries 
shall be overthrown ; but these shall escape out 
of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the 



104 Palestine and the Powers 

chief of the children of AmnK)n. He shall 
stretch forth his hand also upon the countries : 
and the land of Egypt shall not escape " (Dan. xi. 
40-42). 

Palestine Protectorate. 

Britain, in assuming a protectorate over Pales- 
tine,* must of necessity, in safeguarding her Suez 
Canal interests, possess Ammon, Moab, and Edom, 
and these latter lands will remain in her possession 
when she is driven out of Judeaf (at the fall of 
Jerusalem) , and when she is dispossessed, as we have 
seen, of Egypt. God has a unique reason for allow- 
ing the land of Moab and its adjoining vicinity to 
remain in Britain's occupation, and that reason is 
unmistakably manifest in the prophecies of Isaiah. 
That prophet predicts : — 

" That, as a wandering bird cast out of the 
nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the 
fords of Arnon " (Isa. xvi. 2). 

Arnon, where is that river ? In Moab. And 
who are the daughters of Moab ? The people who 
possess that country. Those we have seen in the 
" time of the end " are the British. And the 
prophet goes on to tell us why God will not allow 
the British to lose Moab. When, as we have seen, 

* Again we quote the German Nachrichten : " We must there- 
fore be prepared to see England constituting Palestine a Zionistic 
Jewish State. Thereby she will at the same time achieve another 
object. She will assure the Suez Canal for herself by using a 
neutral State as a protection for it and declaring it international, 
neutral, and inviolable." 

t This also Germany anticipated in saying : " Provisionally, 
we still cling to the hope that should Jerusalem have to be 
evacuated its possession by the English will be but a passing 
episode" [Nachyichten). 



God Glorified — Not Man 105 

as the result of defeat in Egypt and Judea, the 
British fall back to Moab, Edom, and Ammon, and, 
as a consequence, the Jews are at the mercy of the 
invaders from the north, then God issues His 
decree : — 

" Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; 
be thou a covert to them from the face of the 
spoiler " (Isa. xvi, 4). 

But why is it that the God of Israel will permit 
all this to happen ? How is it that Great Britain, 
when she goes to the aid of Jerusalem as against 
the greedy and grasping invaders, will be allowed to 
suffer defeat, when the Scriptures so emphatically 
declare that " They shall prosper that love thee " 
(Psa. cxxii. 6) ; and, on the other hand, that " No 
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper " 
(Isa. liv, 17) ? The reason why God will not allow 
the British to deHver Jerusalem is because He is 
determined to do the work Himself, and thus cause 
Himself to be sanctified and magnified in the eyes 
of the whole world. That declaration is contained 
in the same chapter as that in which Ezekiel details 
the Russian invasion of the " unwalled villages " 
of Palestine, chapter xxxviii., verse 23 : — 

" Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify 
myself ; and I will be known in the eyes of 
many nations, and they shall know that I am 
the Lord." 

God Glorified— Not Man. 

That end, the glory of God, would not be attained 
were He to allow Britain to do the work, and come 



io6 Palestine and the Powers 

off victorious. We all very well know what happens 
at the termination of a victorious war. It happened 
at the end of the South African war. It was a case 
of British flags and bunting ; the Royal Standard 
and the Union Jack. The inscriptions and mottoes 
were, " Bravo, Bobs ", and " Well Done, Kitch- 
ener." And that is just what the God of 
Israel has determined shall not be. His decree on 
the matter is thus vividly expressed by His prophet, 
Isaiah (ii. 2, 11) : — 

" It shall come to pass in the last days, that 
the mountain of the Lord's house shall be 
established . . . and shall be exalted 
above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto 
it. . . . The loftly looks of man shall 
be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall 
be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be 
exalted in that day." 

Jerusalem Delivered. 

That " That Day " is yet future is evident from 
verse 4, where we read that the Lord 

" Will judge among the nations, and shall 
rebuke many people : and they shall beat their 
swords into ploughshares, and their spears into 
pruning hooks : nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
' more." 

But let us return to prostrate Jerusalem ; let 
us enquire further about Russia, the victor, and 
Britain, the defeated. What will be the end of it 



Jacob's Trouble 107 

all ? Again, we are not left to speculate, for God's 
prophet tells us : — 

"Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight 
against those nations, as when he fought in 
the day of battle " (Zech. xiv. 3). 

And the same prophet gives further details in 
chapter xii. There we read : — 

" The Lord also shall save the tents of Judali 
first. ... In that day shall the Lord 
defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. . . . 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I 
will seek to destroy all the nations that come 
against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the 
house of David, and the inhabitants of Jeru- 
salem, the spirit of grace and of supplications " 
(verses 7-10). 

Jacob *s Trouble. 

Yes, Britain's unpreparedness,* and the Jews' 
extremity, or " Jacob's trouble ", as Jeremiah terms 
it (xxx. 7), will be God's opportunity. " He will 
send Jesus " (Acts iii. 20), and the besieged inhabi- 
tants of Jerusalem, relieved by Him, will then do 
as Christ predicted, exclaim : — 

" Blessed is he that cometh in the name of 
the Lord : Blessed be the kingdom of our 
father David, that cometh in the name of the 
Lord : Hosanna in the highest " (Mark xi. 
9). 

* Psalm xlviii. 7 ; Isaiah ii. 16, 



io8 Palestine and the Powers 

The reason for their conversion, Zechariah tells 
us plainly, chapter xii., verse lo : — 

" They shall look upon me whom they have 
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one 
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitter- 
ness for him, as one that is in bitterness for 
his firstborn. In that day shall there be great 
mourning in Jerusalem." 

Then will they remember His words, as recorded 
by Matthew (xxiii. 39) : — 

" Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall 
say, ' Blessed is he that cometh in the name of 
the Lord'. " 

Their repentant cry of welcome will be that pre- 
dicted by the Psalmist : — 

" Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye 
lift up, ye everlasting doors ; and the king of 
glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory ? 
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty 
in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; 
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; and 
the king of glory shall come in. Who is this 
king of glory ? The Lord of hosts, he is the 
king of glory " (Psa. xxiv. 7-10). 

Britain's Navy Doomed. 

In a later portion of chapter 2 of Isaiah, the further 
humiliation of Great Britain is clearly foretold in 
the utter destruction of her naval fleet. It says : — 

" The day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon 



Britain's Navy Doomed 109 

everyone that is proud, and lofty, and upon 
everyone that is lifted up ; and he shall be 
brought low : . . . And upon all the ships 
of Tarshish " (Isa. ii. 12, 16). 

Tarshish we have already (on pages 91 to 93) 
identified with Britain, and further light regarding 
the future of her fleet is provided in Psa. xlviii. 7, 
where we read : — 

" Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with 
an east wind." 

The context of this verse clearly shows it to be a 
prophecy yet to be fulfilled. It is connected with 
" the Great King " taking up position in Zion, 
now to become " the joy of the whole earth." 

Prior to this, as we shall see directly, there will 
have been the hasty and ignominious retreat of the 
Gogian, or Russian, hosts in the " day of vengeance ", 
at the appearance of Him who " speaks in 
righteousness, mighty to save ", the day of whose 
redeemed will have come. We can quite see how, 
at the galling intelligence of the fall of Jerusalem, 
Britain \\all hastily mobilize reinforcements and 
hurry the transports with fresh troops along the 
Mediterranean to the ports of the Holy Land — ports, 
however, which they will never reach. The " locker 
of Davy Jones " will be their destination. 

But Britain is evidently to learn her lesson aright, 
and humbly bow herself before the decrees of Provi- 
dence, judging by further Bible statements. 



no Palestine and the Powers 

Britain's Merchant Service. 

God has ever been mindful of humble submission, 
and it will be so in the case of Britain. He will 
recognize and reward her contrition by according 
her the privilege of transporting scattered Israel 
from all quarters of the globe back to the Promised 
Land. What else can we make of what the prophet 
Isaiah says ? 

" Ho to the land shadowing with wings, 
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That 
sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels 
of bulrushes upon the waters. Go ye swift 
messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, 
to a people terrible from their beginning hither- 
to ; a nation meted out and trodden down, 
whose land the rivers have spoiled " (xviii. 

1,2). 

And in verse 7 it says these once scattered people 
will be brought 

" To the place of the name of the Lord of 
hosts, the Mount Zion." 

Who can this power be with " shadowing wings " 
(vast colonies) and " vessels of bulrushes " (or 
vessels " drinking up water " as it has been rendered), 
and which are further described by the prophet 
as " swift messengers " ? The answer is found 
in what was written by Dr. John Thomas, over 60 
years ago : " The text shows that the overshadowing 
land is a maritime power. It is neither Austria, 
Russia, nor Turkey, because they do not correspond 
with their possessions by sea ; neither is it France 



Armageddon iii 

nor the United States, because their wings do not 
stretch . . . beyond the Tigris and Euphrates, 
It can be no other power than the British, whose 
wings stretch from Burmah to the land of Sheba, 
and west of the Indus." 

And then to place our contention beyond all doubt 
we have that clear prophetical declaration of Isaiah 
in chapter Ix., verse 9, which reads : — 

" Surely the isles shall wait for rae, and the 
ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from 
far, their silver and their gold with them, unto 
the name of the Lord thy God, and'to the Holy 
One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." 

Armageddon. 

The nations are fast getting ready for this unparal- 
leled and sanguinary scramble upon the mountains 
of Israel. The strange thing about it all is that, 
although those nations profess to be Christian, and 
to have the God of the Bible on their side, they are 
in total ignorance of His programme, and have not 
the slightest idea that their ceaseless piling up of 
armaments is most graphically set forth in the Holy 
Scriptures. Listen to how Joel foretold it in chapter 
iii., in verses 9-12 : — 

" Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles ; 
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all 
the men of war draw near ; let them come up : 
Beat your ploughshares into sword^, and your 
pruninghooks into spears ; let the weak say, 
I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come 
near, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves 



112 Palestine and the Powers 

together round about : thither cause thy 
mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the 
heathen be wakened, and come up to the Valley 
of Jehoshaphat * : for there will I sit to judge 
all the heathen round about." 

The climax of all this stir among the nations, 
and their war preparations, will be what the Lord 
Jesus has termed the " War of Armageddon " (Rev. 
xvi. i6), an expression which has been repeatedly 
used by some of the world's leading statesmen. 
Even that peaceful London paper, the Daily News, 
regarded the terrible and international " Arma- 
geddon " as inevitable ; for some time before the 
outbreak of the Great War it wrote : — 

" It requires a very slight spark to set this 
powder magazine in a blaze. ... So 
great is the burden on the nations of Europe, 
that some statesmen doubt whether it would 
not be cheaper to settle the matter once for 
all in one great Armageddon." 

Armageddon not in Europe. 

Armageddon is not, as most people erroneously 
suppose, a conflict between Britain and some other 
great Power or Powers in Europe ; but a great war 
in which the Almighty God, manifested in the 
Messiah of Israel and the glorified worthies of all 
ages, will take a prominent part ; hence the divinely 
inspired description thereof : " The Great Day of 
God Almighty" (Rev. xvi. 14). 

That will be Armageddon ! 

* Immediately below the east wall of Jerusalem. 



A Convulsion of Nature 113 

No doubt, when Jerusalem has fallen, the Russo- 
Germanic invaders (Zech. xiv, 2) will then be fright- 
ened by "tidings out of the East" (Dan. xi. 44) 
in the shape of a vast multitude whom no man can 
number, the redeemed of all nations and kindreds 
and peoples and tongues (Rev. vii. 9), whose reward 
it will have been to be made immortal — the posses- 
sors of everlasting life (Dan. xii. 2), and over whom, 
therefore, death will no longer have any dominion. 
Let us imagine this multitude led by One who claims 
to be " Lord of lords and King of kings " (Rev. xvii. 
14), on the march from Edom and then through 
Bozrah (Isa. Ixiii. i), and in reply to enquiries as 
to who He is, saying it is 

" I that speak in righteousness, mighty to 
save. . . . The day of vengeance is in 
mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is 
come " (Isa. Ixiii. 4). 

The vast multitudes march on, and in due com'se 
reach that portion of the mountains of Israel known 
as the Mount of Olives. Another of the prophets 
of Israel foretold that event in the following 
words : — 

" His feet shall stand in that day upon the 
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem oit 
the east " (Zech. xiv. 4). 

This is to be followed by 

A Convulsion of Nature. 

The prophet goes on to say : — 

" The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the 

I 



114 Palestine and the Powers 

midst thereof toward the cast and toward the 
west, and there shall be a very great valley ; 
and half of the mountain shall remove toward 
the north, and half of it toward the south " 
(Zech. xiv. 4). 

But there have been earthquakes before. It is 
not the first mount that has quaked and quivered 
and rent. And so the Russo-German invaders and 
possessors of Jerusalem on the west will doubtless 
regard the event as one of the fortunes or misfor- 
tunes of war, and will prepare to meet the approach- 
ing army with shot and shell. But what avail will 
shot and shell be against an army whose battalions 
are composed of immortal and incorruptible beings ? 
(I Cor. XV, 52, 53). 

Godless Socialists. 

Perhaps some of our readers will smile at such a 
picture, and put it down to the sweet innocence or 
overstrung imagination of a deluded enthusiast. 
But we are not recording and writing these things 
for those who have no belief or faith in the God 
of the Hebrews, or the writings of Moses and the 
Prophets. We are not concerned for the Robert 
Blatchford type, who, at the age of 50 years, repu- 
diates both God and " Moses and the prophets ", 
and describes the " God of Abraham, Isaac, and 
Jacob " as a " red-handed and black-hearted fiend." 
This type of man knows no God but self, and to 
quote the sublime truths of Holy M^rit to such is as 
casting pearls before swine. 

Neither are we writing for those who doubt every- 



Angels 115 

thing that does not accord with their own limited 
experience. No, we are talking to those who believe 
in the God of the Hebrews ; who believe the Bible 
to be the revelation of the mind and will of that God ; 
and who have not lost faith in Israel's prophets. 
Our message is to those who believe that in days 
gone by this same God destroyed in one night 
185,000 of the Assyrian troops ; Who by His 
unaided power drowned the Egyptian hosts in the 
Red Sea ; Who prolonged a day and shortened a 
night for His people Israel's sake. 

Yes, we are writing these things for those who 
believe many other wonderful things, simply because 
they are contained in the writings of Moses and the 
Prophets, and who therefore believe in the existence 
of those corporeal beings termed in those Mosaic 
writings 

Angels. 

Such, for instance, as those who met with Abra- 
ham, and whom, on account of their outward form 
and appearance, he mistook for three men (Gen. 
xviii. 2). They had feet that could be washed 
(Gen. xix. i, 2), They could lie down and rest, and 
like ordinary mortals could eat unleavened bread 
(Gen. xix, 3). Angels can be touched and handled 
(Gen. xxxii. 24). And yet, by reason of being par- 
takers of the divine nature (2 Pet. i. 4), are not able 
to die any more (Rom. vi. 9). This desirable con- 
dition of things all comes about as the result of 
having their natural bodies changed (Phil. iii. 21) ; 
the mortal putting on immortality (i Cor. xv. 
53), and this corruptible putting on incorruption 



ii6 Palestine and the Powers 

(i Cor. XV. 54). The redeemed will then in every 
respect be " made equal unto the angels " (Luke 
XX. 36) in 

The Great Day of Judgment. 

In the great day of account, when the Judge will 
have before Him the responsible of all ages, the dead 
being raised and the living gathered together to 
the Judgment Seat, those who are found worthy of 
" everlasting Hfc " (Dan. xii, 2) will be given " power 
over the nations " (Rev. ii, 26), with the view of 
bringing about " Glory to God in the highest, and 
on earth peace, goodwill among men " (Luke ii. 14). 

Just imagine such an army of immortal, incorrup- 
tible beings approaching Jerusalem ! How futile 
will be shot and shell, bombs and shrapnel. Often, 
as we have stood on that east wall of the city over- 
looking the valley of Jehoshaphat with the Mount 
of Olives in the near distance, could we picture the 
Russians and the Germans manning the guns on 
that wall and pouring out therefrom charge after 
charge. But such, on those possessing angelic 
nature, would do no more harm than the proverbial 
peas aimed at the Rock of Gibraltar ; but that the 
Confederacy will need to learn by experience. 

As Christ Himself has told us in the Apocalyptic 
programme since His ascension to Heaven, the then 
holders of Jerusalem will make war against Him, but 
He 

" Shall overcome them ; for he is Lord of 
lords, and King of kings ; and they that are 
with him are called, and chosen, and faithful " 
(Rev. xvii. 14). 



Joy for the Jews 117 

Overcome ! Of course ! 

What a scene then in tlie valley of Jehoshaphat, 
which has always separated Jerusalem from the 
Mount of Olives. Another prophet of Israel thus 
pictures it : — 

" For, behold, in those days, and in that time, 
when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah 
and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, 
and will bring them down into the valley of 
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for 
my people and for my heritage Israel, whom 
they have scattered among the nations, and 
parted my Land " (Joel iii. i, 2). 

What consternation among the alHed armies 
encamped in the Holy City, but what 

Joy for the Jews. 

Aye, and what a surprise for the Jews when they 
reaUze who is their Deliverer and Saviour. Another 
prophet depicts the scene very graphically thus : — 

" It shall come to pass in that day, that I 
will seek to destroy all the nations that come 
against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace 
and of supplications : and they shall look upon 
me whom they have pierced, and they shall 
mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only 
son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one 
that is in bitterness for his firstborn " {Zech. 
xii. 9, IQ). 

This pathetic scene of recognition was also forc' 



ii8 Palestine and the Powers 

told by Jesus Christ Himself when reproaching His 
kinsmen for their imbelicf : — 

" Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall 
say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of 
the Lord " (Matt, xxiii. 39). 

But how about the overpowered and routed Russo- 
German hosts, not only in Jerusalem, but encamped 
all over the Holy Land ? The prophet Daniel 
predicted their fate when, in speaking of the latter- 
day invaders, he said : — 

" He shall enter also into the glorious land, 
and many shall be overthrown . . . And 
he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace 
between the seas in the glorious holy mountain ; 
yet he shall come to his end, and none shall 
help him " (Dan. xi. 41, 45). 

In their retreat, what helter-skelter there will be 
to get to some place of safety ! What a taking 
to their heels ! How they will run ! No doubt 
they will call it a mihtary retirement ; or, more 
likely still, they will term it 

A Strategic Retreat. * 

The strategy, however, will not be on their part, 
but on that of the God of Israel, who has a lesson 
to teach them, and all other desecrators of the Land, 
concerning which His prophet says : — 

" He that toucheth you toucheth the apple 
of his eye " (Zech. ii. 8). 

And again : — 

" In that day I will make Jerusalem a bur- 



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Off Jaffa 119 

densome stone for all people : all that burden 
themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though 
all the people of the earth be gathered together 
against it " (Zech. xii. 3). 

Another of the prophets of Israel describes God's 
mind of His land and people thus :— 

" No weapon that is formed against thee 
shall prosper : and every tongue that shall 
rise against thee in judgment thou shalt con- 
demn " (Isa. liv. 17). 

The Gog confederacy will hasten away from Jeru- 
salem, very possibly for the purpose of getting rein- 
forcements. In any case, they will not go in the 
direction of Jaffa, for no reinforcements will be 
found there. Although Jaffa is the port for Jeru- 
salem, the ways and means of that seaport are far 
too limited for it ever to be used for transport of 
either troops or guns. No deep draught boats can 
get anywhere near the shore. 

Off Jaffa. 

Not only is the Mediterranean here very shallow, 
but the coast-line abounds with very dangerous 
rocks or reefs, through which only small boats can 
be steered. There is no harbour, nor is there likely 
to be, in spite of the concessions made or promised 
from time to time by the Turkish authorities. 
Therefore, anything in the way of transports must 
be carried out at either Haifa or Beyrout, at both of 
which places there is ample provision for embarking 
or disembarking troops in large numbers. 



120 Palestine and the Powers 

Now let us look at the map of Palestine, and we 
see that whichever of those two ports they make 
for, they will have to cross the plain of Esdraelon, 
or Megiddo, as it is termed in Scripture. And what 
of that ? Let us here repeat something said by 
the late Lord Kitchener before the Geographical 
Section of the British Association and Palestine 
Exploration Fund Committee. 

Lord Kitchener. 

He said : * " Looking down on the broad plain 
of Esdraelon stretched out from our feet it is impos- 
sible not to remember that this is the greatest battle- 
field of the world, from the days of Joshua and the 
defeat of the mighty host of Sisera, till, almost in 
Our own days. Napoleon the Great fought the battle 
of Mount Tabor. Here also is the ancient Megiddo, 
where the last great Battle of Armageddon is to be 
fought." 

There is not the slightest doubt but that Lord 
Kitchener was right in identifying the Plain of 
Esdraelon or Megiddo as the Armageddon of the 
Holy Scriptures. Every authority of any note 
agrees therewith, including Sir Charles Wilson, Dean 
Stanley, Dr. EUicott, Dr. Hastings, Cunningham 
Geikie, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Black, Dr. Kitto, and Dr. 
Albert Barnes. 

As to Lord Kitchener, there was something in his 
career remarkably out of the ordinary. Born in 
1850, he entered the Royal Engineers at 21, after 

* In a lecture before the GeographicalSection of the British 
Section of the British Association on " The Survey of GaHlee," 
see (hiarlerly Statement, 1878, pp. 159-174. 



Colonel Conder 121 

passing through the Royal Military College at Wool- 
wich. Five years he did arduous survey work in 
the Holy Land, and about the same time in Cyprus. 
He then spent 16 years in Egypt, and after an inter- 
val of some years returned thither Lord Kitchener 
of Khartoum, in the capacity of Britain's chief 
representative in Egypt. In July, 1914, he paid a 
brief visit to Britain, and was about to return to his 
duties when the great European war broke out ; 
in fact, he was actually on the way when a telegram 
summoned him back, the man in whom the whole 
of Britain had absolute confidence, the man that 
knew the Holy Land, Cyprus, and Egypt better than 
anyone. Combine all these facts, and who can fail 
to see that his career was specially fitted for the out- 
working of the divine plan. This was the man who 
saw in the plain of Esdraelon the scene of Arma- 
geddon. The Irish Question or Belgian neutrality 
never troubled him. 



Colonel Conder. 

This gentleman (then Major Conder), who was 
Lord Kitchener's fellow-surveyor in Palestine for 
the Ordnance Survey, also heartily supports the 
verdict of Lord Kitchener respecting Esdraelon. 
He has written : — 

" If another campaign should ever occur in 
Palestine, the Megiddo is said by military 
men to be the most likely spot for a battle, its 
position being so important." 

Keeping in view all the foregoing inspired and 
uninspired evidence, can we not plainly see that 



122 Palestine and the Powers 

the retreating Russians and Germans will be allowed 
to reach tht,' plain of Esdraelon, in other words, 
Armageddon, and will then be overtaken by Christ 
and His mighty hosts ? In this connection we 
remembei His words to Pilate nearly 19 centuries 
ago :— 

" If my kingdom were of this world {kos- 
mos — world, as in verse 20) then would my ser- 
vants fight ' (John xviii. 36). 

Now will have arrived the time for His servants 
to fight, as it is so unmistakably put in the Psalms : — 

" To execute vengeance upon the nations, 
and punishments upon the people ; to bind their 
kings with chains and their nobles with fetters 
of iron ; to execute upon them the vengeance 
written : This honour have all his saints " 
(Psa. cxlix. 7-9). 



A Punitive Expedition. 

There is no other means by which the world can 
be made to learn righteousness. Preaching cannot 
do it ; never has done it, and never will. God has 
instituted preaching for a very different purpose, 
namely, to take out of the nations " a people for 
his name " (Acts. xv. 14). The world will be taught 
right thinking and right doing in quite a different 
way. The God of Israel in the Bible says so. The 
prophet says : — 

" When thy judgments are in the earth, the 



A Punitive Expedition 123 

inhabitants of the world will learn righteous- 
ness " (Isa. xxvi. 9). 

And Jesus, in His Apocalyptic programme, in 
speaking of that era, says : — 

" Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify 
thy name ? For thou only art holy : for all 
nations shall come and worship before thee; 
for thy judgments are made manifest ' (Rev. 
XV. 4). 

It will mean a terrible time for the world at large, 
such trouble as the world has never previously 
experience^ ; not even the unparalleled European 
war of our day will compare with it. The prophet 
" greatly beloved " speaks of it thus : — 

" There shall be a time of trouble, such as 
never was since there was a nation even to 
that same time : and at that time thy people 
shall be dehvered " (Dan xii. i). 

So far reaching will the trouble be that 

" The slain of the Lord shall be at that day 
from one end of the earth even unto the other 
end of the earth : they shall not be lamented, 
neither gathered, nor buried ; they shall be 
dung upon the ground " (Jer. xxv. 33). 

That may be terrible reading, but any revulsion 
of feeling, caused thereby, vanishes when we are 
made aware of the character of " the slain of the 
Lord." We are told in verse 31 of the same 
chapter : — 

" A noise shall come even to the ends of the 



124 Palestine and the Powers 

earth ; for the Lord hath a controversy with 
(he nations, he will plead with all flesh ; he 
will give them that are wicked to the sword." 



God's Ways. 

There will be no half measures then. God tells 
us so. He will then say : — 

" I have long time holden my peace ; I have 
been still and refrained myself : now will I 
cry like a travailing woman ; I will destroy 
and devour at once " (Isa. xlii. 14). 

The cause and effect are unique : — 

" The Lord hath a controversy with the 
nations. . . . Evil shall go forth from 
nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall 
be raised up from the coasts of the earth" 
(Jer. XXV. 31, 32). 

The Psalms vividly depict how the earth will 
appear at that awful juncture ; here is a sample : — 

" Come, behold the works of the Lord, what 
desolations he hath made in the earth " (Psa. 
xlvi. 8). 

If this be your first introduction to these things, 
we can read your thoughts. You are thinking it 
a sorry picture, one you have no sympathy with, 
no desire nor place for. Yes ; and that is just what 
the mind of a child would be on being shown an 
operating theatre where a surgeon was engaged in 



An Ideal King 125 

removing some malignant growths from a human 
being. In all things, however, we want to " con- 
sider the end ", and the Psalmist proceeds to tell 
us that after the desolations : — 

" He maketh w^ars to cease unto the end of 
the earth ; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth 
the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot 
in the fire. Be still and know that I am God ; 
I will be exalted among the nations, I will 
be exalted in the earth" (Psalm xlvi. 9, 10). 



I An Ideal King. 

" Immanuel " — " God with us " in the person 
of the Messiah. David sang of Him when with 
a prophet's eye he could sec Him as King in 
*' Immanuel's Land." He said : — 

" He shall come down like rain upon the 

mown grass : as showers that water the earth. 

. . . Men shall be blessed in him : all 

nations shall call him blessed " (Psa. Ixxii. 6, 

•17). 

As was truly said by another lover of Israel and 
Israel's Land, this time of Restitution: — 

" God hath spoken by the mouth of all 
his holy prophets since the world began " 
(Actsiii. 21). 

We could well fill volume upon volume with 
extracts from those writings of the prophets. Not 
a prophet of Israel is there who has not in some way 



126 Palestine and the Powers 

or other referred to that happy time when there will 
be 

" Glory to God in the highest, 
And on Earth Peace, 
Goodwill towards men " 

(Luke ii. 14). 

But space forbids that we should do more than 
take the writings of a specimen prophet. Which 
shall we take ? We do not think we can do better 
than take that prophet whose writings are more 
often quoted than any other. We refer to Isaiah, 
to whom both Jew and Gentile is constrained to 
hsten — for was he not a Jew ? A patriot in every 
sense of the word ? And with his patriotism was 
blended a religious fervour well nigh unique. We 
note it in that vow of his : — 

" For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, 
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until 
the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, 
and the salvation thereof as a lamp that 
burneth " (Isa. Ixii. i). 

But his patriotism was divine. It was blended 
with unbounded sympathies. Being divine they 
took in Gentile as well as Jew. He saw the time 
when the wall or partition would be thrown down 
and he rejoiced at its removal. 

In presenting word pictures from the prophets' 
writings, we would beg our friends — Jew and Gen- 
tile — to personally ask as they read these glorious 
promises one by one, " Is this promise part of ray 
religion ? If not, why not ? " 



Isaiah's Glowing Pictures 127 

A Good Time Coming. 

In examining Isaiah for details of the " Good Time 
Coming ", our difficulty is what to leave unquoted/ 
there being so many. Isaiah furnishes us with 
pictures to be realized, never dieamed of, even by 
Idealists. Let us x^rocced to i^rove that in the very 
words of Isaiah, preceded by propositions supported 
by such. 

Isaiah's Glowing Pictures. 

The Earth for the People : 

" Thus saith the Lord that created the 
heavens ; God himself that formed the earth 
and made it ; he hath established it, he created 
it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited." * 

Land-Grabbers Doomed : 

" Woe unto them that join house to house, 
that lay field to field, till there be no place, 
that they may be placed alone in the earth." f 

An All-wise and All-good King Promised : 
" The government shall be upon his shoulder : 
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun- 
sellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, 
The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his 
government and peace there shall be no end, 
upon the throne of David, and upon his king- 
dom to order it, and to estabhsh it with judg- 
ment, and with justice from henceforth even 
for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
perform this." | 

* Isaiah xlv. 18 ; f v. 8 ; J ix. 6, 7. 



128 Palestine and the Powers 

Just Administrators: 

" A king shall reign in righteousness, and 
princes shall rub in judgment." * 

A Desirable Vengeanxe : 

" To proclaim the acceptable year of the 
Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; 
to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto 
them that mourn in Zion, to give imto them 
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 
tlie garment of praise for the spirit of heavi- 
ness." t 

How IT WILL BE Accomplished: 

" Behold, the name of the Lord comcth from 
far, burning with his anger, and the burden 
thereof is heavy : his lips are full of indignation, 
and his tongue as a devouring fire. And his 
breath as an overflowing stream, shall reach 
to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations 
with the sieve of vanity " J 

Sequel to the Judgments : 

" When thy judgments are in the earth, the 
inhabitants of the world will learn righteous- 
ness." § 

War to be ended : 

" He shall judge among the nations, and shall 
rebuke many people : and they shall beat 
their swords into ploughshares, and their 
spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not 

* laaiah xxxii. 1 ; t Ixi. 2, 3 ; J xxx, 27, 28 ; § xxvi. 9. 



Isaiah *s Glowing Pictures 129 

lift up sword against nation, neither shall 
they learn war any more." * 

Unerring Justice : 

" The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, 
the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the 
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of know- 
ledge and of the fear of the Lord ; and shall 
make him of quick understanding in the fear 
of the Lord ; and he shall not judge after the 
sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hear- 
ing of his ears : but with righteousness shall 
he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for 
the meek of the earth." f 

Villainy Unmasked : 

" The vile person shall no more be called 
liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 
For the vile person will speak villainy, and his 
heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, 
and to utter error against the Lord." J 

Darkness Dispelled : 

" He will destroy in this mountain the face 
of the covering cast over all people, and the 
veil that is spread over all nations." § 

Ignorance no More : 

" And wisdom and knowledge shall be the 
stabihty of thy times, and strength of salva- 
tion." 11 

* Isaiah ii. 4 ; f xi. 2, 3, and 4 ; X xxxii. 5, 6 ; 
§ XXV. 7 ; II xxxiii. 6. 



130 Palestine and the Powers 

Prisons Obsolete : 

" I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, 
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, 
and give thee for a covenant of the people, 
for a hght of the Gentiles ; to open the bhnd 
eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, 
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison 
house." * 

Drink Traffic Arrested : 

" Woe unto them that rise up early in the 
morning, that they may follow strong drink ; 
that continue unto night, till wine inflame 
them." t 

The Poor Cared For : 

" With righteousness shall he judge the poor, 
and reprove with equity for the meek of the 
earth." | 

No More Cripples : 

" Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, 
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and 
the tongue of the dumb sing." § 

Sorrow Ended : 

" The Lord God will wipe away tears from off 
all faces ; and the rebuke of his people shall 
he take away from off all the earth ; for the 
Lord hath spoken it." i| 

* Isaiah xlii. 6. 7 ; t v. 11 ; t xi. 4 ; § xxxv, 5, 6 ; 
II XXV. 8. ■ 



Isaiah^s Glowing Pictures 131 

Infantile Mortality Stayed : 

" There shall be no more thence an infant of 
days, nor an old man that hath not filled liis 
days : for the child shall die a hundred years 
old." * 



Senile Decay Arrested : 

" They that wait upon the Lord shall renew 
their strength ; they shall mount up with wings 
as eagles ; they shall run, and not be weary ; 
and they shall walk, and not faint." f 

Good-bye to Death : 

" He will swallow up death in victory." 1 

The Persecuted Jew Restored : 

" For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; 
but with great mercies will I gather thee. In 
a little wTath I hid my face from thee for a 
moment ; but with everlasting kindness will 
I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy 
Redeemer." § 

Barren Lands Reclaimed : 

" The wilderness and the solitary place shall 
be glad for them ; and the desert shall rejoice, 
and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom 
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and 
singing." || 

* Isaiah Ixv. 20 ; t ^l- 31 ; t xxv. 8 ; § liv. 7, 8; 
11 XXXV. 1, 2. 



132 Palestine and the Powers 

No More Thorns and Thistles : 

" Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir 
tree, and instead of the briar shall come up 
the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord 
a name, and for an everlasting sign that shall 
not be cut off." * 

The Brute Creation at Rest: 

" The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, 
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; 
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling 
together ; and a little child shall lead them. 
And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their 
young ones shall lie down together : and the 
lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suck- 
ing child shall play on the hole of the asp, and 
the weaned child shall put his hand on the 
cockatrice' den." f 

Peace with Honour : 

" The work of righteousness shall be peace ; 
and the effect of righteousness quietness and 
assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell 
in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, 
and in quiet resting places, "J 

Universal Blessings: 

" In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 
make unto all people a feast of fat things, a 
feast of wines on the lees, of fat tilings full of 
marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." § 

* Isaiah Iv. 13 ; f xi. 6 ; J xxxii. 17, 18 ; § xxv. 6. 



Isaiah^s Glowing Pictures 133 

Unbounded Happiness : 

" The ransomed of the Lord shall return and 
come unto Zion with songs and everlasting 
joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy 
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee 
away." * 

World-wide Rejoicings : 

" For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and 
as the garden causeth the things that are sown 
in it to spring forth : so the Lord God shall 
cause righteousness and praise to spring forth 
before all nations." f 

The Author of it All: 

" The Lord will enter into judgment with 
the ancients of his people, and the princes 
thereof : for ye have eaten up the vineyard ; 
the spoil of the poor is in your houses. What 
mean ye that ye beat my^people to pieces, r.nd 
grind the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord 
God of hosts." t 

His Glory Everywhere then: 

" The earth shall be full of the knowledge of 
the Lord, as the waters cover the deep." § 

Too Good for Words : 

" For since the beginning of the world men 
have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, 
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, 
what he hath prepared for liim that waiteth 
for him." 11 

* Isaiah xxxv. 10 ; \ Ixi. 11 ; J iii. 14, 15 ; 
§ xi. 9 ; II Ixiv. 4. 



134 Palestine and the Powers 

Dr. John Thomas and Egypt. 

Not only did the late Dr. John Thomas, quoted 
in the foregoing pages, accurately forecast from the 
prophetic Scriptures the pre-adventual colonization 
of Palestine, and the estabHshment there of thriving 
colonies by the Jews ; but, forty years before the 
event, he was also able to point out that the same 
Scriptures taught that Great Britain would simul- 
taneously occupy Egypt. We quote his very words, 
written nearly seventy years ago, and then pubHshed 
in a work, entitled Elpis Israel, which now lies before 
us. There, on pages 395 and onwards, we read : — 

" I know not whether the men who, at the 
present {1848), contrive the foreign policy of 
Britain entertain the idea of assuming the 
sovereignty of the Holy Land, and of promoting 
its colonization by the Jews ; their present 
intentions, however, are of no importance one 
way or the other, because they will be compelled, 
by events soon to happen, to do what, under 
existing circumstances, heaven and earth com- 
bined could not move them to accomphsh 
. . . The finger of God has indicated a course 
to be pursued by Britain which cannot be 
evaded, and which her counsellors will not only 
be willing, but eager, to adopt when the crisis 
comes upon them. The decree has long gone 
forth which calls upon the Lion of Tarshish 
to protect the Jews. . . . God, who rules 
the world, and marks out the bounds of habi- 
tation for the nations, will make Britain a 
gainer by the transaction. He will bring her 



John Thomas and Egypt 135 

to see the desirableness of Egypt, Ethiopia, 
and Seba, which she will be induced by the force 
of circumstances, probably, to take possession 
of. . . . The possession or ascendancy of 
Britain in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba, will 
naturally lead to the colonization of Palestine 
by the Jews ". 

Events have fully borne out these expectations, 
for all the world knows that in January, 1915, Egypt 
obtained complete independence with her own 
Sultan, but under the protection of Great Britain. 



Elpis Israel, by Dr. John Thomas, and from 
which extracts have been frequently made in 
this book, is published by, and can be obtained 
from, Mr. C. C. Walker, 21, Hendon Road, 
Sparkhill, Birmingham. It is a masterpiece 
of prophetical acumen. 

F. G. J. 



INDEX. 



Page 
Aaronson, Mr. Aaron - 77 
Abraham's Vineyard - '67 
Achavah Colony - 35 

Acts Hi. 20 - 17, 107 

,, ,. 21 - - 125 

,, XV. 14 - - 122 

Admah Jeshurun Society 14 
Agricultural Experiment 

Station - * 77 

Agudath Shelomoh Miland 

Colony - - 33 

Ain Ganim Colony - 76 

Algiers - - - 89 

Alkalai, Juda Ben Salomon 10 
AUenby, General Sir H. - 93 
Alliance Israelite Univer- 

selle - 34, 36, 66, 77 

Allies, Russia's - - 87 

America, United States of 92 
American Zionists - 87 

Angels - -115 

Anglo-Palestine Company 58, 72 
Anglo-Turkish Convention 91 
Annual Register - - 7 

Ararat Settlement - 9 

Armageddon m, 112, 120, 122 
Arms, Cyprus a Place of - ,120 
Army of Immortal Soldiers 116 
Arnim Count - '57 

Artuf Colony - - 76 

Asiatic Turkey - - 95 

Asquith, Right Hon. H. H. 97 
Athanasian Creed - 65 

Athlit Colony - - 75 

Balfour, Mr. A. J. - 38 

Bar-cochba - - 3 

Barnett, Canon S. A. - 71 



Page 

Barthelmey - - 10 

Basle Programme - 25 
Battei Dov^Hornstein 

Colony - "37 

Battei Ezrath Niddachira 

Colony - - 31 

Battei Kolel Minsk Colony 35 
Battei Kolel Zebenberger 

Colony - - .36 

Battei Mendel Rand Colony 36 
Battei Mosheh Menahem 

Vodner Colony - 34 

Battei Mosheh Colony - 30 

Battei Nathan Colony - 34 

Battei Shimon Colony - 32 
Battei Yaakob Badodah 

Colony - - 35 

Bayer on Rosh - - 81 
Beaconsfield, Lord 94, 96, 97 

Begden Colony - - 73 

Belvidere Tower - 82 

Benei Mosheh Colony - 31 

Berlin Exhibition of In- . 

dustry - - ^5 

Berlin, Treaty of - 95 

Beth Abraham Colony - 33 

Beth Arif Colony - 77 

Beth David Colony - 28 

Beth Israel Colony - 30 

Beth Yaakob Colony - 29 
Bezalel Institute of Arts 

and Crafts - - 67 

Bing, Lazar Levy - n 

Bir Jacob Colony - 77 

Birket-Mamilla - - 28 
Birnbaum, Dr. Nathan 13, 15 

Blatchford, Mr. Robert - 114 

■Blood Ritual - - 69 



136 



Index 



137 



Page 
Bochart on Rosh - 80 

Bonhomme, S. - -56 

Box Colonies, Jewish - 41 
Britain an Outsider - 93 

Britain Humiliated - 103 

Britain to Antagonize 

Russia - - 90, 102, 104 

Britain's Pledge to Turkey 98 
Britain's Unpreparedness - 102 
British Lion, The - 92 

British Merchant Service - no 
British Navy Doomed - 108 
British Protectorate of 

Palestine - 39, 102, 104 

British Zionists - - 87 

Bussche, Baron von dem - 39 

Canerin, Count - - 56 

Caucasian Mountain Jews 76 
Charmers, Gabriel • - 12 

Chedera Colony - - 75 

Chef zi bah Colony - 75 

Chinnereth Colony - 73 

Choevevi Zion - 13, 64 

Christ, Jesus described - i 
" Christadelphian, The " - 26 
Christendom Astray from 

the Bible - - 64 

Christian Quarter of Jeru- 
salem - - - 49 
Cohen, Albert - - 10 
Cohen, Gustave - - 15 
Cologne Colonization 

Society - - ' 77 

Conder, Colonel - - 121 

Conquering Jew, The 24, 56 

Constantinople - - 103 

Cook, Thos., & Son - 58 

Corinthians (i Epistle viii. 6) 65 
,, * (i Epistle XV. 
52-54) - - 114, 115 

Culture Fund, The - 72 

Cyprus - - 91* 94 

Czernowitz, Zionist Societies 14 

Dailaika, or Dajania Colony 73 
•' Daily News, The" 88, 96, 112 
Dameshek Eliezer Colony 33 
"Daniel Deronda " - 11 

Daniel xi. 40, 41 - 104, 118 



Page 

Daniel xi. 44 - - 1^3 

xii. I - - 123 

>, ..2 - 113, 116 

Death Rate, Jewish - 55 

Deuteronomy xxviii. 15, 

25, 37 - - 4 

Dimidoff, Paul - - 14 

Diodorus Siculus - 84 
Disraeli, Mr. Benjamin - 99 

Dry Bones - - 20 

Dunant, Henry - - 10 

Dunn, Mr. W. H. 43, 67 



Eben Israel Colony 


- 


29 


Eben Yoshua Colony 


- 


32 


Edom and Moab - 


- 


103 


Educational Establishments 


63 


Egypt, British Occupation 




of 


- 


134 


Egypt, British to Lose 


- 


104 


Egypt, Dr. John Thomas 




on - - 


- 


134 


Egypt, Jews in - 


- 


38 


Ekron Colony 


- 


77 


" Eliot, George " - 


- 


II 


Elpis Israel 


I, 


134 


Emunah Society of Czer- 




nowitz 


- 


15 


Engel, Dr. T, 


- 


63 


Esdraelon 


- 


120 


Eshel Abraham Colony 


- 


36 


Ethiopia 


87 


,89 


Euphrates, Dry up of 


- 


7 


Evelina de Rothschild 




School 


- 


66 


Experiment Station 


at 




Haifa - 


- 


77 


Ezekiel xxxvi. 1-35 


19 


, 79 


,, xxxvii. II 


- 


20 


>> >» 21-22 


70 


.79 


„ xxxviii. 2 


- 


80 




, 5. 6, 7 


- 


88 




8 


18 


.69 


',', '. 


II, 12 


17 


, 80 


ft 1 


, 13 81 


.90, 


102 


> 


, 15, 16 


- 


lOI 


)* 1 


23 


- 


105 


Ezra ii. Oo 


- 


32 


Ezra Colon) 


r 


- 


77 



Ezrath Israel Colony 



32 



138 



Index 



Page 
Fables concerning Pales- 
tine, "Standard" - 44 
Fabrique de Fer - - 70 
Finklestein, Herr A. - 74 
Finn, Mrs. E. A. - - 67 
France - - - 89 
Frankel J. - - 11 
Franklin, Dr. Maurice - 68 
Fraser, Mr. Foster 24, 56, 61 

Galilee, Jewish Colonies 

in - - - 73 

Gaul - - - 89 

Genesis xviii. 2 - - 115 

xix. 1-3 - - 115 

,, xxxii. 24 - - 115 

George, Mr. Lloyd - 93 
German Emperor, The 

(William II.) - - 85 
German Emperor's Ad- 
vice (William I.) - 85 
Germany in Jerusalem - 85 
Germany, the Bible Magog 84 
Gesenius on Rosh - 80 
Gibeath Shaul Colony - 36 
Gladstone, Right Hon. 

W. E. - 44, 96 

Godless Socialists - - 114 

God's Judgments - - 122 

Gog, The Russian Clay - 16 
Gomer - - 87, 89 

Good Time Coming - 127 

" Goral Ladonai " - 10 

Gordon, Dob Beer - 11 

Graff, Herr - - 76 

Graham, Rev. S. F. - 45 
Graham, Mr. Stephen 21, 50, 83 

Gratz, Professor - - 11 

Gray-Hill, Sir John - 85 

Greher, Dr. Joseph - 63 

Hadrian's Edict - - 5, 18 

Hadrian's Invasion - 3 

Haifa, Jews in - - 73 

Hardegg's Hotel at Jaffa - 58 

" Hashachar " - - 11 

Hastings' Encyclopaedia - 65 

HatchwcU, Mr. E. - xi. 

Hebrew versus Yiddish - 86 

Hechler, Rev. William - 12 

Hensman, Mr. and Mrs. - 51 



Page 
Herzl, Dr. Theodore - 23 
Hess, Moses - - 10 
Hilfsverein, The German - 66 
Hirsch, Mr. T. - - xi. 
Hoffman of Berlin - 56 
Holy Places and^ Britain - 98 
Hospitals, Jewish - 70 
House of Industry, Jeru- 
salem - - 70 
Hungary, Jews from - 34 

Ibrith Gymnasia - 63 
Immanuel and Immanuel's 

Land - - - 125 

Ir Shalem Colony - 31 

Isaacs, Sir Rufus (Lord 

Reading) - - 21 

Isaiah's Glowing Pictures 127 

Isaiah ii. 4 - - 129 

„ ,, 2, II - - 106 

,, ,, 12, 16 - 107, 109 

„ iii. 14, 15 - - 133 

„ V. 8 - - 127 

„ II - - 130 

,, ix. 6, 7 - - 127 

,, X. 7 - - 100 

,, xi. 2, 4, 6 - 129, 132 

,. „ 9 - - 133 

.. .,11 - - 38 

,, xvi. 2, 4 - - 104 

,, xviii. I, 2, 7 - no 

,, XXV. 6 - - 132 

„ ., 7 - - 129 

„ ,. 8 - - 131 

,, xxvi. 9 - 123, 128 

,, XXX. 27, 28 - 128 

„ xxxii .1 - - 128 

„ 5, 6 - - 129 

M 17- 18 - 132 

,, xxxiii. 6 - - 129 

,, XXXV. I, 2 - - 131 

„ 5, 6 - - 130 

,, XXXV. 10 - - 133 

xl. 31 - - 131 

,, „ 12 - - lOI 

,, xli. 27 - - 60 

„ xlii. 6, 7, - - 130 

„ 14 - - 124 

,, xlv. 18 - - 127 

„ xlix. 6 - - 53 

„ 22.23- - 53 



Index 



139 



Page 

Isaiah liv. 7, 8 - - 131 

„ 17 - 105, "9 

„ Iv. 13 - - 132 

„ Ix. 3, 10, 12, 14 - 54 

„ ., 9 - - "I 

„ Ixi. II - - 133 

.... 2, 3 - - 128 

„ Ixii. I - - 126 

„ Ixiii. I, 4 - - 113 

„ Ixiv. 4 - - 133 

,, Ixv. 20 - - 131 

Israel, Rabbi of Polock - 8 

Italy, King of - - 24 

Italy's War with Turkey 37 



Jacob's Trouble - - 107 

Jaffa - - 57. "9 

Jehoshaphat, Valley of - 112 
Jeremiah xxv. 31, 33 123, 124 

,, XXX. 7 - - 107 

,, xxxii. 37 - 68 

Jerusalem a City of Jews - 49 

Jerusalem Romanized - 5 

Jerusalem taken by Russia 102 
Jerusalem Delivered by 

Christ - - - 106 

" Jewish Chronicle, The" 22 
Jewish Colonial Trust, The 59, 72 
Jewish Colonies around 

Jerusalem - - ~1 
Jewish Colonization Fund, 

The - - - 22 

Jewish Institutions - 67 
Jewish National Students' 

Corporation - - 12 

Jewish Population - 27 
Jewish Shopkeepers and 

Tradesmen - - 71 
Jewish Sympathy - 50 
Jewish Territorial Organi- 
zation, The - - 24 
Jews Acknowledge Christ 117 
Joel iii. I, 2 - - 117 
.. „ 9, 12 - - t" 
John xiv. 3 - -16, 48 
,, xviii. 36 - 122 
Joaephus on Gomer - 89 
Judea, Jewish Colonies in 76 
Judgment, The Great - 116 
Juret el Enva Colony - 34 



Page 

Kafa Saba Colony - 77 
Kalischer, Hirsch, Rabbi 

of Thorn - - 10 
Kaminitz Hotels - 58 ,71 
Kann, M. Jacobus H. - 40 
Kastinic, or Kastinjeh Col- 
ony - - - 77 
Katra Colony - - 77 
Katz, Abraham, Rabbi of 

Kalish - - 9 

Kefar Saba Colony - 75 

Keller, Leon - - 8 

Kenesseth Israel Colony - 34 

Kerem Shelomoh Colony - 32 

King of the North - 103 

Kitchener, Lord - 89, 120 

" La Femme de Claude " - 11 
Lamel Settlement, The - 66 
Landau, Miss Annie - 66 
Land Donation Fund, The 72 
Lange, Mr. and Mrs. - 76 
Language Question, The - 86 
Lazarus, Emma - - 12 
Levontin, Mr. D. - - 59 
Library, The Central Jeru- 
salem - - - 72 
Libya, of Phut - - 89 
Lilieblum, Moses Lob - 12 
Lion, The British - 92 
Lloyd George, Mr. - 93 
Loewe, Mr. Herbert - 64 
London Jews' Society, The 70 
Lord Chief Justice on 

Zionism - - 21 

Loupo, M. - - 77 

Luke ii. 14 - 1 16, 126 

,, xix. 41-46 - - 3 

,, XX. 36 - - 116 

,, xxi. 24 - - 5 

Luzzatto, S. D. - - 10 

Machaneh Yehudah Colony 30 

Magog, The Land of - 84 

Mahanaim Colony - 74 

Mark iv. 39 - - 100 

„ xi. 9 - - 107 

,, xii. 29 - - 65 

Massey, Mr. - - 94 

Masterman, Dr. E. W. G. xiii. 



140 



Index 



Page 
Matthew xxiii. 39 108,118 

„ xxviii. 18 - loi 

Maurice of Saxony - 8 
Max Nordau - - 2/55 

Mazkereth Moshch Colony 29 

McCarthy, Mr. Justin - 95 
Meah Shaarim Colony 28, 68 

Meah Shaarim Gates - 69 

Megiddo - - - 120 

Mendazibil, Count - 57 

Mendel, Rabbi of Witebsk 9 

Merchavia Colony - 74 

Merchants of Tarshish - 91 

Metula Colony - - 73 

Mescha Colony - - 73 

Meshech and Tubal - 80 

Migdol Colony - - 74 
Mikveh Israel Agricultural 

School - - 77 

Milhamie Colony - - 73 

Mishkenoth Israel Colony 28 
Mishkenoth Shaananim 

Colony - - 27 

Mishmar Hayardin Colony 73 

Mizpah Colony - - 74 

Moab, Jews Escape to - 104 

Mohilewer, Samuel, Rabbi 12 
Montefiore, Sir Moses 5, 9, 22 

Mossinsohn, Dr. B. - 63 

Mount of Olives rent in two 114 

Mozah Colony - - 77 

Muscat - - - 91 

Nach Richten, The Leipsig 

Neueste - 102, 104 

Nahalath Shebah Colony - 28 

Nahalath Shimon Colony 32 

Nahalath Tzevi Colony - 31 

Nahalath Yaakob Colony 34 

Nahalath Zion Colony - 34 

Napoleon the Great - 120 

Nassi, Josef - - 8 

National Fund, The Jewish 72 

Newspapers, Jewish - 78 

Niscim Bak Colony - 29 

Nissenbaum, Mr. Isaac - 51 

Noah, Mordechai Manuel 9 

Numbers xxiv. 9 - - 69 

Odessa Committee, The - 64 

Ohel Isaac Colony - 33 



Page 

Ohel Shelomoh Colony - 33 

Ohel Simchah Colony - 34 

Ohelei Moshch Colony - 29 

Oliphant, Laurence - 11 

Olive Tree Fund, The - 72 

Olivet House, Jerusalem 51 

Orphanages, Jewish - 70 

Osterberg-Verakoff, Max - 15 

Palestine Industries Syndi- 
cate, The - - 72 
Palestine Land Develop- 
ment Company, The - 72 
Palestine Planting Associa- 
tion, The - - 72 
Pare Hotel, Jaffa - - 58 
Paskievitch, Prince - 56 
Persia - - - 87 
Petach Tikvah - - 60 
Petavel, Abraham - 10 
Peter (2 Epistle) i. 4 - 115 
Peters, Mr. Madison - 54 
Philippians iii. 21 - 115 
Pinkster, Leon - " - 10 
Poland - - - 83 
Pope of Rome - - 24 
Poria Colony - - 74 
Prague, Zionist Societies - 9 
Prisons, Turkish - - 42 
Protectorate over Palestine, 39 
Psalm xxiv. 7-10 - - 108 
„ xlvi. 8 - - 124 
>• I, 9- 10 - - 125 
„ xlviii. 7 100, 107, 109 
,, Ixxii. 6, 17 - - 125 
,, Ixxxvii. 5, 6 - 62 
,, cxxii. 6 - - 105 
„ cxxxiii. I - - 33 
„ cxlix. 7-9 - - 122 



Queen Victoria 



95 



Ratisbonne Institute - 64 

Reading, Lord - - 21 

Rechoboth Colony - 77 

Rehoboth Colony - - 33 

" Rejuvenation of the 

Jewish Race" - - 11 

Renwick, Mr. F. - - xi. 

Revelation i. 18 - - 46 

ii. 26 - - 116 



Index 





Page 


Revelation vii. 9 - 


- "3 


xi. 15- 


- 48 


,, XV. 4 - 


- 123 


,, xvi. 12 


■7. 48 


„ 16 


- 112 



,, xvii. 14 113, 116 

Richard I., " Coeur de 

Lion " - - - 92 

Rischon-le-Zion - - 60 

Roberts, Lord - - 106 

Roberts, Mr. Robert - 64 

Robinson, W. D. - , - 9 

Romans vi. 9 - - ii5 

ix. 3, 4 - - 54 

xi. 15 - - 49 

Rosh Pina - - 73 

Rosh, Prince of - - 80 
Rothschild, Baron 13, 6i, 73, 77 

Rothschild, Lord - - 38 

Rothschild, House of - 56 

Rozanoff - - 51 

Ruppin, Dr. Arthur 41, 59 

Russia and Dr. Herzl - 23 

Russia and Germany 81, 100 

Russia and the World - 50 

Russian Army Routed - 118 

Russian Quadrangle - 82 

Russian Tower on Olivet - 82 

Russia's Allies - - 87 



Safed Jews - - 73 
Samaria, Jewish Work in 75 
Samuel (ist Book) xv. 34 - 36 
Sault, Marshal - - 57 
Sayce, Professor - - 89 
Sazonoff, M. - - 88 
Schatz, Professor Boris - 67 
Schlesinger, Dr. - - 63 
Schnierer, M. T. - - 12 
Sedjerah Colony - "73 
Shaah Hapinah Colony - 30 
Shaarei Yerushalam Col- 
ony - - - 32 
Shaarei Hesed Colony - 35 
Shaarei Tzedek Colony - 31 
Sheba and Dedan - 90 
Shebeth Achim Colony - 33 
Shebeth Tzedek Colony - 31 
Shekonath Hatemanim 
Colony - - 30 



141 

Page 

36 

xiii. 

'11 

46 



Shekonath Rabbi Tzadok 

Colony 
Simon, Mr. Leon - 
Smolensky, Perez - 
Solomon's Pools - 
Solowejczyk, E.- 
Soudan, The - - 89 
" Standard " Newspaper 

Fables - - - 44 

Stanley, Dean - - 120 

Statistics, Jewish Health 55 

Stein-Schneider, Moriz - 9 

Strabo - - - 89 

Sti-auss - - - 54 
Suez Canal - 93, loi, 104 

Sukkath Shalom Colony - 28 
Sultan of Turkey 18, 24 

Tachkemoni Institute - 63 
Taalat, Pasha - - 39 
Tarshish, Merchants of - 91 
Technicum at Haifa - 74 
TelAbib - - - 58 
Territorial Scheme - 24 
Thomas, Dr. John - 16 
Tiberias, Jews in - - 73 
Tiberius, Emperor, Letter to i 
Tin Colonies - - 41 
Titus and Vespasian In- 
vasion - - 3 
Togarmah - - 89 
Trinity, Doctrine of - 64 
Tunis - - - 89 
Turkey, Decay of - 6 
Turko-Italian War - 37 
Turoff, Dr. - - 63 

' ' Uber Neue Orientalische 

Frage " - - 9 
United States of America 91,92 

Unwalled Villages - 17 

Vadi-el-Chanin Colony - 77 
Victoria-Augusta Settle- 
ment - - - 85 
Vienna, Zionist Societies - 13 

Wadi-el-Chanin Colony - 77 

Walker, Mr. C. C. - 26 
War, The Great European 92, 103 

Wars to Cease - - 128 



142 



Index 



Water Supply, Jerusalem 
Whitechapel Jews 
Whitty, Dr. John 
Wissotzky, K. W. 

Yamin Mosheh Colony 
Yarama Colony 
Yegia Kapaim Colony 
Yellin, Mr. David ^ 

Yessod-Hammalah Colony 
Young Lions of Tarshish - 

Zammarine Colony 
Zangwill, Mr. Israel 
Zechariah ii. 8 - 



Page 


Page 


46 


Zechariah vi. 10 - - 32 


55 


,, viii. 23 - 54 


47 


,, xii. 3 - - 119 


13 


„ ,, 7-10 107, 108, 117 




xiv. 1-3 107, 113 


30 


„ 4 "3, "4 


73 


Zederbaun, Alexander - 14 


36 


Zephaniah iii. 20 - - 52 


1,66 


Zewi, Sabbatai - - 8 


73 


Zichron Jacob Colony - 75 


92 


Zichron Mosheh Colony - 34 




Zichron Tobiah Colony - 32 


75 


Zionist Movement, Mean- 


24 


ing of - - - 79 


118 


" Zionist, The " - xiii. 



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