Excerpt from Lessons of Encouragement From the Times of Washington The attentive reader of the Bible cannot fail to be struck with the manner in which the J ewish people cherished the traditions of their national history. That history carried the back to the very gates of Paradise. The names and the events that rendered it so remarkable, were familiar to them as house hold words; it was' a part of their religion to hold both in everlasting remembrance. Perhaps no nation ever existed in which the ancestral and patriotic ...
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Excerpt from Lessons of Encouragement From the Times of Washington The attentive reader of the Bible cannot fail to be struck with the manner in which the J ewish people cherished the traditions of their national history. That history carried the back to the very gates of Paradise. The names and the events that rendered it so remarkable, were familiar to them as house hold words; it was' a part of their religion to hold both in everlasting remembrance. Perhaps no nation ever existed in which the ancestral and patriotic spirit was so powerfully de ve10ped. It was wrought into all their sacred rites. It was embodied and enjoined in their holy books. It found expres sion in their public festivals and anniversaries. Long exile only rendered it more intense. [f [forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right fiamdforyet its cunning. [f I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if [prefer not Jerusalem above my chz'g joy. Now after they have been scattered and torn for nearly two thousand years, the Hebrew race still cling with delight to the great men and events of their most distant past they still feel bound by the closest ties to the ages of the Patriarchs, of Moses, of King David, and the Prophets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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