beneath their feet, they spat upon,
they crucified; but all of the Barabbas in man they embraced. Thus are
they become a hissing in the earth, and properly so; for those who hiss
at the spirit which has always animated Judaism show that they abhor a
thing that is abhorrent. "All Scripture is profitable," continued the
preacher, "and practically all that is referred to in the text is an
indictment of Judaism. The more earnestly we hold to this truth the
greater will be the profit accruing to us from a consideration of the
Scripture. But what more terrible indictment of the Hebrew systems could
we have than that which is afforded us in the record that the father of
the race had twelve sons? He had. But where are ten of them now? Swept
out of existence without leaving a single record of their destruction
even to their two surviving brethren." He concluded his sermon by
stating that he hoped it would be clearly understood that he recognized
the fact that in England those members of the Hebrew community who had
adopted the methods, the principles, the truths of Christianity even
though they still maintained their ancient form of worship in their
synagogues, were on a line with civilization. They searched their
scriptures and these scriptures had been profitable to them, inasmuch as
they had been taught by those scriptures how impossible it was for that
form of superstition known as Judaism to be the guide for any people on
the face of the earth.

CHAPTER VIII.

I HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT EVENTUALLY MARRY AN INFIDEL.

Some of the congregation were greatly disappointed. They had expected a
brilliant and startling attack upon some other Bible personages who had
hitherto been looked on with respect and admiration. But the sermon
had only attacked the Jewish system as a whole, and everyone knows that
there is nothing piquant in an attack, however eloquent it may be, upon
a religious system in the abstract. One might as well find entertainment
in an attack upon the Magnetic Pole or a denunciation of the Precession
of the Equinoxes. No one cared, they said, anything more about the
failure of the laws of Moses than one did about such abstractions as the
Earth's Axis, or the Great Glacial Epoch. It was quite different when
the characters of well-known individuals were subjected to an assault.
People could listen for hours to an attack upon celebrated persons.
If Mr. Holland's book had only dealt with the characteristics of the
r