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the liberty, the happiness, the joy that was extended to their
neighbours, aye the very air of the bright morn. Pent up and
herded together in stifling slums, bound in the iron fetters
of cruel & barbarous laws, they languished in sorrow and
solitude, they rent their garments in the bitterness of their
hearts, until the Devine Ruler looked down with compassion
upon his suffering children & illumined the darkness of their
life with the rays of eternal hope. Throughout Israel's
chequered career, the one solitary source of consolation that
shone with ever brightening lustre was the occasional gleams
of God's light that, like the still small voice, seemed to whisper
into their attent ears good tidings of peace. "Fear ye not, for
I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed. Like the tender & feeble vine, Israel has
been forever & anon made the butt of ridicule & contempt,
of scorn & contumely. Yet though small in number, they
grew to be a mighty power in the history of mankind,
a moral & intellectual power that brought upon them
the envy & jealousy of the nations. Many Pharaohs have
arisen in various quarters of the globe with the evil