interfered, & caused Mehemet Ali to lie passive
at their feet, but the effect of all these
movements have been to prepare the way for
the return of the Jews to the land of there
Fathers, & while the Lord is begining to give
the Jews favor in the eyes of Kings that they
m[a]y become their nursing fathers & Queens th[e]ir
nursing mothers, they begin to see it time for
them to make a right use of so favorable an
opportunity & immediately return & rebuild
Jerrusalem, & the call is now is now going
forth among the Jews in all nations to ret-
urn & esspecially among the German continen
tal Jews. A call of this Kind is published in
the (Der orient) a German Newspapor & among
many other things says "In no country of
the earth are our brethren so numerous as in Syria, in none do they live in as dens masses
so independant of the surrounding inhabitants
in none do they persevere so steadfastly in thei[r]
faith in the promise of the Fathers as on the bea-
utiful shores of the Orontes. In Damascus
alone live near 60,000. [FIGURES] The power of
our enemies is gone, the angel of discord has
interfered, & caused Mehemet Ali to lie passive
at their feet, but the effect of all these
movements have been to prepare the way for
the return of the Jews to the land of there
Fathers, & while the Lord is begining to give
the Jews favor in the eyes of Kings that they
may become their nursing fathers & Queens their
nursing mothers, they begin to see it time for
them to make a right use of so favorable an
opportunity & immediately return & rebuild
Jerrusalem, & the call is now going
forth among the Jews in all nations to return & esspecially among the German continen
tal Jews. A call of this Kind is published in
the (Der orient) a German Newspaper & among
many other things says "In no country of
the earth are our brethren so numerous as in
Syria, in none do they live in as dens masses
so independant of the surrounding inhabitants
in none do they persevere so steadfastly in their
faith in the promise of the Fathers as on the beautiful shores of the Orontes. In Damascus
alone live near 60,000. [FIGURE] The power of
our enemies is gone, the angel of discord has
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