Children's Life in Other Countries Published 1904 - In whatever direction you may travel,—north, south, east, or west,—you will doubtless meet some of your Jewish cousins. They live here in America.
They also dwell in the countries far away across the wide ocean. Why they are so scattered, you may ask is there no country which is really theirs, and which is ruled over by someone they have chosen? Is there not some place where they can gather happily whenever they please? The answer is always no. For many centuries they have been scattered far and wide. Their children learn to speak the language of the country where they happen to be born. They play the games and dress in the fashion of that country. What is it that keeps them Jews? It is their religion and their religion alone. It binds them as closely together now as it did in the days when they worshipped in the great temple at Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. These Jewish cousins would say to us, "Our people have suffered greatly. Yet they do not lose courage. Our parents tell us stories of the glorious past, over and over again. They will not let us forget it, and they teach us to hope for the time when Jerusalem will again be ours, and a new temple, in which we shall be free to worship, will stand upon the spot where the old one was destroyed."
Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (March 23, 1860 – 1936) was an American writer. In 1877 she began working as a teacher. Mary became a prolific author, particularly of children's fiction.
Genre(s): Children's Fiction
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