News Herald · Morganton, North Carolina · 8 November 1911
CP-1911-007
Palestine Races
The Hebrews Were the Light-Bearers of Pre-Christian Times
By Rev. P. A. Laury
A warning about this one
The column classifies the peoples of Palestine by race, including a nineteenth-century characterization of one group as “white” and another as red-skinned, and closes with a Christian supersessionist appeal. It is transcribed because of what it states in its first sentence, not because the archive endorses its framework.
Transcribed from the clipping
“The present population is a mixture of many different races. Even before Abraham migrated, Palestine seems to have been a meeting-place of many races…
The Horites. The earliest inhabitants of the land, according to the researches of explorers in Petra and Gezer, were the Horites…
The Canaanites. The name is widely and differently used. The people of Canaan are mentioned in letters from Egypt (Amarna Tablets of 15th Cent. B. C.) The Canaanites became powerful enough to give the land of Palestin the name,—‘The Land of Canaan.’…
The Hebrews Amidst Other Races. When Israel entered upon the inheritance of Canaan under Joshua, the earlier inhabitants were not wholly exterminated. While the Canaanites intrenched themselves in fortified cities, the Israelites occupied the rural districts… By the time of the crusades comparatively few Jews were left in Palestine.
By means of colonies from Russia, Hungary, Germany, etc., numerous Jews (c. 100,000) are again found in the ‘land of the fathers.’ For a long time the Moslems had supreme control of the Holy Land, but their influence is on the wane… May all races of the world soon acknowledge Him their Saviour and King!”
Context added by this archive
The first sentence is the reason this is here: The present population is a mixture of many different races. In 1911, in a small American paper, the existence of a present population of Palestine is the opening premise and needs no argument.
The rest of the column is a race survey running from the Horites to the Crusades, and it counts about 100,000 Jews arriving by way of colonies from Russia, Hungary and Germany — the paper’s own word again. It ends by hoping every race will acknowledge Christ.
Cite this clipping
"Palestine Races," News Herald, 8 November 1911. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1911-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1911-007
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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