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And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together. Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
That is the path of transformation. The road passes through Peniel, and Jacob must become Israel before he is Jeshurun. He must hold communion with God in Christ before he is clothed with righteousness. How different that path is from the road which men are apt to take in working out their own self-improvement!
He will say nothing of them but good. He will speak not of what they will be, but of what they ought to be and can be. But not in their own strength only in the strength of God. Man is to be nothing to the last; and God is all in all. 'There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
To my thinking, this is one of the symptoms of that madness with which the gods strike a nation before destroying it. And the longer this process of shall we call it mutual? exhaustion goes on, the more important grow the neutral States and the louder sound their voices. They are like Jeshurun, who waxed fat and kicked.
I stared in his face for half a minute maybe, and broke out laughing. "Jeshurun waxed fat and turned sentimental! A nice copy-book job you make of it, too!" "Oh, send my brother back to me I cannot play alone!" "Perhaps you'd like me to buy a broom and hire the crossing in Lennox Gardens? Then you'd be able to contemplate me all day long, and nourish your fine fat soul with delicate eating. Pah!
When Jeshurun waxed fat he did not always kick, but he yearned to approximate as much as possible to John Bull without merging in him; to sink himself and yet not be absorbed, not to be and yet to be. The attempt to realize the asymptote in human mathematics was not quite successful, too near an approach to John Bull generally assimilating Jeshurun away. For such is the nature of Jeshurun.
This Jeshurun of a pawnbroker was not a symbol of the great Jewish tragedy; and yet was there not something typical in the fact that a life like Mordecai's a frail incorporation of the national consciousness, breathing with difficult breath was nested in the self-gratulating ignorant prosperity of the Cohens? Glistening was the gladness in their faces when Deronda reappeared among them.
When shearing their flocks here, for the land is flat and clean without any thorns, if the children of Moses see them gathered together on the border they shout, saying, 'Brethren, tribes of Jeshurun, show us your camels, dogs and asses, and they make their remarks about the length of the camel's neck and the shortness of the tail. Then they greet one another and go their way."
It is not the heathen that keeps us out of our land it is the Jews, the rich and prosperous Jews Jeshurun grown fat and sleepy, dreaming the false dream of assimilation with the people of the pleasant places in which their lines have been cast. Give us back our country; this alone will solve the Jewish question.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
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