The  cup  of  patriotism  rarely  flows  over  into  cosmo-
politanism. I  am  not  quite  sure  that  even  we
English  people  can  claim  a  very  exuberant  love  for
other  nations  of  the  world.  Our  sympathies  run
broad  and  deep  among  the  English-speaking
peoples,  and  it  is  well  and  good,  but  I  do  not  know
that  their  exclusiveness  is  much  vaster,  and  I  am
perfectly  sure  they  do  not  include  the  Jews.  Where
is  the  Jew  loved  ?  And,  yet,  let  us  remember  that
in  all  essential  characteristics  he  was  the  same  in
the  time  of  the  Master  as  in  our  own  day.  If  he
be  repellent  now,  he  was  equally  repellent  then.  If
he  be  mean  and  grasping,  if  his  name  has  become  a
synonym  for  treachery,  the  dark  degeneracy  has  not
occurred  in  the  Christian  centuries.  He  was  what
he  is,  and  the  centurion  loved  him.  Profound
sympathy  discovered  his  wealth,  discerned  the  lovely

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even  among  the  base,  sought  fellowship  with  the
lovely,  and  loved  it.  Roman  patriotism  did  not
congeal  into  Roman  pride,  but  flowed  out  in  dis-
cerning sympathy,  paying  no  heed  to  racial  limits,
and  finding  home  and  sustenance  in  the  universal
good.
Can  we  trace  the  sympathy  into  yet  finer  issues  ?
"  Himself  built  us  our  synagogue."  A  Roman  dis-
cerning the  beauty  in  the  worship  of  the  Jew.
