The Jewish people after the lapse of centuries are resettling the land of their fathers. They are planting the waste lands. irrigating and aforesting the desert. draining the marshes and swamps. building houses and roads. and tilling the soil as their ancestors did. From everywhere in the wide. wide world. where oppression and persecution have quickened the desire and intensified the yearning of the Jewish people for the reestablishment of their ancient homeland. there come volunteers to help in the rebuilding. from those parts of Europe where antiSemitism has had free rein and where the ghastly specter of the pogrom ever threatens come a host of refugees. spendid young men and women. who eagerly volunteer as pioneers. among themi numnerous merchants. intellectuals from the professions. and students from the universities. A great many of these refugees walked thousands of miles from the interior of eastern and central Europe to a seaport to embark for Palestine. They are settling upon the land among the hills and valleys and ancient places you and I read and learned about when as children we went to Sunday school. They toil there under the blinding Palestinian sun. chanting Hebrew songs as they perform the hardest kinds of manual labor. happy in their opportunity to rebuild the land of their fathers.
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