And such was GRACE AGUILAR--a Jewess, of mind so elevated, heart so pure, and principles so just and true, as to deserve a lofty seat among those "Women of Israel," whose lives were so beautifully rendered by her delicate and powerful pen. It seems Quixotic in this day of sunshine, of civil and religious liberty, to attempt to combat the prejudices which, we are gravely told, do not now exist against the Jewish community; yet it is impossible to observe society, and not perceive that whatever political disabilities may be removed from them, individual prejudice against those from whom our blessed Saviour sprang, and who gave birth to the apostles of the Christian faith, is as deeply seated, as in the days when faggot and fire were the ministers employed for their conversion. How can it be that we, in our age, look down with cold or scornful eyes upon this once "chosen people"--chosen when the material world was in its youth--those children of Israel, whose history is the foundation of our faith? We read _our_ Bible, which is _their_ Bible; our code of conduct is based upon _their_ commandments, which are _our_ commandments; _our_ salvation is gained by the Jewish sacrifice of the lamb without spot or blemish; _our_ apostles, the promulgators of the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies, and the founders of the New, were Jews. We are especially blessed in triumphing in a hope fulfilled--while to them the promise is yet to come; they linger and wait century after century for what they lost, and we won: this is their sorrow, and hard to bear is their punishment--but it should not detract from the honor and glory which was, and is, theirs from ages past. The condemnation we give them is unworthy of us, and undeserved by them--_They brought no wrath upon us by their blindness_; and we should remember the time will come when we shall be gathered--Jews and Gentiles--together from the four quarters of the globe, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, "And there shall be one fold and one Shepherd." But of what do we, in these days, chiefly accuse the Jews?--of being a Mammon-making, and a Mammon-loving people?--Ought we not to look to ourselves in that matter, and remember the old saying about houses of glass, and throwing of stones? There are but too many evidences of late before the world, of the Mammon-worship of _our own_ people, to render any bowing down to the molten image remarkable in the children of Israel; yet it is marvellous how those who think and reason on all new things, give in to old prejudices without question or examination--clinging with childlike tenacity to foul traditions, as if they were established truths.