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Running Head: WILLIAM EUGENE BLACKSTONE ASSIGNMENT 1

WILLIAM EUGENE BLACKSTONE ASSIGNMENT 2

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William Eugene Blackstone Assignment.

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As per William Eugene Blackstone, the protestant reformation anticipated in the sixteenth century created some light that restoration of the Jewish was critical and significant as per true prophecies about end times and the which was to be signified the second coming of the Messiah. Despite many contributions William Eugene Blackstone had to people of the US and many other nations, as we talk today, the man may be considered as one the people who led to serious changes in various aspects of human life through his push and efforts to preach about Jesus coming and all good news about God the giver and the creator. From the reading provided for the assignment, it is clear that William Eugene Blackstone brought tremendous social changes between the late 19th century and early 20th century. All these social changes were spearheaded by his mission to support and perhaps ensure Jewish restoration. Being a renowned evangelist, Zionist, and perhaps an author of the famous book Jesus is coming, William Eugene Blackstone fought effortlessly and launched several petitions of various US presidents and famous dignitaries with the focus of pushing his agenda of promoting social change more so to the Jewish community. Among the petitions spearheaded by him also sought to get support for his Zionist movement. His actions through the Zionist movement were recognized politically across various parts of America; even if his roles and efforts have for a long time remained unknown to many people who hear about him, it should be said that indeed he immensely contributed to the social changes that led to the Jewish restoration across the world[footnoteRef:1]. Comment by Christina: A proper noun and any derivative adjectives are always capitalized; however, the preceding article is not. For example, capitalize “the Empire State Building.” The OWC website has a presentation on capitalization here: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Capitalization.pdf.  Comment by Christina: Passive verb constructions are useful when the subject of an action is not as important as what the subject did (the action of the sentence) or when the subject is unknown, however, it should be avoided whenever possible. A form of the verb to be is combined with a past participle to form the passive. For example, “The professor was assaulted in the hallways.” The to be will change form to indicate whether the subject is singular or plural. The to be will also change to indicate the time of the action and the aspect of the verb (simple, progressive, perfect). See the OWC’s presentation on passive voice for additional assistance: verbs Apply throughout. Comment by Christina: If you are using the numeric version of the ordinal numbers the 'th' should not be superscript but should be normal 12-point Times New Roman. In MSWord it will be autocorrected to the superscript unless you change your settings. To change this: go to Options > Proofing > Autocorrect to turn off the superscript setting for ordinals in AutoFormat and AutoFormat As You Type. Check out the writing resources on the OWC website. Apply throughout. Comment by Christina: A footnote belongs immediately after the period ending the sentence containing the material being referenced (Turabian 25.2.1.1). See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  Apply throughout. Comment by Christina: A footnote belongs at the bottom of the page on which it is referenced (Turabian 16.3.4). Turabian formatting requires footnotes to be normal style and a standard black Times New Roman font size 10 throughout. They are to be numbered consecutively by a superscript Arabic numeral and single-spaced with an extra line between footnotes. They are to be left justified with the first line is indented 0.5”. The authors’ names are given in conventional order, first name first. Use of the abbreviations p. or pp. for page or pages is not needed. See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  Apply throughout. [1: American Zionist Emergency Council and the Christian Zoinists “The Politics of Christian Zionism,” 138-156]

Based on the question, this research paper will provide extensive facts what the religious ideas, historical events, and beliefs that motivated William Eugene Blackstone to support Jewish restoration. Besides that, the paper will also cover some of the long-term impacts of the William Eugene Blackstone beliefs as well as policy recommendations for the diaspora Jewry and the USFP in the middle east. Finally, the discussion appears will further provide a brief description and explanation on the extent to which William Eugene Blackstone’s beliefs and policy recommendation may be relevant to the USFP in today’s world. Comment by Christina: Acronyms are a type of abbreviation and should follow the same guidelines (APA 6.24-25; Turabian 24). Spell out what the initials stand for upon first use, followed by the acronym in parentheses. You should then use the acronym by itself in future instances. For example, “International Business Machines (IBM).” Check out the writing resources on the OWC website.  Apply throughout.

What religious ideas, beliefs, and historic events motivated him to support Jewish restoration? Be specific enough to help the reader understand what he believed and why. Comment by Christina: Turabian headings are to be centered normal style and a boldface Times New Roman font size 12 point. Triple space before and double space between and after. Triple spacing indicates two blank single-spaced lines before each heading. Double spacing indicates one blank single-spaced line after each heading. Ensure the paragraph indent is set to “0” (Turabian A.2.2.4). See the OWC’s Turabian Headings Guide for additional information and examples.  Apply throughout.

As mentioned early, William Eugene Blackstone was a popular American Christian Zionist and evangelist whose efforts were geared towards promoting social changes via the Zion movement along with the ideologies that he strongly believed in. according to his ideologies, William Eugene Blackstone held that liberty never required prior restraint of the press[footnoteRef:2]. As an author and a renowned evangelist, William Eugene Blackstone founded the American colony in Jerusalem along with Chicago Hebrew mission, and upon writing his famous and most selling book “ Jesus is coming," William Eugene Blackstone was motivated by his work as a Bible teacher to not only preach about the second coming of Jesus but also make use of stated scriptures to show the need of restoring the Israelites to Canaan to pave ways for the reestablishment and re-building of Jerusalem. Through William Eugene Blackstone scriptures and teachings, he was able to convince the people about true prophecies which spoke of the Messiah's first coming and further used his evangelical ideas to show that there was a great need for the restoration of the Jewish in preparation of the second coming of the Messiah[footnoteRef:3]. Comment by Christina: Footnotes for books must follow Turabian format. In general, it is: Author’s First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Publisher’s City, Publisher’s State [unless city is well-known]: Publisher’s Name, Date of Publication), page number(s) (Turabian 17.1.1). For example:    1 Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), 182.    See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  Footnotes for journal articles must follow Turabian format. In general, it is: Author’s First and Last Names, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal Volume Number, issue no. (date of publication): page number(s) (Turabian 17.2). For example:    1 John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393, no. 1 (1998): 639–40.    See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.    It is not clear which type of source this based on the current formatting. Please see the resources above to determine the correct formatting necessary for each source in your paper. Apply throughout. Comment by Christina: There is no space between the quotation marks and the quotation they are enclosing. Check out the writing resources on the OWC website.  Comment by Christina: Book, journal, magazine, newspaper, long musical compositions, and movie titles are to be italicized. They are not underlined, boldfaced, or enclosed in quotation marks (Turabian 22.3.2.1-2). See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  Comment by Christina: The second (and subsequent), non-consecutive time a source is cited, the author’s last name, a shortened form of the book title in italics, and the page number are used. For brevity, the shortened form of the title may be omitted if there are no other titles by the same author (Turabian 16.4.1). For example:     1 Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, 1997), 182.    2 Allen C. Myers, The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987), 873.    3 Roberts, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, 230.    4 Myers, 873.    See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  The type of citation you have here is only to be used for the second, non-consecutive citation. Please see the above resources to help ensure correct citation formatting. Apply throughout. Comment by Christina: There should be a full single blank line between footnotes (Turabian 16.3.4.1). There are several helpful resources on the Turabian format on the OWC website at: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/turabian/quick-guide/  Apply throughout. [2:  Yaakov Ariel, "An American initiative for a Jewish state: William Blackstone and the petition of 1891," 125-137] [3: Matar, "Milton and the Idea of the Restoration of the Jews," 109]

According to his ideas Biblical beliefs, Blackstone holds that as taught by the Holy book of God in Genesis 12:2-3 through the covenant that God had made with Abraham as the father of nations, it was evident in the Bible that indeed Israel was the original homeland of the Jewish. This religious idea motivated Blackstone to support the restoration of the Jewish as provided in God's word.

As per Blackstone's religious and ideological point of view, the link between the messianic protestants and the Jews can be attributed to a marriage of convenience. But the Jewish have never been able to establish the link between the servant of our Lord and the king with the government. In his philosophical and religious teaching, Blackstone believes a strong connection between the said entities. As we talk today, Blackstone's efforts have been highly recognized to the extent that some of the places in Israel have been named after him as a sign of honoring his immense work towards the liberation of the Jewish as provided in the Holly readings. Comment by Christina: Avoid beginning sentences with coordinating conjunctions such as and, but, or, nor, for, and yet in formal academic writing because doing so tends to give the writing an informal tone. Consider rewording. There is an excellent worksheet on sentence construction here: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Sentence_Construction.pdf  

Another factor that motivated him to support and perhaps work towards restoring the Jewish was the contribution of bible translators who translated the Bible into numerous languages. This aspect enables him to teach the Jewish and many other people more about different scriptures as portrayed in the teachings of God through the Bible without and dependence on the influence of the clergy. It must also be known that by the time Mr. William Eugene Blackstone was born, much had been done in the ministry of religion. Unlike the time before his reign when Bibles were not easily accessible, and if accessed had no interpretation, during the time he was born, accessibility to Bible and other religious related books had become easily accessible with a wide range of interpretation in a different language[footnoteRef:4]. This also facilitated his move to support the restoration of the Jewish as n the word of God through the various conniving scriptures and prophesies; he established the connection between the Jewish liberation and the second coming of the Messiah to restore the entire world. Comment by Christina: This is an overused pronoun. Be careful in its use that the reader can see to what noun “this” is referring and avoid beginning sentences with this. In this case, this seems to be referring to “ ,” but you apparently mean this to refer to “ .” See GrammarBook.com for more information. A pronoun - a word such as she, yourself, her, it, this, who, or which - should clearly refer to the word or words it replaces (called the antecedent) elsewhere in the sentence or in a previous sentence. If more than one word could be the antecedent or if no specific antecedent is present in the sentence, edit to make the meaning clear. For example, “Transmitting radio signals by satellite is a way of overcoming the problem of scarce airwaves and limiting how they are used.” Does “they” refer to “signals” or “airwaves”? Instead, the following should be used: “Transmitting radio signals by satellite is a way of overcoming the problem of scarce airwaves and limiting how the airwaves are used.” Consider another example: “The company prohibited smoking, which many employees resented.” To what does “which” refer? Instead, the correct alternative would be “The company prohibited smoking, a policy many employees resented.” See the OWC’s resource on pronoun-antecedent agreement: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Pronoun-Antecedent_Agreement.pdf. Apply throughout. [4: Rosemary R. Ruether, "Christian Zionism and Mainline Western Christian Churches," 179-190]

It is also imperative to note that William Eugene Blackstone never attended divinity schools, and this is among the factors that contributed to his success in whatever he was looking into as he fought endlessly for the restoration of the Jewish. Hi used his own ideology to shape his mission, vision, and understanding of the Bible. The existence of the freedom on various interpretations of the Bible gives him morale to continue to focus on the teaching of the Bible about the second coming of the Messiah and the great need to reach out the restoration of the Jewish in preparing for the end times. According to his religious ideologies, William Eugene Blackstone believed that the Jewish played a critical role in the end times, and this meant that he was to keep pushing and enlightening the world about the essence of Jewish restoration. Comment by Christina: Review word choice/spelling. Consider revising.

Through the story and EB findings of the William Eugene Blackstone, it must be recognized that during the early nineteenth century, William Eugene Blackstone, many Christians had not yet discovered about practical existence of the bible teaching about land ownership as provided in the book of Genesis when God made an agreement with Abraham. Lack of this knowledge made him extensively read the Bible and finally made the decision to start a journey along with his daughter through the middle east with the aim to discover Biblical lands as quoted in various scriptures of the Bible. As part of the multitude of Christians who traveled to Palestine, William Eugene Blackstone collected first-hand information about the biblical allusions that claimed land ownership by the Jewish. Perhaps the journey to Palestine also provided him with more insights into the truth of the promised land as provided in the Bible. He was further motivated by the travel and the information acquired during the journey and later on formed the Zionist movement, whose main ambitions were to support the restoration of the Jewish Comment by Christina: Every sentence must end in a single terminal punctuation (period, question mark, or exclamation point). There is an excellent worksheet on sentence construction here: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Sentence_Construction.pdf 

Moreover, it can be argued that the influence he got from Palestine visits upon realizing how the ant-Semitism culture that was highly practiced in eastern Europe and Russian made him keep pressing for the restoration of the Jewish. from said culture William Eugene Blackstone learned that the Jewish were subjected to extreme suffering, and this attracted his attention and gave him more vigor to support the restoration of the Jewish[footnoteRef:5]. Worth mentioning is that the existence of institutions that were majorly created to facilitate Jewish discrimination also made him continue pushing for various petitions in America to help save the suffering Jewish from the bondage of the hands of the Russians. Comment by Christina: A pronoun must agree with the noun to which it refers (called the antecedent) in gender, person, and number. For example, instead of “The pastor had to quiet their congregation,” the correct alternative would be “The pastor had to quiet his (or her) congregation.” See the OWC’s resource on pronoun-antecedent agreement: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Pronoun-Antecedent_Agreement.pdf.  Comment by Christina: Always capitalize the first word of a sentence. See the resources on capitalization on the OWC’s website for additional guidance: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/writing-aids/   [5: Robert O. Smith, "Conclusion Christian Zionism from the cartwright petition to American empire," 187]

As provided in many readings during this time, even the Russian orthodox church, along with its Christians, had declared war with the Jewish. They demanded that the Jewish had only one option: convert to Christians, die, or flee for their safety. One of the countries where the Jewish had suffered much other than any other country was Russia, and the suffrage escalated to the extent that the Jewish were even deprived of their private and public rights. In addition to the horrific experiences the Jewish underwent during those times shook the attention of William Eugene Blackstone, and with no time wasted, he felt that enough was enough. It was time for liberation and restoration of the Jewish.

Lastly, I can also be added that William Eugene Blackstone was also motivated by the Zionist movement as its basis and ideas were all built from the Biblical point of view. As may be known to all Christians, the term restoration has been quieted in religious books several times. Both the orthodox and the catholic churches within the Eastern region in Europe strongly held that the Jewish were not beloved members of God since they rejected and finally crucified the son of God. On the other hand, the dispensationalist Christians believed that the return of the Jews to the Palestine land was significant to them as it marked the preparation for the second coming of the Messiah as it was related to the 1000-year rule of the sone of after the result of Jerusalem. Comment by Christina: Review word choice/spelling. Consider revising.

What were some of the longer-term consequences of his beliefs and policy recommendations for Diaspora Jewry on the one hand and USFP in the Middle East on the other? Be critical here—does it seem that WEB really understood the consequences of his ideas for the Palestinian locals—Jewish, Muslim, or Christian?

After his return from the journey to Palestine, he became actively engaged in propagating and pushing for his Zionist agender to the key leaders of America and dignitaries. Through his efforts and beliefs, William Eugene Blackstone's work enlightened American colonists the American rights using the English common laws since his efforts to fight for the oppressed made the said laws approachable. William Eugene was at the frontline among other philosophers who fought for the development and establishment of the common law. In addition to that, he also used his position as an evangelist and an author to articulate the grievances of the less privileged and discriminate people in the society[footnoteRef:6]. In his ways, his work helped to elucidate the rights of the minority against the oppression from the government. This further facilitated incorporation of various constitutional amendments to help protect liberty from the actions of a few leaders who were superior to other humans. Comment by Christina: Turabian 22.3.1 states, “Both citation styles (author-date and notes-bibliography) require headline style capitalization for English-language titles… regardless of how they appear in the original.” Headline-style capitalization, also called title case, means that the main words are capitalized and the “less important” words are lowercased. For example, “Vietnam: Lessons from the War.” See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help.  [6: Mayir Vreté, "The restoration of the Jews in English protestant thought 1790–1840," 45]

As of today, his work a few has been highly appreciated and recognized both in Israel, Palestine, Europe, and many other parts of the world due to his contribution to the restoration of the Jewish as well as his pioneered thoughts of natural law, religious tolerance, social change and right to revolution. His deep conviction and belief that soon than later, great things would happen before the second coming of Messiah, he decided to take full charge of ensuring that the Jewish could be restored to Palestine, and in 1891 he urged President Harrison to call for an international conference of major world powers and during that time over 400 senior and prominent people in American signed the petition to push for the restoration of the Jewish. he actively pushed for the signing of the petition for international powers to help the Jews feel free of oppression and discrimination. Through his endless efforts to fight for the end of oppression and discrimination, it can be said one of the long-term impacts of his work was to promote a remarkable social change both internationally and locally.

Are his beliefs and policy recommendations still relevant to USFP today? WEB clearly left a legacy in the US and Palestine. Can you talk about this, whether positive, negative or both?

The beliefs and policy recommendations that were put forth have been of great use in the US and many other nations of the world[footnoteRef:7]. For example, the American foreign policy that was a product of his recommendation has been in existence and played the role of maintaining a close link and relationship between the US and Israel. Up to date, the said policy has never changed. All along through his contribution, the US has remained very supportive of Israel as a nation. This has continued to shape how the two countries operate in terms of economy, politics, and promotion of peace between the US and Israel. Finally, his religious beliefs through Christianity, political forces, and Zionism, the clergy have always remained at the forefront to fight for human rights based on the scriptures used by William Eugene Blackstone in his work. Comment by Christina: To communicate your ideas clearly, you must place a modifier directly next to the word it is supposed to modify. The modifier should clearly refer to a specific word in the sentence. For example, instead of, “At eight years old, my father gave me a pony for Christmas.” Assuming the father was not eight years old, the sentence should be rewritten: “When I was eight years old, my father gave me a pony for Christmas.” See the OWC’s article on misplaced modifiers: https://www.liberty.edu/casas/academic-success-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/04/Misplaced_Modifiers.ppt   Consider revising to avoid confusion with the various influences that speak about in this sentence. [7: Rosemary R. Ruether, "Christian Zionism and Mainline Western Christian Churches," 179-190 ]

Bibliography

"American Zionist Emergency Council and the Christian Zoinists." The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948, 2012, 138-156. doi:10.4324/9780203044605-19. Comment by Christina: Bibliographic entries should be left justified, single-spaced, unnumbered, and alphabetized by the first author’s last name. Lines after the first are to be indented .05”. Use normal style and a standard black Times New Roman font size 12. Using MS Word’s “Format Paragraph”>“Special Indentation”>“Hanging” makes this easier. Double space between entries (Turabian A.2.3.5). See the OWC Turabian Format Quick Guide for more help. 

Ariel, Yaakov. "An American initiative for a Jewish state: William Blackstone and the petition of 1891." Studies in Zionism 10, no. 2 (1989), 125-137. doi:10.1080/13531048908575951.

Blackstone, William. "[Letter from William Blackstone to the Earl of Reading]." Harvard Law Review 32, no. 8 (1919), 974. doi:10.2307/1327108.

Matar, N. I. "Milton and the Idea of the Restoration of the Jews." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 27, no. 1 (1987), 109. doi:10.2307/450643.

Ruether, Rosemary R. "Christian Zionism and Mainline Western Christian Churches." Comprehending Christian Zionism, 2014, 179-190. doi:10.2307/j.ctt9m0srs.12.

Smith, Robert O. "Conclusionchristian zionism from the cartwright petition to american empire." More Desired than Our Owne Salvation, 2013, 185-196. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199993246.003.0010.

Vreté, Mayir. "The restoration of the Jews in English protestant thought 1790–1840." Middle Eastern Studies 8, no. 1 (1972), 3-50. doi:10.1080/00263207208700192. Comment by Christina: Abdirahim, As always, thank you for using the OWC here at Liberty! I enjoyed reading your William Blackstone paper. You have obviously put much time into this paper. Overall, it is a very nice paper. However, you have formatting, punctuation, and grammatical errors that detract from its effectiveness. To continue elevating your writing, consider reviewing Turabian formatting guidelines, as well as the rules for written English grammar. Please refer to the many helpful writing resources on the OWC website at: http://www.liberty.edu/academics/graduate/writing/index.cfm?PID=12268 Moving forward I suggest working on Turabian formatting, passive voice, and pronouns. You have started a good paper that, with a little fine tuning, will be an excellent paper. I did not mark every instance of every error. Remember to look for other similar errors when you see “apply throughout.” If you have any specific questions that I did not address here, feel free to email the OWC or schedule a Live chat or Skype request. You will find many helpful writing aids here. Also, please be sure to complete the Student Satisfaction Survey located at the bottom of your completed request. I hope these comments help! Thanks for using the OWC, Christina