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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Have We Outgrown the Bible?
(Continued from page 38)
power as did an Isaiah, as (lid a
Jeremiah, as did an Amos, as did a
Ilosea? What is there in all the
literature of the modern church in
its protest against formalism, that
can in any way compare with the
58th chapter of the Prophet Isaiah ?
Is it a call for human brotherhood,
this new religion? Why, then, shall
we call it new when in the very re-
moteness of time it was Israel's law-
giver who set it down as the rule of
life, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself ?" Is it a call for social
justice? Was it not the prophet of
the Bible who proclaimed, after
speaking of the emptiness of rite
and form and sacrifice, "Let justice
flow like water and righteousness
like a mighty stream." Is this new
religion an appeal for consideration
for the poor and fui . tide stia::gcr ?
challenge you to find anywhere a
soul appeal for the oppressed for
the down-trodden, for the poor, for
the outcast, for the widow, for the
orphan, for the stranger, an appeal
for sympathy and help so deep and
so soul-stirring as may be found at
every turn of the pages of the Bible.
Is your new religion a call to higher
moral conceptions? What genius
of your modern day has in his
moral flight reached to the grandeur
of the universality of the moral
principles embodied in the Ten
Commandments? Nay, friends,
what you call your new religion was
all there in that great storehouse of
moral truth that we call the Bible.
What we have done in all these ages
is to interpret the moral principles
of Scripture in the light of our
changing conditions and of our
growing needs. To the moral prin-
ciples themselves we have added not
a single jot or tittle. Nay, when
men and nations are troubled, they
may turn to the pages of the Bible
and find relief for their agony and
assuagement for their pain. \\Then
in times like these the moral foun-
dations of life seem to be weakened,
whfit inspiration must come to us
when we to that dream of
peace and brotheritcod among the
nations visioned by `tik Prophet
Isaiah, a vision not indeed ft,:filled
as yet in the lapse of all these c'el_
tures, but one that the men of this
darkened day may well hold before
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