THE JEWISH CHRONICLE 38 (Continued from preceding page) ciple that the poor must be made is held that the dietary laws of the self-helping be better expressed Bible indicate a very widespread than in the Biblical injunction that knowledge of the laws of what we the upper and the nether millstone are accustomed to call modern sani- shall not be taken as pledge ? Still, these are but single in- tation. Certain it is that there are wonderful coincidences between the stances of hundreds that might be health laws of the Bible and those quoted as interpreting the same sanctioned by modern medicine. In- principle. The law, for instance, deed, it was pointed out but recently against humiliating the poor man by by one of the most eminent physi- compelling him to go into the house cians in this part of the country that of the money-lender for his pledge, there must have been a very real the law against keeping the garment knowledge of food values on the of the poor man over night, are all part of those who compiled the die- instances of the same high concep- i tary code of the Bible. Nor is it less lion which is basic to our new phi- remarkable that there seems to have lanthropy. been a very great insistence upon And if we turn from philanthropy the laws of quarantine against the to the realm of sociology, we find spread of contagious disease. Other equally striking insistences. The Teasures, too, looking to the preser-, law prohibiting the keeping of vation of health and which are prac- the wages of the hireling over night tically universally endorsed by the is surely direct foreshadowing of medical profession today; find our regulations in regard to the recognition in the Bible. Still, I do minimum wage. The rules regulat- not hold that the Bible is a textbook ing the battlement about the roof, of science. Grant, if we may, that the careful guarding of ditches in some of the compilers of that great the road and what not, are eloquent work were scientifically far ahead testimony that it has not remained of their times, their great contribu- for the men of the 20th century to lion to civilization has not been think of the guarding of the laborer along the lines of .science. And yet against industrial accidents. The there are coincidences so striking varied laws having to do with and so numerous between the view- slavery and the distinctions drawn point of the Bible and that taken between the voluntary slave and the by men who are leaders in every mere wage earner indicate beyond sphere making for the conservation the shadow of a doubt that some of human society, that one must sense of industrial justice had be- pause before the Bible in admiration gun to dawn on man long before if not in reverence. our day and generation. The pro- We speak in these times constant- nouncethent that in time of war, ly of the new social sciences and the when it became necessary to destroy new sense of justice that has de- a village, the fruit-bearing trees veloped and of the new relation- should not be harmed, tells in elo- ships that obtain between brother quent phrase that we of this day men. Strange, is it not, then, that are not the first to understand the in the Bible we find regulations, the importance of the conservation of righteousness of which is taken our natural resources. And here axiomatically for granted, that again, then, we might go on and touch our new philanthropy, our illustrate the Point we make that new sociology, our new religion, if our new sociology is not so very you will, at every angle. What is new after all. there in our new philanthropy, so- But more impressive than all the called, whose basic principle is the ata that I have brought to you in preservation of the self-respect of d the individual and the putting of this connection is what may be said the poor man in a position of self- in regard to. the antiquity of what dependence, that can go beyond the we are pleased to call the new re- magnificent Penteuchal regulations ligion• How ridiculous it seems to having to do with the dignity even speak of the new , religion when of the poor man, and the need of every ideal of the program con- preserving his self-respect ? What, templated by that term has been set in your modern social codes, is there down by the genius-endowed spirits that more surely tends to the ac- of Israel's prophets more than two complishment of such high purpose thousand years ago: For what is than the regulation by which the the new religion? Is it a protest corner of the firle was to be set against more credalism ? Who, then. • aside as the poor man's right, on has protested against it with that the sole condition that he, himself, same vehemence, . with that same should perform the labor of the in- virility, with that same spiritual (Continued on page 27) gathering? Or, how could the prin We Recommend Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. Continental Motors Co. W. K. Prudden & Co. Reo Motor Car Co. because we have examined their condition and know that they are making money for the shareholders. For special detailed in- formation write or telephone us. As soon as the new Motors combination is completed and we have analyzed it we will be glad to send you the information and our opinion. H. W. NOBLE & COMPANY The Oldest House in Michigan Telephones Main 6026-7-8-9 314-318 Dime Bank Building. 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