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September 19, 1919 - Image 17

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1919-09-19

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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

PAGE EIGHT

ful. I can speak-only for myself, but
in all sincerity and honesty I declare
to you that it is a matter of indiffer-
ence to me whether toy soul exists
beyond the grave, or whether it is
destroyed by the grim reaper when
he mows down this mortal body that
cloth grossly close it in. I should
not mind oblivion. Often I am in-
clined to think that I would prefer
the dreamlessness of an everlasting
sleep of an endless death. You may
have a different feeling, you may pre-
fer to be immortal; you may earnestly
desire that your loved ones wear a
crown and hear the song of the choir
invisible on the Elysian fields, but I
have no such desire and I can speak
only for myself and the small min-
ority to which I belong, and yet 1 feel
as do those wiser men than I that
have given the subject consideration,
that whatever our sentiment may be
as to the desirability or undesirability ,
of the future life, the preponderance
of the arguments that our weak human
reason can conjure up is in favor of
the hypothesis, if not the scientific
theorem, that the soul exists and will
exist after death has claimed us as
its own.
Now, if we believe in immortal life
shall we trouble ourselves to know
what manner or state or condition it
Mrs. Wolf Kaplan, 151 :rest Palmer. President 1Voman's Auxiliary, is? There are numerous sects that
teach their followers that they have
Shaarey Zedek.
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positive revelations concerning the
golden city with the pearly gates in
the realms on high, and the abyss of
fire in the depths below where the
Wicked are subjected to everlasting
torture. For both these theories of
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the state of the future life we have
cies, or do the probabilities that abide proof in Jewish and in other religious
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agine that electricity could convey a in the evidence of evolution compel literature. There is a passage, famous
message through the ether without us with irresistable force to admit more or less, that tells on that the
any wire to guide its course; but 10,1that the preponderance of evidence is Israelites appeared before Moses and
said to him, "Describe to us what our
today' we have wireless telegraphy. for immortality and not against it?
The message is sent; it has its physi- , Man is part animal, part physical, reward will be after death has sealed
cal form in the instrument that trans-apart spiritual and part divine. Ile our eyes and the soul has been eman-
toils it; it travels through space, it is' possesses within himself something cipated to flee to the realm on high."
not seen, it is not felt, but when it which no representative of creation And Nloses replied: "I can not de-
reaches the instrument that is the:possesses to an equal degree. Ilas all scribe to you or define to you what
counterpart of the one front whichlof this been for naught? Is it merely the nature of your reward on high
the message was sent, this ambassador la glittering bubble that has been will be, I can only say to you that it
from the distance Mesents its credenH blown up by the cosmos with its will surpass all that your mind can
tials, again takes on the guise which iridescent hues leading our reason conceive of, that it will transcend all
t originally possessed, and becomes astray, but giving us no satisfaction? that earthly joy can give."
Indeed, this should be our hope;
identical with what it was at its incep- "Oh, Lord, what is man that Thou
it. Is it not imaginable, is it not I are mindful of him, and the child of this should be our trust; this should
d o „„t need a map
conceivable that the course of the ! the dust that "Thou thmkest of lilt)). be one faith. we
celestial cite; we do nut need a
human soul is similar? Mere are the! What is the inert clay; what is the of tin,
M arconi instruments, these bodies mouldering dust; what are the sod chart to show us the road to it we
that register our personalities, these and the clod beneath our feet? Man, do not need a geogrsjuilly to describe
personalities that wander off into the on his physical side, is akin to these its boundaries and its conformation; _
leave that to God, as the rah
boundless, the unlimitable realms of things that have no reason, appar- let us

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space, that will again be gathered up ently, for their e . xistence. But he has lineal legend. which I have just re-
hou hast made him lilted, testified that Moses desired it
into a spiritual entity, into an angel- another side. "'Thou
teal personality, identical in the real- but little less than divine, and bast should be left to God, And further-
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Dept. Manager
nt with g lor y and more, the great American poet, Whit-
the essence of its itidividualitY!cr°w"" hi
twc, has said the last word• „ If God
with what the human being was in a! He has reachings out of the spirit;
mundane existence. This is not in-, he has intuitions; he catches sight, is infinitely good We may safely, with-
Therefore, to say we behind the dome that closes out in- out , any compunction whatever, leave
conceivable.
must discard the theory of immortali unity from him, of an endless cycle this
this vital
• , matter, as all matters, safely
"I know not," says
life because it is simply unimaginable of years where the immortal souls of in his hands.
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is unwarranted, without justification
and the myriad generations that will fronded palms in air, I only know I
whate ver.
Now, if these most important objec- he, shall abide forever in the presence can not drift beyond His love and
tions to immortality do not disprove of God. The probability, if not the care."
it, have we stronger arguments that certainty, is all in favor of a future

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Sam'! Kalis

positively and without the shadow of life.
KUN AND SZAMUELY
Is the wish that this should lie so,
a doubt reveal to us the fact that it
ARE NOT JEWS
must be? I confess we have no post- father to the thought? There are
tive evidence that would be accepted, many thinkers of the highest repute,
Dr. Illoch's NVochenschrift is the
by a dialecticianas being complete in of the greatest sincerity who declare
all its parts, in its reasonings, but if :that future life possesses for them no authority for the statement that Bela
we have no positive evidence we can I fascination, that the idea has for them Eon and Tibor Szanimly, the two
at least say that the preponderance of no charm, and yet they feel that they Communist leaders in Hungary, w ere
the evidence is in favor of a future must believe in it. It is some times not Jews as hitherto supposed'. Bela
life after death, rather than against said that all human beings have the Kim is a member of a Sielienliirgen
such a belief. • , desire for immortality, It is some family. his father was the notary in
Evolution lends, if not certainty, at tittles said that those who 'say that his native town. Srrainuely was for-
.
least probability to the view that the they have no such desire are either m•rly employed in a clerical and
Chrsitian-Socialist organization and a
soul's life will not be terminated when pulsing or subject to a mood of depres- correspondent in the Christian social-
man's dying gasp has wafted his last sine and despondency; when life is
breath across his trembling lips. The at full flood, when through our veins
It was generally belayed, both by
evidence of evolution tells its that courses the bright fluid of hope, then Jews and non-Jews. that both of these
nature has travailed and groaned in we can not but earnestly any yearn- communists were Jews.
order that man might come into coin- ingly desire future life.
Baton James Rothschild was blii.ded
I cannot agree with those who say
truce. Has all that labor of nature
Is it merely a all people desire fervently the per- in one eye w hile playing golf at Deau-
been Inc naught?
vaudeville performance? Is it merely petuity of their souls, and that those ville recently, w hen struck with a golf
a meaningless jumble of inconsisten- who deny such a feeling are untruth- ball driven by the time he Quiche.

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