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. 177.179.191 ■ vooDwAno AVE 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 (Continued From Page Four.) the state of the future life we have cies, or do the probabilities that abide proof in Jewish and in other religious :1111111112111111111 NVe could not a short time ago int - 111 SIIIIIIIIIMM11231121 @ IWM1111111111111111111111111111111121E1111111111111111111M1111111111IMEC111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIMMIE11111112 11111111111l11111(11111113111111:1111111111111 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 Leader in Shaarey Zedek Activities A .raditionzbIle CotlacHort For the Holidays Moderately Priced at Kline's Third Floor 1.:111,10 "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?" 11111 Everything for the Dress Hemstitching Picot Edging Silks Laces Button Covering Plaitings NEW YORK SHOPS, Inc. 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- 2nd Floor, Woodward Arcade 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. 1111111111111111111111 11111111... 1PHSPIttlE11111111111t11111111211111111111111:111111111111 countless generations that have gone. 111111111111111111111 11111 11; 1 111111111111111111 11111 1111111111111111i 1 1111 11111 11111111111111111111111 11111 II:01111111111111 11111 IIIMIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIII Whittier, "where Ili: Islands lift their 111111111111113 1 11111111IIIIIIIII II 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 244 Woodward Ave. 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? 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