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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 my 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 I f ee l
Leader in Shaarey Zedek Activities
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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. It'olf Kaplan, 1:i1 West Palmer. President Woman's Auxiliary, is? There are numerous sects that
teach their followers that they have
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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
\Ve could not a short time ago im-I cics, or do the probabilities that abide proof in Jewish and in other religious
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in the evidence of evolution compel literature. There is a passage, famous
agine that electricity could convey akin
message through the ether without us with irresistable force to admit more. or less, that tells us that the
any wire to guide its course; but lo,! that the preponderance of evidence is Israelites appeared before Moses and
said to him, "Describe to us What our
t oday we have wireless telegraphy. for immortality and not against it?
reward will Inc after death has sealed
The message is sent; it has its physi- Man is part animal, part physical,
cal form in the instrument that trans- part spiritual and part divine. Ile our eyes and the soul has been eman-
cipated to flee to the realm on high."
nits it it travels through space, it is possesses within himself something
And Moses replied: "I can not de-
not seen, it is not felt, but when it which no representative of creation
scribe to you or define to you what
reaches the instrument that is the ' possesses to an equal degree. I las all
counterpart of the one from which of this been for naught? Is it merely the nature of your reward on high
the message was sent, this ambassador • t glittering bubble that has been will be, I can only say to you that it
from the distance presents its creden- 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
it 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 titan that Thou
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positively and without the shadow of life.
Is the wish that this should he so,
a doubt reveal to us the fact that it
must be? I confess we have no posi- further to the thought? There are
tive evidence that would be accepted, many thinkers of the highest repute,
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
• have no positive evidence we can I fascination, that the idea has for them
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at least say that the preponderance of no charm, and yet they fee
the evidence is in favor of a future must believe in it. It is some times
life after death, rather than against said that all human beings have the
It is some
dxsire for immortality.
such a -belief.
Evolution lends, if not certainty, at times said that those Who say that
least probability to the view that the they have no such desire are either
soul's life will not be terminated when posing or subject to a mood of &tires-
man's dying gasp has wafted his last sion and despondency; when life is
breath across his trembling lips. The at full flood, when through our veins
evidence of evolution tells us that courses the bright fluid of hope, then
nature has travailed and groaned in we can not but earnestly any yearn-
order that man might come into axis- ingly desire future life.
I cannot agree with those who say
tence. Has all that labor of nature
Is it merely a all people desire fervently the per-
been for naught?
vaudeville performance? Is it merely petuity of their souls, and that those
a meaningless jumble of inconsisten- who deny such a feeling are untruth-
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a map
conceivable that the course of the the (lust that Thou thinkest of him?" be our faith. \\'e do not need
not need a
estial cite; we
of the
\\ilia is the inert clay; what is the
human soul is similar? here are the
do d to it; we
cel show us the roa
Nlarconi instruments, these bodies mouldering dust; what are the soil chart to
that register our personalities, these and the clod beneath our feet? Man, do not need a geography to describe
personalities that wander off into the on his physical side, is akin to these its boundaries and its conformation;
boundless, the unlimitable realms of things that have no reason, appar- let us leave that to God, as the rab-
space, that will again be gathered up ently, for their existence. But he has Lineal legend, which I have just re-
into a spiritual entity, into an angel- another side. "1 hou past made him kited, testified that Moses desired it
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more, the great American poet. \\Ant-
it•, in the essence of its individuality !crowned him with glory and
„ If God
Ile has reachings out of the spirit; t i t, c, has vaiti the last word.
with what the human being was in a
is
infinitely
gond
we
may
safely,
with-
mundane existence. This is not in•; he has intuitions; he catches sight,
Therefore, to say we behind the dome that closes out in- out any ciimpunction whatever, leave
,
conceivable.
an endless cycle , this
is vita, matter, as all matters, safely
must discard the theory of immortal tinily from him, of
here the i mmortal souls of in his hands. "I know ❑ ot," says
life because it is simply unimaginable of years w
countless generations that have gone. Whittier, "where His Islands lift their
is unwarranted, without justification
and the myriad generations that will fronded palms in air, I only know I
w hatever.
be shall abide forever in the presence can not drift beyond hislove a
t Now, if these most important objec-
ions 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
KUN AND SZAMUELY
ARE NOT JEWS
Dr. Bloch's \\'ochenschrift is the
authority for the statement that Bela
Ent and Tibor Szanimly, the two
Communist leaders in Hungary, were
not Jews as hitherto supposed. Ilela
kun is a member of a tiirbenbi reen
family. Ilk father was the notary in
his native-town.. Szionuely was for-
merly employed in It clerical and
Chrsitian-Socialist organization and a
correspondent in the Christian social-
st organ.
It was generally beleved, both by
Jews and note-Jews, that both of these
communists were Jews.
Baron James Rothschild was blinded
in one eye while playing golf at Deau-
ville recently, when struck with a golf
ball driven by the Due de tittiche.
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their homes, have expressed their satisfaction in continued patronage.
This policy, on which this House is founded and maintained, I shall
endeavor to continue and extend during the coming year.
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