7 Mt THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE EIGHT ' Area Slum - urn Fell 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 If 0 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 Shaarey ?Ark. 177.179-181 WOODWARD 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 \Ve could not a short time ago im-I cics, or do the probabilities that abide proof in Jewish and in other religious sliasimsarmisiiel11111111811ffln 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 For the Holidays Moderately Priced at Kline's "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?" Third Floor 1 m in on Everything for the Dress Hemstitching Picot Edging Silks Laces Button Covering Plaitings NEW YORK SHOPS, Inc. 241 Woodward Ave. Sam'! Kalis 2nd Floor, Woodward Arcade Dept. Manager ..mthimmimmnqiimmtimniztitualuatimiminsiminsimuuminitalluiumunicsomminmaili. annalinonsimunninimmiarimmummi,,.. 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 l 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- Iceless Refrigeration —IN-- Your OwnChest Just think of never having to bother with the iceman! Think of never hay- ing to worry about possible strikes, or ice shortage—of never having to mop up after the iceman, or to clean refrig• erator drain pipes, clogged with ice refuse!—all these and countless other worries inseparable from the iceman's methods can be banished the day you install Kelvinator. tion. Is it not imaginable, is it not are mindful of him, and the child of this should be our trust; this should 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 Ica! personality, identical in the real-shut little less than divine, and bast should be left to God. And further- 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. 0• The electric motor and moving parts of KEI.• VINATOR are placed in a corner of the base- ment, removing from the refrigerator everything of a mechanical nature and leaving its outward appearance unaltered. New Year's Greetings Kelvin ator Refrigerates Without Ire Goes Into Your Olen Ice Box —KELVINATOR the mechanical cold producer turns electric power into crisp, dry cold—keeps perishable food fresh and sweet—makes it possi- ble to have frozen dainties at will, and gives sufficient fine, clear ice cakes for table use, right from your favorite drinking water—and all at a daily operat- ing cost less than ice. this gladsome time—I desire to take this op- A T portunity to express to all my friends and t patrons my best wishes for a Happy and Pros- perous New Year. I desire also to express my deep appreciation to the many folks who, in relying on my judgment and personal service in aiding them to furnish 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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