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he did carry away some bruises. He realizes that these
manifestations are but the result of the very war spirit
which he is trying to eliminate from men's minds. If,
however, he had any illusions about it and fancied that
the ugly passions born of arrogance and fear had
diminished appreciably, these student Fascists de-
stroyed such beliefs. It merely means to Barbusse and
his co-workers in the cause of a better world that the
work to be done is far from completed.
Why the Cathcart Affair?
February 26, 1926
Adar 12, 5686
It Has Happened.
Barbusse in Roumania.
lectable names but actually attacked him. He escaped
with the assistance of friends, much battered and in
great haste. Such shocking bad manners and lack of
hospitality have become of late the accredited mode
in Roumania.
What did Barbusse say or do that provoked the
riot? As far as we are able to ascertain he spoke on
the need for international good will. To the Rouman-
ian students nurtured by that group of anti-Semitic pro-
fessors headed by Professor Cuza the mere mention of
the word international makes them commit all sorts of
atrocities. It seems almost incredible that the anti-
Semitic spirit is so deep rooted that one with the ante-
cedents and reputation of Barbusse should suffer such
humilation merely because he spoke upon a subject
which is considered specifically Jewish.
The student hooligan phenomenon seems to be a
Roumanian product. There have been student out-
breaks in the universities of Hungary, Austria and Ger-
many. but these were sporadic and short lived. In Rou-
mania, however, these crude barbaric riots have now
continued for years and even now the authorities are
hard put to find some means of effectively stopping
them at the University of Bucharest.
What makes this form of anti-Semitism so unique
is the fact that it has academic sanction and expresses
itself in violence. Before the war there were two clear-
ly defined and well-recognized forms of anti-Semitism:
the academic which prevailed in Germany and gave
rise to that whole literature of Nordicism and the crude
physical force anti-Semitism of Russia which expressed
itself in pogroms and discrimination. The students of
Roumania under the able guidance of Professor Cuza
have joined these twin monsters and we now have the
academic physical force anti-Semitism which is so blind
and maniacal than even a Henri Barbusse is not immune
from it, merely because he espoused a cause which was
deemed Semitic.
Barbusse will not cease his efforts to bring about a
better understanding among the people even though
and four who did not believe American literature was
superior to French. but even better than that, six noble-
women who admitted flirtations before they were 14
were among the victims who appeared before me."
This may sound ridiculous, but just the same our
exclusion policy has made us just as ridiculous in the
eyes of the thinking world,
0, GATHER ME
(From Bialik's Ilebrew Poem, "Hachnissini tahath K'nafech.")
Oh, gather me unto thy sheltering wing,
And be to me mother and all;
My head on thy bosom a refuge shall seek,
Where prayers incessantly fall.
In hours of sweet grace when the twilight's atremble,
To thee I'll reveal what I languish;
They say there abideth still love upon earth,
Forsooth it has left me in anguish.
And more sombre secrets I'll whisper to thee ;
My heart is aglow with a flame;
They say there abideth still love upon earth,
To me it is only a name.
The stars that shone brightly deceived and grew
dim,—
A dream—it has flitted and passed;
My longings have ceased and my yearnings are
stilled,
Desire has been vanquished at last.
Oh, gather me unto thy sheltering wing,
And be to me mother and all;
My head on thy bosom a refuge shall find.
Where prayers incessantly fall.
DR. N. E. ARONSTAM.
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21,V 16,
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Anti-Semitism in England
DIGEST
By DR. MAGARSHACK
The Late Dr. Kaufman Kohler
The passing of Dr. Kaufmann Koh
kr was the subject of comment in t h e
Jewish press throughout the country,
and in editorial notes and special ar
General Offices and Publication Building
tides, tribute has been paid to the
525 Woodward Avenue
noted Jewish religious leader and
scholar.
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Telephone: Cadillac 1040
London Office:
The Jewish Morning Journal thinks
The Countess of Cathcart unlike another Countess that
14 Stretford Place, London, W. 1, England.
the late Dr. Kaufmann Kohler
is not excluded because of dangerous and subversive was more of a scholar than a Rabbi,
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and
that
his memory will survive
ideas, but because she told the truth about her relations
that of a specialist in the wisdom
To insure publication. all correspondence and news meter must reach this
with a man with whom she eloped, before she had pro- as
otlire by Tuesday evening of each week.
of Israel rather than of a leader in
cured a divorce from her husband.
American Reform Judaism. His in-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee correspondence on so Heels of Inlereet
was exerted much more over
to the Jewish people, but disclaims remponelbillty for an Indorsement of the
For this act of hers committed not in the United fluence
view. exp ..... d br the writers.
Rabbis and scholars than over the
States, but in South Africa where it is not a crime and
public. For he could better work out
for which she was not persecuted, she is denied ad- a platform or a statement of princi-
than win his listeners. As a
mission to this country even for a limited time and for ple
learned Jew his memory will ever be
the purpose of selling several plays, which she has held in high esteem even in such Jew-
When Morris Rothenberg visited Palestine he wrote written. According to the authorities this offense is ish circles which does not accept his
to the effect that he feared even to think what would one involving moral turpitude, and therefore she is de- theology."
Jewish World writes: "With
happen if the building boom in Tel Aviv should col- portable. However on technical grounds one is not the The
passing of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler
lapse. The building boom did not collapse, but there guilty of a crime until one has been tried and convicted the old Reform school of Judaism has
lost its last great representative."
is a marked decrease in building operations and several on the offense charged.
The paper recounts the facts of Dr.
factories have closed causing a rather acute unemploy-
Thousands of men and women in the State of New Kohler's life and career and con-
cludes: "Ilis theological and philo-
ment problem involving 2,000 men.
York are guilty of this offense, for that is the only sophical treatises in the Jewish En-
Rothenberg may have preferred the comfortable ground on which a divorce is grantable in that state, cyclopedia are testimonials of his real
twilight zone of the Fools Paradise or the roseate day thousands in other states are equally guilty, but to our greatness. There was, however, some
else which distinguished this
dream state of procrastination, yet the stubborn eco- knowledge not one in a thousand is ever tried for the thing
scholar, and this is the fact that he
nomic facts will assert themselves willy hilly.
crime of adultery. If adultery really involves moral was the most consistent and stubborn
of the view that Judaism is
There are 2,000 unemployed in Tel Aviv. These turpitude, our sense of the heinous has surely become adherent
not a race, nor nation, but merely a
men are a problem which the National Assembly, more blunted. No New York divorcees are socially ostra- religious sect. Ile lived to see this
of his crumble and Jewry recog-
tough minded and realistic will not and dare not ignore.
cised. Our daily press prints stories about them which faith
nized
ed here and there as 'one nation ,'
Where shall they be employed? Shall they be sent to
are rather flattering, and not infrequently they are ac- Am Echod. He lived to see the be-
ginning of that same Geulah, which he
the old colonies as some suggest, or shall they be em- corded distinction and honor.
denied. But he had not abandoned his
ployed in road building and other public works which
The exclusionists have felt the sharp rebukes of Own Idea of Judaism. History will
those who value liberty as evidenced in the cases of the forgive him all. For he was a giant
are so badly needed?
To send these artisans and craftsmen to the old col- Karolyis, Saklatvalas, Joffes and others and to prove in learning, in the wisdom of Israel."
"While it is true that Dr. Kohler
onies means readjustment and dislocation. Despite all
their impartiality they now exclude the Countess Cath- belonged
to the Reform wing in Amer-
the heroism and idealism shown by the agricultural
cart for an indiscretion committed five years ago, and ican Israel, he was revered by all ele-
ments
in
American Jewry regardless
workers no one can honestly say that it is a simple about which she refused to lie.
of affiliation, writes D. J. Gaiter in the
matter to make an efficient land worker out of a me-
The reaction to this piece of folly on the part of the Jewish World of Philadelphia. For
immigration authorities is illuminating and interesting. presumably Dr. Kohler was a scholar;
chanic in a short time.
was a Jewish scholar who devoted
The other alternative is comparatively simple from
The militant feminists raised the cry of double stan- he
his life to research and to study in
the point of view of adjustment of the individuals con-
dard, because the Earl of Craven, her partner in the the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts. Dr.
Cyrus Adler put it very well when in
cerned, but the paramount question is the money to
affair, was admitted into the country.
his tribute he said, among other
undertake the road building and public work. The
Under the circumstances there was no double stan- things: "Kohler was a leader not so
only agency that can furnish the money is the Keren
dard, for the Earl did not disclose the facts when he much of men as of thought. It was
his inspiration that the Reform
Hayesod. The funds of the organization are low. At was questioned, consequently there was no discrimina- under
movement in America, which had hith-
this time there is a United Palestine Appeal, and if any- tion in h;- favor since the authorities were not in pos- erto temporized, adopted a clear cut
thing can attest more eloquently to the urgency of the session of the facts. They may have admitted him de- set of principles which has not been
superseded and which at the same
need than the presence of Bialik, Levin and Sokolow spite his sin, but that is purely academic. To say we time
brought about the consolidation
were disappointed in the militant feminists, who acted of those elements devoted to historic,
at one time we know not what it is.
traditional
Judaism, and the forma-
This is a concrete situation. It was inevitable de- like a flock of sob sisters, is to put it mildly. The real
tion of the Jewish Theological Semi-
spite the ignoring of the facts by those who should have
vice of the matter, the exclusion of a woman or a man nary."
faced them and taken every precaution to avoid the from a country for such a reason is of infinitely greater
I. L. Bril writes in his column in
present perdicament. But in human affairs we must consequence, than the application of the single or the Jewish Daily News: "With the
passing of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, rah-
deal with fanaticism and enthusiasm, just as we must double standard. No enlightened person of today be- hi, scholar and leader of Reform Ju-
deal with knIvery, folly and stupidity. Which Is the lieves in a double standard, and the fanfare was just daism, there has passed away the last
of the group of pioneer Reform rabbis
worse offense we shall leave to the coffee house philos-
so much to do about nothing.
who transplanted German-Jewish Re-
Perhaps our attitude on exclusion and restriction form Judaism to these shores. Kauf-
ophers.
The United Palestine Appeal expects American has been alarmist, but each succeeding outrage has per- mann Kohler had the courage of his
convictions and was never afraid to
Jewry to carry this burden as well as the already ac- suaded us that these iniquitous bureacratic measures do battle for them. This tribute must
he paid him. But it must, too, be net
cepted and marked burdens which it has undertaken to have no limits.
that his concepts were destruc-
Why should this woman have been picked for all down
carry.
tive of true Judaism." "The years
If we have been too realistic and have stressed the this noisome notoriety when thousands of men and that are to come—the writer con-
cludes,—may somewhat temper the
economic facts too much according to those who think women have been admitted who were equally guilty.
which Kaufmann Kohler
that the will to believe is all sufficient, the present con-
To us the reason is obvious. The men who have bitterness
and the school he represented engen-
dition proves that one cannot be too realistic or too
charge of immigration have ceased to be officials whose dered. They meant well though they
economically minded concerning a problem which is business it is to admit aliens who were admissable, but built upon quicksands."
The Intermountain Jewish News of
it has become their business to exclude every one on
fundamentally economic.
Denver, Colorado, writes: "The pass-
Leadership in Zionism carries responsibility. One
any possible pretext. Our policy has been changed ing of Dr. Kohler removes from the
of Reform Judaism its out-
must be tough minded, analytical, even cold blooded
from one of admsision to one of exclusion. It started ranks
standing contemporary figure in this
when the lives of thousands are dependent upon you.
with the despised Eastern and Southeastern European. country. The question will be asked:
It is well to bear in mind the significant warning They relished the power and sense of importance de- "Who will succeed him? And the an-
must he, "at present, none." The
of Lord Plumer when he said that drastic reductions rived from this authority. Then they excluded those swer
passing of Dr. Kohler marks the end
in immigration may be required because of the inability whose ideas were tainted, then those whose ideas were of an era; the era of the three
of the country to absorb. He spoke of economic ability slightly tainted. With a growing egocentricism they giants—Wise, Einhorn, Kohler—who
among them founded the American
sought for new worlds to exclude, and now they hit school of Reform Judaism and worked
and economic absorbtion.
It may be well to remind the over ardent that con- upon an unexploited field. The first victim is Countess out the route which it should follow.
were profound, painstaking
structive criticism is often the best of all correctives.
Cathcart. If this exclusion mania is continued not even They
scholars. As such they were recog-
the most imaginative can predict who else will be nized by Orthodoxy as well as by Re-
form; as such, the influenced Ortho-
among the proscribed.
as well as Reform. The Reform
Immigration officials in the year of grace 1926 must doxy
Judaism for which Kaufmann Kohler
Henri Barbusse, the noted French author of "Under
greet
each
other
in
this
fashion:
"How
many
did
you
in his prime is not unlike the Conser-
Fire," and later known for his efforts to bring about
vative Judaism of today. Yet even
exclude today?" First Official: "Eleven men who such
modest reforms Dr. Kohler fos-
universal peace, recently visited Roumania. His ex-
thought
Darwin
was
a
great
scientist,
and
one
man
who
tered
in the seventies and eighties re-
periences in Roumania no doubt made him think of the
quired
real pioneering. It may be said
and heard of Karl Marx." Second Official: "I had a
—J
trenches, for the Roumanian hooligan students were
of Reform Judaism as of its three
better
day,
I
kept
out
42
Germans
who
thought
Ein-
great
proponents,
that from opposi-
not satisfied with calling him vile Jew and similar de-
stein a greater scientist than William Jennings Bryan, tion came strength."
Entered as second-class matter Much 3, 1916. M the Postonlre at Detroit,
Mich., under the At of Marsh 8. 1379.
4. k•g,,,
A Letter from London.
(Copyrighted, 1926, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
It is to restrain this missionary
Mr. Bernard Shaw recently con-
zeal of the Jewish Chronicle that the
tributed an article to Der Jude in
press committee has been authorized
which he very rightly denies the ex-
to take action.
istence of any conscious anti-Semitic
movement in England among the edu-
One must not infer, however, front
however,
o
this that the Jewish Board of Depu-
(;haa te td thcehriesseesx .istsil ue certain , dislike
ties is unanimous about the necessity
Jews among the "vulgar." If Bernard
of combatting anti-Semitism. Bert-
Shaw had attended the meetings of
rani Jacobs, a prominent member of
G
the two recognized Angle-Jewish hoed-
th e board, had tabled a motion, urg-
ies, the Board of Deputies and the An-
ing the necessity of creating a co
glo-Jewish Association, he would have
mitt ee to go into the causes of anti -
been struck by the persistence with
Semitism in England with a view to
,(
which this question of anti-Semitism
finding a remedy for it. The motion
is dragged in and discussed by the
was defeated and the argument of
's
members of these two organizations
some of the speakers against the nor-
A
.—members, it is interesting to note,
Linn is worthy of being recorded.
who belong to quite different orders
There was nobody who denied the ex-
•
of the social ladder. The trouble
istence of anti-Semitism. Some, how-
seems to be that the bulk of the Jews
ever thought it so incurable a disease
in this country have to live among the
in Jewish life that it was futile to
"vulgar," being, perhaps, what Mr.
attempt to remove it. Other thought
Shaw would consider "vulgar" them-
that such an inquiry into the cause
II
selves.
of anti-Semitism might reveal facts
which would justify its existence. But
It is well to remember that there is
the majority refused to have anything
in England only one Jew to about
200 non- Jews. This fact alone would
to do with the matter because they ar-
be sufficient to account for the rarity
gued that it would be dangerous to
/
show the rest of the world that even
of anti-Semitic outbursts, but there
in
free
England
anti-Semitism
is
no
are two other reasons which make
anti-Semitism in England such a very
common an occurence that the Brit-
ash Jews had to elect a special commit-
different affair from anti-Semitism in
,
tee to deal with it, and it was prin.
Germany or in any other Central Eu-
cipally for this reason that the motion
ropean country.
was defeated.
The first is the fact of liritish cit-
How much Jewish sensitiveness is
izenship. No • other country in the
world has approached the ancient to be blamed for sometimes interpret-
ing a passing remark into an anti-
Roman "clots Romanus son' so close-
Semitic reflection is difficult to deter-
ly, nor has invested it with the same
mine. It cannot be denied, however,
amount of dignity without regard to
that Jews have sonic justification fin
race or faith as Great Britain. The
such an interpretation. The hatred
British Empire, or to use the expres-
of the Jew has been ingrafted in the
sion, which finds more favor in the
heart of the Christian for centuries.
eyes of Conservatives, Liberals and
The Jew was the pariah, universally
Labor men alike, the British Common-
held in contempt throughout the Mid-
wealth of Nations, includes peoples
dle Ages. In some countries which
who differ greatly in religion, race
still retain the mentality of the Mid-
and color, and who, nevertheless, en-
dle Ages he is even now considered an
joy the same political and legal rights.
outcast.
A British Jew may be a Jew and noth-
This hatred of the Jew has become
ing but a Jew, but it never occurs to
so flinch of a habit that it comes out
an English judge or official to con-
spontaneously in this mild, frequently
sider him front the point of view of his
disguised form, among decent, well-
religion or race. There is no "official"
educated non-Jews of such a civilized
anti-Semitism in England.
country as England. It comes to the
Nor is there any party anti-Semi-
surface without any trace of malice
tism, that is to say, not one of the
or any conscious anti-Jewish bias.
three political parties in the state
Two examples drawn from quite
would dream of inscribing anti-Semi-
different spheres will perhaps illus-
tism on its banner. This again is in
trate
this.
great contrast to the state of affairs
A very intelligent woman lecturer
on the continent of Europe, where the
in English literature gave a lecture
parties of the right are not only out-
on Chaucer. She was discussing the
spokenly hostile to Jews, but seem to
ritual purposes in Jewry. She re-
find in anti-Semitism the main tenets
lated the tale in all its gruesome de-
of their political faith. There are in
tails and it never occurred to this
England, it is true, Conservatives and
good enlightened lady, as it had never
also members of the two other par-
occurred to Matthew Arnold on a sim-
ties who entertain anti-Semitic, some
ilar occasion, to reflect how much suf-
of them virulently anti-Semitic, ideas,
fering the perverted monstrosity of
but those ideas are "personal" ideas—
such a story had brought upon the
the party as a whole would abjure an-
.Jews. Chaucer believed this story to
ti-Semitism as would abjure social-
be a true fact, there was no Christian
ism or capitalism, wholeheartedly
of his time who did not believe in it.
without a single dissentient voice.
We could, however, have expected a
Anti-Semitism in England, therefore,
modern critic to remark upon this in-
is a matter of private views. Neither
human injustice to the Jews, but it
as an official incentive nor as a party
never occurs to non-Jews to bother
slogan has it any future. It does
about such trivalities, and when they
nevertheless exist and in a very
are pulled up about it by a Jew they
marked degree—among the "vulgar"
think him ,hyper-sensitive.
we have to include not only those of
Another example from political life:
the lower orders but also those of the
When Sir Alfred Mond seceded from
very highest. In actual life it is rare-
the Liberal Party, Lloyd George re-
ly that one comes across an expression
marked: "Like another notorious
of open hatred to Jews, but such cases
member of his race, he has gone to
do occur. Here is one instance which
his place." Referring to the passage
occured only the other day.
in the Apostles about Judas who, by
Sitting in a cinema side by side, a
transgression fell that he might go
Jew and a non-Jew happened to ex-
to his own place."
change a few heated words. They kept
Now, it is a well-authenticated fact
quiet during the program, but as soon
that "his race" did not breed Judases
as the theater began to empty the two
only.
It incidentally bred the rest of
started their argument. The non-Jew
the Apostles and Jesus himself. But
passed some sneering remarks about
the
prejudice
against the Jews is so
the origin of the Jew. The Jew asked
ingrained in the mind of every aver-
rather aggressively:
age Christian that Lloyd George, who
"And what are you?"
is definitely not an anti-Semite, at
"I am an Englishman!" came the
once associates Sir Alfred Mond with
insulting reply.
"his
race" and "his race" with Judas.
"So am I!" the Jew persisted agres-
It is this attitude toward the Jew in-
sively.
herited
from the Middle Ages which
"No!" the other shouted, frantic
will have to be eradicated ere anti-
with hatred, "You are a Jew!"
Semitism
is to disappear. It is a
There is nothing more symptomatic
matter of education. And education
of the popular feeling in this matter
is
a
painfully
slow process.
than the behavior of the public at this
painful scene. In Germany or Po-
land a general melee would have en-
sued and the police would have had
to intervene. Not so here. The pub-
Even apart from the fact that I ant
lic looked strangely embarassed,
officially connected with the Church
The two disputants were led out, and
I find great good in it as an agent of
everyone hurried away afraid to look
inspiration and uplift. And yet I ant
his friend in the face.
doubtful of the validity of a great
It is quite different with the press.
many individual churches except as
A certain section of the press in Eng-
conservatories of superstition and as
land is outspokenly anti-Semitic.
cash counters.
More responsible papers like the
For many years I have observed at
Times do not attack Jews, they attack
close range a great many housemaids
The Jewish festival of Purim or
"the alien East End," meaning the
who trot to church with such regu-
"Lots" occurs on Feb. 28, correspond-
Jew—British citizen or not, who has
larity and punctuality that they mak.•
ing with the fourteenth of the He-
not submerged himself into becoming
a hall-clock unnecessary. Many a
brew month of Adar. This festival,
an out and out Englishman. The less
Sunday morning I determine the
which will be celebrated by Jews over
responsible papers, papers appearing
time almost to the minute by the slant
the entire world, recalls the attempt-
in the provinces or in the suburbs of
of
the door as the cook, or the cham-
ed extermination of the Jews under
London where Jewish penetrations
ber-maid leaves for religious worship.
the rule of the Persian King Ahas-
has caused a keen rivalry among the
And
yet I have found falsification,
huerus through the plot of Haman
landlord and shopkeeping classes, are
downright dishonesty, coarse ingrati-
and their rescue by Mordecai and
less prone to disguise their feelings.
tude
and even immorality among
Esther. The entire story is recorded
It is to deal with this anti-Semitic
these very devotional domestics.
in the Book of Esther.
virus that a special press committee
I do not hold any particular church
The great moral lessons brought
has been attached to the Jewish Board
responsible for the moral perversity
forth by the story and its annual
of Deputies. The chairman of this
of any of its supporters, but I find a
celebration are loyalty, noble man-
committee is Philip Guedalla, a well
serious weakness in any church that
hood and womanhood as typified in
known man of letters, and its aim is
can be attended so punctiliously for
Mordecai and Esther, and the evil of
to meet any malicious anti-Semitic at-
years and yet not noticeably influence
intolerance. It also brings out the
tack in the press by a vigorous de-
its worshippers. It seems to me that
truth of the law of compensation.
fence or counter attack.
a church ought not to be judged by
Those who plot evil receive evil soon-
It is, therefore, with a certain tinge
the good who support it but by its
er or later. To the Jew, who has
of dramatic irony that this commit-
success in converting those who are
endured hardships and sufferings
tee has been empowered by the board
not good. If it fails to reach and re-
through the centuries due to misun-
to take steps, not against a non-Jew-
form them it discounts its efficacy. It
derstanding and bigotry, this festival
ish paper, but against the Jewish
is a purveyor to superstition and not
brought comfort and hope. At this
Chronicle, the organ of Anglo-Jewry.
duly a promoter of sanctity.
To put the matter briefly: it has been
season of the year it was custom for
It may be urged by some defender
Jewish people to send gifts to tae' the custom of the Jewish Chronicle
of churches that but for their influ-
to give every week a summary of the
poor.
ence
the bad might be worse. Maybe.
law cases in which Jews appear gen-
In other words a maid who steals fine
orally in net quite a flattering light.
handkerchiefs
and other little things
The Jewish Chronicle seems to do it
might if she did no go to church steal
out of pure high-mindedness. It wants
bed-sheets, rugs and pianos. Perhaps,
to purge Jewish life of dishonest acts,
A common cause of the notorious in-
and we should be grateful for small
and it thinks that by adding public
effectiveness of so many churches is
thefts instead of being subjected to
contumely to the already heavy pun-
their persistent habit of relating their
the bigger ones. I persist, however,
ishment, it will deter other Jewish po-
thought and effort predominantly to
in maintaining that a religious insti-
tential misdeers from committing the
the past. They look backwards so
tution needs revision and reformation
some dishonest acts.
much that they lose sight of the future
if it holds its devotees in the palm of
The Jewish Chronicle seems to dis-
and of that vast throng who are ever
its power for years and yet fails in
regard the fact that the court sentence
moving forward. All religious work-
reformative moral influence.
is expiation enough. It wants to be-
ers who really desire an increasing
As a minister I have always tried
smirch the honor of the whole family
sublimation and sanctification of hu-
to get people into the church. I have
of the wrongdoer. Let the whole
man life will concern themselves with
felt in some instances that it were
world know! it says in effect. It is
the God of our children more than
better either to change the church or
in short animated by a missionary
with the God of our fathers. Our
get some people out of it.—Rabbi Al-
spirit and the zeal of it is as burning
fathers have lived their life. Our chil-
exander Lyons.
that it quite forgets the beautiful say-
dren have theirs to live. To live for
ing of the Rabbis: "Whoever makes
the future is to cultivate inspiration.
What is sport to the cat is death
his neighbors blench in public is like
To live for the past is to conserve su-
to the mouse.
unto one who commits idolatry!"
peratitution.—Rabbi Alexander Ly Ans.
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