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League of Nations in this delicate controversy led many
to believe that British Jewry was not sufficiently inter-
46.,
ested in the plight of Roumanian Jewry. The policy
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of watchful waiting which characterized Anglo-Jewry
4 JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
President was tantamount to cowardice in the eyes of the bolder
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
General Manager and hotter-headed elements of European Jewry. Only
JACOB MARGOLIS Editor when it was realized that temporizing and silence had
achieved nothing toward ending the organized violence
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to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the
views expressed by the writers.
leadership. The Cuzas, Bretianus, (togas and ('retzi-
April 22, 1927
Nissan 20, 5687 anos will persist in their denials and will employ every
meretricious device to conceal their actions. They will
even use the reports of a Colonel Ament to prove that
The Degeneration of Roumania.
the Jews are happy and have no complaints to make.
The verdict of not guilty of murder rendered by the This gentleman made an investigation which purported
jury in Kimoplung, Roumania, in the case against the to be official. He is unable to speak a single word of
student Totu for the death of Falik was not unexpected Roumanian or German and consequently, for the pur-
or surprising. A campaign of rioting and bullying by pose of the investigation, employed an official Rou-
the organized masses under Professor Cuza was cal- manian interpreter. Deputy Ebner impugned Ament's
culated to culminate in a murder or some atrocity equal- report, not because it was favorable to Roumania, but
ly indefensible. Had not the Jewish students shown because during his whole stay in Roumania he never
some resentment and opposition to the continuous in- spoke to It single Jewish leader in private and was sur-
sults, abuses and even physical attacks, it would have rounded constantly by Roumanian officials. This is a
been contrary to all known human experience. As yet piece of white-washing that would bring the blush of
no country has a group, all of whose members are dedi- shame even to the most hardened and unscrupulous
cated to the philosophy of passive and non-resistance. ward heeler of the old days of corrupt American
Even in Roumania where the attitude of defenseless- politics.
We may expect that all these protests will result in
ness and non-resistance, which is in truth a mixture of
timidity and sycophancy, did not permeate everywhere the sending of a commission of the League of Nations
and consequently some of those who were offended, to make a thorough-going, unbiased investigation. We
beaten and discriminated against by.the nullus clausus, are satisfied that such an investigation will disclose an
showed their displeasure in unmistakable ways.
officially approved sinister anti-Semitic movement, be-
-I The deficient Totu undertook to avenge the insults hind which the Bretianus and their laches have hidden
that were offered the teachers who had flunked the in order to gain political and economic control of the
Jewish students. For this act he is acclaimed a hero in country.
There should really be no anti-Semitic plague spots
Roumania. It is bad enough to acquit a murderer
whose guilt is unquestioned, but the corruption, degrad- in Europe 10 years after the war. It is about time the
ation and inhumanity of a people is revealed when the intelligent people of Europe put an end to it.
murderer is lauded as a national hero.
College Anti-Semitism.
Roumania now takes it place with Hungary as a
country that lost every vestige of decency and every
Sometime ago the Jewish Daily Bulletin sent a
standard of humanity. After the acquittal of the assa- questionnaire to the heads of Jewish fraternities and
sins who burned a dance hall in which many Jews were college organizations in an effort to ascertain to what
burned to death, the visitors in the court room hailed extent anti-Semitism existed and manifested itself on
them as heroes much in the same fashion as the hooli- the campus. The returns were most gratifying to the
gans and sadists greeted Totu after his acquittal.
Bulletin for, according to the answers, there was prac-
Another illuminating side-light upon the tragic state tically no anti-Jewish feeling, prejudice, or discrimina-
of affairs in Roumania is the fact that none of the rela- tion. A very happy state of affairs, if true. We ques-
tives of Falik attended the trial and did not appear as tioned the accuracy of the observations made by the
witnesses. They (lid not dare to show themselves for officers of the fraternities and suggested at the time that
a survey, to be of value, should have been made among
fear of bodily harm.
We do not delude ourselves that we come into court those who are not members of fraternities. Now comes
with clean hands. No one with any regard for the Dr. Stephen S. Wise and complains that there is marked
facts can deny that a state of terror often exists in the anti-Semitism in Columbia, Princeton, Yale and Har-
Southern states of America that brings the blush of vard. He denounces the fraternity in no equivocal man-
shame in the cheek of every person with any spark of lier and has nothing but hot scorn for the Jewish fra-
humanity, but if after an acquittal in a case as unmiti- ternity which, if anything, is even worse than the non-
gated as this, the defendant were hailed as a hero; car- Jewish one. He finds that snobbishness and invidious
ried on the shoulders of the court room habitues; feted social distinctions are carried to the point that a boy
and cheered, then would we have excellent reason to whose father or grandfather came from Russia, Poland
feel that we were decaying so rapidly that little could or Galicia is not admitted to fraternity membership in
some instances, while lack of wealth is a taboo that
be hoped from us.
As an illustration of the temper and attitude of civ- cannot be overcome by the most brilliant scholarship,
ilized America, we recall the courageous effort of the social grace or sound heredity. If this is the case, and
New York World ably seconded by some of the southern we believe it is, then our complaint against the non-
newspapers to bring to book those who were respon- Jewish college authorities is made with bad grace and
sible for the death of the Lowmans in Aiken, South Car- bad logic as long as such conditions prevail among the
olina, but in Roumania there is no articulate, decent, Jewish students attending these universities.
It was not a little shocking to those who are unac-
courageous press or individual to protest against such
a shocking miscarriage of justice and the infinitely more quainted with these deplorable conditions when it was
learned that Harvard had so framed her entrance re-
shocking spectacle that followed the verdict.
Roumania is today a plague spot, because every- quirements that it was practically impossible for those
thing rotten is applauded and approved, and for the who (lid not belong to the socially elect and wealthy
further reason that those who should make the loudest to enter. A student had to submit his photograph and
outcries make apologies and cringe, hoping thereby biography. If the committees on entrance was satisfied
that he would be a social and financial asset to the
to ward off even greater punishment.
World Jewry may be advised to keep hands off and college, then he would be permitted to prove his schol-
fawning rabbis make issue denials of atrocities. We astic fitness. What led the committee on admission to
can appreciate this distorted perspective of a sick, hor- introduce such extra scholastic tests? It is rather in-
ror stricken people, but with a greater objectivity and teresting to speculate as to the effect inter-racial dis-
a healthier outlook, we dares.ay we may actually ap- crimination had upon the new policy. The college
praise the situation there better than the Roumanian authorities certainly must have known that among the
Jews themselves. American Jewry has not kept silent „Jewish students there was no racial solidarity. They
nor will it keep silent. The Roumanian atrocities must have discovered that invidious distinctions based
) will be stopped by the authorities when they realize upon country of origin of parents, wealth, social posi-
that the whole civilized world is offended and holds tion and many other adventitious differences were made
the basis for exclusion from fraternities and clubs.
the perpetrators in contempt.
In view of such a situation among the Jewish
Professor Cuza is but the cats-paw in the hands of
the Bretianus and those who have fattened upon the students, why was it not consistent for the non-Jewish
majority to exclude all objectionable, socially inferior,
+4 natural resources of Roumania. Itoumania reached the
poor Jewish students, and then carrying the reasoning
C. bottom when it made a hero of a defective murderer.
to its logical conclusion, why not exclude all Jewish
students, for to the dominant Nordic groups, all Jews
are inferior. If there is any escape from this tough
Anglo-Jewry Awakes.
logic. we cannot see it. Once admit that some Jews
The (loam of Jewish Deputies, the federation of should he excluded because of accidental and non-
scholastic reasons, then in a non-Jewish college it is
the Jewish communities in England, has decided to ask
the League of Nations to take some action in the ex- entirely proper to exclude all Jews for just these
cesses perpetrated against the Jews of Roumania. This reasons.
It may be urged in extenuation that the fraternity
action is of more than usual significance, inasmuch as
the Joint Foreign Committee, which represents the is a social organization and for that reason social posi-
Board of Jewish Deputies, has refrained from action for tion is the only determinant. Such fine distinctions are
years, even after it had knowledge of the insufferable not made by those who are looking for an excuse to
indignities endured by the Jews of Roumania. Lucien discriminate.
Nordic anti-Semites reason in this fashion. The Jews
4 Wolf, secretary of the board, has consistently urged themselves say there are acceptable Jews and objec-
patience and forbearance, even when all others felt that
the provocation was sufficient to call forth the strongest tionable ones. They must know, because they know
their own better than we do. In their fraternity and
kind of protest.
The resolution which was adopted unanimously ex- social life they exclude those who are of Russian and
presses protest against "the barbarous attacks on the Polish parentage. the poor and the socially inferior.
persons, property and honor of our Roumanian co-re- Our college is just as select and exclusive a place as any
ligionists and against the failure of the Roumanian gov- Jewish fraternity so we will exclude them from our
ernment to protest its loyal Jewish population in ac- college for the same reasons. Thus we may blame our-
cordance with the provision of the Roumanian consti- selves for these disgusting manifestations of racial ani-
mosity and religious hostility found in practically all
tution and the international treaties."
Only after painstaking and meticulous examination our colleges. It is obvious that scholarship is placed
of all the facts did the Anglo-Jewish committee decide upon the same low plane among our own socially elect
upon such action. Unversified atrocity stories and fan- in the college. in the business world and in the non-
cied discriminations would never have caused these Jewish world.
Let us first clean our own house and when that job
leaders of British Jewry to bring the matter to the at-
tention of the League of Nations. The reluctance of has been saitsfactorily done, then we may state our case
the leaders of British Jewry to invoke the aid of the against the non-Jew with candor and forthrightness.
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Jewish Humor
An Undelivered Sermon
(Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.)
By ADOLPH S. OCHS.
By Leo M. Glassman.
Unmistakable Evidence.
Two Jews, walking on the street,
were discussing the czar, in the belief
that no one heard them. Naturally
they gave vent to feeling which other-
wise were pent up.
"The emperor is cruel," said one.
"And a drunkard," said the other.
"And he's is fool besides," quoth the
first.
A policeman who had listened un-
observed to this conversation pounced
upon the two Jews and ordered them
to follow him to court on charge of
slandering his majesty.
one of the Jews, making quick use
of his wits, said, "But, officer, we were
discussing the Emperor of Germany."
Satisfied apparently, the officer of
the law was about to let the Jews go
their way, when suddenly he turned
back and exclaimed:
"Cruel, a drunkard and a fool! I
know whom you meant—come along
to jail!"
(Editor's Note:—This is the text of a sermon which was to have
been delivered by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times,
on Sunday, Jan. 16, in the pulpit of Rabbi Abba Ilillel Silver, to
mark the opening of the Biennial Convention, U. A. H. C. Mr.
Ochs' train was delayed and he was unable to deliver the sermon,
but he has consented to its publication.)
When Dr. Silver paid me the corn-
pliment of inviting me to occupy his
pulpit this morning, I expressed my
appreciation of the honor, but in-
formed him that I could not do more
than make a few remarks. I have
neither the courage nor the conceit to
appear before an audience accustomed
to listening to such wisdom and elo-
quence as it is your good fortune to
hear continuously. My willingness to
speak even briefly is to convey to you
a short message of good cheer, and to
say that I see a brighter outlook, and
encouraging signs of a spiritual awak-
ening throughout the world, and no-
tably among the people of our faith—
and awakening to the fact that what
we, as a religious people, have pre-
served—through centuries of oppres-
sion and suffering--is rapidly be-
coming the universally accepted con-
No Need For a Passport.
ception of the Parenthood of God and
It was in the ill-famed "Pale of
the Brotherhood of Man. It is called
Settlement" in the czar's dominions
modernism, but it harks back to the
when Jews were barred from the large
underlying principles of the faith of
cities, except on brief business visits
an ancient people, who gave to civiliza-
when they had to have special permis-
tion and humanity the Ten Command-
sion.
ments, the Prophets, the Proverbs and
A certain Jewish merchant who had
the Psalms.
conic to Moscow on urgent business
Dogmas, doctrines, tenets, creeds
was stopped in the street by a police-
and ordinances of religious faith that
man who demanded to see his pass-
beget narrowness and bigotry, are
port.
being discarded, revoked and de-
Looking through his pockets and
stroyed.
discovering that he tbd not have his
"Lux et veritas" says the motto of
passport with him the Jew realized
Yale, and it is emblazoned on its shield
his predicament and seeing no way
not
only in Latin but also in Hebrew.
out, decided to make a joke of it.
What we need is more light, more
"May passport?" he asked. "Why
love, better understanding; and with
do you need my passport when I am
light we must have truth.
here in person?"
It is a great day in which we live,
and the days ahead are full of promise
Comrade's Portion Not Touched.
anti
revelation.
Two Talmudic scholars of a small
We must take our place in this for-
Lithuanian town were trudging wear-
ward movement toward a religion in
ily on the road. They had left their
step with the march of progress in
homes and their native town to seek
knowledge, science and understanding.
knowledge in the famous Talmudic
American Judaism is such a religion
Academy of Slobodka. But in their
Dr. Isaac M. Wise concisely de-
haste they had not taken any pro-
scribed
it as:
visions with them, and before long
"A religion without mysteries or
they began to feel the pangs of hunger.
miracles, rational and self evident,
It looked as if their expedition would
eminently human, universal, liberal
have to tie abandoned, when suddenly
and progressive, in perfect harmony
they espied a loaf of bread on the
with modern science, criticism and
road.
philosophy, and in full sympathy with
The two starved pilgrims pounced
universal liberty, equality, justice and
upon the precious edible like birds of
charity."
prey and, picking it up, hugged it
Who can not subscribe to these doc-
alternately to their bosoms.
trines?
After this emotional demonstration
A
religion that has as its underly-
of joy, one of the famished Talmudists
ing principles humanity, righteousness
grabbed the prized find and wanted to
and justice distinguishes the one
break it in two, so that he could com-
possessing it as a civilized human
mence to vat his part without any
being and not of the brute creation.
further delay. The other, however,
As an indication of the approaches
being of a philosophic and esthetic
that are being made to this concep-
turn of mind, protested vigorously
tion of religion, the Rt. Rev. Charles
against the unseemly haste of his
H. Brent, Bishop of Western New
colleague.
York, said a short time ago:
"How can an intelligent man tie so
"That all men might accept God as
greedy?" he said. "Before we fill up
Father and man as brother. It is this
our beastly stomachs with this God-
which lifts up the whole human race
sent loaf of bread, let us look at for
to an unwonted height. No thought-
a while and gratify our esthetic tastes.
ful nun today can consciously submit
Let us observe its beauty, and smell its
to ordination or consecration to life
fragrant odor. Moreover, I should like
and service that is not as wide as
to enlighten you upon the very signi-
human contacts will permit."
ficant fact that every object in this
He urged an earnest striving after
great universe is not single, but double
unity, together with the exalting of
—the material element and the spiri-
the essentials in which all believe,
tual element; the tangible and the
quoting as essentials from the New
abstract; the percept and the concept.
Testament:
Now, remember, Hershele, we have
"hear what our Lord Jesus Christ
found not one, but two, loves of bread.
saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy
Oh. joy!"
"Well, are you through with your
God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul and with all thy mind. This
speech?" observed the other impatient-
is the first and great commandment.
ly. "Let's now start to eat. I'm hun-
And the second is like unto it: Thou
gry like a wolf."
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On
"You may eat your share, if you
wish," suggested the esthete, "but I
these two commandments hang all the
Laws of the Prophets!"
can't hurry like a caveman. I'll first
go to that brook, yonder, wash my
This is Jewish doctrine in its es-
sence.
hands, say grace, and then I'll eat,
like a civilized man."
As an indication of the change
that is going on in the world,
When the theorist returned, after a
rather lengthy preparation, he found
only a few days ago I was called.
not a crumb; his avaricious comrade
upon by a committee representing
had consumed it all.
a college that had heretofore been
"Where is my portion?" demanded
strictly sectarian, I was informed that
the fine soul, with apparent misgiv-
they are reorganizing the institution
ings.
on a more liberal and modern basis;
"Well," replied the materialist, "you
that they wanted to remove the nar-
said that we found two loaves of bread,
row barriers to matriculation, and that
so 1 ate up one and left the other one
as an evidence of this change, they
for you."—(From Jacob Richman's
wanted to have a representative Jew
"Laughs from Jewish Love."
on the hoard of trustees.
We hear much talk of prejudice,
discrimination, exclusion of Jews, etc.
A Matter of Dignity.
My opinion is that we over emphasize
A patriarchal but very shabby gen-
these manifestations. We are super-
tleman retained for three days the
sensitive, and are conjuring up ghosts
very best room in a small hotel of the
of prejudice. We frequently hear of
Lithuanian town. During that time he
some club that Palls itself exclusive, or
ordered the best of food and drink and
some school that wishes to he select,
smokes, and showed his lavishness in
or
even some college that has restric-
many other ways.
tions against persons of the Jewish
The fourth day in the morning he
faith. I should not feel injured or
said goodly to the hotel man and
distressed in coming across anything
began to walk out.
of this kind. Why not seek consola-
"Pardon me," stammered the pro-
tion in the fact that if we are worthy
prietor of the hostelry, in embarrass-
of being admitted, and by our conduct
ment, "but you have not paid yet."
and deportment are equal, if not su-
"Sorry," responded the departing
perior to those who do not wish asso-
guest. "I haven't got a kopek. But
ciation with us, we ran say that we
I am going around town now to make
do not care for admission where Jesus
it collection. You see, I am a beggar
of Nazareth would be excluded for the
by trade, and as soon as I make
same reason. If we feel despondent
enough, I'll pay you."
about the situation, let us look hack
"No, sir," protested the proprietor,
and see what progress the ,few has
"I can't trust you."
made during the past century. That,
"If you can't trust me," retorted the
after all, is not a long period in the
hegger, "come along with me."
history of the world. What wonder,
"What!" flared up the hotel keeper.
ful strides have been made. No people
"I, going with you to beg! The idea!"
who suffered such restrictions as the
"Well, suggested the mendicant, not
Jew throughout the world have made
at all nonplused, "if it is beneath your
such progress.
dignity to go with me, you may go
The political emancipation of the
alone."
Jews began in France not much more
than 100 years ago, when anti-Jewish
Separate not thyself from the con-
laws were rescinded and Jewish dual-
gregation; trust not in thyself until
ity was royally confirmed.
the day of thy death; judge not thy
Less than 100 years ago in America
neighbor until thou are come into his
only the eldest son in each Jewish fam-
place, say not anything that cannot be
ily was permitted to marry. The
understood at once in the hope that it
ghetto was destroyed in Frankfort
will be eventually will he eventually
within the last century.
understood. Say not "When I have
Semi civil rights were granted in
leisure I will study," for perhaps you
1836 in Great Britain on Queen Vic-
will never have the leisure. (Ab. ii
toria's
accession, and it was not until
5.)
1858, the year that I was horn, that
Jews were admitted to Parliament
An illiterate boor cannot fear sin;
without having to take the oath on the
an ignoramus cannot he pious; one who
true faith of a Christian.
is too bashful will never learn; one
In 1571 Jews were awarded degrees
who is to high-tempered will never be
for the first time by English universi-
a teacher. (AK ii 6.)
ties, and in 1885 Rothschild was ad-
mitted to the House of Lords as a
Go wherever you like and die
Jewish Peer.
where you must.
Less than 100 years ago there war
an attempt to modernize the Jewish
There is no reply to a stupid ques-
religious
services at Charleston, the
tion.
purpose being "to read and chant with
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solemnity; abolition of profane offer-
ings such as money donations in pub-
lic and there proclaimed; asking for
discourses on the law—explanatory of
its meaning, edifying to the young,
gratifying to the old, instructive to
every age anti class of society."
In 1843, 15 men in New York, of
German extraction, organized the
Emanu-EI Society to introduce an im-
proved form of divine service.
And in these day's!—a Jew, Lord
Chief Justice, and Viceroy and Gov-
ernor of India; a Jew, a member of
the Supreme Court of the United
States; a Jew, Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Germany; a Jew, Lord
Mayer of London; a Jew, High Com-
missioner of Palestine; a JIM', Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals of the
state of New York, the unanimous
choice of both parties. I could go on
and name many others conspicuous in
the world of politics; and their num-
ber is legion in the field of science, in
the world of letters, in research and ilw
invention, and in pioneering. I need
not go further to impress you with the
changed and changing position of the
Jew.
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There is no reason to he downcast,
but every reason to shout for joy.
A few days ago, a private citizen
(never a holder of public office) who
has won fame and renown in the prac-
tice of law, received an extra ordi-
nary expression of esteem and regard
from the four quarters of the globe
on the occasion of his seventieth birth-
day. Congratulations and good wishes
poured in from all classes and creeds,
and he is the American Jew par ex-
cellence.
What is the universal opinion of a
Jew who does not wish to be' known
as a Jew? That he is ashamed of his
parentage; perhaps disowning his
sisters and brothers; a deserter of his
kith and kin. Does anyone respect
such a person? What does he get out
of life? I'erhaps while basking in the
hypocritical, sycophantic smiles of
those who hold him in contempt, he
may flatter himself that he has some
of the joy of life; but if he has any
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intelligence and self respect, he must
at times despise himself and feel akin
to a man without a country.
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If his industry, intelligence and good
luck have combined to give hint higher
ambitions and greater social distinc-
tion than prevail in his family and
circle of friends, surely he proves him-
self the more worthy of his position if
he does not disown his origin.
No one is more despised than the
man who does not love and venerate
a good mother.
Let nie tell you an interesting story.
Not long ago a minority party nomi-
nated a man for governor, and his
opponent was despicable enough to
call public attention to the fact that
his opponent's mother had been a
woman of disrepute. The rejoinder
Was "My mother may at one time have
been unfortunately situated and weak;
but she was a good mother to me, cared
for me, struggled and sacrificed to
give me an education, and raised me
to be a God-fearing man. I love and
enerate her, and she is enshrined in
holiness in my heart." Ile was elected
and re-elected governor, and rase to
still higher positions in public life.
People who say they have no religion
talk nonsense. Everybody has a god.
It may be the God of Mammon, or the
God of I'leasure, or the God of Selfish-
ness, or the God of Vanity. There is
and Arab legend that says "there is
a God for every people."
Then there is the God of Comfort.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President
of Columbia University, referred to
that god last Monday evening in an
address he made; and what he said
as to Christians can, unhappily as well
be applied to Jews.
Dr. Butler quoted a clergyman he
heard last summer as saying:
"The reason why Christianity no
longer makes appeal to men is that
they are too prosperous. They have
erected a new god, Comfort, and they
are so concerned with worshipping him
that they have no time for the God
of their fathers. The modern Ameri-
can ideal of life seems to be to put
a comfortable baby in a comfortable
crib to be watched over by a comfort.
able nurse until it was able to go to
a comfortable school, then to send it
to a comfortable college, where com-
fortable teachers would see that it did
not work too hard; to find its way into
a comfortable profession, marry a wife
with a comfortable fortune; to spend
20 to 30 comfortable years, and to pass
through a comfortable opiate to a com-
fortable grave."
But for whom can you have more
respect than for the man whose God
is Righteousness, Justice and Love of
Fellow man?
A few months ago I attended the
installation of my neighbor and friend,
Ernest M. Stires, as Bishop of the
Episcopal Church, at St. Thomas'
Church on Fifth avenue, New York.
The edifice Was crowded with hundreds
of New York's most representative
men, in every profession, calling and
trade. It was an inspiration to see
this audience on a business day. These
men had left their worldly affairs to
join in these ceremonies, proving that
they believed there was something
better and higher in life than money
bags. It was a tribute to religion, and
an evidence of the place and power of
the church in modern life.
We have many warnings and some
despondent lamentations about the de-
clining influence and prestige of the
church, but such demonstrations as
that at St. Thomas' prove to me that
though there may be disputed dogmas,
pure and undefiled religion still holds
its indestructible shrine in the hearts
of many.
We hear much talk among our
people that there can be no unity of
true religion and true science. Those
who regard themselves as possessing
scientific minds maintain that they
cannot conscientiously accept the nor-
et ;
row religious point of view, and that
these who do are hypocrites.
Is there any conflict between F49-
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ies from what we have heretofore AO-
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