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and Prosperous New Year to All Our
Jewish Friends and Customers

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tle.
Long before the Hebrews came
to Palestine or the Prophets
preached the religion of Monothe-
ism, Dr. Morgenstern informs us
in his work on The Foundations
of Israel's History," this spring
sacrifice was 'performed by the
primitive inhabitants of the land.
Today the Passover meal, or the
Seder, is still a table of worship
at which God joins us. But we
do not now think of God in connec-
tion with harvests. Ile comes

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Death and Dreaming.
Let us try to look at death from
among us now, in the words of the viewpoint of the savage. A
Malachi,
"to to
bring
the hearts
of the
few working,
days ago
he had
seen
his friend
the
parents
the children
and
playing
and
talking.
Now
hearts of the chiblren to the par-
lies cold
rigid be-
ents," to remind us, as we feast, his
fore friend
him. What
has and
happened
to
of those Passover ideals Of free-
dom and of service in the realiza- my friend? Something which was
tion of which we are pledged to co- his life has gone out of him. It
went out with his last breath. To
operate
with God.
you have this day the word for "spirit" in
a
clear instance
of Ilene
the evolution
of a religious symbol. Out of a most languages is the same as the
ritual by means of which primitive word for "breath." In English
word,
spirit, meaning
comes from
the
Canaanites sought to preserve their the
Latin,
"spiritus,"
neither
physical selves, we have evolved a
symbol nut of which we seek in- wind or breath. In Hebrew the
spiration for the preservation of word for soul is "Neshama," which
our ideal selves.
means breath, and the word for
The Christian ceremony of the spirit is "Rush," which means
Mass is closely related to the Jew- wind. There is something in every
ish Passover Seder, for the Mass is human being whic h is as invisible
a rehearsal of the Last Supper of and as tenuous as breath, as air.
Jesus, and the Lust Supper of Je- While it is in a man, he lives.
sus was a Passover Seder consist- When it leaves him, he is dead. It
ing of Matzoth, or unleavened is a "soul" or a "spirit."
bread and wine. Thus, out of prim-
The second way in which man.
itive man's notion of communion gets his notion of spirit is through
with God by eating at table with the phenomenon of dreaming. In
im, the modern Jew and the mod- his dream a man sees himself
ern Christian have inherited their wandering in a distant place. He
most stirring and meaningful cere- awakes to find himself at home.
monials. Something in him has walked off
But all this time I have spoken while he was asks•p and gone to
of gods and taken the word for that distant place. It was his
granted. I have spoken of ancient spirit. In his dream he talks to
nein's attitude toward them but friends who died long ago. Evi- •
not of how he pictured the gods to dently the spirits of his friends
his own mind and how he came by live on after death and communi-
his idea of them. I may say at once cate with his spirit. In his dream
that it has been definitely estab- he sees the sky and the mountain
lished that no human beings ever and the tree and the river. Evi-
worshipped idols as such. When dently these things have spirits,
the prophets of the Bible or the too, communing with his spirit.
Psalmists berate the heathen na- This notion of "spirit," undefined
tions for worshipping sticks and in his mind but derived from the
stones, things of wood and metal, phenomena of death and dreams,
figures that have eyes but see not, he uses when he thinks of the gods
ears but hear not, noses but smell that bring the sun and the rain,
not, feet but walk not—when the that live in the tree, the mountain
prophets describe the gods of the and the river. An idol is an ob-
other nations in such terms, they ject conveniently located into which •
are clearly indulging in poetic li- the spirit of the god has come in
cense, their zeal for the One God order that man may the more read-
driving them into literary exag- ily communicate with him. It is
gerations of the follies of polythe- a little shrine or Temple where 1
ism. • man meet with God face t
It is not fair to any religion, an- face.
cient or modern, which uses images
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This was the boldest guess ever
made by man. And all that mod
ern scientists have ever accom-
plished has been only to confirm
the faith of the prophets. The
• Millikans and the Einsteins are
now offering evidence to confirm
the unitary character of the world
and the Darwins and the Bosses
are offering evidence to Anfirin
the familiar character, the corn-
1110T1 ancestry of the human race.
Religion Is An Adventure.
If religion had gotten no further
than to be a means for the preser-
vation of the physical self, then
modern men would have had no
urther use for it. For modern man
ban harm•ssed the forces of nature
to his engines, and secures the
things he needs for his sustenance
by purely mechanical means.
But this venture made by the
prophets of a universe instinct
with a beneficent purpose and of a
human race imlnaxl with divine en-
, ergy has Own to religion a new
lease of vitality. Religion is again
a foe, r in the effort of every hu-
man being to preserve himself—
but to preserve a self which is
worthy of being a co-laborer with
God. The monotheism of the
prophets has made of a religion n
quest in which We are all joined to
realize within ourselves and in so-
ciety the possibilities of a divine
universe.

Certainly the first possibility of
a divine universe is peace between
the nations, but it is a possibility
which we tutor not yet realized,
and modern religion is a quest
thereto. Certainly a society in
which there is justice between one
1111111 and another and between one
class of ma•iety and another is one
of the possbilities of it divine uni-
verse—but it is a possibility we
have not yet realized, and modern
religion is a quest thereto : Cer-
tainly a self-controlled individual,
a personal character in which emo-
tion and impulse are well balanced
and harmonized is one of the possi-
bilities of a divine universe, but it
is a possibility we have not yet
1 I realirA•l, and modern religion is a
•
quest thereto.
It hen religion is thus defined, it
is in a position to serve the human
race today more than it has ever
served it before. For never has
, the human race been in such dan-
ger. In our very power lies our
greatest peril. Everything de-
pends upon the ends to which we
shall employ our scientific power,
whether upon the ends of a divine
society—peace and justice and
beauty--or upon degeneration and
self-destruction.
We of this generation are the
latest but not the last stage in the
evolution of religion. Somewhete
on out bodies, somewhere cn our
minds, are impressed the tracings
I of the human struggle in the
:search for God. Behind us is a r c-
ord of many failures and a few
successes. But we shall go on with
the quest. We are drawn to it (q.
the instinct of self-preser.atior.
We shall not be able to survive at
our best, we shall not be able to
: preserve our ideal selves, anus
we are bold enough to face the in-
finite adventure, the journey with-
out pausing, the holy quest for the
Spirit of God in the life of mai..

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het very rarely in the present-
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Many a man dreams so long of
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—Fliegende Blatter.

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or sacred objects to speak of it as
idolatry. Our pagan ancestors
never regarded the ratan-made idols
as being any other than the dwell-
ing place of what was essentially
a spiritual being. Even to the earl-
iest men, the god who dwelt in the
idol was a spirit, a soul intangible,
invisible, etheral. Something al-
together different from ordinary
things or people. But how did
early human beings come by this
rather difficult notion of a "spirit"
or a soul?" Largely from two facts
of nature. The first was the fact
ortleath. The second was the fact
of dreaming.

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The playground, the battle-
ground, the victim of all the em-
pires of the world and the witness
of their rise and fall, Palestine
was the first country that was in
position to develop an internation-
al outlook. This is how it happen-
ed that it was in Palestine and
nowhere else that prophets arose
who made that daring venture of
faith that all the world with its
earth and sky and stars and an
' is at the bottom one thing—uni-
verse, and all human beings with
their variety of colors and tongues
and habitations and allegiances are
■ It bottom one family, and that one
only Power, one only God, then,
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