December 4, 1942
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
RELIGION
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elk, and the Protestant religions
and their leaders.
Without venturing into theo-
logy, I believe we can all recog-
nize the guiding hand of Provi-
dence even in the appalling events
of our time. The slow decay which
threatened our civilization, like
that of prosperous nations of
other times, has given way to
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new vigor. Our enemies mocked
our love of ease and comfort,
which they thought would make
us easy prey. They spoke of de-
cadent democracy, of our inner
discord, and our consequent weak-
ness. But America has astonish-
ed them, as indeed it has aston-
ished itself. If the days of Valley
Forge have returned, so has its
spirit. No sacrifice seems too
great, no hardship too severe, for
us to encounter and to overcome.
in defense of our country and our
freedom.
This determination to resist ty-
ranny, reminiscent of Lexington
and Concord, has been accompani-
ed by an even more profound
spiritual change. Faced with a
common enemy, we are being
drawn together not merely as fel-
low-citizens of the nation, but
also as fellow-men, defending uni-
versal ideals. The hatred and dis-
sensions which were growing in
our midst, setting section against
section, class against class, race
against race, and even creed
against creed, are giving way to
a new type of cooperation. We
now realize that human freedom
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Rabbi Adler To Preach
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Services on Dec. 11
At the Late Friday Evenine.
Service of Dec. 11, Rabbi Morris
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Cantor Jacob II. Sonenklar, as-
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will officiate. All are welcome
to attend.
is indivisible; and that the dig-
nity of all is dependent on the
reservation of the dignity
of
every individual.
In this way America is becom-
ing . an instrument to raise the
spiritual standards of mankind.
The cooperation among men of
different faiths, which is one of
America's greatest contributions
to human fellowship, may become
a world standard of behavior.
The realization that our duty to
respect our neighbor transcends
all boundaries of geography,
language, race or creed — must
inevitably become universal. Thus,'
through one of those miracles
which we take for granted be-
cause we are their witnesses, our
natural response to unprecedent-
ed peril is becoming the means
for the advancement of the hu-
man race.
For many years I have been
thinking about the intimate re-
lation between the western re-
ligious traditions and democratic
ideals, and of the meaning of
democracy for civilization. In the
following ten paragraphs I have
tried to summarize my thoughts
as a layman on the subject:
1. Democracy as a political
system is an effective expression
of the moral and religious princi-
ple that all men are alike the
children and creatures of the liv-
ing God; and that an infringe-
ment of the fundamental rights
or duties of men is a violation
of the law of God.
2. The preservation of demo-
cracy as a political institution re-
quires of each of us, as individ-
uals, loyalty and devotion to this
underlying principle, and the re-
jection of any action or doctrine
which seeks to derogate from the
respect or dignity due the human
personality:
3. We give aid and comfort to
the enemies of democracy when
we fail to recognize and appreciate
America's great contribution to
civilization and human thinking
in the establishment of its federal
system, under which forty-eight
sovereign states, differing from
one another in economic interest
and world outlook, work together
as a national unit.
4. We give aid and comfort
to the enemies of democracy when
he harbor or spread unjust sus-
picion against our neighbors,
founded on differences in religion,
in color, in social standing, or
ethnic origin.
5. We give aid and comfort
to the enemies of democracy when
we try to justify or rationalize
our unfounded prejudices against
our fellow-citizens or fellowmen,
instead of outgrowing such pre-
judices.
6. We give aid and comfort
to the enemies of democracy when
we depart from an ethical world
view of human problems, and
permit cruelty and injustice on
the part of others to evoke wan
ton cruelty and injustice on our
part.
7. We give aid and comfort to
the enemies of democracy when
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we either as individuals or as
organized groups we prevent our
fellow-citizens of different back-
ground from enjoying the rights
of Americans to labor, to equal
economic opportunity in every
field, to decent living conditions,
to adequate provision for the
field, to decent living conditions,
moral and spiritual development
of their children, and to free as-
sociation with their fellowmen as
equals under the law, and as
equals in the sight of God.
8. We give aid and comfort
to the enemies of democracy when
we place desire for ease and lux-
ury, for power, for fame, or for
other material gains, above our
duty to contribute to the attain-
ment of man's spiritual ideals,
to serve the republic and to help
our fellowmen.
9. We give aid and comfort to
the enemies of democracy when
we encourage anti-religious or
pagan teachings which undermine
the foundations of democracy.
10. We give aid and comfort
to the enemies of democracy when
we encourage
or misun-
derstanding among the members
of the different faiths who must
cooperate if civilization is to be
preserved.
As I think of the history of
this Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, of the activity of its
distinguished teachers, especially
Solomon Schechter and Cyrus Ad-
ler, of the work of its Rabbini-
cal School, its Teachers Institute,
and its other departments, of its
publications, and especially of the
newly established Institute for Re-
ligious Studies, conducted at this
Seminary, in cooperation with
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant
scholars, it seems to me that these
ideas I have tried to formulate
have been among its guiding prin-
ciples. Its faculty and its alumni
have always remembered that this
is the Jewish Theological Semin-
ary of America; and have given
the principles of American de-
mocracy a high place in their
writings and in their teachings.
There are no more loyal or de-
voted adherents of the faith of
their fathers than the teachers
and alumni of this Seminary; and
there are no men more deeply im-
bued with love of America or her
traditions. The importance of this
institution and its teachings is
thus at once immediate, and also
timeless. It seeks to help us, and
all Americans, understand more
clearly the principles of demo-
cracy for which we are sinking
our lives and our fortunes; and
it turns our hearts to God, as the
source from Whom comes all that
is precious and noble in human
life and thought,
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