The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-26

Anu from u jewish STANDPOINT Tor the dement,
OF the .Son OF Abraham" define what we under
stand BY the Messiah.
When that period yet hidden in the womb of time
all the continents and islands OF the earth are
united in one bond of brothery airection-n short.
when one law governs all nations tongues and
then will the prophecy of the coming OF o Messiah
be fulfilled We expect no man, no Holy Ghost but
Conversion OF Jews can lay down their arinor and
hoard up their money for more profitable object.
by publishing the above you will place me under
on this subject l will not trouble your valuable
paper any more, remain, JEW ID. s.
Comparative Theology and Heather
Mythology.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The Sunday HERALD has considerable to say in
tree discussion of the old theologes This Is as 1t
should be. The old theOlogies have their rise and
progress from the old Nature worship blending
physical, moral and spiritual modes of being where
or in most part, the Sun was the emblematc pres
ence Of the Most High or Lord OF Heaven. Other
wise the Heaven itself was God or "Iieaven-
Father" as personiied or spritualized in mutilod
aspects with reference to the unitary whole. Ac-
cOrding to Movers, quoted In Smiths Dictionary
of the Bible" the old religion Of the Semitic
consisted In the dedication of the powers and laws
of Nature these powers being considered either as
distinct and independent, or as manifesto
tions Of one supreme and all-ruling being.
In most instances the two ideas were
co-existent. The Deity, following human analogy,
was conceived as male and female; the one repre-
senting the active the other the passive principle
of nature; the former the source of spiritual the
latter Of physical life. The transference Of the
attributes of the to the other resulted either in
their mystical conjunction in the hermaphrodite
as the Persian Mithra and PhGnician Baal, or the
two combined to form third, which symbolized
the essential unity of both. With these two
supreme beings all other deities are identical 50
that In different nations the same Nature worship
appears under different forms, representing the
various aspects under which the idea Of the power
OF nature is presented"
Though the sun and moon were early selected as
the outward symbols of the all-pervading power,
nevertheless this power was much divided in Jacob
and scattered in Israel in many NEUROLOGICAL dis
guises or persOnihcatons of the heaven above the
earth below and the waters under the earth. The
land OF Joseph blessed for the precious fruits
by the sun, and for the precious things put forth
by the moon-for the things of heaven for the dew
and for the deep that wrecketh beneath. Even in
Jeremah's time great multitude Of men and wo-
men declared that, so long as they worshpped the
Queen of Heaven, they had ''plenty OF vctuals,
were well and saw no evil; but when they left or
burning incense to the Queen Of Heaven to pour
worship her, the heaven was at once closed against
them; more the early and the latter rain, the
OutpOuring OF many waters from NimbOsus Orion
st. Johns woman, clothed with the sun, was In
mystical relation to the moon, and blended with
personifcations in NEUROLOGICAL DISCUSSES of rolling
the heavens together as a scroll and dumping man
into the bottOmless pit. In the multifariOus ways
of acting and suffering for the sins OF mankind the
sun was chieftest among ten thousand in the dark
savings and parallels or enigmatcal oracles OF those
days. II the dawn was the Virgin OF Israel, or the
bride, and the varioustinted cloud her drapery-if
til lnh Inv fln urin1
was manifestation of the Spirit; for the physical
and the spiritual were each others counterpart in
the Lord and the sound q his going forth In the
tops Of the mulberry trees chat David was to bestir
himself and smite the host of the Phillstines.
Says Mr.. Grove In his "DictiOnary of the Bible
The frequency throughout the Scriptures of person.
cations of the natural features Of the country is
the complers ana transators, there is everywhere
apparent on the biblical page traces OF the old
nature worship. From the Ancient of Days TO the
Sun of Righteousness, with healing in His wings the
old theologies bear the yisage OF the sun. The
Lord came IRON Sinai, rose up from SER and
law in hand and with the host of heaven as His ten
thousand saints. He was the God of Israel from
the East and the earth was full OF His glory.
To have 'sscience of religion" we must gather
up all the ancient fragments, so that nothing be
lost We must have the root gods which grow into
the trunk and branches, and are so many trees OF
life, or receivable into one, with its twelve manner 1
fruits for the healing OF the nations and answering
to the twelve signs o.the zodiac In the solar circle
from Alpha to Omega. The root OF them all Is the
same. Says Max Muller, "Adonai, which in Hebrew
means my Lord and in the Old Testament Is used
exclusively Of jehovah appears In PhGncia as the
name of the Supreme Deity, and after undergoing
manifold NEUROLOGICAL transformations the same
tales about the beautiful youth Adonis, loved by
Aphroditc and killed by the wild boar of Ares"
~ ,Se md nstamant "a nrehcote ns od
1t occurs also by itself as name Of Jehovah. 1t
occurs in the Phpnican cosmogony as Eltaea, the
ner a. Seoas the o
the same mode Of being level to conceptions of
those days, and Jehovah,lor Jahovah, as divine
name, was only another aspect OF the same Most
High, but so varied in the combination as consti-
tuted him the God peculiar to the Jews, as he
Syriac and Arabic point to common source as
much as Sanscrit, Greek and Latin; and unless we
can bring ourselves to doubt that the Hindus, the
Greeks, the Romans and the TeutOns derived the
worship of'their principal diety from their common
Aryan sanctuary we shall not be able to deny that
Semitic race and that FL the Strong One In heaven,
was invoked by the ancestors OF all the Semitic
races, before there were Babylonians in Babylon,
Phenicians In Sidon and Tyrus before there were
Jews in MesopOtamia or Jerusalem. The evidence
of the Semitic is the same as that Of the Aryan
languages the conclusion cannot be different"
The Jehovah of Israel had his tabernacle in the
sun, and rode upon the heaven by his name Jah.
circuit unto the ends OF it, ana nothing hid from
the heat thereof Where the Cherubm was his
se aos h o. N q ha ms
En-Shemesh his ''Spring of the Sum- and Ir-Shemesh
his "City of the SUM-" and "whether they he
original Canaanistic names, or Hebrew renderings
they attest the reverence paid to the source Of
light and heat" Samson Is a name OF the sun, and
personated in NEUROLOGICAL DISCUSSES, he performs
the twelve labors as did Hercules or the other sun
gods. G. b. p.
Free Church OF st. Mary the Virgin.
On Friday evening, oath inst this beautiful little
temple of catholic worship was filed to the outer
doors to witness the solemn rite of confirmation by
the Right Reverend Horatio Potter Bishop of New
York, administered to some thirty or forty young
people of both sexes. The scene was most impress
i've. The young ladies dressed in white with long