National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-09
HEBREW UNION.
Discourse Of Rev. Isaac II. Wise on Union
and College.

anu GoueRe.
The Rev. Isaac NJ. Wise, Of Cincinnati, who Is
visiting Washington for the purpose of inviting
the Hebrew congregations Of this city to join the
Hebrew Union, last evening delivered an able
address on "Union and ColIege,Hat the syna-
gogUe Of the Washington Hebrew congregation,
Eighth street, between H and streets. In IN
Producing bis discourse DR.. Wise reierre1 70 Ins
habit Of throwing the responsibility o. events
upon Providence. The cry is always that Goa
has done it, or Providence has done 1t. People
are preserved by natural means. Those means
are i've in number-union and instruction.
He referred to the wonderful preservation OF the
people OF Israel, to the instruction they had re,
ceiVed, or the series Of schools that had existed
among them. The first great school was that oil
Samuel. Moses and Aaron, he said, were among
GGd's priests but Samuel was among those tn maj
one propheticRl writer except Moses, and, per-
haps, Deborah. All the prophetIcal writers came
the Psalm literature, then the prOverbIsl, and
after that came the great prophets. HAD II NOT
been for tn at first school there would be at pres
emit another civilization than that we ENJOY.
The next school was that Of Ezra, who saw thSt
the laws and the law court must perish without
law school. Thus it was EIrs's care, when he
school, which constituted the second OF the three
great schools, and which Influenced greatly the
civilization Of Palestine.
Almost from the ruins OF Israel, after the de-
struction OF Jerusalem, new school, the third,
arose. 1t was the desire of X. Johsnan ben
SRccai that he might be the founder OF q new
literature, and at Jamnis, town in the north OF
Palestine, the new school arose, which gave to
the Hebrew people new literature and new
future. These three schools built up and pre-
served Judaism.
Again, the Jewish people are in q new country.
been completed; congregations have bean formed
with wonderful spirit. Yet we must not forget
that we have inherited this spirit from our
mothers and fathers. 1t is our duty to transmit
it to our children. Formerly a child listened to
the prayers and heard the songs Of Israel. We
have not the same opportunities, nor have we the
TO- hA nTtdA
OF Israel. Formerly every one had some &C
Quaintance with 1t. The speaker said that
although this erudition in dead language had
no practical bearing upon the matters of life, yet
in Il is the preservation of Israel. 1t is your de-
sire, as we'll as mine, that your children should
be educated as Hebrews, that the Hebrew nIera-
ture again revive in this glorious free land.
Let our children inherit these riches as we have
inherited them. We must commence with the
school. We must educate ministers 10 eXpound
the W ord Of God and give light to our children.
If Judaism is worth having II is worth preserving
by all the means at our command. 1t is, there
fore, the first object Of the Union to establish
college. As, Of course, there cannot be college
in every city, Cincinnati has been selected as the
site of the school in question: which will fulhll in
our land what the schools OF Samuel, Ezra and
JamDia did in the East.
In consequence OF coming from SC many differ
ent points Of Europe, and owing to the centuries
Of oppression to which the Jewish people have
been subjected, many have become Indifferent IN
the matter Of religion. Congregations have been
listen to the same sacred word. Why should We
not cooperate and unto with each other? We
should stand together. No one has right to d.
vide US. The great work in this country must De
performed by the units congregations.
This Union will bring us again into the broad
is democratic in principle. The plan is that each
congregation ell: Il q member or members to the
annual council, to have charge Of all church al
fairs. By small tax on the members and the aid
of charitable friends the work will be sustained.
The Gext council will meet in Buffalo. Then, in
1876, the oouTcil will ct in Philadelphia.
H. ha gpuif 4 no
lions OF Washington to cooperate with the Union
and send representatives to the annual council,
and returned thanks to his listeners for their kind
attention,
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