The New York herald., 1878-12-16
STANDARD HALL.


SHALL THE JEWISH RACE CONTINUE TO LIvE?--
DISCOURSE BY PROFESSOR ADLER.
The Jewish race has been noted for its vitality. It
has been made the object of persecution by of
the most powerful governments earth. but it has
survived its prosecutors said Professor Adler The
question is-will it still continue TO live? The law
of growth and decay obtains throughout the entire
universe; individual can claim exemption from
it, l maintain that races. like individuals. must
die The Jewish race seems at first sight to offer
an exception to this rule. II small in num-
bers, dispersed the whole earth. given
without protection to the most relentless oppression.
and yet it could not be exterminated. The causes
of the preservation of the Jewish people to
to be these hrst their great temperance. then the
purity of their domestic relations which kept them
physically sound. physically strong and morally
sound. and lastly their devotion to knowledge. the
schools they built. the academies they supported
will also mention their sturdy independence in mat
ters of religion which prevented the development OF
organized priesthood among them and thus saved
them from the corruption which such priesthoods
usually bring in their train. But chiefly the preser-
vation Of the Jews due to their
viction that they were chosen by their God
to fulfil peculiar mission among manknd
they took certain pride in their humiliation. They
said. must suffer, seeing that the Messiah
among the nations. They applied to themselves .
jected of led like lamb to the slaughter and
q sheep before her shearcrs is dumb"
ELECTION.
OF this conception Of chosen people would
speak to-day. And, first. l would exonerate
the prophets of the Hebrews from the charge
Of arrogance and undue pride. When they
said chosen they meant chosen in the SO
Of Obligation rather than priviese-chosen TO ao-
superstitiens of the heathen world-chosen to as
sumo heavier responsibilities and lead better lives
than the of mankind prepared for.
Well were it, indeed, II at the present day large
body OF men could be impressed with the belief
thci- election to live nobler lives. The very fact
that they could be brought to entertain such belief
would prove their actual superiority. Now, in order
to maintain the exclusveness of the Jewish race, it
necessary to take step the most farreaching
consequence. The Hebrew legislator absolutely for
bade the intermarriage with Gentiles In the time Of
Ezra and Nehemiah this policy confirmed and has
since continued to be observed down to the present
day Upon it's continued maintenance beyond a
doubt, will depend the perpetuity of the Of the
Hebrews.
| sad-.Do not yoke yourself with unbelievers; q
man who does not honor and love Christ cannot very
well be trusted to honor and love his wife'-a most
autlacious assertion. Furthermore, he says, 1.-TWO
cattle that yoked together, must
main together. and whichever is stronger will
/! ing the elevated view Of marriage illustrated
in the delicate simie have quoted thought
1t proper repeat these words in order to show that
the necessity of keeping apart and of preserving
religion from too close contact with its opponents
ity as Of those of Judaism. think shall light
in this question il we fix our attention upon the OBJ
ject of the married life.
GRANDEUR TRUE LOVE.
It is mistake to suppose that love ID
between two persons only Love is the in
finite and is reelected in these two souls. The hus-
band and wife will promote each others welfare and
interests best when they promote in common alarger
welfare than their ownthe largest interest of man
kind. The partners in the married life shall be
rades in solving the problem of life. This idea Of
comradeshp is the supreme glory Of the conjugal
relation But If your wife shall be to you comrade
in solving the problem of life you must select such
q one holds the views OF the problem lite.
decidedly call in question the policy OF intermar-
riage between Jews and Christians. not because they
Jews and Christians, but because of their differ
ence in habits, in sentiments, traditons-I might
almost say III their very natures and because there
should be such vital differences in that rea-
ton whose very name is union, whose pur-
pose is unbroken harmony; as of one flesh,
| Of one SOUL But what has been said of Jews and
Christians does not apply to those who have ceased
themselves by the and broader appellption-hu-
manitarians. These shall meet; there to
| keep them apart; there is every reason why they
should cement their union by the nearest and nrmest
ties Professor Adler then went on to say that even
tually the Jewish race must die that its prophsts
ha themselves with rapture predicted the time when
/ their people should be relieved of its separate
1 mission that Greece is dead and still lives
in its poetry. philosophy and art. 80 the genius
OF the Hebrew people would live on in the immortal
heritage OF moral truth which they had left to man.
kind. He urged III conclusion that the idea OF choice
/ though not confined to race is OF invaluable impor
tance that liberalism also must strive to call into
| being chosen body OF men and women, selected
| from among all peoples and scattered the
nobler aims; who will prescribe to themselves laws
action finer than those that recognized by tho
| multitude. He closed with these words, "All who
joined together this work of regeneration shall
| be named or the elect. Every city in which tho
standard of larger duties is raised and flock to IL
shall be to New Jerusalem. greater than the old.
and the whole wide earth shall claim at last our
| promised land and seek to make overflow with milk
and honey did the promised land Of old-with the
milk OF human kindness and the sweet honey Of
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