The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-28


eign Of Syria and Phenicia, tier next neigh
bors, with that of domestic origin. Easily
Influenced, rough in manners and corrupt in
speech, it is easily understood that the people
asked Gan then aught good come from out
Of Nazareth ?" Among the Zealots, rs we
have sven, some Of the aercest rebels came
from Galilee. Young Herodes had to make
the weight Of his authority fall here in
Furnishing severely robbers and other
criminals. They were the sensationalsts
Of their time. What the Jew expressed as a
hope in Palestine, the Galilean, with fiery
immigration, created as fact accomplished.
Thus may it be easily unders God, that soon
: John the Baptist arrives and proclaims, "Re-
pent We, for the kingdom of heaven is night
Nor is it a MISTER of astonishment that in
the midst nt su3h An intlamed era people ex-
pected and prepared themselves to behold
things most strange and miraculous And
sure enough it came While others pro-
claimed that the kingdom of Heaven was APP.
preaching, while some reverted back to the
prophecy of Daniel, The son of man, sur
runded by clouds, would soon appear, the
founder of the Nszarene sect entered upon
the sceue-boldly self-reliantly, declaring:
The time is fulfilled. The son of man in
! Sluuuo lts Npllty anu ull LIZ a bNNi ~
/ Phsrisee, an Inspired and trsnscendentsl
Galilean, he shared the hopes Of the time
and fancied the hopes of the time fulfilled
in himself and through himself. With the
mildness of character like q Hillel, and a
zeal tor God, religion and country like a
jeremiah, he naturally found followers
with and from the masses, particularly the
poorer class, and 50 we see the germ sprout
and gr W and strengthen FIR the origin and
development of the new Mes-ianic religion.
We as Jews claim the right and privilege
to look at this phase of history disencum-
bered from its miraculous nature, with which
| in course OF time the whole event has been
clothed. We claim the prerogative which
ought not and must not be denied us, to weigh
and value the transaction Of that period in
tue scale of thought, conscience law and
truth. For Judaism was the one first and
foremost to be affected and concerned in the
questions that were to be answered.
God forbid that we should deny, belitte or
berate the influence which the seed sown at
that time should bear upon the civilization
and progress of the world. 1t has proven in
the hands of providence one of the most
powerful, most tremendous engines for the
propagation of some of the principal teach
ings of Judaism. Perverted, exaggerated
and stray, as the followers of that new creed
have often worked, with bloody hands and
the tools Of our misery, prosecution and
woe, as true as you asd l are
living they were but the instruments in the
hand of God to pave the way for the spread
ing and dissemination of the laws and truths
and principles revealed to the children of
Israel.
The time has come when we may impair
tally and impassionately look one at the
other; do justice one to the other, and, shalS-
ing hands over the bloody chasn, study
cause and effect. There is not an idea of
thought, principle, truth, law in the new
creed that cannot be found in the Old Testa-
ment. 81 have not come to destroy the old
covenant, but to uphold it. Hear, oh Israeli
the Lord thy God is but one. Love thou God
with all thine heart, thine soul and all thy
might, and love thou thy neighbor as thou
lowest thyself!' Such is the cardinal const-
tuition of the new faith as verbally emanst-
ing from Moses and the prophets. tell you
the time has come when the barriers dividing
m en- from men should be erased. The mills
of God grind slow but sure, and little by lit
tie they have ground away the
cataract which for centuries has blinded
the eyes of humanity. We claim
you all, that have so hated and prosecuted US;
in all your shades and colors, in all your diff
ferences and policies, whether now worship
ping in cathedras or chapels, whether with
stolla and mitre or in dresscoats and white
cravsts; the time has come to lain you all
like mother her children, brave true god
assigned workers in the cause and truth of
Judaism. AS true as l believe that there is
but one God, go true do believe that here
on this American continent, in these free and
tolerant United States, the intellectual bat
ties of religion will be fought and ended, not
with the sword not with the implements of
seige and war, but with the eternal living
thought and word will it all come about. It
is all search for finding middle road upon
which we may meet. Gan it be found? Work
ing rs all the thoughtful, free, intelligent
good and moral people do, though from
divergent points blow after blow is struck to
blast the rocks and plane, the obstacles that
lead to a common centre.
But there are all our differences, and there
are all the mountains of difficulties that sep
arate the people of the world. The
theologies, the creed the ceremonies,
the rules and regulations, the dcnomina-
tions and the articles of faith. Never mind
never mind The God who has planted
all these, undoubtedly, also, for some wise
purpose, He in His good time, will prepare
the road, and will bring men together who
are now separated, and will create such an
enthusiasm Of humanity, love, truth and
happiness, that like an avalanche, sweeping
everything before it, Cancellation, concen-
tration and centralzaton-thes shall |
tend to establish at last the kingdom of
heaven upon earth will be the forces by
which that which is now the dream Of poets |
and seers, will be realized.
Has it not been done before? Was the |
redemption of Israel from Egypt less |
task? Was the establishment of our nation |
or Palestine not equal to any event that mod
ern days may show? The captivity and re.
turn from Babylon, and the restoration of |
the temple and the nation; their second fall |
and dispersion were those o, miuo import. |
Then the new religion, emanating from the |
crib at Nazareth, how 1t would have fade ] |
and died away among the Jewa, had it not |
been for Paul, the Apostle, carrying the
message of Judaism in the name of the |
crucifed martyr t, the Gentiles And |
these Gentiles, who had become ripe |
and ready to bury an effete worship of wood |
and stone and to proclaim TIE glory and |
peace of God the one! History IS full of |
epochs, which required indeed more force
and action than will uni6cation of human |
kind in these dsl and u acceptance of that
grand bond of brotherl God aud sisterhood |