The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-11

row, but lined with splendid palaces and
public and private buildings. A detailed
description of the place would be too lengthy
and foreign to our present purpose. Your
attention is only called TO two solid but
modest looking structures, erected near thu
temple. They are synagogues and schools
of the rabbis. Fancy yourselves there some
morning. amid the crowd and throng OF
oriental times, in which all nations of the
East, all clothed and iraped in their pictur.
esque CARDS, Jews, Samaritans, Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans, Phonicians and Babylonians
constitute the masses. The capital of Pales-
tine was then, as it will be again at no distant
future day, tho greatest commercial mart Of
the world. Amidst this never ceasing multi
tude you now notice aman long bearded, long
haired, white with age, stern and authoritative
looking and followed by a procession of old
and young. 1t is Rabbi Shamai, the
head of the synagogue which they now
enter. Close upon them follows another
group, headed by a young man, mild
and fair looking, walking erect and stately;
now and then benignant smile passing over
his face, while with brilliant eyes he looks
back to exchange few words with one or
the other of his followers. This is Rabbi
Hillel, the head of the other synagogue,
which they, too, now enter. They will per-
form first of all their morning devotion, be-
fore beginning their daily tasks-study and
expounding the law. We will leave them to
their prayers and attend both of their assem-
blies after while, when we shall have been
able to acquaint ourselves with the then pres
ent status of the Jewish people,
Understand it well In speaking of the
people, they were men and women like our
selves. Take from them the nimbus which
long past age has shed around these our
forefathers and mothers. They had passions,
desires, ambitions, feelings, and needs, like
every one of us. Perhaps under the hot sun
OF their cline, more intense, perhaps, under
their peculiar training and life; more diver
gent but all in all, they make good the sem
timent OF tho poet: Men are the same in
every time and cline"
We have come, however, there
at period which is peculiar, stirring
and excited. Factions among them reign
supreme They are of rellgio-poltical
character. Men and women, young and old,
each one have taken sides. Their peculiar
southern nature, with their oriental vivid
ness and heated imagination, makes each
and all, unconcerned which side they
espouse, irrepressible advocates of their party.
Another religion, for reasons of its own, has
made them all out bad, vicious, unreasona.
BILE, hypocritical and wicked. Ignorance
and medieval priestcral have done all in
their power to strengthen and add to this
verdict. We, in our time, with the impartial
judgement of our tolerance and fee thought
can afford to do them, and must do them,
justice. 1t may make u tremendous breach
into the foundation of that other religion,
but no religious truth and principle ought to
allow TO have for one of its corner-stones
facts not borne out by unbiased, unpreu-
diced history. In this we appeal in partic,
ular to the honor, fairness, justice, love OF
freedom and right of the American people.
A frec investigation of facts, though they
may upseat conceptions thousands OF years
old, it will here not shake throne, will en-
danger no public safety, will not touch u sin,
gle true principle in true religion. Fairness
and justice for men, new centuries dead and
in their graves; none but coward, ia
matte, narrow.mirded soul will deny this
claim. Let the people ofthose days be sum
moned before tho seat of unbiased Justice
and right of tAis, the enlightened, free, toll
Grant century, in this, the intelligent, unbi-
ased and fair minded republic of the United
States OF America.