The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-02

not sorrowed deeply. And vet now know
very well that in whatever suise that woman
could have come there could have been no
two roads for us from the day OF her coming
TO the day of her going.
Let Inc be a little confidential right here.
l knew. l had always known, ] should meet
this woman. / had waited for her; worked
hard, built up the battlements and the for
treSs of my soul so that 1 might receive her
into it; and defend her well against my
baser self when she should come. And
now tell me; have you never had thought,
conviction ike this; a certIinty in your
own heart that your other and better self
would come TO you complete and entire
some day, soon or late; so soon as You
might have the fortress ready? The doctor
said she was dying. She had beer trying 20
stand between the Gar and the Jews. She
may not have beenl0f that peculiar people,
but | think she had the money of ROthS-
childs and Sir Moses Alontefi0re behind her.
There bad been attempS at assassination.
followed by executions. Some OF the con-
demned were women. 1t was as if this
woman herself had been condemned to
death. l think size suffered more than all
the others put together; she was so very,
very sensitive to the pain and sorrow OF
others.
There are souls like that. But there is
good God. The soul that suffers keenly can
and shall enjoy keenly. You can, if you
care to persist in it, make yourself as the
centuries wheel past more than an entire
nation in this
We had common ground to work on in the
cause of the condemned people. 1t was on
this ground that we first met; as two swift
streams that flow in the same direction and
finally unite forever. All that could be done
was done speedily for 1.-THE laws delay"
whatever else must be laid to the door Of
Russia. is net one OF her sins.
As summer took flight we went south
wit hal 1-fiz fOr ha llr-f alt hot ha
was dying. Besides, she had been i'm
pressed with the idea of restoring Jerusalem
and having this homeless race tabliShed
in the Holy City. Her religion? l think it
was all religions. | saw her kneel in the
Kremlin at Moscow, cross herself in st.
Peters at Rome and bend low at prayer in
the Synagogue at Alexandria. l think she
would have done the same in mosque. As
stated before, | had, previous TO meeting
her, been all over Syria. And so, whenever
she referred to her cherished idea, as she so
often did of forming Jewish settlements in
and about Jerusalem and restoring Israel, l
took occasion to explain now impossible and
impractical il all was.
remember telling her how that in whole
days ride from Babylon toward Jerusalem
l had seen no living thing save single
grasshopper. / explained to her that the
path of civilization had been in the track of
the setting sun ever since the dawn of his
tory, and that 1t was not IN the power OF
man to reverse this course. ! attempted to
show that the tide of population would pour
upon the salGbriOuS and fertile shores of the
farthest west till the heart OF civilization
would beat right there. L explained to her
that wherever the great strong heart of COM
merce beat strongest there would be found
the strongest and the best of these people
whom she hoped to help, while the weak and
helpless of that race would remain stranded
by the waters Of the Levant, as in Russia
now.
Why not then let us anticipate This and
build the city of refuge by your great sea in
the path of this civilization which you say
will so surely Gomez
Like the golden doors of dawn was the
great earnest idea to me as she spoke. But
l knew. as said before, that the peculiar
people " could not be induced to brave the
desert. They do not seek rest, but action;
employment in the marts. They would rest
but single night even by the sweet waters
Of Jacobs well.