The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-19

large NUMBER OIL tnlDRS Ill THAI WINDOW he
can do without In this luxurious age of
the multiplication of needs, it is well to
ponder such saying. 1t is akin to that
grand utterance of Carlyle's: "The frac-
ton of human happiness may be increased,
not so much by increasing the numerator as
by lessening the denomination"
DR.. Voorsanger, the welI-known rabbi
phiianthropist of this city. talked to the
people of San Jose recently about the out
look for Judaism, and these are some Of the
things he said to his people, as reported in
the Mercury:
Il say to you that the essential element
of our faith is to lift up the fallen brother
and place him upon the pinnacle on which
one stands himself. The Jew must perform
his civil duty like every one else. When he
does not he becomes peculiar, and it will
not do for the jew TO be peculiar. We are
in a minority and hopeless minority at
that. have made up my mind THAI the
house of Israel may, in the next ten years,
see bitter times. You should consider your
selves here in San Jose closely connected
with the whole body Of Israel, and the same
as by the touch Of knob every house in
the city may be lighted, so also when there
is pang of pain felt in one part it should
be felt throughout the whole body of Israel.
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pires to-day in Russia, l would probably
incite you to an indignation meeting. Our
brethren are being driven from thousands of
towns. The conditions there, the treat
ment dealt to Jews is terrible. Not one
tenth is known of the horror that is being
there perpetrated. What can we
do? We cannot charter steamers and bring
them all here. We cannot reclaim an en-
pire and then give it to them, but we can do
this: We, the Jews of California, can bring
twenty, ten, five or as large number of
them as we can here and divide with them
our blessings. We have millions of acres of
land on this Coast untitled, waiting for will
'Why could not these people find home
on these lands and build them up? We be-
liere that they could, and we are going to
get them here as many as we can"
Two houses have been torn down on Sixth
avenue. near Eleventh street, says the New
York Sun, and the vista thus opened reveals
a brick wall in the upper rear corner that
seems to fence in bit of the forest primeyai
Around in Eleventh street and east of the
avenue the rest of the wall will be found
and the curious investigator will see that a
narrow wedge of ground some fifty feet
long, and not more than ten feet wide at its
broadcast part, has been so skilfully enclosed
that not one person In hundred who passed
by would notice anything out of the COM
y,
ing not more than a dozen graves
and monumental stones. When the leave
have fallen from the trees a solitary
shaft of white marble rises little way
above the walls, but at this time the red
bricks are hidden under wealth Of wistaria
and ivy, and the rose of Sharon bushes. A
willow tree and tall and graceful allan
tus make grateful shade for the silent sleep
erS. The cemetery existed before Sixth
avenue was open. and it occupied part of
that avenue. When the street cut of all
OF the ground that was not occupied by
graves the Jewish owners fenced in the
dead and have always refused to sell the
sacred tract. The cemeteries In the New
Bowery and in West Twerty-first street
join with this modest little field of Macpelah
IN testifying to Jewish reverence for the
ashes of their ancestors.
The New York Tribune has dash OF cold
water for those people who are hugging to
their breasts the belief that we are rapidly
nearing the milleDnial epoch. The Tribune,
indeed. holds very strongly to the contrary
of this belief and asserts that, instead, a
wave of religious fanatielsm appears to be
sweeping over the face of the globe, irle-
spectiye of race, cline or creed. In proof
of this is cited the cruelty to which Jews,
Pedestrians. Catholics. and in fact ali non
been recently subjected by the Gar, which
has been frequently commented upon.
Among the Mohammedans, too. within
the last few months there has been a
marked revival Of fanaticisn, which Is
creating much uneasiness in the Leyant, in
India and on the island of Java. A shrewd
Turkish official is reported to have recently
said OF his countrymen that at the end OF
the Crlmean War 10 per cent OF the people
were religious fanatics; at the death of
Sultan Abdul Azlz 80 per cent and that at
the present moment they are 90 per cent in
hnu Tn HI 81,
Mayor, educated in France at the military
school OF Saumur, was put to death at
SMYRNA for having violated the religious
ordinance which prohibits smoking during
the fast OF Ramadan
In Persia, also, affairs have assumed a
very serious aspect, and a religious move
ment Is spreading like wildfire, which
threatens to overwhelm the power of the
Shah and to drive all unbelievers out of the
country. A similar storm OF fanatacism
seems to be In progress in Japan, and par
ticularly in China, where foreign churches
have been burned. mission buildings de-
Stroyed and the foreign residents mobbed
and even wounded. In England we see the
Bishop OF Lincoln brought before the bar
of the House of Lords for an alleged infrac-
ton OF canon law, while here in the United
States the charges against the Rev. DR..
Briggs have called forth angry passions
and abuse Of nature that is neither charita-
Bile nor Christian. In fact, taking all things
into consideration itwoud seem as if the
Tribune is right, and it will be a long time
ere the curtain of this worlds drama rolls
up on that famous lamb and lion act.
In recent sermon in New York Phillips
Brooks sounds trumpet-blast against the
evil of negation which seems to have taken
the world by the throat. 1t Is not unbeiief.
be says, that makes any man strong Not
by the shutting out of anything. not by the
shifting ont OF n lie does Z
cannot come by any negative. 1t must be
positive. Deny the falsehood with all your
power and voice. That is your duty. But
that does not make you strong. 1t emily
makes you ready to be strong. Having
turned the lie out of doors, thrown these
same doors open to the truth Then
strength will come pouring in. 1t has al
ways been through men of belief, not unbe-
lief. than power from God has poured into
man. 1t is not the discriminating critic,
but he whose beating, throbbing life offers
itself channel for the divine force, he is
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