The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-13

unless he is capable of introducing it.
" ere the subject that of church ventila-
Lion, we should consider it entirely hope
less. Nothing but fresh revelation on
Inc value OF fresh air and how to get it
into church will settle that question"
The Congregat5oaalist of Boston, dis
GUESSING the negro question and the color
line, says: I'VE earnestly desire the re-
moval OF this injustice. But viii it be
more speedily removed by emphasizing
their hardshIps or their opportunities?
by urging them to strive more earnestly
Tor deserved recognition or for more de-
voted service? Our Pilgrim Fathers en-
dured great hardships from their country
men IN England and from Holland, but
they have surpassed both in the estimate
OF the world, not by complaining and
cOnteDdlng against those who refused TO
recognize their worth, but by founding
nation with the material which they pos
sessed. We speak far less Of their hard
ships than Of their achievements. and OPP
portunities The worthier class of ne
groeS viii do TAR more to break down the
barrier OF color by devoting themselves
to lift their own race than by pounding
on that barrier. They alone can make
the black skin as attractive as the white.
They Will make the largest success for
their race by exalting their duties more
than their rights. In our judgment many
oil the efforts to obliterate the color line
make against the welfare of the colored
people of this country. They are to work
out their destiny not by ignoring, but by
eXaIting their own race. Race pride,
race ambition, race mission, ought TO
be encouraged among them. 1t would
have more vigorous growth if we'll
meaning white friends stood less in its
way"
In regard to the resolutions recently
adopted by the Central Conference of
American Rabbits in New Y York, the IN
0epe1deat OF that city says: 1T is not
merely that this Conference of Jewish
Rabbis has passed a resolution by such
majority declaring that Gentle may be-
come Jew without circumcision which
surprises us, but even more significant is
the attitude towards this action of the
Jewish press. Those papers which have
been regarded as moderate, almost con-
SerVatlYe, which were conservative ten
or twenty years ago, speak of the action
with respect. They do not seem to be
surprised or very much panied. They do
not denOunce it as a deathblow to
Judaism. They see in it rather the in
evitable, only shurrying too fast TO be-
come actual. What else could be eX-
pected when the same Rabbis are, some
OF them, holding their religious services
on Sunday instead of on the Jewish
Sabbath? To US, it is noticeable that
these 'retormers'-and we believe they
are reformers-have to do solely with the
formal and ritual part of Judaism.
Notice these words: Without any initia-
tory rite, ceremony, or observance what
ever The ritual, the ceremony, is abol-
ished. That which is spiritual remains.
TO the thought Of these Rabbis religion is
matter OF the spirit, not the letter;
matter between a mans God and his
soul, not his body. TO them circumcis-
ion availeth nothing, neither uncircum-
cision, but new creature. But that is
precisely what Jesus taught when he
came as reformer, and what Paul formu-
lated and applied more distinctly. We
are not now raising the question whether
some Of these reformed Jews are also be-
coming rationaistic or unbelieving; but
in SO far as their attitude to compulsory
ritdahsm is concerned, they have adopted
the teachings OF the Chief of all Jewish re-
formers.'