The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-10
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Their Place In Histo<y Of the Highest
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The Srest wonder 81 history h Ju,
iaism. The persistence Of the Jewish
,eople through the sseS In spite OF per
.ecution. the prison and the stAke.,s
md has been a continuing miracle
Thrones have fallen and empires have
passed away; but through all the
changes q this mortal scene Judaism
and the Jewish people have survived
the shocks OF tine and are as enduring
apparently as the pilared universe.
Ana yet what vieissirudes and appaH
ing s1Eersags have that remarkable
Aa undergone. For ages they we're
nade- the han. They might not eat
roS drink nor sit at the same table with
CAr.stlans-Chr.suans whose religion
was ASSes O. their Book. and whose
Saviour was ho-n Of q Jewish maiden,
Thsy nsve- knew when their goods
might b. plcade7ed. their children torn
f-oU their arms. and themselves ban
tsked from the homes where they were
bora and the places where slept their
dead Ard this state Of things eonun-
ued uaul the close OF the seventeenth
osag1yy. !, obligated form. until the
ccyb-ask q the French Revolution.
Ys. snca vas the virility Of the race
sEst IN spite Of persecution and ostra-
elsa The children OF Israel have main
IsiuSi tLsiF faith, and their sacred
looS lave conquered the civilized
wosld What is that faith9 BARNES
tsge. teIs Is that Judaism has not made
JEs miraculous The basis Of Its dogma,
uos Installed the supernatural as a
permanent fsctor in the progress OF
vs1iS Set aside miracles and rites,
End beZi-d JkeD," he says, will be
found tie Two great dogmas which,
ever sEas ;Ee prophets, constitute the
whole Of Judaism; The Divine unity
and NesS2hSn-unIty Of law through
o1J the world. ami the terrestrial trf-
uR3pA q Justice in humanity" Here
II earth should be the kingdom of
God; AID IAN and discipline. nor emo
non 0 aesthetics. should be the forces
to ii mankind 70 play well their parts
n 81 divine 3 scene.
The Jewish Pulpit" prints a sermon
recently deferred at Detroit By Rabbi
LOWS Gresham. D. D.. wherein he In
sists upon the vitality OF the distinction
between 3 Latitude. a philosophy. an
2dsalisn or an ecstatie pleasantly" and
laws commitments and ord.
-ADces." Religion" be says. .if Noses
would have known OF the term, would
lave been for him another term for the
arr Of teaching. Religion ought to drill
rather than exact; to build up habits
rather than deter from vice. Religions
stOuid b. The most many-sided educa-
ran1l Influences in the world. Unless
-&A@y are Ihst they forfeit every right
70 be. except as a pastime for senti-
Usntalists and as exercises In halls of
philosophy. Judaism Is never abstra1.;;
.ts doctrines are not transcendental; II
has 10 catechism. But It has laws;
and In these 1t has energized itself.s
Judaism ig righteousness in life; and TO
srtain this righteousness there must
he training. and law and discipline are
tie Instruments. LET the churches
be built on defnitions,r says Rabbi
Gresham; ours is built on life" And
tins founded 1t has outlasted the re
ngions Of Greece and Rome, and is like
II 70 endure until the race which has
enshrined IT shah have finally disap-
peared from the earth.-Philadelphia
Record,