The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-08

his moral obligations and Is a good cit
izen, whatever his religious preferences,
THE truth of the brotherhood of the
entire human family is founded upon
the principle of human rights, If there
are differences at all in the scale of
human beings, 1t is only the difference
of education and the advantage of the
worlds progress. The truth of the hui
man brotherhood must be the standard
of all civilized governments, without
any reference to creed, color or to ma
| tionality.
such is the law of Israel, One law
shall be for you and for the stranger
that sojourneth with YOU Such is the
mission that Judaism recognizes as her
peculiar work in the drama of the
world. Far back in the history of man,
when civilization had hardly name,
Israel felt the high inspiring hope of
bringing the lessons of human rights
| to the hearts and consciences of men,
and in working this mission we know
what he has suffered and experienced.
We know how, for thousands of years,
Israel instead of being the liberator,
has been made the outcast and the cap
tive, debarred from the commonest
rights of moral and sentient beings;
and yet, amid all these centuries of en-
slavement, Israel has ever held up the
banner of liberty as standard of his
mission, hoping and praying for its full
| fillment, and under every circumstance
in which he was placed under what
ever government he found a resting
place. the teachings of Israeps religion
and the spirit inherited from his an
cestors have inspired him to devote
them to the cause of liberty, and 10 this
cause he has contributed much.
"The founders of America received
their ideas, not from the past, expert
ences of the nations of the world. but
obtained their main inspiration from
the Hebrew Bible, the book of light and
the message of freedom. The theme of
i Israel's hope, the burden of his proph-
cts and teachers in all ages of the
world, are being wonderfully illustrat-
ed in our own time We have already
entered into that era when nations are
to settle the question of rights, not oy
the sword and the cannon, but by the
means Of friendly Cancellation. Every
century of history has been marked by
some extraordinary event, some Won
derful discovery, some useful invention,
that has revolutionized the thought
and the method of mems work
1--WE are nearing the end of another
century. and it takes no divine gift OF
prophecy to say that it is within the
range Of possibility and probability FOR
orr children to see the civilized nations
of the world fulfilling the prediction of
Israers prophets three thousand years
ago, turning their swords into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
hooks and settling their differences
through the peaceful and humane IN
strumentality of arbitration.
"There is no denomination of relig-
ion perhaps, that does not hope ana
pray and fervently believe that its own
peculiar views will at last prevail ana
become the universal standard of faith,
and they exemplify the truth OF TINS
fact in that no one sect is willing to
abandon its own peculiar form OF faith
and hasten the brotherhood of man by
mutual concessions and final amalga-
nation; and yet there is no form of
progress and civilization that does not
champion the cause of human brother
! hOOu ana HOlu IL do d NdlNAiieei FiAA-SA
pie of the hopes and fulfillment OF its
mission.
"All these sects, our own included,
stand on the very border line OF that
era of brotherhood, with no great divis-
ion between them, and yet hesitate to
stretch forth a hand and help make the
long-prayed-for union complete. They
stand too long in ashesitating attitude
of strangers and opponents, while at
the same time the great stream of his
tory is hurrying on, which must even
tually bring on the morning that Will
discover to the differing races Of the
world that they are men and brethren.
1.-THE past history of the world Is a
prophecy of nobler triumph of man
kind that is to come-a grander proph-
ecy than the loftiest sage of old dared
to hope for-when nations shall dwell
together as one great family in peace
and concord, and when the one true
God will be acknowledged by the unit
ed brotherhood of men as the sole
Father, Creator and Redeemer.''