El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-13
Carpet Department.
Judaism An AnachrOnism.

Judaism was always more or less an
anacbronism. 1n all of it's successive
Developments, from the simple ethical
monotheism of the Patriarch, in every
era under the sovereignty of law aud
the law of divine sovereignty, it was
confessedly a protest against the spirit
of the age AID surrounding conditions.
1t was new faith and new practice,
new hope and new Inspiration, even
if it bore in macy ways the stamp and
atmosphere of its environment.
Today, when old things are passing
away, JUDAH m is still protest against
tendencies that lead away from right
eousness. 1t is an o'd-fa shioned ere I'd
in q new era which has little sympathy
with old fashions. 1t is snachronism
to a certain degree, for it breathes of
Sinai amid foaming Niagara currents,
snd points Godwa,d d, when God is be-
coming an unrecognized factor among
the multitude.
Another year is dawnipg upon the
olden faith A fresh book of life to bs
opened. What shall its record be for
Israel and humanity?
On his New Year the Jew does not
think selfshly of his own salvation,
but of the fate and future of mankind
as we'll. World-music and worldmes-
>ages sound through the New Years
traditional liturgy; and the lone divine
Idr-Ou event tOWd"u WHICH, OIL CrcoGlOu
moves" forms a leit-motif of the fest
ival. How can a Jew be narrow, bigo-
ted, exclusive, when the kinship of
humanity enters into the web and wOof
of his New Yea associations.
Israel and humspitv-th. IT is fitting
text for the New Year. The Jew needs
the worlds broadening impulse,' land the
world requires the ct i,al foundations
OF the Jew. Truth, freedom, right
shone from Sinai's crest are old-fash-
Toned but inseparable from genuine
progress Kindness. justice, humility
Those simple pri nciples upon which
ne worlds bett srment ia based have
lost none of their pot eDcy, although
| they were uttered by the old Hebrew
prophet at an era when
they were utterly opposed TO the spirit
of the age.
Will the genius of Judaism, its es-
| sentials in faith and practice, continue
in contradiction to the centuries to
come? Will humanity forever be array
ed against Israel SO that the future Ii re
the past shall be Via Dolorosa to the
Jew?
We do not believe it. History is q
continuous progress, despit, react Ons
here and there. The new Atlantis Of
the creeds will not ever evade its dis
humanity will surely exchange the
sword for the plow-share, and civiliz4-
tion and the arts ofpeace shall prevail.
God. virtue and immort Atty are ceas-
ing to be peculiar traits of any one
creed-they are recognized as common
to all. The New Year of humanity is
slowly advancing and Israel can rejoice
that it has held the outpOsts so long.
that it has kept the faith SO persistent
ly, and that out of the crucihxion OF
the centuries its ethical principles ar.
awakening to universal dominion.
So let Israel celebrate the incoming
of it's New Year Sunday evening with
joyous heart and gra teful spi' it. The
outlook was never more prOpitiOus for
that New Year of the nations, when
love and peace shall make earth a
paradise ard God the one father of a
common humanity.-Jew Messen-
ger.