The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08

Of horror when she was told that one
of her consuls. anxious to engage IN
sea fight, and being deferred by the tact
that the sacred chickens would not eat
and thus give him the suspicious sign,
had thrown them into the sea with the
exclamation. Let them drink. then.
The consul had TO flee for his life. wniie
only the fact that he was subsequently
victorious saved the Roman consul. Tor
that showed that the gods had taken
the drowning of the chickens as joke.
but the daring consul was marked
man for the rest Of his life.
such were the sentiments of the most
cultured peoples. Socrates. dying be
cause he was in advance of his age OF
fered up n cock to Esculapius and at
a later age Marcus Aurelius, the great
Platonic philosopher and the best stole
that that cult produced, did not hesi-
tate TO order to torture 40 citizens OF
Lyons because they would not sacrl1ce
to the Olympian gods. Compare TINS
with that sublime sentence of the
pslamist, A broken and contrlte
heart. oh God, Thou wilt not despise.'
This is spirit so far above the highest
expression of spirituality to be met with
i'm the writings of Grecian philosopher
or Roman stole that the best thoughts
of the later shrivel and are weak IN
comparison.
Nor is this spirit solely to be met
and is an integral part of Judaism.
How e1oquently does Isaiah plead for
justice and right. for universal charity
To what purpose is the multitude ~
your sacrifices unto me- saith the Lord
Wash you Make you clean. Put away
the evil of your doings from before my
eyes Cease to do evil. Learn to do
good. Seek judgment. Relieve the OPP
pressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead
for the widows.
rs there a more concise definition of
religion and greater and more
sweeping denunciation of its substitute
than that of Micah? 'Wherewith shall
| come before the Lord2 And bow my
self before the high God? Shall ] come
before Him with burnt offerings. with
calves of a year old? VIII the Lord be
pleased with thousands of rams and
tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall
| give my first born for my tfansgres-
sion and the fruit of my body for the sin
of my soul? lie hath told thee, O man.
What is good and what doth the LORD
require of thee? But to do justly, 10
love mercy and to walk humbly with
thy God
Can there be anything more scath-
ing and condemnatory on the abuses
of the favored sons of fortune OF the
rights of the poor. conveying at the
same time the keynote of the only the
ology acceptable TO humanity, than that
presented by the shepherd prophet
| Amos? / hate, | desplse your feast
| days. | will not delight in your solemn
| assemblies Though We offer me burnt
| offerings and meat offerings / will not
! accept them, neither Will | regard the
| peace offerings Of your fat beast Take
! thou away from me the noise of your
songs. for ] viii not hear the melody
! of thy viols. but let justice run down as
water and righteousness as mighty
! stream.
Turn we 10 the shoreless ocean of the
! Talmud and we shall be more than con-
WINGED that the loftiest ethics and the
most inspiring sentiments run parallel
! throughout its confines. The burden OF
/ the rabbis ever was conduct not sefV-
lee. not prayer but purity of life, not
creed but deed. That ii is that must
| save the race and place the diadem of
the divine upon the brow Of man. Char
| ity or as the genius of the Hebrew has
it, Justice is more transcendent than
sacrifice.
what more striking illustration Is
| needed of this spirit than this beautiful
narration on this point. from. the Tai
! mud. The Master walking with His
| disciples on the ruins of Jerusalem
| yielded to a passionate outburst oil
| weeping on seeing the condition Of the
| temple Woe is me- woe unto us, woe
| zion glory has departed. lsraels hopt
| were atoned in former days is, alas, IN
ashes. What resource have WEE One
of the disciples. answering, said. Dc
not lament master. For while the tenn
PIE Is destroyed, it's spirit is still vita
with life We have yet one agency
stronger and more potent than bricl
and mortar left us. Justice-Charity-i
her name
Nor is it only in religious matters
that this recognition OF the law iss seer
10 bear fruit. In practical results i
has been of the greatest Importance
For ages the civilized world, resting
under the domination of the church, r.
fused to recognize the relation Which
trade bears to society, taxing the alb
snrd stand that the employment of cap
ital TO gainful occupations was sinful
that all interest is usury and all usur,
is sin.
1T was the jew that burst the fet
tiers that bound the human intellect II
this direction. He il was who original
ed and developed the system of modern
banking. In the middle ages. compelled
by cruel and fanatical laws to keep hi
property in a portable form, he in
vented the bin of exchange His ac
tive and vigorous intellect explored tn
| realms of nature and sci in mouion tn
thoughts that have resulted in tie in
YestiEations OF modern science. Ii
taught the Greeks at Alexandra meta
ematics, and inspired the Moorish ar
chitecture. Driven from Spain by TIN
fanaticism of Torquemada, his depar
ture. enforced as il was. inflicted meal
culable loss upon that country from
which she never has and never cal
recover.
"Emigrating to Holland the Jey
helped TO lay the foundations of th
wonderful commercial and martini
success Of that nation, In short Th
jew has been with all peoples but n
Ways maintained his religious integ
? rity. Separated by years Of tyrann,
and oppression. he has set been a slim
2 u1ating and reYiVifying force. The vie
tim OF bitter injustice. of direct oppres
sion, of insult and coHtumely he ha
) repaid evil with good. Like the violet
: the more IL is cru's2ed the sweeter IL
perfume so the jew from the ashes d
, his agony. while crushed beneath tn
z iron heel of despotism and tyranny be
queathed To the world ideals, lofty an
2 | transcendent, that have spirituaiizt