The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08
Rabbi Eisenberg breaches Before
Large Audience.
HIS VERY ABLE ARGUMENT
What the Race Has Done Towards the
upouilding of Nations-A Worthy
Glass of People Whose Aim
Is to Do Right.

of the jew
He said There is a river in the sea.
"A river distinct from the waters through
which It runs-differing in temperature
from those adjacent understanding a
life peculiar to itself. over its surface,
even in high attitudes. play the lambert
airs OF the temperate zone. Borne along
its course are carried to the frozen re-
gions of the North. the woods of the
tropics, so that the native of ice-bound,
snow-locked islands warns himself
with fires made of fragrant boughs cast
into the sea by the floods of the Ortnoeo
or the torrents of the Campeachy.
such is the phenomenon exhibited
in the sea by the gulf stream. starting
in the Gulf of Mexico. the equatorial
sun heats the waters as in q great
cauldron, so that they pour throuSH
the straits of Florida. crossing ne AZ.
lantic battle the shores OF England ana
France. then skirting the shores OF Nor
way, fill the fiords and inlets with
water far higher in temperature than
that found in similar ATTITUDES in either
America or Asia. So that while the
denizen of Labrador shiVers in al
most perpetual frost. the citizen OF
England and Scotland, of Norway and
Sweden. battle in an equitable atmos-
phere redolent with the air of temper
ate zone. finds leisure for the cuitiYa-
ton of his intellect and is stimulates
to such n degree that we find mere the
highest civilization which the earth mas
as vet exhibited. The astonishing de-
yelopment of the west of Europe owes
its rise TO the gulf stream.
What the gulf stream is to the ocean
Judaism is to the entire world. Like
the gulf stream IL rose in the mists or
the past and it has taken its course
down the stream of time a strong,
steady and mighty river, mixing with
its identitd: never absorbed by its
neighhors, producing separate ana
distinct cult. bearing its own distinct
i've stamp undefected by cross cur
rents and uninfiuenced by the lempests
that sweep over ii.
Just as on the northern side of the
gulf stream the waters meet the ice
bergs from the North, holding them In
check till they melt and deposit their
contents at the bottom of the sea. so
Judaism has held back the superstitions
of medieval Europe until they spent
their insidious force and sank hatiied
and defeated, depositing their debris
along the track of that triumphant pro-
gress by which Judaism has marched
to victory Its literature has enriched
every department of mental. moral. So
cial, political. civic and spiritual econ
omy. Judaism has given the world
though often the world was not ready
to accepts its gifts-the highest and
most ennobling ideals. The ftmpid
waters quenching the thirst of a world
furnishing after divine truth have ever
dubbed forth from the Jewish Bible.
While the Chinese reached not fur-
Their in the evolution of religious truth
than to glorify his ancestors and then
sank into slavish subservienCe 10 the
past: while the Hindoo searched in his
own soul and was absorbed in his in
tense egolsm. the jew sought to engraft
upon his daily life the result of his own
speculation, so that he truly felt that
even the ordinary occupations of lie
might be cursed or blessed according
to the spirit with which they were I'M
dertaken. As he himself grandly ex-
presses 1t in his scripture, Even the
blowing of the wicked is sin The loft
lest denunciation Of the prophets were
heaped upon the heads of those who
wrought iniquity and injustice. While
they stroye to lift the veil that sepa-
rated them from futnrity, they also
advocated uncompromising justice, de-
claring that the God of Israel delights
in mercy-not in sacrifice. Herein is the
wide difference between the Jewish cult
and the religions Of the world. They
sought to propitiate the favor Of Of
Tended and angry gods by temporal
gifts, by offerings such as man would
cherish as most valuable. Israel. and
Israel alone. assembled to higher plane
and insisted that his God must be wor-
SHIPPED in spirit and In truth.
In the Himalaya the sacred river
Ganges flows at once from an enormous
glacier, whose melting waters issue
forth in torrent ~ yards Wide. Such
a force Judaism. when based upon the
divine idea of perfect justice and faitr
unto all men. il began it's onward
course. Moses laid down the rules 10y
which the nation was made obedent &C
the lava law that MAS founded upor
the highest principles of morality
Y..,I 1T,
man. Every succeeding law giyer de
veloped and enlarged upon il. until we
find its highest expression in Isaiah anC
in Amos.
Christianity on the one hand anC
Mahammedanism on the other are only
offshoots based in part upon this idea
but both of them mixed it with thu
notions that already prevailed among
them-for neither has been able To ris,
to a conception-the pure contempla
tion of the one only and true God
the high ideal of the Jew. Alone amonl
nations of the earth. the jew stand
proudly aloof and long before Hum
bolt enunciated his great fact in scienc
the Jew proclaimed that the univers
is governed by immutable law. Di
worried from siaVsh superstition tn
Jew early recognized that # he was
part of the universe. he had rights tina
could not be gainsaid. so that job. II
standing before the Almighty and in
sisting that he had not been treated &C
cording to his deserts. typifies the posi-
ton of the Jew in all ages. This belle
in law has been in direct contrast I
that of all other peoples.
1.-THE ancients knew nothing of natu
raj phenomena. Everything was eithe
Aresult of blind chance or was tn
t.of the gods. il was a god VIII
he'd the sun over the heavens eac
ss1t was god that caused the raj
II the tempest. The fateful light
were the weapons of a god an
nlunched them forth either in petu
e.. or wrath, II was q god tina
led the seed TO germinate. the gras
grow. the flowers to blossom, IN
pliers to flow in the purling brooks
N, stone TO roll down the hillside VINE
.iodged. Nothing took place excer
y the favor of the gods and as the
qgere actuated by whim. the ouestio
OF right conduct on the part Of ma
1...d itatn IL ~.