The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-13
THE JEWS Ind the PROMISED LAND
The Third Zionist Conaress Mt Basic.

erected out OF old fabrics and old Kingdoms IN
fused with the spirit Of new time. At tho
very end OF its days. however. the century wit
nesses a sight unique in the history OF man
kind-tho endeavor Of n people scattered far
and wide in everv cline. in every land. from
| the furthest north to the furthcst south. TO
come together again and form body polite.
Disintegration within its own ranks has
| hardly gone as far in any people as 1t has among
| the Jews. Even before the fall Of Jerusalem ut
The hands OF Titus and vcspasian they had
| commenced that wandering life which has
| come to be regarded as typical OF the Peculiar
| People" Rome and Byzantium as Christian
powers drove tho Jews further and further.
| Nocorner Of Europe was too far: no hamlet in
| the wilds OF Asia too obscure not to have been
| found out by those whose one desire was n
| home and peace. When the new continent was
| opened up to the enterprise Of Europe pro-
| fesscd Jews and secret Jews were there among
| the first. When Africa and Australia began to
| take up some ofthe supernuous population Of
the old European world. the Jews did not
scruple to go the greatest distance. In hot and
cold climates. under all and any conditions.
| they were able to maintain themselves.
Forthey carried the Law with them: and the
religious bond was the invisible chain which
bound the scattered parts together. hundred
years are now gone BY since France initiated
that work OF Jewish emancipation which was
destined to make its way from that country into
nearly all the other parts OF Europe. 1t was diff
ferent France from the France OF to- day. There
was an ideal before the people. no matter how
reprehensible the means NAV have been by
which the ideal was partly realized. Tho ideals
were those OF the old Jewish seers and prophets
Is 1t wonder that the latterday Jews grasped
hungry at the fruit which hung from the tree
OF new dispensation? That dspensation was
to carry with it universal love and universal
peace. In such an age OF love and peace. the
Jewish Church-as one Church among many
would be possibility.
The Reform Jews who laborod for Jewish
Church shorn OF all Jewish national ties were
In unwillful error. No blame attaches to them;
they were not prophets They could not then
see what we see now. They could not then
foretelI that tho dream which they had dreamed
together with so many others. was to remain
nothing but dream: that the advance OF man
Kind was to be for many. many years to come
upon indvdualistic and not upon universal
lines. They had also failed to pay the full price
which this universalism demanded of them
Though they refused to see 1t. they had still
remained n PEOPLE, and their religious md
social institutions had. in largo measure with
stood the assaults made from within their own
race. The orthodox Jews had all along re-
fused to believe the signs of the coming Mes
sanc time They refused to bulge one single
men, or to make any concessions to the new
II and the new circumstances.
The hOpeof q restoration Of the Jews 10 Pal
estne is one OF the foundation stones OF tradi-
ditlonal Judaism. Orthodox Judaism has ept
that hope intact. and even looks for direct
divine intervention to bring 1t about Reform
Judaism has substituted the hope OF Messi-
anic time on earth in place Of Messiah and n
restoration in Palestine. The revival Of anti
Semitism in almost every corner Of Fu-
rope and its almost inevitable transmission |
across the seas have given cruel blow to
the hope OF a Messianc time. The Jews
all over the world have heen rudely |
awakened to n sense OF the anoma- |
lous position in which they are placed and to a |
consciousness of the thorough insecurity In |
which they live. They find themselves at the |
mercy OF every one and they fearfully look |
around for a help which can never come ex- |
cept through their own initiative. The issue |
FOR them has become a very plain ons They |
can choose either to give up their entire indi- |
viduality both az people and as a church. or |
they can try to find some spot on earth where.
left to themselves they can obtain that peace
and that security which is denied them in
every country to which they have wandered
Te,fun non ddtir!
Those who choose the first course practically
put themselves outside Of the jewish camp
They are lost to the jewish cause: and the
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Such newly beeotten consciousness r,enta
tho old traditions of the Jews and the hopes
which orthodox Judaism has kept alive, Tn
consciously In 1882 the sufferers from the
aggressive persecution OF Russian bureaucracy
and the Russian Church turned to the Land OF
Promise DetyinG conditions which would
have moved the stoutest OF hearts from their
purpose. they have commenced to attach them
selves once more to the soil of their fathers
In the hope that something stable might
grow up from the foundation which they
were building The many societies called
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