Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-05

have your children be guided by new
tangled. shallow philosophy that aims to
rot. as of our faith in God: that makes
mammon our idol. and selfshness and
greed our ruling passion: that would strip
life of its ideals. beholding in 1t nothing
worth living for. save the qualification of
rounds of pleasure and enjoyment. and
that. when troubles and trials weigh
heavily upon u.s. would go So far as to
sanction the cowardly act of self-destruc-
ton?
Need of Prayer.
DO you realize, then. in this solemn mo-
ment the need of praying. earnestly and
sincerely. with the Psalmist: oh. send Thy
light and Thy truth. these shall guide me-?
We need Gods light and Gods truth amid
the difficulties and perplexities besetting
GU" pathway! We need Gods truth when
vainly We rack our brain to solve the rid
dies and mysteries of life. We need it; for
without 1t no system of philosophy would
satisfy the cravings of the puzzled mind,
and moral life and law would lack it's safe
foundation! We need Gods light to fill our
longing souls with faith and hope.
blessed light celestial. send the rays
into the troubled heart of him cropping in
the darkness of doubt and despair; of him
who conscious of his obligations to his
dear ones and his fellowmen earnestly
strives to perform his duties well and
faithfully. lest in the face of failures and
disappain tmerts he may falter and grow
weary! Heavenly light of faith and hope,
come to revive the dropping spirit of the
poor and needy. the suffering and sick; and
into the wounded souls of those whose
homes have been darkened by the shadow
of death. pour forth thy healing balm of
consolation and of peace, the blessed hope
of immortality! Thanks to the royal
Psalmist who taught us so beautiful and
timely a prayer: oh. send forth Thy light
and Thy truth, they shall lead me! Why
are thou cast down, o my soul? and why
thOu 6iSuuta6 within me1 Hone then.
in God. for shall yet praise Him. the sal
walton of my countenance and my God! !.
But today. standing. as it were. on the
summit of time. let us rise for {, few mo-
ments above the narrow sphere of mere
personal considerations to ascend the watch
towers affording a more extended outlook.
There comes to us from Il distant age the
ancient query: Waterman, what of the
night? Waterman, what of the niSht?' And
today, as then. the answer we'll applies,
The morning has come, and also the
night
breaking of a Better Day.
The morning has come! Who would deny
the breaking of a better day after the
long and weary night of medieval dark
ness? The marvellous progress of our mod
ern age, notably of the latter half of the
waning century, is too evident to call for
detailed demonstration, producing changes,
mostly favorable, that have fairly revolu-
tioniZed the social and ecanomic conditions
of life. The formerly prevailing ignorance
of the masses is fast giving way to general
education and enlightenment. The peo-
pies of the world are coming into ever
Closer touch with each other, commercially
and Intellectually, socially and politically.
and old prejudices are gradually dis
appearing. Old-time barriers are crumbling
and falling.
THE morning has come also for Israel
1t could not wei be otherwise. For where
the people love liberty and justice. and re-
spect law and order. there the Jew has
nothing to fear or complain of, while his
sufferings. wherever or whenever endured
form terrible indictment against his tor
mentors, sadly rejecting upon their moral
status. Great. therefore. indeed. has been
the influence for good of the liberal spirit
OF the nineteenth century upon the condi-
ton of our people in all parts of the civil
LIKED world. The morning has come for
1srael-'and also the night Suddenly and
unawares appeared the so-called anti-Sem-
lt1c movement. most remarkable ana
chronism. dark spot on our nineteenth
century civilization, pestiferous disease
on the body polite Of Europa. Assuming
most formidable proportions In semi-bar-
barious Russia. invading Germany and
Austria. where it proves shcrt-lived-being
almost completely stamped out in the for
mer. and in the latter decidedly on the
wane and finally taking foothold in
France 1t Is there where the detestable
craze is largely responsible for the drama
whose closing scenes are now being enact
ed in the city of Rennes. The eyes of the
civilized world are turned in that drec-
tiCn.
The Dreyfus Investigation.
while the farce of trial is slowly drag
ging Itself along: while base. corrupt wit
nesses in gaudy uniforms shamelessly tram
pie upon truth, and biased judges mystic
riously deliberate behind closed doors, the
world has long rendered judgment. No
man in his sober senses, within outside
Of Era inIIh fnr ant ha
cence of the poor martyr. the hopeless vic
tim of religious prejudice, political corrup
ton and military despotism and audacity.
No one less than these judges and generals
can, from the facts IN the case, believe
Dreyfus guilty. But in spite of it all, even
at this late hour. who would dare predict
with a certainty the immediate outcome of
the struggle? All the world knows that
Dreyfus has been selected as a scapeSoat.
And Dreyfus being a Jew-the most con-
venient scapegoat available, because of that
widespread prejudice against the Jew. dill
gently famed by INSCRIPTIONS agitators
and notorious Jew haters-the old story is
likely to repeat itself that, whether guilty
or innocent, 'Thut NIGHTS, der Jude wird
verbranntr
&" The morning has come but still,
friends the old prayer is in order: oh,
send forth Thy light and Thy truth. they
shall lead me-
For five long terrible years. throughout
the silent, dreary nights of solitary con-
fnement on "A deso'ate. distant isle, far,
far removed from his loved ones, the noble,
heroic. se.f-sacrifcing wife and darling
children: Pcaded almost to despair by
heartIess ja.lers, the only human beings
with whom he could come in contact. how
often that hapless martyr may have prayed
for the light and the truth that would re-;
move the shame and disgrace from his inno-
cent head and the shackles from his weary
limbs? What could be more pathetic dur
ing the progress of the present trial than
the occasional outbursts of utter disgust
and burning Indignation of the prisoner a
the bar at the Infamous, false words he
was compelled to listen to. and his fer
vent. impassionate appeal. o for the
light and the truth: it is all I ask for"
But, after all. the experience of Dreyfus
is the experience of the Jew throughout
the ages From the time of Hannah of old
throughout the many centuries of trials
and sufferngs even to the days of our
modern Humans. the Stockers. Ahwardts,
Luegers. the Drumonts Rocheforts. the
Gonscs Merciers and Rockets, has not the
Jew been charged again and again with a
lack of patriotism and good citizenship.
and with numerous other possible and i'm
possible crimes charges as preposterous
as they were unfounded?
The Cry of the Jews.
Throughout all these centuries. even as
today in the hall of justice at Rennes, re-
sounded the cry of the Jew, not for VEN