The age-herald., 1900-03-14
DIR. SAMUEL SALE ATTEMPLE EMANUEL Learned Rabbi Delivered an Elo-
 quent Address. WAS A MASTERFUL EFFORT Spoke on Israel's Message to the World -Discountenanced War and Sided
 With the Boers-Introduced
 by Rabbi Newfeld
WAS A MASTERFUL EFFORT

At Temple Emanuel last night under the auspices Of Birmingham Lodge, I. o. B. B., the Rev. Dr. Samuel Sale, the learned and eloquent rabbi of St. Louis. delivered lecture on the message of Judaism to the world.
 After solo on the organ by Miss Gockel and a baritone solo by MT. Werner, Rabbi Newfield introduced in delicious words the distinguished visitor. In his remarks, Dr. Newfield alluded to pr. Sale as peculiar character among ralobis, Hnasmuch as he was the first rabbi who was born in this country.
 Dr. Sale addressed an audience in this city several years ago, and those who had listened to e1im then retained a most agree able recollection of his voice and grace of manner. But to many of those present last might he appeared for the first tfme. The rabbi is a man of short stature and Sort neck, with strongly built frame and brow denotlng intellect.
 The rabbi opened his lecture by the sta tement that Judaism and the Jew stood as living proof of the superiority of moral and intellectual force oyer brute power. I.is race, which had come down from antiquity, and which could not be spared from the earth. had been the victim of bitter persecution. Against no people had persecution been so persistent, so perdur- able, as against the Jews he said But Judaism had always before it ideals, and these ideals accounted largely for the per- manence of the race. In speaking of its long history, the rabbi referred poeucally ito Judaism as the brother of time.
 pr. Sale pointed out one institution which he said woould ever be an exponent of the truth of the divine origin of Israel-the Jewish Sabbath Every one was command ed to rest on the Sabbath. Those persons who had taken the ground that God made labor a curse had not read the Bible deep- ly God Himself had worked six days and rested on the seventh. The dignity of la ibor was plainly taught in the Bible, and 1t was to the basic principle involved In the Sabbath and the dignity of labor, together with the broad humanity of Judaism. that the speaker devoted the greater part of his discussion. No one of the ancient nations had honored labor except the Jews. The Greeks and the Romans regarded labor as degrading. Only helots, according to the Greeks, were to work. Even the divine Plato' could not conceive of society with out slaves The ancients regarded not only manual labor as something low, but the fine arts as well. Praxitiles and the other masters in sculpture according to the an- cients, belonged to a lower grade of so- ciety than those who did not toll.
 Dr. Sale said Christians had claimed that the founder of Christianity it was who dignified labor for Christ was the son of carpenter. But the Creator had bless ed and honored labor, he said, and the Jews had elevated labor centuries before Christ lived. The Jews were essentially an agri- cuStureal people, but owing to persecution they had been compelled to seek other means of livelihood.
 Judaism stood for peace. War was jus tified only when life and home were to be defended. Dr. Sale then proceeded to ex- coriate the nations that went to war for conquest. What nation today wages war in the cause of humanity? he asked. When the poor Jews were trodden down and driven out of Russia, driven out simply be- cause they were Jews, did any Christian nation offer to fight for them? Not one of them raised even a protest But when the material interest of any of those nations is threatened then there is war. The speak CT, with impassioned eloquence, took the side of the Boers, aluding to England as a strong power that was crush- ing a weak power fighting b-avely for its independence.
 In sketching proudly the unselfsh lives and the noble philanthropy of the learned Jews of the middle ages, Dr. Sale was singularly eloquent.
 In concluding, he made an earnest plea for the school of manuel training at New Orleans, where orphan boys were educated, after the manner of old, in the useful arts The highest education, he said, was where the mind hand and heart were trained to- gether. It was this kind of training that God would bless. Judaism had always been democratic and the message of Judaism to the world was a message for broader humanity and fraternity. God made man. That fact was proclaimed in the first chap ter of Genesis It was proclaimed before there was a Hebrew or Jew The rabbi urged his hearers to study the Bible more reverently and with more love than they had been doing. In glowing terms he spoke of it's sublime teaching.
 After the lecture many of the audience went forward and shook hands with Dr. Sale, and thanked him for his discussion of a theme in which they were so deeply inter ested All spoke of the lecture as master