The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-25

and enterprises, the orphanages, the foster homes, the free burial societies the dispensaries, the immigrant reliet
 associations, and of course, the Jew
 ish" clubs. We have read, the last l tWelvemonth, of number of Jewish
 synagogs in New England which were
 in course of construction or finished and dedicated Massachusetts possess
 es number of these, and but lately,
 the present summer, in fact, witnessed ] within the confines of Greater Boston
 the ceremonies incident to the laying
 of the corner-st one of two such struc-
 lures by congregations but newly or
 ganized. Of such congregations, name
 ly. the newly organized, we are con- stantly receiving information. And While these in the moin are called into being by our Russian brethren, who seem to have g. special ambition, more
 or less laudable according to the ability to harmonize they may evince there with, to be each individually congre-
 gational manager, the cause of Juda-
 ism locally, I take it, is on the whole
 on the advance.
 As to the future of these congrega- tions, as of their older kindred of the
 orthodox type, I am of the opinion that
 by the stress of circumstances, the
 spirit of the times" if you will they
 will be obliged to surrender their pres
 ent polices and ally themselves with
 the reform movement. The future of
 Judaism in America I am convinced,
 belongs to reform. It may take seve-
 ral generations yet. but in good time we
 shall see those who hold to the ortho-
 dox faith abandoning a ritual which has become obsolete, and laying by herewith forms and ceremonies which have lost their significance, and adopt ing a form of worship and observance which expresses, with closer correspon- dence to modern ideas and feelings on religious questions, the great princi- ples and truths and aims of Judaism.
 It is with a peculiar pleasure that I look forward to such a consummation. Along with many to-day, I share the view that the most hopeful and prom ising element in our modern Jewish communities are our young Russian men and women, the children of ortho- dox birth and rearing, as they chance to be in this country. These form the prepondering majority of young New England Jews. They will not be con- tent to worship as did their fathers, nor abide by the practices which these did. A sense of filial loyalty and reverence, of which we constantly witness beau- tiful instances, may keep them stead- fast to parental methods and obser- vances for the time being. But the spirit of the age will in due course have it's effect, and we'll then may progressive Judaism rejoice to have gained over to it's cause such young people whose devotion to Juda- ism, so deeply imbued within them, would put to shame and stimulate anew the tagging interest of so many of our young people within the reform ranks now. These young Russian Jews now under prejudice's social ban, but bound to come to the fore bound to as- sert themselves socially as in every | other way, are most prominent to our hopes al the present writing: and with | them to the fore In my mind, it Is that | venture to express myself sanguine- | y of the prospects of Judaism in New | England. and to predict for it a bright | md 1ourishing future.-Rev. Samuel | in the Jewish Messenger.