Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-24

taken us away to die in the wilder
ness"
And again they wept: "Who shall
give us meat to eat? We remember
the first which we ate in Egype for
naught, the cucumbers, the melons,
the leeks, the onions and the garlic"
But Moses stood firm like a rock. He
showed his genius by doubling often in
his greatness. Time and again he
would enter his own soul to see wheth-
or he had not better give up this whole
struggle, for he worked not for his
own good but for theirs . At such
times. however, the fire of genius burn
ed within him and with ever renewed
energy and determination he would
say:
81 will not let thee go, until have
become a blessing to you; until you
bless me-"
Ii were too tedious in one lecture to
examine the life of each of the proph-
cts, but if we did, we should find that
each one in one form or another had
the same struggle and that the fire of
their genius led them to put aside all
selfish motives and to determine on
this one aim: 81 will not let thee go,
until | have been a blessing to you"
Jeremiah's honest, human struggle.
showing the mighty force of his soul
is portrayed in master strokes by his
own hand. 81 thought" he said. Il
thought | would speak no more in the
name CT God, but then it was within
me like a burning fire, shut up in my
bones; | tried to withstand it, but /
could not
Thus, my friends. Israel's mission
and aim through the centuries, silent,
awful. majestic, persistent, has been:
81 will not let thee go, until thou bless
me-"
The immediate result of Israel's sug-
ar-natured persistency in the princi-
pies of his confusion threw the world
in confusion and uproar, Neither the
rock. nor the bastinoles; neither the
Relish device of the crusaders, o the
devilish instruments of the inquisition,
could shake Israel's sons and daugh-
tiers from their convictions and high
resolves. Even so great a man as Mar
tin Luther, to whose genius and manly
courage | bow in humble alteration,
was thrown into utter confusion by the
unsuitable p~ersistency of Israel to the
mission entrusted to him by Advise
Creator. At first Luther thought the
Jews would be easily won over to his
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treated with kindness, but when he
saw that even kindness could not make
the Jew faithless to his mission. he
treated them with scorn and bitter
ness. Bitter and grand as Luther's con-
ception of religion was, it was not
beautiful and grand enough for Israel,
for as Carlyle has said: What Is bet
only what it works"
Israel has time and patience and en-
durance and will persist silently, ma
jestically, determinately. until he will
have become a blessing to humanity.
Some one might ask, "If you are Sc
cure in your mission, why do you not
send out missionaries to convert the
world to your religion?"
Israel has never sent out salaried
preachers and never intends to send
out preachers to convert the world.
Only a spirit of ignorance and narrow
ness; only a ~befogged conception of
the character of God could frame such
a law: Extra ecclasiam nulla salus."
f"Outside of the church there is no sal
vation.")
Ruskin has well said: your con-
verted children, who teach their par
ents; your converted convicts who
teach honest men; your converted
ounces. who, having lived in cretinous
stupefaction half their lives, suddenly
Gwaking to the fact of their being a
God. fancy themselves therefore his
peculiar people and messengers and
| might add. and keep on affronting in
telligent men with little doctrines that
their great grand mothers centuries
ago had long outgrown.
No. Israel does not send out preach
ers to convert the world. This is be-
meath the dignity of genius. Israel,
and every genius, teaches as God
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The school boy runs home to upset
the household with a new problem in
geometry that he has learned which
his father and grandfather and great
grandfather have long since forgotten,
The man with a thick Uranium, who is
struck by a thought once in a life time
without lodging it, grows mad to set
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ious little thought. He grows impa
tient and intolarent if you do not grow
mad with him. But the geniuses, the
mighty men of thought. can wait and
must wait, until a world be prepared
for their thoughts. Thus it has ever
been and thus it shall ever be in the
evolution of human thought and I'm
folding of human character. Thus