The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-18
DR.. CAL|sCH ON
JEWISH SABBATH.
He Replies to Arguments Of Or.
Emil Hirsch.
CHANCE is NOT NECESSARY
historic Associations Link the Saturday
Sabbath With the Jewish People.
These Ties Cannot Be Disre-
garded or Easily Severed.
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CHICAGO, ILLS. May 1.-THE SAD
beth of the Jews Is dead. Let US bury
It God never ordained the Sabbath day.
It Is an institution of man. Only mil
iiunaires and peddlers can observe the
Jewish Sabbath in these days OF activ-
ttys Sunday to all intents and purposes
a,,eady has become our day OF rest. The
Illustration of the Sabbath can be re-
stored only by participating in the flood
o, life about US and recognizing IS our
day OF rest the day set apart by the
nations in which We live.
These declarations We're made last
evening by DR.. Emil Hirsch in the
course of a sermon at Israel Temple, in
which he urged the substitution by the
Jews Of Sunday fer the Sabbath OF the
Decalogre.
Sentiment must be thrown to the four
r,pds." he said. land we mist realize
that it has come to be with us q. oues-
ton Of economic and industrial lie or
economic and Industrial death. we have
no right to put aside opportunity to DO
good for others simply because sentiment
demands that we remain idle on a day
OF activity. No lawyer has the right TO
place his clients freedom in Jeopardy
because his sentiment will! not permit
him TO go TO court on Saturday No mer-
chant has the right to imperial his in
dependence by closing his store on the
Jewish Sabbath.
After ursing that The Sabbath institu-
ton has been the cause OF preserving the
ltyeS OF prosecuted Jews, whom: he called
heroes for more than fifteen centuries. DR..
IIirsch pleaded for the adoption OF Sun
cav as the Jews Sabbath.
When seen last night the Rev. =. n.
Cal.sch, D. D.. rabbi OF the beln Ahdpa
Synagogue, gave the following interest
ing interview upon this subject:
.'The stand taken by DR.. H;rsch is not
a new one with him. nor IS the problem
he presents q. new one to American lsrael:
Insofar as he says that economic anu
industrial conditions greatly interfere
with Sabbath observance by the Jews,
he is right, but he is most decidedly
wrong when he says that the 'Saobath
of The Jew is dead The synagogue suf-
-srs under the disadvantage Of these con-
di.ions. In addition TO the general handl-
cap of the spirit of Inaterislism and rell-
c:ous unrest. which has affected the al
tendance and afTiliation Of all denon1ina-
ticns.
.,But the syna gogue Is holding its own
mere than fairly well, though it cannot
be denied that the question of sabbath
attendance at the house of worship is
most serious one. 1t is one that JEWISH
congregations throughout the land have
been trying to solve. Most OF them nave
aaG recourse to late FRIDAY evening
1c1vice to reach those who are denied
The opportunity otherwise. Some have
Sunday service, supplemental TO the
Saturday service. DR.. Hirsch's congrega-
tier is the only one that has formally
abandoned the Saturday Sabbath.
AS A SACRIFICE.
EFT is rndeniably true that no twenty
Your hours Of the week are in themselves
lntrinsicaIy sacred. They are only so as
thew are made sacred. The Sabbath Is
fivinelv ordained institution in that 1t is
3 necessity of the human race. both
physically and spiritually But part1c-
i,]ar day is a human institution. and a
aav identified with the Sabbath through
centuries, becomes sanctihed IN the eyes
Of its. observers. as Sunday is in the eyes
of Christians since the fourth century
ana as Saturday is In the eyes OF the
Jews The veneration Of the SATURDAY
Sabbath has been especially deepeneo
among the Jews by that which they ma. T
suffered for it. The day has become root
ed deeply in their hearts by thousands OF
tendrils Of dear memories of loving as
socfaticns, OF age-long chershlng, uii
these tendrils have become interviewer
with their very heartstrings Therefore
they are unwilling to abandon IT, DO
not believe that the question Of transfer
,,,iIl he a ffirmatively answered by this gen
Grafton. or possibly even by the next one.
The time is not ripe. but I do believe 1t
will eventually come. Let me drawn an
analogy from nations flag as the en-
blern of their patriotic love aud loyalty
Our flag Is the Stars and Stripes Of red.
white and blue We cherish 1t as 1t is
now constituted: we sing of it as the
banner of red white and blue. and we
make its colors symbols of hottest
thought. But suppose conditions could
arise when the colors OF red, White ana
blue were unobtainable and we were SIM
,,ly not able to secure them. And suppose
then that the authorities. reluctant as
they might be to do so. yet bowling to ir-
resfstihle circumstances. should decree
that hereafter the flag should be OF orange
end violet The generation OF the trans
ttion would lament the change and sigh
for the days OF old wren their pulses
thrilled at the sight Of the red, white and
blue the glorious banner which their
fathers. and their fathers fathers. had
loved and fought for. But the new flag
Is their country's flag none the less. and
their children Will feal for the orange
and violet what their sires felt for the
red. white and blue.
ORIGIN OF SABBATH IDEA.
Judaism gave to the world the Sabbath
idea. but Judaism does not stand or fall
With the Saturday Sabbath any more thar
the fate OF the American republic is
bound up in the colors OF red. white and
blue. And when conditions shall demand
as an alternative Of life or death the
transfer OF the Sabbath from Saturday
to another day should say that the
transfer should be made,
..If thought that these conditions were
present. here and now. I would say thai
+r,rsfar shh,,ld be made, for a Sa bbatf
is more necessary than Saturday. But
DO not regard these conditions as exist.
ing. The Jews have had to contend with
greater difficulties than these now OBJ.
tanning, and they haze conquered. / have
no fear for the future.