The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-19
jewish CHAUTAUQUA
DISCUSSES MIRACLES
Regarded as a Combination
Of Fact and Fancy"
RABBI HlRSCH ON PEDAGOGY
Children Should Be Taught Bible and
Older Students Given Explanation Of
It's Symbolic Esaning--Does Not Be
lieve in Extenporaneous Prayer.

ATLANTIC CITY, y. J., July 19--With
each succeeding session OF the Jewish
Chautauqua's Summer assembly. the in
terest. as evidenced by the growing at
tendance, increases This is notably
the case when the Rev. Dr. Emil G.
Hirsch, CT Chicago, is announced to
speak Dr. Hirsch delivered the third
and last Of his lectures IN the course
on The Aim. scope and Method Of the
Jewish Religious School yesterday
morning before an assembiage that fill
cd all the available standing room in
the synagogue hall where the meetings
are being held
Eztemporaneous Prayer.
7 am not friend of extemporaneovs
prayers" said the speaker They who
have the gift of phras ag prayer are few
and far between rather have no
prayer than one INV ,-shy or unbeauti-
fully framed. Again. extemporaHeous
prayer is more or less apt 10 run to
Individual aspirations"
Rabbi EIiazer ben Hyekan, it is true,
divldual expression Of sentiment, and
would not have prayer formulated His
colleagues rejected his insistence- The
Individual prayers O. the Tabbis are
pithy and short. The common aspira-
tions found voice in the Jewish Prayer
Book That Prayer Book and its his
tOric scheme should be preserved ever
if in condensed form in our religious ex-
ercises. and the central characteristic
prayer motifs fthe Bar'ku. Sh INA. the
KadCsh) should be suoken in Hebrew
The Jewish Prayer Book IS an epitome
Of the Jewish faith.
Judaism Need Not Fear Comparisons.
Pedagogy today is convinced that the
individual IN accelerated progress trav-
erses all the stages which the race had
to pass through. This observation. Is
OF special Importance in the teeching
of Bible and religion. The child has its
neurological age as we'll as the race
Therefore, teach the Bible to the chill
dren as ii is is This is not dangerous,
because 1t is the natural method, ground
ed on good psychology
Provision must be made at a later
stage to meet the growing tendency to
inquiry. Judaism is but little interested
In miracles They prove and disproye
nothing Rabbinical theology explained
the miracles as conditions imposed On
nature in the hour Of creation, and thus
'immiracled' the miracles. But ration
alism kills both the letter and the
spirit. II makes silly what IS sublime,
and ridiculous what is Tevereutial.
when the hour strikes for explain
ing. explain fully, candidly, calling in
comparative folklore, Archaeology. lit
erature. and show how the Jewish
mind utilizing fact and fancy indis-
CTimiuately, made both sign and symbol
Of the moaotheistic thought and truth
Pedagogy has recognized the Importance
CT comparisons. One who knows one
language knows, in truth. no language.
1t is desirable that our knowledge Of
our religion should be complemented by
that Of other religions. Judaism need
not fear this comparison II viii only
gain by IL
a few years ago We were urged to
teach Jesus as & man in our religious
schools He belongs TO our history. but
in It has a very subsidiary part. StilI,
in view Of the excrayegant claims
made, it is essential that the real reIa-
lions OF Christianity TO Judaism be
fixed If possible. in the minds OF our
graduates We have had nothing 20
that is. Judaism"
i feature Of the session was q model
kindergarten lesson conducted by Miss
Addie J. Rosenberg, Of Cleveland, Ohio
Alliance Not Discouraged.
During the session Chancellor Der
kowitz read a letter from s. Frank. Of
New York, Secretary of the Anianse
Israelite UniverseIle, in which the state
ments made last week by Rabbi Martin
A Meyer, rejecting upon the methods
employed by the Alliance in Palestine.
were referred TO. The statement was
made that. while there was some truth
in the charges. the Alliance should not
feel discouraged, as much could be done
by the organization to relieve the ex-
isting conditions. Nissim BehaT, wEO is
in Paris. had been written 10. and asked
10 secure a satis factory answer from
the central committee.
This evening Chancellor Berkowitz
will conduct chIldreL's services. Rabbi
Harry Weiss, of Pueblo, Colo. Will de-
liver the sermon at the regular Sabbath
service
Tomorrow morning the course int'AD-
piled Philanthropy" viii be opened by
Rabbi E. c. Hirs2h on Tilyou's Steeple-
chase Pier, when he will speak on SO
ciaI Unrest In the evening Mrs Re
bekah Kohut OF New York. viii speak
at the Hotel Rudolf on the subject,
THE Religious Training of Our Youth
After Confirmation"