The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
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Henry WaIIenstein Appeals to
Jew and Gentle.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL"
Is Subject on Which He De-
IiverS His Lecture.

The Congregation of Manual held a
meeting at the Unitarian church Friday
evening The evening was passed with
q service of prayer and a lecture by
Henry Wallenstein. 1t was intended at
this meeting to arrange for services
every Friday night, but owing to the
light attendance, due to the bad weather,
the proposition went over till some other
time.
Mr.. Wallenstein's lecture was excep-
tionalIy fine, and Notwithstanding that
he has been under the weather. he de-
iivered it in an eloquent manner. he de-
clared that il was no lecture he was de-
uvering, but just ak. However, it
proved to be as full as If not fuller of
thought and good advice than most ser
mons The speaker took as his subject
the seventh commandment Thou shalt
not kill
He said in part: Possibly 1 will be
censured for selecting a topic of this
character simply because as one of your
number, who is in no sense your super
Tor and in many respect not your equal,
l have no right even to think that any
one of you could, under any circumstances
or conditions. be capable of violating this
commandment. but my boldness will seem
doubly reprehensible when 1 assert that
this transgression is of almost daily
occurrence, and that by the greater por-
ton of the human family.
The violation of this Mosaic decree
does not consist of paltry theft, of fell
Of foin
ing; it assumes rather the nature of
thoughless and reckless plundering,
wilful deliberate and hurtful stealing
of that supreme happiness and bliss. that
blessed contentment and felicity. that
heavenly and spiritual joy, boon of the
elevating consciousness which every re-
ligiously inclined human being feels when
permitted to worship God according to
the dictates of his own conscience"
Speaking of the wide chasm between
the Jewish people and the Gentle and
the bridging OF it over. Mr.. WaIlenstein
declared that the cause Of it was ignor-
ance Of truth.
Let but the Jew and the Christian, )"
said he, realize how deeply indebted
the ware to each other, religiously and
intellectually. and let each ascertain how
closely the two religions are. allied to
one another and that both have for their
aim the moral and spiritual perfection
OF mankind and the establishment of
everlasting verites-
Permit the Jewish child TO be taught
the truth that the Galilean teacher was
of Jewish flesh and blood, that he taught
only the purest Judaism with its precepts
of love and peace, that he was moralist-
reformer and rabbi in the broadest signiff-
canoe of the term, that he was, quoting
the words of prominent Jewish divine
and thinker, he was the last of the great
Jewish prophets
Then in the same manner convey to
the mind of the Christian child the truth
that the Master and Savior was of Jewish
parentage, that he lived and died Jew.
that he only taught Jewish doctrines of
love righteousness, humility, kindness,
Justice and goodness founded on the lofty
teachings of Moses, Isiah, Micah, Jere-
rniah and David, which hundreds of years
after his death were converted into
Christianity. So
Then let both Jew and Christian ac-
cept these truths for the sake of truth
in spite of their youthful and binding
impressions and we shall soon see the
dense mists of our superstitions and pre-
iudices dispeIed from our benighted
souls as vanishes the fog of an autumnal
morning before the warm rays of the
shining sun. and in this. advanced age of
reason and science this task would not
he at all a difficult one