The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-11
Rabbi Loeb Declares Russian Re-
verses in Nanchuria Are
Divine RetributiOn.
Won PLEHVE'S TRAGIC END.
Jewish Divine SAYS Minister
Was Bound to Reap the Fruit
of the Seed He Had
S0wn.
EEPTB BIIc SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Washington. Sept. i0-in MS New Ytars
sermon to-day Rabbi Julius I. Loeb. .
leading Jewish divine. referred in very
earnest manner To recent and present
events in the far East. particularly TO the
KIshen.- massacre the assassination OF
Won Piehve and the Russian-Japanese
War
Rabbi Loeb spoke OF the assassination
AID the terrible loss of life in Manchurfs
,-atious o, what men and nations may eS-
pect IL thev persist in wronsdoins and IN
justice In Ssrt he said:
The historian OF to-day has just re-
corded the ignominious execution Of Won
Plehve who was known as the wisest
counselor ard most powerful man In the
Russian Empire. and had he but known
TO number his days in order to acquire q
heart CT true wisdom: had he but felt his
great and crave responsibility as one int"
vho-- hands we're intrus.ed the destin'er
OF many human souls. had he but repented
whilst there was vet time and ceased to
seek 70. blood. ITS end would not have
been 50 tragic as II was.
Had Won PIehve been possessed Of Wis
dom to calculate properly and realize that
the evil he has heaped Up II bound to re-
act and recoiI on his own head he might
have stopped in time the misery and an
guish h- caused to the thousands Of vic
tins of his bloody designs and might have
spared to the world the numherless pre-
cious lives that are row being sacrificed
in the fields OF Manchuria: the Russo
Japarese War would not have been
brought into play and the international
disturbances In Russia would not have
grown daily more threatening
OBJECT LESSON TO WORLD.
This situation is an object leseon 70 W
and all the world. II affords to US q clear
understanding as to how the worldly wise.
trnded by arrogance ard self-aggrandizs-
nsn-. are too often devoid OF plain. every
day reasoning Won P,ehve preferred To
rule with iron rod. To spread death and
destruction all around. and the evil has
reco.Iesi on his own head He was bound
20 reap the fruit of the seed he had sOwn-
The ancient Greeks and Romans
lacked one thing-the sense of morality
and this is what brought them TO their
ruin. and what caused them to sink into
oblivion. The same is doubtless the weak
IL known as the great Power of the pres
ent age Unless she IA to repent In time
and cease to afiict Gods chosen serv-
ants. and with them all who are born In
the image Of God and who have a right
TO claim an equal share IN the enjoyment
% life and happiness. Russia's doom is
sealed
The japanese hitherto OF least sisnif-
caace among nations. were chosen as
the rod OF Gods anger to avense the
wrong OF Kishener which this war fol-
lows in close succession The hand Of
Providence is clearly manifest in the even,
and civilized mankind rejoices at Rus
sia's humiliation. Her former glory IS
waning from day to day. and there is the
beginning of her final end II matters
not If the scoffcr will sneer at the as
scrtion- But We can learn this from the
open book of the life OF nations. that just
such conditions as these have caused the
OF the greatest and most
powerful nations that cast their dread
upon the earth