Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
HOvi8e8 Nils Bretbren.
Rev. H. Masiansky, Famous Yddish Lecturer Delivers Re-
markable Address in This City-TeIs Jews to Stand
Up for Their Ancient Principles of Life

Last Sunday night at the Pythian Temple
Rev. II. Masiansky of New York deliv-
cred a Zionist lecture under the auspices of
the Bnai-Zion Society of Washington the
proceeds Of which are to go toward raising
fund for the establishing of Jewish
library In this city. Rev Masliansky is
universally regarded as the most popular
orator in Yiddish He has been for ten
years the regular lecturer of the Hebrew
Educational Alliance, or Hebrew Institute,
on the corner of Jefferson street and East
Broadway, New York city, where he de:iv-
ers lectures once a week and receives his
stated salary from Jacob H. Schiff.
Mr.. Rosenfeld acted as chairman of the
meeting and introduced the speakers of the
evening. piano solo was rendered by Miss
Beatrice Davis with particular skill. Her
brothers, Uriel and Meyer Davis played
a duet on the piano and violin and the rem
ditions of this talented family won for
them the heartest applause Of the audi
ence. Rev H. Grafman sang the Zionist
anthem, "Hatikvah" Other Zion hymns
were sung by some of the boys of the
Hebrew school,
Rabbi Julius T. Loeb delivered a brief
address on the urgent needs of a Jewish
library, and he was followed by Rev.
Masliansky.
The substance of Rev Masltansky's adj
dress in Yiddish, translated by Dr. Loeb,
Is as follows:
AS a rule, many more people are found
in the gambling houses than in the libraries
The righteous amid the community are us
ually the few, and not the many Hence
We Jews should never be affected by the
tendencies of the majority. and in whatever
concerns our religions or ethical principles
We should never yield an inch of ground
even though we be the smallest minority
we have enough cause to pride our
selves upon characteristics distinctly Jew
1sh, and we need not go abroad to borrow
our moral and civilizing principle from any
other sources.
Tomorrow night the public at large will
by manifest jubilaton ring in the year
1907, dating from the birth, rather the
eighth day of circumcision, of an individual
Jew. But how little does the world know
or appreciate the Jew of all history unto
whom is ascribed the birthright of moral
advancement and human civilizations: how
little do the worldly nations regard the
prestige of him who has suffered and died
for the redemption of mankind in contin-
ued succession throughout these many
years; how little of insight do they all
have into the part the Jew has played,
and is still playing, in bringing together
and molding together the various national
tiles into closer union of brothers; not
by force nor by might, but by the still
small whisper of a universal godhead.
THE world usually fails to appreciate
the tolls and laborS of the histrionic artist
that makes the stage and is compelled to
traverse the world from place to place in
order to recall to human society the trag-
edies of life which the people themselves
create by their own follies and inconsistent
cies.
"A heavy and unappreciated task is in
deed, the part of the artist played by the
wandering Jew in all climes and ages.
England justly prides herself upon her
Shakespeare, the undying dramatist; Ger