The Cairo bulletin., 1908-02-24

ISL naucn has been guaranteed? The
salocn, With all its nastness, will dis.
appear as seen as under the law Il
Will be made possible for decent
lplace Ct recreation to open its doors
Ion the day cf rest WHITTIER families
may so aud enjoy such social inter.
course rs they court Let the fana.
ties peep int the few summer gar.
daus which evea new though in dis
regard Of the law. are open on sun
day IN some parts Of this city. Gan
they honestly put these resorts On one
level with low dives? Low dives
should be inhibited on every day and
every night OF the year. In the Ger
man family gardens no one yet has
been misled into intemperauce CT
crime, nor have these places been
obnoxious disturbers Of the peace OF
the neighborhood. Can we not learn
from the experience OF other nations
If cur temperance agitators and
their friends in the pulpits We're less
convinced of their own infallihility
they would not refuse to consult and
study the lessons set before them by
the social life and habits of the Jews
Jews are not abstainers in the sense
OF our temperance extremists. Yet
an habitual dr1mkard has remained
up to the present day the rarest AMI
always despised exception among the
jews. Alcoholism has never been thu
cause of poverty among
them Why this2 Because their ne
ligion taught them to look upon wine
as the gift of God. They pronounced
the benediction over the cup contain
ing the symbol of joy and by turn
ing it into an expression of lcve of onc
for the other, they threw around it the
Of qualification The Jew
was trained to self control He be
lieyes that every man exercising this
power is able to control his appetite
and his thirst and his passion Noi
the policeman at every turr
Ct lifes road. but constantly pointing
to the dignity which should and ma
go with self-reliant humanity TIL
Jews were disciplined to strength. Il
face temptations and to rise above
them.
This example might suggest to ctr
extremists in what aud why thes
have failed. The Jewish Sabbath was |
4 day OF joy, II was ushered in with |,
the Sabbath cup OF wine-fermente
passed from lip to Ii |
at the joyful Sabbath meal No dc
nestle festiyity was without the sym |
Dol of joy-the cup OF wine. In thi'
of self-disclplining mani
ness the Jew grew up, He was pro
ected against tho allurements OF
strong drink, just because it did NOT
nave for him the added charm of
orbidden Indulgence. His father an!
mother at the family table had par
AIKEN of the cup. He remembered
hat they were temperate withal ana
hus he endeavored to be worthy OF
lis parents by emulating their mod
ration and keeping sacred their eX
nipple and, when they had passed
way, their memory. Yet from the
gnored 90 put it mildly Jews many
assons might be learned both with
eference to the proper observance OF
he Sabbath day and the training OF
he young to self control.
1t is curious that clergymen who
ever ewary of pilloring the Jews and
he Pharisees for their liberalism and ,
heir legalism. are in these things ,
ispIaying a wonderful, though not ed ,
wing. aptitude in Pharisaism, as they !
nd their commentaries on the New r
testament are fond of calling this in
istence upon the law long after It
as ceased being. If ever it was con /
onant with Law That a man-made
iw is God-ordained Is a conclusion {
hitch Is worthy cf literalists and de .
arves the rebuke which Jesus is re- /
orted to have administered when he G
a well-known Rabbinic n