Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-03-21
NEW VIEW OF The
MOSAIC LAW IS
PRESENTED
Rabbi Chapman Believes the
Golden Rule of Moses is the
Basis of Universal Brother
hood of Man,

the tonic Of a most interesting address
delivered last night at Temple Albert
by Rabbi Chapman at the regular
Friday evening service, The sermon
which is well worth reading is as fol
lows;
Text: Thou shalt love thy fellow
man as thyself. Lev XIX, Is.
II seek my brothers" said Joseph,
and the whole world re-echoes the
same thought. The human heart
hungers after COMPREHENSIVE, There
is scarcely a more depressing sensa-
ton than the realization that, in the
midst of /, 200, 100000 of people, one
stands alone This sense of loneliness,
the awful awakening that one has no
friend, associate, companion, kinsman,
oomrade or beloved one, to whom to
look for sympathy and encouragement,
often drives men to despair, To SUI
eide. Fellowship is the heaven for a
dreary life. Brotherhood is the great
oasis on our march from the cradle
to the grave, whilst the lack of 1t
makes life an intolerable journey
through a barren desert For almost
thirtY-tiVe hundred years, religions
have preached the brotherhood of
man, but to no avail We are still
far from the millennium, there is no
universal peace, no lying down of the
lion and the lamb together, save when
the lamb is inside of the lion, The
cause of this failure is the neglect OF
religions to keep the main object In
view. Theology has been the para
mount issue, and men have busted
themselves more to gain adherents to
certain theological doctrines, than to
line of conduct based simply on the
love of God and man Theology has
been the apple of discord that divid-
ed men into hostil sects, fed rcligi-
Gus prejudice, organized persecution
established the inquistion, gave an
impetus to the manufacture and use
of the thumbsCrew and the rack, the
most unanswerable arguments ever in
vented. Theology lit the fires of the
auto da fe, made the highway of ma
tons red with human blood, and re
tarded the progress of civilization and
the universal brotherhood which reli-
gjon has preached in and out of sed-
son. Whilst religion stroVe to bind
men together, theology divided them
and undid the good already effected.
Impassioned reformers then undertook
to establish the great desideratum by
force With the winged words lib
crty, equality and Fraternity they in
famed the masses, organized reVOlu-
tons against the aristrocracy, the
government and the rulers, and inst-
tuted an era of carnage. The reign
of terror in France is still a warning
to mankind. The men who marched
to the barbados as martyrs to the
cause that failed, We're imDelled by
that feverish thirst for liberty, equal
ity and fraternity" Labor unions, so
cialism, communism anarchism, the
| assassination, now and then of ruler,
| are only similar vain outcries of the
human heart, longing for justice, for
unity and for peace.
Why have all these efforts failed?
Because they started from two false
premises, viz: First, that the uniFef-
sal brotherhood did not exist, that IS,
it had to be created by human effort
Second, that the solution Of the prob
lem consisted in the formation Of Il
universal church, or an ideal social
| state. If all men become Buddhists,
Christians or Mohammedans or Con
fucianists the respective adherents Of
these faiths believed the end desired
would be attained, Finally others had
faith in their particular social or pc
liucal nostrum as a panaCea for all
the evils of the world All these rcli-
gious, social and political refoimers
who failed did not understand or act
upon a full comprehension of the pro
found meaning OF the Golden Rule OF
Moses: Thou shalt love thy fellow
man as myself"
This rule assumes at once that all
men are our felIOWmen, it makes no
discrimination of race, creed, color
nationality, rank or station. 1t de-
cares the existence of one human
family a yeritable universal brother
hood, and calls upon all men to rec
Cgnze it by placing all on an equal
ily In effect it says that as you love
yourself by insisting on your ihalien-
able rights Of life. liberty property
and the pursuit of happiness, you
must love your fellow man in the same
quality and degree, and grant him
similar rights and privileges, On the
same basis then of this golden rule or
Moses, universal brotherhood IS NOT
only possible, 1t is an accomplished
fact.
Have we not all one Father? Has
not one God created us all."-Mal II
10. 1t is vain to create what already
exists We should rather teach men
to recognize this natural brotherhood
and act accordingly.
As the beauties of nature exist only
for those who see them, as God exists
only for those who know Him, so the
brotherhood of man exists only for
those who recognize it. Religion and
education must he directed so to train
the mind and the heart as to make
men realize the thought that the ht-
man family is one. From whatever
standpoint we view the origin Of man,
from the scientific (eVOlutionD or the
( theological we are forced to the con-
clusion that the five races of men
have been developed from one COM
mon family. Even in other directions
we find a general llinshop. There is
physical similarity amongst all men,