The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-16
ON lNHERMARRIAGE
pr. Levy, in Second Sunday Sermon, Opposes Union of
 Those of Different Scots.
IA SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTION
lntcrmarrlagc Destroys Not onl, Rc-
 l.sau and Modern Marriage.

Before large audience at tho Tem- pic Mlshkan Israel yesterday morning Rev Dr Lew preached on the sub- feet Should Jews intormamy 2" There were many prominent citizens of all creeds present most of whom warmly approved of Dr Lows attl- tude that intcrmarrlagc should bo dls- couragcd, at least in tho present state of society, between all who differ in creed. not only because of lts religious but also because Of lts social results
 pr Levy took as his text the story or Jacob and Esau, tho latter of whom married out of his nation and was never forgotten by his father The outcome of that marriage the marauding trbc of Bedouln robbers In Asia Is an example and warning. while Jacob who followed his fathers advice ana married one of tho daugh- tors of his own nation. founded line of prophets ani kings, and people of wonderful vitality and exemplary do- mestic life of genius and enterprise
 This, said Dr Levy is T precedent confirmed by 5000 years of history, for the purity of blood of tho Hebrew people has been In large part the cause of their freedom from erlmirality. heggary and divorce. Not that the Jews have monopoly of social vir- tues. but the prcpondcrance of evi- dence shows that intormarrlago Is the cause of host of social failures.
 As seen in the life of the high living, fashionable set intermarrIago has re- suited in etrewinE the shores of mod ern life with heaps of vrecks and der elicts on the seq of matrimony
 Two people who differ in such vital facts as those which concern the soul should never marry, for the result can be only dIscorl md misery \ hus- band and wiGc may live happily even with this difference of opinion. but only for time. But the birth of chll- dren brings only unhappiness, for they must eventually either oppose the re- ligion of one parent or else become atheists. And again, when trouble comes in and the comforts of religion are needed, love flies out at the win dow
 With moro ibernllty, tho mlugling of sects may he the rule and must come in time. but the world ia not yet ripe for it For the perfect brother hood, toward which we are always ap- preaching, must bring social amalga- nation and the harmcny of Creeds, But ase1oag as any two different sects damn each other and both damn tho Jew, go long must there be ostrango- ment in marriage. Like Canada and tac United states in the fisheries qucs- tior let each fish in his own streams an harbors.
 The threo causes of intermarriage, pr. Levy defined as including those who marry for social position and brccme ashamed of their own people and those who just marry, taking some empty -hcaded 0Sc creature, re- duced from Sl, both of which he con demncd and those who marry one of another Cre0l because of isolation from those of their own faith, EXper- fence has shown that intcrmarriage is unwisc but most dangerous Is IL to marry outside ones love. Dr. Levy denounced those who marr" for con. vcniencc or necessity, to unite large fortunes or Co get a title, declaring that the cmptyng out of love degradcs man to the brute.
 Marriages must be for love and must be between tI1se of the same fundamental faiths, for tho perpetui- ty of society and religion depend on the acme which should be to the chil- dren q lesson Of hope and refuge from the temptations and storms of life.