The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23


and beyond nil others. should resist
this disease which crucihes the sow
and attenuates the spirit, because the
call OF his blood, Ills mission and MS
heritage should surmoant the siren
song OF practica1ity, would offer an
humble word or adrnonition and warn.
ing ours is a people which stiil
lives because mono other has liHea so
long. Ours is form OF supremacy III
The mobility of divine and natural Sc
lection. We must not become SUP
merged We must not become SUP
altcrns We must not fcrsWear our
own,
what then is the special fitness
which has armed the Jew against the
combined attacks of time and chance
and mar? What quality. what inner
mower, has kept him uncoerced and m
roercihIe? OF certainty his spirit
uality. his grip upon the real vitality
which tlows from the soil The dew
has been the distinctively spiritual ele-
mont in the worlds society, his mas
been a labor of light and leading me
giving OF his own divine afflatus 10 an
mankind. Yet, If spirituality be tne
Jews particular contribution, once ne
fails in this, his mission, once he strips
mace in the economy of nature be-
comes un;enanted and his usefulness
incontrcvertible. 1t is work which
will employ no laggard and harbor no
sh!rk. If the Jew Will not perform
the service he must give up MS ten-
are OF life.
Crceds HIVE Their Changes.
"Behold the crisis. ] am not one OF
those who mistake alteration for pre-
.ionition OF approaching dlssoiutloh'
Since All things suffer change, save
God the Truth creeds must also nave
their shifts and turns New religious
needs are felt: new religious helps are
sought. Dogmas must grow, not stop
on heights OF self .sufficiency. SO long
as the mutations are merely in form
so long as the variations are only IN
outward rite, they are beyond all cavil
So long as the substance, the es-
tsence of judaism remains intact, there
Is 10 peril But when the transforma-
ton is vital. when 1t touches the genius
and would uproot the foundations oil
our religion, the threshold OF the
temple tas been crossed. charge that
laudable desire to do away win an
Journalism has found its elimination
An still follower convention. ] charge
the praiseworthy effort to obliterate
ceremonialism has reached its con-
summation in the very evil from which
escape was sought. l charge that DIS
cIpline has been driven forth by con-
venience, another product of material-
ism. inducing mummery and llp-ser-
vice, supporting inner barrenness and
playing a game of eternities.
Another Leader Needed.
MANY centuries have gone since the
ignoble times when Israel was The
toy OF the Greek--a polluted temple
belonging to a people which day D.
day was forgetting its God. The pleas
Grines conceived by, Greece, decrepi
and decayed. had almost throttled TIL
Hebrews consciousness and almost de
s,royed his spiritual integrity. 1srae
had indeed fallen on evil days and evi
tongues when. above the barbarou
dissonancc OF Bacchus and his revelers
was heard the call to arms OF thu
prince of the sons or God. making
dying faith and nation instinct Wit
triumphant life and eNaltinS enthu
siasm.
..Who knows that another Juda!
Maccabaeus may not issue from oul
ranks to root out and eNtirpate 7
modern Hellenism in modern Jul
DEAF
who knows that the reinoarnat,
Hero may not. by the compelling fore
OF his God-Giten genius, mite int
one unbroken whole, the withdraw
the Indifferent. the disaTected and tn
steadfast? Who knows that he ma
not stamp himself forever upon hi
race. so that in far distant ages tn
babe shall lisp his name in prayer an
the old man long to meet him in tn
world beyond2
1T seems to me that in apparen
case our greatest battles must We
be fought; that in a temporal securit
the lesson of self-possesson. is to b
thoroughly learned; that as the beaut
OF a deathless. wordless spiritualit!
becomes more and more the keynot
of our lives, the career of civilization
will hasten its unfolding to the swee
and final contamination.
And. though the work OF the e Ma
B'Rith may not have its old fashion, Il
will nevertheless bear the impress OF
the enlightenment and accomplished
uplift. and will breathe the fragrance
OF communion of Jews, unmarried By
inequality and undisturbed by selfish.
ness. =.
BUSINESS. Session To-day.
The address was followed by a re
ception to the delegates given by Rim
mon Lodge. No. IS, in the auditorium
of Murphy's Hotel.
The convention ASSEMBLIES for busi'
ness this morning at 10 o'clock. a
4 P. NJ. committee with motor car
will meet the delegates at the Grace
Street entrance of Murphys Hotel 70
an automobile ride. visiting the prin
cipal points OF interest in the city.
9 o'clock tonight there will be re
ception rendered the delegates at TIL
jefferson Club, carriages for whic
will call at the hotel at $40 P. NJ.
A pleasant feature of the day wa
the reception rendered the delegates b
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph l.. Levy at thel
residence. 2202 West Grace street. yet
terday afternoon at A o'clock.
Pinchot Coming Home.
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