The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-18

OF people. Whilst they We're different
from us in appearance and habits,
there we're ties of blood between us
and they brought new spirit
amongst us. They surrounded us like
an army This movement from the
East to the West of this great army
strong in the old ideals, acting upon
and changing our mode of thought,
demanding from us change-this was
the hand of God. Now, my friends,
there must be differentiation. The
Jew should differ from his neighbor,
He can be on the same terms with
him in politics and can be socially his
friend, and he can be commercially
on the most excellent terms, can do
business with him from morning to
night the whole year through, but he
must be, in his religion, different
person. And he must know it. He
must be conscious of it. He must be
proud of it in the true sense of the
word. Be different Be something.
Be original, and do not try to wash
out all that is original in you. There
was again great mistake that made.
4 will just merely hold your atten-
ton for one short while longer, be-
cause there is one more mistake which
you will recognize, mistake of mine.
1t is that | believed in the individual
freedom of each human being in re-
gard to religion My idea was to have
a religion for everyone. There should
be as many religions as there were
people, not one religion for ALL I did
not believe in that idea of one flock
and one shepherd. No, l believed that
every individual has the right and
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himself, be free to form his ideals
and become happy in the performance
of whatever duties he may have laid
down for himself 1t was a great
thought, and had a great deal to COM
mend itself.
But, my friends, it was mistake.
You cannot form an army in which ev-
cry soldier can do as he pleases. He
must stand under some authority and
do the bidding of that authority. You
cannot form labor union in which
the member may act as he pleases. He
may vote for certain thing, but after
a plan is decided upon he must abide
by the dictum of his superior officer.
He must strike when they tell him to
strike, whether he cares to or not, and
go to work whether he cares to or not.
He cannot be free. He must sink his
Individuality. You cannot build
house out of sand-that is, out of the
granules composing a heap of sand.
What you have to do is to put cement
to 1t and make the individual grains
hold together, stick together You
must take away every liberty of mo-
ton they have. Then you can get
stone and build a house of it. 1t will
hold. But not the sand. / believed we
could build houses that way. | found
was mistaken.
There must be a cementing of ey-
cry individual in regard to religion.
We cannot have one believing one
thing and the other another thing.
There must be authority to guide
them. There must be force to make
them do what the others do. 1t may
be a hardship upon the individual, but
is for the good of the larger body of the
larger group. We can never unite man
kind into one great body We can
only unite them into groups Indiyi-
duality of the individual must exist
Int 1t must be-made subservient to the
larger body. That was something
have learned, only too late did not
see it at that time in that light, and
made a great mistake. ] should have
worked in that direction, and might
have succeeded much better. l might
have obtained discipline, and things
would have gone better have told
You all this, my friends, not merely to
nnburden my heart, but simply because
think II applies to you today just as
Well as it does to me- You may take
alesson from my experiences, and
pray to you to avoid the mistakes
which ] made.