The Calumet news., 1912-05-31

I itht anu my idpoI, my dmDltlOn ahu
my achievement
Il am Hebrew and. being He
brew | shall honor father and mother
and be unto them stay and staff in
their old age; be unto the wife who
God hath given me a loyal devoted
husband; and be unto my children a
faithful teacher. training them in the
path Of virtue and the fear OF God
l am a Hebrew. therefore / must lc
unto others as | would have others dc
unto me. ! must love my fellowmen
as myself must respect and hold sa :
cred his life his honor, his property
his rights and his happiness cen as
would my own.
Il am Hebrew and as such IL be
hooves me to have pity and compass :
sion for the orphan, be help unto
the widow and ever to be mindful OF
the prophetic words Break thy bread
tc the hungry and bring the poor who
are east out into thy house; when
thou seest the naked, do thou cover
him and turn not away from thine
own hesh.'
81 am "A Hebrew ana as such / am
bddcn to be a loyal citizen of the
land that grants me it's protection. to
obey its laws, to honor its constitut-
ed authorities. live at peace with ms
fellowman and serve the common law
with all my strength.
MY ancestors have sought fame
not through bloody accomplishments
Of the sword. nor yet on copse-strewn
battlehelds The victory of God the
victory of truth. the victory of justice
and righteousness. That was the
foremost aim of all their striving and
aspirations. My ANCESTOR the first
who bore the name Hebrew, was
Abraham. He who four thousand
years ago already at a time when the
thickest darkness of barbarism be-
Clouded all the rest or mankind built
sltars to the one eternal God and by
his precept and practice taught be-
nighted generation the doctrines OF
human love and kindness and charity.
And my ancestors were those six
thousand men and women who stood
at the foot of that mountain and there
concluded an everlasting covenant
with the most High and thus became
the priest nation or humanity, avow-
ing to preserve His reaching of saliva
tion from generation to generation and
TO spread them from people to people.
"And have the descendants in the
course of time not faithfully fulfilled
what the fathers had avowed? Have
not Israel's pious singers composed
and imbued the most glorious songs
that were ever and will be composed
and intoncd. the most glorious that
ever were or will be composed and in
toned by man i'm honor of God? Have
not His seers and prophets denounced
with tongues of fire the violence.
wlckedness and folly of peoples
princes, and has not this irresistible
enthusiasm exalted the sublime ideals
of humanity, truth, justice, love and
peace?
"Have not Isracls sages and philo-
sophers given the profoundest unfold
ments of the problems Of God and man
of life and dead. of heaven and earti
and all those problems that most per-
plex and modify the human intellect.
"But greater and by far, more glor-
ious than all this, greater than Israel's
problems. greater than his teachings
and losophers-grander than al
this is the example which our whole
people has set through a two thou
sand year long martyrdom as a people
of endurance. people of steadfast-
ness.
Friends, | have endeavored TO pres.
ent to you what II means to be 9
Hebrew, what IL means TO be a Jew
No greater distinction can come e
| in this sense Today on this festive
occasion and on this spot dedicated e
God, | will have you consecratc your.
selves anew to your ancient faith.
| would have you resolve to avow to lbs
Jews. not I'm name only but i'm deed, not
merely by virtue OF birth but by vir'
tue of worth. not purely by dead ant
static sentiment but by living thine
warmer throbbing conviction.
would have you TO be Jews devoted e
your faith with all your heart ant
with all your soul and with all YOU
might. You owe this much to th'
House of Israel to yourselves and t
| the splendid citizenry In whose mids
you are privileged TO live. This citi
zenry, second to none i'm the countr!
in fairness and generosity, in patriot
| ism and enlightenment. this citizenr1
looks upon you as the representative
of the ancient race and faith. See L
| IL that you be worthy representatives.
The strength OF five men is equiva.
lent TO That Of one horse.