The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-07

Long before Joseph induced his
brethren to return for their father and
bring him out Of Egypt, and long pc
fore Moses afterWard led them out
from under Egyptian bondage, human
itv was increasingly on the move.
After Habvl ana Its confusion of
! tongues and the dispersion of human
lty, we get our next picture OIL human
~vanderiugs from the BlDie story when
Terah took Abram II Lot ana lheli
wives and went 1ortn from VI OF lle
Chaldes to go into the land OF CANAAN.
| The got as Tar as Harall, and Apfan 5
| father, Ierah, died there. linen came
the message to Abram to get thee out
of thy country, and from thy klhdrep'
and from thy fathers house, unto d
land that | will show thee. FROM
| this land they travelled into Egypt and
out again, and finally the possessions
| OF Abram and Lot became so great that
they could no longer get along toSethef.
So Abraln said to Lot that they would
separate, and he would give hln 1lrst
choice of the directions they could go.
And Lot chose the plain Of Jordan,
while Abram chose Canaan.
And SO the history of early Israel IS
full of the wanderings Of the shepherd
patriarchs, their households. their
herds and their flocks. Called forward
bv green fields and pleasant watering
places, lured on by the thirst Tor the
Deaceful conquest. Of u~noccupicd lands,
and the martial conquest OF alien peo-
| pies, they marched here and there,
| both before and after the exodus from
Egypt. The lsraelitcs We're Il reckless
people, and their constant seeking Oh
new lands to possess ana new pppOf-
tunities to improve in those days was
perhaps no more remarkable IMAM the
spirit of the Jew who is willing to pay
the price in the coin of suffering ana
| isolation for getting on in the world,
and for establishing a home and a
| competence for his children and those
who come after them. He Willingly
Wandcrs through the deserts of dltfl-
Guilty and prejudice if he can see be-
fore him the promised lane of golden
opportunities. And that IS why he is
the most widely dispersed and yet the
most strictly isolated of all the races
Of humanity.
We do not know when man first be-
gan his career on the earth. We only
know that vast geologic ages. ago
both the climate and the outline OF
Europe were very different from what
they are today, and hat man lived
there with animals long since extinct.
We do know that when the curtain
first rose on the stage of history it re-
Vealed in some favored regions, such
! as the valley of the Nile, nations and
civilizations venerable with age and
possessed of languages and arts and
institutions that bear evidence CT
thousands of years of growth and de-
velopment before the period of written
history began.
According to the most authentic in
formation gathered by the ethnologists
the earliest inhabitants of Europe
We're of the yellow race, which. broad
ly speaking, not only includes the Chi
nese and japanese. but the Slavic peo-
pies as we'll. They were also the first
inhabitants of the new world. In Eu-
rope today live two small peoples who
escaped the common fate of an over
Whelming avalanche of civilization
that swept up behind them-the
Rasques sheltered by the Pyrenees and
the Films and Lapps of the far north.