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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

IT Is A far cry from the first half
If the first century to the first
L ba1f of the 18th century, from
r5iueI and PhiIo to Gabriel Riesser.
B,t If is well to skip the intervening
noriod Within those centuries Chris
.,..,+-. haean. prospered and became
a ,,-orld religion, with world power and
the naqes of Jewish history are not
ron1e+e with periods Of friendship and
rro+berlv love. but darkened with per
-o,,+ior, and oppressiOR, the like Of
49,. &c unknown in the annals of
-a+ions And so we skip this period
g. tho nresent and turn our gaze to
t6a first glimmerinG OF the morning
- - aoual rights as 1t rose over
the European SKIES anu = aUualty
s-~aod its health giving rays 10 all
~ 80 except Russia and Roumania.
ia I3iesSer and His Activities.
AID ubile many names might be
singled out from the gala&y oL MO1 my
cIIanS2,Dions whose efforts helped bring
oboiIf the brighter day and while Of
fetal representatives OF Judaism were
striving to bring about better unuer-
standing between the domlnahL iall1
oDd the minority faith, JUDAISM, ana
1,reine- citizenship and equal rights
and oDportunities for all Irrespective
of faith. yet I deem II wlsesI 70 uWeII
ON the activities of Gabriel RleSser'
Who undertook this, task unotticlaily
and who was Iorceu 10 W ~ "
When the Jews Of Baden desired
+o snow him their appreciation for ms
efforts in their emancipation, they sent
y naintiug bv the Jewish artist OPP
De1heirn. entitled The Home Coming
IF Jewish Soldier" This master
niece of Oppenheim represents a Jew
ish youth returning from the DaILIe
country and SuEDrlSllE
his narcnts and family as they are
Gathered for sabbath repose. ana IN
TepIving to this symbolic gift R1esser
said The father is foolish who WISHES
to wrap his son IN garments OF an
tiouity-but wanting in dignity IS the
son ashamed OF his father, the genera
ton ashamed of the past,
In this incident we have the epitom-
lied sudden awakening OF european
nations to their duty to the Jewish IN
habitants on the one hand they saw
the Jewish youth fighting side by side
with their Christian neighbOrs the bat
Ties Of their country even though that
country denied them the rights of cit
izenship and restricted not only their
modes of earning d livelihood, but also
the number of their marriages And
on the other hand the Jew was grasp
ing the knowledge of the world and
steeped though he might be in Tai
mudic and Rabbinic lore, here and
there were brave spirits, like Men
delssOhn. Heine and SpinOza who drank
deep of the culture of their time and
reflected the glory of Judaism by their
position in the world Of letters.
Had Wonderful Mental Capacity.
Gabriel Riesser was born in Ham
burg in 1906 and died in the same city
in 1853. He was the son of well to
do parents and early showed wonder
full mental capacity. Even in those
days many German Jews were ashamed
and felt disgraced by the uncouthness
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

of the Polish immigrants flocklng
into Germany. But these were more
than repaid by the splendid labOrs Oh
a Riesser, who according to Graetz-
derived his decision of character
more from his grandfather on MS
mothers side, Rabbi Raphael Cohen
who had emigrated from Poland, than
from his good natured though easily
Influenced father"
Reared in a home where want was
unknown and where the family tried
to be as nearly German as the law of
the land permitted, he devoted his
talents to the study of law, studying
at k1el and Heidelberg. At the close
of his school career he returned to his
native town of Hamburg, and in 1880
applied for admission to the bar But
his request was refused Not because
ne was ignorant of his chosen profess
sion, not because he lacked talent to
properly administer such affairs as
might be entrusted to him. but simply
because he was a Jew. He then went
70 Heidelberg and asked permission TO
deliver lectures in law as DriVat-do-
cent, and again he was refused because
4 he was a Jew.
Had he not been thwarted in mis-
ambition either to practice law at
Hamburg or to teach law at Heidel-
berg, ne would have been simply a
worthy German citizen of the Jewish
4 faith to whom Judaism was simply
the inherited faith of his fathers ana
self assertion on his part. But being
I thWarted in his ambition because he
was Jew, he soon realized his own
emancipation depended on the emancl-
patton of the lowliest of his coreligion-
lists Time and again inducements
were offered If he would accept the
faith of the majority, but these he al
ways Spurned. Not because he was
an overly devOut Jew, but he declared
/ religion was matter between man
and his God, between conscience ana
deity and denied the right of the state
to dictate upon such matters. OF ms
Jewish descent there were few traces.
Judaism, as the leaven of history
meant nothing to him." continues
Graetz, "Only the recollection of his
youth and his parental home in
{ fluenced him"
Fights for Emancipation of Jews.
And in spite of such a. religious dis
position he took up the battle for the
emancipation of the Jew. He estab
lished a PERIODICAL, Der Jude" for the
PRONUNCIATION of his theories and
therein he strOve with calmness, yet
with keen foresight, to focus the at
tention of Jew aud nOnJeW to the IN
justice of conditions as they then eX-
listed And the time was ripe for just
such a movement. The July revolution
in 1880 found an echo in Germany and
here and there free cities and indie
pendent states were lowering the bar
riers and welcoming the Jew TO full
citizenship.
And his greatest battle was not with
the nOnJeW, but with many of his CO.
religiOnists With bitter satire he re
preached the fainthearted Jews who,
having comfortable position separ-
ated themselves from the main body
of their brethren" He boldly declared:
IF unjust hatred clings to our name
should we not instead of denying it,
rather use all our strength to secure
honor for it?'' He encountered many
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

men who urged him to leave well
enough alone, who openly declared he
was creating prejudice by his con-
tinued appeal for emancipation And
his work was more effective because
he was a lawyer than it would have
been had he occupied an official po-
sitiOn in Judaism. Young men who were
accustomed to bow their heads in hum
Bile submission to things as they were,
caught the lire of his enthusiasm and
enlisted under his banner They real
lied that though layman, he was
willing and ready to give of his time
and talent Tor ms peoples walfare and
they enlisted for the just cause.
He left Hamburg temporarily. but
returned in 1913 and was adrIittcd 20
the practice Of law though Sttu a Jew
The times had changed and Hamburg
gave what it had refused to give 13
years previously. He became active
in the affairs of his city and in 1913
was elected to the German parliament
at Frankfurt. Later he was one OF
the delegates sent to offer the crown
of Germany to Frederick William and
when, IN 1888 high court was estab-
lished in Hamburg he was appointed
"Ober- gerichtsrath."
Spreads Through Europe.
Thus we have in outline, sketched
in the biography of a single Individual
the struggle for emancipation which
was taking place in all parts OF EU-
rope and which today, after a lapse
of little more than half a century
seems to be ancient history That the
Jew has justified the confidence placed
in him IS realized by all VINO keep in
touch with the affairs of modern Eu-
rope. Sir Rufus Isaacs is lord chief
justice of England. T c. NJ Asser is
president Of the international court of
arbitration at the Hague: ST.. Luzza % s
premier Of Italy: ErnestO Nathan has
been mayor Of Rome for the past six
years; Heltai is mayor Of Budapest.
"a 81 p 4 Ice
OF Switzerland for the year 1914 To
these might be added many more
names
And we should not allow this sketch
10 pass without drawing from it a
lesson Tor our day ano our time. Equal
rights TO Jews are recognized in ell
clVlllzed nations and because of THIS
Lne jew must be true to himself and
IaiunIuI to his heritage. We should
not SIMPLY be Americans, but we must
also pc Jews. proud of our faith and
Wiling to make sacrifices so thar this
heritage be handed to cur children
80 long as Russia and ROmanil exist
Jhere IS need for those who have com
Portable positions to make sacrifices
Tor their cOreligiOnists who live IN be-
nlghted lands. We must not "separa te
ourselves from the main body Of our
brethren but extend to them a help
ing hand and a word Of encOura cement
in the struggle they are making for
freedom and the suffering they bear
simply because they are Jews.
The Encyclopedia Britannica and the
Encyclopaedia Americana may not find
space for a short sketch of Gabriel
Riesser. champion of religious liberty
and advocate of the emancipation of
the Jews, but we would place a wreath
of affection upon the memory of one,
who vanduished the feeling of dis
grace in the Jew, Characteristic of the
educated Jew Of his time" and set UP
a new hope for Jewish life in modern
cultural environments
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

Texts "FOrsake not the assembling
of yourselves tOEether."-Heb. X;25.
= INCE the beginning, public as
semblies with their accompanying
- features. have been popular means
for promoting social enterprises and
individual good. There are evidences
that the most ancient, as well as the
most primitive people, held meetings
for the consideration of tribal or ma
tiOnal interests Men gifted in the arts
of oratOry have moved these assemb-
lies to heroic undertakings, and per-
suaded them to accept new ideals and
programs. Athens had her Areopagus
and Rome her Forum where statesmen
and philosophers discoursed to the as
sembled multitudes. So fixed was
the idea that only by means OF as
sembly could reforms be accomplished,
that Moses declined to attempt the de-
liVerance of his own people from ESyp-
tian bondage until Aaron, who was
more gifted IN public speaking, nad
been assigned as his cOlabOrer in that
herculean task. Through the history
of the Hebrew people we witness the
prominent place of the public assembly
when the theOcratic ideals were fash
Toned and fOstered. Many of its great
est prophets were orators of marked
ability who appealed to the people IN
the name of Jehovah. Thus Amos, the
herdsman of TekOa, invaded the sacred
precincts Of the capital of the northen
kingdom and Isaiah rallied the waver-
ing Inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Church Takes Up Assembly Idea.
The church began in the midst of the
spectacular events of PentecOst with
its remarkable gathering of "devout
men from every nation under heaven"
and a notable demonstration of sacred
oratOry. It has continued through all
its history to prosper in proportion as
it has been able to call the people to-
gether and move them en- masse.
It's early missionaries made use Of the
Jewish synagOgs when they found the
congregation already formed ready to
hear the message of such impassioned
preachers as Paul and the apostles In
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND
PRESBYTERIANS ACTIVE

With new and semioffioiaI ma
chinery. and a new secretary TO lead
them. COngregat iOnalists are putting
national affairs into vigorous shape,
expecting to have all complete within
the year. Presbyteriaus named a COM
mittee on eugenics and uniform d.
vOrce laws. and win perfect a social
service organization at their general
assembly in May Disciples OF Christ
viii for a second time hold a cOnven-
ton with elected delegates. The fric-
ton over the change is disappearing,
and viii be gone, 1t Is declared, long
before the October convention meets.
Lutherans have some unity plans, but
find them to work out slowly.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

Missionary society will meet with Mrs
J. L. Mcknight, 2S05 Dakota avenue,
Thursday afternoon at o'clock. some
Notable Personal Workers will De Ihe
topic for discussion at the Wednesday
evening prayer service The quarterly
council of the officers and teachers o.
the Sunday school and all interested IN
this work will be held in the Sunday
school room Friday at 7.3O p. m
Series of Lectures.
The regular meeting of the soclely u
Practical Christianity viii De he 49, -
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at 60Z NoItH
OREGON street. Miss Clara A Prenuce'
of California. will continue the ser
of lectures she has been delivering al
previous meetings. The midweek meet
ing viii be held at 7.30 o'clock Wednes-
day night at the same place.
Trinity Women Meet.
Tuesday afternoon at $50 IN the
church parlOr, the WOmen's missionary
society of the Trinity Methodist chUrch
viii meet as a study class MIS-. Geo, GeO
Oliver will preside and an eNcellent
program has been arranged
More than 300 of Trinity's congrega-
ton promised to read with the pastor
during January the book of Matthew.
The mems club of st. Clements Epls-
cOpal church will meet at s o'clock on
Monday night in Kendrick nail Ihere
will be election of officers and speclaI
services following this
Church Choir Social.
The choir of St Clements church viii
have a social time in Kendrlck hall on
Tuesday evening. January IL.
The WOman's Bible class of st Glenn
enTs will hold a meeting on Friday af-
ternoOn, January 16, a o'clock.
To Give a KensingtOn.
Circle l. of the First Methodist EpiS-
cOpal church. viii give q "kensingtOn"
on Tuesday afternoon at the church
parsonage from $50 to $50. At $50
o'clock there viii be a business meeting
held.
Thursday afternoon the aid society Of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
viii hold a business and social meeting
at the church at 245 o'clock.
Two Church Societies Meet.
The SOuthside neighbOrhOOd of the
aid and missionary socities of the
First Baptist church will meet on Tues
day afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. J.
f. Williams at her home on Magoffin
avenue
The aid society of the First Baptist
shurch has raised in the past year.
$523.e7 for all purposes, on this &C
count S304.50 was contributed to mis-
siOns and benevOlence
City d. Y. p. L. to Meet.
The city B. Y. P L. viii meet with
the Calvary Houston Square Baptist on
Friday evening, January 16 at o'clock.
The subject for the prayer meeting at
the First Baptist church on Wednesday
night viii be Looking Forward" a
companion subject for the one given
two weeks ago, Looking Backward"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
FEVER FOR BIG CONVENTIONS
SEEMS To HAVE PASSED

Gaining experience by the laymen's
missionary and men and religion move
ments, the fever for big conventions
seems to have passed. This does not
of course, apply to conventions meet
ing for business purposes, but to those
held to propagate new plans Meth
Odists South, for example. hold their
quadrennial conference this year, and
there viii be a very few similar off
cial conventions.
This year will, however. be singular
" lacking in other big conventions OF
movements. From those recently held
there is a reaction, and in their places
constructive work is being carried on
in the local churches. Anybody pro-
jecting a movement, with attendant
big conventions, would this year get a
cold reception. Better methods more
detailed work, closer touch with real
projects. these are the plans OF the
churches for 1914.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

this way the church became estab-
ished in the cities of Asia Minor, and
in the cities about the Aegean sea. In
a similar manner it spread throughout
Europe and America and is now invad-
ing the east.
The public assembly is not the only
means employed by the Christian re-
ligiOn for conducting its propaganda
but, glanCing back over its history, one
is compelled to see that it has been
its chief means, and thus the eXhOrta-
ton of the text is amply justified. The
congregational assembly with the use OF
music, of forms, CT ritual and the SER
mon, has been indispensable to the
church's progress. There is nothing in
modern life to supplant it. The press,
with its almost lmitless products in the
form of newspapers, magazines, tracts
and books, is no substitute for the pull
pit. There are forces subtle and pow
erful in the congregation that are not
operative in like degree anywhere else
and when the forces are made TO serve
the highest ends of the individual 10
society as they are in the church, they
deserve to be given recognition and
freedom.
sWhy 1 Go to Church"
It will not be amiss in this connect
ion to consider a little more definitely
the purposes OF the congregation. me
most common answer given to the
question, Why 90 1 go TO church, IS
Il 60 to church TO worship Goa. Lhal
Is a worthy answer. But what 90 we
mean by it? What is involved in
worship? To some it means repeatnSl
the ritual, joining in the singing ana
listening attentively to the leaulng, ll!e
Srayers and the sermon. All of this is
GOOD, but one may do all this and stu
not be- a worshiper. "Worshlplng,
said Claiming, sis mans highest END.
for it s the employment Of his hlgne3sI
finest OF. ect." As a modern writer has
put it, Worship is alteration and rev
erence and communion, and more Goa
is worshiped when man is VltallzlhS
and perfeefing their relationship, and
more. God is worshiped when HIS
child receives His instruction when he
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
UNITED BRETHREN TO HOLD
CONVENTION AT DAYTON

United Brethren have in hand a mass
convention patterned after one just
held by Nethodists. Its time and place
are Nav and Dayton. respectively
MethOdists viii give the year to reali-
6ation Of benefits from the Indianap-
oils mass convention. which they de-
clare are many. and in far larger mea-
sure than ever before IL. recent years
viii devote time and energy to reviVals
on the old fashioned plan United
Brethren have nearly the same pro-
jects in hand for the year, with the
additional one of actual union with
Methodist Pr0testants- The old line
Methodists north and south have also
some unity plans which they viii push
during the year now opening.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
EPIsCOPALIANs CONSERVATIVE
NEW MEXICO BISHOP

EpiscopaIians are cOnsecraung this
month and next new bishops FOR New
Mexico and North Dakota They have
just cOnsecrated one for Porto Rico,
and will soon do so for West Texas.
Vacant districts now are Nevada,
Spokane and Cuba. and early this year
steps are to be taken to fiji them Sc
lection of names OF provinces is going
on There are to be eight Of them
BaDtists are in the united campaign
in March. but they are also spending
the first three or four months Of the
year on a Judson memorial plan
There has just been celebrated in
Burma the Tooth anniversary Of the
founding Of Baptist work there by
Rev. Dr. AdOniram JudsOu. This an
niversary is to be observed in Amer
lea by the founding of a memorial IN
der the direction Of the Baptist for
ei-n sOcierv-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

~HE big thing of the new year IN
Christian church projects is
A common movement for money .s-
It is to take place in March, and WI"
be accompanied by good many am
ners and conferences. For InOH'is
preparations have been going on
is primarily an affair Of the men III
churches have been app. aPPoi aTs to a do.
coached for the work they are " 49,
This work is to sec personally Ss
member of their respective cong 2srGa1
lions and ask them to give 49, -
The amount is not so much 10 10
phasize1 9s that all give ..,o--
It is found that only smaII PI 80
ton of church members actuaIIy go. 80
money. even to local church suPpO - -
a far smaller proportion to CUISINE do-oDa i p
lift causes. This March cam pas ~ II,
the chief evert of the new year, Is on
efficiency lines as Wen 70 as see 70 that B
larger numbers bear some proper ion
ate share of burdens.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
CATHOLICS AIsO HAVE
BIG MISSIONARY PROJECT

In the United states the biggest
project Of Catholics for the new year
is also missionary. and home and for
eicn The home part with headquar-
tiers at Brookland, Washington, the
seat of the Catholic university, is en-
larging its campaign, having for its
motto the making Of America CathO-
lie Not organicalIy related to 1t, but
in close sympathy with the BroOkland
plans is the Catholic Extension So
cietv OF Chicago.
In foreign wlrk efforts are making
to establish permanently the new sem
mary on the Hudson that is to educate
and send abroad young American
priests for service in China and India.
In Catholic affairs Of the world Amer
lea is to take a larger part during the
year to come than ever before. Car
dinal O'COnneu of Boston, is the
handspring of this new force. The
present Pope is advanced in years. and
some plans await a younger man in
st. Peters chair but all the same new
plans are going forward rapidly.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
EP1sCOPALTANs WITHDRAW
FROM GENERAL SCHEME

one Ia1ge body is out of this gen
eraI Protestant scheme. It is the
Protestant Episcopal Informally It
went in 1T first ana The president OF
its mission board, the Rt Rev arthur
G T 1oz-1. was chosen chairman of the
general committee. Bishop Lloyd
asked the general convention OF mis-
church in October to enlarge the lib
ertv Of his board. It refused and he
resigned the committee chairmans MP
Much unfavOrable Comment has fol-
lowed. directed at a religious body
that in one part talks church unity IN
a loud voice and in another refuses
to unite EXCEPT on its own terms The
new chairman is Rev. DR.. Arthur j.
Brown of the Presbyterian foreign
board
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
yrENAs THAT ALL CHURCH -.-,,,,
SOCIETIES WILL GET TOGi1A HEN

Not long since Christian organiza-
lions. even those in same religious
bodies. worked on separate, lines; OI-
ten societies in the same body holdlng
annual conventions. would place dates
and city 90 meeting as Iar from e1c -
other as thew could A little later IL
was fo2ni 5ossible to bring all for
efgn mission societies IoSelher LOI
common action Later still the nome
societies got together. A year ;I.t or two y0
ago the home and foreign MISSION l-l So
cieties were led to cooperate They
growied a little when, it was pro %
posed that local church support De
ASA included in the appeals, but al
moSt at once agreed
So this early year campaigns cover
everv cause for which Protestant
churches ask for money for missions
viz local support home missions 1or-
eign missions Thus church unity IS
coming ABOUT. ard it is predicted that
within another two years Chrlstlan
education and social service viii De
included With missions. The. prehm-
mary work leading up to this Marcn
campaign is to go on during TINS
month and next
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
CARDINAL O'CONNEL ACTIVE
IN CATHOLIC ADVANCES

All talk of the Boston cardinal be-
ing elected is idle of course. The
next Pope will be an Italian But
tremendous advances are making by
the Catholic church in Rome. and car
dinal O'COnnell is assisting them.
They are in part in the Vatican, in
its management, and equipment, and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

SCRIPTURE
; ; 3 ; 80 ; ; ; 3 ; ; : :.
EInffhe,r 2n.a0-34.

And as they departed from Jericho Il
great multitude followed him.
by the wayside, when they heard that
Jesus passed by. cried out. saying. Have
mercy on US, o Lord, thou son Of
David.
And the multitude rebuked them BE-
cause they should hold their peace: but
they cried the more, saying. Have mer-
cy on US 0 Lord. thou son of David
And Jesus stood still and called them.
and said. What viii We that 1 shall do
unto yOu2
They say unto him, Lord, that our
eyes may be opened.
So Jesus had compassion on Them,
an touched their eyes; and immcdi-
ately their eyes received sight, and
they followed him.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.

nual meeting of the stockholders of
the Rio Grande valley Bank and Trust
Company will be held at its office on
Tuesday, January Is, 1914 at 1900
o'clock p. m, for the election of d.
rectOrs and to transact any and all
business that may come before the
meeting.
By order Of the board of directors.
Sig, n. SchWabe.
Secretary.
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