Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-09

peace, just so with the nation. The
nation which has not preserved the
best of it's traditions and which has
not struggled to accomplish the best
that is in 1t, cannot obtain peace. The
nation or the individual who would
gain prosperity. at the cost of the
neighbor's happiness dare not ask tor
peace.
If we kill our neighbor spiritually
through the uncharitaple word, the
tearing down of character or reputa-
ton, then we dare not hope for peace.
If we have risen on the ruins of neigh
bors, we have befouled ourselves. 10
such an extent the prayer Is foreign
to our souls and OF no avail. The lips
that have betouled others cannot pray
for God looketh within And as we
single out such individual as devoid
of moral fiber and pity him for lack
OF higher qualities, so on nation be-
fouling itself with the blood of i
neighbor. The blood-stained hands
clasp in prayer and God is petitioned.
Think you that such is prayer?
Can a nation have peace with war IN
it's soul and heart? Let every nation
prepare itself for prayer. Just as the
individual before ne enters the Holy
of Holes, garbs himself and goes into
a period OF spiritual cleansing, so let
each nation cease from bloodshed and
recognize right in each others stand,
emphasize agreements and forget
petty Disbursements which have
brought them to this degradation.
Then only can we have peace. Cessa-
ton of war is not peace, but step
ping stone toward peace. Let us not
disillusion ourselves to believe that the
firing of the last gun will make peace
prevail, for after the battle comes the
saddest of labors (the rude awaken
ing of the fearful price of 1t AID, the
reconstruction of the nations which
have been set back centuries in civilt-
cation to be lifted out of barbarism on
the firm pedestal of right. To-day
the Jew closes his services with prayer
for peace on his lips, May the Lord
grant strength to His people, may He
bless His people with peace for the
work of peace constructive and
not disruptive. When nations are ar
rayed against nations, when human
blood flows, the Jew stands for peace,
begs for peace and of all people whose
prayer at this time can reach the
throne of God, his coming as 1t does
with clean hands and pure heart
make him fitted to pray for the pres
ervation of life and all that goes with
"The Jews Year 1915 will not 80
down in history as having solved
single problem, either social or re-
liglOuS, was the QeCldIdliOh VI ANoCOl
Leon Album at Chisuk Emuna. 1t
has reproduced some of the darkest
features of it's distant predecessors.
It's close sees the race standing bafiied
before the same difficulties which
have tried its nerve and its moral in
many of the years. now passed into
history The more barbarous lands
nersist in their brutal attitude to the
Jew, the less backward continue their
refined methods of hostility and amid
1t all the wandering Jew wanders on.
'If the progress of the world con-
tinued the speaker, is to be tested
by its slavery to morbid superstition,
then in the year just ended civihzation
The greetings and the wishes should
have a broader reference. They should
refer to the Jews as Jews, as indi-
vidual Jews perhaps, but as forming
the Jewish community, is not well for
them Just now to think how. From
this point of view all their wishes are
iiisely to loom, not at the beginning
but at the end of the year. Can there