The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-11-07
RABBI SCORES
CERTAIN1CL
OF The jews
Sconde rlis Those Who Are Not
Proud Enough to Confess
Their Jewish Identity.

The Jewish people OF & Clarks-
burg, both Reformed and Orthodox,
and number of their non-Jewish
friends turned out in full force Friday
night filing the Masonic temple to its
full capacity. to hear Rabbi Maxwell
silyer's sermon, which he delivered
at the fortnightly service Of the Re-
formed Congregation Of Temple Eman-
I uel. The subject OF Rabbi Sil1er's SER
mon was "self-Knowledge,J aSelf-Re-
spect and the Jew"
In his sermon Rabbi Silver bitterly
scored what he called the cryptic
Jews, those members Of his race who
for fear Of being snobbed by some
1arrow-minded Gentiles have not char
acter enough to proudly confess their
Jewish identity: He attribut&d these
cryptic Jewish phen omena to the lack
20 their self-knowledge. Jewishly, to
their utter lack OF appreciation Of
their Jewish history. For, were. these
to know the spiritual aecompl ishments
% ftheir people for civilization Of the
In the dawn, Of the civilization OF the
modern nation-their giving to the
world Of human, capricious and blood
thirsty tribal gods, ruling their little
tribal lands in whim and caprice, one
all powerful, righteous God ruling
the whole world with one consistent
moral purpose in justice and love;
their transforming the religion Of man
kind from child and animal sacrifice
the mutilation Of the body and mere
ritual into life Of universal social
Justice; their playing amidst a world
of q discordant orchestra OF changing
swords and shrieks Of wounded, the
harmonious, enchanting tune Of inter-
national peace; their giving to the ma
TONS the ideal of internati onal moral
ity. that great ideal OF the servant-na-
ton which Is to sacrifice itself for the
spiritual advancement Of all the other
nations; their teaching the world all
ready in the hoary past that a ma
tons stability and permanence does
no depend on military power, but on
the spiritual and moral evelopment of
its citizens, showing by their national
life through the ages how to i've Iy
ones ideals Of forgfving love. by their
continuing, In the face Of their ghettos
inquisitions and explosions with which
their Christian neighbors prosecuted
them, to fight in their armies, to enrich
their lands by their thrift and enter
prise, extending their proverbial char
fly to these Gentiles who hated them,
Furnishing Columbus with money to dis
cover a new continent, helping Europe
with their money to defeat Napoleon,
financing with their money the Ameri-
can Revolutionary and Civil wars, en-
hancing the spiritual advancement OF
emodern man by the great galaxy Of
their great men In all the walks Of
spiritual life.-were these crypto-Jews
to know all these spiritual accomplish
ments Of their people for the world,
they would, instead Of trying to con-
ceal their Jewish identity face the
world openly and proudly as sons and
daughters of the people that were the
first to infuse the spiritual light Of
moral idealism in a spiritua;;y dark,
materialistic world. They would then
: also learn to their surprise that the
broad minded tian-and as to the
bigoted one what does not count in
the world OF true men anyway-re-
spect and revere him on account of
his honest, open representation Of
himself, and is too happy to join hands
with him In their common task Of 5es-
tablishing the Fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood Of man upon earth.