The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28
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BEGUN LAST EVENING IN TEMPLE

the misery and the suffering or my
brothers.
Has it cveriocurrcd 10 you. my friends
what Il pathetic failure. measured ny
conventional standards, Israel as 4 ma
ton has been. Weighed in the balance OF
national aims and aspirations how PHI
fully wanting Israel IS found. Deprived
| OF his home, Il ragabond among the pco-
pies of the earth scattered and broken,
| subject 10 the play Of Fortune and the
whIm Of tyrantS. Israel can boast u
none Of the prcrOGatives that makes a
| nation great BclEIum'S pride is wound
! ed because an enemy is in possession OF
| its land. Poland'S soul is outraged be-
! catise u stranger has uSurHed Its gov
/ eminent. lrcland's spirit is FESTIVE be-
cause her Independence is gone. Italy is
! sacrificing thousands Of It's sons 10 re-
| deem Il strip of her conquered soil; anu
| Franco is sacrificing millions. They
J all know that invaded territory and loss
| OF Independence means deprecntrd
status OF nationhood. n loss ~ rank ana
! influence, in Il word. national failure.
What Il dismal failure IS Israel. then.
His land the possession Of strangers.
himself the Shuttlecock OF Fortune:
What a dismal failure. What wretchcd
bankrupt!
All! but what sublime failure! What
L noble bankrupt.
Loss Of Power
The nations Of the earth having no
I
/ sion TO fulfil know only too well thar
loss Of power and independence and
territory means ultimate national ana
cultural extinction. \ nation once pc,
to absorption. So Babylon grew weak
and vanished So Nssyria paled and died.
So Egypt grew faint and expired. 80
Greece lost power and passed into op-
liviou. So Rome languiShed TO its doom.
The nations of the earth whose life Is
wit things of the Gartn
are subject TO the change and transltor-
mess of mundane existence. Hence they
are afraid Of failure; for failure .speiis
death.
with the things Of the spirit, Israel VINO
conceived at the very dawn Of Its his
tory q purpose which transcends all ma
tiuual limitations, mission winch ~
independent of all earthly pomp ana clr,
cumstance. 4 destiny which IS coevai
with himan progress and coeternal with
life itself, Israel can dare 10 fail. For
failure for Israel, spells not death DUB
life. n richer and fuller lite.. a greater
incentive, a larger outlook and strong
CT will.
rendered certain by the very. scope OF
his vision and magnitude OF his TASK. In
Il world cnmeshed in 1mperlectlons, u
n world which lis Rome or LONDON, not
Fools paradise. ms VISION o on,c cuinT,
failures. But Israel coul d not listen 10
the longing heart and the yearlng soul
of the world, to 1.-The still, SAD music OF
humanity" without responding 10 us
magic anpccl He resolved to face ran
mrn in lis rrimncss and awfulness. 1uss
50 he could bring brighter motf INTO
the dark music Of humanity;
rather OF Sublime Failure
And Israel. the subllmest la4lufe ~
history. has also been the rather OF sup
iimr failures. 4 race Of spiritual giants
snrang from his loins who wrestleo WIN
tbn Ills OF life and failed! Moses, tfo
! rrdecncr OF his people. whose heart was
;he bleeding Threshold over which the
c chi Of Israel stepped into tho
Promised Land, was failure. slandeTed
and threatened and betrayed by the very
nnoplo whom he served. dragging MS
tired limbs through waste ana aeseaI
n t,f4' his life lust within his reach. dying
n disappointed and broken old man.
Jcrcmiah, too. an exile in q foreign iand:
hts soul feeding upon the worm~ood Oh
his peoples great calamdty, st +be ve ~
ones for whose sake he had emptleo the
ninbastcr box Of his life Of all its nap,
nIncss and filled with bitterness ana
tcnrs, Jeremiah. too. was a traglc 1ait-
urr And he whom 4 whole world calls
Wostcr tho Jew OF Galicc was a su-
nrrmc failure. And Akiha martyred ~
tho Romans. was failure AND PrlroZa
The mother Of Liuses whereby people
cnl,Id discover now heavens. authcna-
tied and cxconmunicated was u fall,
uYc. Aand TIcine. too. the insplrer or
Tnung Germany. the brave soldier IN
the wars Of the liberty or manklna
bounded by his enemies and racKed py
rain on his mothers grave. was 1all-
urri So were they all the brave. the
great, the noble liberators OF the world.
ihr ernnncipators of mankind. Failures
ali. So was Socrates the light brinGer
Of Hellas who was forced TO read MS
failure in cup of hcmlock' 80 was
Savonarold, the "unarmcd prophet or
FLORENCE, who Numbered against cor.
runt clergy and an immoral age leo
through n crying. bowling mon. spl:.
ling. Kicking and striking him. tortured
10 extract confessions. hanged from tne
I.jhhri and then burnt ana MS asheS
thrown into the river Arno:
Bruno, Father Of Science
81 was Trunu. the father OF modern
sci,nrr the prophet Of the new day. IN
,.,rrrr,trd for eight long wears and H.
naIIv sent Ia the stake at Rome! SO was
t;aliIns whosc spirit lived among the
snhrrns Of heaven. forced TO stif!e the
~ If new revelations within him 70
/ dnnv his own spiritual offspring, So was
| francisco Fcrrer, the Promcthcis Of