El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08


eat and what We shall drink, neither
be ye Of doubtful mind.
s'FOr all these things do the ma
lions OF the world seek ALTERS and
your Father EnOWeth that ye have
need of these things.
~But rather seek ye the Kingdom
OF God; and MI these things shall be
added unto you.
aFear not little flock for It IL your
Fathers good pleasure to give you
the Kingdom
Jesus, from 18th chapter Of Luke.
IN order that we may be perfectly
confident that We are on under
\ standing terms with each other.
it would be best that We define with
some degree OF carefulness the terms
OF our subject. Indicating as accurate
y as we can the exact sense in which
we shall use them.
Words don't, in every case, mean
the same to everybody. Aunt Mandy
was a negro Methodist who had never
been around very much amongst the
meetings Of other denominations. IN
the first class meeting at the C. NJ T.
church after the close Of a camp
meeting OF the negro Bapusts, she
astonished the brothers and sisters OF
her home church by testifying with
a shout that she had received the
blessing Of Total DepraVity-" OBJ
viously Aunt Mandy was speaking OF
q fact But the fact was not as she
had described il. There was mis-
understanding OF Baptist terms To-
tai depravity to Aunt Mandy meant
one thing, but TO other people it stood
for quite another matter Especially
in religion, one should avoid a con-
fusion Of terms
What Il German NatIOnalisms
Just what is German uationalism2
Every nation has an ism. It has
notion or theory Of itself as a nation,
a distinctive notion Of the nature and
importance and destiny Of the nation
as a nation
The German nationa1ism is what
German citizens think of their nation
as a nation. II is the idea they hold
as TO their relationship, on the one
hand TO one another as German citl-
zeuS, and on the other hand. as Ger
man citizens 10 the rest Of the hui
man race.
1t is impossible for anyone who
does not comprehend the nature OF
nationalism in general TO have q clear
apprehension Of the natiOualism OF
the Teutonic peoples in particular In
order 10 understand the structure Of
part OF a thing it is necessary TO
whole OF it. In order to comprehend
the peculiar nature OF the German
national idea il is necessary TO com
prehend the common nature Of ma
tional ideas, as they appear among
nations everywhere. It is Necessary
10 understand TO some extent the ma
ture OF the nation as distinguished
from all the other numerous outward
forms OF human association.
Has Received Little Attention.
This Is a matter which has received
as Vet but little attention in the mind
of the masses OF mankind, even in the
most modern Of civilizations. But u
is a subject OF incalculable import
ance, and is perforce destined 10 re-
CelVe much future consideration II
is r -bably for the reason that ma
tiOns are the universal condition OF
civilized existence that we have from
our early childhood taken nations for
granted. The nation TO US has been
like our clOrhes-sOmethin We are
born into. something that is a part Of
being civilized, thing In which we
wish to be like the people among
whom We live. and which 10 a great
extent they determine for US. And
probably just IS we take the prevail
ing fashions in clothes for something
that exists in the nature OF things,
We take the fashion Of every nation
for something that subslstS in the ma
ture OF things. and We never take the
trouble to really understand what
makes IL at the bottom either this or
that Thus we may live in and never
really understand for Just what il is
the essential nature Of the thing We
call a nation
Let Us endeavor as briefly as we
may 10 make sure that we do under
stand it at this time.
Very instructive for our purpose is |
the case Of the most remarkable OF
all blood kinship peoples. I say the
most remarkable" for the reason that
ly or ethnolOgically, fl my judgment,
they stand unrivalled among the
races in point OF human value con-
trlbuted TO mankind: I refer TO the
Jews, the race that gave Christianity
its Bible and its Christ.
In speaking OF the Jews we say
the Jewish people" not the Jewish
nation" There is no such thing ia
existence as the Jewish nation True,
now and then We hear some one in
accurately say ''the Jewish nation"
and we know the Zionists, spea king
Of something TO be realized in the fu-
ture, some times say, the Jewish ma
ton" But. considered in fact and in
present time, there doesn't exist a
Jewish nation. Every Jew belongs TO
some other nation; the nation 10
which a Jew belongs is not Jewish [
He has Jewish raciality
but not nationality.
Again, a man born OF pure Irish
parentage in Donegal, or on the shore
Of Killarney. or in the very shadow
OF Blarney castle is not Irish in his
nationality. There is no irish ma
uonality. There is Irish blood. and
there is Irish speech-there is an
Irish natiOnalism, but no Irish ma
donality- You might ask an Irish
man to tell you his nationality, ana
he might reply In good Hiheruian
flannel "OIm Frinch," and his an
sH er might be true. His nationality
might be French, or American, or
English. or Russian, or Whatnot-all
depending upon something that had
nothing to do with race or language
or birth whatever, but upon some
thing wholly different from them.
Nationality Not RacinIity.
Thus We see from the cases We have
mentioned that nationality Is not
raciality. It Is not in itself a thing
Of blood or Of language or even OF
color. It is not something which sub
sists in the nature OF man as a man.
1t is something that exists outside
the man himself It Is not a form Of
human life as such. There are but
three essential forms Of human life:
% the individual man-One human
soul, born such. living such. return
ing whence came as such, and indi-
vidually responsible TO the ruler Of
the universe; % The biological form
"a man and a woman and their
children; 90 the generic form-hu-
man kind. that is. the whole human
family. These are the only essential
embodiments OF human life: they are
the only organic forms in which man
subsists essentially as man. However, |
while there are but three forms OF
human being in which humanity es-
sentially subsists, there are many