The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-29
our legitimate yearning

more intense our legitimate yearning
for 1t.
And our craving for lost geographi-
cal area Is quite in accordance with the
fitness or things. for We desire a resti-
tuition Of a national existence based on
the higher moral law pursuing our life
and policy IN accordance with the prin-
ctples laid down in the infallible canon
Of the Scriptures. This being SO. we
desire TO announce to the world that
the ancient home OF Israel is the Cod
appointed place for securing and giving
I effect TO those principles.
For we cannot ignore the existence OF
\ striking and significant passages in Old
! Testament Scriptures telling US OF
things that are 70 come. Are these pro-
! nouncements voiced by mere dreamers
and impractical enthusiasts ulling Us
/ with their bewitching fantasies, or are
they certain Of fulhlIment'
The conclusive reply 10 this is given
! BY Isaiah (ch 55. y. 40. setting all
doubt and antiquities al naught: For
50 shall my words be. that so forth out
or my mouth. shall not return unto me
void but they shall accomplish that
which I please, and shall prosper in the
things whereto 1 sent st."
Zionism is no new-fangIed idea. It is
no idle dream. impossible Of realization
II IS as old as the towering monu-
ments and as firmly an established prin-
ciple with us as the rocks that laugh at
and defy the onslaught OF the angry
pillows Of the sea.
It j. universally felt. that after two
thousand years OF disinherlted life. the
time has come 20 assert our claim 10
national autonomy so that Israel shall
cease 20 be the enigma and byword of
the world
Lord Beaconsneld benjamin Dis
rael) in one or his eloquent passages.
/ writes
They Cthe Jews) have produced the
far seeing Iaw-glver. Moses. Of the
time OF the Pharaohs. whose laws are
Sill obeyed, a monarch whose reign
has ceased 5000 years ago but whose
wisdom is stin recognized in every
land a teacher whose doctrines have
moulded and guided the world
The greatest Of legislators. the great
est Of administrators. the greatest Of
thinkers-what race. extinct or living
can produce such men as these7
Il IS a matter for profound thankful
ness that our people have clung 10 their
heritage in all matters, moral and
spiritual II is an celebrating thought
that amid the incessant din and turmoil
OF life. and after the flight Of many
ages. we remain 70 the present day
staunch ard conforming members Of
the pure and sublime Monotheistic faith
| handed TO our forefathers from Sinai S
crest
The adherence TO this Breed oonsti-
tutes our national and moral strength
and its disregard and rejection must in
evitably tend to our dissolution and de-
cay
There ara a goodly number Of modern
Jeshurunites. who wish 10 deaden in Us
all yearnings for a national existence.
They preach 70 us doctrines which no
patriotic Israelite can accept. which
common sense repudiatez and which IS
utterly foreign to the spirit Of Judaism
and its votaries. These modern doc
trinaries ask US 20 forget the thrilling
past. and cur ancient landmarks. and
10 obliterate from our memory all
thoughts of by-gone days. their glory
and humiliation. their prestige and
downfall. and 20 stihe in US all yearn-
fngs for the advent of the era. so gra
phically fsreshadowed by our inspired
prophets.
Surely. II we ars to live merely in the
present, oblivious OF the past, and re
gardless Of the future our position be
fore the world Is then one Of inconceiv-
able absurdity We may. for the mat