The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

work out its own future in its own
way was the keynote of the address
on Zionism and Modern Democracy"
given at the supper held under the
auspices of the Presbyterian Brother
hood in the basement of the Presby-
terrain church last evening by Rev.
s. N. Deinard, rabbi of the Jewish
Reformed Congrega ton of Minneapo-
lis and editor of The American Jew
ish World.
Nearly a hundred men of the COM
munity, representing many different
creeds, gathered in the basement of
the church to hear what this distin-
guished divine and editor had to say
about the prospect of the Jewish peo-
pie going back to their old home. 1t
was representative audience, COM
posed of men who took the lead in
the local public activities.
Rev. R. w. Hobbs led the opening
kprayer and expression of thanks, aft
err which a splendid supper was
served by the fifth division of the la
dies of the congregation.
DR.. John A. Hancock, president of
the Presbyterian Brotherhood, made
a few Introductory remarks. He spoke
I.of the great interest that the whole
world was taking in the Zionist move
ment. Palestine was small country,
! but for thousands of years some ma
| ton had centered it's interest here.
He presented DR.. Deinard, man who
| had spent a portion of his life in that
region.
DR.. Deinard said that while he was
not native of Palestine he was raised
there. He first went to Palestine
when he was nine years old. He re-
NAMED there up to the age of seven
teen, and in after life went back and
visited his parents there.
He told how during all the 1900
years that the Jews had been de-
prived of the land that was once
theirs. Jewish prayers and dreams
expressed the yearning for a return
to the home that belonged to their
race for a thousand years.
! Capture Of Jerusalem.
The doctor spoke with enthusiasm
of the capture of Jerusalem by the
British last month, and he declared
that this occurred on the same day of
the year exactly as that on which
Judas Maccabaeus, the Jewish hero
in 165 B. c., recaptured jerusalem
from the Syrian Greeks, and restored
the Jewish worship at the temple. He
regarded it splendid augury that on
that very same day, the British took
Jerusalem from the Turks.
He said that while some of the eIe-
ments of the Jewish race had be-
come attached to the countries in
which they lived in such way that
they ceased to dream and long for a
| return to Palestine, yet there was a
large portion of the race that longed
for the return to Zion and to Jerusa-
lem. The two to three million Jews
who had taken this up, out of the
twelve to thirteen million Jews in
the world, were the most active and
progressive of the race. 1t was not
necessary for the fulfillment of the
ideal to have all the Jews go back
to Palestine, but what the object
of Zionism was to see an anton
omous, self governing Jewish state
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of Israel. His statement was never
contradicted. For centuries the land
had been under the blighting rule OF
the Turks. But, the speaker said
with four to five millions of energet-
dc Jews living there, and modern ap-
pliances put to the development of
the country, he did not see why ii
should not become wealthy and pros
porous again.
How To Get Back.
For many, many years the problem
of how to get back Palestine for the
Jews was one that seemed without a
solution. The Jews thought of buying
the land from the Turks, who were
proverbially hard-up. But the ques-
ton Invariably presented itself, what
the Christian nations would think
about the deal and whether they
would be satisfied But God moved in
a mysterious way The Jews having
the Zionist project at heart kept long
ing and hoping for miracle to re-
store that land to their race. The
miracle, it seemed, had occurred. The
great war came, which, though terri
BILE, would in the end bring humani-
ty blessings. The British invaded