The Washington times., 1918-02-10
Truth-=-The Great Power

Ali That Is Worth While Rests Upon It


Truth is forever the same but for imperfect it
changes from day to day and century by century.
Until the other day all said: E'The earth stands
still The sun moves. We know for and feel that
the earth still and we see the sun rolling through the sky
above heads. r..
Men were like children in the train believing that the
it the earth that turned round and made the
move. That was step toward I'd truth
Once all believed that slavery and inequality were Just
It always had been and would be Some must slave and
some enjoy
Human equality was mentioned, men fought for it,
That was step toward truth The next step will be to
make equality real by making knowledge universal.
We have the millions owning and enjoying too lit
te the few owning much All technically Free and
that is thought be just and all laws defend it. That
dition will change and the change will be another step
toward truth.
''on three things stands the world" said Simon the
Just; ION law, on worship, and on charity"
You might add thousand things but better cut down
to ONE. The world stands TRUTH.
The greater the truth the more difficult for the small
mind to accept it. moth dazed is drawn to its death by
candle light Man that candle for reading But
cannot look at the greater light of the
The little truths we The big truths dazzle and
fghten us Twice two make four the child taught and
the angles Of any triangle equal to any two right angles
The bad punished and the good rewarded here for
certainty elsewhere perhaps.
These truths accept and handle easilyittle truths
for little minds and greater truths as the mind Of man grows
Even simple truths frghen us-for instance the simple
fact that time never began and cannot possibly end or that
there is limit to space For after the end Of time TIME
go it must have gone forever before its be
ginning if it had official beginning.
Space, the field in which and planets like roll
cannot have any end boundary For you ask What is
BEYOND that boundary-soid wall or nothingness?' The
solid wall impossible for how far would that reach? And
nothngness does not exist
end-but such simple truth frightens and
back to the hands on the clock that tick of limited
lives and to little earth fields with their fences and
taxes and thank God for limitation Imitless is the
suns light; we cannot stand it.
What is truth? It is the reflection of knowledge and
knowledge is the measure of civilization.
The world is built on Truth and Truth is the fruit of
study school is the foundation of all Teaching the
Well the old Talmudic writers knew it. Read these ex
tracts from the writings that treasure up ten centuries of
thought:
scholar is greater than prophet"
"YOu should the teacher than your father
latter only brought into this world The former indicates nay
Jerusalem destroyed of young
only by the breath of the school Children"
Epea for the rebuilding of the temple the schools
Study mertorious sacrifice"
Let those that wonder the persistent success of the
Jewish in spite of persecution ask themselves how much
the reverence for knowledge has had to do with it
All intellectual effort is an attempt to simplify truth
which is of but one kind and has only ONE nature
Moses according to the old Jewish teachers embodied
his idea Of truth in six hundred and thirteen njuncons
David boiled them all down into eleven, in the fifteenth
Psalm thus:
Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall
dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteous
ness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth
evil to his neighbour, taketh up a reproach against
his neighbour.
In whose eyes vile person is contemned; but he
honoreh them that fear the Lord he that sweareth
his own hurt, and changeth not.
He that putteth not out his money to usury nor
taketh reward against the innocent He that doeh these
things shall never be moved
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What is that psalm but song in honor of truth?
Isaiah reduced the divine requirements six in the m
teenth verse of the thirty third chapter:
He waetH rigHteous, SDedketh upright;
ces gain of oppSoHs Saketh his hands from holding
ibes that opD his from hearing Of blood and shueh