The Denver Jewish news., 1919-04-09

of the power of love is such that no
stand it. If this were true, and men
married when they fell In love with
out allowing their heads in some
measure to control their hearts,
marriage would by now have become
Il thoroly discredited human institu.
ton. The experience of the human
race has decreed that between falling
in love and getting married. there
shall be an appreciable interval for
reflection. This experience is sum
med up in the prOverbial saying,
Marry in haste. repent at leisure"
Every marriage is virtually an ire
vocable act, and n mismarriage can be
rectified only by the costly, tedious
and painful processes of the divorce
court. The Jewish man who has
fallen in love with some fair nom
Jewish maiden would therefore do
well not to overlook some of the prac-
tical considerations involved in his
taking the final step of marriage with
its lifelong obligations.
Radical Character.
Deeply rooted in the nature. Of ell
of ,H are profound race memories
which centuries of race tradition have
woven into the very fibre Of our ma
lures. So enlightened and liberal Il
non-Jewish writer as George Eliot
recognized these inner essential differ
cnces between Jew and Gentle. She
describes one of the Jewish characters
III her novel Daniel Dcronda" as not
of "a nature that would bear dividing
against itself; and even II love won
her consent to marry man who was
not of her race and religion, she would
never be happy in acting against thas
strong native bias which would still
reign in her conscience as ren:orse."
There is Mt bottom an ineradicabie
race feeling which in our own days
is stirring the Czecho-Slovaks. the
Arabs Of the HeJaz. the Poles. the
Jews. and all other distinctive racial
groups, to assert themselves In their
own right and in their own individual
ity. 1t is these fundamental differ
ences between Jew and non-Jew which
lurk beneath the surface, watching
and working for the opportunity
which friction brings to break thru
and aggravate any discOrd which may
arise in u home based on the union
of Jew and Gentle.
A Divided Home.
1t Is n demonstrable fact that this
incompatibility OF nature
in the parties Joined in q mixed mar
riage works strongly toward bringing
domestic division and disruption into
that home. Happiness in the home
is an atmosphere created by sympathe-
tic feelings on the part Of husband
and of wife. Among the strongest and
deepest of these feelings are the race
feelings just mentioned, and religious
feeling. One can argue i'll with feel-
ings. A feeling is its own ju>tifica-
tion and it seldom yields to logic. the
feeling which the Jew has toward
Judaism and his Jewish people Is
which lie can often hardly
explain to himself His brain may
tell him that he is not an observant
jew, that he rarely attends house
of worship. that his beliefs are few,
that he is far from living up to the
religion as he was taught 1t as
child, and that pcrchance he has few
Jewish connections. Yet. suffusing
his whole being is n strong feeling
of warm sympathy with and pride in
his religion and people.
Let anyone but insult Judaism, or
the Jews, in his hearing, and 1t Will
at once be seen how strong and how
real is his almost undreamed-of feel
ing for his religion and his people.
This latent feeling will co-exist in the
Jewish husband for Judaism ana IN
the Christian wife for Christianity,
tho perhaps neither will suspect Its
existence. So long Us the skies are
fair and no clouds cast shadow over
loves young dream, these feelings
will remain below the surface. But
at the first threat of trouble within
the home, these feelings will struggle
for expression. The incompatibiiity
of his feeling for Judaism and OF
hers for Christianity will inevitably
serve to add fuel to the smo!dering
fires Of domestic discord.
ITO be continued
The learned man should judge him
self according to his own teacnlns'
and not do anything that he has for