The Denver Jewish news., 1923-09-27
Pictures Next War in
United Synagog Sermon

the next war, declared Rabbi Israel
GoIdstein. of Temple B'nai Jeshurum.
president of the Young Peoples League
of tha United Synagog of America.
whose address was part of the program
broadcasted from WEAF last Thurs
day night explanatory of the signif-
icance of the Jewish New Year. This
was the second of series of radio
programs which the United Synagog Is
broadcasting on the Thursday evenings
preceding Jewish Holydays and festi-
vals
..The antagonisms which divide men
into armed camps will yet bring CATH
clysmic catastrophe unless they are
checked and allayed. and superseded
by force that is stronger than hate.
The battlefields nre scarcely dried of
the blood of the last holocaust, and
the next war is being planned. Grip
pied Europe is still nursing its sores
and gashes. and already the sword is
rattling restlessly for the next slaugh-
ter. The sword did l say-what
tame. old-faslioned instrument that
will be. The sword can only kill one mt
a time. 1t doesn't pay to waste preci-
Gus killing time that way. The swords
will he broken into ploughshares and
the spears will be beaten into pruning
hooks, yea. and in their stead will come
electrically-charged jets Of water which
will paralyze armies Mt time. radi-
directed airships which will pour forth
bombs and bullets at II mad rate of
thousand a minute. amphibiOus sub
marines which will be equipped for
destruction in water and air alike,
deadly gases before which battaliOns
will he withered like fields Of hay,
engines of war whose powers will be Il
tribute to the king of hell. That is II
picture of the next war.
Love The Apex Of Religion.
THE world must come under the
spell of force that is stronger than
hate Love is stronger than hate. and
love is the last and highest word OF
religion. Here then ia II challenge to
the universal church-to the mosque,
the synagog. the cathedral. Can they
enthrcne love and dcthrone hate In the
human heart? Can they tear prejudice
out of the racial age and In its plnce
leave tolerance and fellowship?
For the Jew. the advent Of new
year has always been frnught with
huge Significance. 1t is as If the world
were born anew for him on this day.
He takes spiritual inventory of him
\ Self and the world He recohtemplates
! his existence, he rcmotivates his con-
duct, he reafiirms his faith in himself
and in humanity. Thus RoSh Ha-
shonah. the Jewish New Year. is more
/ than national festival for the Jew.
The scope of its message transcends the
particular interest. and reaches out to
humanity at large. Throughout the
Synagog ritual of the day, the recur-
rent note the expression of lsraels
hope for the time when all the peoples
of the earth will be handed together
in common mission to do the Will of
God so that the Kingdom of God might
come upon the earth.
True Religior.-The Worlds Great
Need.
I'VE are living in n day of 'The
Great Disillusion.' We are Witness
ing whnt seems to he the bankruptcy
of idenlism. The era of universal peace
which was to have come out of the
Grent War is still n distant prospect
THE JEWS ready to stake his faith
that one day the call will he needed
The Jew. in his career of martyrdom
has learned to wait and to hope. Each
year as the new leaf is turned in the
volume of time. he repeats: Our God,
and God of cur Fathers, reign Thou i'll
Thy glory over the whole universe
and he Thou exalted above all the
world. that whatsoever hath been made
may know that Thou hast made it, and
whatsoever hnth been created may un-
derstand that Thou hast created it, and
whatsoever hath breath in its nostrils
may know 'thnt the Lord, God is King,
and His Dominion ruleth over all ="