The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1924-08-14
EDITORIALS
PALESTINE THE WORLDS AND OURS

For the nonew who visits Palestine, for of piety
of curiosity there perhaps word which best des
cbes his feeling toward the country the word completeness 1t
land which finished land whose role has already been
played land which has said its last word the world Nothing
be added taken away There sthe the
lgions the part
and agones the dream NEEDED for will be- till
the end of all time, the land of the past.
There curious coroboatn of this fact in the nature of
the settlements which the traveller finds Palestine Jerusalem
in Bethlehem and in other sacred centres The peoples of the
western world have hher to build hospitals and monuments
but monuments chiefly Here and there do find tiny ins
tuition dedicated to the regeneration of the country but is really
charity institution. 1t less regeneration than ustenance
something relieve Distress but nothing that looks toward the
economic rehirth of the country a whole
Monuments and hospitals churches and baicas and hospces
that is ALL 1t symboises the feeling of the western world to-
ward the feeling of reverentia completion There
nothing to be done but to visit to marvel to leave behind
tokens of piety, and to be gone.
Into this atmosphere of calm naly the Jew with
word His word is The of Palestine
ended This the end that you have witnessed
nerude 1t the first part of tremendous work which,
begun till the end of time Palestine not to be for
land only of monuments and churches The of Palestine
is sacred-but the future of Palestine is sacred too
THE impulse which launched the work for time
exhausted is being recharg That people which provided the
human material for the divine drama ready its bors
We shall rebuild Palestine"
this, recognize here daring which must in
evably starte part Christian cal
enge which declares that the world received the final
word that something lacking that its feeling of completeness
toward Palestine false And it only natural that
should fallen the Christian
world accept the revelation that from Palestine
the final word.
And if in deliberate contrast to the attitude of the Christ
world the Jews have built in Palestine They
their small synagog much imposing than ynagogs of
the Dsapora But there not talk of decang
to the glory of the past They working other
wise.
Their monuments colonies settlements enterprises They
build material Their medium the
living reality and not the pefed past They Palestine not
mortuary sepuchre but fruitful land IN
which, after there has been material rebh, there will follow
spiritual rebrh, resumption of the interrupted drama.
The Christians and the Mosems invite the traveller to the
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem the Via Doorosa in Jerus
aem the Mosque of Omar in eruaem of the past
and things dedicated to the past And that all The
jew when he has the Wang Wall and the ombs the
valley Jehosophat and the mother Rachel rs his
oins begins the vital of his travels Palestine.
goes the colonies the schools the hospitals the
stores Perhaps his visit ynchronises with the fou
daon of settlement colony and he goes out to wit
ness ceremony barren place which years later will
be covered and farms He will have wait long be-
fore he will such ceremony conducted by Nosems
Christians.
This contrast of the nonew and the Jew in Palestine
a significant and vital contrast-M s.