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THE OLDEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTHWEST
HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 29, 1926
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were in desperate plight, living in
poverty and decay. Their rabbi was
dead and no one was left to take his
seum, according to
from Vienna.
or before the
and the notes
The total membership of Hadasah
at the last Convention was 23,104.
The membership now is 27,970. Their
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once. A contribution worth making is worth
M. Moscovitch, a Jewish engineer,
has invented an apparatus at Lenin-
grad to test the height of the water
in the river. The new apparatus will
The Central National Fund Office
announce the receipt of $500,000 for
4 months of 1926 as against $341,-
695 for the same period of 1925.
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NEW YOKK CITY
(By Henry J. Dannenbaum)
Silence hangs like sackcloth over Gotham. The local drive
of the United Jewish Campaign began several Weeks ago. A
blast of trumpets announced opening contributigns of one mil-
lion dollars, one-sixth of the total quota. But this proved to be
the offerings of the original promoters. There was also an-
nouncement that Warburg and Lehman, millionaire friends of
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Washington, D. C., April 20 (J. T.
A.)—The Bill, introduced by Con-
gressman Dickstein to admit outside
the quota, the wives and minor chil-
dren of ministers and rabbis, as well
as professors, who arrived in Amer-
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ica prior to July 1, 1924, was passed
by the House of Representatives yes-
terday.
Extreme hardship has been caused
there relatives due to the technical
interpretation of the immigration
law, which discriminated against
Sn.ci
according to the provisions of the
give ample warning of
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The opening of Portugese colonies
to Jewish immigration is a desirable
possibility, according to General
DAndrade, former Portugese Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs and a mem-
ber of the Permanent Mandates
Commission of the League of Na-
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Canada is now organizing for the
United Jewish Campaign with a
quota of $250,000.00. Mark Work-
man and Rabbi H. Abramowitz will
be in charge of the drive.
joint drive. The community was given an obligation to
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ROBERT STERN
Mr. Robert Stern, who presided at
Monday’s meeting at the J. C. R. S.
convention, held at Dallas last week,
is quite an outstanding figure in the
Dallas Jewish community, residing
there since 1909 and known for his
ready and self-sacrificing participa-
lion in every philanthropic endeavor.
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work of the great Yasliah. This por-
tion is thought to be about one-fifth
of the whole.
The use of two different kinds of
ink suggests the history of one,large
Hebrew Bible, and the inscription at
the end tells the rest. As the- scholar
knows, Hebrew books were first
written in consonantal form; then
the scribe went back over his work
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343,000 members of Jewish labor unions to tax themselves one
dollar per annum for three years for the campaign fund. Since
then, nothing definite has been given out to the public. Is it
possible that the metropolis, containing at least three-fourths
of the Jewish wealth and at least one-half of the Jewish popu-
lation of the country, is going to fall down on its quota of forty
per cent of the whole amount to be raised in the United States?
Lest such a calamity befall the cause and such a disgrace
light upon the metropolis, I venture to suggest to Director-
General David A. Brown and his right bower, Col. David M.
Bressler, where to find the money with which to supply starv-
ing, dying East-European Jews with food and clothing at the
rate of six bits apiece. The Warburgs, Lehmans, Guggenheims,
Untermyers, etc., of Fifth and Madison avenues, are multi-
millionaires. Some of them count their wealth in nine figures.
At Brooklyn Center reside from three to five hundred million-
aires, who delight to be found in the company of the Warburgs.
David (both of you) tell them what you told the Jews of Texas
through the daily papers down here, about mothers staggering
along the streets of Eastern Europe with starving babes cling-
ing to empty breasts; about old men seeking relief in suicide,
etc. It will make gruesome reading, David, but it will get the
coin. At least itproved so in Texas, And don’t forget, general,
to tell them how at that Dallas meeting, after listening to your
eloquence and meeting your great personality. Texas .Ipwi voI.
untarily increased their quota some forty per cent. Tell it to
them, general. It may provoke a smile but you know that’s the
Gothamite habit, when it comes to giving.
was five years Lit
Mrs. Wm. Sporberg, who succeeds
to the Presidency of the National
Couheil of Jewish Women is a strong
and virile leader of affairs in the
Jewish and non-Jewish world. During
her incumbancy as president of the
N; Y. City C. J. W. that organisa-
tion grew from. 1400 to 6000.
Hon. Nathan Strauss addressed a
tongue and sold most of the mater-
ials of their ruined synagogue. Since
that time the remnant has dispersed,
the members, for the most part, be-
coming absorbed in other faiths. The
instruments of their worship, how-
ever, have retained their identity in
Christian hands.
Missionaries returning from China
brought with them scrolls of Scrip-
tures, prayer books and ritualistic
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Press notices state that Rabbi H.
G. Enelow spoke on Jesus. He did not
get half the free advertising that
one of his colleagues did.
for Europe as United States’ repre-
sentative at a convention at The
Hague.
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It is reported from the Jerusalem
office of the Hadasah that Dr. B.
Grunfelder, Chief Physician of the
Children’s, Hospital in Berlin, has
been appointed as chief of the Chil-
dren’s Department in the Rothschild
Hospital, Jerusalem.
Colonel House, personal friend of
President Wilson, spent some time in
Palestine, and at the request of the
Palestine Zionist Executive, was met
by a local committee and shown the
chief industries in the Jewish resi-
dential quarters of the town.
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Jehovaites hold that such salute is
a form of idolatry;
In presenting the summary of the
activities of the B’nai B’ri’th Hillel
Foundation for the current year, Dr.
Benjamin M. Frankel reported that
the total enrollment in the three
Foundations is seven hundred Jewish
students.
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Distributors of America, Inc., to
make a general survey of health con-
ditions in the moving picture indus-
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the masses, had gone down to the East Side and persuaded to China is a matter of doubt, but it
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______________, — young attorneys, who was elected
characters to indicate the vowels. In first vice president of District Grand
New .York, April 26.—James Hree-
man Wise, 23-year-old son of Rabbi 1 ... a
Stephen S. Wise, Jewish liberal lead-l -
sources supplement the material the
, library has been collecting for many
years. The Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, New York; Dropsie College for
Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Phil-
: adelphia, and Hebrew Union College,
. Cincinnati, have put their treasures
at the disposal of the library, with
the result that this is possibly the
, most extensive and valuable collec-
tion of its kind ever assembled in
• America. The exhibition has been ar-
ranged by the Jewish division under
the direction of Dr. Joshua Bloch.
, Although a considerable part of
. the matter is secular, most of it is of
. a religious nature. In addition to the
Scriptures in many forms are pray-
er books and liturgical documents,
Passover rituals, describing the rites
as they differ with different sects,
. and numerous responsa, the writings,
of learned men in reply to questions
on religious law not covered in the
synagogue literature.
Some are on paper and some on
parchment and some on skin, writ-
ten before parchment was known. A
few are beautifully illuminated. One
ancient scroll of the Book of Esther
in particular catches the eye. It is
written on brown skin and wreathed
with pink roses and blue bowknots.
Many of the most precious things
are mere fragments, torn and fray-
ed, and some bear the marks of fire
and flood, weathered as they accom-
panied the wanderings of the Jews.
Possibly the most valuable work
in the exhibition room is a bulky
square volume that is now recogniz-
ed as the oldest known manuscript
of the Hebrew Bible, written in the
ninth century. It comprises the Old
Testament prophets. This book is the
property of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
How it came into possession of the
seminary is a tale that applies as well
to many other books and fragments
shown. Toward the latter part of the
nineteenth century many rare and
ancient Jewish manuscripts reached
England from time to time. Inves-
had lost the sacred
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arene, this (iod, the Jehovah of rirut
Dr. Esther Mangel, journalist and ________.
economist of Warsaw, arrived in this ’place. They
country last week to give a series of
lectures. She received the Ph, D. de-
gree from the University of Cracow,
and studied in English and German
universities.
The attedance of Jewish students
at Harvard increased 650 per cent
in 27 years, according to Prof. Cool-
idge, jumping from 2 per cent in
1895 to 13 per cent in 1922.
M. Gomez Vallejo, the agricultural
expert, has been entrusted by the
Mexican Government with a special
mission to study the condition of
Jewish colonization in Argentine.
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Aristide Briand, French Prime
Minister, expressed the Government’s
sympathy with Zionism, stating that
France considers Palestine not • a
Jewish State but a national home.
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Hon. Alfred M. Cohen, president
of the Order, granted a charter for
the establishment of a B’nai B’rith
lodge with 20 members in Panama.
Simon Barchak.ws.the organizer.
Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, Director of
the Agricultural Experiment Station
, of the State of New Jersey, sailed
What’s Happening To God?
deal with the earthly, not the heav-
enly. springs of human conduct,” he
asserts.
Rabbi Wise has made no comment
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some in a mixture of Hebrew and
Chinese. A large mass of this, ma-
terial fell into the hands of the Lon-
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elsewhere were strangers to each other. But there is an-
other duty to perform, another record to make. The first
year’s subscription is now du. It would be a* fine thing
to pay it promptly. It would be a finer thing if those who
of Precepts of Hefes ben Yasliah
found its way to light in a no less
interesting way. Many years ago Dr.
Cyrus Adler, now President of the
Jewish Theological Seminary and of
Dropsie College, while traveling in
the Orient, was fortunate enough
to stop at a particular wayside inn
and there to encounter a certain
ragged peddler. The peddler was
most insistent that Dr. Adler should
purchase his wares, and finally to be
rid of him the traveler paid a quar-
ter for an ancient looking text.
Some time passed before Dr. Ad-
ler learned anything more about the
manuscript. Then, in 1914, a Jewish
scholar from Cambridge called on
him in Philadelphia. Dr. Adler show-
ed him the yellowed booklet and im-
mediately the visitor suspected its
value. Subsequent study convinced
him that he was correct in suppos-
ing it to be a bit of the long-lost
letter to David A Brown, stating
that if the Jews who acquired wealth
during the last 15 years gave ac-
cording to their means no difficulty
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The death of A. Ettelson, aged 78
years, father of the Rev. Dr. Harry
Ettelson, of Memphis, Genn.. occur-
red Sunday a week ago, at his home
in Mobile, Ala.
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The New York Section, Council of
Jewish Womens Bulletin features an
address, “The Jew in Science from
Moses to Einstein by Weinstein.”
Jewish or Christian Science?
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this book the dots do not match with
the characters. And this is the rea-
son: A learned scribe in old Toledo,
Spain, was busy on the work about
the time Columbus was engaged in
financing his voyage of discovery to
America. The consonantal version
was finished in 1492; and there the
task was arrested. Three months lat-
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Houston did itself prod in the quick success of the
would save bookkeeping and mailing expense. It would
relieve a worthy committee of that much unnecessary
work. It would give quicker use of the money for the
objects which the donors want to serve. The Texas Jew-
ish Herald will bl pleased to publish the names of pasinz
subscribers. And the treasurer of the committee, MM
Isidore Hirsch, 519 Preston Avenue, will reward 79 22
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don Society for the Promotion of
Christianity among the Jews and
only recently has come into the pos-
session of Hebrew Union College.
For many years the New York
Public Library has owned the most
precious trace of the lost colony, the
Pentateuch used in the synagogue.
It is a massive roll of parchment
twenty-three inches wide and more
than seventy feet long. It was
h-mht by a returning missionary
88 and given to the American
Society, which/ in turn, pre-
ut. JCkmttaued on pede 8)
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EM “For every Jew in Palestine a
Zionist in America” is a slogan that
L _ will be heard throughout America
Hg}: and used in a speech recently by
Miss Sophie Irene Loeb, a New York
. newspaper woman. .
tME'.-____ mDr. Melvin G. Kyle, President of
"Ba the Xenia Theological Seminary, St.
Louis, Mo., is leading an Archaeolo-
we gical expedition in the excavation
88 work in the buried City of Kirjath
Pw.■ Sepher, thirty miles west of the Dead
8 Sea. ' . . .
The United Synagogue of Amer-
EM# ica, of which Dr. Herman Abramo-
E9* s witz of Montreal was elected presi-
BiKeMeMe dent, decided not to co-operate with
EMMMsE the Zionists in their forthcoming Na-
Mcktional Conference on Jewish educa-
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<■5 • 1 A specimen volume of the Ency-
M"- --pedia Judaica, the new Jewish en-
lopedia in Hebrew and German,
„lished in Berlin, has been re-
ived in the United States. The
itorial staff is headed by Dr. Jacob
eoushess :in(r pence, becume
. -alized. Ip to i hi.- no fuel J
' i been a tribal deity ; I
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who lived in l’alestinc.
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on his son’s action. Recently the
father asserted ih a sermon that
Jesus Christ was not a myth, but a
man and a Jew, and praised the
high standard of Christian morality.
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House Passes Bill
Exempting Rabbi’s
Families from Quota
a mahisr. It has visualized creation,
that is to say. in terms of manufac-
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tigation revealed that the source of
these treasures was a genizah of Old
Cairo. The genizah, a combination
treasure house and lumber room for
discarded books, is an old-established
Hebrew institution. The sacred
scrolls that have held their place in
the synagogue are not common
things to be cast on the waste heap
or burned with the trash when they
have outlived their usefulness; and
so for centuries they were relegated
to the storeroom when no longer
legible.
The genizah became the tomb for
parchment when the characters, of
the soul of the book, had passed on.
In the course of tune other things
found their way to the storeroom,
not only dead books but injured
ones, and even disgraced ones that
once were considered sacred and
were discarded as lacking the dictate
of the Holy Spirit. A great deal of
secular matter was flung in as well
for want of another place in which
to dispose of it?.
In 1896 Dr. Solomon Schechter,
formerly head of the Jewish Theolog-
ical Seminary, made a trip to the
Orient, representing Cambridge Uni-
versity, to explore the genizah. He
found his way into dark and dusty
rooms and dug through musty piles
of all sorts of stuff. Many of the
books had been torn to fragments,
reduced to pulp or ground to dust.
But, box loads were taken out and
shipped to England, where they were
sorted, and many valuable finds were
unearthed.
The oldest known Hebrew Bible
was thus dug out of a genizah in
Persia. In like manner were acquired
three torn sheets that merit as much
attention aS anything in the exhibi-
tion. Their text is legal matter of lit-
tle popular interest, but they bear
the name, in his own hand, of the
great Moses Maimonides, who lived
from 1135 to 1204 and was known
as the greatest Jewish philosopher of
the Middle Ages. Near by, in the
same glass cse, is another scrap of
writing to which unusual impor-
tance is attached. It is all that exists
in America of the apocryphal book
of Ecclesiasticus, written by Jesus,
son of Sirach. This is another geni-
zah find.
A remnant of the long-lost Book
The story of the Jews in the East
is told in the exhibition of anctent
manuscripts and records of modern
date now on view at the New York
Public Library. Scrolls, rare books
and pamphlets, first editions and
autographs from many outside
Following an address by Joseph L.
Kun, of Philadelphia, the National
Federation of Temple Brotherhood
decided to have a survey made of
synagog attendance throughout the
United States.
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A direct exchange of international
money orders between the United
States and Palestine has been opened
according to the announcement of
R. S. Regar, Third Assistant Post-
master General.
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Rabhi Stephen S. Wise has been
awarded the Gottheil medal of the
Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity for having
rendered the greatest service to Ju-
daism during the year. He is the first
person so honored. +
An all Argentine Congress of Jew-
ish farmers will open 1n Bu^nOs
Aires on April 27. The Congress,
2 M which will last several days, has for
d its object the creation of a federa-
8716 tion of Jewish colonists.
Na the poitical king received
: - from his subjects, and an-
: them according to his royal
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- turthly worshippers, ami
withhuld attention as he saw
7inr 1 more conspicuous in
d of rehpion than the record
1 it 6 in :: rpft t rd as divine in-
■ n- itie cosmic order, and
12e furnyer interpreted as
। is the throne of grace for
favor; mid both of these go
: origin to’ the idea that there
led in hearven who rules this
as__u__lung rah’;, his royal, do-.
er, has renounced his intention ofistrietly speaking. a :
becoming a rabbi and has sever, dili appears in ctrii
all connection with organized Jewish 1/ 1′1 0, T. .
theology. He is convinced Judai-m ; ‘"J 11,. ' ,
as a religion “has ceased to play a 11, .. . 1 ,
vital partin Jewish Te." I.hiliro, 1 "i. i u 1
10 studied two years to become a ; . . .. (1 ’
rabbi. Now he intends to work t > .. 10.,.11 ,
bind the Jews of America together 11 1F 111 1 "1,
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on other grounds than those of ro- । ... »
ligion, and will devote the next year V‛ri., ( i 2 , "",
to. lecturing before groups of young ,|" ’ 1 1 ’
Jews to find out how that can bes .15 11 ......
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Rabbi Wise, said the son, was dis igal yenrned for his or
appointed at his decision not ta lu-. - Hi Pm HtE rrrm -
come a rabbi, “but all my life hei So the p. hve come ,
has taught me it is more important jone after another, as they Dav .
l!' ) U'a.V.s come and gone---1hyie,
to do anything else.” I across the pages of thcology 1iL
The modern Jew, the son thinks, i kin os acros ,, ,
ie — ________ i________1 I1........1‛ kings across the pages o| history.
One rises, to reign in glory for hi-
little time, only to passand thus give
place to his successor. I r. Algernon
between B. IC. 200 and A. D. 226.
Seven families, in early times, set-
tled at Kai-Fung Loo, and here the
Emperor built them a synagogue in
1166. In. 1489 th ir synagegue was
rebuilt at the expense of the imper-
ial treasury.
The first that the modern world
know of their existence was in the
early part of the seventeenth cen-
tury, when a Jesuit father in Peking
received a caller characterized by
Semitic features but dressed in
Chinese costume and wearing a
queue. Having heard that the Jesuit
worshipped one (i d and yet was not
Mohammedan, he had come to com-
pare faiths. Fathi r Ricci took him to
his offertory, wh re he knelt before
the picture of th” Holy Family with
St. John the Baptist and another
picture of the E i nagelists. The vis-
itor followed his example, explaining
that in China tin y did reverence to
their ancestors. He took the one
group for Rebec a with her sons,
Jacob and Esau. and the other for
four of the son- f Jacob, Heetald
Father- Ricci abut his synagogue
and his community, information that
the Jesuit infer •.—stfied. In 1 6 1 3 rmd
again in 1704 Jesuits visited the col-
ony at Kai-Fung Boo.
From time to time their brethren
in other countries tried to get in
touch with the Chinese Jews and or-
ganize the remnant into a clan or
community, but with no success. A
tion and control, in his person was
centered all authority, in his mind-
n‛ " oririnated all ideas arid purposes,
hil ll;s spirit moved ■ upon the face of
no M -ode‛,tnd it fulfilled his will. Now
1n" tribes tiue relation which such a ruler bore
Tut 1W canic hi- political realm gave the pic-
t ne ) 1101 el the one God • al man ute which men came to conceive of
kind—a,deity fivuralic to thv in - i ,fs relation to his cosmic realm.,
brews perhaps, ar. tiose wnuhad ilre was order and system in the
lirst known and sryed him, but n. verso because there was a divine
the end a king and judge 1 all .1) rer at the head. As the political
human race Last.y in the New I - king revealed his presence and power
lament, comes tio-oven o‛ lov.sublets bv edicts, proclama-
,, . with ,113 t he apprehi ’ -to ' o' i-. kingly gifts,. arid occasional
di a rather. I lidea was mt. 1u r- nal appearances, so God re-
""1′1 \g‛! his presence and power to
h i-a.--.sag,1.- ni.n by miracles of word and
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(Dr. Holmes is minister of the i Sidney Crapsey, in his remarkable
Community Church of New York Shook. “The Ways of the Gods,” has
City, an institution of liberal relig-told the story with matchless vigor,
ion. He has frequently occupied Jew- i ad with true insight into the politi-
ish pulpits and is a recognized friend cal and economic forces at work in
of our people. We publish his ser-ichis making and unmaking of the
mon without endorsement and only ; gods. “The spiritual history of the
as a brilliant contribution to current Gal e,” he says, “is nothing else than
thought along theological lines. -1 the history of the passing of the gods’
Editor. ) —one god going, another god coming
At the beginning of what I have to ■ all gods are in the melting pot,
say to you this morning, it may be i and the god of the future is in the
well to point out that I have chosen . process of casting.”
my subject in no spirit ol flippancy Now the god who is passing today
or irreverence. On the contrail l is the Christian God. Like all his in-
have tried to express with accuracy numerable predecessors, he has aris- --7
and precision the exact nature of a et and had his splendid day, and ‘ HI.M
problem that is spiritually important now is moving on. In order to under-
at just this time. What’s liappen ing, stand what is happening to this most
to God? I do not find it difficult to sublime of all the deities of man,
answer this question.....mil difficult, we must know who he is, and haw he
at least, to sum up the truth of the I has worked upon the world.
matter as a preliminary proposition. We first find him in the physical
What s happening to (iod in our age universe in the guise of a Creator,
is what has happened to (iod mere "I believe in God, . . . maker of
or less in every age since the begin- heaven and earth,” begins the Apos-
ning of human history. He is dying, tle’s Creed, to which the Nicene
..disappearinK. vanishing from 1h ( reed adds the more inclusive phrase,
Lodge, No. 7, I. O. B. B., at’ the' re-! 5 ene 01 human knowledge mid <x and of all things visible and invis-
cent convention held in Beaumont J P‛ ris n,‛ ’ he W 10 tony, of reliu- iblo. Ilie Christian God, in other
Texas. । mn is the story of the passing ol the words, is the source and origin of
.048 afterthey have done their work the physical phenomena of the cos-'
and said their say. i mos. He is the answer to the question
Lok at the procession of deities, of where things came from, and how
■ lor example,. which tiorohi thirnirl, jy began to move. In this respect,
ithe pages id the Bible. 1 1/1 (1": counc, he is. in no way unique.
that sa) a’ ■ iritl d•l} • l. d । -, f t,e Jewish God it was also said
uhM"h. a (--m.-ma! i-.ii - ol 1‛"11o il.t in the-beginning (he) created
, jam it and bi dy W1/1 or. lb "v- i hkvens and the earth.” Of all
m the sim>l,e i "ln‛ end wi 211 |( has been believed that they
M, 1,1 1l ......., ' 1 hi-,/- I ■ wore the makers of the world. The
,walk-s on .lie WI1‛ 11 iu1 ‘I tp-- human mind has always had the con-
.Vll(‛t u| llitilltit r. 11«- icui”’ ■ • ■ • ■
; pie to war. and w il1 j
| weapons of destriet 101.
and .-lays ahl devet r ■ :
to ashes and harvest fijil- te epirt
| slaughters his millinn, that hi jw- manufacturer. The watch, as Paley
■ er may -e know n and hi- vonFunee suggestsd so long. ago, implies a
. mande.Sc. .Xe.xlomnies the god ot the atchmaker. And thus God himself
.fields and flocks, o. agriculture and has come. into, being. It was this
comnvne" "J the wiy- “I in-’ry. which Voltaire must have had in
| the habits of peace, the sat i-f aetnm mind when he said that "if God did
of al and 001 ralive hie Ihis p.q exist, it would.be necessary to
god is more civilized, more friendly invent him."
and gracious than his barbarian pre Secondly, the Christian God ap-
detessor. Inde cd, he soon begin, to pears as a Ruler or Governor—a
■ < egenera e into a god of phapurkeg’ He is the answer to the ques-
। and uxury ol Mipo’/aln huinom tion as to how the processes of the
ness, and sex. His corruptinn be- world operate, and by whom they
comes as central as the crurlty of are controlled. The analogy of the
the sat age \ ahv eh. This,ld.the political organization of society is
way to a third deity—the God of the here inevitable. Men look upon the
prophets ,a moral God, a divine spirit multitudes of individual persons liv-
of justice, righteousness am brother mg in the world, and see the com-
hooa. It was this God, and not the plexity of their relationships one
God of Moses upon Sinai, who wree with another. Everything would be
he Ten ommandments, for this De-, chaos were it not for the order intro-
ca ogue, as.we should clearly under- • duced and maintained by a system of
(stand, was the product ot a later and government, of which, during all the
notan earlier period of Israrlitish early periods of human experience, a
1 st ry..In the aKe of the ovnd singe person was the head. From
saah the greatest prophet in Bib- this sovereign proceeded all direc-
added. This was do " in Constanti-
nople by another sribe. The colo-
phon tells the story in brief:
“This book, in which are the
twenty-four books of the Scriptures,
was written by the hands of the
learned R. Abraham Caliph in the
City of Toledo, which is in Spain.
And it was finished in the month of
Nissen, 5252 Anno Munda, for the
most learned Jacob Ahoab, son of the
esteemed Samuel. May the Lord per-
mit him to meditate therein, him and
his seed and his seed s seed forever.
And on the seventh of the month of
Ab in the self-same year the exiles
of Jerusalem which were in Spain
went forth dismayed nd banished by
the King’s command. May they come
back with joy, bearing their sheaves.
And I, Haim ibn Hann, have written
therein part of the Massora and the
variants in the year 5257, in the City
of Constantinople. May salvation be
at hand.”
After many more wanderings this
Bible was bought in the Orient and
brought to Americp. It is now the
property oftheJwish Theological
Seminary of America.
One group of manuscripts and
printed ‘material serves as a monu-
ment to the lost colony of Chinese
Jews. Hew and when the Jews came
m.hinns.'
T.tly, the Christian God is a
M. Sylvain Levi, President of the
Alliance Israelite, opening a meeting
held,in Paris for considering the wel-
Epokogogzhefsmomignth"hnnanek gon. M
done in fasiitntin« phensassimilation letter.ta David A Brown,
to Dr. Lee K. Ptankhi has been, in:
olmhvhedgby WngE “
Sv. Eighteenth Year
.WORLDSTORY OF JEWS TOLD
I WIDE
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Dr. Gustav Cassel, Swedish Jewish
Ku % scientist,' was elected president nf
RMT the Swedish Academy of Science for
388 this year.
BEkg***
Hgbjn Julius Rosen wald will open in Chi-
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