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hold to them. The synagogues are de serted all over America, except on New Year and the Day of Atonement. Even then m ultitudes make no effort to a t tend, for even if they did th ere would be no room for them . But it is easy ‘ to see, as one goes about in the Jewish sections of th is city, th a t the day is only kept out of deference to th e sen tim ents of others and because of past remembrance of th e sacredness of Jews of these days. Jews- hate the in terrup tion to business. Some rabbis make a noise about th e beauty and power of Judaism , bu t in th e ir h earts they know it is lifeless. Judaism , like all forms of error, is only w aiting for burial. And the U ndertaker, th e great Lord Jesus, is almost ready to bury them all ou t of sight forever. Jew ish Manifesto to Arabs The Jewish National Council of P al estine has issued a second manifesto to th e Arabs, the opening p art of which follows: “To subjects of the dear and holy motherland, Palestine, and to all the Arabic nations in th e ir respective coun tries. We, all the members of th e Jew ish nationality dwelling w ith you in our country, come to you, our Arabic brethren, w ith a message of peace and love, of unity and jo in t labors, to lay before you the sincerity of our aims and th e purity of our hopes. You must know th a t our Bible and th e w ritings of the P rophets admonish us never to transgress the laws of justice and fair ness. E re yet our feet had trod th is holy land, we had engraved deep in our h earts th a t we were coming to re inhabit ' the sandy shores and th e des erts of this land; to fructify th e moun tains and th e valleys; to bring to light the treasu res embedded deep in th e stra ta ; to elevate th e w aters falling at present to waste and creating the swamps which bring sickness on the dwellers of low-lying p arts; to conquer
by toil and sweat, by money and sci ence th a t which the inh ab itan ts of the land were unable previously to exploit through lack of means; to bring a sheaf of blessing on all th e toilers in this land; and above everything, not to en croach on anybody’s righ ts and privi leges.” AN “APR IL FOOL!” A young fellow once tried to play a trick upon an old preacher well known as a rustic wit. It was the 1st of April, but the old man was wide awake. “Nay, nay, lad,” he said, “ it’s nae use. Ye w ant to m ak’ an April fule o’ me. But d’ye ken hoo th is April fooling first began?” The youth adm itted th a t he did not. “Did ye never read about it i’ th e Episcopalian P ray er book? No? Weel, jist rin awa’ hame a n ’ read i’ the place whare it tells aboot Good F riday an ’ can’lemas, an ’ see w hat’s said about April fule.” Next day the youth sought the old man again. “ I canna find th a t i’ the P rayer-buik,” he said. “Why, lad,” responded th e old worthy, with laughter, in which he was joined by a crowd, of rustics, “I didna say ye would; but ye’ve found an April fool!” INSTINCT OF IMMORTALITY Huxley w rote in 1883, nearly sixty years of age, “ It is a curious thought th a t I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older. It flashes across me a t all sorts of times w ith ho rro r th a t in 1900 I shall prob ably know no more than I did in 1800. I had ra th e r be in hell.’’ Of th e moral value of belief in imm ortality even Renan said, “The day in which belief in an after-life vanishes from the earth will w itness a terrific moral and spir itual decadence. There is no lever cap able of raising a people if once they have lost faith in the imm ortality of the soul.” Emerson said, “A moral paralysis th en creeps over us.”
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