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4 'SHE ISRAELITE. T , | n eighbor , some months ago, leaving hla erty, began with rebellion against ' the Better to listen to the cenHure of a wise iheJtor eh Nebukim. It la not bo much Mai. ^^. v TiHqL a /* '^T v home to travel abroad , left to his two sons Church and the Institutions established or man than to the flattering words of a fool, monkies , it is much more Aristotle against whom * '^S&^l^i(^&^^ 1 two precious gems. These sons now came sanctioned by her. Thomas Jefferson and ?•.r^-. - .i™ ~t . ...» ;. the darts of Creskaa' s sagacit y and keen anal y- r w ' ^ uS f m^r rS^m : "J tome and wanted me to tell the value of his colleagues understood this well , add Be ter to ** th » ° om P a ° ,on °[ f »*** s ia fl y fas t and thick. It is just In this point »Sl#i llII q ear8tone and wSoh was worth most, insisted upon the separation of State and " *"> Is poor thau to be the bosom friend of in Whioh he.b most refrajbing ^ ^ * V * wfc'' '^ B ^i^mse^' '' '#* Ask your father , said I, for he is the most Church , civil and religious liberty, which a rich ignoramus. Of tne sage you can ex- j nvigorative . - here > 80 t0 say, heconstructs the \ ^WW ^ P celebrated expert in appraising gems ; but in clear Words means, to restrain ttie P eot !"™"! ""J IS «„2 ifi t?«ri«! bridge °^the broad , stream , s eparating tb 0 1 ' !Sm« T «ald so thev insulted and beat Church by the strong arm of justice, from rioh te^ramus , at best, only flittering 0idVrW t 'U modern ] province of.thou B ht fl0 "^ beCa T h nt iTwron^d he kin* And such acts of violence as have always been ** . which will obstruct your vision , and lh at His ^ ottho Ly in * religron ^'J CINCINNATI , o... -MARC H 28, 1873 me Tha """° ^ » d the king. And oommUted un der the ho]y garb of ; elIglon . arouse in you an unwilling envy. gotten and forg iven . He starts out . with the ¦ .! ¦ ¦ - ¦ yet. said Ephraim* thou askest the same „,, . . - .. . ./ _, . _ —— ° i ; . . «. . . . ' ' " ~ . * -r . '^j ' -n _ This only proves that the Church never Bat ter look to voiir home as the nlace «Jea that reason is insufficient to account' for TEBMS OP SUBSCRIPTION : JJ^^^^l™ . !:; was and never could be the ' mother and J™ » ,^J£ . ^^^X^ the knowledge of man ; revelation must be add^d rhe iBr fto ut e, porannu m , »£oo of ^^^^^^^ ^^ ' nuiiae of modttn civilization. Bhe must m,n d and bodyi Avold to look fpT; it . in as the main source of Lour information , and Kithor Paper to anr part of Europo , .to. of Cl r iSrf^iSiiiliiir O bin* Who which jtistloe forbids. > As long, therefore, but more comfortable; . Too many rooms, physics , and the proposition of Mai m onides Poitag * . an additio nal charge of...... 1.30 ^' V^^ 0 ^^ ^"*^^ + **«SS***a. ^Sa^sln S ' Having refuted the ideas of Aristotle aboot " .SS S^&^^^ SSS! ^^^ was dismissed with the praise and good ^^J ^T^J ^h^e ^ timej apace, the impossibility of unlimited >*•»». i iraum _ ~~Ti™ ¦ « ' will of the king. stopped ' it. One mast be stark blind to N. B.-If any of the above "Small quantl ^ real ff or »n»«ioaI t and boundless ft' 5 8BSE= == - Mffl ' lift Nothing Is easier to overcome than the facts of h istory not to see this. The Change " should find its way into your ^S^ '^Sll^TS ZS^ , ^4^^—!=:^.^^ malice. Ignore it , and it Ts Wumed in persecutions were . not God' s doing;; they memory, and be there well digested , It wll ^^S^J ^SSi^Z jj ooiiimnl a Months ./. ,... saw .*» . were the doings of wickedness and per- make change for yeu to go to market t. *""»»"" ~ i "™« u * 1 "l tf xrum ine mere A „He ao ln «an 8( yo.o. o7^. i 1 i. . * & .. T .... _.» S no lt9 0wn flre - version. They were rebellion against be- " lth " g f«t of existence All things have relative «. Batr S,thai Bl Mam»ge..n 1 Fnner.i Notic e.... .-.. i Uo ImmanuelKant , a Logio wa9 compiled nlgn providence. The Church was for -. istence, sub ject to perpetual change of mode , (B|3i&^^ fiff^U^MSlftS??S!f ATS? by Dr. Jaesohe frompapers Of Kan t , which fifteen centuries in open rebellion against , bok chasbai cbeskas. Bb ?P e ' Md composition becauae the cauaes of i. MMM aaj -i. r pM. . - . _^ he U8ed note8 to bis lectures on the Providence and the eternal laws of good- ^n m w^„ fift Penth "^ pr n^nth !«(„«« «„ r?" /T-.S f 'T lh 1 e , m8elT . *'' ¦ :. \ ¦ # - ¦ u : subject at the University of Koen igsberg. ness. It proves th ls. and ho more. So the F T _ «SlJSSL and S^lnv Tthe '^/"V ^¦S^ ¦ ^ ^T SnoLO^ Afkchem friends ; and how Kaat leotured f^rt^two successive years, matter appears to all impartial thinkers . ?* Phll rpher8 and ™™P h? o( ^e ^g and unchangeable. Hence u this «] a . ate yOTlall to-day^'Wrhope ybu are all ^ om 176 5 to i797j bn the Babject of logIC; . ^ ; ^^ : . Jew- tjve «^tence , reason naturally preeuppoaea well, h' appy, aind In good humor, just In wnich appeared to him the most sublime Man y complain of short memory, of Original minds are God's ap ostle?; on earth* tne absolute, aelf, or heceBaarv existence; which the pleasiint mood to , let this old friend , 0f an BClences. forgetfulness ; few, however, ^now that if they properl y^ ^ uhderatand the spark of aupe ' contains- all the means: and elemen ts tof the Israelite , talk to you about hgrne and ' they never learned to keep things in their rior wisdom they poasesa. What we know , and preserv ation ; and this absolute existence ia friends) olden times, and new events The intelli gence of a community is cor- memory,. Whatever' we know well and what we have invented , and the sum thereof , is God. "Space ia an attribute; of the Deity, " among your ¦ - co-rellgionists , [and ' some- rectly measured by the papers rlt reads, correctly, whatever we have grasped with the amount of our civilization—ia the product says S pinoza; and Greakaa Bays, " there/ore the thing about God> truth , virtue , light , prog- You come to any town or city, j and Ihe our reason, is indeilible, That which of those orig inal mindVwho from time to tiine, ancients call ed God Hamakom , the " place, em- ress , and enli ghtenment within the pale most popular journal of the. place affords makes but a feeble impression on the like special messengers, appear among the hu- pi r aticall y, " He expla insI this simile : bo: . "Ab of Judaism; something abput ju sticei char- yoja a correct index to that people' s height mind , vanishes easily. People who . never man family. They are a uni que species of bu- the vacuam of the boundless space ncjrmeiites.a], ity, and liberality tO ' all , m ' en in . behal f of °c depth of culture. Let the Jewish press l^teny ne : yer want'to know, never * exert manityj cpmparable.to themaelves onl y, and op; matter in the space,: so Gbd' ai glo ry ifilla the uni . humanity , plain and short , just as our down , become vulgar ^ and worthless, their faculties ; -to understand , never had cupyirigthe intermediate station between Deity verse. " Tbia vacuum 'is not abablute with good old . mother , Israel's TAoi-a i , teaches and the Jew will appear exactl y so. any :thihg : in: their ; merhdry to retain ; and humanity. It ia to ' them to whom the Creakaa—it is rather the; fifth element of Aris " it , reason and conscience understand and it has come So far in England that the ;nehCe their forgetfulness^ One may for- Faalmiat refers in these words: " I thought you tcitte, which;ia neither water , fire , air ; npre ^ arth ; feel It. > 'Wh en we sit f ' own to write for r ,0nServative8 can not construct a cabinet Bet details, but; prlhcIpiesi M^ all spnn of . the Most it is heaven , hyle , the •indifferent element/ The the Israelite or Deborah , it always appears; W|th any hope of success/no t even by a forever , if 'V the; ^min^ha> ' ' ' pnce;:^rasped . ETigfi" (Senai Elyon). One^ of these"apna of nature and essence oflDeity r ^ as though we would address a.friendly disgoJutfon ^^^ the^MOTtfligh^was Chaad ai Creakas , the.dis- with)Maimonide?/isiindiBfiriabie :and ^ letter to so many thousands of our kin ,. in ([OD an d Disraeli must confess it. Th^^ d6 not ;wish to\learn ,; ^ and hensible to human reason ; v alil l ^ he- ad mits all parts of this vast country.!' , Somis-: next 8tepgi of England are universal suf- 'd er^an^ v n ^ become wiser schoolmate of laaac S«^So« ' h;etb , called, a^a { nBt - times , we even imagln« you all presenf to fra g ^paraH on of ^ Ghuroii and State, free and better , feel>t last, that their memory EIbaSh. ; On the ;hahd Pf ¦ this/ prominenf BtanHingil)mne attribute?, s uch asiiower^iB- hsten , and we do not. ; wrlte dead ,let(ere , 8 - ho - j g^ nothing In it rabbi , we step - over from the fourteenth into dom , vgoodneeW-ju8tice i ; as:^nVgative attribute . ,?¦ {. * * pe ? k ¦ i} ^°f ' ¦ ¦ ¦$$$ wa W'^ ^o«WPfe ; even^sis irreslBtibler If the conservatives f rom the beginnin g wort hy of retention,; / the fifteenth; century^from ancient rnto,moderh , which Maimonides ' ad mi ts; ^ ^f ^m^^J - ^m^f ^ ^ ^ aW^artyroan no longer govern; the boun- " ; o oine ^ our ; fViends comblaiii bitterl v P bil6B °P H y-: . ; . . ' ¦ .r . ; '0. ' the^ositiVe;ones. ¦:. If;iej: ' s^^^n bV¦i>o ¦ b*ar : It app^r^ standing upon , a hlgh^^ , , ana yvastiiu ? ipu ,.u own . to tnaGuIf ^ up to oo-rellglon sts establish; aud^uphold socie- t ora ; etc Can not even read er th^ orhr t ^ benu Niss^ 'ben ^uben » ;^ ^as a PP° m ¥; P ubsiances, became the latter is realVa nd^ the olS Vi U?aS Wri^Tele ^Se S ff^t^^^>^^»W*« I??- mentaries tdthe Bibl 6, atid haveI rio ' khbwl- S;«m^^^.^'!^ C ^ ^ Creskas also admits that ;the; Epiri t uaiity and ' S who-W^teJff and>o Sll o Whb! '^ ^l6arn ¦* ¦ ' VV^ ** ^g^Pf the ^bre w poets, philosophers^: : «nd among he ^binical, a uthorities orhis ^l^ MB^m ^id^tom^Uo^ S^? J? ot^n^ reSl K Kh^ ar^ These, societies are - doing ,:»¦ vast ^ &$&&£ of the ? law,: i h^fc i : W^^*- -^^^^ ?^ ^^^^1 tM:m*r &L&o4, . same feenn^ a^we ' wri e S,Sv ^ " ^^ ^^,and should be takenias :,s Wamt a med;{:tbeyV teach :and preach ^^^^i^mM^0^ m and tharHe^an . iot be ^^ose diof/eiem^t. ^ ¦ o^ nf^S^S?SK^ffi& l*^^»W»!^?^«^«^^Wr* wlthouta^tem , 'wi thout ^consistency, ^^^^^fe^^MJJ i^^m^K^m^^&^ ! ^ SandSher Sherein eve ' v word £ ; M tb ^ ^ ^ wth of Sintell gence; or of OI1 . pr0per khowledge, an^cohsistency^e- ' W^ &^.^ f Wty Z W Godp andibne XliSiiite^^WWW'iJSi no Sm eanVS^ ' ^eM Industry in our mids t. v; We propose peQd8 on system, We :dp: hot think tbe ; «ot only the ;titl e of a pri nce, but enjoyed , also, ^^^^^.f tug^ ^if a read , we are readytxppe^k to you^^w ¦^ y °^- - 0a ^r wor . ds. Pofiticail y, Qri ias Smed «'pg talent m any li ne. . . *> - . . ; denominatlohs ^ There are ^ecious^ IsraeV ' especially^ In ahis^ great ' country ^ :: ! M ^V ^ ¦ ^~~^ k ' , v , Christian,.ministers; i^^ here; pr;it w <u his tendency^ your interes ts/,Yo^eSS tS'fr^- ?W ^W Sf^f- ^ ^e GWa^1 : the - New^starnent ; :sUll they ; preadhZ refute^ristptle , an attempt^i^^ ^ h - ff£V - 0 ^n^iderable ^ mount:bfMrutJi?itfine Sise orfree ^ ti^nlSSy lu^ eligible to any and ^er^c?uWSr b °^ G "^^ laS YLe»to ° Q^^»^ i* af Don ;Chasdai ; Creskasl^ ahd Baruch i^ a^athefewo u^ in peace and l^SSy ^SS Cfe - wealthy; mos t ' of you welMo-do. ' Ton %* af^?n^n^P^d^t ; being and a Iree only, not: otherwise. - Let those fri^^^^^ take o *re of the poor , the needy, ' the Wid^ S^ fl f nt ' Y ° U are ^^ b *?' or !b > complain less and work more to build up ces quotes and reproduces Creaka8 >; ^nti- peri ^ hav^ come by revelation , wh ich; ih ^ our phrase- ow and orphan among yoh. The *'JeWis!l dl^rent as ypu rnake;yonr8elf. Do noth- a aem ' . patetic reasoning*, so that a; striking ; ;similanty^ 0lag y WQUidb e , :it could not be reached by dis- heart " beats as^geherously as ever. You. -M * nd 7°^: sil ! k dQWn to indifference; - ¦ . -r. '- . —— w ^ aD r Pointy is clearly ta^ Support congregations and as9oclatipns^ W ^^ Small Change. Creakas , Bruno;, and Spinoza: ' : ' knowled ge. But ' our business now ia merely to -because you iove .lo dwell'among; breth- ^°hi .'of your life makes you a better man I MI y z After th e persecu tion , Creekas settled dow n review. ren who do good. You have built and do or woman, ¦ ' Vh " „L mo ^^T^^,. * ¦ a »* ¦ in Ara « on ' where fie wrole hi ? wo ^ ^ x ^ build maghiflcent templevasylums , and Tf . . , . ~ > . vl - - ^IS Sl ^ ^JSSl T* ^ ^^*™ *^™* * *"^> **™ by the ancient phil^a and ^h/lal- hospi tals , in Ijonor of G6d and Israel , in - " W" ^^^ff ^ ^"^ - ^f »9 \ ar e ^ ^ commit grave mistakes, and , 8ta,ed:in Yuchadn . ;; hand , although it bounds as foolisliand aric- honor of humanityVsacre J cause. Hen ce, "ligton of mankind, ^daj sm exacHy as eyen go astray. __ In consequence of the persecutions , the num- g,nt , as if *n infuscrium wouldask , what Moeesi there is no ^diffe whtiso^. , Ydu also wish W« ««PM* » . Mnou ?-y 1 " 6 -/ "©^, Juda- .. . - _ ber of Jewish apostates increased largel y in Aria totle , Maimonides, or ^ that your children receive not only a good »m: its d^ctnnes and duties " some smUe If you ,wislr that your wife.shpuld^e that cmtarfi ?nd am0Dg them ; many ec ; tho ^ The q Ue , lioD muflt De lirbp0Bed lhuy : general education; but also a Jewish edu- 8k«P^^ others shrug heir shoulders pleasant and happy, trea t her with he deaiaatical writer, . This was the cause of nu- in aa far as wo a,e enabled to understand- th e cation ; hence , you appreciate the value and ,?* ?* one s.ded enthusust. And same affectionate attent.on as you did meroU3 pokmical works then written , by both nature of Deity, a yM^V>>hat does.our rea - of education. Therefore we can speak to . ? et lhere . ) 1S €S . eai^ ff0m ' ! Monot h f- ^ bea you courted he^v partks Cr(!,kaa ?lso wrote a book on Gbrl8t. Bon affirm that Gbd does or thinks? -Per i r atet. you freely and frankly, convinced- that ism or atheism is the question now in . _ , kn dogma8) and another book of this kind i 0 philosop h y replies, " He cohtt mplates Him- you appreciate it- Wby have we no col- 8clence \ M . d f -P^P^ ' "o^thiDto . To be ^ prosperous you must avoid three wafl wriUen b j one of hia frienda and.dedicated self , " " whic h ia perfect bappin^k . abrtJutc lege ? Why have we uo seminary ? Why any more of .tr.nltar.anlsm , except Church- things: firs t to apeak falsehood ; second , t0 him. Theee proauctio„8 i how6ver i do not: perfection of reason , aiway s f ully conscious of do wp not take care of the intelligence ? mea - u T , b « ' mWi j ldw '/ s J^a.sm has to be lazy; third , to spend more than you belong to our pr esent fieldf Treating here on itself . . Creakaa admits not-the correctness of We all feel pi-pud when we hear that this Preached it for thousands of years, based earn. ph ilosoph ers an d " philosophy only, aa. far as thia concluMon. He pays , t he real happi nesa or that Israelite has distinguished him- —I 3 , 011 "f^ 0 " ' oonscience, and reason , is ^ Creskaa is concerned , we have to^deal with only which truth affords is^ ^ not in the knowledce self in science or art , au author or orator - a ^w lf Sf f ho 1,fe J^ of society. Have no desponding vie* of the future , one of his books, which is called O Afcmoi the. eof ; it is muchMnore in its discovery, it , we are all pleasedHo learn that ' thfs of thai ^t l nobody t ha9 uadertak f to con- as long as you do your dyty as an honest "Li ght of t he Lord . " We haye seen how self! in the transition from ignora nce to knowledge. Hebrew man or^bman stands bigb , ex- tradl0t , 0Br T a98e , rtl on , by . a " y , ah ° w of "' man - 1 f you have made mistakes, correct sufficient rationalistic philosophy appeared in But ihia transition ia impossible with the on.- J ercises a promflnYinfluenoe . is aa bo nor f^f° n Je wish or ath eistical , this W the them if you can , but positive ly avoid to Leo de Bannolk It assumes to explain all- niscient Deiiy. The end of philoacphy ia ab- and ornament to spciety; wby are we do- ciuea 'P0- * repeat them. - God , cosmos, human ity, thei r relations , nat ures , solute reason; it is re ason omnipotent and su- ing nothing to bri^ if about ?. We all The Jews have been persecuted , cruelly Be resolute in your work. Have faith do ! ngB ' and . ae8t i inieB . a M- "U. from the stand , premel y ben evolent perpetual! y revealing Him- Iove our religion , as the dearest birth- maltreated , and outraged , especially in in God's grace ; He will bless your honor P°lnt °f ArIBlotle ^d Maimonides. . Further- self in . the ccamos. The God of revelation , right of man , protected and nurtured by Christian countries , they say; but they able efforts, if your heart is in it. Under m0re . we kntw > "»* rationalistic philosophy, says C reskaa, ia Goodness , Love. The happi - the tejirs and the blood of our ancestors; always fo rget to add which class of people all circumstances act the man , who does not Realism , or sensualism , m all cycles of histor . v ness of love consists in the act of imparting wby do we not strive with atl ourener- wa8 treated any better. Arabs, Indians , shrink fro m duty. leads t0 Bk ^P tlcl8m ' »¦«¦• 5 eas:m dou bting its happiness and receiving love. The creation giej to educate In our midst champions Turks , and Christians were treated in the ' 0W . n capiCll y to ^ explain the nature of and preservation of the.cosmos—and preserva- and advocates of Israel' s living word ? same manner. The peasants were the One father more easily supports twelve tb5n B 8 ; anJ skepticism ^ again la nds in auper- tion is perpetual creation also in the eatimation We ask you these questions , friends , and beasts of burden , the dogs, the chatte l of children , than twelve children will support nal . ura ^ sm and mysticism, i\e., seeking the se- of Spino za-ia Soverei gn Love' s , God's.eternal si mply desire you to revftlve them in your the nob mty, whom they Whipped , flogged , one father. Teach tuerri' to begenerous-iV , l ° n ^ U * B,1CD8 tnere » whe . re huIDa°' reaB0D happinesa , wo rdfd by Spinow , " Sovere/gn love minds at some leisure hour , and i f you mutilated , or killed at- pleasure, as it was will be a blessing to them , an d a blessi n g endB; be ? m C ?, aga,n an aneff ' and lovi,|1 g Himself* " But Creikas got*beyond this feel like i t , to give ua your answer. And at in the case a few brief years ago in to law , in . case you should neelTtheir aid. 1o continue u moBt llkel 7 «° «he end of exia, and mai ntaina this perpetual imparting of hap- now Good Shabijes , for this time , say Ru88la . , and the peasants and serfs were —— tence , because man must reason . pineas produces the love of the coamda to e its your prayers, read your holy book , - eat orthodox Christians. The heretics and Of those that a bill can not be collect- Tno world . D0 » h of Jews and Gentiles , hav- Creator and Preserver , and t he love of man your Sabbath meal in gladness, be happy, schismatics, tormented and roasted by the ed without a tear in the eye, have no ri ght inR been given away t0 A ristotle and Maimo. to His Maker ; and this love, recei ved with the and think a little , jus t a littte , about those thousand , and the Protestants killed by to complalnif their credit is not good , and nides , who , it ap peared , had monopolized rea- lovegiven are God' s doing and happ ines s. To queries ; think also of the friend who Catholics , were all professed Christians, that they do not prosper , for , b y their not 80n itself , it was not so easy to step out of the love God , the Absolute Good , is moral per fec- penned these lines. The knigh ts in constant warfare with one paying promptly, they have undermined mtt gic circle and so open a new fountain of lion—the h ighest duty and happiness of man.t ~" another , and the crusaders, together with their credit and their prosperity. tho u ght; still , the genics of history will take Here ia the root and the first source of all th& * Solomon Ibn Virgo in his Shebet J ehudah the flagelants , were also good Christians. Ita own cou rse, and in the school of Eabbenu declamations 6n love in modern theology . has this bi autlfu l anecdote - . King Pedro Many more Christians than either Jews If you wish to retain the affection of NisBim » the foundation was laid to that akep- Love is not only a substantial attribute of the I. of Portugal , at the instigation of one of or Tifrks were persecuted , tormented , or your husband , you must be tidy in your iiciBi n an< * aupernaturalism which we meet in Deity, but also His main manifestation in the his adviser' ?, sent for Bphraim , and com- sla in by Christians. ' The lower classes in person and in your household , and be Creakaa. Thia Eabbenu Nissim has left us, in cosmos and in man , and His perpetual happi- manded him to tell him full y and. frankly Christendom were always treated like out- careful of your expenditures , as an honest thia respect , mere fragments , quote d by D8n ne ss. We do not mean to admit that this waa which religion was the best, the Jewish or tawed dogs. J/ Outside of England and man earns bis money by the sweat of his Isaac Aharbanel , sufficient , ho wever , to show new , in re , s ince , philosoph y- always supposes the Christian . Ephraim comprehended Holland , It is not quite a century, that brow, therefore does not like to see it spent that philosophy was studied in that school , and that love ia the nat ure of reason. In as far es well the critical position into whioh he revolutions have commenced to amelior- thoug h tlessly. bow it was studied. reason is connected with volition ,. it is pure was placed , and prayed the king to give ate the condition of humanity; and since Creakas, in his book Or Adonoi , the most dif- l ove in reran natera. The difference appears hi m three days' time to orepare a response, then the Jew, like the.peasant , "has recov- The prettiest pictures in a house are ficult Hebrew book , probably, of the whole li t- to us technical only. which was granted . After thre e days ered his rights. These are stubborn facts, cheerful faces. Every bod y can not be erature , opens with polem ics against the dog- Creakas admlta no necessity in connection Ep hraim came before the king with a de- Where was the " Religion of Love " all rich , and every bod y can not be beautiful , maa or ar ticles of faith , as! worded by Maimo- w ith the Deity. Love is free Necessity is jected countenance , looking mournful and that time ? Where was the "Christian hut every bod y can be cheerful. By all nides. Showing how s<«e of these dogmas produced bv outer influences , which can not af- forlorn. The king inquiring after the civilization " during all those centuries of means be cheerful; it don 't cost any- foot upon the metaphysics of Aristotle , Creska B cause thereof , Ephraim replied : I have darkness ? " If Is all vague phraseology, thing, a nd adds so much to true happi- attacks the twenty-sir; theses of Maimonides *Seeonr "Judatsm , » etc,Addendum in.p.u. been abused , wronged , and outraged. My i Civilization , the reign of justi ce and lib- ness. laid down introductory to the second part of ldaeninm "S!^mr et ° " - PP " " 7 l ° m "^
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V*wfc'' ' B i mse^''' '#* Ask your father, said I, for he is the most Church , civil and religious liberty, which a rich ignoramus. Of tne sage you can ex- jnvigorative. -here> 80 t0 say, heconstructs the\ ^WW P celebrated expert in appraising gems ; but in clear Words means, to restrain ttie Peot J® !"™"! ""J IS «„2 ifi t?«ri«! bridge °^the broad , stream , separating tb01 ' !Sm« T «ald so thev insulted and beat Church by the strong arm of justice, from rioh te^ramus, at best, only flittering 0idVrW t'U modern ] province of.thou Bht fl0

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Th nt iTwron^d he kin* And such acts of violence as have always been **. which will obstruct your vision , and lhat His otthoLy in *religron ^'JCINCINNATI, o... -MARCH 28, 1873 me Tha """° ^» d the king. And oommUted under the ho]y garb of ;elIglon . arouse in you an unwilling envy. gotten and forgiven. He starts out . with the¦ — .!¦¦ - ¦ — yet. said Ephraim* thou askest the same „,, . . - .. . ./ _, . _ —— °i ; . . «. . . . '' " ~ . * • -r . '^j ' -n _ This only proves that the Church never Bat ter look to voiir home as the nlace «Jea that reason is insufficient to account' forTEBMS OP SUBSCRIPTION :

JJ^^^^l™.!:; was and never could be the 'mother and J™ », J£ .^^^X^ the knowledge of man; revelation must be add^drhe iBr fto ute, porannu m , »£oo of ^^^^^^^ ^

' nuiiae of modttn civilization. Bhe

must m,nd and bodyi Avold to look fpT; it .in as the main source of Lour information , and

Kithor Paper to anr part of Europo , .to. of Cl riSrf^iSiiiliiir O bin* Who which j tistloe forbids. > As long, therefore, but more comfortable; . Too many rooms, physics, and the proposition of MaimonidesPoitag *. an additio nal charge of...... 1.30 ^'V^

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+**«SS***a. ^Sa^sln S 'Having refuted the ideas of Aristotle aboot ".SS S &^ ^ SSS! ^^ was

dismissed

with the praise and good ^ J^T J^h^e timej apace, the impossibility of unlimited

>*•»». i iraum _ ~~Ti™ ¦ I£ « ' will of the king. stopped 'it. One mast be stark blind to N. B.-If any of the above "Small quantl

realff

or »n»«ioaIt and boundlessf t' 58BSE=== - Mffl ' lift Nothing Is easier to overcome than the facts of history not to see this. The Change" should find its way into your ^S ' Sll^TS ZS,^4^^—!=: .^

malice.

Ignore it, and it Ts Wumed in persecutions were. not God's doing;; they memory, and be there well digested, It wll ^^S J^SSi Zjj ooiiimnla Months ./. ,...!¦ saw .*» . were the doings of wickedness and per- make change for yeu to go to market t. *""»»"" ~i"™« u* 1"ltf xrum ine mere

A„Heaoln«an8( yo.o.o7^.i1i..*&..T...._.»S no lt9 0wn flre - version. They were rebellion against be- "lth" g f«t of existence All things have relative «.BatrS,thai Bl Mam»ge..n1Fnner.i Notice.... .-.. i Uo ImmanuelKant,a Logio wa9 compiled nlgn providence. The Church was for -. istence, subject to perpetual change of mode,

(B|3i&^ fiff U^MSlftS??S!f ATS? by Dr. Jaesohe frompapers Of Kant, which fifteen centuries in open rebellion against , bok chasbai cbeskas. Bb?Pe'Md composition becauae the cauaes ofi.MMM aaj -i.rpM..- . _^ he U8ed „ note8 to bis lectures on the Providence and the eternal laws of good- ^nm w^„ fift Penth" prn^nth !«(„«« «„ r?"

/T-.S f'T lh1e,m8elT.*''¦:. \ ¦

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: subject at the University of Koenigsberg. ness. It proves thls.and ho more. So the FT

_ «SlJSSL and S^lnv Tthe • ' /"V ^¦S ¦ TSnoLO^ Afkchem friends ; and how Kaat leotured f^rt^two successive years, matter appears to all impartial thinkers. ?* Phllrpher8 and ™™Ph? o( ^e ^g and unchangeable. Hence u this

«]a.

ate yOTlall to-day^'Wrhope ybu are all ^

om 1765 to i797j bn the Babject of logIC; . ; ^ : . Jew- tj ve «^tence, reason naturally preeuppoaeawell, h'appy, aind In good humor, just In wnich appeared to him the most sublime Many complain of short memory, of Original minds are God's apostle?; on earth* tne absolute, aelf, or heceBaarv existence; whichthe pleasiint mood to , let this old friend , 0f an BClences. forgetfulness ; few, however, ^now that if they properly ^ uhderatand the spark of aupe' contains- all the means: and elemen ts tofthe Israelite, talk to you about hgrne and ' they never learned to keep things in their rior wisdom they poasesa. What we know, and preservation ; and this absolute existence iafriends) olden times, and new events The intelligence of a community is cor- memory,. Whatever' we know well and what we have invented , and the sum thereof, is God. "Space ia an attribute; of the Deity,"among your ¦- co-rellgionists, [and ' some- rectly measured by the papers rlt reads, correctly, whatever we have grasped with the amount of our civilization—ia the product says Spinoza; and Greakaa Bays, "there/ore thething about God> truth , virtue, light, prog- You come to any town or city, j and Ihe our reason, is indeilible, That which of those original mindVwho from time to tiine, ancients called God Hamakom, the "place, em-ress, and enlightenment within the pale most popular journal of the. place affords makes but a feeble impression on the like special messengers, appear among the hu- piratically," He explainsI this simile : bo:. "Abof Judaism; something abput ju sticei char- yoja a correct index to that people's height mind, vanishes easily. People who. never man family. They are a unique species of bu- the vacuam of the boundless space ncjrmeiites.a],ity, and liberality tO 'all ,m'en in . behalf of °c depth of culture. Let the Jewish press l^teny ne:yer want'to know, never* exert manityj cpmparable.to themaelves only, and op; matter in the space,: so Gbd'ai glory ifilla the uni.humanity , plain and short, j ust as our 6° down, become vulgar

^and worthless, their faculties ;-to understand, never had cupyirigthe intermediate station between Deity verse." Tbia vacuum 'is not abablute with

good old .mother, Israel's TAoi-ai, teaches and the Jew will appear exactly so. any :thihg :i n : their ; merhdry to retain ; and humanity. It ia to' them to whom the Creakaa—it is rather the; fifth element of Aris"it , reason and conscience understand and it has come So far in England that the ;nehCe their forgetfulness^ One may for- Faalmiat refers in these words: "I thought you tcitte, which;ia neither water, fire, air; npre arth ;feel It. > 'Wh en we sit f'own to write for r,0nServative8 can not construct a cabinet Bet details, but; prlhcIpiesi M^ all spnn of . the Most it is heaven, hyle, the •indifferent element/ Thethe Israelite or Deborah , it always appears; W|th any hope of success/not even by a forever, if 'Vthe; min^ha>' ''pnce;:^rasped. ETigfi" (Senai Elyon). One^ of these"apna of nature and essence oflDeityr ^as though we would address a.friendly disgoJutfon ^^^ the^MOTtfligh^was Chaadai

Creakas, the.dis- with)Maimonide?/isiindiBfiriabie :and^letter to so many thousands of our kin ,.in ([OD and Disraeli must confess it. Th^^ d6 not ;wish to\learn,; and hensible to human reason ; v alil l^ he- admitsall parts of this vast country.!',Somis-: next 8tepgi of England are universal suf- 'der^an^ vn '° become wiser schoolmate of laaac S« So«'h;etb , called, a^a{nBt -times, we even imagln« you all presenf to fra g paraHon of ^ Ghuroii and State, free and better, feel>t last, that their memory EIbaSh.; On the ;hahd Pf ¦ this/ prominenf BtanHingil)mne attribute?, such asiiower^iB-hsten , and we do not.;wrlte dead ,let(ere, 8-ho-jg^ nothing In it rabbi , we step- over from the fourteenth into dom,vgoodneeW-ju8tice i ;as: nVgative attribute

.:¦ ,?¦{.* *pe?k ¦• i}^ °f '¦¦ ¦$$$ waW' ^o«WPfe; even^sisirreslBtibler If the conservatives from the beginning worthy of retention,; / the fifteenth; century^from ancient rnto,moderh , which Maimonides' admits;

^ f ^m^^J - m f ^ ^ ^ aW^artyroanno longer

govern;

the boun- "; ooine our; fViends comblaiii bitterl v Pbil6B°PHy-:. ;.•.' ¦ .r .; '0. ' the^ositiVe;ones.¦:.If;iej:'s^^^nbV¦i>o¦b*ar: It app^r^standing upon , a hlgh^^

,, ana yvastiiu ?ipu ,.u own . to tnaGuIf^ up to oo-rellglon sts establish; aud^uphold socie- tora ; etc Can not even read er th^ orhrt^ benu Niss 'ben ^uben » ; ^as aPP°m¥; Pubsiances, became the latter is realVa nd^ the

olS ViU?aS Wri^Tele SeS ff^t^^^>^^»W*«I??- mentaries

tdthe Bibl6,atid haveI rio'khbwl- S;«m^ ^. '! C

Creskas also admits that ;the;Epirituaiity and 'S who-W^teJff and>o Sll o Whb!' l6arn¦* — ¦' VV^** g^Pf

the ^brew poets, philosophers^: :«nd among he ^binical, authorities orhis

^l^MB^m

^id^tom^Uo^S ? J? ot^n^

reSl K Kh^ ar^

These,

societies are - doing ,:»¦ vast &$&&£ of the?law,: ih^fci : W^^*--^^ ^ ? ^^ 1

tM:m*r&L&o4,

. same feenn^ a^we'wri e S,Sv " ^^ ^,and should be takenias :,s Wamtamed;{:tbeyV teach :and preach ^^^^i^mM^0 m and tharHe^an .iot be ^^osediof/eiem^t . ¦o^nf^S^S?SK^ffi& l* ^»W»! ?^«^«^^Wr* wlthouta^tem,'wi thout ^consistency,^^^^^fe^^MJJ i ^m^K^m^^&^

!^

SandSher Sherein eve'v word £; Mtb ^wth of Sintell gence; or of OI1 .pr0per khowledge, an^cohsistency^e-' W & . f WtyZW

Godpandibne XliSiiite^^WWW'iJSi no

SmeanVS ' ^eM Industry in our midst. v; We propose peQd8 on system, We:dp: hot think tbe; «ot only th e ;title of a prince, but enjoyed, also, ^^^^^.f tug^ if a

read , we are readytxppe ^k to you^^w ¦y°^- -0a^rwor.ds. Pofiticaily, Qri ias Smed «'pg talent m any line. . .*> - . . ; denominatlohs There are ecious^

IsraeV' especially^ In ahis^ great ' country ^ ::!M^V ^

¦ ^~~^ k ', v , Christian,.ministers;i^^ here; pr;it w<u his tendency^

your interests/,Yo^eSS tS'fr^- ?W^W Sf^f- e GWa 1: the-New^starnent; :sUll they ;preadhZ refute^ristptle, an attempt^i^^

h-ff£V- 0 ^n^iderable^mount:bfMrutJi?itfine

Sise orfree ^ ti^nlSSy lu^eligible to any and ^er^c?uWSrb° G" ^laS YLe»to °Q^ » ™i* af Don ;Chasdai ; Creskasl^ ahd Baruch i a^athefewou^in peace and l^SSy^SS — Cfe-wealthy; most ' of you welMo-do. 'Ton %* af^?n^n^P^d^t; being and a Iree only, not: otherwise. - Let those fri^^^^^take o*re of the poor, the needy,' the Wid^ S fl

fnt' Y°U

are

^^ b*?' or !b> complain less and work more to build up ces quotes and reproduces Creaka8>; nti-peri

^ hav^ come by revelation, which; ih^ our phrase-ow and orphan among yoh. The *'JeWis!l dl^rent

as ypu rnake;yonr8elf. Do noth- a aem ' . patetic reasoning*, so that a; striking;;similanty^ 0lagy WQUid b e, :it could not be reached by dis-heart " beats as^geherously as ever. You. -M *nd 7°^: sil!k dQWn to indifference; — - ¦. -r.'-. —— w ^

aDr Pointy is clearly ta^

Support congregations and as9oclatipns W^^ Small Change. Creakas, Bruno;, and Spinoza: ': ' knowledge. But' our business now ia merely to-because you iove .lo dwell'among; breth- ^°hi.'of your life makes you a better man I M I y z After the persecution, Creekas settled down review.ren who do good. You have built and do or woman, ¦ '

Vh " „L mo^^T^^,. * ¦„ a »* ¦

in Ara«on' where fie wrole hi? wo^ x^build maghiflcent templevasylums, and Tf . . , . ~ >. v l „ - - ^ISSl ^JSSl T* ^ *™* ™*

* *" > **™ by the ancient phil^a and ^h/lal-hospitals, in Ij onor of G6d and Israel, in- " W" ^^ ff ^ ^"^- f»9 \ ar e commit grave mistakes, and ,8ta,ed:in Yuchadn. ;; hand, although it bounds as foolisliand aric-honor of humanityVsacre J cause. Hence, "ligton of mankind, ^daj sm exacHy

as eyen

go astray. __ In consequence of the persecutions, the num- g,nt , as if *n infuscrium wouldask, what Moeesithere is no ^diffewhtiso^. ,Ydu also wish W« ««PM* ».Mnou ?-y 1"6-/ "©^, Juda- .. . - _ ber of Jewish apostates increased largely in Aria totle, Maimonides, or ^that your children receive not only a good »m: its d^ctnnes and duties "some smUe If you ,wislr that your wife.shpuld^e that cmtarfi ?nd am0Dg them ; many ec; tho The qUe,lioD muflt De lirbp0Bed lhuy :general education; but also a Jewish edu- 8k«P^^ others shrug heir shoulders pleasant and

happy, trea t her with he deaiaatical writer,. This was the cause of nu- in aa far as wo a,e enabled to understand- thecation ; hence, you appreciate the value and ,?* ?* one s.ded enthusust. And same affectionate attent.on as you did meroU3 pokmical works then written , by both nature of Deity, a yM^V>>hat does.our rea-of education. Therefore we can speak to .?et lhere.)1S ?° €S.eai^ ff0m

' ! Monothf- ^bea you courted he^v partks Cr(!,kaa ?lso wrote a book on Gbrl8t. Bon affirm that Gbd does or thinks? -Per iratet.you freely and frankly, convinced- that ism or atheism is the question now in . _ , kn dogma8) and another book of this kind i0 philosophy replies, "He cohtt mplates Him-you appreciate it- Wby have we no col- 8clence \M.df -P^P^ ' "o^thiDto . To be^prosperous you must avoid three wafl wriUen bj one of hia frienda and.dedicated self," "which ia perfect bappin^k.abrtJutclege ? Why have we uo seminary ? Why any more of .tr.nltar.anlsm, except Church- things: firs t to apeak falsehood ; second, t0 him. Theee proauctio„8i how6veri do not: perfection of reason, aiway s fully conscious ofdo wp not take care of the intelligence ? mea - u

T,b« ' mWij ldw'/s J^a.sm has to be lazy; third , to spend more than you belong to our present fieldf Treating here on itself . . Creakaa admits not-the correctness ofWe all feel pi-pud when we hear that this Preached it for thousands of years, based earn. philosophers an d" philosophy only, aa. far as thia concluMon. He pays, the real happinesaor that Israelite has distinguished him- — I 3,011 "f^0"' oonscience, and reason , is ^ Creskaa is concerned , we have to^deal with only which truth affords is ^ not in the knowledce

self in science or art , au author or orator - a ^w lf Sf f

ho 1,fe J^

of society. Have no desponding vie*

of

the

future , one of his books, which is called O Afcmoi the.eof ; it is muchMnore in its discovery, it ,we are all pleasedHo learn that 'thfs of thai t l nobody

tha9 uadertak

f to con- as long as you do your dyty as an honest "Light of the Lord ." We haye seen how self! in the transition from ignorance to knowledge.

Hebrew man or^bman stands bigb , ex- tradl0t ,0BrT

a98e,rtlon ,by .a"y ,ah°w of "' man - 1 f you have made mistakes, correct sufficient rationalistic philosophy appeared in But ihia transition ia impossible with the on.- Jercises a promflnYinfluenoe. is aa bonor f^f° n

Jewish or ath eistical, this W the them if you can , but positively avoid to Leo de Bannolk It assumes to explain all- niscient Deiiy. The end of philoacphy ia ab-and ornament to spciety; wby are we do- ciuea 'P0- * repeat them. - God , cosmos, humanity, thei r relations, nat ures, solute reason; it is reason omnipotent and su-ing nothing to bri^ if about ?. We all The Jews have been persecuted , cruelly Be resolute in your work. Have faith do!ngB' and.ae8tiinieB. aM-"U. from the stand , premel y ben evolent perpetual!y revealing Him-Iove our religion, as the dearest birth- maltreated , and outraged , especially in in God's grace ; He will bless your honor P°lnt °f ArIBlotle ^d Maimonides. . Further- self in .the ccamos. The God of revelation ,right of man, protected and nurtured by Christian countries, they say; but they able efforts, if your heart is in it. Under m0re. we kntw> "»* rationalistic philosophy, says Creskaa, ia Goodness, Love. The happi -the tejirs and the blood of our ancestors; always forget to add which class of people all circumstances act the man , who does not Realism, or sensualism, m all cycles of histor.v ness of love consists in the act of impartingwby do we not strive with atl ourener- wa8 treated any better. Arabs, Indians, shrink fro m duty . leads t0 Bk^P tlcl8m' »¦«¦• 5eas:m dou bting its happiness and receiving love. The creationgiej to educate In our midst champions Turks, and Christians were treated in the ' 0W.n capiClly to

^ explain the nature of and preservation of the.cosmos—and preserva-and advocates of Israel's living word ? same manner. The peasants were the One father more easily supports twelve tb5nB8; anJ skepticism

^ again lands in auper- tion is perpetual creation also in the eatimationWe ask you these questions , friends, and beasts of burden , the dogs, the chattel of children , than twelve children will support nal.ura^

sm and mysticism, i\e., seeking the se- of Spinoza-ia Sovereign Love's, God's.eternalsimply desire you to revftlve them in your the nobmty, whom they Whipped , flogged , one father. Teach tuerri'to begenerous-iV ,l°n ^

U*B,1CD8 tnere» whe.re huIDa°' reaB0D happinesa, wordfd by Spinow, "Sovere/gn loveminds at some leisure hour , and if you mutilated , or killed at- pleasure, as it was will be a blessing to them , and a blessing endB; !° be?m C?, aga,n an aneff ' and lovi,|1g Himself*" But Creikas got*beyond thisfeel like i t , to give ua your answer. And atin the case a few brief years ago in to law , in .case you should neelTtheir aid. 1o continue u moBt llkel7 «° «he end of exia, and mai ntaina this perpetual imparting of hap-now Good Shabijes, for this time, say Ru88la . ,and the peasants and serfs were —— tence , because man must reason. pineas produces the love of the coamda toeit syour prayers, read your holy book ,- eat orthodox Christians. The heretics and Of those that a bill can not be collect- Tno world . D0»h of Jews and Gentiles, hav- Creator and Preserver, and the love of manyour Sabbath meal in gladness, be happy, schismatics, tormented and roasted by the ed without a tear in the eye, have no right inR been given away t0 Aristotle and Maimo. to His Maker ; and this love, received with theand think a little, jus t a littte, about those thousand, and the Protestants killed by to complalnif their credit is not good, and nides, who, it appeared , had monopolized rea- lovegiven are God's doing and happiness. Toqueries ; think also of the friend who Catholics, were all professed Christians, that they do not prosper, for, by their not 80n itself, it was not so easy to step out of the love God , the Absolute Good, is moral perfec-penned these lines. The knights in constant warfare with one paying promptly, they have undermined mttgic circle and so open a new fountain of lion—the highest duty and happiness of man.t~" another, and the crusaders, together with their credit and their prosperity. thought; still , the genics of history will take Here ia the root and the first source of all th& *Solomon Ibn Virgo in his Shebet Jehudah the flagelants, were also good Christians. Ita own course, and in the school of Eabbenu declamations 6n love in modern theology.has this bi autlfu l anecdote -. King Pedro Many more Christians than either Jews If you wish to retain the affection of NisBim» the foundation was laid to that akep- Love is not only a substantial attribute of theI. of Portugal , at the instigation of one of or Tifrks were persecuted, tormented , or your husband , you must be tidy in your iiciBin an<* aupernaturalism which we meet in Deity, but also His main manifestation in thehis adviser'?, sent for Bphraim, and com- slain by Christians. 'The lower classes in person and in your household, and be Creakaa. Thia Eabbenu Nissim has left us, in cosmos and in man , and His perpetual happi-manded him to tell him fully and. frankly Christendom were always treated like out- careful of your expenditures, as an honest thia respect, mere fragments , quoted by D8n ness. We do not mean to admit that this waawhich religion was the best, the Jewish or tawed dogs. J/ Outside of England and man earns bis money by the sweat of his Isaac Aharbanel , sufficient , however , to show new, in re, since , philosophy- always supposesthe Christian . Ephraim comprehended Holland, It is not quite a century, that brow, therefore does not like to see it spent that philosophy was studied in that school, and that love ia the nat ure of reason. In as far eswell the critical position into whioh he revolutions have commenced to amelior- though tlessly. bow it was studied. reason is connected with volition ,.it is purewas placed , and prayed the king to give ate the condition of humanity; and since Creakas, in his book Or Adonoi, the most dif- love in reran natera. The difference appearshi m three days'time to orepare a response, then the Jew, like the.peasant,"has recov- The prettiest pictures in a house are ficult Hebrew book, probably, of the whole li t- to us technical only.which was granted . After thre e days ered his rights. These are stubborn facts, cheerful faces. Every body can not be erature, opens with polemics against the dog- Creakas admlta no necessity in connectionEphraim came before the king with a de- Where was the " Religion of Love" all rich , and every body can not be beaut iful , maa or ar ticles of faith , as! worded by Maimo- with the Deity. Love is free Necessity isjected countenance, looking mournfu l and that time ? Where was the "Christian hut every body can be cheerful. By all nides. Showing how s<«e of these dogmas produced bv outer influences , which can not af-forlorn. The king inquiring after the civilization" during all those centuries of means be cheerful; it don 't cost any- foot upon the metaphysics of Aristotle, CreskaB cause thereof, Ephraim replied: I have darkness ? " If Is all vague phraseology, thing, and adds so much to true happi- attacks the twenty-sir; theses of Maimonides *Seeonr "Judatsm ,» etc,Addendum in.p. u.been abused , wronged , and outraged. My i Civilization , the reign of justi ce and lib- ness. laid down introductory to the second part of ldaeninm "S! mr

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TgE ISJ^EIhITE. " ..y .*

feet the Deity; 6r by inner conditions in rela- HIBTOBY of MBAEI,. Thy country 's blooming soli ; but faithful ser- [ again out of the ruins at Jernsale m, have been j ceaafully combat in all casestion to outer objects , which again can not be ^ vH

. Z 'f v^l „ u- u, J L T^7 endea,r OTin« t0 a*aken "" PWoa e in tion. The aasiatanc e of Him laSredThaiadmitted in regard Jo Deity, since nothing ex- To thy behef shall highly vene rate and honor the emperor , and to persuade him of the dan- (he other qualiti es hereinafter deaami^'ists actuall y oulaide of Himself. Love's own Kadrlon 'a Bcign. thee; ; gerou s consequ ences such a restoration would may be gained and obtained Paith-th V"'

necessity to love, or reason'a necessity to be ^ j ewb FBoM ^ ^ Vf ^

with ?acr/ d .WOrd ''' de™ ?] r, J rlng ab out in rega rd to the consistency of the pare fait h in God-ia the only recogniz ed war'viae, are incorrect phrase s, rep lacing aubatan - Tbm howeret > trom another Bid<)i for Wlt^ly prayera and ofiferln *8 a8«*able to

Roman Governme nt in

Lesser Asia. Like their of obtaining His aid. .

tial by accident al attribu tes. AH Which God the Jews of Judea , relief from the ruthless Ro- «,, . .*, . . . . ancestors once to the Persia n kings, ao now Truthfuln ess : that ia, not in the sense whichdoes being the act of His free volition and His man commander , Quietus. Quietus became lhe "*. . ' 8Uflfe"°B- a*d endu ring, once, thei r descendants demonstrated to the Soman baa been practically given to this word but inlove, therefore His happ iness is in His perp et- fl„jaenly powerless for accomplishing hia pur- ,_ aflllctlona • * operator that und er the cover of the erection its strict and moat compreh ensive sense Aual actiona. . ' pose of exterm lnat ion. The new emperor him- ^Having eatabliah ed his theology in conform!- aelf had checked the current ©! his triumph a. Whde those who utter restive word s agarna t the tion from the Roman Govern ment lays conceal- he .peat , even inadvert ently, an untruth. That

ty with revelation , Creakas passes over to his Hadrian , of a character more ambitious than « , ' ' .„ . , . . . ... .. . *d * Bnd tna tth e meana of preve nt ing-the separa- ' man was formed [for society, has been assertedwain object, the Jewiah anthropology baaed cbiyalroue, and by his nature , properl y fit more

^^8« wllV 8Ucceed

,n raising wj ld discord s- tion be, on the contrar y, but tne very means of and demonatrate d by great writers of different

ypbn it, wliicb We will describe in our next for the orMe of an imperial authority with a But *** ™Uceal themfle1 "8 nntl1 <be "<>** ^thering auch a treacher ous attem pt. It may periods. "Monk ist seclusion Is manifestly un-ique. " ' ¦ . = " ' ¦ - peaceab ¦- . . - . . ¦ :Mr

¦.•«" «*«"»">? ^n\i hardl y escar * natural ,'' is the remark of a learn ed author of(To be continued.) tiona ofaveari some'miUtary Hfe,was alarmed at P j J " . ou t the clonds a &*> casting Hadrian 's and hia officer 's mind , even with out the present centur y. In civiiized 'life; man: -^—= the sight of so maiy revolutions , and ' alt the fl0Qd . the Samaritan 's demonstration. But however longs for the companionshi p of, and interco urseLESSONS FOB THE YOUNG. prospect of so many lingering war *. Besides Streamfl down the earth ; and M8d and harT€Bt 'his »¦ 7 haTe b«°. Office it to say, that Ha- with , his fellow-men, and interests himself to

thiB,jealou a of the triumphs of hia predecessor _.,]are no

1more : dnan ' not ^luring to revoke entir ely his acquire the same. In this age (and it will be the

XIX.-Onia s's Flight into Egypt-The Onias for whom he had no sympathy, and for whom Tl" mor ,al m*° decayB no more ' ba t 8etfl the pnsuta , had , at least, chaffered on them, and same in thefutu re, we may presum e) man viewsTemple in Egypt—Q uarrel over Superior the Senat e could not decree enough glorifica- * J 7 . - reduced them . He gave the Jews to under- and regards his kidd with distrust and saspi-Sanctity of theTemp Ies-Tfae Bacchides In- tiona , but also too weak aa to make himself UI "??' ,mni0™ J ' and tne JS0 »a of aJ1 th8 stand , that they are allowed to rebuild the tern- cion. Confidence is* only placed in those whomvasion—T reachery — Nicanor makes Peace' equal to Trajan , and much less auperior to him, ~

r1.ng8' , . 4 . . t , , , , P,e' ba t no' on ita formerj p lace, or , at leaat , on we trust , who are, in the generality of caaea ,

- Nicanor 'a Invasion-Battle of Caphar- Hadrian was the firat ia deviating from the Bo- 5eea fl,m wbo ia eternal : not tbe *<>& ai>d '«'" a acale smaller than that of the temp le destroy- called trust worthy. But as philosophers haveSammala -Nicanor rages over hia Defeat- ^ man policy; consistin g in venturing all for the w. . T™ . .. . . ._ ,. * *?;

J.owa ,had *°oa Per«ived the miaer- eatabli ahed that "man 'a propen aity is to tell theSe near Jernaalem-Nicanor Slain - A p atJLJ gaining all , and turned into a new ^^ ^2^,?^ T T- "rT

T*? **" " T**" " BV rea8 °nab l7 «"»** tba ' manRespite-Day of Thanksgiving. political course in his government , the course J

Ut al1 ™" W

»bnt a frnit

" an«en . abrogation of the imperial word , and many of does not naturall y distrus t hia fellows. His sus-___ ' of condescendency. He restore d entire ly the Ft0m

J ' ' aboundin « m tLem - unw ^»8 'o be tri ded with , took up arms picion is the result 'of contact with a corrupt' ^ - .v ¦« *i.

"C- 'I. - ^n - i. Partic lands to their proper auth orities , divest- nf , ' A f t fl . \. , 8

f1D; ?"d a»emb

i,ed at the Tall V of Rimon, in world. A person whom we know apeaka the.Qqmm the Bon of the -^lt^io^^TOa^jt iagiiMBeif of iJi oUdM thB ^Bi and had - ml- 0f honey. aud of water flowin g out from rocks , the plain of. Israel. At the reading of the im- truth , we place relian ce upon ; and , if we findhad been slain , on seeing that the king had ap- io^d ConceWiona to alVprovihcea being at in- And alao ambrosi al milk shall Stream for right- perial rescri pt the -people buret out in tears, that hia alat ementa are in every inatanc e veri fiedpointed Alcimu? to

^aucceea Menelau s, and

^not 8urrection i And to secure peace from all aides , eoua men; An embittered insur rection and -a-war-of-exw _ -{excepting those instances in which the stdle-faim who claimed,the ,right of , succession, fled he

in regBr d^. the JewBj aB it BeeaiB) had Because they faithfull y have put their trust in peration , such aa emerged hoi eafier, seemed to ments are founded ;upon opinion or conject ure) ,from Antioch into Egypt , where he Was well . followed *he aame

* course. He granted their God- to inwitable - Tb«« b"e been however also we consider such a person as worthy of beingreceived by' Ptolemy : jPhjIometer , and Clep- appare ^ly harmless reque sls/ainori g which , no Far from the land delicious there a man cornea * f f f j ™ *' ™ of sound consideration trusted , and we place confiden ce in such person ,patra his w^.; vDurmg ^he

war

in Jndea , ^number of Is^elitesm Egy

TheSer in his hand from God bestowed on '" ^^'^^^ leaat , necessary to 'success, and evenmented , and their, conne>9

twn^ with Jeruaalem ;

fc ^. ¦ ^ .^-removed

X- ^ " hand '" " be9*wed

.on such as were prevailing at. that time; anxiousl y for that matt er , happ iness.; Dr. Reid . in hia »In-were interrupted v Oms paying VVfif * . forthwUh f iJ h1a f a ^ Though thia auap en- Beautifying and in glory, ruling mankind ¦ *B4°*d

^|WP" "g" whatever warlike quiry into the Human Mind ," saya : "Truth UMmaelf .with . ¦perm .aamn:to:bnil J aWe at . Leofl^ or >a envy of his comrades ' and governor 's ° "B ' * * wa aRYoahu a, Contrary to the . greatest part tbe mind. It requires no art or training , no in-Egypt, similar ^ tp that of Jerusalem. : The ,emi

^. -. . . ^ ^ oi, . a„ „, .,, ,,¦_ ia ,nno „„ . l03t . of his Jewish contemporaries this Tanaite coun- d"cement or temptation , but only that we yieldpie was built , and magnificentl y furnished ^ S^Z ^Z ^Z * & B^

io'CTCe« but crU8h td *» tolha cities, tena nced no blind pr ejudices against the Hea-^ to a natural impL. Lying, on thStJ aryOnias was appointei

h^^Lente ralaP ivere appo^ : v ¦¦ ?1C!' ,, , . , ( . t . value in-the eyes of God , what was disavowed Wpticed , even by the worst men, without somewprship, ^^ntrou ^ ia ^ruaalem^

was .mi- ro * , .«*:

Bu^endered glor ious ^ above the ^the moon , „Dto them even by the Je w-Chria tiinV. R Yosh^ teniptation ," . Temptation , theb , being the causetated , in Egypt . :¦ There , wa« ;^^plesi bne in Jeru aalem, oh Mount Mpriah ;; one . f?^*^ , W f»™ . ? *?c}- ¦Adon«d. :1« .ooi loidly, ' ud- enBtnu» i «¦ .^nJa .v . ; v t-Lfci ftft

™; ? applies..f ::>, : ,w;.' ; ^^"; ^¦i'.v^- '.j :-:/, ;i; had reached the commander , he waa about to . .¦;ilpP - eyciuaea irom salvati on in the future life on ac- *v£,m ^amam , on

:Moun G

The W temple the delist and charm of °f the3r n°£ b"«8 of the Jewiah reli- ^¦»«t qn.lB7-pr«ntea to in^«l

: ».Hon- .

Egypt. : Tho.H^ws^nd

Sam ^

truthfu lness, will upquest ionably: obta in: for uabarreled : over : the :claims of their ^ ^ ed ^pon to ailay -iw^ wat}ike eichement of the tbat ^dnfidencB which tr uthfuln eaa in itself maytemples;! ^

. them8eIv^^oyer ;the "matter : thal:they laid :the : ^ n .;,t:f Vi I ^ l ^ ^ a^ ^^ ^Y. > L t j .u V • w'i.iiiittitiy-efficabibu s in aimilar :cases anil nt makes enemies of those who become - auch ^^ueation vbeforeytb ^ king^and lhiav^uncil : ^. ^^ *i>^ ^ *tfii4. ^ tS^ S^SS: ^'S:

31^^^^ ^-' - - i^-^i^i»^oY'ti i^5a£

ior awindler , o^other s of iike char acter- Sorneagreed that:thW loaing party shouH/ .i < ri« - l'-' '' a ^ :? - v ^ j :f^j art .not nn independent ruler , butthe servan t of Then erief no lonee> shall scburee ^ careworn ¦' ¦' ¦: "" ¦, ¦ t|S. . " ¦ -T . .v J - - * lauie, wim t . .. . . ' . . ¦¦ . y h ,yu > . «:^S-PP ^te$$%!^&M& one superior: tiihee V

Ar tM twb capiives * "Sni

ou. ge c, . eworn ^ Bpplfcat10ni: to the ; surround ing cir^ : :d^e.truth

?f what prece des . respecti ng^the ,:1^&&SE^&lf o&r ^%

' f & t o tf & tij mM^rt&t. AduSwL6er ,^nor boys' lewd love; '<¦ ¦. S

v- "^W :^-lion cloyed "^^ ^ '^i ^"pu t 'p: .^th^.mirers^f^J ^

ah ^ple ^ ^ ^^^d^ J ¦Si ^l ri. ^S ¦ . "-

throat. Be ng^an gubh .hs^ to pay a

^ ^^^V t^U^¦ -TW^^ g^to ^: frorn hia vice-regehcy[in ::judea ;,

;:Quietu s left .^JS ^fa ^T^ ^^iig f ^ -^^e^c^ 9sl^

^^^ J ^$ . ,.. -firm ^Al^m^. command ^ Babchides, the governor of Mesopor ing twoyearW ;Th'eday of deliverance of Jul i- / founder " ¦'¦' / *¦ : ' • cran e appears for the task ,' accomplishes the ¦ WvM- a^ applicab ^ to, honesty.; Our re-

tamia. to invWe/ jud'e^ad: ^the headr of thevtemple^ Bacchidea ^ and Alci, ff as itemized in commemorttlibn of/the hap- All these deeds. J l0D BCoffin «l7. **7ei, I" " n°t we» sufficient for aPP£

^nna er tms iieacl. - , . , • - , .

mu^Wthe yeaf V -IrSibyllina V V -47-2S5 414-434 ^^^ J ^ ^'hU S^ S

1

^0 "1

^fered peace to: !the:people:if :Alcimus was^ , , CS

b?^*.y-.^f^-*1

*^,-. - .f.*?* l^T;. . ^ :^?J proe *?d« K:T«d«i.,; SSS^S'? *

*' :"!S?, ^cepted / The :pa into the balend ar ^f^uar commemoration

,Thua the;

Hebrew'Sibyl glowingly exulted in ^' itis with us; is it not well enough for us to "^^

agains| honesty and ;tru thful,¦

^¦¦ ' ¦ff i&tif c^if a'ii^

' of (» n- - &&¦ • ¦¦ enthu aiaBm and dreamed tru atfuli yof thedown- have . eacaped the hand a- of the Roma ns ?" ° ^if.a perepn hves within hia means ,Science 'd'eierte ^ Judah and believed Babchide ^ ' '. '¦' ¦. tHE TKBPLE TO be: bestobed . . , _ fall of. heathendom , Hadrian , durin g-the be- Fhy should we Itisiat yef\upon the iut fillmenit (oeA^».we have seen,.being:as liUle diaposedBat ^aoo There is no doubt tha bthe tJews ^t their sur - ginhin gbf^ reign^s iveryp ppu lar ^with the of their; promi ae r : By . 8uc>,and similar ap-. g^

6111:8 '^^.^'

tout

^mptal ipri, there wi|lthan he broke allihia1

;: most promineni inen ong^ the Hebrews were Us former place a condition of surrender.. This : alization of thei r comfortiag hppes , especially in . Iheimminent insiirrecu-on. But only ; for the iP^^

bemg aJ o.truth ful and ^nea t, receivescxecuied^heaidea many of the lesrned scribea ia related as a fact by a J ewish .authorit v. But -g«d: to the repossession of a temple and an^l^Abnlent} for the people aeparated with the pur - m the higheat degree the confidence , reapect ,and dbciors.v Bacchidea then left part of hia it ia alao repprtea forVcertain by a- Ghri atian au- "'at , in the^:same measure , the^ neighboring Jew ^e'to take up arms and to prepare for a war and eateeni of his fellowmttn.forces with Alciffiiis, and: withdrew fro m Ihe: thority, that the'J ^ ^country . '. - , toRebuild the temple a^ fact which could take ^ration. They had alread y runvthemselve s too of a better result. Uon is attracted to the facf, tha t ap humbl e in-

Judah and his faithfa tme^ underatandin - place but during the first years of Hadrian 's & "to the belief of Jesua.b eing the: Messiah , . ¦ ¦ . - . , - . . . . :' . . ' , . . . dividual is never hanghty or .insolent , and is:iJ &S b^ ?C5^: 'Sto-: Thus th ^ityof JeLlei,, «hongh not the High-priest , and at the Same^me the sacr i:

*~ Sacc^a-go.., ,o „e o^-

fre,from t at: ^testable vice, false prid e. He

selves beyond the reach 'of Bacchidea. But he entire ly destroyed ,/still desolated for^he most; ,fice, aa not to look urwhthe reatpratioh of the who is tmly humble never forma exaggerated

had scarcely lefl the country, when Judah part should again arise but from her ruins , and temple aa ; an entirel y unnecessary thing. . Ac- by Arkansas. . nolions or is afflicted with any. extravagan tcame out with hia forces , punia hed those who Hadrian had already appointed Akylas for the cordin g to their computation , the six thouaand teJ

¦ ft R —

of ¦ ho

¦ ¦ v

ideas of hia own importa nce anpapacify , and^d,aken the

fOath tn :supp S Alcimus1: ^

win anothe r army to subjugat e Judah and hia independency , especially in view of possessing the Mesaianic bli^ful reign on earth. The ^ a ^^ta s Wb2 *f "f *?? ' He who deems Wm-

host. Nicano r disliked risking a battle wi.h again a holy center point. A Jewish-Alexan- restoration of the temple would have mar- ad^^u«T^

Judah , who haddefeated him ifore , and prr

d rinlc poet h^^^posed te^s of peace which Judah accepted ,

^ ^^Si ^^ .££L Xl^ *™ ^ i.tcS cauae of all industry all the bustl e and con- nstoma ^comp'a.iaona. an d tLsce Sain ^val !

Sau ^dir S

by the enemies duri ng their (the ,*• — «>f man. . t Ba*» w ftr tot ft., jp

h „ to* .oc-

Z Jadth and ^^^ But wMle th[a ia trUe ' Can ,l be 8aid ^^\"*? ^^^^-t,^1?i^ShVX'Jli ir].aS b-dred

and fifty years ago, the poet put l hia tl-— «"»>"!'

«*> *£ *? that happinesa is obuined | Thia queatio n , the

^X^^ tt the tSdt '

lived SiNicanor was forced to invade Juden words into the month of Siby l , t he sister of holy c.ty, the temp le, altogether with the peo writer hereof concetves , deserves our careful ff a , and perhaps ruin. Aa to th^

mcthp d by

mrcha^thrwi Isi. Aft &r producing in an enigmatical intima - pie of Israe !, would fall a prey to their fina l de considerat ion and- examina tion , if not an which we are to^cover when and when not ,much agamst his will. tion ,be namea of a series of the Roman rulers Auction. " The Jews in Judea had two incor - answer. Since happ inesa is ultimatel y all for to follow the judgments and adnce of others ,

In the year 161 B. C. IS icanar appeared with pjnce CaeBar 8he putBUe8 lhu8 . rigibly hostile parties among their countrymen , which men strive , it is the goal of man 's wishes we »uuat re ly altogether upon that Suprem ehis army before Jerusalem in apparen t friend- ' " looking upon this restoration with a hostil e to obtain , which , judging fro m the cour se man- Being, who- never errs , and , as. before was said ,ship. In order to entrap Judah , he invited him , And after him

€ye : the Je w-Chri stian s and the Samar itans kind have heretofore pursued , he adopts a call- uct0 wbom our faith Bkould be S ' eo. Besideto a conference ; but Judah ausDected tlie wrong, B"««walhe ivlerwiUi »ilver _helmet crowned. j r0 <jouW bnt that both have 'done>H they could ing, and strives ford fys, months , and years , and Ibese qualities there is auother one, which , inand came to the appointed place sufficientl y

Tne cc^

n ? nme

19 Ls' an 8rea ,n eart to prevent it. often during a lifetime , to gain for himself some cases, is a most material element to suc-

prepared , ,o that Nicanor could not lay hand ,^^ Ar t thoum

man of ebon locks of grace and full. pbospzcts x-ob kksto RaTI o.. success therein. That mayM ata ted as true ?^^ e

^^^" .

on him. Active hostilities began . At Caphar- Such bliss and glorious times will lastingl y en- *' wa8 but for the interC8t of bl3 Poiic «f whlch "^"ns.dered so by mant ind un.versall y. "" f

the virtuea above enlarged upon are hadSammala , a placTnear Jerusalem , N icanor wa9 da T

? -pacification that Hadrian conferred upon the Ma nkind universally consider success in each ™ industry; our affection for those whodefeated in a pitched battle with a loss of five, ., ," a8 tb _ BUCCeedinK eeneralion s rule Jewfl hia favo r3- By granting ,heir re1ueat « b« re"Peclive ca,lin S eMeD,k! t0 ba PP ine88. ina8" arC neaf and deaf ^

U8 W°",d

*Lm°8t ^'Zl *

' thousand of hU men Enra ged , he retreated g 7 BUCCeedin B generations rule.

digarme (1 th(Jse among the Jews

Eiuch aB it i8 ihat for whic -Q every .man p(Jr . )n causing ua to persevere in such a caae . Theinto Jerusalem , forced Basis , an eminent leader But when once Persia shal l he free from wear- were prepared for war , but made them also to sues the aaine (his calling). This being so, folate owner of faith , truth , and who is hon-of the Jews , to suicide in his own castle to end home wars , his allies, upon whose faitnfulness he could «bat we have now to ascertain is, how success <*'. be,flg a.lB0 ^mical, humble , fil ing tothe siege, and threatene d to demolish and dese- From sufferings and from pestilence delivered , trustfully rely in case the Par tians , as it was to »8 t0 be obtained. accept advice , and aneclionate in the degre es,crate the temple , unless Judah and his war- The godly Hebrew generations then thai I rise, apprehen d , ebon Id invade the Koman territor- To insure success, certain qualities must be an asa <>v« Mcn > wl au reiy be rewardedrior s be deliver ed to him. But thia was not in They, Heaqen 's childr en, -'dn the naval of the ies. As to the restoration of the temp le, the possessed by man; these are faith , truthfuln ess, ¦ " sa!:cess " wbal fTe' h? ma? undertake ,the people's power. earth , Jews went earnestl y about to work. J ulianus honesty, economy, humblen esa, and a ready ear ' Bat let l t not be imagined that auccesa in wha t -

t a u j n „;„? .;„„« h«»f M« o=. t. Around the Lord' a illuatriou s city ahall abide , and Pappos the two insurrectional leaders , res- for advice . In order that the reader may not one undertakes ,B aufficient to obUin hap pi-Juaah and nis-victorious nost^

were near Je- wal]g 8urT0UI1 ding her , till Jaffa cued from death by Hadrian 's interposition , be leff in doubt with respect to what is con- new' Charit y, that monitor which soften a the

rusalem , and Nicanor marched out to attack

had paid ansioufl to Aia 8ffaJr The7 ^.

^.

wU] rf each ^ hsar ,, and giaddens the home of the needy, the

them. Early in the battle Nicanor waa slain , Whh loft7 t0ffer8 aoar irlg) ti u the miaty clouda labliahed in Galilee and Syria , from Acco till above qualitiea aeparatelv. wcak ' U,e distressed , and the ailing, whichand his army fled in confusion. The country No trumpeta - B0Und shall raise the cry of mur- Antiocb , banks of exchange for facilitating Faith is the most important element of all of brealhca c°rnfort . and compassion in its. everypeople rose and made terrible slaughter among derous wars ! the transmission of forei gn coins sent by foreign these great qualitiea in the obtainme nt of anc- bre atb , and which , sustained and inspired bythe invaders. This victory waa achieved the No savage hand of furiou a foes shal l crush them Jews for the support of erecting the temple ceaa. Man 's feebleness renders him at times tbe Divin f Sf 'l rlt ' . makea bim wbo is gov-13th day of Adar , which was appointed a day down ! " (Genesis Eabbah). And as it seems , the Jews unable to restrain his passion. Temptation is crned b7

k ,tfl boJj r 1Ilfluen ce, loved, and wit h

of thanksgiving. Thy heart may griev e no mure ! away with the of all countries had partici pated in thia natio n a magnet of transcendent power , which seizes auccesa, ha ppy; must , loo, find its place beside

Once more Jerusalem was fre e. Alcimus and sword from off thy breast - a. work. AH these brig ht prospects so cheer- upon paasion , and allurea the unwa ry possessor ^X^ m^-Sj ^tbe renegades retired Into Acra , and tfle tem ple Deliciou,, precious flower , oflspring from the fully entertained for tbe restoration of the tern - thereo into its vortex. Resoluti ons, however SSch wW dlt ^iIl£S& iSfi,

-.

was again in the power of the patriots. heaven ?k aPP eared ' h°" *.eVer ' B°°n. *? be J " 1 C

^

I l°- 8tr0Dg 1

,? a,d fd by ' ^""" nation , are , in the of uncerta inty and appreh ension , into a calm. , , ,. .. , | i_ m__, i in g dreams vanishing away betore the sober re- generality of cases, not proof agai nst thia mag- and safe haven : Uo unto others aa yon would

, . , ,_ Art t.nou ' and rad ,ant W' tlie onl y Mcre<1

alu _ For no 800ner had Hadrian gained firm net , and we require something greater than have others do unto you " Then , reader , youho£lel

0o?m£ ^ ^ O, la

and

mof larael , abode of holinesa , ground in hia emp ire , and succeeded in pacify, mere resolutions and a determi nation , to ae- S^ Fjff il ?££&£cussing the high price of coal , and calculating Th cit [oveI and in8pired with aodlv songs ,ng lhe re8lstlve natI0 D8 ' ,han ne' h.ke a.11 weak ' cure us a«ain9 t »ta baleful inflnence. God isour happy upon earth. The pr eceding observati ons

the cost of keeping up their two fires. w ' " , , , ,,,¦ , . t . . ' . . ..' minded ru lers, had begun to curtail hia prom- beat assistant , our only sure resour ce, and wbo will be found as applicable to womankind as to« Father l" aaid a little boy who sit nea r , No more anau Jieiia * a impure iooi irea o mn- .

to ^fle ^ awjyr J { fa that we truthfu ,j_ M is absolutely nccesaar r "a^H'

tf beoLr ?b| wbo?e eye, atrug alfng

Z'AZt tf &J 'iXir t '-=* , .u.s.„„ur M.... «= -¦**.«-*; »»Hb tean ,k„.to h* ,„ ,„. .a^JftSJffiaSjBS. 'ttfflS,lielll' 1*' I «The sea Adna— Adnanu s. , ever since the aubject of their onen3t <," rising ! only help and support that can avail us, to boo- future , the writ er hereof will be amply repaid.

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