Show alten ten minutia minute classics famous tales and legends told in brief form sultan saladin and nathan the je jew W ka oy 7 1 U il I 1 13 R copyright by J IV W muller mailer lit in isia asia minor today as in the ilia Cri crusades lades seven and allot a hat half t centuries ago the ilia three great religions of the ilia world are inextricably inextricable knit into the fortunes 0 1 U n es of war iva r story 1 is 8 from ro Lea sings celebrated dr drama allia nathan the wise after sultan occupied jerusalem iii lie ho heard of n rich man mail who vio wits was much beloved in lip city ile ho was a jew bull till nil men culled called him nathan tile the wise send lint herel commanded ilia moslem ruler when nathan appeared ho said nathan Nii thun since thou art so wise tell me what belief what law inive appeals to theo na as tile best sultan Sul tun replied cautiously 1 I nin bill it jew and I 1 a n Brosl moslem cin responded saladin the christian Is midway ile bo us its of religious religions pilly only oli bo be tile tho true trl one let ino 1110 hour hear tile reasons for holding to own faith I 1 saladin said nathan permit penult that I 1 tell thou theu a tale 11 in a dillo so 80 long 1019 ngo ago that it ts gray there lived n i mail tit in the 1110 H enst list who owned ft ring af pf of priceless worth orelli orl li tile stone was opal playing in ill a hundred lovely tints and the jewel had tho the secret power of making limiting its ita I 1 wearer beloved of god lind illen when ilia owners lust last tiny day arrived lie gaw gave tile tho sucked ring to liis ills best beloved son bon and decreed that thus thui it lie bo handed down through the genc generations rations always to tile best bo loved who was to bo be tho the ruler of the house 1 so I tills ring passed tit nt last to n timan annn who lind hall three sons ile iio loved thein so well that hut its ills heart could not distin golsh between tyirin bach was ny aw amr us its the other it wits impossible for him to select one na its tile best beloved I 1 at last lie ho sent for it goldsmith smith und conini commanded liliu to make two to other rings exactly like the oreg inal the goldsmith succeeded when tho the father held the three rings lings in ills hla hand lio lie himself could not decide which was xa genuine lne ito iio called until lio lie knew that ills race was run lun then lie ho culled called each gou BOH to aa Iriv ani drivas I 1 gino abc hikono of the rings l nathan tile wise alao stopped and sald no more Is tills the end asked nt at last that which follows was vas inevitable answered nathan hardly lind had the father passed before each son presented ills his ring ond and dem demanded andea lordship lords lili of the house they compared they pondered thoy they disputed it in ill vain miln they could not demonstrate which alch was ns the lie truo true ring it was vain nan lio lie paused again and gazed nt at tao sultan seret iely almost as vain aln oh ch Salad ln as to tile truo true bof lie llcy 1 I Wha tIll exclaimed saladin dost thou olyer offer that ns as tin ti ansiger to my question lou na inyl replied nathan tile into shall but ln III pardon fur for mo ino if I 1 vent matuie tire not to distinguish between tho rings lings which taio father had mado with tile intention ant niton that thoy they should not bo be tile the ring 41 saladin frowned ilay riot not thou with etli tho religions uio are readily distinguishable I 1 outwardly answered nathan but riot not us as to their are arc they not lint nil based on history lil story that has bell been handed down don to us and must we 0 o not accept nil history on falth whose good falth shall wo nye trust surely the good fulth faith of those who vilia have given us proofs of dally daily loval carl I 1 bellevo my lily fathers less titan yours oury cun cat I 1 demand of 0 thee that thou dis credit ci edit athilie own onn fathers 86 that ladno sanit not fund contradicted and Is IH it not oven men so BO with tile tho christians christiana tho the man mail Is right 1 in muttered uttered sulu sala din apt lpt us return to tile three rings agalli continued Noth bothun uti tho sons song Lp pealed to a leurner acm lcm ned judge it each ach swore that lie ho luid tho the ring straight front from ills its fathers hund ond each swore hint rather than believe that such huili a loving losing father could liuo deceived film ho he must accuro lila ills brothers brot licin of falsehood 11 hold I 1 cried ilia alio judge you testify tillit tho ilia truo true ring has ahna the power of its wearer beloved of god and therein then lies ich tile tho root loot of our decision I 1 which one of you ou Is loved tho ilia best by the ilia other two IMO speak 1 I the brothers continued nathan could riot not reply then ench of you iou loves himself tile best 11 I 1 said the judge it if so BO not ono one of your rings Is gentil genuine ne Per perhaps hatim tile truo true ring was lost and your father lind had three rings made to replace the ono one I 1 goedl bood good I 1 said Sa saladin ludin nathan proceeded T judge sald bald it if you will take counsel from me ino instead of a verdict it to la this go and set lot ellch believe his ring to be gell uble it may bo be your father wished to abolish taw tyranny of a single from ills house certain it is that lie ho loved ench each of you alike and would nut nat favoino favor favo one ono against the others then ali C h to io bair g out tho ilia virtue v of the ho true lieff if ot 0 ut 0 on liaset lias lt strive to i bring out its power by living in gentleness tit in loving tolerance in fit the atly of ROOI good deeds and with anith in god cdoil and I 1 your e hildren children to before tills his courtin t ll 11 it thousand times n thousand years then there will sit in III tills judgment sent n ninn man miser than 1 I lie ho will render the verdict t bowed ills liend head bittl mur inured ilia noline of god cod dIn said alio lie wise it 1 thou lion art this wiser iann 1 I 1 I tho the lust dust tile noth ing tho the moslem tile jews hand I alia the ithe thousand iline 4 a thou thousand rn till years of thy judge aro riot not yet tile judgil lent sent boat Is not mine ool go 10 but bo be lily ny friend 1 germany este esteems evis the drama A nathan allian wise proper properly erly among a i literary lUcra ri riches n caca its author JoH Goll hoId hold ephr ai m lessing was a great poet a great 11 and a man inan of wide and profound general knowledge knowl edgo lilo like ilia his views of life aro ro critical but hopeful and voble noble and his u writings have affected deeply creative thought of the ilia whole world ilia his poems are known in akermant front from lito raisers kaiser 8 palace to the woodcutters wo clitte ls hut |