Show I GATHERED ONT BATT BATTLEFIELD OF THOUGHT To Sudy Study Tile hour seems eema to bo be at atThe atTile Tile The Xe Neti hand when Roman Catholic Protestant ad and Jew Jow ad and whoever be believe believes lieve In one personal God and the tho moral order ot of the Universe ho bo able and willing to gathor athor about tho same banner Are o wo we Jews ready read t to claim the tho Now men mere which WI was written In an Ar malc Idiom almost entirely upon the tho sol soil or of PaloMino by Hebrew for n a mainly Hebrew audience are arc we ready read to claim this work a aa as asa a continuance of the Old tearing out tho whIte lear leaf whIch separates Malachi from St Matthew Matthow Have Havo we soc children or of the twentieth century Indeed the inor inner strength that wl will enable us UK to rise to the tho sublime spiritual or of the thu prophet who In our Bible keeps so 0 to say the tho watch on the tho border line of tile the two when 10 Ito alted Have we not al alt altone ono one father not ono one Gd God created us Is the time ripe for tor lebrew Hebrew to tko take up the tho stud study or of th the New Nott with tIme the earnestness and zeal wih with which Christian scholars Ild studs the tue Old Testament Have wo we wethe the men among u us to and finance tin an enterprise advocated by the writer these lines the tho ot of many years ago ngo or of 1 a translation or of the tho Now Testament and ad and anda 0 a thorough l commentary on them by a band or of Hebrew scholars The They would reel feel more II cit homo In this field fiehl than tIme the majorIty of Christian theologians vho tore unable to grasp ful fully tho Oriental meanings and alu ot of tIlls this ChrIstIan 1 as August the tho ramous famous Protes Protestant Omit tant calls tile tho New Pasta mont Only to him Indeed who Is familiar with Ith ard ad are arc the tho dialogues of Jesus Jesu wih with His disciples ad and followers absolutely clear And hero here ma I be permItted to suggest to lomo some scholar or of the pro Cincinnat Cincinnati Hebrew Union he give gho l us a supplementary volume to R T herefords excellent treatise on Chris Chrls In Talmud arid and by pursuing the subject through the vast Hebrew literature of the Middle Iddle Ae Ages down clown to our own days I appeal to our I theological In the tho West West because the tho or of the orthodox Rab Rabbinical Seminary Seminar or of New York would reject such a suggestion IS as a a shock shockingly In I indelicate American RevIew ReligIons But In tibIa those dabs AS thoro thero Or Of was another religion sIde And Jeus Jesus by side wit with a strong religion or of Mithra This came from Persia and amid b by tIme UIO close or of the tho second century had so prevailed la n Europe that thata l a Homa Roman emperor w was initiated Into It Tho Thio runs ruins or of It its a an cent dent shrines have bon boon found fm from the tho sands of Sahara to the tho glens or of Sot Soot land I It wa was a worship of to the sun pr per In He was born they said among the tho his hills nd and his first worshipers were ero shepherds He Be dolly ere ored man from n a devouring bul bull whoso whose blo blood beaune the tho vine and the tho morrow o of his bones the wheat They who bo be leed In him were frt that baptized and then thon admItted to a sacre sacred feast of bre breed and wine The rho first day or of the tho week wa as II lit memory or of him an amid this W was caled called Sunday dunday When en decreed tt that that dy day should bo n a day or of rest t In his ho did It for tor torte forthe te the sako or of the Christans Christians but the phrase which be u used the D Day or of the tho Sun wa was taken fm from the tho religion or of I It s seemed med like Uke tot at atone one time that thIs would b be to tho of aU all Erpe Europe NoW Mithra had bad a birt birth birthday day anti and kept with got groat on onto to th or of December The date WM was perhaps determined by the tho vornal equI equInox nox flex coming nine nIno months before on the tho ot of Mch March I It w was a day of general nerl domestic festivity and In this respect It nearly coIncided with the tho the tho fet feast or of Saturn which wa was alm also a atmo time of Thoe These December job jub attracted the pole people and tempt tempted ed the tho Why not take poe session of them Wy Why not S say Go on good people with you your but kop keep the tho fent feast I In memory or of Him who Is the true truo Su Sun ot of Righteousness Saturn Is a myth Mithra Is I a myth r rime her bore I is Oe One who actually among us and is al aUvo forevermore Why y not TU Thus EUly gradually with without out edict ond and without praton proclamation the tho change Wl was mae made Te Tho birthday of ithra the tho tet feast or of Christ the birthday ot of tho S Son or of Homo Home Joua A Bid Bird I Had te the Epes Empress Elza Eliza or Ill beth or of Austia Austria eer over felt Ome Omen TI I a presentment ot of the dra matte det death which a gypsy sy at Wiesbaden en nd and a a at Corfu hd had both predicted 1 To Two sin singular gular Incident incidents glo some reason for glar supposing that sho had The evening before her departure she ha had aked asked M Barcker to read her hor a few chapters from I a volume by Marion aon Crawford entitled 1 ip which the tho au autor author thor descrIbes the tho abominable murder tor perpetrated by the tho Mafia In Sicily listening to the reading Wie Whilo she wa was or of these tragic Incident incidents I a croW crow came and circled aoud around her attracted by bytho tho odor or of some somo fuIt fruit she wa was eating Much uch disturbed she had vainly anly tred tried to drive hm him but ho constantly came camo bk back awakening al all the echoes around around wih with his Then rhen she sho hastily lef left the place for tor she knoW know that crows death whenever their wings II iii arund around a living person Countess r ray told mo that the vet very morn morning In or of ortho the tho assassination going as l Into tIle tho empress room to MO had passed the tho nIght she had found the sovereign pale ad and depressed I have hae had a strange feeling she sho said I was awakened In the night b by the moon which flooded the room for tey they had forgotten to close the tho curtains I saw the tho moon from my bed bcd and It seemed to bo be a human face tace looking at atme atmo mo me and weeping Is that I a mont ment I have hae an Idea that sonic some mis misfortune fortune fortuno Is coming upon Paol Paoli In iii tIle tho Januar January McClures Te The Carnegie capitalized his hisOr Or Of Wide hIe reputation and sold to the tho Publicity St Stool l Corporation for two or three milon dollars more than lie ho could have havo made mao had ho he not for years known and pl the tho art or of the tho widest possible publicity The Steel Corporations issue ot of securities bed based In pr part on the tho ow own ot of tho Carnegie plant hn had les teas water tItan many have supposed It wn was merly merely the turning Into securities of the tremendous asset of oC the world worldwide wide reputation of tile tho CArn Carnegie ce corn com company pany and Ur Mr thus capitalized and sold for tor some hundreds of millions to the publicity work which he lied had C car rC ned on for tOI years om This equaled only by Mr fr James James S J Hi Hilt when he wa was getting ready rendy t to sell Hell hIs prop properties erl In the Lkc Lake region For several year years Mi 11 HJ Hill never noer lot lost an opportunity to kop keep before time tho public tim the Increasing value of Iron ore and the vast ast quantity which bo owned In the Ik lake region Theo There were many suggestions regon or of the tho fact that these could not bo be duplIcated at an any price and that they would b be bevery ver very cheap at 0 a dolar dollar 0 a ton In the ground n its they might furnish th the bale basis for sonic somo independent steel company Nob Nobody knew ver very much abut about theS these properties but time the public Onal finally camo to bloo belIeve that they were so eo immensely valuable tha that thy they Were almot almost nece ti tho ot of the tho sT story Steel Cor Corporation Corporation hen the tho Stool Steel Corporation decided to make mako tho or of these theM properties on tle the basis ot of about 1 per ton tomi In tho grun ground thus assuming pr a an obligation of probably It was regarded a as a a master malter stroke b by the tho general public who knew nothing tn in the world orM abut about ores or about these oo 00 properties LIke Cne j gil gie Mr HI h had his pub york gork to the tho extent or of several lion hun dred dollars American America hu baa realy really World Old come coma to her 15 as a world power In the tho thelast lat last I It tom many years ors since the tho onro DoctrIne was promulgated by which America was a claimed for tor Americana and no foreign power was l to sot ot Up n a government on thee these shore shores That lat wn waS Vt put to the tho supreme test In the tho days following the tho rebellion when France nce soUght Dought to sot Bot MaximIlian upon the throne or of With the fail rau or of that throne the thought or of domInion upon this continent mut must have faed faded from the tho heart hearth or of 01 toll Europe Europeans Our President President dent Cleveland gave added force to our b by time tho stand he took against the tho of at Great BrI BrItain tain tam In the territory or of Venezuela I It Ii hi only a few years ago that a class or of ormon mon men caln calling themselves lists were In high indignation over te the attitude WhIch our naton nation had taken toward oppre oppressed ec people that were about us When the cup ot of was tUl full McKinley lo insisted that she ho should brew her awful draughts no longer The Tho toredo torpedo which blow blew up the Maine In the bar barbor bor or of Havana shattered the last stron stronghold hold or of Spain In the Western world AmerIca wrought her work In Cub Cuba as she sho knew she sho could and when she sho had done dono It she Dhe turned over oyer the tho land to the tho natives as she Bhe saId she sho would God l has helped her hor horto herto to open a no now er era and to ao sot n a apace pace which the tho nations ot of the earth must hereafter mind Her Influence lies has been fOr good everywhere that Iho she 13 lies pone gone Some blame blamo UI us because we took the PhIlippines as I a morl moral question and said we were not teach ore erR or of righteousness for tor the tho earth Other Others blamed us because they said MId greed W was at the bottom or of It 01 all But no man can arise today and sa say that wo we have havo afflIcted any people Ad And you cant find enouS enough to storm 0 a corporals gard guard 1 I America has proved to to the tho world that she has hns honestly taken up the tho mans burden burdon and Is 18 nd witling te to rea reap Ir if Jur a as her hor reward th blame ot of thoo we better the hao hat of o those wo we Charles Chales Goddel Goddell L I Dancers Eer Every one 1 is talking or of Ish lUgli pries prices But my topic LI different I wish to talk L not on the tho hIgh Prices themselves bt but on their d lime ngel chief dangers being ot of coure course to that tl trunk class claM or of n a nation tho man the clerk tho Th present high price prices are affecting Tho this clas class In two ways ways tt first they thoy are tend tendo Ing to rae force them dow down rather tha tim up In the tho sIal social zel second te they ar are putting them to leh such stress that the theare are tending to become nn an undorf clos class undernourished and tile tho danger or of having the Itt great trunk class or of a naton nation undernourished cat can cannot not b be overrated Wel Well I dont Tre tend to kow knew the cuss causes of high Prices but that I do kow know that I am am toay today pay Ing 8 cents cent mor more for tor m ray steak tk 7 more for eg eggs 7 cents more for bUler butter than thon I wa was last year er that a better cla or of people than heretofore is 15 beginning to tr try and evade the tho compulsory edu cation law nd and that certaIn whom hom I know have reduced lunches tram from chicken on toa toast wIt wIth rico rice borde border to an eclar eclair ad and a cup of C corteo coffee In other words ou our great at pros pro porous 7 countr country stands at at the par pare Ing or of the ways ay A little mor more and you wi will have the tho trunk claSi class oC o America an underfed class being slow slaw slowly ly but surely forced dow down In the tho social scle settle The laboring min mn the mIner te the servant girt who arc aro being paId mor more will 1 force torce their children up Into the clerk clas class only to have their dil dren stick there thero or return to them This ls would no longer be This that I say MY Is true and It sams seems to tome o ome me t to merit the attention ot of 1 li thoughtful Americans who ho 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