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Show MITCHELL GETS THERE. The Oregon Senatorial Fight Ends on the Third Ballot iu a Tictory -for Mitchell. British Forces Attack the Burmese and Carry Their Forts. President Cleveland Pays Some Attention Atten-tion to the Outrages Upon Naturalized Natural-ized Citizens in Germany. " Mitchell Gets There. :- Pobtland, Oregon, November 18. J. H. Mitchell was elected Senator on the third ballot, the Democrats flocking to him. THE REFORMED HEBREW CHURCH A Platform of Radical Ideas Pro- posed Circumcision and a Sat-... Sat-... . ,. uray Safebath Considered. . PrrisBUBd, November 17. After a lengthy discussion the National Kabbinical Convention Conven-tion of the Reformed Hebrew Chnrnh in session here to-day adopted a platform. It holds that every religion is an attempt to grasp the Infinite, but that Judaism presents the highest conception of the God idea. Modern discoveries of scientific research in nature and history are not antagonistic to the doctrines of Judaism, the Bible merely reflecting the primitive ideas of its age. Those portions of the Mosaio legislation which do not sanctify the lives of the people and that are not adapted to the views and habits of modern, civilization are rejected. The laws-regarding diet, priestly purity and dress are condemned as antiquated and , APT TO OBSTBUCT SPIHITDAL ELEVATION. The Hebrews are declared to be no longer a nation, but a religious community, and therefore there-fore expect neither to return to Palestine nor sacrificial worship under the Sons of Aaron, nor the restoration of any laws concerning con-cerning the Jewish State. The platform asserts as-serts that man's soul is immortal, but rejects as ideas not rooted in Judaism the beliefs both in bodily resurrection and in Gehenna (Hell) and Eden (Paradise) as abodes for everlasting punishment or reward. After the adoption of the platform, the question of the admission of proselytes WITHOUT THE BITE OP CIRCUMCISION Was taken up, and a committee of five, consisting con-sisting of Rabbis Wise, Hirsch, Hahn, Sale and Sonnenchien, were appointed, with instructions in-structions to report at the next year's meeting. meet-ing. A resolution declaring in favor of Sunday Sun-day services, instead of Saturday, provoked a heated discussion. The matter was finally laid over until . to-morrow. The idea of holding Sunday services was generally favored, but . the abolishment of Saturday services met with determined opposition. |