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THE AMERKAU' ISRAELITE. theological artisans , to build up^e^n§toi. Qntt^aMoli^ ^Bto j^U^«»T , «^nr»-%£<ifia^SS- Ccf-. -fljh^. i£^^:i^^^^^^^^^|^^^ , , . , . . . ,., , ethical system which Paul intende$' * 6^ ->y . "'' ' ftem ^atttt0 v ^^d^'^iHal^'|oM^^^^ Isaac H Wise Editor and Pr oprietor; P ,anted on * h« ruins of Pagatfom^^fwit violentl y butchered'anS Stranss ' "6l d : and ; ^. ^n l^^ndah'took the fle ld ^contina- he treacherously slew them. ' S ?" *$0$Mi * auuK * * . goes ihe work of tearing down , and sO slow tfew Faith " had bMR^p abl ijcly . rehashed- ing flrs^ihe work of his father , destroying This; perhaps, was the-time whett^osfe>bJiP i! ' is the work of building up. before the young ; there had to come indif- the altars/ and' ensigns <jf Paganism , enforc- Joezer was slain by Alcimos, " as is 'i' ar ' mtS ot^Xo CINCINNATI , P., DEOHMBER 22 , 1 876. The same precisely is true in political gov- ferentism first, contempt next, Prof. Ad- ing the * Laws o f Moses , drivin g " out . the ene- in Berahiih Babba , still this is by ^.n^i^l ¦ ' ¦ ' ' =^= ' ! eminent. The French revolution K . to ward ler and his association- last. It could not mies , fln d collecting the Jewislxmanuaoripts. certain. , ' * ; : ' •Sp(<jv|l TEBMS OF SCBSCBJOPTIOM. the end of the last century, has overthrown fail ; it is the natural cours o of events. Apollon^fls , now Governor of Samaria, Th is treachery did hot again - rouB^ttt^fv| The American Israelite, with Oflrman gnppie- the feudal system 9n the European conti- Perhaps this will arouse some of our lead- came w i^. *$ army ^ to , stop Judah in ' his nation to active resistance, Alcimos'i^tfis-pC? TieTmor&s meme . «ithM« the OeifflM "** nent - which was don e 1»l«M y. Since then era there to the consciousness that all can work of resWatiotf; but he was met in a stalled in his di gnity, a Syrian gamson^waSc! Tho 8 G^m " n ' 8upp T eme 7t m (D«^«Ai< " il»Be . 4 °° there were the revolutions of 183(1 and 1848, do more than one ; that Israe l united is Israel pitched battler ' slain , and his army dis- left with him in Jerusalem , and" Ba^fta^'^ per iuinum , , - - ' - - - ' ».oe and an endless series of wars, and yet the indeed. Perhaps they will begin to see that banded. Jndah bore henceforth the sword returned to Antioch. Judah with his m 'iA ^ \- ! Potiiago to Europe, per annum, - - . governments of Ital y, Spain , Germany, Aus- the strong aathority and the united intelli- oi Apollonius. Seron , a deputy Governor avenged the blood of the Hamdim andT&fe yf, •—-» triu and the North are not reconstructed gence ofthe Union of American Hebrew Con- * n Ckslo ,Syria, led another army against pherim treacherously shed by Bacchides^ ' bates or ADVEBTI8EMEHTS. upon a basis to outlast rbis century so dif- gregations , in annual council , is more effi- Judah and shared the fate of Apoll onius. and killed just as many of the Hellenists ,^-' ^ English or oeriian : ficult it i8 to build up. The same is the case cj ent tn an that of any one man or congre- Tne loss . of two armies and their command- which led on both . sides to bloody retojia^$ 3no inch, one insertion , - - - 8150 in our own country. In I860, etc., we have gation ; and it mi ght be better , after all , to ers roused Antiochus Epi p hanes to fury , tion and a most cruci form of civil wari-iAfa ^ ' " •; " fwo month.i , " - •tm broken up the old state of political affairs, Bubmit individual opinions to the legitimate He resolved upon destroying the whole cimos went again to the king for hel p, pre- . -f ¦• '• ?i re mMthiI ,s ' " - " " -is oo whil " h went very fast " The war laBted bat resolutions of all or the majority than to Jewish nation ; ' but it could not be done at sented him a golden crown, and another * eom l ' lment a 8 T Rp ' - ' l ' ti " - xo oo a few- years ; but since then our politicians ma be history anew, each on his own ac- onc*- H>8 treasury was very low, and his army was Sent into Judea , commanded by: Marr1i « ™^ n Dir?hJi , , Dcaths 0 cach notice, - - i o o }lll v '' doctored and drugged this country, and cormt eastern provinces were in a state of open re- Nicanor. He did not like to fi ght the heroic , rerttaZK Sm ta advEo? any °rden' f°r BJ' ™°™*™ted it in all possible manners, so Perh ' apg k might rQ ^ 8Qme to flee if we volt. Therefore, the king . went with one Judah , and compromised with him. •Artier _^„ that we now have two Presidents-elect , each ]et our futQre rabbis be educated under the part of the army to the eaBt ' and left in hiB cles of P eace were signed, whicn Alcimos 1 , - gen eral agej st. P art ? -supposing itself in the right , with a materialism o{ Berlin , or under the very ^ lace " re S ent > Lyeias . who was also the disliked. He went again to the king,^nd;,; Samukl J. Loeb. | air p p ! ct ?! having none' de j ure , and a CnrLstian vi gilance of Columbia; Yale or tutor of the kinK' 8 minor , son. An army of succeeded again in winning the king over to , -r fre e h ght besides. So difficult it is to build Trinit they wi] i be no Jews . Dut if we 40 , 000 foot , and 7, 000 horse, under two vet- his side " Orders were sent to NicanOrto, in( , AI ' * ' T Nothiu 8 is easier in reli gi ous matters ^^ th | s matterinoiu . own hand ; e couId erans, Nicanor and Gorgias , was sen* to invade Judea , and to slay or capture Judah. > H ELIASSOF No 38 clss Street Chi T ^fT- ¦ T 11 !"! do much better , and there can be non e to Palestme to utterl y extirpate the Jews, by Nicanor obeyed ; he invaded the country.., « M. gLlAbSOJ« f Ao. SS Gass btreet , Chi- and gainsay that ; this is noth.ng, and that care better for 0in terest8 than we our . slaughtering the men and selling women with a large army. Having failed in qap- . . ABRAHAM HIRSCH , 122 Raburg St., ^ ^rd , is easily said and promul gated-a ffelve8 eou ld do it ) and the Unio n of Ameri . and children , ninety for one talent. This turing Judah by treaphery, a pitched battle Baltimore , Md.; and Washington , D. C. «chool-boy can do it; but when the question can Hebrew Congregations is ourselves ex- brou ght there many merchants with plenty was fo u gh t near Oapharsalama where Nica^ ; ; M. SHULHOF, 315 Wells Street, Milwau- comes, " What i 8 r then it takes men of dis- clu8ivelv Perhaps some of Israel' s honest of money - Judah ' ne ar Emmaus - fowght nor lost 5 , 000 men , and was forced to retreat ,.; ' kee, Wis. cip lined minds , of considerable learning and trleild 8 ' iu New York will beein to see where also this flrmy snccessfully and utterly to Jerusalem (161 b. c). Having raged in , , REV. J. BIIONINGER , 47 Melrose St., earnest n ess to answer the question. When th haye been lgd ^ and ^^ wh > aJ . w[1] routed it with a loss of 9,000 dead and many Jerusalem against God , the temp le and ' the . ' . - B 7S?m^aap i .o, m- « » p- i. f me f; a-j'™keP ^wnMci f. ntb a«ie . »d become of it under such leaders, such work- ^e wounded. This was the work of one . peop le, he went out of the city to fight . . £§? Va * ' , " u-i ! Way ; ^ ?? S ,r; " « B^h BC" be « . ««>d such isolation , blind ^ " , . . T Jn d ah > ^ this was to be his lost fi ght. He ;. I N CH0YNRKI San Francisco Cal f neers a f archltecte ' 8chooled ^ skilled , and haug htv con tempt of men and le88ons. Ne^ year (165) Lysias came into Judea at fell ,, bis army fled , and Judah was again , i. a. utiUYiN MVi , ftan r^-ancisco, oai. to reconstruct successfull y. w ?. ' i ¦ „„ »• < fU- the head of an army of 65, 000 men , Judab , master of the countrv. ¦ . ¦ . ' ieSs , ta LLTRIN0 m Erato st ' New 0r - T whe ^rr Lr d A Portu s am 7 J g r ^ Zrur% ^j :\Tz: z e ^ - B t sura , def r ted him T r d , sent him J ^ h pent ambassadors to Eome '* M. LINZ , Seventeenth and Pine Streete, JeWS °* the *«** * > ™bbmical Juda- aBgmAaiiQn wil, on each atheism ma. back m dismay to Antioch. Judah was now they did him no good. Before anything- St. Louis. " 18m »» ""arty overthrown by the sapid ad- ^^^ and am .^ their q master of. the country, excepting of the could be done ,n his favor Demgtnus sent == ==sss ^ =s _ == _^^ vance of Greek philosophy especial l y Pla- ttnti l the young aha , l tur v ay with disgU8t fortresses -held by the Hellenists and Syrian another army into Judea , commanded by THE 1 KF.BI1UM toni8m a - nd Anstotleism , through Moham- from the h aoght y iadiffereixti a m 0f the oid Sarrison3- Judah went to Jerusale m, took Bacchides, who was to reinstate Alcimos ; Th* Amkrjcak Israelite offers to its "^ ^f"^„T ™i? e ^^^ and the invincible self-satisfaction of the P 083 of the city and the temple (ex- in the hi gh priesthood. This was one* , readers an excellent and^aluable premium, lj e Bachai , Judah Halevi , Ibn Baud and ieader8 i aad opea a new era of j adai8ni ; or opting the fortress of Acra Ithrew out the pected. Judah' s warriors had left .him , the latest master-work of M. Oppenheim , Jbn Zad .k especially Abraham and Moses h ^ wm idols re-dedicated the temple and enforced because , on account of a prevailing fanilne , jj d ' Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, his followers * D j„g es t ft . - d the laws of Moses, on th<> twenty-fifth day they found no support ; onl y three thou- and his opponents , like the Kimch i and !=„. ... _ ,. . p ' of Kislev , three years after it had been pro- sand remained; and-those being terrified , THE BAR MTSVAii , ljachmanides, Gersonides and Kreskas, . , , , . ne . 1D ^ 1S Cer " faned. This sent a thrill of joy through the all except eight hund red deserted their masterl y lithographed on a plate 18 by 20 Albo and Abarhanel—what did they do , and ^ln . "owever ^ juaaism depends not on couatj y> Tbe temple was fbrtified and gar- great leader. The valor of Judah and ha ' . inches ; a fine ornament for any parlor , a how did they do it? Did they say : "Come, . eW °! j ^ °r a°y £* y ' C °^ n f y 0 . r h ge . ne , a " risoned to protect it and the city against the men mj sled them to attack the army \ pt ¦ , ' beautif ul scene from Jewish life of the last let us forget the Hebrew ; let us thro w it out n ' , . ew ° r . may . e ]1 ea ft ^ ni f ° ,' hostile garrison at the Acra Fortress. He Bacchides. Overpowered by numbers Jn> century, ilhistrated by an artist of high rep- of the synagogues ; let us throw out the an- IT 8 * T ° e nerat,on may - . 0l V JW alter Baal , &]sq fortifled Betb8ura j between Jerusalem dah fell upon the field of battle, his broth- atation. cient rituals, and put in place thereof our ^°j oct1 ' or gammon ; it will Oo no harm to and Hebrotl i the iatter having become the ers, with a few hundred of the faithful , Any subscriber , old or new, to the Ameb- own compositions ?" They did not , and y^^^er H• " p °? cau8e * capital of Idumea. -buEied-himLjat^ Modm, andjhen fled for ican Ihkaelite and Dbbobah , or to the they were excellent poets as well as philos- S pLm„ no7Ha4ria^noMie ciwder? Next year (164) Judah in defense of the their safety to the vicinity of Jericho. American Israelite only, on sending pay- ophers, two classes of men as scarce in o»r n * / mau or bod of ' mea ld s ibl ' Jews east of the Jordan and of Galilee, whose As a warrior, daring, dashing, rapid ift ment in advance for one year to this office , days and country as the white camel. Did de8tr0y eternai truth with which Judaism is extermination had been designed by their his - movements , impetuous in his attacks , arrearage paid , will be sent a copy of this they say : " Come, let us forget the learning identi^L There is one eternally living-God PaSan "^go-Dors , defeated the Idumeans prudent in his calculations , stern and per- lithograph y, free of charge. and literature of our fathers, and erase from &u all wise and all-just Providence immor- and then the Ammonites. This brought sistent in the execution thereof/ history has - ou^minds their sagacity and faith ?" They telit for man and eternal justice for men " mto the field Timotheus, the Syrian gov- few heroes to match Judah Maccabee ; afa - A sew host. di ? not ' alth°uSh they we" "asoneni and to ^ &[ * ^ ^ ^ {ree ' eruor , with a large army, but he was de- patriot of the deepest devotion to luVGod . scholars , and no mere artificial doctors of Whosoever chooaea mav rua himself to hell feated ' driven to GaZiara, where he and his and his people, mankind has produced not In our first January number , we will be- Philology or formal philosophy. Did they say: and Belf slestrQCtioil but Judaism will live Mother were slain after the city had been m any like him. When he fell Palestine re- gin a new Jewish story, entitled : ' ' Come, let us each make a prayer-book and forever It ia God' s decree man can not ^Ptured. Meanwhile Simon with another echoed lamentations. He fell , and left De- a catechism to break up this Judaism ia rt. ch \ t Three thoafland ' histo army drove the enemy out of Galilee. Al- metrius and Syria well nigh exhausted In A I HJI ^\ HI AJRIII A many 'actlons and fractions as there are tat -^ to u. . t ¦ thoug h , meanwhile, one of the Jewish sixteen years he had recaptured and rededi- OlIfl V/ lM SP IRA 8ynae °S aes < and &™ t0 the un 8 that bat- it ah phitoBo^of ^XtoAmherH J BcT- «mies urlder command of Joseph and Aza- cated the temple, religious liberty and ]udi- ter without the bread , dogmas without rea- eQce of 8C ; entiBts H criticism o* critics q ' uib- rLaa had eistained a defeat in the south , yet ciary autonomy. He had taught his people AND HIS SON ' B ° n? " Ko . they did i 'ot ' becau8e they kne » bles of philologists an d msty mns of ' archse- the Maccabees were now masters of the to fig ht well and successfully. He had ' that a generation fed on read y-made dog- o] istfl &mmut to ' not hing before the con- country from Hebron to Ptolemai s , and east made of - a nation of husbandmen and mas , without self- reflection , and without sciQUgIie aa of the human family and the of the Jordan from Mount Herman to the tradesmen a natio n of soldier ' s , a generation A Narrat ive by A. E. Brachvogel. admission to the sources, will sell out its voice q{ Qist0 They proclaim Dead Sea > M far east as the mountains of oi heroes, which could no longer be tyran- dogmas as fast as they had been purchased ^^ d GJ, & ^^ im ! Gilead and the Arnon River. nhed over by a wicked ruler , as were the ir [Tmasl ated from the German for «h e Amaic« u- Dld *> *? ^f to , h k U P ^ e unl ^ of mortality and perfectibility of the human This same year Antiochus Epi phanes died father8 ' Therefore the Syrian kuig - al- baelite, by J onM d. Baz a ll. Israe l, and build«ac h his own altar , and cry """ """J i hwu»uj ih/ " jd "" . J ^/ though seeing hs power again fully estab- „.,* .I it i i . i u; ^ ... -t *l race ; and this is Judaism. This wi 1 out- a miserable death. He had appointed , " u » u oool "B " » v "" "y"" 1UU ' DD ¦ " out " Horror! fury I hierarch y!" if the ,. ' ,, L . , . iU ?.,. . , ,. -, , . * . , lished in the land—did not oppress or t„j„„i - -.j * i- i iiL , t , ,, ,. live all generations and nations ; and the Philip regen t of the Empire during the mi- "°" DU " " lL ° " "*** """ "yy **>a? And a continued series of lively sketch es union of Israe l was recommended and at- , " B ,. r *? . " *""""" 0 ' au ^. * ° t , . - /.. , % . aggravatb the peop e, and the Hel enisle, nT ,j .n . , , . , . , , . , last man (if this should ever be) will die nonty of the prince , Antiochus Eupator ; "Sh 1 ***** tUD i"= u v > «" u ""«> ™! " B i enti tled : tempted ; m order to confuse confusion , ad- " ,DL " 1 ' UL1 v " D " " lu ° uo J «"» «" / ±- .,.,,, ' making the best use of the prevailing fatn- t . j it ii j i_ i - - with these truths in his soul. but Lysias kept the power in his hands after ma """8 *"" uc"" «° ^ luo p C »«i uj «.m vocate anarch y and self-willed ambition . . , , ,, r . . ., ., ine, tried to win the poor by mu nificent rni l ¦ TT1 j *u i. " * * j i ^ . . . havmg placed the young kingon the throne. . "' F ' n AllffnTn a W OTiniAn un der tne h ypocrisy of free development , gifts. 1 111) Uil 11lk> 5 r (1 110100 ra »se the mad dog cry of heresy at the heels Syliabiw of tbe editor ' * Friday Eventnc Next year (163) Lysias came agai n into _ ^^^ ^ of men who tried to heal the breach? Noth- lecture*. Jude a with an army of 80, 000 men and Translations from ttae Talmud . °** ing of the kind ; they reasoned indepen- THE m^ccabea n f mov -Continued. eighty elephants. He was encamped before dentl y and originally, and the books con- "^cABEAN^ERron. Continual. Beth sur , when Judah attacked him and celestial DisTANcm-C 0ncJ«d«f, NAUGHTY 1M . AJJS , taining the fruits of their labors are still 6. The rebellion which led to the Mac- stew 12, 600 of his men. This led to a peace. According to R. Jochahan b. Sacca . i the ornaments of literature , rocks of truth , and cabean war of independence broke out at The decrees of Antiochus Epiphanes were diameter of the planetary universe is equal By an a ithor whose name we must with- the pride of Israel. Therefore they sue- Modin , a town northwest of Jerusalem (for- rescinded , reli gions liberty and judiciary to j ourteen units of the second class , each hold for the present. ceeded in building up, while they tore down merly belonging to the tribe of Dan), upon autonomy were granted as before the consisting of 500 units of the first-class , i. e., i. obsolete bulwarks, and to establish a new the mountains, about fifteen miles from the war, after five years' hard fig hting, and the fourteen times 500 years ' journey, being A public Examination and solid au thority when the old one had Mediterranean Sea. The Syrian captain , loss of about 300 , 000 to 400 , 000 human lives. 7, 000 units of the first-class, each of 20, 00* Thn B . . _, . ¦ ' given way. If the y had listened to all the Apelles, . with a band of soldiers, having Although the king had signed this peace, it Koman mi ies > wbich is 14x500x20, 000~140, - TTni on ^ Xa ^ ner8 0t me HeDre w theories of the supposed philosophers , sci- come there to enfo rce the king' s apostatis- was not kept by his captains and governors. 000, 000 Roman mUes distance from the sur- r™rS n t »T ri a,1 (J eIa . mln a i 10,1 In entiste , philolog ists and critics of their age , ing edicts, a hoary man stepped forward to Ther<» was incessant war this year , begin- {ace o{ ^ earth t0 the upper 8urface of the ber 30th and 31rtICfoU^ws 6Cem ' and endeavored to paste all those patches sacrifice upon the Pagan altar , which en- nin8 at Joppa , where the Syrians drowned Beventh heaven . Take to this the diameter ^ATi iRn " 1 9 M \°? ' to T upon Judaism , or tear out a piece here and raged the hoary priest Mattathia. He slew 20t) h undred Jews , it extended all over the 0 { the earth according to this calculation at ProtlrhTf, L I, " ; . Jdu , ^ another there , to be replaced by fashionably the apostate, and this was the signal to a ej «t and south of Palestine. Judah sue- 250 days' journey , which is 6, 000, 000 miles, SiT»n*v 9p u_t i 7 R \ ,J. fi f colored ragB i t11 ^ mi eht have torn dow° fight t in which . Apelles and his soldiers ceeded in taking the seaports of Joppa and and the diameter amounts to 145 , 000, 000 flvVfoHnl " «l»o 97/. ««5 m ' «!Tm eaBil > enoug& . but ^^ would have Duilt UP were slaia - Mattathia having raised the Jttmnia > Bmiting th« Idumeans, he took He- mileB) with the opp0fiite hemispheres of the rII h!) Z7h r vi, h ' .M m"hnae , nQth ing) and their namea would haye beeQ 8tandard of rebellion , patriote flocked to it; br°a a°d the district , and smote his enemies Tehom > it amounte to 290, 000, 000 of Roman £». of T»T yl ^ I * a forgotten to-day, as if they had never ex- a»d in the fastnesses of the mountains they in Gilead . The Hellenists being threatened mile9 of Bpace occupied by R. Jochanan "b. nammii <L rlTl A , ama1 ^ isted. organized for active resistance against the in their fortresses by the progression of the 8accai* s planetary universe , which according literarv hi«tnrv S, hi nZnh *™ I ¦* lt is maintained that Americans learn king's fo rces and the Hellenists. They be- Maccabees sent to Antioch and occasioned tp modern oj c^ation. is nearly equal to The examination^o be^eld k^the vestr nothing from bist0ry ' They try the gan 0 P eration8 b y capturing srnaU cities, the king to send another army into Judea. tae Bpace vithin the orbit of MarB. But rooms of rhp Tpmnio M^nnH stroat ^ same experiments over again , the re- destroying all altars and ensigns of Pagan- lysias came and besieged Bethsura. Judah this is not the limit of the universe , accprd- of Pi,h(h fiU7n.S i r Tf sulta w bi ch hist or v rec°rds, and mus t ism , enforcing the Laws of Moses, circumcis- at ta<*ed him , Eleazar sacrificed himself , ing to R Joch anan b. Saccai. In his par- Jewish l^rnin/arp rP»™l«niS in Z/ often P a 7 dearl y for ' this negli gence. Is ing the children , and collecting the Hebrew fi ghting his . way to an elephant upon which ticular be attempts to utter the im- j ewisn learning are respectlully invited . notthifl the cas e also with our Jewish lead- manuscripts, and saved from destruction , he supposed the king to be, slew the beast, mensity of the univerBe tbuB {Chag yj ah •" era ? Did they not and does not each of also those upon which idols had been de- which falling on him killed the valiant man; b(l6K 13 a): Perhaps s.ii.e win Reflect. them try to make history anew , and each on picted in order to save them. Phili p, the Btl] 1 Judah was bound to retreat to Jerusa- » Aboye them (above all the heayena) It takes common laborers to tear down a his own account , without consulting for a Phrygian , Governor of Jer usalem and of the lem and stan d a pressing ^ siege. In this dis- ' there are tae Holy jj ayolh (bearing the house , a castl e, or a fortress , and to remove moment tbe records of past events ? We country, went out with a body of soldiers , to tress, Judah was saved by a providen tial tn rone of God accord j fl g to Ezekiel i. 5), - the dfbm ; but it takes an architect, artisans, believe they do. If each synagogue has capture Mattathia , and to disperse his fol- combination of circumstances. Lysias being the feet each of the JBiiyof A are -equal to time and treasure , mind and skiU to erect a another liturgy and ritual , and each school lowers. He destroyed one thousand of the formed that Philip had in his absence the whole distance (hereis a unit of the third- piece of architecture. When Paul traversed another ca techism, Judaism must be broken refugees in one cave on a Sabbath day , who taken Antioch and the government of Syria, daffl rf j 40 ooo . oOO miles) ; so do each the Byria and Asi a Minor , and told the Gentiles up in fractions and factions, in its form of refused to surrender , and yet would not nastll y concluded peace with Judah , and ^^ ^ legB i he knees, the thighs , the that the Law of Moses was abolished , he worship anyhow ; and this, al though a mere fight on the Sabbath day. This was the went t0 Antioch, Menela us followed him bodieB) the neckfl i the heads, and the horns succeeded at once ; they did not keep those form to men of lea rning, is essential to the cause of a resolution in Mattathia ' s camp, a«»d was condemned* to die the death of a q{ ^ Hayoth occupy the B&me 8pace (o£ laws , and went in Corinth as far as incest , congregation, standing at the foot and seeing that hereafter the Sabbath should not inter- villain and traitor , being thrown into the 140 i ooo, 000 miles) ; above them is the throne so well had he sueceeded. But when the but the base of Mt. Sinai. The Tenaaim , fere with their defensive operations. Philip tower of ashes. The king appointed Alci- of gloryj ^ {eet thereof occupi e8 th e 8ame question of reconstruction came, he did not after the fall of Jerusalem , and af- being unsuccessful in suppressing the re- mos as hi gh priest. The Jews protested , Bpace ) and the throne itself the same space; su cceed quite so well or quite so ter them Amoraim , Gueonim , rabbinists and bellion , the king himself came to Jerusalem because he was a Hellenist , and his party, and u ' pon it is eothroned ^ k . n& thfl ^ ving rap idly. He was obli ged to have re- philosophers had set the example of liturgi- and instituted an indiscriminate slaughter supported him, which gave rise to a new and eternal God , high-and exalted." "Here sort to a Pagan son of god and vicari- cal unity in Israel ; but it did not teach those of all who offered passive resistance, with- war. _ are e]eyen units of the third kind, which the ous atonement , and to a fictitious fabric of a lesso n who learn nothing from history, out distinction of either sex or age. This' Meanwhile Demetrius , grandson of Anti- text not being clear in this particular point salvation ; hf> had to give in to heathenism, They have been told , requested , begged , un- roused I many of the patriots and Hel- ochus the Great by Seleucus , succeeded in may express 12 a or a 12, calling the unit in order to erect a new structure ; and then der humiliation and eelf-denial , they have lenists, and drove them to the standards rising to the throne of Syria, after Antio- 0f the third-class o; anyhow , it expresses he had but poor success in his life-time , and been entreated , let us unite Israel's houses of Mattath ia. ^It . does not appear that chus and Lysias had been slain. Alcimos immensity in the parabolic language of the , after his death the heathen element which of Jworship as in days of yore, but they Mattathia ventured a battle, for which his and the Hellenists gained his favor , and he rabbis. he tolerated grad ually obscured the Jewish refused persistently. Now comes Prof. Ad- followers were not organized ; but he prac- sent Pacchides with an army to initiate Al- ' - ethical element which he wished to impart , ler and the Sunday . Lecture Association , and tihed them in the usfe of arms in numerous cimos in his office. The main cause of the xxin. fhtj sicianb. and Paulia^ became Popery, under the inform them of the logical sequences from skirmishes , which hanrassed the king' s rebellion having , been removed by the (In Talmud Jerushalmi (Beraohoth i. 2) name of Christianity. It took cen turies, those premises. The thing is broken up army and inspired the patriots with con- former treaties of jpeace , the ma jority of the cases are i teported of individual sayans in and the labor of men like Hues , Wykliff , right there, and it could liot possibly come fidence. Mattathia died the next year people -were not inclined to * contmqe toe w $^ fronv . the Luther , Rchleiermacher , Paulus, Strauss, otherwise. Where every Jewish man, in- after the outbreak'of the rebeHioh. ^ BHur , Theodore Parker , and another host of stitution , boak, ever y attempt at uflibn and to his sons an army to. *o ¦ ce^mftte&^Ju ' M^ *efl^£&\ in^

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THE AMERKAU' ISRAELITE. theological artisans, to build up^e^n§toi. Qntt^aMoli^ ^Btoj^U^«»T,«^nr»-%£<ifia^SS- Ccf-.-flj h^ .i£^^:i^^^^^^^^^| ^^, , . , . . . ,., , ethical system which Paul intende$'*6 ->y . "'' ' ftem ^atttt0v^^d^' iHal^'|oM^^^^

Isaac H Wise Editor and Proprietor; P,anted on *h« ruins of Pagatfom^^fwit violently butchered'anSStranss' "6ld:and ; ^. n l^^ndah'took the fleld^contina- he treacherously slew them. ' S ?"*$0$Mi*auuK * • * . goes ihe work of tearing down, and sO slow tfew Faith " had bMR^pablijcly . rehashed- ing flrs^ihe work of his father, destroying This; perhaps, was the-time whett^osfe>bJiP i!' is the work of building up. before the young ; there had to come indif- the altars/and' ensigns <jf Paganism, enforc- Joezer was slain by Alcimos, "as is'i'ar'mtSot^XoCINCINNATI, P., DEOHMBER 22 , 1876. The same precisely is true in political gov- ferentism first, contempt next, Prof. Ad- ing the* Laws of Moses,driving" out .the ene- in Berahiih Babba, still this is by .n^i^l¦'¦ ' ' =^= ' ! eminent. The French revolution K. to ward ler and his association- last. It could not mies,flnd collecting the Jewislxmanuaoripts. certain. ,' * ;:'•Sp(<jv|lTEBMS OF SCBSCBJOPTIOM. the end of the last century, has overthrown fail ; it is the natural courso of events. Apollon^fls, now Governor of Samaria, This treachery did hot again - rouB^ttt^fv|

The American Israelite, with Oflrman gnppie- the feudal system 9n the European conti- Perhaps this will arouse some of our lead- came wi . *$ army^to, stop Judah in 'his nation to active resistance, Alcimos'i^tfis-pC?

TieTmor&smeme. «ithM« the OeifflM "** nent - which was done 1»l«My. Since then era there to the consciousness that all can work of resWatiotf; but he was met in a stalled in his dignity, a Syrian gamson^waSc!Tho

8G^m"n ' 8uppTeme7tm(D« «Ai<" il»Be.

4 °° there were the revolutions of 183(1 and 1848, do more than one ; that Israel united is Israel pitched battler'slain, and his army dis- left with him in Jerusalem, and" Ba^fta^'per iuinum , , - -' - - -' ».oe and an endless series of wars, and yet the indeed. Perhaps they will begin to see that banded. Jndah bore henceforth the sword returned to Antioch. Judah with his m'iA^\ - !Potiiago to Europe, per annum, - - . governments of Italy, Spain, Germany, Aus- the strong aathority and the united intelli- oi Apollonius. Seron, a deputy Governor avenged the blood of the Hamdim andT&fey f ,

•—-» triu and the North are not reconstructed gence ofthe Union of American Hebrew Con- *n Ckslo ,Syria, led another army against pherim treacherously shed by Bacchides^ 'bates or ADVEBTI8EMEHTS. upon a basis to outlast rbis century — so dif- gregations, in annual council , is more effi- Judah and shared the fate of Apollonius. and killed just as many of the Hellenists,^-'

English or oeriian : ficult it i8 to build up. The same is the case cj ent tn an that of any one man or congre- Tne loss.of two armies and their command- which led on both . sides to bloody retojia^$3no inch, one insertion, - - - 8150 in our own country. In I860, etc., we have gation ; and it might be better, after all, to ers roused Antiochus Epiphanes to fury , tion and a most cruci form of civil wari-iAfa

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•; " fwo month.i, " - • t m broken up the old state of political affairs, Bubmit individual opinions to the legitimate He resolved upon destroying the whole cimos went again to the king for help, pre-.-f¦• '• ?iremMthiI

,s' " - " "

- i s oo whil "h went very fast" The war laBted bat resolutions of all or the majority than to Jewish nation ;' but it could not be done at sented him a golden crown, and another*eom l'lmenta8 TRp'-' l

'ti " - xo oo a few- years ; but since then our politicians mabe history anew, each on his own ac- onc*- H>8 treasury was very low, and his army was Sent into Judea , commanded by:

Marr1i«™^nDir?hJi,

,Dcaths

0cach notice, - - i oo }lll v'' doctored and drugged this country, and cormt eastern provinces were in a state of open re- Nicanor. He did not like to fight the heroic,

rerttaZK Sm ta advEo? any °rden' f°r BJ' ™°™*™ted it in all possible manners, so Perh'apg k might rQ 8Qme to flee if we volt. Therefore, the king .went with one Judah, and compromised with him. •Artier

_^„ that we now have two Presidents-elect, each ]et our futQre rabbis be educated under the part of the army to the eaBt' and left in hiB cles of Peace were signed, whicn Alcimos 1, -general agej st. Part? -supposing itself in the right, with a materialism o{ Berlin , or under the very ^lace " reSent> Lyeias.who was also the disliked. He went again to the king, nd;,;

Samukl J. Loeb. |air p™p!ct ?! having none' de j ure, and a CnrLstian vigilance of Columbia; Yale or tutor of the kinK'8 minor ,son. An army of succeeded again in winning the king over to ,-rfree hght besides. So difficult it is to build Trinit they wi]i be no Jews . Dut if we 40,000 foot, and 7,000 horse, under two vet- his side" Orders were sent to NicanOrto,

in(,AI' * '

T Nothiu8 is easier in religious matters

^^ th|s matterinoiu. own hand; e couId erans, Nicanor and Gorgias, was sen* to invade Judea , and to slay or capture Judah. >H ELIASSOF No 38 clss Street Chi T ^fT- ¦ T 11!"! do much better , and there can be none to Palestme to utterly extirpate the Jews, by Nicanor obeyed ; he invaded the country..,«M. gLlAbSOJ« f Ao. SS Gass btreet, Chi- and gainsay that ; this is noth.ng, and that care better for 0„ in terest8 than we our. slaughtering the men and selling women with a large army. Having failed in qap- . .ABRAHAM HIRSCH , 122 Raburg St., ^

^rd , is easily said and promulgated-a ffelve8 eou ld do it ) and the Union of Ameri. and children, ninety for one talent. This turing Judah by treaphery, a pitched battleBaltimore, Md.; and Washington , D. C. «chool-boy can do it; but when the question can Hebrew Congregations is ourselves ex- brou ght there many merchants with plenty was fought near Oapharsalama where Nica^ ;;

M. SHULHOF, 315 Wells Street, Milwau- comes, " What i8r then it takes men of dis- clu8ivelv Perhaps some of Israel's honest of money- Judah ' near Emmaus- fowght nor lost 5,000 men , and was forced to retreat ,.;'kee, Wis. cip lined minds, of considerable learning and trleild8 'iu New York will beein to see where also this flrmy snccessfully and utterly to Jerusalem (161 b. c). Having raged in, ,

REV. J. BIIONINGER , 47 Melrose St., earnestness to answer the question. When th haye been lgd and ^^ wh>aJ. w[1] routed it with a loss of 9,000 dead and many Jerusalem against God , the temple and 'the.'. -B7S?m^aap i .o, m - « » p- i. f

mef;a-j '™keP ^wnMcif.

n t b a«ie™. »d become of it under such leaders, such work- ^e wounded. This was the work of one . people, he went out of the city to fight . .£§? Va * ' , " u -i !

Way;

??S,r; "«• B^h BC"be«. ««>d such isolation , blind

" , . . T Jndah > this was to be his lost fight. He ;.

I N CH0YNRKI San Francisco Cal fneers a

f archltecte' 8chooled skilled, and haughtv contempt of men and le88ons. Ne^ year (165) Lysias came into Judea at fell , , bis army fled , and Judah was again ,i. a. utiUYi N MVi , ftan r^-ancisco, oai. to reconstruct successfully. w ?. ' i ¦„„ »• < fU - • • the head of an army of 65,000 men, Judab , master of the countrv. ¦ .¦• . '

ieSs, taLLTRIN0 m Erato st ' New 0r- T whe^rrLr dA Portusam7Jg r ^Zrur% j : \Tz:ze -Btsura , defr ted himT r d, sent him J^h pent ambassadors to Eome'*M. LINZ, Seventeenth and Pine Streete,

JeWS °* the *«** **»> ™bbmical Juda- aBgmAaiiQn wil, on each atheism ma. back m dismay to Antioch. Judah was now they did him no good. Before anything-St. Louis. " 18m »» ""arty overthrown by the sapid ad-

^^^ and am . their

q master of. the country, excepting of the could be done ,n his favor Demgtnus sent== ==sss =s_==_^^ vance of Greek philosophy especially Pla- ttntil the young aha,l tur vay with disgU8t fortresses-held by the Hellenists and Syrian another army into Judea, commanded by

THE 1KF.BI1UM toni8m a-nd Anstotleism , through Moham- from the haoghty iadiffereixtiam 0f the oid Sarrison3- Judah went to Jerusalem, took Bacchides, who was to reinstate Alcimos ;Th* Amkrj cak Israelite offers to its " ^f"^„T

™i?e^^ and the invincible self-satisfaction of the P083™ of the city and the temple (ex- in the high priesthood. This was one*,

readers an excellent and^aluable premium, lje Bachai, Judah Halevi, Ibn Baud and ieader8i aad opea a new era of jadai8ni ; or opting the fortress of Acra Ithrew out the pected. Judah's warriors had left .him,

the latest master-work of M. Oppenheim, Jbn Zad .k especially Abraham and Moses h wm idols re-dedicated the temple and enforced because, on account of a prevailing fanilne,jj d ' Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, his followers *

Dj „ges t ft . -d the laws of Moses, on th<> twenty-fifth day they found no support ; only three thou-and his opponents, like the Kimchi and !=„. ... _ , . . p ' of Kislev, three years after it had been pro- sand remained; and-those being terrified,THE BAR MTSVAii, lj achmanides, Gersonides and Kreskas, . , , , . ne . 1D

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1S Cer

" faned. This sent a thrill of joy through the all except eight hundred deserted theirmasterly lithographed on a plate 18 by 20 Albo and Abarhanel—what did they do, and ^ln. "owever

^ juaaism depends not on couatj y> Tbe temple was fbrtified and gar- great leader. The valor of Judah and ha '

. inches ; a fine ornament for any parlor, a how did they do it? Did they say : "Come, .eW °!j ^°r a°y £* y' C° n

fy 0.rh ge.ne ,a" risoned to protect it and the city against the men mj sled them to attack the army\ p t ¦, '

beautiful scene from Jewish life of the last let us forget the Hebrew ; let us throw it out ™n' , . ew °r . may .e]1 ea

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f° ,' hostile garrison at the Acra Fortress. He Bacchides. Overpowered by numbers Jn>century, ilhistrated by an artist of high rep- of the synagogues ; let us throw out the an- IT8 *T° e 8®nerat,on may -.0lVJW alter Baal, &] sq fortifled Betb8uraj between Jerusalem dah fell upon the field of battle, his broth-atation. cient rituals, and put in place thereof our ^°joct1' or gammon ; it will Oo no harm to and Hebrotl i the iatter having become the ers, with a few hundred of the faithful,

Any subscriber, old or new, to the Ameb- own compositions ?" They did not, and y^^^er H• " p °?cau8e * capital of Idumea. -buEied-himLjat^ Modm, andjhen fled forican Ihkaelite and Dbbobah, or to the they were excellent poets as well as philos- SpLm„ no7Ha4ria^noMie ciwder? Next year (164) Judah in defense of

the their safety to the vicinity of Jericho.American Israelite only, on sending pay- ophers, two classes of men as scarce in o»r

n*/ mau or bod of'mea ld s ibl ' Jews east of the Jordan and of Galilee, whose As a warrior, daring, dashing, rapid iftment in advance for one year to this office , days and country as the white camel. Did de8tr0y eternai truth with which Judaism is extermination had been designed by their his -movements, impetuous in his attacks,arrearage paid, will be sent a copy of this they say : " Come, let us forget the learning identi^L There is one eternally living-God PaSan " go-Dors, defeated the Idumeans prudent in his calculations, stern and per-lithography, free of charge. and literature of our fathers, and erase from &u all wise and all-just Providence immor- and then the Ammonites. This brought sistent in the execution thereof/ history has

- ou^minds their sagacity and faith ?" They telit for man and eternal justice for men "mto the field Timotheus, the Syrian gov- few heroes to match Judah Maccabee ; afa- A sew host. di? not' alth°uSh they we" "asoneni and to &[

* {ree ' eruor, with a large army, but he was de- patriot of the deepest devotion to luVGod

. scholars, and no mere artificial doctors of Whosoever chooaea mav rua himself to hell feated' driven to GaZiara, where he and his and his people, mankind has produced notIn our first January number, we will be- Philology or formal philosophy. Did they say: and BelfslestrQCtioil but Judaism will live Mother were slain after the city had been many like him. When he fell Palestine re-

gin a new Jewish story, entitled : ' 'Come, let us each make a prayer-book and forever It ia God's decree • man can not ^Ptured. Meanwhile Simon with another echoed lamentations. He fell, and left De-a catechism to break up this Judaism ia rt. ch \t Three thoafland ' o£ histo army drove the enemy out of Galilee. Al- metrius and Syria well nigh exhausted In

A I HJI ^\ HI AJR III A many 'actlons and fractions as there are t a t-^ to u. . t ¦ • though, meanwhile, one of the Jewish sixteen years he had recaptured and rededi-

OlIfl V/ lM SP I RA 8ynae°Saes< and &™ t0 the y°un8 that bat- it ah phitoBo^of ^XtoAmherHJ

BcT- «mies urlder command of Joseph and Aza- cated the temple, religious liberty and ]udi-ter without the bread , dogmas without rea- eQce of 8C;entiBts

H criticism o* critics q'uib- rLaa had eistained a defeat in the south , yet ciary autonomy. He had taught his people

AND HIS SON' B°n? " Ko.they did i'ot'becau8e theykne» bles of philologists and msty mns of 'archse- the Maccabees were now masters of the to fight well and successfully. He had• ' that a generation fed on ready-made dog- o] istfl &mmut to'

nothing before the con- country from Hebron to Ptolemais, and east made of - a nation of husbandmen andmas, without self-reflection , and without

sciQUgIieaa of the human family and the of the Jordan from Mount Herman to the tradesmen a nation of soldier's, a generationA Narrative by A. E. Brachvogel. admission to the sources, will sell out its

voice q{ Qist0 They proclaim Dead Sea> M far east as the mountains of oi heroes, which could no longer be tyran-dogmas as fast as they had been purchased

^ d GJ,& ^^ im! Gilead and the Arnon River. nhed over by a wicked ruler, as were their[Tmasl ated from the German for «he Amaic« u- Dld *>*? f to,h™k UP

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of mortality and perfectibility of the human This same year Antiochus Epiphanes died father8' Therefore the Syrian kuig-al-

baelite, by JonM d. Bazall. Israel, and build«ach his own altar, and cry """ """J i hwu»uj ih/ "j d "" . J / though seeing h s power again fully estab-„.,* .I it i i . i u; ^ ... -t *l race ; and this is Judaism. This wi 1 out- a miserable death. He had appointed , "u»u oool"B " » v "" "y"" 1UU' DD ¦ "out " Horror! fury I hierarchy!" if the ,. ' ,, L. , . iU „?.,. . , ,. -, , . *. , lished in the land—did not oppress ort „ j „ „ i - -.j • * i- i i i L , t , , , , . live all generations and nations ; and the Philip regent of the Empire during the mi- "°"DU " "lL° " "*** """ "yy **>a?And a continued series of lively sketches union of Israel was recommended and at- , " B,.r *?. " *""""" 0 ' au„ ^. * °t , . - / . . , % . aggravatb the peop e, and the Hel enisle,nT,j .n . , , . , . , , . , last man (if this should ever be) will die nonty of the prince, Antiochus Eupator ; "Sh 1***** tUD i"=uv > «"u ""«> ™!"Bientitled : tempted ; m order to confuse confusion , ad- ",DL "1'UL1 v " D" "lu ° uo J «"» «" / ±- • . , . , , , ' making the best use of the prevailing fatn-t . j it ii j i_ i- - with these truths in his soul. but Lysias kept the power in his hands after ma"""8 *"" uc"" «° luo pC»«i uj «.m

vocate anarchy and self-willed ambition . . , , ,, r . . ., ., ine, tried to win the poor by mu nificentrni l ¦ TT1 • j *u i. " • * * j i ^ ... havmg placed the young kingon the throne. ."' F 'n A l lf fn Tn a W O T i niA n under tne hypocrisy of free development, gifts.1 111) Uil 11 lk> 5 r (1110100 ra»se the mad dog cry of heresy at the heels Syliabiw of tbe editor'* Friday Eventnc Next year (163) Lysias came again into _ ^^^

of men who tried to heal the breach? Noth- lecture*. Judea with an army of 80,000 men and Translations from ttae Talmud.°** ing of the kind ; they reasoned indepen- THE m^ccabean f mov-Continued. eighty elephants. He was encamped before

dently and originally, and the books con- "^cABEAN^ERron. Continual. Bethsur, when Judah attacked him and celestial DisTANcm-C0ncJ«d«f,

NAUGHTY 1M.AJJS, taining the fruits of their labors are still 6. The rebellion which led to the Mac- stew 12,600 of his men. This led to a peace. According to R. Jochahan b. Sacca.i theornaments of literature, rocks of truth, and cabean war of independence broke out at The decrees of Antiochus Epiphanes were diameter of the planetary universe is equal

By an a ithor whose name we must with- the pride of Israel. Therefore they sue- Modin, a town northwest of Jerusalem (for- rescinded, religions liberty and judiciary „ to j ourteen units of the second class, eachhold for the present. ceeded in building up, while they tore down merly belonging to the tribe of Dan), upon autonomy were granted as before the consisting of 500 units of the first-class, i. e.,'¦ i . obsolete bulwarks, and to establish a new the mountains, about fifteen miles from the war, after five years' hard fighting, and the fourteen times 500 years' journey, being

A public Examination and solid authority when the old one had Mediterranean Sea. The Syrian captain, loss of about 300,000 to400,000 human lives. 7,000 units of the first-class, each of 20,00*Thn B . . _, .

¦ ' given way. If they had listened to all the Apelles, . with a band of soldiers, having Although the king had signed this peace, it Koman miies> wbich is 14x500x20,000~140,-TTni o n ^

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0t meHeDrew theories of the supposed philosophers, sci- come there to enforce the king's apostatis- was not kept by his captains and governors. 000,000 Roman mUes distance from the sur-

r™r S n t»T ri a,1

(JeIa.mlnai10,1 In entiste, philologists and critics of their age, ing edicts, a hoary man stepped forward to Ther<» was incessant war this year, begin- {ace o{ earth t0 the upper 8urface of the

ber 30th and 31rtICfoU^ws 6Cem' and endeavored to paste all those patches sacrifice upon the Pagan altar , which en- nin8 at Joppa, where the Syrians drowned Beventh heaven. Take to this the diameter

^ATi iRn "1 9 M \°?' t o T upon Judaism, or tear out a piece here and raged the hoary priest Mattathia. He slew 20t) hundred Jews, it extended all over the 0{ the earth according to this calculation at

ProtlrhTf, L I,"; . J du , another there, to be replaced by fashionably the apostate, and this was the signal to a ej«t and south of Palestine. Judah sue- 250 days' journey , which is 6,000,000 miles,SiT»n*v 9p u_ t i 7 R \ ,J. fi f colored ragB i t11 mieht have torn dow° fight t in which . Apelles and his soldiers ceeded in taking the seaports of Joppa and and the diameter amounts to 145,000,000

flvVfoHnl" «l»o 97/. ««5 m ' «!Tm eaBil> enoug&. but ^^ would have Duilt UP were slaia- Mattathia having raised the Jttmnia> Bmiting th« Idumeans, he took He- mileB) with the opp0fiite hemispheres of therII h!) Z7h r v i , h'.M

m"hnae, nQth ing) and their namea would haye beeQ 8tandard of rebellion , patriote flocked to i t ; br°a a°d the district, and smote his enemies Tehom > it amounte to 290,000,000 of Roman£». of T»Tyl „ ^ I * a • forgotten to-day, as if they had never ex- a»d in the fastnesses of the mountains they in Gilead. The Hellenists being threatened mile9 of Bpace occupied by R. Jochanan "b.nammii <L rlTl A ,ama1

^ isted. organized for active resistance against the in their fortresses by the progression of the 8accai*s planetary universe, which according

literarv hi«tnrv S, hi nZnh*™ I ¦ * lt is maintained that Americans learn king's forces and the Hellenists. They be- Maccabees sent to Antioch and occasioned tp modern oj c^ation. is nearly equal toThe examination^o be^eld k^the vestr nothing from bist0ry ' They try the gan 0Peration8 by capturing srnaU cities, the king to send another army into Judea. tae Bpace vithin the orbit of MarB. But

rooms of rhp Tpmnio M^nnH stroat same experiments over again , the re- destroying all altars and ensigns of Pagan- lysias came and besieged Bethsura. Judah this is not the limit of the universe, accprd-of Pi,h(h f iU7n.S i r Tf sulta o£ wbich historv rec°rds, and must ism, enforcing the Laws of Moses, circumcis- atta<*ed him , Eleazar sacrificed himself , ing to R Jochanan b. Saccai. In his par-Jewish l^rnin/arp rP»™l«niS in Z/ often Pa7 dearly for 'this negligence. Is ing the children , and collecting the Hebrew fighting his. way to an elephant upon which ticular be attempts to utter the im-j ewisn learning are respectlully invited . notthifl the case also with our Jewish lead- manuscripts, and saved from destruction, he supposed the king to be, slew the beast, mensity of the univerBe tbuB {Chag yjah

•" era ? Did they not and does not each of also those upon which idols had been de- which falling on him killed the valiant man; b(l6K 13 a):Perhaps s.ii.e win Reflect. them try to make history anew, and each on picted in order to save them. Philip, the Btl] 1 Judah was bound to retreat to Jerusa- » Aboye them (above all the heayena)

It takes common laborers to tear down a his own account, without consulting for a Phrygian, Governor of Jerusalem and of the lem and stand a pressing siege. In this dis- ' there are tae Holy j jayolh (bearing thehouse, a castle, or a fortress, and to remove moment tbe records of past events ? We country, went out with a body of soldiers,to tress, Judah was saved by a providen tial tnrone of God accordjflg to Ezekiel i. 5),-the dfbm ; but it takes an architect, artisans, believe they do. If each synagogue has capture Mattathia, and to disperse his fol- combination of circumstances. Lysias being the feet o£ each of the JBiiyof A are -equal totime and treasure, mind and skiU to erect a another liturgy and ritual , and each school lowers. He destroyed one thousand of the formed that Philip had in his absence the whole distance (hereis a unit of the third-piece of architecture. When Paul traversed another catechism, Judaism must be broken refugees in one cave on a Sabbath day , who taken Antioch and the government of Syria, daffl rf j 40 ooo.oOO miles) ; so do each theByria and Asia Minor , and told the Gentiles up in fractions and factions, in its form of refused to surrender, and yet would not nastlly concluded peace with Judah , and

^^ legB ihe knees, the thighs, thethat the Law of Moses was abolished , he worship anyhow ; and this, al though a mere fight on the Sabbath day. This was the went t0 Antioch, Menela us followed him bodieB) the neckfl i the heads, and the hornssucceeded at once ; they did not keep those form to men of learning, is essential to the cause of a resolution in Mattathia's camp, a«»d was condemned* to die the death of a q{ Hayoth occupy the B&me 8pace (o£laws, and went in Corinth as far as incest, congregation, standing at the foot and seeing that hereafter the Sabbath should not inter- villain and traitor, being thrown into the 140iooo,000 miles) ; above them is the throneso well had he sueceeded. But when the but the base of Mt. Sinai. The Tenaaim, fere with their defensive operations. Philip tower of ashes. The king appointed Alci- of gloryj {eet thereof occupie8 the 8amequestion of reconstruction came, he did not after the fall of Jerusalem, and af- being unsuccessful in suppressing the re- mos as high priest. The Jews protested , Bpace) and the throne itself the same space;succeed quite so well or quite so ter them Amoraim, Gueonim, rabbinists and bellion , the king himself came to Jerusalem because he was a Hellenist, and his party, and u'pon it is eothroned ^k.

n& thfl ^vingrapidly. He was obliged to have re- philosophers had set the example of liturgi- and instituted an indiscriminate slaughter supported him, which gave rise to a new and eternal God, high-and exalted." "Heresort to a Pagan son of god and vicari- cal unity in Israel ; but it did not teach those of all who offered passive resistance, with- war. _ are e]eyen units of the third kind, which theous atonement, and to a fictitious fabric of a lesson who learn nothing from history, out distinction of either sex or age. This' Meanwhile Demetrius, grandson of Anti- text not being clear in this particular pointsalvation ; hf> had to give in to heathenism, They have been told, requested, begged, un- roused I many of the patriots and Hel- ochus the Great by Seleucus, succeeded in may express 12 a or a 12, calling the unitin order to erect a new structure ; and then der humiliation and eelf-denial, they have lenists, and drove them to the standards rising to the throne of Syria, after Antio- 0f the third-class o; anyhow, it expresseshe had but poor success in his life-time, and been entreated , let us unite Israel's houses of Mattath ia. ^It .does not appear that chus and Lysias had been slain. Alcimos immensity in the parabolic language of the, after his death the heathen element which of Jworship as in days of yore, but they Mattathia ventured a battle, for which his and the Hellenists gained his favor , and he rabbis.he tolerated grad ually obscured the Jewish refused persistently. Now comes Prof. Ad- followers were not organized ; but he prac- sent Pacchides with an army to initiate Al- ' -ethical element which he wished to impart, ler and the Sunday .Lecture Association, and tihed them in the usfe of arms in numerous cimos in his office. The main cause of the xxin.—fhtj sicianb.

and Paulia^ became Popery, under the inform them of the logical sequences from skirmishes, which hanrassed the king's rebellion having , been removed by the (In Talmud Jerushalmi (Beraohoth i. 2)name of Christianity. It took centuries, those premises. The thing is broken up army and inspired the patriots with con- former treaties of jpeace, the majority of the cases are i teported of individual sayans inand the labor of men like Hues, Wykliff, right there, and it could liot possibly come fidence. Mattathia died the next year people -were not inclined to * contmqetoe w$ fronv.theLuther , Rchleiermacher, Paulus, Strauss, otherwise. Where every Jewish man, in- after the outbreak'of the rebeHioh. BHur , Theodore Parker , and another host of stitution, boak, every attempt at uflibn and to his sons an army to.*o ¦ce^mftte&^Ju'M^ *efl^£&\ in^

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mind , the more in-his colleagues uaspecting tnose bones de- signatures from the " Boll of Honor." • Not go6dB> renounce all thfttthou poSessest upon would look In .vain for its basis, its route lelli««nt ™ become. I mean a healthyglared there was not among those bones a only affix your 'name to that great document earth , say farewell to thy dearest affections, and iis salvation, out of which they could e"1"** oi the mind. A healthy or normalcomplete spinal column or skull of any one promptly; but thank the committee for their to become the missionary of ; my law, tbe not find the true God in heaven, true justice * ?xercIse °f the mind is that which develops

', human skeleton. The rabbis then said, as kindness in callina uoon vou and thus eiv- father of my people, the founder of the tribe upon earth , nor true charity among men. "a' reasoning powers; an unhealthy or,«ome declared the bones in this case Levit- •

ma „ .,™ 1 *™ V„ In M»b IZ nL of my faithful and pontiffs. Thou will not Abraham followed , without hesitation , rath?r ' ^normal exercise is that which,«ome declared tne oones m tun case Lent ing yoa the opportunity to link your name be m

J nee(] o{ brat^, forc6] of „ tbron ej an (he calJ of nig God hifi cQ • creates images, fancies, etc., inconsonant

/¦ically unclean; let us take a vote. 1 hey be- with the great cause, and become also one army, satellites, chains or instruments of and his family, in accepting the exile into with reason ; cases of the latter kind are nu-Sgan with R. Akiba who voted against his 0f the patriots in Israel , who are now mak- torture, but with thy staff alone, thou shall a strange land , in the midst oi barbarians , merou

h8 amon ? the early fathers of the

own previous decision, and the case was !ne the most earnest efforts to establish a become the pastor of mankind , the priest of wher e , without fear of death , he proclaims ch?l. '.' ascetics, thaumaturgists, earlyVonsioVred decided » and the bones were I! Vliw, f! *£\Si .'«

e.8fD11r1 a truth, the messenger of sabvation. everywhere the name of the Moat High , mimical writers, and , m our later dayconsidered decided , and the bones were p couege for tha educat.on of teachers, NoJ, then > what

Both r reiigion couW exist and ^kaK8 aUar9 in His aoaor VVhat *x: among romance readers, etc. Instances of

taken into the.academy or synagogue. ministers and great leaders in Israel, a sole day , if one would say to it: " Get I amp les of virtues , of disinterestedness, of «he former are iound among philoaophers,- '(These hum an bones were brought W Thatrk God that you live in an age which thee out of thy country, thv political domin- 1 gruatness of soul, has He given to Ilia chil- s

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l€ydda or Iiaodicea for students of anatomy, has yet men and women who work disinter- io^^hy temporal scepter, send away thy dren and to mankind. niW^St^v^-^-v* , { .

„ ,j„„ . „„„ „ ., . . ,„ , , jj. , ., . , » . , T , soldiers , renounce thy nchesaiid thy mater- And tliere arose a strife between the herds- n.ll> ' agriLUit unsis, etc. An indulgence of: ;3n, which the Tewaim were well informed, estedly for the cause of Judaism, and Juda- ial 5nnueriCGt proclai m a law of liberty and men of Abraham's cattle and those of Lot . ^

normal exercise may frequentl y resalt laA ^Ehe'y Counted in the human body two hun- ism in its pristine purity means the most equality, try to convince and not to van- und Abraham said to him : " Let there be no lns,init)' - Iteason is most consistent with

-dred1 and forty-eight bones (D'HIIN MNavT), enlightened intelli gence, tha clearest j us- quish , to reign through lig ht and nobthroug h discord bet ween me and thee, > w are [rulh > experience , etc., hence it is most to beand three hundred and sixty-five sinews or tice, the purest love, the most exalted darkness prisons and the flames of the auto- brother *." May these words of the divine : SiLulffiS,. , . , „\»„, 1,, , ,\ . , , , ^ da-fe. Go to the country which heaven patriarch re-echo forever among us, bi s de- ,I,lnu snoinagive tne gr

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ligaments ( n D»). mercy, and the most determined help to the poirj ta out to thee _^s im> and not upon wCt!n(la!lts uti hia famll„ Q?m f r mH ,3 | and seek to proht thereby to the greatest ei-

Sfit - 'Is uncertain that the word quid needy. bayonets submit to WJN. . We are brothers ! Let us live in ^^^^^^^^SSLi. means sinew only, or it signifies also Give whatever you can spare to the sink- .aw/ / Sri SSS'Si'SSIKi i^Ti'KlS^^^SiMSS

nerve, vein, artery, and perhaps also mus- ing fund of the College, and be sure to en- The divine words addressed to Abraham , "JJF ^ ™ J;° «,unwllpd1 hv o,,r nZZnnr notions largely make up svstemsof religion.

' cle. It»is certain , however, that to ascertain roll your name on the " Roll of Honor." It point out to each of his descendants his ™»™^' am^n g. , na^ns 0Ur honVr Mid II is' important , however-it is essential-

this latter number they must have dissected is a great document, for it will be most sa- d the means ^ e]eyate himge)f futurein the world. ' that we have

^ligion.

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iuman bodies ; and a particular case of the credly preserved , to the remotest a«e, among to perfection , to the height of true religion , J-ot settles down in another part of the 8C0pe ? By having a religious faith consistent• kind is reported from the school of Eabbi the archives of the College, and its value to the most glorious destiny, in renouncing country ; he is neb and prosperous. But with reason' Any other faith must be obvi-Tshmaef the cotemporary of Akiba, that will increase with the advance of time, for voluntarily the many things of the world, does he excite the envy, the jealousy, or the OU8ly harmful. How the mind in its highestfa lS'v „ J 'J.. pLcntPd for crime every generation will be nroud of their an- f hieh may endanger our souls and keep us indifference of his parent? Oh no! far from state of reason must ine^abi/(as heretoforethe body of a woman executed for crime every generation will be proud of ttteir an from etema, happPnegg_ 0ur heart and our rem ,t. He is hemmed in by a war and

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its province and uni-was rdiesected. The Tenaaim also had a cestors, who inscribed their names, and thus 80mj while becoming attached to the sweet falls in the hands of his fierce, enemies. veree if)' ii mited, and must be conscious ofconsiderable knowledgeof patbdlogical anat- gave a helping hand to the College in its in- and holy affections of this* world, must be- A braham is informed of it , flies to his assist- an umimit9d ) the exact form—hence nature" omv and physiology, aa is evident from two fancy, which will have reared, and will come bound up to the point that they may «nce, attacks-be the octogenarian-with _of wt,ich it can not conceive. .It must be¦¦¦Srt^nt tK* T%LnA oJlJmdLk ^A continue to educate the most enlightened for&et the flUure- lhat they be unable t0 h '-l 8ervant8> B

Ke.vef.f P°wertul c>'efs of coascious tBat „ nihila nM f ii L e ..0Qtaections of the Talmud called M ddak and continue to educate tbe most enligntened rise heavenward. Every day they must hear tribes, exposes his life and possessions in a ol nothinit nothing can come " hence thatCKulin. It is well known that in ancient men, whose learning and eloquence will il- the voice from on high saying : bloody strife, and delivers his nephew 1 originally, as Spinoaa t has demonstrated

J2gypt post -mortem examinations were made luminate and electrify both continents, and "Leave thy country, thy birthplace, the What a lesson for us who often look with s there can 'not be an absolute existence, andto discover the seat of disease and the cause lead mankind, in solid phalanx, in that en- home of thy father , and go to^he place folded1 ""M at the misery the rum of our the evoiutioI1 theory shows that this ex.^death ^nd that Pythagoras^rought from lightened pre re.,

of worshipin,; one God- ^tdT^in^^oTthee'a great nation , ^ ^^A^

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T S S?Egypt his knowledge of anatomy and physi- the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ; of arid I will blesa thee, and make thy name sympathy of empty phrases, a consolation 8Cendent intelligence. Th us the science of all *ology The Hebrews having maintained a practicing an exalted justice, a divine-like great ; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I of humiliating alms I reasoning must point to an Omnipotent In-close intercourse withrEeypt since 300 b. c, love, that nourishes and protects everything wili bless those that bless thee, and him After having exposed his life and that of telligence,in form Infinite of nature, impoa-

., . . , j . . ,f . , .., ?!,„+ „^jat„ „„ j „„i,„„ „„„„ „„„ „^j that curseth thee, will I curse, and in thee his household in order to save that of his sible to be conceived bv the human mind,must have been led into the study of these that exists, and makes every man and 8hai, an famiiiea of the earth be blessed." co-religionist^-how does Abraham—the What is beyondReasonAb toTbe^epted in«caences. -The existence of .medical colleges woman live up to the fullest spirit of the The descelldantB 0f Abraham have not as model of the fcrue IsraeliteTwish to be re- the highest form in which it is finally pre-in Palestine fs not mentioned, but the rab- Ten Commandments, the great charter yet become a great nation in the proper ac-- warded for this service of life and death ? sented—an Omnipotent Intelligence. Thisbiriical academies Were the schools'for med- which builds up great families, great States ceptation of the word ; even in the time of its By this solemn vow: " I lift up my hand is belief consistent with reason. Morals re-4«in» „n " loco n,«,T. +K D«i«m, an A ;,, *i*n,n And mifrhrv notimiq » splendor, under the Kings David and Solo- unto the LOrd, the Most High God, the pos- suit through a proper exercise of and regardicme, no less than theology and junspru- and mighty nations.

£ lehad neign Dor8 more power- sessor of Heaven and earth, that I will not for reason! A religion then which main-

dence, and most of the prominent rabbis, as - » * take anything that is thine ; lest thou tains these principles is consonant withformerly the priests, were also physicians. meditations on the bible. ' than itself. (Deut. viii. T) ^3D D'aaiO *6 shouldst say I have made Abraham rich!" reason and must be beneficial always; any

. , . , ., .¦, . " .. * v.,**-, n>.u .. «-,-, .«« r^-i \-, n^», Mmn The father of the faithful exhibiting a dis- religious faith which makes its essence any-As early as the third century b. c. the —— W OtW V D33 inal D30 n npv ttDJ>n iutere8tedne88rflre,v found elsewhere^ished thing else, inconsonant with reason, mustmedical profession was lauded and the phy- *y *»«•• •*. fc.ateyar . Minister Congregation rj^oyn ?3D, to acknowledge that all his earthly.posses- fall away, unless indeed—as was and is stillaicians recommended to particular respect B»an«—l. Ho-ioh. ltaa«.

greatness was not to consist in his «?ns were due to the grace and goodness of attempted to be done by the Church ofby Jesus ben Sira in the thirty-eighth chap- ._ . . .

~ v „ . , . number and his geographical possessions, DlvJf? evidence, a nd not to the favor o f Rome-the promoters and teachers of the

* « k- k i, rnu „ v. ¦ • ¦ t (Continued fr om November 17(h.) h„f in u w«, «ri hLf whVh hT w«s mortal Princes, or happy circumstances, or faith should, in consequence of the back-ter of his book. The physuuan was one of , cd^ed to^Si^ovSlhVwSu and ttStK ingenious speculations. Even his

riches

ward'state of the human intellect, and by,, the higher officers m the temple of Jeru-

^^ S^b^^aa^ua" and happiness were to appear before the great effort and industry give greater proini-

salem (Mishnah Shekalim v. 1), and the dig- erous than the stars of the firmament and world as a.pubhc homage to his God I nence to the imagination, thus becloudingnity was hereditary in the family of Ben

the three preceding sections of the the grains of sand of the ocean. The moral From this moment the Most High judged the mind and ignoring the dictates of Mnnd

Ahiah. Among the Essenes the study of P,eJ1utateuch °.ne ia Btrack by the appearance and6apiritual world is based upon Judaism , him worthy to reveal to him the future, to sense and reason This latter is, if not theApian. Among m xwj senes in siuay oi of three great personages that rise like gigan- fTOm which it draws its life, its preservation to show him the troubles, the martyrdo m, object , at least the ettect of every religious

medicine was one ol their particular duties, tic monuments above the whole human race: the strength and means of its existence, the glory of his descendants, the chastise- faith that can not subsist when reason shall .although it appears they were experts in Adam, Noah, Abraham. Without Judaism the religions of the most ment and the shame of their oppressors, prevail at the expense of the imagination, bo-exorcisms and sympathetic cures like the Adam represents the natural

^ order of cj vj iized nations would crumble into dust, and to contract with him and his posterity far as the latter is inconsistent with the for-

Eevotiari priests a practice which the Law l*1"1?8' the physftal world; issued from the their raorai laws would not have any sane- an immortal alliance engraved upon the mer. To theextent that the faith n foundedligypuan pnesis, a practice wmen tne i,aw hand o( the c>eator> free from all passion tion their labors their proeress their cenius soul and the flesh of every Israelite. A on imagination inconsonant with reason¦of Moses prohibits, and -was not in vogue and from all moral or physical disease, which wou'|d be but a more or less developed ani- thousand and a thousand times since Abra- must it iall away, or must reason fall away,among the rabbis of Palestine, although it undermine the body of man like a worm ma ? instinct without tree light without bam it was told over to Israel : "Go ; leave Now the notion of the majority of mankindwas among the Jews of the east, and also in gnawing the fruit he is perfection , the being animated by a noble thought and true thy country, thy birthplace, the cradle of is to favor religious faith , and there would

' Rome and Asia Minor Therefore the Pal- model.*esplend(ir of the human species, the eieva tion. For th is very reason every re- thy childhood, the grave of thy father and be more probability of their sacrificing theirJr ana Asia iviraor. inereiore, tne rai kj of naturCj the life and the soul df terres- Heion upon earth has borrowed from ue our thy mother , to wander , poor and proscribed chances to attain reason—which at present

«stmean lalmud and Midraxhim contain no trial Eden , his sustenance and his garments Qoi 0Ur dogmas our sacred Scriptures, our in inhospitable countries and amidst cruel they have nit- than of . sacrificing their 7notices of such cures, and the Babvlonian are simple as inaocence, and he reaches an psalms and a number of customs and usages nations." But, then , every where was Israel faith—which they at present have, though.Talmud has quite a number of them. The *& above that of the most robust of the ce- for ita reSpective worship, wh ile the legiela- a blessing to the people, and the generations according to the present status and tendencyrabbinical law makes it the dutv of everv da£? of -Leban°11- 4 „ . , . , tors of nearly every century and every em- of the earth were blessed in him ; whenever of the mmd , it is probable it wil l favor rea-raoDmicai Jaw maites it tne ciuty 01 every _ Noab represents tae 80c3ai order of hflye ^^ our moral ard soeial he waa permitted to erect an altar to the son if it can be convinced that religion mtown of one hundred and twenty citizens to things: he observes the laws thereof in for- Jaws tns elements 0f their civil and criminal tord and to invoke the name of the Most consonant therewith. Judaism is the dnljsupport an examined[ physician and a sur- saking the Corrupted ways oi his contempo- £ode8- And wherever those codes are im- Uif, h x- DBn «,«. xJ, na,n QB- „,, religious faith a

^t present prevailing that m

geon besides. Distinctions were made ranes, in prac icing justice in respecting perfect or insufficient it is certain that they U'gD' u? , , , PL Z f ' ?„ 90 c™ten^ through it mmt the tendency

m ., . . „ , " A " virtue, in estabhshing morality in his house; 5fiVittte from thftMn<.aip and rabbi niml lpois- wherever he could proclaim and put into of other faiths, to a condition of superstitionamong the ancient Hebrews between the his ark is a State where all the creatures liVe ^ ^ ^^^^JwS St Practice thifl word oi his an«8tors, " All and unhealthy imagination, be largelyphysician (KDVl or N'DX) and the surgeon together in complete peace, where every "

irontisoiece of the whole social edi men are brofaera." 13H3K QT|» D'»3S 'D, averted ; so the tendency of reasoning men(NJOIS) ; and between the examined physi- being finds the protection, the rights and lib- fi The most illustrious sects in elorifv - wherever h« L f«ally believed in God , to discard religion, so-called-'-whereby otherscian provided with a license by the court erties due to it. He admits the impure ani- themselves in order to draw the masses, ™ TOtxn, m his law , h1S promise, our mis- are controlled and many areWe' immoral'/-.mvJx UM,i 0„a »u„ .-*• mala as well as the pure ones, mtrusta pub- alfote nothinB but their moral laws their sion and our future ; in fine , wherever he —will be, also, largely averted. The force(TOD «n) and the common practitioner. lic functiona to theSove'as well as to the ra- Parity their lor^ of the ndghbor l?terally accomplished his task, the word of God, of this reasoning is further indicated bylhe . physician was alsa a surgeon, but not yen; no distinction, no exclusion.no variance, borrowed from Judaism while their partic- said to him : Israel, thou shalt be the father what history discloses. We find that it waavice versa. In medical jurisprudence, nu- but perfect tolerance and equality. He es- ular dogrnas mysteries' and darkness find of a multitude of nations, -rnro DIJ pen 3N "a the existence and knowledge consequentmerous passages of which are preserved in tabltahea for all in his edifice a light, an op- n0 ecno in 'reaeon ^0 reai {i,ith ia con. And the voice of the Eternfll B eaks to u8 upon1 the existence of these principles asthe Talmud and codices a decided distinc- e?IDg $3) thr°«Ugh wl?uh **** m™h™> science, nor consent and amen in the human yet and says : «™ 8'1.t!»HnB ,the ,e88tin«e °.f f f dama, thatwio .iBimuu auu voices, a oeciaea aistinc air and- the perfumes of heaven and earth ; s„,,i Thnu Israel art mv servant Jacob the Philosophy of the Greeks found exten-

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4.x. i -ii * n,„ tn mttn«a Qa r,^i»n« ir. nh Abraham represents the spiritual order o P'res seeit a sanction ror tne r institutions, a "' , , f / T . , ., . that -Spinoza and Mendelssohn wrote and be-, 'the -skill of the surgeons, especially m ob- { man r 8ingt0 the divtne regions, con- protect^ for their existence, a securi ty for t^ f J 0^

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\ came appreciated, and that the spirit of Eu'Btetric operations up to Hysterotomy aie templating God and His light. ¦ their future. Did not Judaism according to not d»yed, tor 1 ,a

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scattered over the Talmud , and a large num- In Berakilh we see the creation of the div me promise form a great rxatxon , the ' g«n8f ™ $%'J?& ht hand of mv rS- toferation. Judaism did not effect it all, but.ber of surgical instruments are named in world ; in NM1 its fall ; in ZMf t its re- SSt coSLlT "*' ^nm tJ oM sh^Z

lol £ '- ?««W» b™?? of views/that ^*i! t> 1 *• „o Ji„i a„, establishment through the faith of Abraham, could ever conceive ; (onndpd shal l be all that were incensed have their origin in principles expounded as 'the Palestinean dialect.

^ the Jewish faith. The .greatness of Abraham and Israel were a™!Zt th^ fundamental by Judaism*. Sue/ a faith is -Names of surgeons with the title Umna, The legends of all religions have sur- not to consist in riches and material posses- _* . . the men that strive with thee a living example of accord between science,v

like (R3DIK N3N) Abba Umna, are occasion- rounded the birth of Abraham with all the sions, in .brutollforce, in that power and do- V < wilt seek them, and shalt not find Pttdowphy and religionTbetween reason .

,r L»/intu T.im,d lmmn ,u splendors of the marvellous. The friends of minion which caused the men of Babel to ,^ . " ., ' . . .,£ , and belief—in the decrepitude and extinc-ally mentioned in the Talmud. Among the father > who &

&t m exclaim . » Let us build a city and a tower ^Mf^ nauit and as nothing the *°a of which ie involved a vital retmgreSXphysicians of great authority wbo were no among whom were many counsellors and the top of which may reach unto heaven; and m gD that make war against thee sion of the human race. 'rabbis, there are named Theudas of Laodi- divines of the king, who had been in vited makeourtelve» a name " nw nS nwn This For I the Lord, thy God, lay hold of thy II.«ea, Tobia of Modaim, Chinnenah b. E. to a feast. by Terach, .left. the^ house at. late Wui wbwwtea wme, OB' W nWn inis ri ht hand (1 '

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Ask Miniumi Assia and Rabbin of Naresh. ho.ura and Percflv«d in ** 8ky toward the name this greatness, this ilfastration and Fear not, I help thee. Compatibly with these notions of religion,Assi, mimumi asBia, ana ttapuiii ui «nreBu. orieilt a star of extraord nary magnitude, thin immort/litv Ahrflham was to find in hiH t? " J^ h, , t „l ,a _^„ "forms of worship are not the essence ofTheudas and Tobia were predecessors of which seemed to advance rapidly toward the £ e ™"that straS Und " £re he d¥d t ^$£?luhSr,th^^

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<5alen. Theudas studied medicine in the cardinal points and absorb Wother 8tarj, «J^J gfU?reupoTto%esl his a rede^^^y^rf'SS Jff*™ 1!"' Bushman Gaul American In'empyric school of Alexandria, and was the It was at the time of the birth of Abraham. head

Pwhen famine drove nira from one KiaHsS? dian, eto, who worship obfects of nature,author of several medical works, against Th? uking

^'"rmed of this phenomenon pbce to another, where he was surrounded l™ , ,' "'* v , may iust as consistently claim their forms ofautnor ol several medical worts, 'W** ?hich was interpreted to him as fatal to his fl enemie6 and ' barbarians, where he was ¥>mw W Pripa N H3 *>»an nnifl worship essential to religion as we can. forwhich Galen and TheodoUus of Tripolis throne, offered Terach a considerable sum of robbed of his wile and where his parent was our forms, etc. Tribes, of whom intelligentwrote polemics, all of which was lost, money for his son, whom he wanted to have taken a prisoner 'and pillaged—symbols of ' * * and trustworthy travelers, explprers, etc,although the name of Theudas is often put to death. what was to happen in the iuture-when he Tbe Ton-* or i»ra«i. have said that they have no notion of a Godmentioned bv Galen as for instance De Another legend tells that Nimrod had received the revelation of a bondage of four fnf no/*"* to express such a notion. Batmentioned cy uaien, as tor inwnce j * d himse,f ffl ,he atar8, or had seen in a ceatarieB q waB reserved to hif children BY K0EJU8 M conv OF 8t lodzs ho the Inte ,ect 1B largely affected by forms,Subf igur. Empir, chap. 11. p. 62. Tobia dream, that a child that was to be born in one word where everything united ' ' ceremonies, appearances, and its emotiong(KSnrr iT31B} one of the Erasistratean would rebel against his idolatrous worship, to make him the most unhappy of men, not- ' can most effectually, in the generality of in-school is named by Dioskurides among the «}d would behis victor Nimrod ordained withstanding it was there where he was to I- stances be aroused and made an influencetioted nhvsicians who has" written a book 511 °ew-born male children to be put to become a great nation , a great name, afocus Let us not deceive oureelves. "Truth, "pon human action bv certain forms, etc .„TL

P S, f T ZZZ Vf kZZ ^ath , and over seventy thouaand ol them of lights and stars, a universal blessing. In- truth in the name ot God ! " It is an evil of lhe/

e °^' ^mples, while .constituting noon the physiology of the brain (Ebertus iost then* Wes. But the mother of Abraham Btea§ ol the tower 0f Babel he raised in his which our rabbir, and those who have tbe part ?f t he e^ence °/. 1 P

tt°t or Judaism.

Aplioriema den DmHruides, p. 82). escaped with hi.m into the wilderness, where { the HiamiziAted heights of Sinai. In- weal of Judaism at heart complain that the a2? at . P^sepLessential, for they are mostE J Wunderbar has written a German she lived for a time on roots and wild Wes, 8tead of sumptuous palaces deslined to de- young of Israel show indifference to the ^^Jl ?

fr2?5ti?TJud^sm a^» rWfe»' 'K. J. W underbar has written a^

German and there Abraham learned te know the Btruction in the idolatrous city1, he laid the cause and promotion of the faith ; and this f°-P™ yf^ a^ essenhal, music w dea^ablebook on Bibhc-Talmudical Medicine, pub- true God, in observing the sun by day and foundations of the immortal sanctuary car- they would cure. *nc\ le°tnres important. But if the goodlisned in Bigal and 'Leipzig from 1850 to the moon and stars by night appear and die- ried upQn (he shouldere of our ancestors No greater weight should be given what is l?at ma7 result from houses built or pur-1853, in which most of the Talmuuical pas- appear respectively, splendid but ephemei. through all deserts and all mine. And in- herein said than the same in common sense, cha^d for the sole purj^se of the.permea-aaaas concerning this Boian^ an noticed^ aI "PPa"*1 , wh.ICh must have a Creator, 8^^ e amended language of the rulers viewed from the ptand-point of right reason, ™*JU#&™.,,a, T?i ^^

connterbal-aftges coicg^Ptng tnia science are noticed). a -

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alB itself of the earth, he caused to he Heard the har- is entitled to. Wltl^ tola caution 1 proceed! Bnced by tue P116' w^

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: ".. " • •' ¦ . , ¦ .: in their moyeinents. monioos and divine voice, those pure and It is obvious a cure is desirable, "because, •*¦ ... ', BBRMN c The Protaslaut^ Gonsistory ?&• . In tbin tnahtieri .through his own medita- celestial accents, which will vibrate some 1st. In the radifference. in .these is involved « see article entitled "Kesjectlng Religion " aiUL

.;;, ;ir^eB;to.perform : %e the error of idoV day id every soul, the voice of dnr Credo, the decrepitude and extinction ol Judaism^ the "Bwoyou KeiigToa." ' .,^^Ke' net^iT^e^wti^ 2d. In the dflicfeplttide and extinction of teM u EtUM, "Pir:i. .oi God, .',•