4 THE AMERI CAN ISRAELITE. ' __^_____T, | , I * in such statements are contrary to result. THE SO URCES OF THE OLOG Y. successor of ' Rehabeam , in a separate dently written by one author. He iii no RELIGIO US Q UESTI ONS A N D ECHOES FROM WASHIN GTON.lie ftmencan Israelite , * i^*^., ,™ *«> .*• COtttrIbutloir^;rlpluraI „«.

caifie* "^t

Edd° " t The 8y7.tio- H° writes :xtr iv%BlX SE - on sundft ^ ^ i5th **¦¦ «* «*«one and all to come forward with their "clam, history of the other kings was not pre- containing many particulars of single' j _ thMo dayfl of neWBpapec p0ffPr , entertainment of the season, unde r the

LEO WISE & CO., objections to our dogmatic statements. served in separate books known to the events. He evinces his animosity to there is scaroe iy a question in any de- ausp ices of the local lodges of B'naipvu—uhi AKD pru.r m.TOi-. . „ . . ui. -j osHUA _i(i) JUD G ES. author of chronicles ; it was recorded the democratic form of governmen t by rtment of thought . or 0f Hfe that is B'" , took the form of a lecture , Rabbi

TZ ;. w n Z a vi„_ «?- t>. i i- .- * r> x * i • ¦ 1 The two books at the head of the in the official chronicles by cotempo- say ing four times : "In those days there von(il , . . ,. ' ,„ _,__ nf thnnub- J* 08 " ^raU8 k0P' bwn 8 tne lecture r. IOffice ; N. W. Cor. Fifth and v ine Sts. The second edition of Dr. Miekiner s . . . . . . . ,„ . . _ _ not ventilated in the columns ot uiepuo- had prepar ed an extensive review of t„

, -,. *¦ T77~ " Selections from the Book of Psalms " wcond or prophetical „non are Josh ua rary prophets , as special mention is was no king in Israel , to which he ljc „ess lt fa diffi cult to draw the line very interesting discours e/but abstainISAA C M. WISE , ¦ • • ¦ i ' tor .g u ^ additionall an and Jud ges. When and by whom were made of Jehu son of Hanani . who in- adds twice : "Every man did what

we can not Wame the newspap ers f rom sendin g I t because I eee th at th.Vineinnati , 0., January 2, 1800. ¦' A ppendix ," in which the main points lhe ^ of thi9 Canon

""" tTh ° "Cribed

hi8 °Wn

ub°°; tbf *f *°7 8eem

fd lig" in hU 8i

1ght '" ?'"* " * 'or eagerly grasp ing at anything which ™>J H

j My_ ^^! *i«

. """ -"""" 'i •' ""' _J ' ' Talmud furnish es a part al rep ly to thes e of King Jo shap hat in the official chroni- say, then confusion and anarchy reigned. . J - , ' * ' „„,, „,i„ k populated , ¦ n,1,fl<lelPhIa corres ponden t , i„

inKmiPT inNUIYiBl i; IK ADVANCE of cateohi sation arc laid down find each . . ,, , . „ , . ¦ » , /(, ~, o^ j „ i. t ™ - u j - ¦* u j • t j - .u tbe editors or managers think calcu 'ateu fa t speaker had oriirinallv

mJS SpS 1100 P™ided with corresponding passage , HW and this is the only document- 0le (2 Chron. xx. 34), and the prophet W,tb undisturbed equanimity and with- to lntereat the readerB. With the ques- deliver. ^ his famous , aud intefeSSVnpE ' ' * "

So! from Psalms , embracing the vital doc- ary test.mony we possess outs.de of the Isaiah wrote theh.story of UZ»ah in the out a word of blame , he tells the story of the 0 ,iety of matiy of,the literary produc tion , ^PatriO tism,":Which >

MMB „0M 038 Year 0 ^»« of Judaism. This is perhaps the Bibl e' U is Blated in B«b* B<f thra < 144 Bame manner (2 Chron ; *xvi 22>' and of Micab ' fl idol « how the Danjite8

'^V* toPic9 diB™d in the Prt * we bav * wflB . liBte,'ed ^iem ^ Yyy n M .ftStage .O EWD pe . Oa. Year ^0 8abba lh,c

|;oolflP

and and 15 fl), «ient tradition , the history of Heiekiah , in the book and lb priest and worshi ped it all the ^1,8 _ do !_*! w ar e concerned S?a&T ffiS ?wSS5w „¦o.pwS^Io^ ^ -.h- i« -igbt also well be used in divine serv ^ TZII TTTI ," T ?, ? ? Tr ^'d ^T^ *1-™^ "-* f f ld

f with but one

aspect

of this subject

and K l ^ o^Kl2SK ™Z ilto..li. , ». ice. The selection is judicious , the ar- ot Balaam.and the Book of Job. The lat- according to the four words at the head He is evidentl y not the same man who

b tfae fitneBg of ] n %rodw[ „g relig. por tin g e^t, aI,d in favora ble contAri vmLomenu of com r^non., .»)«.o,h,r ra ngement pro per and the introduction , ter is contradicted by various teach ers , of this book , and also in the official wrote the main portion of Jud ges. ioug j^, int0 the oolumnB of

the ment of the

subject , the excellent man-*ta oM«rd . an set «p'u5f««.ii tu occ^ p with ?he appentUx , highly instructive. ftnd finall y

tbe P™"!*1 MMBOTltes chronicle (Ibid , xxxil 32). The history The second story, abou t the concu- Is that the er placefoP ner of its delivery and in sayin g ,all^r^^ VSKHS Besides alUhat it i a

very cheap book. Tiberias , Rabbis Jochan an and Elea- of King^enassah was written by various bine alain at Gibeah and the subsequent them

Por

Pnot? Are th€re

PiteL Jf re .ig.

^t%£$Z? gS ^* %™>

=1' T t tf Z X^ 'JlSS TjiSM We have no doubt it win go to every *• who maintain ™ *U ^»° ™ Pr0 Pheta - on* of whom - called Hozai ' is m-der0UB exeoution of iUBtioe on the ious news which may find suitab le room "In whyToTt SH&'b, thu Mh ltelf3WwWa H,^ home of good peop le. "Job WM a»ong those who returned mentioned in Chronicles xxxiii. 19. trib e of Benjamin , fully betrays the in the Heoular aR di8tinguished from lhe .whole lecture will be publishe d in anSr™™^ ____^____ from the Babylonian captivity, as appears All these historical sources must intention of the author. Besides his oiw * , Thjj faif „d careful earl y number of Our Pulpit. and copiesin bo iioiity the publi nhtm whe n giving thci f also from Job xlii. 10, and from its posi- have been extant to the end anti-democratic sentiments , which he , , . . , . . . „„„„, . _ „;ivi ,_st„j can be obtained of Oscar Klonower , 64?Pa-t 11 , of Dr. Isaac Schwab' s book ,

Jn thifd Canon of foufth B. a

„ make8 groundwork of both Btorie8 >

^^™?^f ^TdW_o_- _ *% Seventh Rtreet . -Phil adelphia. On

^ X^^ T Z "x TlZ ^ 7"l ¦•Joshua wrotehis own book a.d the author of Chronicles mak . copious ab- he mak es out a- case of what happene d " " l. "^ ^'SS^^SS^^SSi

S^ tt ^oo'^" Pa

W 1Datter ' " ' llfs aZa?anPcf T^ Wk i

'wen

la8t eight verses in the ThM ah " Tbl8 'tracto from them ' itloludin 8 naany _ Gibeah so similar to that of Sodom , rencea continually in the and his uttera nces on tie occasioS w'ere_ maae na appearance. lae oooK is weu jg amended on the next page m the Tftl- names and sayings of prop hets and when the angels had come to Lot , that „,, , . ,„ i if ° r „ori ft l ,a nnmm ,ln ?ti PB received with reverence and respec t. ItkS^Sta

ADVm,bl!J1K>iTH M* written and wel l print ed. This second d. - ft eflfeol ttaUhe ia9t ver8e8 0f other prommen tper sons not mentioned the story borrows Inrth the incidents '3kuoW no Q .pPl_Uo^ _ part trea Uon -Th e Sabbath in Primitive Joahua were ^ partly by Eleasar in the preceding historical books , as for and phrases from that part of Genesis

™ ° **

^.. ." ^e^Sluf ^° f f * -T W*jff ijf & to&m\ ¦

imn..wtrlne »BT ofUe »4Tert !«emtnt» tn tkl» Christianity, with Jesus and the Anos- ' , . , - . -di. - +v m„i. •„.;„.** • » • ¦ „ i »•. * i. / t " ¦ ". < , „ « J t.- -j the religious world , th at are of vital inr the Supreme Power ot. all;the hews of> . ...rr oAnwULMihralk m npon botu ,b, u„ „ Ja „xteen ^ , and ethtv "

d ^ by ""T h^

ne8

nstanoe ™

t°e genealogies

up to chap- (Judges a*. 8-27). Then hisjmdent

ple it larg6 ) and 6Uch the day _ ftnd t0 give the Almighty ri gidadve rtiser * and the pubfl iiwri by «t»ttn R tbattte > co" ™ip«>« «"« «s»»/ "Samuel wro te his own book, also ter ix. and the various historical notes intentio n is to bestow as much praue fll/lf<1 ¦iftll W n.nn„iv u «n™d" hpfore and minute instructions how' -'to ru n the,,wtbe .Mlv Brtl.eme .tl B th.AMEB lCASlSRAKUTE. pages of, highly interesting notes , the Jud and Rulh .-. wb5ch is amended conne cted with them , all of which he as the situation would afford on J " ' 6. P£W . 8

J^ world, wh at to do! arid what iot to do

coMXT-HicxTioNs not. lKned by the writer tvti j ^" author attem pts to show that on the next pftge 0f the Talmud to the slates (i_ 1). "ar e written in the Book of Levy, Jud ah and E phr aim , and m*(

re tl«,nK Pu

V "»' P^s|. io^

^h .th e, addition of a f ew Sun day:.be neither puM ta hcd nor prenerved. No Msa. will J eBU8i conseouentlv also his aoostles „ ¦ , . , t, t. ± xt *u j *>'• > t , j t j » o 1L , , , ¦ ' , *,. 8ults of. important conferences of re- 8Cfl0ol les3onsr arid , some extracts 'fromEffiSSOT t. ! So the „ much blame and

j 0 £

K ^

The distinguished author of the "In- a^gf the SabU^T£L_nVff 8tated MPre3 y ™ Chromcle8 XX1X- from wh,ch he. copies, and not to mere j amin and the men of Ja besh Gilead

,ong.abqepted 8land ai:dB cbnfeS: e« acted ; and , on. oiie . occasion , a,mem- ;trnd uotion to the Mishnah " fin two vol-

g !

aa ODath. i he canon ot ex- 29 tradi tion s or opinions. The institution (Ibid. xxi. 5-12). Their crime was that . . J *..; * ^ ^ v^i n0wlv ni tt rlp ber of (ingress remarked , after the ;

It RabW itob Su 11 o KoTetem e«esls ^ to

the N TeBtam °nt "David wrot e a book of Psa lms, in of cotemporary official ohronography, it of Sodom, their purushment and deg .aV^ f^.^^umon;, uaom j acoD urueu , oi jvoj eiem, statements ja hovel and incenious , . ¦ ¦. „ . *^ »i ;» „i„„, „r ?_ 5 . .¦, , . ,' , , ,. . , "¦ -\ of the pnnciplea of belief reports .ol. . . a prayer.: "Why does not God read thedied November 29th , seventy-ei ght years roy .

^ B"Sy^ -^ch he incorporate d the

psalms of

ten app„« from

the closing passage, of 1 dation were complete, a mere remn ant tie fltandin g 0f the enurch ea and the New ^ork Vpapers 7^ ,: In^perf orming ^

of age. The deceased -wa. one.of the " he fc Doctor That it iAlso^n- ^T"" T' t v \ , „_ M^

flb6eB'^P^a!lfent ,

^a^\

and »? *most excellent Talm udical scholars in S^ in^\l

Jeremiah wrote his own book , King , was theje yet in he tune of John Hy^ grace and mercy of the people , and evetf ^Hn the various ^beres of iL, social , F Sf S &f a Fi^f ftll v A . ,. .

hi« rmm tr U rTvror fLvm,i His two sonsare °QUD *eaiy - corre Pl - in au instances , we . a Lameritation s;' can, whose official day book is men- those had to steal women and take . ' ,, ; ¦ ¦U . , ,.. V " . n ; ,v, ¦ ¦ ' lv,,L „a- ., '.'' .LPrd "M , Father of all; A nationhiscountry (Moravia). His two sons are a„ not read to dmit perhBp8 because „ WA,oti(iv th« kin ff and his asso- tinned th* "„ . r ¦ ™ : l„„ ¦«„¦.„. educational , chantable ; all these things , assembled her e through its repre serita-in Frankfor ton-the -Main ; one, the we have not read the book thoroughly ; " Hezeklah r ^?

k«&

. l"a "« ^oned ^here . v - -

them' for wives. This story has . cer- „ ^nt news, are . material for the lives, approa chea thee this morning w«t •learned Dr. Nehemiah Bruell , is the J ^g ™\Z^Le ar lm^t Sns

™*

f «7 ( "'JT " The

^^Ib^

f^

Bjble«e tainly : not the same author who mcor- pre38

P But there Is another. side to this -ta ^^_.tof^:»^ :Sl«- V

officiating rabbi of tha Uity, .nd th e ^ntir ^ ^n^^^

m^™ ^^othpr Adolhh Bruell is a distinBuished , ¦ .

qon<,rar y w wn al we ana 0lner8 clesiastes." records in some instances , or a conn ec Deborah, " Af ter thee, Benjamin , among • " .. . . . . '' ..- abounds. ;We ' thank Thee, that the.¦

¦^1^^^.. nr j . y^^^

'^ L.. I t ta -"The Men of the Gre^t Synod wrote U6n of som^ixt eraiui ana . pro iessor. ine oiiiy long t me to overcome hs. own ,,., * i -r i \r ;^. P^n>,«f n ¦h«1f«1 *^«- -t i v *¦• ' ' ' , ,; ¦ ~ . - • V i ¦¦*. t. t tions springing up all the time which land , th at forge and loom and furna cedaughter of the deceased: is the wife of 8ettled ,op^ona oa ^J^. *f&M? *?&*!?***

^

P0r

% frf T"

;^?-

'nP

remarkable , point .; is that ^e iook arWof ¦ ^ t : tbe memb

of ^hat that Wough In dV ship; arid , locoinoS-another distinguished rabbi , Dr. Mu ell er , , . p, w« i,„v. i«« Jivw. . „,i„o„,~ and Esther ' . three ... dif ferent elements . from, three 0f; Jud ges has Ho^ mention , whatever of ionjmi,nitv onlv " of thai cori ere„tion «erid forth to mmions- of people here ,of Misslit*

; -^ ; *.E.ra wrote his own book (including different records :. (1), the -original any high priest , priest or Levite , wbue

^• /„ ¦ : °f^nst

Jewi8h w"tera on

th VNebemiah)and the i ^• Tr E old^maeA CaWJ , wri tten toward h

^fd. ^

the end of lneseventeent h ceritury XHe- -h.ch all so-called Liberal Christians ^

: Moses-fethe geographical arid< ^ SV^' ^ - ^br ew) V Rabbi David Gans , appear.

^^a'-^

now in a ermar ararislation , by the late- J e secpn4.p0.nt is about the result , of lanJ , »be wrote ^r they.wrote /'in this or quest ^ arid the division : of the land "

J^^S^^ heri ^w„ dee_S fW^6 P^

no^

ld th

be

^ r/ iail^,f f S iSSSSS ^:fBabbi Giitman Klemperer . and Vpub> Dr , Schwab' s special research , . . iA- .0thet. Mmu^lished with biograp hical sketohes 6f ^ ^

^ author and tra nslator , ^: *L

^;^^^5^^lj--« to: ^^^^¦¦

^^^ .hole

claim

.f thejamiiie 'i^/^tfC^J ^fift ^ jgK^ ft SSS^-Gru enwald (Prag ue, 1890) . :Th e:book to be .nspir ^ Bcr ^

consists ' of two parts ;" , the first is suppose they know that the gospels were any author. ' the book Jasliar quoted in Joshu4 x. ¦ ^iJs ^tW *«T_ nf T«v i Tudab -1" ' ° " "? lnep re^«nrae

" I0T and prosp erity ,/ crime stalks bn our :.a chronolog ical synopsis ^ of , the his- bitten .a ! century or longer after 2. It

"ga evident from the books :of 12^14 as. the source for the m* ^ highways: ;

pra y Th

ee, XD .God^nable ^tory of the Heb rews from .he ^nin g to 5452 A. „:, apd the s^ond j aa ;wnters , who contra ^

chronological /synopsis of universarhi s- ever so many instances m writing official and obtemporary chronograp hy p iled or edited by Joshua , nor was the Th. ^th ^tory up to the year 1692/ It was of about the life, and say ings of Je sus, vvas one of the public institutions i Is- author of the Joshu a records different x ^J - v '* A- a H«fi«l ' '„ \*

takes place within the walls of a church sembled,:; with Va . conBciouanes's ¦: thatgreat benefit to the Hebrews; who read we.liave to say.; Where are your sources rael. This appears also from Josh ua and from him who wrote the last chapter of '

"i SSSSSK2

is °^«d to a toothsome morsel to ^ the in them

^centered a nation's confiden ce: :

Hebr ew only, and becam , in ,U^old;^German transla tion , part of the -.folk- that he real ly .said or,did this or that ? they .rote into such Existing books , _is and Joshua i. sufficientl y proves. , min ^David 's enemy ¦ Jabesb ^. Gilead

that divides the members h .p ot . y _

^^ .^ ^ j ^r,^^lore. It was also highl y valued by What reasonabl e guarantee can you and ' from the above Talmudical trad i- 5; It :is certain that Joshua is ' older ¦¦ ¦ ¦- ¦ ¦ ; , ¦- r t* 4 i i TWir Tudah and 1a -^6re^.tl0?.\ B;:'PV en r. ?w^.W. - tne them , of fears that alarm th em , of ariii- ^¦Christians , and was soon translated into have or /give :to Others that what you tion , which admits ^ th at Joshua ; wrote than Jud ges, which -i s'chronolog icallya Z < - • * ° ^- •!, ¦ '

^remtih k: world , whereas it . and its settlement be; eties th atdisturb t^eir peace! ' let ^Latin ; " in its new translation 'it may. present as say ings or doings of Jesus is into the . Thora. (See also Rambar C* com- continuation of the former.. The:last IR^SSll SS'^^^-^^a , ' . i- i- i * j c i.-»- .j 1 j o . j ¦ . , ¦ , - .. i ' ¦ ¦ '¦ • ' ¦ " " o». . .* o uo~ fbere can. be no reasonable 'dotlbt as to «pr< v ;t, ;B +h «t it, „. onnnvmni is.,! pn d ; iir a* sacred mission , and that ' thebe quite useful to people jyho ike rMpurel yfic ord8

of .Jo8hua quoted in Judges

&6. Ume when those appendic W' were f^^\£muKum in p qrvo, for Gans m his Work is if you can offer no such guarantee to the two .- high priests added to the (ii. 6-9), and the beginnin g, of this written nor ¦ ¦

to the r^on why ;tbey

a .U8Ua

. tb,

f e' ¦ pur ^: >*"¦ naS .a ward him', and that it 'lies . in . his.pbwer

brie f, exact and reliab le. For the science yourselves or others , how can you write records of Joshua. . No such official chapter is in substance from Joshua +'t A\ iyi ^nf LJ grievance.; The: world shal l know it. , to lend his -^id towar d eradicating evil,

of history Its only value lies 4n the fact in a historical tone on the life and say- records arementi onedin theperiodo fthe xxiil., aa the ' noti ce of Caleb takin g "Z *J *- iw . iLSS <vf Tl ^ ' * Path °ti?' ^ ^ ^^^^^' withm - our bor-

tMt tne Hebrews*in history at that early date. how you wri te - any thing besides argu- them occurin theBookof Judges (y. 4, 5; xiv., xv. 13-19. After the intr oduction , , ,. ., ' . " . , . " .. m *? , e' *° ¦ "?* *?.l*°r °L

¦*¦ neWBPaP^r' their ^^ representati ves here in the work— ~^- . , mentati ve criticism on this important vi . 7-10; xi. 14-27). Still , in th a^ery he begins (iii. 7) with thei synopsis of . 7" U * eaSllyQ

Utlderst«od ™* th

a*d ¦«

happy. He

stabs m the dark . upon-hicl^,th are engaged; 'Unl ess

"The Ethics ov Hebre w SoHir iuBK a " top ic,, if the-sources on which you must ancient song of Deborah (chapter v.), a . history up to the death of Samson (xvi. tra dltl0n makes Samuel the aut hor

Ke is afraid

to appear over his proper the peoplef earn estly seek to walk in the

is thename of abook (l2mo., 273 pages), relyare so thorou ghl y demolished , unless host of engravers of the law on stone 31). The author .evidently: knew noth- Jud ^8' T

was

written for the name; for he knows his course , is wrong, way of ri ghteousness, to: love virtue and

arran ged and published by the two you wish to write romance , like Mr. or metal , irppiro . presidi ng jud ge,, ing or chose to say nothing about the P60

to wb

?£ tbe °fficlal Cb

.r°& 1Cl

.eS a«d

f ^er , as a u.ual thing, a batc h

^SbSh Jbovea, SffoStott• Rabbis Mones, respectivel y of Louisvill e, Benan , or conjectural history, like Mr. pn wi,'.. and expert scribes , two last Judge s, EU and Samuel. From were "naoce ^ble, by an uncomprom ^- of falsehoods and misstatements , which £ gjfjgyb^ S^S

Ky., and Chicago, III. It is a comp ila- Beecher. ^3lt. .t)„3 D'^a, are expressl y men- chapter xvii. to the end Of- the book two mg and Zeal°US advocate of *" the°- h« fears to father. It is coward ly and her e ; m vain .. will be their ^ repre sonta , -tion of Biblical passage s in the artless . 2. Kit does appear from the supposed tioned * so that cotemporary chronog- stories are appended , to which there is pratlC dem°crftc * an implacable oppo- unmanly. This is the manner in which tives' labor he^for naug ht will be

ourScri ptur al language, to which are added say ings of Je aus, that he opposed the raphy' also in that period can hardl y be no reference made in the body of the n<int °f ?e v

p8gan. ^^ T

Teligi0US ^estions ' which have no busi- ^"nt^'.8, "n

i ff 'l » vj,in

some "Sayings of the Fathers , " and laws of Mosses, al.o the Decalogue, hence doubted , especially as the variety of book , al though they narrate incidents MC and tbe P^sthood , with the ne8fl there , usuall y creep into the papers ,

^. '«JJ

S *h

^ H^also, "Ethic s of the Talmud ," accord- also the Sabbath , and considered it sty les in the different accounts in the which are supposed to have occurred at «°wed intention to reform the people Then a great noise ensues , and the diffi- thank8 _ with y -- - Qur 6upplicalion B.ing to Dr. Zun z's selection. The book , his mission to abrogate them , how could book point distinct ly to various larger the very beginning of that period , when and to upbold ' mamtaln tne th&- culty which would have found early and humbl y, a grateful , nation approachesof course , contains most excellent mat. it possibly happen that his direct disci- chronicles from which the narratives Phineas was high priest , and differ rad- oeraoy and the covenan t. , read y adjustment becomes magnified , Thee , this mornin g. Accept the one andter , althoug h there is nothing orig inal pies continued to respect the laws of were epitomized. icall y in spirit , phraseology, tone and This man could have been Samuel and causes hard and harsh feelings. It £€« «7h£e

™" ''J *3 ^^T^in it. It is intende d as a reader for Moses conscientiousl y; that the original 3. From and after King David the object from the body of the book. No only | there is no other known in history , is natural that these differences should AmeH j» ' ! . * P 8aKe -

advanced scholars of Sabbath-schools , or Jew-Christians steadily, adhered to Scribe pillD) and Chronogra pher (iO!D) reade r can help seeing that these two H e was the ref or mer of his p eople, with arise within religious bodies/ Where After the opening of. Congress I metand for home reading, in place of the the laws of Moses, excepting the sacri- or Chance llor were members of_tbe appendices are later productions , and bim idolatry vanishes out ot Israel for there are many men , there are many Dr. Krauskopf , Sim on Wol f and Rev,whol e Bibl e, and as such it is highly ficial laws only, lik e the Essenes ; that royal council. Solomon had even two were add ed for a purpose to the Book of a century. He was the last pillar of minds. There is naturall y the pr ogress- Dr. St|rn on their way to take a. lupch-commendable. What is somewhat in- the Mosaic feasts till late in the second Scribes (1 Kings lv. 3), and that off ici al is Jud ges. theocracy and opponent of monarch y to ive par ty and the conservative party, <^

e . f' J 'J ^g-|'j ^ b fe ^explicable to us about this book is the century and the Sabbath till late in the th ereyet in the time of Jeremiah (xxxvi. The author of Jud ges is an out- the very end. He was the opponent of and their views will at times clash. r{_„ iaT_, _nd so X joined them and en-

"hif alutin " style of the preface , in which fourth , nay, even into the sixth century , 9, 12 ; lii. 25), to the very end of the spoken monotheistic , theocr atic patriot , the priesthood and almost overthrew it , Thought stands still as little in re- joyed a brief respite from; the toils ofnothing is said in many phrases , and the were gener ally observed according to two kingdoms. Both the chronicles , He claims that all national misfortunes to which be was forced bv tbe demorali- ligion as in any other province of hu- business and partook of a feast of rea-fact that it requires the authority of Moses ; how does it come that Paul , and in many instances also the chronog- and miseries were divine retributions for »tion of the sons of Eli, and the fact man activity. Times and circumsta nces B™ *™ *

e course80"1' h

1^"?^ 'Ttwo Rabbis on the title page , to vouch who rejected the law , Was denounced rap hers , are mentioned In the Book Israel' s abandonment of the true God that the firat royalis tic rebels werechief- change , and religious needs , modes of B _ wM fce deiiverfd

^by Dr Hi 'rsh of

for the fact that there is nothing in the and persecuted by the original apostles , of Kings.only three such offioial and and adopting pagan cults; and that jy Levites , as the city of Sichem be- expression and manners of reachin g the Chicago , subject riot yet announced. 'book not taken directl y and literal ly when it can be proved that Paul merel y cotemporary chronicles are referred to' to salvati on from misery was always longed to the Levi tes of the f amily of people with them. If any separate re- vital flriTisncB 'from the Bible , or from the Dr. Zunz rejected the Levitical and political laws the very end of the book'! viz : "The effected by Judges who were faithful to Kehath (Joshua xxi. 21). His hand Hgious communit y discovers the neces- As men tioned in a former letter MrCollection of Ethic al Sayings. We of Moses? Admitting these historic al Book of the Words of Solomon" God and succeeded in reforming the *¦ vi"ible thr oughout the book. The sity of introducing chan ge, and this A. S. Solomons has been charged by thethink the authorit y of one Rabbi would facts, one must argue that the disciple. (1 Kings xl. 41); "The Book of the people. He is the stern theocratic dem- authority of the prophet made the book causes family dissensions—for every Census Commissioner with the duty ofbe amp ly sufficien t to convince the and tbe primitive church did not unde r- Chronicles 1>f the Kings of Israel " oerat. He dwells with special delight apopular oracle. Therefore , when royalty congregation is, after a fashion , collecting vital statistics relating to thepublic that everything is all righ t . stand the sayings and intentions of Je- (Ibid. xiv. 19 to 25; King? xv.„ 31); on Deborah on account of her brillian t strugg led against democracy, as was the a famil y—there is no need , nor is it 1

"^ „?° jf

Un

*ted States.

' —~ sus. and you now, by your critical acu- and "The Book of the Chronicles of the genius and God-inspired patriotism. <"»«> in the time of CaVid. il waa nece8 " ri 8ht for aDV one' directly intere sted or ^J ciroulara 0f "^uii y toWe publish a series of articles headed men , understand these things best ; or Kin gs of Judah " (1. Kings xiv. 5). Gideon , J ephtha and Sams on, heroic »ary to neutralize the effectof thatbook , not , to draw the general public into be sent toall H ebrew congreg ation s and

"The Sour pes of Theology." etc , being an you must maintai n those sayings were In Chronicles , the two latter source , men of the people, true to Israel' s cause, which was done by the addition of that confidence throug h the medium of the organizations . The B'nai B'rith , throug hintroduction to Sacred Scri ptures , chiefl y falsely attributed to Jesus by Gentile are referred to (1. Chronicles ix. 1 to 2 ar« his central figures , while he barel y appendix. newspapers , by means of anony mous

r^68

^ ^"J p B,.d

n' and . theto the end of exciting discussion on this Christians in the third or fourth century, Chr on. xxxvi. 8), that is up to King J oi- mentions the names of most of the 8. Joshua having undoubtedl y been letters or otherwis e. Dirty linen should Wolf ] have

^caused offidal ehcularT tovery important subject. I fone has any- in which case they certainl y prove »kim , exactl y as the author of King , jud ges, and has more to say of the written prior to Judges , it was certainl y be washed in private , away from the be sent through their respective Grand

thing to say against our system , and he nothin g as to what Jesus did , said or doefl i to which he also refers in the filial devotion of Jephtha 's dau ghter compiled and finished in its present Baze of any looker on. If there are Lodges to every subordinate organiia-writes it out in a scholarly manner , we believed ; or you must admit that terms "The Book of the Kings of Ju dah than of the judges governing forty- form in the period between Joshua and P°ints of differen ce and debate which it H0"

^80/" as ascertaine d ^ many of

are willing to publish and debate the your canon of exegesis is fault y, in «d Israel " (2 Chron. xvi. 11), in five years prior to Jephth a. He liter- Samuel. Its style being that of Moses, " bought necessary to discuss publicl y, Sd ^to lSi tfljffSmatter , however contrary it may be to spite of all your learning and sagacity, the terms D'pSan iflD and calls it all y pours out his abhorrence of the which is not the case in Judges , it points tnere is, in every denomin ation , the re- officers. Preside nt Bien officially saysour own views. We want that matter Anyhow , it does not appear to us a solid (xxvi. 27) "A Midrask of the Book of monarchical , anti-theocratic institution to a disciple of Moses, and this could "6IOU 8 Press that offers its columns, in his circular: "Theinformatio n calledsifted , and to establish , as scientificall y foundation upon which to build history ; Kings."! Besides which the author in narratin g the story of the first wall Jlave been Phineas , the high pri est, 1'he public press is no place for these f<^r by the census official circular letterscertai n , whatever of truth there is in it. and Dr. Schwab announces his tr eatise of Chronicles refers to the books of usur per , Abimelech , the son of Gideon of whom the tradition admits, that he *hin «B; ThiB can only bring religion

u^ted ^taS ^ T Hih ^f °f 'b

*We present the case as far as it is sup- on "The Sabbath in Histoby." Our prop hets who wrote the cotemporary and a concubine , who is the first fratri- wrote the close of the 000k ; consequent- mto discredit. There are scoffers suffl- promptI y furnis h„." ^rfflid^nt Wolfported by the evidence of Jewish doou- time , hitherto , has not permitt ed an ex- history of certain kings. He mention * oide after Cain , in sacred history, much ly he wrote also the last chapter of Clent wno are eager- to seize upon every 8ays in his communi cation "that tbement s and traditions , and there exists aminalion into the detailed arguments Samuel , Nathan and Gad as writers of more crimin al than Adam 's f irst born . Deuteronomy, if it was not written by appearance of this kind , and to exclaim members oi the 0. K. S. B. should feelneither document nor tradition in this of the book , and we can only say that the history of David (1. Chron. xxix, His supporters and partisans are pagan- Joshua , as maintained in the traditions. tnat religion always arouses passion ,

^a'

lfied ^M * themselves called uponconnection reaching back as far into an- the argumentation of Dr. Schwab , to be 29); Nathan , Ahiah Hashiloni and Eddi wed rebels . The treasures in support of There is no rule holding in the Canon of bate , intolerance and fanaticism . Noth- gtates^overm Veanof d

d

"t^

ftiquity as those of the Hebrews. We appreciated , must be read with more at- having written the history of Solomon , bis cause are taken from the temple of Biblical criticism to set aside the facts , in8 g°od haB eVer come from it or any per8 pnal views, be proud °to be onargue historicall y, and not a priori as the tention and philosophical thought than (2. Chron.xi. 29); Shemaiah and Eddo— Baal. He is the first blood thirsty despot that Phineas was the last editorof Joshu a, ever will. the roll of recognized usefuj institutionscritics do. Still , whenever we shall hav e we have th us far been able to bestow the latter perhaps iden tical with Eddi— "»' Israel' s history ; within three years of that Samuel wrote Jud ges, and an For the good name and fair fame of of their common country ." The Seore-placed the whole system before the upon it. We will tr y to do so to the best having written the history of Rehabeam his rei gn he slays thousands of his fol- anonymous author in the Davidian rell 8">n itself, if for no other reason , ^ J*'/*' .L.' ??• 3' E: 8- B., hasreader we will consider the a priori matr of our ability. ' (Ibid. xii. 15) ; the same Edd o wrote lowers , to be himself slain at la.t by the time wrote the appendix with the there Bho|>ld and must be exceeding f od *™l a ^irTuri sdSon

0*1^? otherter of the critics in so far aa it is con- » ? » also the history of Abiah , the son and hands of a woman. None of the rei gn- avowed intention of counterac ting oare excised ere there be any rus hing branch es will do likewise. District No. 6,trary to our system. Therefore , all ob- wterar y Notes. ing jud ges is blamed by the author , among the- people the democratic lnto Print witn the privat e affairs of I. O. B. B., th rough its Secretary at Chi-

jections to our own presen tations are The Aramaic section of the Corpus In- ^ 'Chronicles 11. ss. C"1D1D finest Through out the book the theocratic tendencies of the book , the prevailing any reli gious fraternit y, large or small , cago, in his official letter to lodges of hiswelcome to us, and will be fully consid- tcriptionum Semitiear mn, which is to be '3l Dk< 1*' democrat , the invincible man of right- sympathies for the tribe of Benjamin and ere there be any spreading before Jr "!™0*: 8*t? ' '' The inf orma tion calledered on their own merits , especiall y if

^^* *>££%% £ £1^£Z£^Z% eousness , speaks the blunt and stern and the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead. *

public at

large of

the difficultie s o^^mpor tT to

' our

* racT^any opponent will show that our dog- of an ient in801.iptionB found bv M 0UT book Kln 8»- «s m tho pteco referred to and language of a heroic age. a . aineren ces wnioh may chan ce to should be prom ptly furnished to A. S.

matic statements are not supported by Benedite in the mountain ranees of b,eB'nnl "g °,f DOXt c1aP ter ' »• mtho1 ot chronJ - 6. Entirely differen t are the language «&« the author 1. Htetor , of the b«ellt_ N.- f™ e *?. "'""" within the bounds of Solomons , Special Agent VitalStatis tics,T • . . . . .. .. .. . "a"«:u'" 3 1U l"« mountain ranges 01 cles copies literally Irom 2 Kings xll. M and x!t , , ,

«j umt,™. »re ™ i.iiBu»j,i, tlon,Appe ndU to PeriodII. i"Llterat nre ,"Alb»HT > any religious communit y. Census Offics Wna hin»f«« T» r> "Jewish documents or traditions , or that Sinai. ,.._ and tendency of the two appendices , evi- wm Da vid Pn innan v n^f„ • .Wa8b mBt9n- D¦ C -l r " - '" ^" imison. Upon inquiry at headquarters as to