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The Southern Israelite
()u Impious Age Needs a Creed of
belief and a Code of Morals
(Continued from Page 20)
ipting in the knowledge that
have not emancipated our-
iii discontent and restlessness,
tin- hope that we can place in
pattern the broken fragments
niporarv life. If we have scorned
.rcssed the values of faith, we
predate that they now deserve
; rtunity to lead us anew,
new credo for us moderns must
,i belief in a Personal God, a
intelligence, being and guide
n the universe and controls,
moderns can believe in the re-
-I immortality of the soul. From
\ man comes; in it he lives and
rp rnity he returns. Even as the
!11a 1 soul in life is personal, it
ms after death through influ*
memory, and existence; it is one
ii the vast unity of all life,
moderns can believe in the cf-
\ of prayer. Through prayer we
i associate ourselves with the cter-
urposcs of the universe, and gain
.trnigth and wisdom for their achieve-
“\\ < moderns can believe in the free-
i of the will. Through personal
i and resolution, man can harness
energies to the tasks which chal
lenge him through the summons of
Man may not be wholly free,
is not wholly slave, and can
'•operate with God as companion and
friend in the labors of the universe.
Me moderns can believe in the per-
eetilnlity of the individual, the com
mit y and society. Through cver-
imiing revelation, man’s spiritual
ure and insight unfold themselves.
iMtory, literature, and experience
of mankind are a demonstration of
the handiwork of God. Man shares in
their evolution and their destiny.
“We moderns can believe in chosen
individuals and nations to whom spe
cial powers of intuition and vision are
granted. No one person or race has a
monopoly on religious powers, but all
participate therein according to their
particular merit and effort.
“We moderns can believe in the tri
umph of good over evil. We can ac
cept the captaincy of the moral law
which guides all life to ultimate and
perfect good. Man should not submit
to evil, but regard it as real and en
deavor with all his facilities to trans
form it into good.
“We moderns can believe in the es
sential orderliness, oneness, harmony,
and beauty of the universe. We can
believe in one God, one moral law, and
one humanity.
“Our credo of belief and our code
of morals need not he inflexible. They
can serve as a basis for our considera
tion and thought. They can be our
first effort at systematization and or
der in our mental and emotional life.
Unless we now attempt to attain to
stability, the new generation will grow
into maturity without pilot ship and
without moral judgment. We are tired
of skepticism and bored with the nega
tive approach to faith. Reason which
Santayana so ably discusses has a role
to play in religion, but it can keep pace
with the intuition of Bergson, and
both achieve a genuine religious renais-
sence for distracted and desparinig
moderns.”
—♦
B'nai B'rith’s Activities
(Continued from Page 33)
through a gift by the entire
M ider Scope Committee of
h rith has made a fund of $250,-
'ailable for housebuilding in Pal-
Some thirty houses have been
ted and others are in the pro-
"• construction in B’nai B’rith
City, made possible by this
Not only does this project pro-
helter of a modern type, but
ters a first means of livelihood
<ny of the newly arrived immi-
to Palestine.
nservative estimate of the total
' ni ade bv B’nai B’rith for the
ar " just ended is $3,000,000 of
approximately half was made
District and subordinate lodges
!i! by the Constitution Grand
1 he sources of this revenue
an membership dues and from
r aised through the efforts of
' ider Scope Committee.
ider Scope Committee is cotn-
Alfred M. Cohen, Cincinnati;
Rubinow, Cincinnati; Nathan
'tein, Springfield, Mass.; Louis
J. Borinstein, Indianapolis, Ind.; Judge
Joseph L. Kun, Philadelphia, Pa.; R.
E. Gutstadt, San Francisco; Henry A.
Alexander, Atlanta, Ga.; and Joseph
Morse, Nashville, Tenn.
The Wider Scope Committee pro
vides funds for the B’nai B rith Hillel
Foundation, Aleph Zadik Aleph Anti-
Defamation League, Mexican Bureau
and Palestine Housebuilding. Over
15,(XX) donors have contributed to the
Wider Scope Campaign through which
a great work is being done regularly
for the Jews of America.
Today, as on October 13. 1843, al
most eighty-seven years ago, when the
Order was first established, B’nai
B’rith stands as a unifying and cul
tural influence for the whole of Jewry.
It has clung closely to the ideals of
its founders who, in the words of Dr.
Boris D. Bogen, “conceived it as a
society which, based upon the teach
ings of Judaism, would be free in its
deliberations from anything doctrinal
and dogmatic and which ignores the
geographic origins of its members.
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