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ZIONISM.

A SERMON DELIVERED
BY THE

Rev. Meldola de Sola,

ftr MitSTTtEAL.

OX THE SEVENTH DAY OF PASSOVER.

.■)f)»;o.

KL'LII.I.SHKIi in ItKyUEST
niid liedicatfil tu

THE MONTREAL ZIONIST SOCIETY.

ZIONISM.

SERMON^ DELIVERED IX THE SPANISH AND
rORTUOTESE SYNaOOOUE, MONTREAL,
ON THE SE\'EXTII DAY OF PASS-
OVER, 50(30,

BY TlIK ItkV. MKI.noLA I)E SOLA.

" Vov not ill liastc' kIuiII ye ifo lortli, and not in
fliiflit bIiuII ye ifo ; for tlii> EttTiiul tfoi^th het'ore you,
aiul tlie God of Itsruel will ho your gatiu'rer."

-.leuiuh, LI I, r.'.

11 tyju- of UrnvVr- rcivivulrt in the hoary \rMl uiid in the
UiiVrt yet to ooinc.

When our aiiccrttorH groiuu'd under the tyranny of
the Eu'vptiaiis, to look forwunl to delivorunee floemed
to he hoi.ing ugaiuHt hope. And yet even it' at one
time they <lid douht the accMinicy ot the ghvd titlingH
tliat (U'liveraneo was actually at liand, they never
ubaiidoiifd hope in itn ultimate aceompliishmcnt. In
the reiriilar reeurrenee of nature'^ weasona they hehcld
a literal tultiltnent of the DivinepromiHC to Noah that
while the earth hwted harveHt should follow eeed-tinie
and heat follow cold, that summer and winter and
day atid nij^ht whould not ceane ; and by this regular
recurrence of light after nhadow, of life after apparent
death, they were confirmed in the taith which impell-
ed theiu to believe that the God wIjo had promised to
deliver them would fulfil His word x;ven as He redeem-
ed the promise made to Noah.

To us who live thirty two centuries hiter, with what
additional significance is nature's revival fraught!
We have seen all the jwwer and ingenuity of man ex-
ercised since the destruction of tl»e Temple to effect
our extermination. But as nature simply sleeps dur-
ing %vint»!r to burst forth into all the splendor of spring,
80 has out nation merely slept during the long winter
of its dispersion, bearing within it, even as it did at
the time of the Egyptian bondage, those germs of
national life wliich but await the fiat of the Almighty
to break forth into all the glory of revived nationality.
To emphasize a fact upon which we have repeat-
edly dwelt, Israel, the smallest and least powerful of
ancient nations lives to celebrate this the 3212th. an-
niversary of its birth, while all the mighty empires of
antiquity, without exception, have been swept off the
world's \'tage by the relentless hand of time. In this
miraculous circumstance (for it is in very truth the
miracle of miracles) not only have we irrefutable testi-

nionv to the ovor-niliiii; proviileuce of the Alnii^'liy,
but we liavo a literal tultilnieiit of the prophecii-M re-
latitu; to our dispersion mid preservation.

.cr;'~^s '.- ':n t cr« t^'z ',tr.h cr.^:'r c\"',^'*:

"And yet lor all thin, though they be in the land of
their enemies, I will not cast tlietn away, neither will
I loathe then:, to make an end oCflu-m, to break my
covenent with them, for I am tlc) Eternal their God."

Xot oidy, then, does tlieciroumstance that our mar-
vellous survival evidenees the work of an almighty
and all-wise Being lead us to eonelude that this all-
wise Being would not have preserved us through all
the trials and dangers of thousands of years except
for an end whose glory w-M be fully eommensurate
with 80 stupendous a miraele, but this literal fullil-
ment of the prophecies relating to our dispersion and
preservation compels us to infer that the proj.hecies
foretelling our restoration in the land given to Abra-
ham, Isnac and Jacob and their (lescendants will be
fulHlled with the same fidelity; for it is inconceivable
that the word of God can be true in the om instance
and false in the t)ther.

And what is the character of these jirophecies :i -
lating to our future? Is there any and)iguity. any
uncertainty about them? Do llu-y leave room for
doubt, for dift'erence of construction, difference in in-
terpretion? On the contrary, the are expressed with
the utmost clearness. By way of illustratiojj, let us
cite the words which Moses addressed to our ancestors
immediately after he had foretold the very dispersion
wliicli we are now experiencing.

1 t^ IM - -

-nt: TT' ^

ns -.'i'v -.'i's |-,sn %s -'rrs r, -s';r- -r-*

-rrcv

l-U I

"Even though thy outcasts be at the altermost part
of the heavens, from there will the Eternal thv God

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Lnith'T thfu uM.l iVuin tl.riv will U.' take ti.eo, and
tho KtiTi.al U.y (Jo.l ^vill l-ni.ir tlu-r unto the laml
whirl, tliy lutluTH iK.HM'H»*f(l aiul thou »*lialt i..hk(>wr it,
un.l II.' will dn ^'ood uuto tlu-c an<l multiply th.'o
ahovo thv fathers." In thin insi.iiv.l im-ssaj,'.' nf our
j:,vat l.'irVlator, we haw a pi-rtVctly i-lmir, portVi-tly
T-xplirit '>tat.nu-iit ..f tlio future in store Tor us. Tlu"
Aliuightv Hinisolf (ledarort that (Uir nation shall a-
.rain posHOss its ancestral bon.e, an<l not all the power
a.ul in.n.nuitv ..f man. nor all the seeptieism of our
own .le^.'nerates, ei-.v. i-revent the literal an.l eompleto
fulfilment of this promise.

la the dreary at;es of our dispersion it was faith ni
the fulfilment (if this promise, and eonseciu.-nt hope in
the restoration of Unu'V^ ^'lory, that h.rtitie.l our
fathers to withstand iHmIs and pers....ntions nnd. r
whieh any other people would have sunk. Sustained
by this hope and faith, they were enabled t(. (leiy a
world ccmibined airainst them, enable<l, phoenix-like,
to rise into new life from the ashes of devastated
homes and ruined fortunes, i-nabled to outlive tli-se
who plotted their extermination. And if there were
anything- that eould stren.irthi'U this taith an.l li..pe,
it was their eelebration of t lie Passover. Assmd.lint;
in thrir (Ihettohi.mes, and often even in subterranean
c-rypts, to observe the Seder, they telt that ,.ven
thouub sorely tried by perseeution they had not been
entirelv abandoned by Heaven, for they reali/..'d that^
tlieir very eelebration of the festival was evidenee of
providential proteetion and iruhlanee, and thus in-
spired with faith and sustained by hope, they looked
forward i'ontidently to the future, exelaiming with
ini[.lieit trust in tlie tidelity and immutability of the
Almiii'bty :

At 1

(resent

•- sv-sz "szr- r:u- szr srr;

we ei

k-brato the festival here, next

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yptir may we colchnitc it in tlio laixl of Isnu-I."
And wo who Clin ivk-Wnito tlio HcmIit without dn-ad
of th«^ iiitnisiuii of H hlo.idthirr'ty mob nn in fonncr
tinios, wo who can aMscnihlc at that tiniedionoured
and hcantiful t!ort'in(»ny without fear of tho dial>olical
"blood aciMHation" heard in i-c rtain partK of Enrope
t()-(Uiy, we wIkwo lives and liln-rties are protected an<l
Hafe<;uarded in thin jjjIorioiH Britidli Ein{)irf: Shidl
we allow ease and prosperity to remU'r uh ijnlift'erent
to our nation's fnttire? Shall we permit our faith in
Israd'H destiny to deifenerate into empty wordn of
admiration for our people's history — "empty words"
beeause stamped witli iiidiU'erenee as reji^artls the
luistenini; of our national restoration? Shall we pray
daily for the revival of Zion's srlory, but inwardly
hope that it may not occur in our time beeause of the
ease and e(imfi>rt .>t"present ciiiiditioii, ?

N'(tt onlv Would ihisbe the \erv acme of selfisl

iness

(for it Would iurnorc llic fact that some Heven millionH
of our brethren are 'he vic;tims of per-;ecution mor(> or
IcsB virulent), but it would evidence a i^iosn material-
ism ullcrly at vaiiance with the spirit of .luilaism.
Ft Would |irove that we failed to appreciate the splen-

lor ot our promis(

'd fnt

Ure, that we wet

e uicapal)!

underslanding the glory of Israel's predicted n-tora-

tion.

And here let me observe with all [tossible einpliasis,
tliat ho{ie for the reliabilifatioii ot <iur people iti tlie
IIol v Laml is not in anv wav inconsistent witli our duty
as loyal citizens of tile Jb'ilisli Mnipirc, nor with thelove
wo bear the land that gives us a happy home. An
eminent English Zionist, who has proved that loy;i,f\
to Zion and loyally to Englainl are iiot incompatible
by serving as Chicfoi' Stat!' to one of the lirilish gen-
erals in tbeprcx lit war, once observed : "A man may
love both bis father and his mother. Palestine is my

tathorland, Euirhmd mv motherland.

This i^

a per-

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feet doti.ntion of our rosition as British Jews. PaloB-
i„. i. u..r tatluM-lan.l ; EL-land, tlu- British Enii-iro
our motherhuul. Our mothc-rUuul is prosperous ami
miL^hty ; our fatherUina, ahis, has hocu prostrated hy
centuries of rnisruh., and is deharred from prosperity
by the survival of medi.^val conditions, ^ow ove
for <mr motlierUind does not demand tliat we stifle love
for ..ur fatluTland. Nay, if w' were so materialistic as
to be incapable of lovin.t,^ the land of ..ur fathers and
interesting ourselves in its ^.elfare because we did not
bappen to be .lomicilcd within its borders, .mralK-c-
tlon for the m.-therland mi-ht well he regarded with
Buspicion. For of what ideal sentiment arc ;natcnal-
ists capable ? As seliish materialists, ..ur h.ve tor Eng-
land w..uld n..t he a genuine sentiment inspired by a.l-
mirath.n for the ....l.ility ..f British instituti..ns a.id the
upri<Mitness of the British government, it wouM simp y
be a feeling l.ase.l upon material prosperity which wouhl
vanish the moment that ].n.sperity disappeared t
follows, theref..re, that the very i.h.vlism which impels
,„ to U.vc our fatherland, a country m which we have
,u,t tlu' slightest material intei-'st, is a guarantee that
our K.ve forKn-lan.l is not a feeling merely hased upon
Bi-lf-int.Mvst, hilt a ua'iiuine sentiment of atlection m-
Bpire.l hv the nobility ..f British laws ami British in-
stitution's, and the fidelity with which Kngland cham-
pions the eternal prin.-iples of justice and righteousness.
But how i8l.>vef(.rour fatherland to be attested? By
simplvpraving f..r its restorati..n to the glory ot form-
er times'' 'By sitting with tblded hamls, and leaving
it entirelv to Pr.>vidence to ett'cct this revival? That
., l-u-e and influential an.l rai-idly increasing number
of our CO religh.nists in every part ..1 the gl.^he .lo not
h..ld such an'upini.... is slu.wn by the extraordinary
growth ..{ th.' /i..nibt movement. Zi..msm, m th..

. ^ 1 ,. ,,..^". t,.i-in- vields ti. no si-hool

in'ereiit riCCeptiti -•■!t-' •' - .1--..

ofthought in reverence and pn.found admiration tor

the marvels wrotiirht by Pmvidence. But Zionism
mainhiiiiH tluit Trovideiice expects ns to employ the
faculties, the powers and the oj.portuiiities with whieh
we have been blessed in the lurtheranee of the eiul for
which we pray. Zionism does not underestimate nor
undervalue the eiKcaey and potency ot prayer. But
Zionism, protests that j.rayer and trust in Providence
must not bo used as a cloak to cover indifterence and
apathy as regards the hastening of our natioiuil restor-
ation.

On former occasions, in addressing you upon this
subject, 1 have dwelt almost exclusively upon what
has been termed "the first plank in thJ Zionist plat-
form ;"' that is, the securing in Palestine of "a publidv
legally assured home" for those of our people who are
the victims of a faiiati(,-al intolerance more in kecpitig
with the dark tigcs than with tlu' period in which we
live. The mere fact that Zioiii^-^m has prepared an
elaborate plan for their relief— a plan involving the
conversion of the desobite areas in Palestine into
smili'.g centres of agricultural activity, and the trans-
formation of the impoverished cities of our iatherlan<l
into busy hives of mechanical and commercial indus-
try — is in itself an all-sufhcieni reason wl .lie move-
ment should receive the syinpathy and support of
every Israelite who is not indifferent to the w '*Ure
of his brethern, and who loves the home of his ances-
tors.

These may he termed the economic, the philan-
thropic and the sentimental aspects of the movemci.t.
But there is also the religious phase of Zionism ; and
it is to this that I would more especially direct your
attention to-day.

The more I contemplate this extraordinary move-
ment, the more I reflect ujion the wonders it has
wrought since its ineepti^jn : unitinsr on.r people us
they have not been united since the destruction of the

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Temple ; bringing thorn togotlior from every part ot
the globe, to meet in what is reully u .Tewish rarlia-
inent, as thev have not been gathered in representative
assembly sinee the downfall of 'erusaleni ; interesting
in Jewish alfairs, and reelaiining to religious observance
men to whom Judaism had beeom" a dead letter : the
more I ponder over these marvels aeeomplished by
the movement within a few years, nay, within a
comiuirativcly I'rw months, the more iirmly do I
become eonvlnced that Zionism is an instrument in the
hand of Providence to pave the wa;/ for that restoration
for which we i)ray, and which lie in whose hands are
the destinies of nations has so emphatically declared
shall be fully accomplished.

In reviving the material prosperity of Palestine,
Zionism will create the economic and social conditions
which nuist necessarily precede the iinal restoration.
In uniting our people, otherwise kept ajiart by con-
tlieting local interests, and in winning hack to religious
observance men who have hitherto regar led religion
as a thing not to be thought of seriou-^ly, Zionism is
projiagating those sentiments of brotherhood and fos-
tering that ri'verence iov the Torah which, our relig-
ion teaches, will be indispensable to the ultimate
restoration of our nation's gloiy.

That the complete achievement ot the aims of Zion-
ism cannot be etfeeted in a few years, nor even in a
lew decades, doe> not detract from the merit of the
movement, nor from its claim to our sympathy and
support, (tri'at movements of world signilicance are
not eonsummated with the suddenness of magic : and
Zionism, which has to undo the evils and wrongs of
nearlv two thousand years, which has to reclaim a
conntrv subjected to every baiu't'ul inlluence for ages,
and which has to elevate myriads of [)eo[ile whose

»i^,i.^liM>-! K.... 1....... ,.rll.;lni<l In- ilitiboliivll Ill'l'SiCIl t lOM

extendinir over centuries, i-annot in reason be expected

to achieve complete success within a brief period of
time.

Ill anticipation of these difficulties, and with the
knowledjre that such obstacles would stand in the way
of Israel's ultimate restoration, the Almiirjity has
forewarned us :

" For not in haste shall yo sz .rth, and not in fli^^ht
shall ye go." Our final rest. ;ition, it is thus divinely
declared, is not to be efFcct'-d suddenly. We mav
pray (and we shall continue to pray) for the revival of
Zion's glory ; but our prayers, we are here given to
understand, will not be answered by any sudden revol-
ution in the policy of nations, nor by any magical
transformation in the world of thought. Gmdimlhj,
but none the less surely on that account, is the restor-
ation to be effected. By progressive steps is our jour-
ney Zionward to j)roceed. Ks* rS"',' ^'n h^ h^n'i 'Z'^^
p" jTI Ct:':'.s " They shall proceed from strength to
strength to appear before God in Zion," exclaims the
Psalmint. And when the way has thus been paved,
and the conditions demanded by the Torah have been
iultilled as far as it is within liunuin power to fulfil
them, then will come the Prince of the J louse of
Bavid who will gather our outcasts from the four cor-
ners of the earth, and complete the restoration of our
nation's glory as in days of yore.

We have said that the deliverance from the bondage
of Egypt is a type of the redemption to come ; and hi
so far as the former followed a long period during
which redem[»tion seemed hopeless, the analogy be-
tween the two is perfect. But in other respects there
is an essential difiereiice between them. The deliv-
erance from Kgypt was aecom[ilished suddenly, «r
Cr-i- |-,S2 r.X-i^ prsn; " For in haste didst thou go
forth from th- land of EgypL • But oftiie re.icmption

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ye shall not go iurth in lm«tu." The reason for this
(lif Keren ce may he readily explained.

Scarcely had tlie Egyptiaji^ driven our ancestors
forth when they repented of the act, and wished to
re-capture and re-enslave them. The redemption of
the future will he permanent and undisputed. The
deliverance from Kgypt afi'ected only one country, and
our people dwelt exclusively in that country. The
redemption of the future will influence the destinies of
our people in every part of the glohe, and it will afiect
the whole world. It will he the most significant event
in the annals of the human race. In the words of the

Talmud : ]-,s: E'tT'i* '2 :sn2:u? crs rr.'h: p2' cv b'n:

''The day of the gathering of the exiles (of Israel) will
he as great as the day on which the heavens and the
earth were created." With this es.sential difference
hetwecn the redemption of the past and the redemption
of the future, we can readily understand why the
laHe»' is not to he accomplished with the haste which
characterized the exit from Eg}pt.

While we know that nothing is too difficult for the
Almisrhtv, we also know that He does not em|)loy
supernatural agencies where natural means will sutHce ;
and in the text wo are given very clearly to understand
that it is hy natural means that tlie way is to he paved
for that stui>endous event which will hring to a close
the dreary ages of our disperr^ion, and terminate forever
the wronf-s, the persecutions and the unspeakahle
miseries that were inaugurated with the destruction of
our natiomd sanctuary.

In days of yore, when (^ideon was summoned to de-
liver our ancestors from the Midianites, he asked the
angel who appeared to him for a sign to convince him
thit he had really heen divinely commissioned toeftect
the deliverance ; and the sign was graciously vouch-
safed to him. We need not ask for a sign to assure
us of the merit of Zionism, for one has heen

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already gn.nt.,1. I,, tlu- inspire,! rnos^a^o of Moso.

of he vorM, we are t„l<l that at the tin.e ot" the
0Btorat,on we are to be more nn.nerous than i„ torn.er
<lays. jnzs- I2n-i ''And Ho will n.ultiplv th.-c
a>ove thy fathers." Now if we reflect .hat 'th'e J.u .
i«h popuhition ot the world to-day is about twiee as
great as U was in the time of Ki,.,. Davi.l, th. n,.,s,
glonou. penod „. our history; and tiiis notwithstan.l-
i»g the unknown fate of the ten tribes, an.I the
centune. of ruinous persecution to whieh we hav.
been subjected; we cannot fail to recoirnize in this
most s.gniHeant circumstar.ce a veritabU. siirn that
1 rovKence is preparing us grad.u.lly and in a perfeetiv
natural manner for the I.,ng hop.,l-f.,r and Ion:,
prayed-for restoration. And as lVoviden<-e has «-ive'n
ustlns 8,gn of gradual and natural preparation iC the
rovival of Z.on's glory, we need hav. no fc-ar that we
shall be irreverently attempting to encroach upon the
domam of Providence when we emp.loy the feculties,
lie abdt.es and the opportunities with which we have
been blessed in laboring, in our humble wav, for the
same glorious end.

From a purely religious point of view, the.,, Zion-
ism has a most sacred, most imperative claim u.K.n
the sympathy and support of everv men.ber of the
Congregation of Jacob.

By a monstrous but characteristic perversion of the
truth, an apostate from Judaism, who wished to save
our souls by converting us into renegades from Israel's
Hubhme faith, recet.tly stated in this city that Zionism
^yas u sign of the times foreshadowing a general adop-
tion by the fblh.wers of Judaism of the religion of
their neighbors. Zionism has been frequently mis-
represented, but the misrepresentation has vet to be
coined that can vie with this in unblushing and in-
solent falsehood.

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Zionism is the Jew's dechiratiuii to the world rhat
he has not lost faitli iu tlie i)()wer and unalterable
determination of the Almigi»ty to fulfil His reiterated
promise to restore the children of Israel to the land of
their fathers. Zionism is a vigorous expression of the
Jew's belief that his peo[>le have not been preserved
for thousands of years, while oppressor after oppressor
lias been crushed, for so inglorious an end as gradual
disintegration at the hands of conversionist mission-
aries, who, being powerless in manly, straightforward
and logical argument, resort to tactics that place a
premium upon deceit, falsehood and hypocrisy. Zion-
ism is a [»r<)claniation of the Jew's conviction that
Avhile England, the United States, and otic or two
other eidightened countries uphold the principles of
justice and righteousness, the "peace and good-will"
preached elsewhere in the name of religion is practised
in the form of fanatical intolerance and persecution,
and that tlie only remedy for this survival of mediav
val bigotry is to secure for the Jewish people "a piib-
hcly legally assured home" in the land of their fathers.

Can any one of you be indifferent to the success of
such a movement? Can you allow the noble men
V. ho arc devoting every energy to tliis sacred cause to
labor and struggle on without your sym[)athy ? Prove
that you can rise above the materialism which con-
cerns itself only with the welfare of the individual,
prove that you are not deaf to the appealing cries of
your less fortunate brethren, prove that you are worthy
of your nation's glorious past and of its still more glo-
rious future : j^rove this by supporting as far as lies
within your power the great Zionist organization,
whirh, from the very nature of its constitution, is the

NATIONAL OKi'.ANl/.ATION OK THK .IKWISII FEOI'Li;, the OUe

body iu existance which speaks and is acting for the
Jews of evei-y part of the globe.

And if the complete fruition of the aims of Zionism

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eomc not in vcnr day, rcinember that your people's
rodoiiiptioii is not to l)e jwcornplislu'd siKldonly, .s^ ';
•SiT pZr,Z that "not ifi liastc will ye go forth,"" rc^:22-
prS", ah that "not in flitrht will yo go ;" but that even
though the restoration for whi.-h you pray he yet dis-
tant, and the preparation for it by su^-h n'atunil agen-
eies as Zionism be apparently slow, it will none the
less surely be eftected, n C3^iE^ -?n ^2 "for the Kter-
nal goetli before you,"— He who niaketh straight the
crooked ways will snioothen yoiii path, 'r'^N Z22CSC":
^s-r- "and the (Jod of Israel will be your gatherer"
— lie who hath [)re8erved you so wondrously will
assemble you or your posterity to worship Him -r:2
u7a""i*; S'-rpr; "on the holy mountaiji \u Jerusalem."
Amen. Amen.