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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. 
 

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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. 
 
 
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 "Even though thy outcasts be at the altermost part 
 of the heavens, from there will the Eternal thv God 
 
4 — 
 
 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- 
 
— G — 
 
 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 
 
— s 
 
 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 
 
— 10 — 
 
 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 
 
— n — 
 
 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. 
 
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