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Vol. IV. I Winston-Salem, N. C., January 19, 192'! No. 19
MR. A. SHAPIRO LECTURES ON JEWISH
TALMUD AT MEETING OF HISTORY CLUB
BISHOP RONDTHALER
LECTURES IN ATLANTA
At the meeting of tlie Historj-
Club Wednesday night, Mr. Shapiro
inadu an intensely interesting ad
dress on the subject of the Jewish
people. Mr. Shaj)iro first spoke of
the fact that peo])le are taking a
more intelligent and friendly in
terest in the Jews. He said he be
lieved it the beginning of the ful
fillment of God’s promise to them I
recorded in the sixtieth and sixty-
second chapters of Isaiali. He
quoted these words: “And the
Gentiles shall see thy righteous
ness, and all kings, the glory: and
thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of tlie I,on! siiall
name.” Tlie time is coming when we
shall see the brotherhood of man I
>ind tlu' fatherhood of God.
Mr. Sliapiro said tliat the Jews
suffered not from being known, but
from being unknown. If we knew
their famil}^ life with its purity and
devotion, and their eager desire for
justice and education we should
I'espeet the Jewish race more high
ly. One reason the Jews are no
better understood is that they are a
peculiar people — Hebrew in
thought, customs, and religion—as
God through Moses had command
ed them to be. As with the Gulf
Stream one drop of tlie stream is
not distinguishable from any other
Water drop of the ocean but the
current is distinct from the sea
about it, so with the Hebrew people
one individual is not peculiar but
the race is se]>arate from all others. I
Tlie world has not known the
•Jews because they have been segre
gated, persecuted, and falsely ac
cused. Here in America these four
charges are brought against them,
that they are non-productive, selfish.
Unpatriotic, and foreign to our
country. Mr. Shapiro answered
eacli accusation. He said that manj'
of his peoj)le are jiroductive citi
zens, even if you narrowed the word
to mean agricultural, for there are
■n this country sixty thousand
Jewisli farmers. It is true Jews do
not till soil wliere there is none to
till as in Russia where they are not
allowed to own a foot of land.
Along other lines, notably industry,
they are leading producers. In
answer to the second charge Mr.
Sliapiro spoke of tlie work of the
Jewish hospitals and the gifts of
the Jewish philanthropists. One of
th ese benefactors is Mr. Strauss,
"'ho established milk stations—all
Over New York—a step that re
sulted in the reduction of child
niortality twenty-five per cent.
Then Mr. Shaj)iro presented their
claims to recognition as good citi
zens through their service and long
residence. Jews were among
'-'Olumbus’ crew and among the
early settlers. He cited instances of
their services to our country from
the time of the Revolutionary War
to the World War. In the late wars,
the Jews, numerically only three
per cent of the population, furnish
ed five per cent of the soldiers in
cluding no small number of volun
teers.
Why is not their work more wide-
b' acknowledged? If a Jew does a
good deed it is simply said that Mr.
Levine, or whoever he is, has done
-ueh a thing; but if he commits a
Crime it is always said that Levine,
the Jew, is the: malefactor.
Tlie Hebrew race has given to
civilization great musicians, philo
sophers, writers, and greatest of all
to the Gentile world, J esus Christ.
To understand this people that has
done so much we must know their
literature which . embodies their
thoughts, ideals, and aspirations.
Their two sacred books are the Old
Testament arid the Talmud.
In Hebrew the word, “Talmud”
means learning or oral tradition.
This work called ' the Talmud con
tains the Jewish ' laws, traditions,
and theology. It was a library of
of six hundred books but it has been
reduced to sixty-nine volumes
which are grouped in two sections.
The collector of the first part of
the Talmud was a contemporary of
Christ. From the humble occupa
tion of woodcutter he rose to be the
great teacher of his people. Many
stories showing his 'forbearance and
wisdom are preserved. One is that a
stranger said* to the rabbi that, if
the rabbi could explain to him the
Jewish laws and teachings in the
short time he could stand on one
foot, he would embrace the Jewish
religion. The rabbi answered:
“Wiiatsoever is ,■ unpleasant unto
thee do not unto they fellow men. ’
The stpanger was' cojiyerted. Be
sides tliese stories of the l;fe of the
first editor of the Talmud, there are
many of his saying preserved; as,
“VVlio is rich? he who is conten^d; ’
and “Who is wise? he who reads the
future.” ■ : ,
The second’* jJart of the Talviud
was compildd and finished om-
hundred and twenty, years after the
destruction of th6’'temple at Jeru
salem. It is a collection of all the
traditional religious ceremonies of
the Jews. Befttre these rules for
religious obse^'vartCes were kept in a
secret scroll studied and memor
ized by the scribes in secret and
taught by th«n in public.
At the tinw of Christ there were
two,great sects' of; the Jews, the
Sadducees and the. Pharisees. In the
Hebrew language the word “Phari
see,” means to explain or interpret
and the Phari.sees were interpreters
of the law. Thcv believed that God
was a spirit, infinite,, and eternal.
He did riot-exi.st iji ijthe world but
the uriiverse existed, in Him. Good
iwas .of tiod and evil of man. Man
was allowed-his elioice between the
two and the;- final judgment de-
jiended on' how the balance stood
between the good and evil deeds.
The Sadducees belonged to the
priestly and aristocratic class. They
believed that the .soul was perish
able and that there could be no
;future life. The Saddueees ad
vocated the study and practice of
the Jewish law. They also taught
that one should repent before death.
The ancient teachers of the Jew-
i.sh law were men of ready wit and
wisdom. There are numerous in-
eidents revealing this characteristic.
lA man objected to the Sadducee
teaching of repentance and asked
liow could he, ignorant of the day
of liis death, know when to repent.
He received the answer that each
day lie should be ready for death
with good deeds arid repentance.
Another carping critic asked this
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MISS SHOTWELL OPENS!
THE THRIFT CAMPAIGN
Salem College and Academy
opened their Thrift Campaign
Wednesday at Young Peoples’
Meeting when Miss Mary G. Shot-
well, a member of the State Board
of Charities and Public Welfare,
head of North Carolina’s Child
Caring Institution, and director of
Educational Thrift Program for
five Southern States, made a very
interesting and beneficial talk to
the students on Thrift.
She began her speech by saying
that National Thrift Week very
fittingly starts January 17th, the
birthday of Benjamin Franklin,
who was the father of thrift. She
> said that she did not know what
part Salem College and Academy
had i>layed in thrift, but that she
had heard that the public schools of
iWinston-Salem led all otlier schools
!of the State in their Tlirift Cam
paign for 1923. ■ -
Thrift, according to Miss Shot-
well, consists not merely in saving
money, but in saving time and
material, and in avoiding excessive
eating. Saving money at the ex
pense of health is not thrift. Thrift
can be made an enjoyable habit,
and is a splendid way to develop
self-control. As a definite illustra
tion of what can be done when a
person makes up his mind to save,
she spoke of a High School boy in
North Carolina who, when he re
ceived his diploma, had a bank ac
count of two thousand dollars. This
Iboy had learned the habit of thrift
;in the grammar grades, when he
had sold newspapers, and then
iduring the var he had opened a
pressing club and had continued his
thrifty habits. As a result of his
economy, a woman became so in
terested in this boy that she gave
him a four years scholarship to
college, in memory of her son who
had been killed in the war.
Miss Shotwell stressed especially
the value of a budget. The first
step consists in planning it, allow
ing a certain part for board, room,
clothes, church, charity, and luxu
ries ; the second, in keeping accurate
records of expenditures; the third,
in studying the records to see if it
is jiossible to cliange or cut down
the expenditures. In the spending
of money Miss Shotwell suggests
that a i)crson ask himself, “Do I
need it? Can 1 afford it? Is the
price reasonable? Can I pay for it
now?” All debt is not wrong, for
sometimes a person borrows in
order to save for a definite purpose,
such as the purchasing of a home.
By keeping a budget, the question
of where tlie money goes can be
answered, and thrift can be made
a national triumph.
In conclusion. Dr. Rondthaler
very forcefully urged the .students
to cultivate the habit of thrift, and
to join the half million who had al
ready entered upon a thrift cam
paign for 1924. In addition, he
mentioned the budget cards which
were to be given to those really
interested in making a budget, and
in living up to it during the entire
year. To all those filling in this
card, a book is to be sent by the
Young Men’s Christian Association
in order that tliey may keep ac
curate accounts of expenditures
and savings.
Bishop Rondthaler had the rare
privilege of spending two days,
January 12th and 13th, in the great
and delightful metropolis of Geor
gia and leading city of the South.
Coming into the city and leaving the
large depot of the Southern Rail
way, he had the pleasure of riding
almost immediately over the $750,-
000 new bridge which Atlanta has
recently opened to relieve congested
travel in the business section of the
city. His various engagements car
ried him over a goodly portion of
Atlanta and he noted with the more
pleasure on account of his long ac
quaintance with the city, how wide
ly and rapidly it was spreading into
most beautiful and well provided
suburbs.
After liaving been cordially wel
comed by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Parker (Mrs. Parker, Lila Mallard,
herself as readers well know, a
■graduate and teacher and enthus
iastic friend of Salem College), his
first s engagement was to visit the
Theological School of the Metho
dist F.piscopal Church at Emorv
University, at the kind and pressing
invitation of Dr. Plata Durham, a
former well-known and most highly
e.steemed citizen of Winston-Salem.
The Bisliop says he will never for
get the cordiality with which he was
received by professors and students
of this great Institution. He was
invited at Chapel Service to stand
in John Wesley’s pulpit and to sit
in Bishop Asbury’s chair and there
followed a delightful discussion on
points of mission interest in which
both Methodist and Moravians are
taking so large a part. The morning
was spent among professors and
students in developing the central
themes of tiieology in relation to the
burning questions of the day and
hour. It was a memorable occasion.
The welcome of the students was
particularly cordial and was re
newed in the attendance of many of
them upon the sermon which the
Bishop preached on the following
day.
In the afternoon of Saturday,
January 12th, a very remarkable
AlumnfE meeting was held in the
apartments of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Parker, hospitably thrown
open for the occasion. A great many
alumniE were present including
some who had never before been
associated with these Salem Alumna;
meetings. At their request the de
velopment of Salem College was
dwelt upon to their evident satis
faction. There were torrents of
questions in regard to teachers and
former students and a delightful din
of conversation. Then followed to
the surprise of everybody, the
Bishop included, a feature which
Mrs. Parker had provided with her
usual energy and forethought. A
Moravian Lovefeast was improvised
and in connection with it, the
daughters of Alumnae presented
each of the astonished guests with a
Moravian Christmas candle and
there came over all the assemblage
a reverent, happy feeling concern
ing the early experiences of their
chirstian life as they remembered
them in hallowed days spent in
Salem in years gone by. Dr. Rond-
thaler’s invitation that Atlanta send
an ample delegation of Alumnae to
the next Commencement, was most
cordially accepted and the length
ened meeting broke up with affec
tionate expressions such as the
Bishop says he has rarely listened
to.
The next Sunday was a lovely day,
very different from the zero
weather which had burst Atlanta’s
water pipes far and near on the
previous Sunday. The welcome
given to the Bishop in the First
Methodist Church, the mother of
the forty-five Churches of that de
nomination in the city of Atlanta,
was a royal one. The Church was
crowed with Methodist members
and Salem alumnae and students and
former residents of Winston-Salem.
The pastor. Rev. Costen J. Harrell,
himself a North Carolinian, had
prepared an article of some length
for the Church Leaflet giving a
very competent and affectionate ac
count of the early relations of the
Methodist and Moravians in Geor
gia and of the long continued at
tendance of Georgia daughters of
representative families in Salem
Academy and College. Dr. Plato
Durham introduced the Bishop in a
very beautiful address but in terms
too enthusiastic to be further stated.
The Bishop’s sermon was on the
words of Matthew 16: 15-16,
“Jesus saith unto them, whom say
ye that I am? And Simon Peter
answered and said. Thou are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.”
His theme was: “A worthwhile
Christ makes worthwhile people. ’
The unique manner in which the
Christ does this, developing out of
a confession of Himself in a life of
fruitfulness and service, was illus
trated by examples out of all the
Christian ages. In his conclusion
the Bishop dwelt upon the fact that
this capacity of becoming “worth
while” people under the power of
Clirist’s word and spirit was innate
in every human creature though
perhaps deeply hidden, and in spite
of many drawbacks and difficulties
the Christ, the Son of the living
God, made His people worthwhile
in their service for time and for
their reward in Heaven.
Tlie welcome which was given to
the Bishop’s sermon was very im
pressive in view of the number of
people who crowded around him for
greeting and for expression of
agreement in these central truths
of our holy religion.
In the afternoon of the same day,
an affectionate gathering of friends
was held at the invitation of the
authorities of the First Methodist
Church in their building, which
enabled the Bishop to give an af
fectionate goodbye to those who
had so kindly and warmly furthered
the purpose of his visit. In the
evening he started home bearing a
heart full of salutations to the Col
lege and to Winston-Salem, thank
ful for Atlanta’s reception and full
of courage with regard to the union
of Christian people whether living
in Georgia or in North Carolina or
wherever it might be.
Billy Sunday has accepted an in
vitation to visit Davidson College
some day in the near future. This
noted evangelist has been holding
a revival in Charlotte.
—Exchange.