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with the feeling and conviction that the link which binds
us to our God and to our religion has been strengthened; if
we realise the true relation that does & should exist between
God & Man, between Man & his fellow-creatures, between parents
and children, then we may indeed rest assured that our
prayers have risen to God's own throne of Majesty like a
sweet savour. We may then rest our heads upon our
pillows at peace with our God as with our conscience.
What we need in these days of materialism is the conviction
that religion is not made only for women, children and
weaklings but that it exists also for men & men of the
most manly characteristics; that it is a truth of such
moral nay vital importance as to necessitate its use in
everyday life. What we in our superior wisdom have yet
to learn is to abandon the idea that it is manly and
a proof of superior education to sneer at any religious
topic that may possibly be introduced and thus propagate
false ideas in the minds of children, the rising generation
upon whom indeed the progress of Judaism aye, of the
world, moral & spiritual depends. We have yet to learn