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01.02.1902
Volumul
23
Numărul
3
Turnul de veghe
Views from the Watch Tower
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(35-36) 
ZIONJS 
WATCH 
TOWER 
ALLEGHENY, 
PA, 
This 
is 
thy 
finished 
work, 
Thy 
own 
most 
glorious 
plan 
j 
And 
this 
the 
wondrous 
love 
thou'st 
shown 
Toward 
sinful, 
fallen 
man. 
Oh, 
Israel's 
God! 
How 
great 
art 
thou! 
'Vhat 
wisdom, 
love 
and 
grace 
The 
eye 
of 
faith 
will 
always 
find 
When 
we 
thy 
dealings 
trace! 
-Mrs. 
Jennie 
M. 
Stratton. 
VOL. 
XXIII 
ALLEGHENY, 
PA., 
FEBRUARY 
1, 
1902 
No.3 
VIEWS 
FROM 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
ZIONISM'S 
PROSPEOTS 
AS 
SEEN 
BY 
THE 
N. 
Y. 
TRIBUNE 
"Has 
the 
Zionist 
movement 
any 
prospect 
of 
attaining 
its 
end? 
"Very 
little. 
It 
looks 
as 
though 
the 
scornful 
indifference 
of 
the 
intellectual 
and 
wealthy 
among 
the 
Jews 
were 
suffi­ 
cient 
to 
promptly 
dissipatc 
their 
co-religionists' 
dream 
of 
re­ 
turning 
to 
the 
promised 
land. 
The 
latter, 
to 
bc 
sure, 
have 
in 
their 
favor 
the 
greater 
number 
and 
faith, 
but 
:lgainst 
these 
are 
arrayed 
thc 
rationalists, 
for 
whom 
the 
true 
MesRiah 
is 
the 
French 
Revolution 
that 
brought 
them 
emancipation; 
the 
prudence 
of 
the 
rabbis, 
proclaiming 
that 
henceforth 
the 
Jews 
have 
no 
other 
country 
but 
that 
of 
their 
birth 
(declara­ 
tion 
of 
the 
grand 
rabbis 
of 
France, 
England, 
Austria, 
Hun­ 
gary, 
at 
the 
Congress 
of 
Basle, 
1897); 
the 
money 
dealers, 
without 
whom 
nothing 
can 
be 
done, 
and 
who 
are 
not 
willing 
to 
exchange 
their 
banks, 
their 
industries, 
their 
palaces, 
for 
the 
barren 
and 
poor 
soil 
of 
Palestine; 
the 
politicians, 
for 
whom 
the 
integrity 
of 
the 
Ottoman 
Empire 
has 
become 
a 
dogma, 
and 
who 
would 
not 
permit 
a 
Jewish 
state 
to 
rise 
in 
the 
midst 
of 
the 
Sultan's 
Asiatic 
dominions. 
All 
these 
powers 
of 
the 
modern 
world, 
rationalism, 
wealth, 
politics, 
are 
barring 
the 
way 
of 
those 
simple 
minded, 
pious 
souls 
who 
persist 
in 
striving 
for 
a 
redemption 
of 
Israel, 
who 
dream 
of 
a 
temple 
other 
than 
the 
Exchange 
and 
who 
long 
for 
thc 
promised 
land 
with 
all 
the 
ardor 
of 
the 
Jews 
of 
the 
Babylonian 
captivity." 
Just 
so! 
Worldly 
wisdom 
fails 
to 
discern 
some 
matters 
even 
while 
they 
are 
transpiring. 
The 
Watch 
Tower 
and 
Dawn 
pointed 
out 
the 
present 
Zionist 
movement 
from 
God's 
Word 
long 
before 
its 
founders 
thought 
of 
it. 
Ever 
since 
1878, 
when 
Israel's 
"double" 
of 
chastisement 
expired, 
the 
land 
has 
been 
preparing 
for 
the 
people 
and 
the 
people 
for 
the 
land. 
In 
God's 
due 
time, 
and 
that 
soon, 
they 
will 
come 
to­ 
gl'ther. 
Meantime 
persecutions 
in 
various 
lands 
are 
the 
prods, 
the 
"staff" 
of 
their 
Shepherd, 
to 
awaken 
them 
and 
direct 
their 
hearts 
toward 
the 
promises 
of 
which 
they 
are 
heirs.-Rom. 
11 
:26-29. 
ZIONISM 
FROM 
A 
LITERARY 
JEW'S 
STANDPOINT 
To 
the 
Editor 
N. 
Y. 
Journal: 
I 
am 
not 
a 
prophet, 
but 
it 
certainly 
seems 
to 
me 
that 
without 
the 
Zionistic 
movement, 
and 
without 
persecution 
from 
without, 
isolated 
Jewish 
communities 
have 
no 
suffi­ 
cient 
seeds 
of 
permanence 
in 
a 
world 
whose 
civilization 
is 
already 
built 
up 
on 
Old 
Testament 
lines. 
Unfortunately, 
persecution 
is 
still 
unfailing, 
especially 
in 
Russia 
and 
Rou­ 
mania, 
and 
fortunately 
Zionism 
is 
making 
great 
strides. 
Nineteen 
hundrcd 
and 
one 
will 
be 
memorable 
as 
the 
year 
in 
which 
the 
ruler 
of 
Palestine-the 
Sultan 
of 
Turkey-received 
Dr. 
Herzl, 
and 
will 
end 
characteristically 
with 
the 
fifth 
Zion­ 
istic 
congress. 
Every 
congress 
shows 
an 
augmentation 
in 
enthuRiasm 
and 
in 
the 
prospects 
of 
what 
seemed 
five 
years 
ago 
to 
be 
the 
mad 
vision 
of 
a 
dreamer 
of 
the 
Ghetto. 
In 
striking 
the 
racial 
chord 
Dr. 
Herzl 
has 
struck 
the 
chord 
which 
rings 
trueRt, 
and 
there 
is 
no 
doubt 
the 
brotherhood 
of 
Israel 
contains 
the 
plements 
of 
a 
political 
force. 
When 
even 
America 
is 
beginning 
to 
exclude 
Jewish 
emigrants, 
there 
will 
be 
no 
place 
left 
for 
the 
sole 
of 
taeir 
foot 
but 
Palestine, 
and 
thus 
forces 
external 
and 
internal 
are 
beginning 
to 
coincide 
and 
work 
together 
for 
good-the 
evil 
force 
of 
persecution 
the 
righteous 
force 
of 
Zionism. 
Faithfully 
yours, 
' 
I. 
ZANGWILL. 
A 
GLOOMY 
OUTLOOK 
l'rc~idel1t 
Eliot, 
of 
Harvard 
University, 
takes 
a 
rather 
gloomy 
view 
of 
the 
future 
outlook. 
He 
says 
that 
"churches, 
court~ 
and 
legIslatures 
command 
less 
respect 
and 
have 
less 
inJluen['c 
now 
than 
tlurty 
year>:! 
ago." 
He 
thinks 
the 
church 
has 
degenerated 
into 
poetic 
generalities 
or 
to 
ritualistic 
pomp. 
He 
noil's 
in 
thc 
judiciary 
a 
decline 
in 
personal 
merit 
and 
in 
puhlic 
estlIIIat!On. 
"LegislatIve 
bodies," 
says 
the 
prpsident 
of 
H 
arvarrl, 
"havp 
fallen 
mto 
popular 
contempt." 
But. 
gloomy 
as 
all 
this 
i'l, 
he 
does 
not 
dpspair 
of 
his 
country. 
Whilc 
the 
years 
have 
bcen 
laying 
succcssive 
layers 
of 
black 
paint 
on 
the 
religIOUS 
hodiC'l, 
on 
the 
judges 
of 
our 
courts, 
and 
on 
thc 
lawmakers, 
thpre 
is 
still 
one 
ray 
of 
light 
shining 
throul!h 
thc 
gloom. 
For 
meanwhile, 
the 
school 
has 
become 
mor(' 
powerful, 
"and 
cducation 
is 
the 
one 
agency 
for 
promoting 
intelligence 
and 
righteousnesB 
which 
has 
gained 
strength 
in 
the 
la~t 
half 
('('ntnry." 
"CHURCH 
PERIL-GROUND 
BEING 
LOST" 
Dr. 
George 
C. 
Lorimer, 
the 
noted 
Boston 
preacher, 
now 
pastor 
of 
the 
MadiRon 
Avenue 
Baptist 
church, 
says 
the 
Prot­ 
estant 
('hurch 
iR 
in 
pelil; 
that 
the 
dangers 
are 
from 
within, 
not 
v. 
ithout; 
that 
the 
church 
is 
losing 
hold 
on 
intelligent 
thought. 
In 
his 
Sunday 
sermon 
he 
said: 
"E\'ery 
now 
amI 
th('n 
certain 
things 
are 
said 
which 
betray 
an 
unca~'y 
fp('lIng 
as 
to 
the 
future 
stability 
and 
supremacy 
of 
Prote~tn 
ntiRIll. 
"nut 
whatever 
may 
be 
said 
of 
the 
gloomy 
outlook, 
it 
is 
not 
due, 
aR 
nmny 
suppoRe, 
to 
the 
hostility 
of 
Romanism. 
The 
l~apacv 
hns 
itR 
own 
trouhlps. 
"The 
pr('" 
.. 
nt 
pprils 
of 
our 
faith 
are 
not 
primarily 
from 
without. 
Tllf'v 
a 
r(' 
from 
within, 
and 
they 
are 
similar 
to 
those 
which 
endang! 
red 
the 
standing 
and 
usefulness 
of 
the 
Galatian 
chur<,h. 
"Romani~m 
iR 
dogmatic. 
Shf> 
has 
come 
to 
the 
front 
as 
the 
<,ham 
pIOn 
of 
th(' 
Bible 
against 
the 
dcstructive 
critics, 
and 
aR 
thc 
dden!ler 
of 
thf' 
Racrcd 
mysteries 
against 
the 
naturalism 
of 
the 
rationah~t~, 
"hile 
we 
have 
fallen 
into 
the 
cheap 
and 
idle 
faphion 
of 
decrying 
doctrine; 
and 
we 
fail 
to 
see 
that 
as 
we 
drift 
from 
the 
theologta 
sacra 
we 
are 
losing 
our 
hold 
on 
intelligE'nt 
thought. 
"An 
additional 
peril 
springs 
from 
the 
present 
spirit 
of 
Prot<·~talltJ"lll 
The 
l)(,i 
il 
i~ 
that 
genuine 
ChriRtians 
may 
<It'­ 
sirf> 
to 
makc 
tl]('ir 
churchs 
centres 
of 
social 
influence 
rather 
than 
sourc<.'~ 
of 
regenerating 
power. 
Protestantism 
today 
suffpr~ 
from 
worl(llmcRfl. 
"DlmlIli~hell 
('ongregationfl 
and 
depleted 
treasuries 
are 
other 
<Iangpr 
signfl."-N. 
Y. 
Journal. 
WATER 
AGAIN 
FLOWS 
IN 
THE 
POOL 
OF 
SILOAM 
"For 
over 
ten 
years 
the 
Pool 
of 
Siloam 
has 
been 
only 
a 
name. 
Visitors 
to 
Palestine 
who 
have 
seen 
this 
historic 
spot 
of 
lat(' 
year>:! 
havp 
found 
that 
its 
healipg 
waters 
have 
vanislwd. 
.Tu~t 
recC'ntly 
the 
watcrs 
of 
Siloam 
have 
been 
made 
to 
flow 
once 
agai;J, 
and 
there 
has 
been 
great 
rejoicing 
in 
the 
Holy 
LaIl(l. 
It 
appears 
that 
Jerusalem 
has 
been 
espec­ 
iall)' 
~hort 
of 
water 
of 
btl', 
and 
it 
occurred 
to 
some 
of 
the 
inhabitants 
of 
~il()am 
to 
try 
to 
find 
out 
whcther 
the 
spring 
whi<,h 
u~('(l 
to 
supply 
the 
pool 
was 
really 
dry. 
Tons 
of 
ae­ 
<'umulfltC'11 
rubbi"h 
were 
cleared 
away, 
and 
after 
about 
a 
month'~ 
work 
the 
spring 
was 
found. 
The 
excavators 
dis­ 
coverp!l 
behinrl 
somc 
fallC'n 
rocks 
an 
old 
aqueduct 
running 
into 
the 
"flilcy 
of 
the 
Chadron, 
and 
into 
this 
aqueduct 
the 
bpautIful, 
('001, 
(']par 
water 
had 
run 
and 
been 
wasting 
for 
years." 
* 
* 
* 
"Depart 
from 
evil 
and 
do 
good; 
seek 
peace 
MESSAGE 
ON 
PEACE 
1 
Tim. 
2 
:2. 
"~ead 
a 
quiet 
and 
peaceable 
life 
in 
all 
godli­ 
ness 
and 
honesty." 
Jas. 
3: 
17. 
"The 
wisdom 
that 
is 
from 
above 
is 
first 
pure 
then 
peaceable." 
Isa. 
26:3. 
"Thou 
wilt 
keep 
him 
in 
perfect 
peace, 
whose 
mind 
is 
stayed 
on 
thee." 
Provo 
10: 
7. 
"When 
a 
man's 
ways 
please 
the 
Lord, 
he 
maketh 
even 
his 
enemies 
to 
be 
at 
peace 
with 
him." 
1 
Thes. 
5: 
13. 
"Be 
at 
peace 
among 
yourselves." 
2 
Cor. 
13: 
11. 
"Be 
of 
one 
mind, 
live 
in 
peaoo 
and 
the 
God 
of 
lovc 
and 
peace 
shall 
be 
with 
you." 
GOD'S 
P~a. 
~4: 
14. 
and 
jHlrSllf' 
it." 
JIeh. 
12: 
14. 
"Follow 
pence 
with 
all 
men 
and 
holiness 
without 
whif'h 
no 
m'ln 
shall 
sec 
the 
Lord." 
Rom. 
14 
17. 
"The 
kingdom 
of 
God 
is 
not 
meat 
and 
drink, 
but 
rightf'ousne<;s 
and 
peace 
and 
joy 
in 
the 
Holy 
Spirit." 
Rom. 
14: 
Ifl. 
"Follow 
after 
the 
things 
which 
make 
for 
peacl' 
[lnd 
things 
wherewith 
one 
may 
edify 
another." 
Rom. 
12: 
]8. 
"Live 
peaceably 
with 
all 
men." 
1 
Cor. 
14:33. 
"God 
is 
not 
the 
author 
of 
confusion, 
but 
of 
pea('(''' 
1 
Cor. 
7·1:l. 
"God 
haR 
called 
us 
to 
peace." 
[2946] 
(35-36) This is thy finished work, Thy own most glorious plan; And this the wondrous love thou’st shown Toward sinful, fallen man. ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa. Oh, Israel’s God! How great art thou! What wisdom, love and grace The eye of faith will always find When we thy dealings trace! —Mrs. Jennie M. Stratton. Vout. XXIII ALLEGHENY, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1902 No. 3 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER A GLOOMY OUTLOOK President Eliot, of Harvard University, takes a rather gloomy view of the future outlook. He says that “churches, courts and legislatures command less respect and have less influence now than thirty years ago.” He thinks the church has deyencrated into poetic generalities or to ritualistic pomp. He notes in the judiciary a decline in personal merit and in public estimation. “Legislative bodies,” says the president of Harvard, “have fallen mto popular contempt.” But, gloomy as all this is, he does not despair of his country. While the years have been laying successive layers of black paint on the religious bodies, on the judges of our courts, and on the lawmakers, there is still one ray of light shining through the gloom. For meanwhile, the schoo] has become more powerful, “and education is the one agency for promoting intelligence and righteousness which has gained strength in the last half century.” ‘“‘CHURCH PERIL—GROUND BEING LOST”’ Dr. George C. Lorimer, the noted Boston preacher, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Baptist church, says the Protestant church is in peril; that the dangers are from within, not without; that the church is losing hold on intelligent thought. In his Sunday sermon he said: “Every now and then certain things are said which betray an uncasy feeling as to the future stability and supremacy of Protestantism. “But whatever may be said of the gloomy outlook, it is not due, as many suppose, to the hostility of Romanism. The Papacy has its own troubles. “The present perils of our faith are not primarily from without. They are from within, and they are similar to those which endangired the standing and usefulness of the Galatian church. “Romanism is dogmatic. She has come to the front as the champion of the Bible against the destructive critics, and as the defender of the sacred mysteries against the naturalism of the rationalists, while we have fallen into the cheap and idle fashion of decrying doctrine; and we fail to see that as we drift from the theologia sacra we are losing our hold on intelligent thought. “An additional peril springs from the present spirit of Protestantism The peril is that genuine Christians may desire to make their churchs centres of social influence rather than sourees of regenerating power. Protestantism today suffers from worldliness, “Diminished congregations and depleted treasuries are other danger signs.”—N. Y. Journal. WATER AGAIN FLOWS IN THE POOL OF SILOAM “For over ten years the Pool of Siloam has been only a name. Visitors to Palestine who have seen this historic spot of late years have found that its healing waters have vanished. Just reeently the waters of Siloam have been made to flow once again, and there has been great rejoicing in the Holy Land, It appears that Jerusalem has been especially short of water of late, and it occurred to some of the inhabitants of Siloam io try to find out whether the spring which used to supply the pool was really dry. Tons of accumulated rubbish were cleared away, and after about a month’s work the spring was found. The excavators discovered behind some fallen rocks an old aqueduct running into the vallev of the Chadron, and into this aqueduct the beautiful, cool, clear water had run and been wasting for years.” GOD'S MESSAGE ON Pva. 34:14. “Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursne it.” . Heb. 12:14. “Follow peace with all men and _ holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” Rom, 14 17. “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Rom. 14:19. “Follow after the things which make for peace ond things wherewith one may edify another.” Rom, 12:18. “Live peaceably with all men.” 1 Cor. 14:33. “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace” 1 Cor. 7:15. “God has called ug to peace.” ZIONISM’S PROSPECTS AS SEEN BY THE N. Y. TRIBUNE “Has the Zionist movement any prospect of attaining its end? “Very little. It looks as though the scornful indifference of the intellectual and wealthy among the Jews were sufficient to promptly dissipate their co-religionists’ dream of returning to the promised land. The latter, to be sure, have in their favor the greater number and faith, but against these are arrayed the rationalists, for whom the true Messiah is the French Revolution that brought them emancipation; the prudence of the rabbis, proclaiming that henceforth the Jews have no other country but that of their birth (declaration of the grand rabbis of France, England, Austria, Hungary, at the Congress of Basle, 1897); the money dealers, without whom nothing can be done, and who are not willing to exchange their banks, their industries, their palaces, for the barren and poor soil of Palestine; the politicians, for whom the integrity of the Ottoman Empire has become a dogma, and who would not permit a Jewish state to rise in the midst of the Sultan’s Asiatic dominions. Ali these powers of the modern world, rationalism, wealth, politics, are barring the way of those simple minded, pious souls who persist in striving for a redemption of Israel, who dream of a temple other than the Exchange and who long for the promised land with all the ardor of the Jews of the Babylonian captivity.” * * * Just so! Worldly wisdom fails to discern some matters even while they are transpiring. The Watch Tower and Dawn pointed out the present Zionist movement from God’s Word long before its founders thought of it. Ever since 1878, when Israel’s “double? of chastisement expired, the land has been preparing for the people and the people for the land. In God’s due time, and that soon, they will come together. Meantime persecutions in various lands are the prods, the “staff” of their Shepherd, to awaken them and direct their hearts toward the promises of which they are heirs.—Rom. 11:26-29, ZIONISM FROM A LITERARY JEW’S STANDPOINT To the Editor N. Y. Journal: I am not a prophet, but it certainly seems to me that without the Zionistic movement, and without persecution from without, isolated Jewish communities have no sufficient seeds of permanence in a world whose civilization is already built up on Old Testament lines. Unfortunately, persecution is still unfailing, especially in Russia and Roumania, and fortunately Zionism is making great strides. Nineteen hundred and one will be memorable as the year in which the ruler of Palestine—the Sultan of Turkey—received Dr. Herzl, and will end characteristically with the fifth Zionistic congress. Every congress shows an augmentation in enthusiasm and in the prospects of what seemed five years ago to be the mad vision of a dreamer of the Ghetto. In striking the racial chord Dr. Herzl has struck the chord which rings truest, and there is no doubt the brotherhood of Israel contains the elements of a political force. When even America is beginning to exclude Jewish emigrants, there will be no place left for the sole of their foot but Palestine, and thus forces external and internal are beginning to coincide and work together for good—the evil force of persecution, the righteous force of Zionism. Faithfully yours, I. ZANGWILL, PEACE 1 Tim. 2:2. “Lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.” Jas. 3:17. “The wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable.” Isa. 26:3. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.” Prov. 10:7. “When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” 1 Thes. 5:13. “Be at peace among yourselves,” 2 Cor. 13:11. “Be of one mind, live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you.” [2946]

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