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"Gamaliel said: "He v/ho does not explain on the Passover three things, namely, the-Paschal famb, the un-livened bread, and the bitter herbs, can not be considered as having performed his' duty." But, to-day, one more feature of the Seder will have to be explained; that is, the wine, During the Paschal meat, every participant is expected to drink four cups of wine corresponding to the four expressions of redemption found in Exodus VI: 6, 7. They are: 1. "I have brought forth." 2, "I'naye redeemed." 3. (?I have delivered," 4.'"I have taken." Aside from this homiletic interpretation, the wine was added aa a sign of festal joy, just as the unleavened bread is called bread of misery,"
. Time and again the rabbi of to-day is asked to declare his view in the matter of using wine for sacramental purposes. Temperance agitators wish to know whether unfermented wine will not do. The devout Christian will find inter-eating information with regard to this particular mStter in the pages relating the Last Passover celebrated by Jesus. In predicting his future triumph, he omitted bread and chose the wine as a pledge of hope. This, he assured his disciples, he will drink new in his father's kingdom. As to the nature of the wine, Pharisaism never prohibited fermented wines if kept from concact with leaven. The Paschal wine of rabbinical invention became the sacramental element on the Catholic altar and in the Protestant Lord's Supper. 'The "Pledge of Hope" can hardly offer the temperance reformer the much-coveted comfort.
While it is true that the genius of our religion is anti-ascetic�it frowns upon the Nazarite as being more of a sinner than a saint, because he needs extra. bridles to tame his passions; it has no patience with the over-pious man who tortures hiraself with long fasts believing he is pleasing God; it, instead, fears not the wine "because it is red"�yet, it joins hands with those who endeavor to cope with the scourge that slays
News from England
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The Rt. Hon, Lord Swaythling pre-aidetiU over a largely-attended meeting of the Federated Synagogs at the �dttbr rooms on Thursday evening, March 2. An adjourned application made by the Lucas Street E. Synagog to be admitted as a branch was dealt with, it having been pointed out some time back that the arrangements of this syuagog, sanitary and structural, were not all that should be desired. The report of the architects says that the synagog is situated in a dangerous position and under the most insanitary conditions and is entirely unfitted for -a eynagog. In the case of a panic or a fire the loss of life would be very serious, The application for admission to the federation was unanimously refused.
SAMUEL TO GO; LORD MILNER TO REPLACE HIM
London (J. P. A.)�Rumors arc current in political circles that Sir Herbert Samuel's stay in Palestine, as British High Commissioner, is to be very thort, "Pall Mall" reports that Lord MUner ha* gone to Jerusalem to replace Samuel as Commissioner in Palestine.
According to the "Manchester Guardian," this sudden crisis, in the relation of the Home Office and the Palestine .administration, is due to the divergence of opinion which has arisen between SamueJ. High Commissioner, and Churchill, Minister of Colonies, with regard to the budget of the Palestine Stfldarmerie. Sir Herbert Samuel contends that the Palestine government has no funds to meet the budgetary
its thousands, and brings ruin to many a home where, but for that curse, peace and, happiness might reign. But the experience of the Jew can hardly be expected to favor an entirely prohibitionist policy. The Jews claim not to be total abstainers or total prohibitionists. They have been taught by their religion to use every gift of God, not to abuse it. They are a sober people. By their religious Jaws they are bidden to usher in the Sabbath by pronouncing a benediction over a cup of wine. At the conclusion of the Day of Rest, a prayer is recited over a cup of wine to distinguish between the holy and the profane. So it is with the ushering in' and the taking Jeave of holidays.
From this point of view, what we need is self-control and not prohibition. Of course, self-control cannot be legislated. Strong is the man who has eelf-control�stronger than he who has to be put behind prison bars to be protected. Let us not confuse "drunkenness" with "drink." Drunkenness is the sin of the individual, not the sin of drink. There is such a thing as to carry our logic ad absurdum. It would be as sensible to prohibit marriage because the divorce courts are loaded. Far greater and more effective would be the remedy of education by moral suasion than a thorough prohibitionist policy. Such a policy we have already seen has turned a nation into weaklings and law-breakers. Indeed, no one would see^the saloon come again, but what is necessary is strict legal control in dispensing the beverage against which neither the Old nor the New Testaments object. What is necessary is to cease wasting time, strength, money and eloquence on a policy doomed to failure. For not until the lion shall decline the lamb that browses by his side and be content with eating straw, not until the last sword shall have been beaten into a ploughshare, not until then will such a policy be successful.
needs, and it is the duty of the home government to bear the burden of Palestine policing. Churchill, however, insists that the Imperial Exchequer cannot afford this additional burden at this time.
At the cabinet meeting, held to discuss this question, much feeling and heat has been manifested on both sides and it appears that there is no possibility of healing the breach.
RUTHENBERG'S PLAN LAUDED IN HOUSE OF LORDS
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London (J. P. A.)�Duke Sutherland, spokesman for the administration in tne Upper House, replied to-day to Lord Raglan, who had in his address of the previous day, touched at length upon the Ruthenberg plan. The government representative declared that Ruthenberg's plan of electrification of Palestine by using the water power of the Jordan was the most constructive and practical plan offered by the Jewish people for the reconstruction of Palestine. ; "The Ruthenberg plan/' he continued, "is now being put into execution by a special corporation under the direct control of the Palestine government, without it having assumed, however, the financial burden and responsibility of the company."
The speaker further declared that the present immigration restrictions were drastic enough and new restrictions upon^ immigration into Palestine were not contemplated at this time. As to the Jewish labor battalions, he stated, they will be used to do the work in and about the military needs which has thus far been performed by the Egyptian labor battalions in Palestine.
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