ABSTRACT
Every association of men is necessarily based upon the idea of obligation. Each of the individuals composing it owes it certain duties directly springing out of his membership. Every member of a religious community is bound to it by the ties of interest and sympathy, and, consequently, by the bond of duty also. As a citizen he helps to defray, by the payment of poor rates, the cost of maintaining the general poor. But as a Jew he will recognise that an additional duty is laid upon him in this respect. In contributing to the support of the communal Schools the Jew will remember that he is promoting the holy and the time-honoured cause of Religious Education, with all its historic traditions and all its significance for character and conduct. For the Jew Religious Education has been the bulwark of moral and social stability.
