ABSTRACT
The exposition attempted in the foregoing pages will, it is hoped, have found sympathetic readers, and won increased respect and love for Israel’s religion. The conviction that his religion contained the elements of a world-religion, that time would justify his conception of the truth, has been the one sustaining force that has nerved the Israelite to face his age-long martyrdom. In the domain of theology there are certain great conceptions which have yet fully to enter into the consciousness of mankind. For certain precepts, too, of the moral law they have to gain a deeper respect. The Family as the bulwark of the State, personal purity as the guarantee of social well-being, need and the duty and glory of self-restraint— these ideas are being assailed with growing frequency. All such iniquity finds a condemnatory voice in Israel’s religion, which stands for peace and goodwill, for justice and loving-kindness, for the sanctity of the home, for purity and simplicity of life.
