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AND it shall come to pass in the end of days,

That the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills;

And all nations shall flow unto it,

And many peoples shall go and say:

‘Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

And He will teach us of His ways;

And we will walk in His paths.’

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And He shall judge between the nations,

And shall decide for many peoples;

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,

And their spears into pruning-hooks;

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

ISAIAH 2. 2–4.

THE Jew who is true to himself will labour with especial energy in the cause of peace. His religion, his history, his mission, all pledge him to a policy of peace, as a citizen as well as an individual. The war-loving Jew is a contradiction in terms. The ‘Man of Sorrows’ must beware of helping, however remotely, to heap sorrow upon others.

MORRIS JOSEPH, 1903.