orable gathering also adopt such a platform, and then the representatives of East and West will come armin-arm to Basle, and aid in drawing up such a program for the seventh congress as will mark out the best and cafoact war tn tha land nf Teranl T am
Your brother, who greets you from afar,M. USSISCHKIN.
REINESS'S LETTER.
To my brethren, the Zionists, members of the convention in Philadelphia, peace and greeting from Zion.
UPron the day of your gathering in your convention, beloved brethren, accept my sincerest greetings, for the Zionist would fain take part in your councils, establish the work of your hands, and guide you in the right way to secure the welfare and regeneration of our people, he would fain strengthen you in the sacred work and enable you to behold wisiesyour own eyes the rebuilding of Zion and the joyful restoration of the children of Israel to their land in the light of Goad’s favor.
My brethren, you remember, I am sure, the reliance which our late beloved leader placed upon you, and the great trust he had in you. To you, who enjoy greater freedom from the distresses of the exile, citizens of a great and active country, did our leader always look at the hour when a matter of great and active moment was always in hand, and from you he expected and hoped for help. To you do all other Zionists look, and they always await many good results from your fruitful activity. And how greatly will his heart rejoice to see that this, his hope, was not deceived, and that your activity is steadily increasing, even when work has slackened in many places and in many countries owing to external and internal causes. As freer men, more experienced in practical life, you have mustered the strength to resist internal discord, and even the national disaster in our great leader's death could not interrupt your work, for you continued to bear on high the banner of freedom, doing a glorious work this year for the sorrowing nation, and therefore you are worthy to be a blessing and a model to all your other brethren in exile.
Furthermore, as free and experienced men, you understood at once that in a movement for the regeneration of a people there is room for all those parties which appear in a people, and that they should all join in the work of liberation. Hence we have beheld in your country a joyful sight, in that the national Federation did not oppose the Mizrachi and even assisted them to organize and develop their own spirit in the in terest of the sacred cause Thus you have made room for thousands of pious Jews t6
take part also in the movement for regeneration, an action of which all those pious men who are concerned for the truth of their law and for their people and know what is before them will surely hasten to take advantage, and our camp will not lack the majority of the Jewish people. On this account, also, are you, dear brethren, deserving of gratitude. Should we not, therefore, be grateful to you, for in truth you seek the good of Zionism, and the liberation of the people alone is the goal of your aspirations and of your actions. May, then, a blessing rest upon your deliberations.
ee nt he ee NEN BARFN A CAR LAÄNFERNDG: Brethren: In the sublime testament which our great leader left to us, before his holy spirit departed whence it came, he admonished us in these words: “Every man to bis post” that is, that every one of us must carry out his proper work in our movement. Far be it from each of us to be satisfied with little and to regard the smallest amount of work as sufficient. Everyone of us must contribute whatever he can to our movement. Far be it from us to diminish our contributions in the sliehtest derree.
To you also, my brothers, do I call, in words of our leader, "Every man to his post." Come together, brethren, and then return to your proper place, do all the work possible for you, fulfill this your duty as far as lies in your power and attain the height of your mission.
Remember, brethren, your value in our movement; then will your work be great and mighty.
The main point is, work, work, and only diligent and unceasing work in the interests of our nation, in the spirit of our great leader, whose soul lives with us even to-day.
"The work of Herzl, done as Herzl did it;" this is our need, and this must we do.
Receive again my greetings, the greetings of a Zionist who knows how to value you at your proper worth, and who always hopes for and expects diligence. Receive the greetings of Zion and Jerusalem.
With the highest love and esteem,ISAAC JACOB REINESS.Rabbi of K. K. Lida.
DR. E. ADLER'S LETTER.
To the Federation of American Zionists, care of Dr. Harry Friedenwald, president.
DEAR SIR: I beg of you to convey the expression of my heartiest sympathy to the annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists. It is an inspiring consciousness for me, for all our fellow Zionists in the world to feel that one single thought, which spans the waves of the broad Atlantic, animates the hearts of our people and sets them beating in united endeavor towards a common goal. Hence our sincerest con-