contribute towards the moral and spiritual emancipation of the Orient, and towards the re-establishment of order there. Even the colonies which have but lately been established in Palestine, though few in number, have shown that the land of our fathers is still healthful and fruitful. Any soil is most fruitful when industrious workers cultivate and
care for it, how much more so the land of our fathers, which in the golden age of our history was a land flowing with milk and honey!
And our land shall again be a "land with milk and honey blest," when the sons of our people, who have suffered so much in the Goluth, will once more dwell in the land of their fathers.
IN MEMORIAM.
Born, July 22, 1849. Died, November 19, 1887.
EMMA LAZARUS.
To Hellas she had consecratedThe fruit and flower of her artTill, seeing Israel desecrated,Her people wounded, in anguish smart,She tuned her lyre and sang anewSongs of a Semite, the glory of the Jew.
—J. H. Berkowitz.