pass the years of our natural life, that supplied us constantly with fresh energy to continue the work we started. It was the unselfish, deeply rooted idealism and intense love for the land that stimulated the desire in my friend to carry out the plan."
In the year 1892 the Colony had only fifteen families, consisting of fifty-five persons receiving assistance from the Russian Zionists. Twenty families from Russia settled in the year 1893 in Katra when the colonies' population reached 130 persons. This increase in the membership of the colony instilled new life in the older settlers, and they set to work energetically to improve the efficiency of their settlement in every possible way. The interest shown by the Colony by the Jewish Colonization
Association has still further increased the development of the Colony.
u ee dee A Now, Chederah is considered the most successful Colony in Judea. The founders who are growing old have the satisfaction that they have at last realized the aspirations of their youth of becoming a free people in the land of their ancestors. They believe that they have built a permanent structure which will reflect honor and credit to themselves and their posterity. and which will serve as an example to succeeding generations to live a life of perseverance and self-denial, and to labor {ar the oeneral interest nf the nennle.
This colony should indeed be named "Bilu," a name that embodies the splendid heroism, the strong character and patriotism of its founders.
THE CHOSEN
I.
My nomad soul is old Than Sodom and Gomorroh are Long-visioned in my dreams I hold The desert and the star. And lonely, like mine ancient race, Amid the multitude unknown, Afraid, I sought the Father's face, To hide from sin alone. But the Angel of the Lord was sent To scourge me with a stinging rod, With hail and flame, With fear and shame, He smote me with the wrath of God.
II.
I rushed from solitude. In fear I nestled from his lancing sword In arms that held me close and dear, And there I sought ine Lord. For is not Love God’s other name, And peace where two entwined forget In sanctioned ease and free from shame The struggle and the sweat? But the Angel of the Lord was sent To scourge me with a burning rod, With hail and flame, . With fear and s'iame, He smote me with the wrath of God.
III.
I threw my folded doors apart, I called the throng that cry their need, As gold I spent my brimming heart To clothe and heal and feed. I said: "For here is God indeed With gifts to those who prayed in vain." Their eyes were wide with lust and greed, Their chins were pinched with pain. And the Angel of the Lord was sent To scourge me with a biting rod, With lail and flame, With fear and shame He lashed me with the wrath of God.
IV.
He drives me with his lightning sword From peace and love and piteous crowd, To find the City of the Lord, And shout his name aloud. For there, from vale and barren peak, I prophesied in ancient days, And all the world that hears me speak Shall rise to sing His praise. For the Angel of the Lord is sent To save us with his patient rod, From shame and greed Our thirst for deed Will drive us to the wells of God.