Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;June 20, 1867 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;June 20, 1867

Author

M. R. Miller

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

20 June 1867

Location(s)

Senecaville

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).

Legal

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32n50439/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32n50439

Physical Characteristics

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

Senecaville O. June 20. 1867.
Mr. Leeser.
Dear Sir,
As I have the impression that you never read the “Israelite” I take the liberty to send you the inclosed article cut from the Israelite. I thought it would be interesting to you to learn that thoughts so favorable to the reality of miracles appear in that paper. I take it for granted that this article is much more agreeable to your views than the treatment which the same subject and the manna receive in Dr. Wise's History.
In contending, however, for the historical truth of miracles. I am afraid that among your people we have now a mighty current against us. When I was in Cincinnati more than a year ago, examining the Licking Co. relics, I met a Mr. Moering, an aged Israelite, who told me that he believed that the whole Jewish commu=nity were sliding into the views of Drs Lilienthal and Wise on miracles, and that these men would succeed in what they had undertaken so that in twenty years orthodox Judaism would be lost. And what appeared to me stranger he himself appeared to look on it as all right. He intimated that there might have been some con=cealed knowledge and use of gunpowder by Moses in the destruction of the company of Korah.
The common way of speaking of such things among Gentiles is just this, that the Jews are now going right into infidelity, and that they are proving unfaithful to their great trust in the preservation of the truth.

Do not understand me however as writing these things to discourage you. It is one comfort that though error may triumph for an age or century, time will eventually give truth the unfading victory.
Excuse me for this interruption of your studies by a few friendly words, and believe me
Yours most respectfully,
M. R. Miller.

Identifier

LSDCBx9FF16_19

Date

1867-06-20