'Because we have a mission to the nations. We must live dispersed. We have to preach the unity of God.'
'I have never heard you preach it. You lowered your voice when you denounced the Trinity to me, lest the Christians should hear.'
'We have to preach silently, by our example. Merely by keeping our own religion we convert the world.'
'But who keeps it? Dispersion among Sunday-keeping peoples makes our very Sabbath an economic impossibility.'
'I have not found it so,' said Sir Asher crushingly. 'Indeed, the growth of the Saturday half-holiday since my young days is a remarkable instance of Judaizing.'
'So we have to remain dispersed to promote the week-end holiday?'
'To teach international truth,' Sir Asher corrected sharply; 'not narrow tribalism.'
'But we don't remain dispersed. Five millions are herded in the Russian Pale to begin with.'
'The Providence of God has long been scattering them to New York.'
'Yes, four hundred thousand in one square mile. A pretty scattering!'