Sabin O. Orgler, widely known as the “Jewish Mystic” and organizer of the “Seed of Abraham,” has returned to New York from a year’s tour of the United States depressed, he says, by the spiritual lethargy apparent everywhere, elated by the spiritual response to his lectures by the youth in every community where he has spoken and half starved because material aid has rarely been forthcoming.
Accompanied by two young men, Harry Miller and Harry Malinbaum, whom eight years ago he brought to his own viewpoint, he travelled as far west as California, and as far south as Texas.
The “Jewish Mystic” spoke at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and before the Jewish People’s Institute in Chicago, among other institutions.
In spite of the great good which the group of three was accomplishing, Mr. Orgler told a representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, they were compelled to suffer privation, hunger and the mortification of having almost to beg for a night’s lodging.
On many occasions, according to Mr. Orgler, the audience made up a purse for him and his disciples, but organized religious and communal groups have stood and are standing aloof from him, including even those groups who have offered him forums.
They made the journey across the country on foot, and did manual labor in order to secure a modicum of food. They stopped in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Tyler, Dallas, El Paso, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Denver, Wichita.
In San Francisco, through the cooperation of the Northern California Board of Jewish Ministers, a large mass meeting was arranged.
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