In the course of those twenty years of service, Adolf Moses established this congregation as a leading force in the young Reform movement and a ground breaking influence toward the close interfaith ties which have been the hallmark of our congregation and our community ever since. He counted among his closest friends the president of Southern Baptist Seminary, Dr. Broaddus, the president of Presbyterian Seminary, Dr. Hemphill, the Catholic Bishop of Louisville, the Episcopal Bishop, the pastor of the Unitarian Church, the Monsignor of the Cathedral of the Assumption, and the minister of Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church. He preached from all of their pulpits. And each of them preached from our own. In music and song, the din and confusion of creeds cease at once.
All souls are of one faith.
For this language is free from the limitations of thought, from the tyranny of logical categories, from all the fetters of common speech. Music does not deal with particulars. It hovers, an uncaught bird, in the pure divine air of the universal, the spiritual. Music is the spirit of harmony which moves as the principle of unity above the parts, giving them meaning and beauty. God is the living harmony of the universe, the creative Unity of nature and humanity.