The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-27
MR.. NEwBERGER's ADDRESS.

MIX NEWBERGERS Address.
Mr.. Louis Newberger, made an address COW
ering the main points in the life of the great
philanthropist, concluding as follows:
What a man the silver cord of whose giant
life o'erlaps century What vicissitudes can
he recount from the annals of his long enduring
experienced What changes have been wrought
within the cycle of his existence! His birth
found the Jewish people, of every nation except
ours, struggling for the recognition of their
natural rights, or trembling for their very exist
ence. The dark ages already belonged to the
remote past and the of the Christian Ret
ormation was brightly shining; but its rays had
not warmed the hearts of the benghted people.
France ostracised them; Spain traduced them;
Germany reviled them; Russia exiled them, and
Rome, holding these governments in the hollow
of her hand vilifed and cursed them; and even
America did not love them, while the votaries of
all religions, for no substantial reason, which
either history tradition names, heartily de-
spised them England dominated by the new
church, that for a freer conscience had broken
away from the old merely tolerated them.
What 3 change His centennial dawns upon
the race, measurably freed from the bondage of
religious prescription, and keeping even pace
with the march of an advancing civilization. He
has lived to see his people attain the highest
rank in all the learned professions, to see their
names among the votaries of science, literature,
and art and taking an honorable place in the
channels of commerce and trade. To see them
in all the walks of life, wherever a Just Provi-
Q6nCe was pleased 10 place Jne1n acQultt1ng them
selves with credit and distinction. He has lived
to see them enter the halls of modern legislation
and state, and with his outstretched hand has
welcomed one of his people as the Premier of
England
He has seen them doing battle for the flag that
gave them and their homes protection; and, what
must be his proudest satisfaction, his ehiefest
Joy, he has seen them emerge from centuries of
bondage and persecution; from terror and torture;
from almost infinite punishment in this life, and
threats of worse in the next-he has seen them
emerge from all this with the mantle of their
ancient faith about them, and preserving even
the forms and ceremonies which the high priest
exempllhed before the Holy City was first de-
stroyed. Over this panorama of progress and
advancement, as pictured upon his far reaching
memory, Sir Moses looks to-day.
What vision to cheer the heart of this ven
cradle mani No painters brush can touch the
canvas to expression of such ecstacy and
joy. His work is finished, but his
life is still spared, and the influence of his vir
tues and deeds goes on. Blessings to-day from
the north SOUTH east and west, travelling as by
the wings of love, pour in upon him. Those
who, in distant lands, in years gone by uttered
the Macedonian cry: Come over and help u.s."
send 10 him the tenderest congratulations, and
offer up the most heartfelt prayers. Already the
prayers of the synagogues of the four holy cities
whose benedictions he asked for our last mar
tyred President, have assembled for him.
His stately home on the East Cliff, overlooking
the ocean waves, is filed with testimonials in
There o-night, old in years and young in
spirits, sits Sir Moses Montefore, not alone
waiting for the receding tide to bear him upon
the bosom of the ocean of eternity, but, rather
as beacon light, pointing the weary mariner,
tossed upon Iife's rough sea, to q haven beyond,
blasted in century's toll from the rocks of
truth and humanity.
REV. o. c. M'cULLoCH's ADDRESS
Rev o. G. McCulloch, of the Plymouth Con-
gregational Church, was then introduced and
spoke as follows:
Friends-I count it an honor to join with you
in the celebration of the hundredth anniversary
of Sir Moses Mo ntefore. While of your relig
ion an honorable and feryent worshper of the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he belongs to
the world. Charity knows no name AS one of
your rabbis has said There is no Hebrew hui
manity. Humanity is neither Hebrew nor
Christian So much we have learned in these
our days of broad and sunny philanthropy" His
generous endeavors to secure justice his lavish be-
nevolence has known no religious limitations 1t
has been broad as human need. So he becomes
one of those names that tho world delights to
honor; names which makes us proud that one of
human race can so far forget himself as to re-
member all; names which make us hope that In
time to come many more shall do likewise
The occasion that draws us together this even
ing is not merely that man has attained the
unusual age of a hundred years. Simple exist
ence is little. 1t is not a question of years, but
what we do with our years that history asks.
remember to have seen in my boyhood an old
French voyageur who died 1873 years DID, but
his existence was not life. Tennyson says:
Better fifty years of Europe
Than cycle of Cathay."
What is done in the years with the yearsl This
makes life significant Time is only an oppor
tunity to the soul
This honored and venerable man, whose cen
tenna we celebrate, has found in his life oppor
tunity for doing good, and has used each year
for that purpose. With him life has been time
in which to relieve distress. His splendid abil-
ties have been consecrated to that purpose His
wealth has been used as a trust One hundred
years of doing good! What an opportunity. 1t
was not enough to be "born red and die grey"
The story of his life has been told YOU bv