The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-18
BY RABBI S. ROUBINS
BE Addresses a Congregation Of About
200 Jews.
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Rabbi 8. Roubins of San Francisco.
who has come to Butte to make an ef-
fort to organize a Jewish Sunday
school, and ultimately establish a
conversation and build a synagogue. |
delivered an address to about 200 Jews
last evening at X. of p. hall. Every /
seat was occupied. His subject was. |
Peoples Conception OF God and the |
God idea According to Judaism" and
his text was the 18th verse of the ssrd |
chapter of Exodus. The rabbi said:
1--WE Jews can be proud of having four
great men. all bearing the name Of
Moses. at different periods in the
worlds history, who have taken a great
interest IN the promotion of Judaism.
There was the first Moses who we read
released the Israelites from slavery
and gave them wise and prudent laws
which afterwards became the basis OF
Christianity. The second Moses was
Moses Monides. who lived in the elev-
enth and twelfth century and expound-
ed the laws given by the former. Then
there were Moses Mendelssohn Of the
eighteenth century and Moses Monted-
ore, the great English philanthropist OF
our own century, who put these laws
into practice. Each Moses was appoint
Father of mankind to teach a lesson
to humanity in general and to Israel
ties in particular. Moses Montef1ore
has shown us in our own time that
great riches do not prevent a man from
being a true Jew. He was not ashamed
of his Jewish descent and he was the
embodiment of all that Is good and
pure. He gave to charity with an open
hand and built school houses for the
purpose of educating Jewish children
in Christianity and morality. I regret
to see that you have no Jewish Sunday
school in Butte. Your children are born
Goddess, live as atheists and leave the
world in despair. regret to say this,
my friends, but you feel in the bottom
| of your hearts that you have not done
your duty.
Every preacher tries to make peo-
| pie believe that he is so intimate with
| God that he knows all of His likes and
dislikes, and what He wants man to do
| and what not to do. Every preacher
| pretends to be an expounder of the
| Bible and to know more about 1t than
| those who wrote IL. Who Is this mys-
FERROUS being called God? Where does
| He reside? The character and attrib-
utes of God are different with all men
and are to a great extent the reflection
| of each mans mind and ideas. 1t Is the
belief of the benevolent that God too ie
4 benevolent and merciful and kind. God
| does not discriminate between the Jew
and the Gentle, the white and the
black, the ignorant and the learned
| men or women. The kindness which
are not intended as a reward for their
| good deeds, but as an encouragement
1 to them to continue. in their good
works. Such is the belief of the upper
class Of people. The lower class believe
4 God to be a hard-hearted and revenge
ExxIt k.n.fx- Id t. 60 F.xI -
ing who sometimes affiicts the world
with famine, pestilence and plague to
| remind people of His existence. Which
do you like best, the kind and merciful
God or the revengeful one?
There are two passages in the Bible
| which seem TO contradict each other
One Is that which says that God will
visit the sins of the father upon the
children and the other says that the
father should not be punished with
death on account of the sins of the
children, or the children on account oil
the sins of the father. The former Is
the belief of the wicked and the latter
that of the righteous. Let us look al
the God idea as conceived by other
classes of people. The god of the rich
man Is the mighty dollar and his taber
nacle is the iron safe. The rich mar
cannot conceive of a spiritual God, fol
ne knows by experience that 1t is tn,
| mighty dollar that rules the world
and that 1t is money that gives promi
hence and power. The rich bow dowr
before the shrine of mammon. Nam
mon Is a very powerful god, although
robbery and fraud and cheat are hi
/ chief attributes. Mammon often strikes
/ the police with blindness, the 'publi'
prosecutor with dumbness, the Judg'
, with deafness and the jury with 81
lence Mammon being so powerful,
is no wonder that ne is being jealous,
A. 49, x~fA6 raf1a 10 In rrfat
( of the rich But when sorrow and trou
E BILE and sickness and death enter tn
! rich mans house he becomes aware o
the folly OF his idleness. He sends hi
{ idol to the house of the true God II
order to appease His wrath. but II
Of no avail. God wants mems hearts
2 not their dollars. The God idea of tn
e person on his deathbed greatly depend
! on the kind of life ne has led. Tn
righteous man sees the pearly gate
ewing open with Joy and happiness an
bliss. He sees there loving Fathe
: welcoming his beloved SON home. II
Is not afraid of death. because II
| merely q transition from a sorrowfl
; state to a gloriously happy one.
. the sinful man on his deathbe
e sees in God a severe and implacabl
I Judge, and woe to him IL he be foun
4 guilty. He will be sent TO he'll. wher
T the devil and his angels await him an
:. the fires are burning. The God idea c
8 Judaism that Is God, Is the mind an
y soul of the universe. He presides owe
> our movements and actions, and ther
Is not single spot where His powt
Is not manifested"
r In conclusion, the speaker said:
!. don't know the reason for your havin
no congregation. no synagogue and n
Sunday school In Butte. The only res
4 | son can see Is that you don't considt
a | .-o,,rsaixras rich enoElZh to bufld a tai
! ernacle worthy of IsraePs God. Bl
God is not unreasonable. and He dos
not need a large or a fine building. II
n will be satisfied with a modest stru
n ture az the commencement. A gre
many people come TO Butte TO prospe'
mines in search Of gold. silver and co;
n per. 1 have come mere to prospect q
4 mines in your heart. There are treal
ures there. religion. benevolence. kin.
ness and charity. that are more valu.