The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-13
IN THE JEWISH PULP|TS.
DR.. Jacob NIeto Discusses
"EarneStneSS vs.. En-
thuSiaSm."
Professor Senger on 1.-THE Life and
Works OF Heinrich
Helne."

Good attendance was the rule at the
Hebrew places of worship last night.
Preaching at the Taylor-street Synagogue
asm," DR.. Jacob Nieto said:
To use the words of Schiller, "Earnestness"
tries to foresee a result and attendant Incl
dents, while Enthusiasm" never considers the
sacrifice and is constantly making it.
"Earnestness," it might be argued, is the
steady fixity of purpose by which man en-
deavors to carry out some object or matured
plan, the result of ambition, personal or gen.
eral. This fixity of purpose induces the tenac-
ity, courage and fortitude which are necessary
to- Withstand the onslaughts of Opposition and
adverse circumstances over and above the
induced discretion which makes man
calculate every step and force every accident
into that groove which will carry him on to
success. Enthusiasm is like the furious boil
ing of a kettle, under which a strong flame is
placed. As long as there is fuel to feed the fire
the combustion the water will boil, steam
will be emitted and force enough wasted,
which, If treasured up and properly directed,
would mean great deal Take the flame
away, the water ceases to boil, steam is no
more emitted; energy is dead.
Hundreds of plans for the benefit of society
and communities are daily conceived and only
because it falls to the lot OF the enthusiast in
stead of the man of earnest endeayor they
terminate in failure.
At the Temple Emanuel Professor Sen.
ger of the University of California occu-
pied the pulpit last evening. The learned
professor entertained his audience with a
lengthy lecture descriptive of the life and
work of Heinrich Heine. He said:
The critics of Heine have compared him to
Aristotle, CervanteS, Beranger, Voltafre,
Schiller and Shakespeare, and for every COM
parison there is good and sufficient reason.
After q summary of the history of Prussia
and of its struggle for freedom the lecturer
gave some account of the birth and times Of
the German poet:
He was born in Dusseldorf, in 1899. For a
short time and against his will he was occu-
versities of Berlin and Gottingen, at which
latter place he took the degree of Doctor of
Laws. In 1927 he published book of songs,
which created a sensation. He criticized the
reactionary politics of the times, which at once
precluded the possibility of his obtaining that
which he sought--n Government appointment
Particularly severe were his writings anent
the public censor, against whom he waged in
cesSaDt war.
In a few years Heine went to reside in Paris,
and Immediately became one OF the literary
lights of the French capital. Alexander Dumas
said of him, when he heard of the indignities
heaped on Heine's head in Germany:
If Germany refuses to recognize Heine, we
will adopt him as one of us; but, alas, Heine
loves Germany more than us.
fact that Heines was the greatest mind in the
German literary world In 1S4S he was stricken
with paralysis, and seven years after he died
and was buried at the foot of Montmartre. The
stone which marks his grave bears the simple
inscription "Heinrich Heine."