The herald., 1897-03-22
OPEN HEARTS
Rabbi Solomon Discusses
Practical Charity
CHRISTIANS HERITAGE
Mans Right TO Be Called the
Child OF God
SEVERAL SUNDAY SERMONS
The Invisible Relationships Of Human
Existence
SEVERAL SUNDAY SERMONS
The Invisible Relationships Of Human
Existence
Popular Sentiment the Moving Force 10 the
Community
Memorial Ordinances of the Christian
Religion-Latest Methods of Sunday
School Work Explained by
Professor Hamll

Upon Friday evening Rabbi Solomon
preached at the Tabernacle B'nai
Birth upon the subject of the unemploy-
ed, saying, In part, as follows:
1 shall speak tonight upon a matter
of vital Importance. a matter that con-
Germs the poor and needy Of this our
community; to provide work for the
community: To provide work for the
worthy unemployed of our city--Prac-
tical Charity.
To call upon public charity is a nat
ural sequence of poverty; could we Grad
icate the one. there would be little occa-
sion for the other In prosperous times,
when a thousand hands turn the
wheels OF commerce and industry when
each and all of us are offered ample
opportunity to earn livelihood, there
IL scarce a demand for charity. Only
when vehement blasts of cashing in
terests disturb the placid sea of society;
when thick and heavy clouds of want
of confidence cover the horizon of enter
prise; when the warm rays of the golden
sun, prosperity. are broken In their
course, when the loom Of nations well
fare, labor, is suspended; when the
blazing fires of her breadyielding in
dustries are extinguishedI-then, and
then only, we see the crew of the ship of
state stranded, cropping about in misery
then men shiver with cold and women
are clothed In tatters, and children cry
for bread. and want, and privation; the
most frightful specters stalk about in
the community. Charity. therefore, is
the outgrowth of abnormal social con-
ditions, the sum total of which is pow
erty.
But poverty, we must remember, is
not q property of humanity; 1t Is rather
an, accident; 1t owes its existence to
man . inability to manage his affairs to
the interest both of his own and his
neighbor. Thus his incompetency to
recognize the interdependence of human
interests has been, and is still. the cause
Of much misery In this world.
Poverty is, as said, not property of
humanity. but an accident, and due en-
tirely to mans inability to manage his
affairs. to his incompetency to recognize
the interdependence of human interests.
Has the poor laborer claim upon public
charity? Yes, he has! This country
was developed and built up no less by
Drawn than by brain.
Is 1t advisable. is It profitable to stand
by the side of the unemployed working
man, to provide work for him? Yes. 1t is
For, IL of the social elements one has
gained upon the other. then a nations
welfare is In a precarious and critical
condition. History teaches us this sig-
nificant and thoughtful lesson over and
over again Yes, a peoples well being
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nistic elements are kept in constant
equipoise, just as the existence of this
planet. in its present shape and form. by
the alternating process OF land erosion
and land formation. A constant gain OF
land upon water, or water upon land.
would mean the extinction of all ter
restrial organic life, and an uninter-
rupted encroachment of one class upon
the other-the decay and ruin of So
ciety. As the tributaries that pour their
waters into the choked channel of
mighty stream remove the obstruction
and restore its how so must we, by as
sisting the poor and needy, counteract
and prevent social stagnation.
But some of YOU say: What can we
do. We who form but small commun-
ity? NY friends Israel was always but
2 small community, and yet he has
done Tor humanity more than any of the
largest nations recorded in history. He
suppressed slavery, even though in its
bloom among all the people Of this age,
cultured pagan Greece and Rene not
excepted. His delegation made pro-
vision for the poor and needy. for the
widow and the orphan, nay. even for
the destitute stranger within his gates
-pauperism could not thrive upon Jew
ish sofia fact which stands unique in
ancient history. His charitable insti-
tutions were in operation long before any
other charity began to do its good work.
Even when driven from his home he had
wherever he chanced to dwell his be-
nevolent societies. charities of all kinds,
feeding and housing the hungry and
0helterless, clothing the naked, visiting
the sick, burying the dead, and many
others. Now that we are called upon
by our fellow citizens to contribute our
mite to the worthy cause, should we
stand idle and do nothing for the alle-
Walton of misery In our community, we,
whose ancestors were frst and foremost
In works OF charity; We, whose orphan
asylums, whose hospitals whose in
f1rmaries and old homes, are, and will
always be. the pride and glory Of Israel?
No, indeed! The Jewish heart beats.
as ever, for humanity, and none of US.
am certain, will hesitate, even for mo-
ment, to answer promptly to this call for
charity-if he has not already done so--
and to contribute literally towards the
fund now being raised to provide work
for the worthy unemployed of our CITY.
BY doing 60 we shall alleviate not only
much misery among the destitute Of our
city, but even further. and promote the
interests Of ours as those Of our fellow
men-the peace and we'll being of thisi
our country. Amen.