El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-04
JEWISH TEMPLE CONSECRATED.
Continued from 4th psge.)

CONTINUED from 4th psge.)
true spirit of brotherhood. We rejoice
| with you today. In speaking for my
| own church believe l speak for the
other Christian denominations when
1 say: I'VE pray Gods blessing upon
you every one." We have long wished
| with you that this day might come
| when you would have q temple in
which you could meet and worship God
and have to lead you beside the green
pastures and still waters q true servant
OF God. IT'S true we differ in come
things in our beliefs and this must be
true, but never let US forget the great
common standing ground there is for
US all. Malachi has said so beautifully:
Have we not all one father? Hath
not one God created us?'' We all have
the same pains, the same sicknesses,
the same SORROWS, the same hopes, the
same joys. We sincerely pray to ar
rive at the same beautiful heaven. How
often have we met at the same sick
beds and there shed the same tears of
sympathy. Around many casket where
some dear one lay with folded arms
have we stood-Jew and Christian
and for each other has flowed the ten
deress sympathy, and after we have
laid the loved one to rest amid the
mournful marbles of thescemetery have
we not sat down and talked over to-
gether of the heavenly country toward
which we look with anxious eyes, and
of the resurrection fdaybresk which
shall chase away all ssnadows. Why
should we not love one another and
why not meet today in the temper Of
kindness and fellowship?
On the great moral questions that
confront us as community
should we not stand shoulder to shout
der? for it WAS Solomon who said
'Righteousness exalteth q nation but
sin is reproach to any people," We
should march against vice and dis
obedience to law in our city as one
| man. 1t is said that the soldiers of
| Alexander in the crises in battle would
come together and lock shields and
march as one man to victory or to
death. So should we in or ises lock
| shields that we may build up here the
true spiritual Israel of God. The co
operation of the good is essential for q
city's true life.
In social. educational, philanthropic
work, we too can cooperate. Above all
| things let US each see the good in the
other and remember we are brothers.
1t has often been q matter OF comment
that the relation between the Jewish
and Christian population of our city
has been so cordial. That this may
continue is our prayer. It is as it
should ever be. The new testament
says, "Be that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen how can. he love
God whom he hath not SEEM" OF one
thing l am sure that man is never more
like God than when he loves, for God
is love-" and history tells me that the
church has had her most splendid
epochs when her great heart has glow
ed with love to every man.
ole %
stand better one another religiously.
cannot help but feel that so long rs
Judaism and Christianity stand SO
far aloof each will continue to ascribe
to the other the vices of its most I'M
worthy representatives. But when
they meet and learn to know one an
other better they will find agreat COM
Its best. Then each can have for the
other the highest respect and good
will. And so today in this spirit we meet
you in this temple of
once more the spirit of God may
descend and dwell among you in your
life today as it did among the holy
men and prophets of the olden time,
lighting the world as 1t did for them
with the radiance of the skies, and so
make known to this community the
faith, the love, the hope. the victory
that is in you.
Allow me to say we are glad with
you that God has cent you such one
as d.. Cohen to give you from Sab
in this beautiful temple. May God
bless you and him with that mutual
love and sympathy in all your labors
for righteousness. May you up hold
his hand as did Aaron the
hand of Moses on the mount-when
the battle waged below. Your hearty
support for him in every way, your
prayers, your constant words of cheer
will gladden. his heart and cause him
times.
A clergyman once had q dream. In
it he saw coach being drawn up a
hill. Some men and women were pull
ing at the tongue and others were
pushing at the wheel. In his dream
he looked again and saw that one-half
the men and women had gotten inside
the coach and bad left the other half
pulling away. When he looked the
third time only one man was at the
tongue and one woman at the wheel
and all the others were sitting down
contentedly inside the coach. How
often at first at a church dedication
does every one heave away, but how
often too soon after, the pastor and his
This is not true with my church and 1
trust it may not be so with the Mt.
Sinai congregation.
Your rabbits duties are not easy, but
If in his duties he is assured of your
love, your earnest cooperation, then
duty will be sweet-snd we pray that
he rs your shepherd may lead you
from Sabbath to Sabbath to Nebo's
height and show you afar off the
beautiful land of promise with it's