The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-14
SERVICE OF SORROW
JEWISH NEW YEARS JOY TURN
ED TO MOURNING.
ADDRESS OF DR.. EISENBERG
Eloquent Words Moved Hearers to
Tears-Jewish People Shared in the
General Grieving-A Notable
Patriotic Gathering.

This morning at the NJ f. church
South the Jewish people of the city of
Butte gathered to observe their New
Year. The church was crowded with an
immense congregation and the usual
ceremonies of the day were observed in
the customary manner. Rabbi Mann
heimer delivered "a sesHnon and it was
listened to with reYerdAt attention.
But an air OF more nan religious quiet
pervaded the place. OYER all was spread
the weight or woe thaE had fallen upon
Butte and it's people When the news of
President McKinley's death was received.
| Ihere are no more patriotic people in the
land than the men in whose veins flow
Jewish blood. So, in the gathering called
to. celebrate the Jewish New Year. a
service of sorrow was held and fitting
and eloquent tributes paid to the mem
| ory of the nations fallen ruler.
William Gallick was the presiding Off
| Ger and he asked Dr. Maurice Eisen-
berger. who occupied seat in the con-
| gregation to come to the platform and
| address the gathering upon the sad
theme with which all hearts We're bowed.
! The address delivered by the eloquent
rabbi in responding to this request was q
| notable one. The listeners were moved
| to tears as the eloquent words of the
| speaker fell in impressive manner upon
| their ears. The scene was perhaps the
most impressive ever seen in church
of any denomina ton in Butte. DIR. Eisen-
berger address, which was entirely ex-
temporaneous, was in part, as follows:
know We not that a prince and great
man has this day fallen in Israel?'
'My friends: Standing on the threshold
of New Year; congratulated as are the
Srioy7 0f dol oil t1,o cr1l Tn,
| their houses of prayer, invoking divine
grace and life. the hush of sorrow is
upon our lips. our sous are anguished.
our eyes are dimmed our festal day is
| turned into mourning, because of the
national calamity which has befallen our
beloved country. Yesterday, while the
sun yelled in his crimson robe sunk be-
meath the western horizon and Israel
wendell his steps to celebrate the adj
vent of a new era, to be ushered in with
| the twilight shadows. the great soul of
| the truest, noblest, the most patriotic
| and best beloved citizen of our glorious
land. was wnging itself heavenward,
and in it's flight plunged eighty millions
! of liberty loving citizens into an abyss of
| tears, sorrow and sadness. The crown
| has fallen from the head Of our nation!
| A scepter lies broken at liberty's throne
A star, whose mellow light she'd lustre
| Incompatible over this land. is extin-
| guished in our erstwhile bright f1rma-
ment. The high priest has been stricken
| by the murderous hand Of fiendish as
sassin, while sacrificing at the sacred
altar of universal Justice, equality and
| freedom. and the temple of liberty is
| draped in sackcloth and ashes!
| '"This is neither time nor place to elab-
! crate on the manifold traits of greatness
nh = nd On
| nobly graced the brow of our much la
| mented chieftain. fully realize the fact
| that the most eloquent tribute can pay
at this hour to our illustrious and most
beloved dead, is silence. Yet when re-
viewing the stainless. the heroic. the
lovable and sweet disposition of Presi-
dent Mckinley I am forced to exclaim
with Mark Anthony over the body of
Brutus: This was the noblest Roman
of them all. His life was gentle. and the
elements so mixed in him that nature
might stand up and say to all the world
This was man.
After speaking most patheticaliy OF tine
great services President Mckinley rem
dered the nation, during the past four
years, in ushering in an era of UNI
parallel prosperity. DR.. Eisenberger
compared his closing scene to the great
Jewish leader Moses. He said:
Like unto Moses, our beloved leader,
too, prayed, Let me pass over this Jor-
dan and see the goodly land, the land of
PROMISE He, too. was anxious. oh! so
anxious to lead this great nation into
the Canaan flowing with the milk of HUI
man liberty and the honey of plenty and
prosperity. but like unto his prototype,
the command came. in the noontide OF
his life. Ascend Pisgah's heights and
view the land golden with promise. but
thither thou shalt not enter
did he murmur? Did he complain?
No But with that religious resignation.
which ever marked his life, he clasped