The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
SERMON BY ANALYSING.
KAHL MONTGOMERY MoURNs
 FOR M'KINLEY.
sioquent Rabbi Speaks Tenderly of the Nations Dead at the New Year Serviee Held Yes-
 terday Morning.

hani Montgomery, the Jewish temple. Mekin,sno I ~oarning a.ag yse;sterday for President called the congregation together was the ceieoration of ROsh Hassanah' or New w;s reari put the sad news that had been seemed to Ss sonalo in the morning m,nu, @ ana the services yesterday almost service sr,, III he nor of William Mckinley. :, long steamers of crepe hung from the ark and were gathered in graceful f.lds pe1cre the shrine. Another audience that Cd Rabbi Messing and many were inn peaied to ttars when reference was made to the atIccious crime which robbed The nation nat of It's Chief Executive. The en- CT service and while the soft cadences of the organ flooded chanccl aisles and r.es raa. 2I the synagogue. fervently re- besso bbaas Ine haoolsh. or Praver for the The subject of Rabbi Messing's sermon was Shadow and Substance" and touch cd upon the distinction that should be made upon the visible and the invisible. the ideal and the real. the body and tho. souI. Ins text was from Zechariah. iv. 6: nv Noa os peser and not by nlght. but iew of the more important para raPhs of the sermon were as follows: Tt has been said that in his heart ev- .~-@fs eD NnhAASF ~ Gt1AUftABk or 6n AffS- toteiian. Although he may never have iormniated a philosophy unto himself ft IS hesd that every man believes either fin iha thatter ss nse only ultimate reality, or yafing essence in wh'ch material tf,iags f. ind their neaning and their interprefa-
 But there is no reason to adopt either extreme. To him who shuts his eyes tO the things of time and sense, and derlies the existence Of anything outside the soul. wo say with Byron:
 When Bishop Berkeley says there Is It is no matter what Bishop Berkeley
 ssys.
 While to him who Is So immersed fin me things that he can grasp and see as we say with Hamlet:
 There are more things in Heaven and Than are dreampt of in our philosophy
 Most persons doubtless if you place before them a paving stone and q slip Of paper with some writing on it would not hesitate to say that there Is as much more sBt starce in the rock as there is heaviness. Yet they might make a ereat I mistake Suppose that the slip of paper ated equal" or Thou shalt love thy naiehbor as thy self" then the paper con tains more force and suhets nee than the l SLOltS kbeAfeu ana NAtIn may pas away but such v'ofds can never die out or | become less real
 We talk of a world of matter, hut in reality there is no such world. Every thing about Us Is a mari ihge Of matter and spirit This stun which we weigh | and handle and tread upon iS only the | show Of invisible substances the facts | over which subtle and mighty forces prevail. The prominent lesson of science to men is this--faith in the invisible. the intangible.
 "T To- the smallest dust which floats upon l the wind,
 Bears tris strong impress of the eternal mind
 See how applicable the principle we are considering is tU ifIv ia history. Every house. wOl kshop school
 cOes sne1 theStre what Is the sne of them is built of brick and wood and l mortal. but the forces by which they | are upheld, are ideas. affections: pas. sions. conceptions of worship, Strike. 0u' these invisible substances from peo- ples mind and heart and its homes tenn. ples. colleges and art-rooms would fall | away like the crIImbling clay in the i'm age of Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
 The history of warfare and battle also
 testIfieg that not by power and not D, might but by. the spirit doth the right finally triumph. Do you say that supe rior guns won the victory at Manila oi Santiago say it was superior men be- hind the gune-men grown strong Tn tnf nurture of free institutions, the cOnsuIn- mate flower of the worlds chivalry
 Our doctrine is also proved by the fa,:' that the present power Of a nation ii made up in part of generations of past years whose bodily forms have long agt mo dIdeT ed into dust. Does Judaism consist 1 merely of some 4,000.0O0 men and wOmer that inhabit our globe today? How truly do the priests and prophets. the kings and sages, the philosophers and poets, which the Hebrew people have given to the world belong to our conception of what Judaism is. Let a hostile country oppress Israel and try to tread out her spirit and her influence and 1t would find tha
 turies. For though Jewish merchants and traders and mechanics little think O it in time of peace and perhaps care no
 half fig for the men that lived centuries ago, still Isaiah and Moses, the Macca
 bees and the sage Akiba, Heine and Men delssc hn, the martrys of the lnIuisitioI
 and those everywhere who gave up thei lives that this cause might live-thes
 stand in the background and in an emer gency would start forward and by the
 spirit strengthen our arms against al
 invading foe. These hre not uead facI
 written on mute annals. They are part o our present substance and shape tn forces of our national character.
 | Character is one of the prominent sub
 stances of the wOrld-yet it is unseen. in
 visible. It is this which made the nam l Washington more efflcaCious than al 1 army" and the mere mention of the nam
 Napoleon in itself half victory.
 !" This morning finds our nation wrap
 heart is with that lovely woman annie