The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-01
AppREss Oh MR. 9. ". kIpo
Delivered Before the a'oai e'dth Con

Order OF B'Nai Birth, at Its last ami
versary, held in this city.
II so happened that your speaker was
induced TO appear before this representa-
tive audience, through tho persuasive pow
or Of a few Of his Hebrew frlends-not
realizing then as he has since, and espe
| cially at this juncture. the embarrassment
of his name--a layman's-beng on the pro-
gram associated with learned and dis
tingulshed rabhls. 1t may seem strange
also to some, who have not read deeply.
! that follower Of tile Nazarene should
have been chosen for this position OF
! honor, while those OF broad views, widely
/ differ from them.
Homo sum- humani nihii ne alenum
| pnto''-'I nm man, and in fun syinpa.
| thy with my fellow citizens"
The like honor has been conferred be
| fore when Rabbi Noorsanger that
learned and eloquent man. ofGclatcd In the
| Houston synagogue. when ] took part In
| the memorial services Of that worldro
\ nowned phlIanihroplst, Montefore. aud
/ again when the spirit Of the talented, low
able, and greatly lamented Rabbi Lazarus
| passed to It's maker,
Malachi wrote: ''Haye we not all one
! Father? Hath not one God created us"
Peter said: God Is no respectcr Of per
sons, but In every nation he that feareih
Him. and worketh righteousness, is ac-
ceptable unto Him"
The first Greek ever learned, before
my teens, and still fresh in my memory,
reads In this wise;
"In the beginning was the Word and
1 the Word was with God, and the Word was
God, The same was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by Him; and
| without Him WAS not anything made that
This Independent Order of Bnal Birth
/ convention; these "brethren of the cove
nant,N here assembled viii have for dis
asylums, the widows homes, the schools
under their charge and OF these last Ooid
never wrote more htting stanza--
"Adde quod ingenuos dldicisse adelter
Emoiiii mores, nee slnit esse feros"
besides the widening and expanding of
their missionary labor Of love, IN order
to accomplish greater good,
These matters however, IL Is Inferred
II is NV province merely to allude to, as
they properly belong 10 those learned men,
occupying oficlnl positions whose duty 1t
plans for the future. While this Is true,
II Will not be out Of place, on my part,
TO speak of the great race from which
they sprung. whose impress has been felt
frou the early dawn Of civilization 10 the
present era, aud incidentally some of heir
merry trials and prosecutions. VINO does
not remember when pratting child AZ
his mothers knees, he heard the story OF
Aprahan. tnot lust ah9 g9ou man anu Irue ,
Of answering fnlth Ia MS Goa. whose
bosom has not been agiow when read
ing the wonderul history OF Moses res
gned BY Pharaoh daughter, when seem
ingy an abandoned infant amid the bull
PUSHES ON the waters OF the Nile; his edu-
cation In all the learning or me courts
81 that marvellous people, me Egyptl4iin i'
Them on over sandy deserts TO victory
nus rcllfacy I9r IoIty Ee9rs III n stauge
SFoudIfg grUMis "a, " b " tha fpr
Ionhae khqWleuge 1ar peyu9q Inal OF VIZ
Eg} ptlans-lor humhhlN sp@lklhs ~ sou,
tude tnere Is power let ne eommuhen
: not with his own heart only, but with
his God! Then his return to Pharaoh s
court, IN another chafAcler; ana hnailY
rescuing ms people from bohuaee ana le3u
his sight pndlmmed, and his n9tural force
ny ts aeatea MS one uIn3r t ana i"eh
.
q | on NcpoS lonely mountain,
On this side jordans wave,
~ vale IN the land OF Moan,
= Ihere lies q Lonely ertNe-
4 And no man dug MS sepulcher
y And no man suN u Ger
VI For The angels OF God
+ Uptwued the sod
y And lnld the dead man there!
u
= Again the wonderful line Of successors
. 50 graphically described IN Kings, peute
n ronomy ard Judges, without p1usm$ 60
u speak OF the Inspired prophet Isaiah, Jefe
q NAH, Ezekiel, Dauiel and the sweet
= psamist Of Israel.
= Ihe cuneitoim leblets ,eHcayated ny sew
?; eral expeditions Of late date from beneath
u the ruins of Babylon and confirm tho
e Bihle narrative, ana give the lie to the
e hippant Hnd saCrlegiOus utteranCcs about
d ''the mistakes OF Noses" and the lrrcY
y ercnt glbes OF the soi-dlsant critics and
q se.s1niisis. we must not pass by the won