Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-15


honah, corresponding in the Hebrew
calendar to the New Year, was cele-
brated by the congregation in this city
with special services at the Synagogue
on Eoff street. There was a very large
congregation. and Rabbi Harry Levi
preached a strikingly thoughtful and
earnest discourse, prefacing his re-
marks with a touching reference to the
calamity which has thrown the entire
nation into mourning. There was an
other large congregation at the even
ing services.
Rabbi Levi prefaced his sermon with
brief remarks upon the death OF the
President. He said
Before proceeding TO the considera-
ton Of the New Year thought | wish
10 bring you, | cannot refrain from
giving voice to a reflection on the sad
news the morning blings us. | need
not tell you what il is. | am sure You
know it ere this and | am sure further
that in learning it, your hearts have
been broken. For though in no way
related TO you, perhaps seen by
YOU as living many miles from here.
Mr.. Mckinney was nevertheless IN
some subtle way near to every body
VINO admired character and heart and
soul. There was a time when in the
heat of politica. strife opponents were
easily found who did not hesitate 10
denounce him. and to suggest the great
est disasters as the results OF his admin
istration. The only disaster that ad-
mtnistration ever brought is the one
that has now come upon us. For Mr..
Mckinley stood for all that was best
in liHe-for honesty and honor, purity
and peace, for fove and forgiveness. As
a man none could have been more. AS
husband he was ideal. IS solder he
was brave beyond the average. AS
.eader OF his people. he was conscien-
tlous, strong. steady. thorough. He
had not been in the Presidents chair
SIX months before even his opponents
learned his merits, and confessed them.
BY his ~calnness, his conservatism, his
disinterested love for Ms country, he
brought these United States to their
present prosperous condition. and his
mare will go down in history. as that
q one OF the few men who will always
oe remembered because they deserve
20 be.
And now he is gone and in his go
ing we grieve yet we do not cry for
Vengeance. No one save he be insane
could ever have dreamed OF this foul
deed. The assassin may speak rational
" and with bravado. We need be no ex-
perts in criminology to detect his men
tai weakness. We cry not for ven
geance. He who has sown the wind
VII reap the whirlwind. We do but
ask OF Goa comfort for the dear wife
who, i'll herself wei nigh unto death,
has had to bear this additional blow.
Bereft CT him let Us pray We shall not
be beTeft Of her too. We ask for COM
fort for the people who admired Mr..
Mckinley, that their grief at this mo-
merit may not break out into a passion
url5ecoming them. We ask for him VINO
has gone to his maker so uncCmplain-
ingly, the eternal peace that will he his
and for him who succeeds him in the
presidential chair, that prudence and
= sdom which combined with his well
known honesty and ability and reso-
luteness will enable him wei, to con
tinue the work left undone. Above and
beyond all We ask that the sorrow OF
the moment may have healthy condi-
tons for all undisturbed. May it teach
US the necessary lessons which in our
comfort We have forgotten and make us
better and stronger for what we know
The subjest OF the sermon was
From Nature to God" Rabbi Levi
said:
Friends: As New Years day comes
and goes, perhaps there is nothing OF
which it il suggestive which so af-
Tects US a. the thought hat while art
may be iong time is fleeing, so fleet
ing indeed that we can scarce count the
days as they pass, so fleeing that old
age has come and we stand on the
graves verge almost before we now it.
Can II be possible we ask ourselves with
this days annual recurrence, can it be
possible that another year has dropped
into natures lap already? Why it
seems but a day OF so since last with
the coming OF this day these thoughts
were thrust upon me. Perhaps it was
because | was so busy. that the time
passed without my noticing it. Per-
maps 1t was so happy a year that ii
seemed all too short. At all events an
other year has gone. l am a year fur
ther from birth a year nearer to death.
NOT many more such periods will be
granted me. The day is short and the
work is plentiful and the Master is urg-
emit.
Perhaps the meditation will beget In
some sentiments of rebellion. Why
must time hurry by so rapidly? Why
IS lte so short? Why can we not live
forever here to pursue our daily tasks,
10 complete the work we wish to do?
10 those who are willing to think and
think seriously the meditation will sug-
sest conclusions more satisfactory. No
matter how long l live. life will always
seem too short. Jacob lived six score
ana ten years actively, s~trenuously yet
ne TOO complained that his years were
lew and evil. So l shall not complain,
for after all it matters not how long
We live but how we'll.
We live in deeds not years, In thoughts
not breaths,
a. feelings not In figures on a dial.
we should count time by heart throbs.
He most lives
VINO thinks most, feels the noblest, acts
the best.
6ltes but a means to an end: that end
oeeinning. mean and end TO all things
Cod
80 what matters 1t that but three
score and ten years may be mine!
matters II that ones life here is
united, and that the days and months
hurry by sn ronidlv2 What matters IL