The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-21
JUSTICE 1HE BASIS OF
MODERN PHILANTHROPY
Address Of Rabbi Hirsch at
Jewish Chautauqua
THIRD WEEK OF ASSEMBLY
Cause of Social Unrest and Discomfort
Is Given by the Learned Divile-Dr.
BaZZo|itz Leads Conference on the
Religious Training CT Youth

ATLANTIC. CITY, July 21.-The third
and concICdtCC week OF the Jewish
Chautauqua Simmer Assembly viii b
devoted 10 a series Of lectures and con
ferences on Applied Philanthropy. "
and the opening address was delivered
yesterday On Tilyou's s;eepIechase Pier
in the presence of a large and repre-
sentative gathering by the Rev. DR.. Emil
/ G. Hirsch Of Chicago.
After an invocation by Chancellor
Berkowitz. Rabbi Hirsch was introduced
/ by DR.. Lee K Frankel, superintendent
Of the United Hebrew Charities Of New
] York, who referred to the lecturer IS
eminent as an orator. theoIogian. stu
dent, pulpit speaker and scholar, as well
as foremost in ptaanthropic work in
the West.
/ In the course OF his eloquent address
Dr. Hirsch said: 'One who has the
privilege CT speaking the opening and
IeonsecratinS word at . gathering like
/ this must remember that great re-
Isponsibility is laid upon him II ne
cannot inspire, he should be careful not
to depress. Men CT practice affect to
GesDise theory. especially in the field Of
PIN snthropy and get in philanthropy
as wrH as elsewhere the world. as
Emerson says, is net founded on i-on or
cotton, but on ides-s Theory is not
divorced from practice, bus inspires and
guides The miner cannot go into the
bowels OF the earth with his lamp an
shielded Life and health in the caverns
NJ Nara -.
atmosphere is charged with certain IN
hammabIe elements. and d shark vim
disrupt the bounds that hold them So
II the world at large the spari. o.
thought must occasionally be shielded
IN philanthropy We cannot do cur work
unless We remember the world atmos-
phere with which we are surrounded.
The Cry of Greatness.
Like the NIohammedan who praises
Allah. we salute ourselves with the
cry that We are great. We have chain
ed the lightning and know the mysteries
Of earth and heaven With our InowI-
edge We have changed the face Of the
earth; where deserts frown We have
evoked paradises and placed the yoke Of
our impressive and imperial humanity
upon the virgin soil. We have unCa-th- !
ed the maUS-leums CT Nincveh and BABY
Ion, and found the key to their mystery.
Are We net create But in this daily sal
utaJicn there quivcTs . minor key-a
note not always triumphant Il IS true /
We nave made advances; murdered spaca (
and killed time; become conscious of /
our might; arts have been hidden wei +
come TO our homes, but it is also tree /
that in the very hour when We think
the pinnacle Of perfection has been
reached We hear from the valleys below
& marmur, threat. Plenty is girdIed
by penury- Palaces have fer their back
ground novels reekng in alth where
thousands Of cur fellow beings are sue
cunDinS 70 the onslaught of microbes in
whose analysis We take a distant in
terest
Rel gicCs oIt-m N IS regarded b the
masses as belonging 10 the favored fayy
To them life IS a monster. They ask
why were they born II life IS but q
struggle. These ale the underground
rumblings which p-ecede caLacyIsms.
The doctrines Of the cay that The fttssr
viii survive that power is its OWE jus
tificaJicu, justiies the attitude Of thou
sands. They grow conscious thar the \.
power IS with then Unrest is writt,n
in bold letters across the sky of cur
day. IN these DAYS the philanthr.Disf
finds an opportunity. and also a sacred