The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-07

of inbroken harmony. It Is simple truth that you have never had serious congregational quarrel in all these fifty years. A good record that, as temples 60, for 1t Is melancholy fact that the business of the churches fs frequently conducted on a lower level than that of the shop or the exchange. It has not been so among you.
 If the ministers have done something. the people have done infinitely, more. And still what ministers you have had, the distinguished Gutheim, the faithful Hecht, the scholarly Davidson. the ear- nest Joseph. Could I have compared myself with them five years ago, as can now. wild horses could not have drawn me from the safe obscurity of my home in the North to such a perilous seat. Certain it is that when I came to you I was dreadfully young, and crude and in- experienced. Yet wherever I have suc- ceeded I am sure to have had your final approval and where I have failed you have given me at least the credit of hon. est intention. And though there be nothing in this temple to indicate that I have ever labored here, though my name is not found once on wonder cor ner stone, where others are repeated twice, stin cherish the hope that when I am gone my name will be found writ ten on that more lasting monument-on many a human heart.
 Memory for Those Gone Before.
 AS we hurry on let us not fail to re. member those who have wrought or this task and are no more-who sleer out there under the stars and the gray sky, amidst the waving grass and the nodding trees alone and forever. They .vxA hAo Ah> hAxx of the great hunter. Death, coming down upon us in thls thrilling hour of com. memoration.. Their holy influence abides with us.
 "They throng the silence of the breast
 Imaginations strong and fair
 The memory like a cloudless air
 The conscience like sea at rest.
 "we send them tonight, through that divine love in which we all live and move and have our being. our tenderest. truest love, knowing that somehow. somewhere our tender greetings will be met and answered by theirs.
 Tn this spirit we would dedicate our new temple. Our work is not ended. Il has just begun. Today's triumph die tates new struggles for tomorrow. As .plIatlUn anu nut COHtChtusSHt io tho Aa W of our life.
 T wonder if ever a song was sung
 But the singers heart sang sweeter, wonder if ever a hymn was rung
 But the thought surpassed the meter, wonder if ever a sculptor wrought
 Till the cold stone echoed his marble thought
 Or if ever painter with light and shade
 The dream of his inmost heart DOT.
 trayed.
 And so consecrate thee. O beauteous place, unto the worship of the Eternal the, Living God of Israel. Be thou g home of light and truth, treasure house of comfort and inspiration to every Israeiite-yea, even unto the strangel that visits thy gates.
 May the cheerless here be gladdened the Respondent endowed with new cour' age, the bereft made to feel that here they have Father and Friend.
 q consecrate thee, Holy Ark. with tho scrolls of the Law, Israel's consecratet banner. When these gates are lifted may righteousness flow forth like q river and justice as a never failing stream.
 "I consecrate thee. Perpetual Lamp emblem of life eternal. symbol of lsraefs perennial truth. And thee. Readers desk table of God. Through thee, may thu wanderer be brought back, the outcas restored. And thou. Majestic Organ, pea forth the glory of the Most High. Kin de with thy swelling anthems the en thusiasm of the people for all that il good and holy. q consecrate thee. Pulpit, to the caus' of truth and righteousness. Througt rnau antritn2llV hlin( be made to see and the deaf be mad' to hear. May the blessing of them tha are ready to perish come upon thee.
 "I consecrate thee, Memorial Windows beautiful in the assurance that eartf hath no sorrow that heaven canno heal, that they who sleep in the dus still live in the remembrance of thos' to whom they were precious.
 q eonsecrate thee, Sabbath School, tt the gIorification of God. the promotion of Judaism, the dissemination of truth the development of noble manhood ant womanhood.
 'T consecrate thee. whole house. entir, congregation, to the service of the com mon Father. the highest aims of human ity.
 May this temple add to the grace and the glory of life. May 1t educate ant refine and give unsurpassable joy tc thousands of human beings. Here may soul commune with soul. Here may mar stand Tn the presence of his Maker May you who have builded this house hand it down to your children as thu place where God had lifted up his coun tenance upon you and given you pledges of his everlasting love"
 At the conclusion of MT. Messlng's ad dress, Rabbi Levy of Selma read thu Alteration and Kaddish" from the pray CT book. being followed in the reading bJ the faithful in the audience.
 The full choir sang 70 Be Joyful Al Ye Lands." arranged by Wagner. and the big audience was dismissed with ( benediction by Rabbi Messing.
 When the celebration was over, grea many persons crowded to the pulpit plat form and warmly congratulated Rabb Messing. Mir. David Well. MT. Abe Wei and others who have labored so faithful, for the completion of the Temple ana the success of the golden jubilee of Kah Montgomery.
 Officers of the Organization.
 The officers of the congregation are a! follows:
 President-David Well.
 observation-disclosures Loeb.
 Secretary-L. Young
 Treasurer-Abe Well.
 Trustees-Nathan Greil, Maurice Kahn E. H. Jacobi, J. c. Haas, B. Wolff. A Uhlfelder, Leopold Strauss. Sam Sabel.
 Sexton-S. Calm.
 The Building Committee which conceiv' cd and so brilliantly executed the plans for the new temple consisted of the fol lowing well known citizens: Abe Wei chairman; E. II. Jacobi. secretary