The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
TWO MONTGOMERY LODGES
 CELEBRATED B'NAI BIRTH DAY
Rabbi George Solomon of Vcksburg, Miss, Deliver. cd an Earnest and E egant Grafton to a
 Large Congregation.

A large congregation attended the ser- vices at Temple Beth-or at s o'clock Sun day evening in celebration of B'nai B'rith day and the services were interesting throughout.
 An earnest and eloquent oration was delivered by Rabbi George Soiomon of vicksburg, Miss. First vice-President of District Grano Loage No. {. Independent Order or b nal B'rith. His aoaress was m tne nature of an appeal for conesion among the Jews.
 The celebrasion was under the direction of Emanuel- and Alapania Lodges of Montgomery and was m accordance with Q proclamation issued by l.. c. Ethrfdge of san Antonio iex.. Grand P-esadent of the order.
 lns celebration was opened with an or. gan prelude by Prof. E. l.. Merriam af- ter which an eloquent invocation was of- fered by Rabbi A. !. Messing, Jr.:
 A recitation William Tel on West Gessler' was delivered in fine style by Mir. Mortimer H. Meyer and Mss Car olyn Cohn in an exquisite manner, rem dered a violin solo. Legende. by Wienia- wslxi
 tsabbi Solomon was then presented, He Is q young man but an able and eloquent speaker. He spoke In part as follows:
 Though each age strives with larger effort to perfect the possibilities resident In them. though each age produces ever more wonderful development of the forces working in the universe, yet the sum of human achievement, the total of Nature activities Is never complete. Each age flashes on the screen of time . different. a larger pictute. and though in each may be found the same elements. iife's cease less process causes constant changes resulting in ever varying adjustments. Thus past and present unite to form the future. ths waves of Time How into the ocean of eternity. But as the different coiors result from the breaking up of the pure white rays of light, so the streams of history derive their currents from the sea of life into which again they flow. Be it, then. in the evolution of Nature. the experience of the indi- vidual or the history Of the nation, it is equally true that the thing which has been Is the thing which will be.
 '.Casting a rapid retrospective glance over Israei's past career, We find that at all times. whether in the person of Abra- ham, of Moses, the Judges, prophets and rabbia it was the untiring zeal and eease- Jess energy Of their great leaders that kept Judaism, alive as all the while the masses of the people were lukewarTn or indifferent to their faith. On the other hand. beginning with the slavery in Egypt, continuing with the endless war fare to repei the attacks of the surround ing nations, the servitude in Babylon, the Roman oppression and the age-long perse- eution in every land and in every era. the Hebrew people have been oppressed and tornaAnted during every period of history
 Turning our eyes to present condi- tIons. we find that internally the samo struggle is going on. The puplit re-echoen the thunder of the prophetic exhortations. The few great leaders strive to strengthen the historic faith. while the vast major ity. absorbed in material considerations. ara needless of their religion. And on the other hand. as conditions In Russia. Roumania and the anti-Semitic move mn mt in Europe prove. the prejudice and intolerance against the Jew are as potent now as they ever were.
 Reviewing the situation. Mark Twain