The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
NEW YEAR OBSERVED
REPRESENTS SERVICES HELD AT
 TEMPLE BETH-oR.
Rabbl Messing Spoke EloQuently on
 Thlnss That Come Too Late." " Referring to Conditions in Hussia.

Russia.
 Rosh Hassanah. the Jewish New Year, was httinsly observed by the Hebrew citizens of Montgomery yes- terday.
 Until 6 o'clock in the evening the stores of the Jewish merchants were closed.
 The services at Temple Beth-or Impressive. and large congregation was present. A special musical pro- gram. both vocal and instrumental had been prepared for the occasion.
 Rabbi Messing's sermon.
 Tho theme of Rabbi Messing's dis course was Things That Come Too Late" He spoke in part as follows:
 This world would be a delightful place to live inf 1t were not for the people. They really cause all the trou- bie. Mans worst enemy Is always man. He began to throw the respon- sibility of his transgressions on some one else in the Garden of Eden. and he has been doing so ever since.
 The world Is full of blunders Each generation is engaged in cor recting the errors of its predecessors and in supplying new ones for its own posterity to set alright. Time is grim old humorist with a fondness for after-thoughts. As part of his sarcasm. he gives us the things that come too late.
 tomb of John Milton-a beautiful monument-but I cannot help thinking that when John Milton was blind and tottering with age he was compelled to sell his Paradise Lost for five dol lars. There. too, I see a costly tablet to Goldsmith. the immortal author of 'Wakefleld.' When Goldsmith died he left his body to the surgeons to pay his debts. Here lies Sheridan. under costly marble pressed Poor Sherry! If he could only have discount cd that monument for a mutton chop.
 The Way of the World.
 Tt Is always so The world ap- plauds us if we triumph. It despises uslf we fail. It Is glad to be a stock holder in our successes and prosperity but 1t too often avoids the assessments Of sympathy and understanding. But to him who has passed beyond this worlds lights and shadows tardy fame bring no joy. no encouragement. no inspiration. It would be farce If it were not such a tragedy.
 Why Is 1t death makes us suddenly conscious of a hundred virtues in a man who seemed commonplace and faulty enough in life? Then we speak as though an angel had been living in our town for year and we had sud denly discovered him. But now the ears are stilled to all earthly music. and even if they could hear our praises the words would be but useless mes- sengers of love that came too late
 'Too late. Who has not felt the exquisite pathos of those two little Io0 rI,rIa etar of his beloved wife. exclaimed: If only I had five minutes with her again to assure her that I loved her through all that Oh, the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we returned to their plaints and their ea,ve them, for the light answers we pleadings. for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us.
 May 1t never be your lot to cry with the poet to some dead father and mother.
 "'Ah. would I could see thee in thy
 heaven
 For one brief hour. and know I was For all the shame and doubt and
 ,ranklfng pain
 Which I have caused to make thee
 weep ana SlEn.
 Bootless the wish, for where thou
 art on high
 Sin casts no shadow, sorrow casts
 no stain .ss
 The Heritage of Nations. But not only individuals feel the keen anguish of the things that come too late; 1t Is the heritage also of nations.
 "'Once to every man and nation
 Comes the momest to decide, [ In the strife of Truth with False
 hood.
 For the good or evil side.
 Some great cause. Gods new Messiah Offering each the blood and blight.
 Parts to the goats upon the left hand And the sheep upon the right,
 And the choice goes by forever, 'Twixt that darkness and that light Who has wrought the greatest deeds of late in Russia or Japan? No Japanese admiral, although he sink the Russian fleet twice over; no Rus sian general. although he drive back the Japs from Port Arthur and hold Manctiuria for the Czar. The great est conqueror lies in the cradle
 The birth of an infant son to the long expectant oft disappointed house. hold of the Russian monarch has done " AAUN anu nave never accomplished It has freed ex- files in Siberia. It has brought hope to Finland It has enlarged the liber- ties of the common people. Yet 1t is a baby that came too late.
 When the child was born, the great white Czar decreed that in all the Russias the knout should be abolished And hereafter in that unhappy coun- try those who have incurred the dis pleasure of the government will at least be spared the ignominy of a pub lie beating. It was a great gift-but 1t comes too late.
 For hundreds of years the Jews of Russia have been whipped at the post. and the whipping has told in the blood. Their bodies are bent under the lash. The people have become degraded, per haps beyond recovery. A great gift has come to them from the Czar, but 1t comes too late.
 The Russian Jew.
 This is no reflection upon the mill lions of refugees from that unhappy country who have found asylum in America If there be balm in Gilead for the Russian Jew, believe 1t to be found in America-this vast, good natured.. equality-loving democracy