The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
MONTGOMERY JEWS PAY
 TRIBUTE TO A GREAT LEADER
Memorial Services at Temple Beth-Or in Honor O Memory of Leo N. Leyl-RemarkS Of
 Rabbi Messing.

The customary Sabbath evening service at Temple Beth-Or last Friday assumed the character of a memorial in honor of the famous Jew, Leo Levi, whose death in New York was announced last We'd nesday.
 As President of the B'nai B'rith, MT. Levi, who succumbed to an operation at the Memorial Hospital. after brief ill., ness, became a recognized leader in Amer ican Judaism. It was he who framed the appeal to the President on behalf of the Jews of Kishineff. Born in Victoria, Tex as, Mir. Levi graduated from the Law School of the University of Virginia, and practiced his profession for many years at Galveston. In 1899 he moved to New York, becoming at once one of the lead- ing lights of the bar in the metropolis. He was 4S years old at the time of his death, and Is survived by a wife and six children.
 The news of MT. Lewis death came as a great shock to the Jewish residents of Montgomery where he was personally known and beloved by large circle of friends and acquaintances. The departed was related by marriage to the family of MT. s. Roman, and his sad demise came as a personal grief therefore to many members of Kahl Montgomery. Mir. Levi OILen VfSltCu tiiAS NAty oio AAa ~ARAe's @S~Nb delivered an address at the Opera House, which is still remembered as a masterly effort.
 Immediately on receipt of the news or the loss of the great leader, the Board Of Administration of Kahl Montgomery tooA steps to see that his memory was fttingly honored in this community. This was done at the Temple last Friday evening. The choir sang a requiem. the entire con- gregation rose in "Kaddish." or prayer of the repose of the soul of the depart ed. and Rabbi A. J. Messing delivered the following tender and eloquent eulogy.
 Remarks by the Rabbi.
 Death, which ever loves shining marx, has been busy during the days but re- gently gone, digging graves for men wno in their way will wear the white wreath of immortality Gordon the soldier, Spen- cer the philosopher, and other names that have been household words wherever love of noble thought and valorous deeds eX- ists, have been written in the "Scroli Of Eternity"
 But when the news of the death or Leo Levi flashed across the wires, IL caused many a Jewish home to wear tne aspect of mourning and many Jewish heart to beat to the sorrowful conviction that never had it been left with so keen a sense of deprivation, or Wni'e star extinguished. of a sigr vanished, Of an age impoverished, of a grace withdrawn. There is an old adage in Israel, When sage hath died, all are his relatives. since the right to consider themselves his brothers in spirit.Leo Levi was such sage. He sacrificed the best years of his life to do work to which no worldly consideration could have prompted him.
 "To champion the cause of the Jew Tn these days is, indeed, the most thankless of all tasks. For not only must the cham pion stand against the tides of intolNr" ance and hate without the camp but, too often, alas, he must suffer the petty mis- judgment of narrow minds within the camp-for whatever else may be said of Israel it must sadly be confessed that never in it's history has it been without those jealous marpiots who are ever ready to slay their own prophets.
 "The story of the brief and uneventtul life of the great leader. whom we mourn tonight, can give but little intimation of the graces of his character. Born of hon est, sturdy, Jewish percentage in little village in Texas. Leo Levi attained post of highest eminence within the gift of American Israel. Educated as a lawyer. he was not merely one of those smart