The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-21
ANSWERS DIR. MAGATH
RABBI MESSING REFERS TO CON-
 VERIFIED JEW.
Tunremaive Services at Temple Beth-Or in Celebration of the Feast of the PassOver--Ffne
 Music.

Tn his discourse at Temple Beth-or yesterday morning at the serVlces III celebration of the Feast of the Pass- over Rabbi A. Messing, Jr.. made a rather caustic reference to the recent address in Montgomery of pr. Jullus Magath, of Atlanta. Ga, the cohVerte" lew. who is a Methodist missionary.
 The Passover services were celebra- ted according to ancient rites and us- age. The Temple was thronged with worshippers and traditional music was tmpressively rendered by an augment ed choir.
 Rabbi Messing chose as his subject '"The Power of Broken Things. Ills theme was the quaint ceremonial or the Passover in the home, the custom of breaking the middle cake at the Seder meal.
 The sermon was a vindication of af- flictions that come to men. He said the broken heart was not despised.
 "It is a broken world in which we live" said the young Rabbi, and be- cause 1t is broken 1t Is world of nelpfulness and service"
 Israel he said was broken at the wheel of time but through his suffer ing the world was to be led on to higher and nobler planes.
 Rabbi Messing referred to the blt- terness of persecution and the intol- erance often met with in the world. He said a local illustration was found in the recent address in Montgom- cry church of Dr. Magath, An Apos- tate Jew"
 The Rabbi did not mlnce words in denouncing the criticisms of pr. Ma gath.
 Jews in a way are as good as Uni ted State bonds" he said. "Only uni- lu ha pnnVRFtp6- hut the moment d Jew is converted he loses his value"
 The charge that the reform wing Of seedasin had no religion-"only few ethical principles by which 1t hoped to obtain salvation" was taken up and answered fin detail. Cne of the ethi- cal principles that Judaism espoused was "faithfulness" and another con sistency." The speaker quoted the poem:
 We have no falsehoods to defend:
 We want the facts.
 Our force, our thought. we do not
 spend
 Tn vain attacks
 And we will never meanly try
 To save some fair and pleasing lie. we love our felIowmen. our kind.
 Wife, child and friend. To phantoms we are deaf and blind
 But we extend
 The helping hand to the distressed
 By lifting others we are blessed"
 eve do not believe it Is our busi- ness said the speaker, ito worry about the saving of our friends soul in another life. We believe that the one thing we all ought to work for is to save peoples souls right here; nor do we believe that in this world or any other world we shall ever get into any more heaven than we first get into ourselves"
 The Rabbi pointed to the great vic tories that had been won by the spirit of liberalism and tolerance within the last century.
 .Day by day" said he, the cause of fraternalism is growing. The issue may be clouded now and then by re- actionary utterances in few seat tered pulpits. but even there the mass es of the people are better than the doctrine expounded to them." A man may cry Church Church at
 every word,
 With no more piety than the people. A daws not reckoned religious bird
 Because 1t keep on cawing from the
 steeple."
 University in creed, unanimity in deed" said the speaker, was the watchword of the new century.
 AS in a great cathedral" he con- tinuS1. "noen leave the little side ehap-