The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-23
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Dr alglatnupi whuse degrees Ia that NJ the
Dublin Royal college, NJ sur aeona and not
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toa boatload NJ Scotch preatyteriana wasa ne
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Mo~len all to prayer might 10 This lie.
brew physiciin Ia very broad minded IN
unorthoioS Ia he that M tho last Pcnatential
Sabbath hc preached ~ the congregation ~
the Twenty ninth street Synagogue u sar-
mot which WIS IN tho nature " q plain talk
to faithful Hebrevs and decidedly 1T vari-
Rncc with the s]triCteat tcne,s ~ high ortho-
doNy.
Il held divine service because I thought
We all needed IT, said Dr. Sigismund yea
terday when relating the details of his first
experience "a a prolcher " There was no
clergyman on the boat, we missed service
on the first Sunday at sea and we seemed
to be in n fair way 20 miss the second day Of
prayer and praise, In default Of any other
person authorized to conduct services ! did
Il. And / followed the Christian prayer
books implicitly with one exception. | left
out the final words Of prayer, through Jesus
Christ our Lord" substituting through
the merCiful Father OF the Universe"
II is con sidered an unusual incident by
DR.. Sigismund tina n steamer should lea We
a Scotch port with no dominie's name on
the passenger list. Such was the case with
the Furnessia, however, which sailed from
Greenock on June o. The lack was first
felt on the following day, Sunday, Morn
ing passed and no ships bell summoned
to service, Evening drew on and no vesper
came with the changing of the watch, The
good Scotch leaven in the Furnessia's
cabins began to make general the feeling
that something was wrong with the voya &c.
During the ensuing week of storm and
fog the need Of ray became poignant.
DR.. Sigismund, Jew though he was, could
sympathize with the yearning of his Chris
tan fellow passengers for united communion
with the God of jew and Christian alike,
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DIR. Sigismund went to the commander.
impossible" said the ships master,
we've got no preacher on board The
purser lodged the responsibility of con-
Quoting service by passing it to the doctor.
The doctor said it was not in his province
to minister to souls; he dispensed powders
for seasickness-that was all.
There were 400 steerage pascal gers on
board, a large number Of whom were jew
ish refugees from Russia. DR.. S~igismund
- I~yr, n-l h~lI - 49,
services with his coreligionists. But he
found the Storage quarters jammed to
OVERLOOKING with luckless emigrants, many
of whom we're hopelessly i'll. In the con-
fusion and noisnsome reek of the Storage
there was neither the opportunity nor the
desire for religious services.
The persevering doctor e. back to the
cabins and said no more about ships
services. Sunday came around again-a
bleak, dull day with the Banks fog olawing
at the snip and shutting out all the light
of the SUM-. After breakfast DR.. Sigismund
went up to the commanders bridge.
will you ring the ships bell for service
at five minutes TO III" asked the doctor.
But we have no preacher, and can't
leave the BRIDGE
replied the doctor. If no one else will
lead a service of common prayer | would
like to do So DR.. Sigismund spoke with
conviction.
Doctor, you willnot make a farce Of it?'
Most decidedly no.
The saloon was cleared, and the ships
bell rung for service at five minutes to IL
o'clock.
The saloon was crowded. At the piano
sat a Presbyterian, A Baptist handed out
the hymn books. A v~estryman in an Epis:
copal church of Lynn, Mass. distributed
the Bibles. Behind an improvised ~lectern,
draped with a Union Jack, sat DR.. Sigis-
mund.
A hymn was sung. Then, Let us pray
said DR.. Sigismund. WEile every head
was bowed the Jewish layman read from
the prayerbook the supplication for those
and this we beg through the loving
Father of the Universe" concluded the
doctor, amending the words of intercession
through Jesus Christ that close the Christian
DR.. Sigismund read the Epistle for the
day, Peter iii, 8. Then he preached from
the words of the Apostle Paul: BE ye
all of one mind, having compassion one
Of another: love as brethren; be pitiful;
be courteous, not rendering evil for, evil,
or railing for railing, but, contrariwiee,
blessing. knowing that you are thereunto
called, and you shall inherit a blessing"
The preacher quoted from the Talmud
the fundamental Jewish and Christian
hafto, leroechu Komoohi"-aLove thy
neighbor as myself" He told his con-
gregationt that there was one Supreme Being,
before whom Jew and Gentle alike must
bow the head in s~upplication. This God
held the winds in a leash and the waves in
the hollow of His hand.
"You who have here gathered to worship
a common God with me, should you eve
find yourself in a ship with some of
my race who are flying the red scourge
Of the Gar, go down with them and pray
them. Invoke for them the blessings
90 o,,r Cod Rannenhnr that thair MQ Ear
is your Maker. Your supplications will go
with theirs before the Same seat Of eternal
mercy"
Passengers OF the Furnessia say that
the Hebrew doctor preached a sermon that
would win any ordained pastor of a flock a
parish in uptown New York.
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