The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-09
RABBI MESSING SPEAKS
 AN ELOQUENT FAREWELL
Montgomery Congregation Presents Retiring Minister With Handsome Watch and Resolu-
 tions--Impressive Scene at the Temple.

me to be just this. men seeking God and God seeking men, God using the their varnacular. coming to them through such avenues. as they may open unto him, appealing to them In whatever way he can, coming to them through methods that to others seem slow and unspiritual and inadequate. And so never ask man to what church he belongs. h h. giving dvdag charity to him. Are you a good husband to your wife? Are you good father to your children? Are you a good citizen debts? I Do you five ,rightf If he says yes. give him my hand. If he says no, Is true, time and again a shriek of an- ti-semitism, whose heart Is envy and whose heait Is hate. But. was not asma@yad @ :, ssad sssd n anmSssy anShsr sinfuSs s Ss dead, dogmas will be dead. but man will live For all, there will be one Temple.that country the whole earth; ,sh;; Hope the whole Heaven.
 'In the search for unity I have ot- ten been misunderstood and deeply wrongs wrongsoi in 0S Forgiveness and in love. For say:
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 of life?
 Is 1t worth worth while that we teer at each
 In blackness of heart that we mar ! God pity us all In our pitifuI strife. God pity u.-aii that we jostle each
 God pardon don us all for the triumph When a fellow goes down meath his
 Pierced to the heart; words are
 keener than steel
 And mightier far for woe than for Look at the roses saluting each other.
 Look at the herds all in peace on Man and man only makes war on his
 And laughs in his heart at his peril
 shamed by the beasts that go down
 on the plain.
 Is it worth while that we battle the
 Some poor fellow down to the dust? God pity us all. Time too soon will
 All of us together like leaves in a
 Humble. indeed. down into the dust.
 That has been my message. Think 0ot 0f 1t al Thfn fl 1t sm were s0ns aii @ might be preacher but I should not be rabbi. On these Friday evenings as I have talked to as one ed tte and believing that you wanted to know God. talking of Americanism ana of unity. I have not forgotten-nay. l have been proud to remember-that
 Pride of church. like pride of sec- tion. always will exist, though we disappear forever An orator once gems. I know no North. I know no Vest West And % s. bsre-footed boy yelled home and study gogerfey. I think the boy was right I believe in sectional cations of prejudice. hate sectional triotism which loves home better than understand the Yankee who does not love the rocks and hills of New Eng land better than all the roses and splse the westerner who does not be- lieve that sixteen pounds of silver is as good as one pound of gold-espec- iaily; If he eo owns the silver Se doss And not love the land of Dixie best of all. The only section that believes in God, reads Walter Scott and votes the Democratic
 And so 1t is ifi the churches. I stand on the rock of principle. hate time-servers, trimmers, fawners, and oughgoing Baptist who sings: "A Bap-- tist was I born, and Baptist will T die.' provided he is sincere and his the true and astbs b Wsos G heart one of the body guard of Jeho. yah who permits himself to be bribed from his post. As for me. am proud of my lineage. proud of my. escutcheon. am glad that am descended of people who have given God and moral code to the world and who. have 9nsrsn of human aHf thought. osd % This % people in whose natures played the zephyrs and swept the storms are intrusted with the es tns eyer tS the finding of the worlds God.
 "something like this has been my message. have preached many ser included in this; .Americanism. Broth erhood. Love. Fidelity and Israers mission. which Is Peace. e, wheH am gou gonef !nk It is tnsrs great s tasE on which I have wrought and now that 1t is ended I am conscious of regret nos SeeU %'th abe to o 50 e but gratitude that have been allowed even to try
 And so. farewell, A word that makes us finger, yet farewell. have enjoyed your confidence and support in all that pertains to my duties here In a manner so full and so ample that the memory of it will never pass away. My heart Is full of gratitude and my soul is filled with precious memories gratitude to the people for their un- wavering trust, precious memories of friends who have been kind and true. "'Farewell forever. and if forever. Then forever fare thee we'll
 
 Think of me when I am gone I know not what the future has of mar, vel or surprise, but know that in the Northern home to which go there will be many. days in which I shall to me. If only I might know once more beneath Southern skies the joys of that Southern home which was. but no longer Is. If only might share again the inspiration and sympathy of that blessed companionship which ended in the long gone years.
 But the tender grace of a day that Is "wiii never come back to me-"
 At the conclusion of the farewell ser mon a beautiful vocal solo was sung by Miss Elizabeth Millspa1gh.
 As the last echoes of the music died away. the figure of Jacques Loeb, vice president of the congregation, arose from his seat and advancing to the his arm chair in which the Rabbi was seated, MT. Loeb said that it had fallen in his pleasant duty to present to the retiring Rabbi a beautiful watch and chain and a set of resolutions in be- half of KahI Montgomery. They were A token of rememberance. esteem and