The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23
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The District Grand Lodge. No. 5. o
the Independent Order of B'Nai BRIT
Will assemble in the Sabbath Schoo
Auditorium of Beth Ahabah Tempt
in its thirty-sixth convention thi
morning Last night there were i'm
pressive services preliminary to thu
work of this great order to-day an,
Tomorrow. An eloquent Grafton wa
delivered by Mr.. C. H. Feidelson. o.
Savannah. Rabbi Calisch, whose
fame has gone throughout this coun.
try. and whose sterling worth is rec.
ognized by all his neighbors whether
they be with him in religious convic.
tons or not, was very happy in his
words of welcome to the visitors and
Montagu Triest, of Charleston, than
whom there is not a better man or a
more loyal friend and citizen any
where, presided at the opening meet
ing, as he will preside during the SEES
sions of the convention here.
We are glad that the members of
this convention have come to Rich
mond. There is no place where they
would be more welcome and where
they have better right to come; for
1t is to them and their brethren that
this town owes much of its splendid
achievements in peace and war. Two
Sundays ago at the Second Presby-
terrain Church. the Rev. DR.. Boggs paid
a great tribute to the Jews who fought
with him and his brave comrades in
the defense of Richmond, and only las.
week salute was fired over the
graves of their dead who laid down
their lives for principle They stand
out like a great mountain range in
the history of the world, loyal to
themselves and to their God, the Lord
God of Israel Whatever the test to
which their faith has been subjected
they have stood it. whatever the nor
rible cruelties inflicted upon them.
they have endured all things for con-
science sake. "Smitten of God and
afflicted" they have walked N the
ways of their fathers, and have COM
PEELED the admiration of the world by
their endurance under suffering. such
as no other people in all the annals
of time have been called upon 10 en-
Cure. There are sects among them,
many schools of thought, Orthodox
Jews and Reformed Jews; but. what
ever their differences in methods Of
worship and on questions of interpre-
tation, they are the same now that
their fathers were more than five
thousand years ago
There are to-day about 1a,000,c0o
Jews scattered all over the world In.
1907. according to the American Jew
ish Year Book, l,777,lS5 Jews live in
the United states, this being the third
largest Jewish population of any coun-
try in the world. There are 1900 |
Jews in the State of Virginia. and
wherever they. live gin this country
they are sbiendid people and good
citizens, just as they are good citizens
wherever they have just treatment and
fair chance They make no pro-
fences. they ask no favors, they seek
no distinctions. they betray no con-
tidences. They obey the laws, they
5Ne iApciaiiS W ttie poor, theS share
an all the activities of the state. Their
men are brave and self-reiant; their
women are virtuous and the keepers
of their own homes. No good cause is
ever presented to them and goes away
.cmptyhanded and, whatever the
clouds and darkness about them. they
believe that the word of the Lord
endureth forever.
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