The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13

which. accoI ding to the construction of things universal, seems to be the will of the Heavenly Father I am ] voicing my belief in words spoken by Rabbi Alexander Lyons in a Christian church in Brooklyn last summer.
 And when I express my conviction
 that The Church should stand for the new and changing order of things, for
 purity in politics, and for a square
 deal to the workingman. 1t should
 our modern day civilization and point
 out the way of improving the world, and add This cannot come as long as individual ministers cry out, but only when there will be a united clergy. We have been debating about our differ ences long enough: let us now search for platform on which we can all earnest words of your Rabbi Rudolph Coffee as I read them this last week in The Survey.
 This is our worlds need, and oul citys need. It is our too tradly re- sponse to Malac.,i's appeal, Have we not all C.. ather? Why then do we deal treacherously, every man against preaching of the glowing indignation of an Amos, Because ye have sold the righteous for silver and the needy for pair of shoes; because ye have trampled upon the poor, and taken exactions from him of wheat, mani fold are thy transgressions and mighty thy sins. Prepare to meet thy God, O Israeli It is the observance of a Lent that is Lent indeed, after the spirit of Isaiah. Is such the fast that have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as bullrush. and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Is not this the fast that have chosen. to loose the bonds of wickedness, and not to deal thy bread to the hungry. and that thou bring the poor that is cast out to thy house? Then thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say. here am.'
 And for this great end, for this devoted to God and righteousness, and who are ready, despite all differences of thought and custom. to stand as one man against all fraud and corruption, all commercial and social oppression, all impurity, all intemperance, all in- iquity of all sorts, I hail you as brother men and bid you God-speed."
 Rev. c. NJ. Brown Introduced
 Rabbi Levy in introducing Rev. George M. Brown of the First M. B. said that he had worked with practically every denomination except the Roman Catholic, and as looked like, one, he had. hopes yet. The Methodist church was familiar to him, he relating how in South Carolina he had once supplied the pulpit of a church of that denomination to help out a friend who was sick. The peo- pie asked who he was and expressed surprise that he preached just like any other minister.
  meant something new to Bridgeport, that another temple had been built to Almighty God. It meant that there was one more institution to direct to the higher life. It was not a place for a social meeting but a place of worship.
 It will make their hearts and lives better 50 he therefore bade the work He was in doubt why they had so much speaking that night un- less it was because they desired to get enough preaching for six months. But he. said if the congregation only had Rabbi Levy for six months he believed they would all become good Metho- dists.
 Wants No Stone Throwing.
 Rabbi Levy in introducing Rev. Harry Ettleson, rabbi of the Congre- gation Beth Israel, Hartford, said that when he stepped foot In Bridgeport he must have felt little disappointed to find the city had more people than 1 Hartford l
 Rev. Ettleson said he did not come there with the expectation of hearing a revision of ''The Tale of Two Cities" as what was desired was quality and not quantity. He spoke of the beauty of the building as rehecting the beauty of holiness and expressing the spirit of devotion. The cause of Judaism was gainer by this building and this community in particular. It also shows that religion, although old, is not yet antiquated. He was glad that a previous speaker in referring to the proximity of the other churches had