Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-15
REGRET LEAVING
OF FINESHRIBER
Temple Emanuel Members
Adopt Resolutions of Ap-
probation of Service.
AN INFLUENTIAL FACTOR
Has Done Much to Bring About Bet
ter Understanding of the
Jewish People.

Resolutions expressive Of the regret
of his longtime parishioners at the
departure of Rabbi w H. Fineshriber
have been adopted by the congregation
of Temple Emanuel, Davenport. The
resolutions were drafted by a commit
tee consisting Of Isaac Petersberger,
Mayer Levi and E. P Adler. Rabbi
Fineshriber has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Memphis (Tenn.) syn
agogue. The resolutions in part are
as follows:
rabbi W. H. Fineshriber, coming
to us directly from college to inaug-
urate his great work in the tri-cities,
brought with him all the enthusiasm OF
youth and broad, clean thinking. Dur
ing the IL years in which he has been
with us there has never been a mo-
ment when this zeal for our welfare
and for the work which he had out
lined for himself failed to increase. Il
has grown stronger and more potent
for good and right living as the years
have passed. We, into whose homes
he has come with his message of peace,
with his kindly sympathy and advice
in moments Of trial, know, as the world
cannot know, the loftiness of his char
acter and the purity of his life.
Liberal CHARACTER SHOWN.
"But the new relations which he has
welded between the community in
which we live and this congregation
have been so marked and so gratifying
to ourselves that we cannot refrain
from saying a word about them. 1t
can be said without fear of contradic-
tion that Rabbi Fineshriber's presence
in this community during the past IL
years has done more to bring about a
better understanding between the peo-
pie of our faith and the public at large
than anything which we could possibly
realize being done. He has command
ed the respect of every citizen of the
community by his talents as a public
speaker, by which he has voiced the
of his character. He has
paved a way for a better understand
ing of the Jewish people, which has
brought us a more just and kindly con-
sideratiOn from the people among
whom we live. His disinterested actiyi-
ties in behalf of every movement, phi
Ianthropic and civic, which would tend
10 elevate the moral and material well
fare of people of the tri-cities, have
shown that he and his people are as
interested in all that will
make, for a better and happier com
munity as any others.
I'VE believe, in expressing this ap-
probation of his work, that we voice
the feelings not only of the members
Of our own congregation, but of the
many who, attracted by his brilliant in
Lellectual powers, have been more or
less frequent visitors at our services.
BROADER FIELD CALL.
Though we would wish that he might
remain permanently at Temple Eman-
lel, we know that in justice TO himself
and to our people elsewhere in this
country we cannot keep him, when
1ther and broader fields for usefulness
remain open to him. We appreciate
ais remaining here for so long, when
called TO other places, where
ne could have enhanced his material
interests This was not needed to
show us that it has not been personal
comfort and convenience that he was
seeking, but our moral welfare.
ITO him and to his family in parting
We wish only the joy which he has /
ever sought, the making of this world ,
l better and a happier place in which |
o live in peace and amity with our
AN ADDRESS SUNDAY EVENING.
Rabbi Fineshriber is to speak next /
Sunday evening at Broadway Presby- |
erian church. The meeting will be |
or the congregation as well as the
'ible class. DR.. Fineshribers subject
will be, The Processes by Which the
sraeites Were Developed as the Cho-
en- People of God"