The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-01
HANDSOME GIFT
 TO RABBI LEVY
Fine Tribute to Retiring Lead CT of MiShkan Israel in
 New Haven.
LEAVES AFTER 20 YEARS
Words of High Regard From Pastors of Many Scots For New Head of Local
 Synagogue.

New Haven, Nov. 1-The Temple Mishkan Israel was thronged last night with worshippers of the congre-
 gation, visiting clergy of the city, and | friends and well-wfsherS of Rev. Da- | vid Levy, for twenty years rabbi of
 the synagogue, who terminated his | services with the church, prea ched his last sermon and said his fare well to members of the church, which he had reared and consecrated, to take
 up his duties in the largest synagogue in Bridgeport. ThroughoutlNthe ser vices there were visible manifesto tions of the regret felt by the members of the congregation at his leaving and when Dr. Levy preached his last words
 the eyes of many were dimmed with
 tears. As tangible appreciation of his long ministry Dr. Levy was presented with a handsome victro1a by Corpor- atfon Counsel Kleiner at the reception which followed the services, and at the end of his sermon Attorney Jacob -Goodhart for the congrega ton pre- sented Dr. Levy with a handsomely engrossed set of resolutions appre- ciative of his ministry.
 At the conclusion of his sermon de- voted to a discussion of the irreIigi- ous tendency of the age and the cor rective measures to offset this, Dr. Levy made the following reference to his going:
 ''In terminating the mutual expert
 enCSS Wn1cn we nave ShaToQ TOT the
 past twenty years realize the inex-
 pressable consciousness of the rela-
 tionships thus severed, fraught | as they are with many tender memories and secret associations that attend no
 other profession. It is similar only
 in pathos to the parting of the mar
 riage bond No such union of heart
 and lives of twenty years but echoes
 its solemn interest and emphasizes it's profound import. I have walked with
 you in the sun of many happy hours,
 and sat with you amid the gloom of
 many painful bereaVementS. Upon the heads of many of you and your children I have laid the hand of
 benediction and united them at the
 marriage altar in the holiest bond of
 mutual affection. have held the hand of the sick and the dying, seek | ing to make their last moment calm and peaceful and consigned to rest 1 with the solemn words of the Kad- | dish an unnumbered company of your | blessed dead. I have Jeard the story l of young lives struggling in the battle against temptation, misfortune and | sin, shared their confidence, entered into their trials and hid the wounds | of their troubles in the secret re- cesses of my soul. A harvest of ex- perfences such as these cannot in their | ingathering but awaken memories ten
 der in their recital as they are pathet- l ic in their closing. The record of my
 services tinged with frailty like every human effort but given with honest
 endeavor and prayerful hope I leave | to the candid unprejudiced judgment
 of the reasoning mind with the proud consciousness of its approval at the | hands of the impartial reader of all | hearts. To one and all I leave my | blessing. Whatever fraiIties I may
 have that contradict your notions of
 what a minister or an angel ought to
 be ask you to forget them as you | pray and hope for forgiveness from l the Supreme Judge of human motive
 and action. May God bless you and | help you to be faithful men and wom-
 en in the cause of Israel, the cause of | humanity, the cause of God"
 i Attorney Goodhart, in presenting the
 resolution, paid a magnificent tribute 1 to pr. Levy's work among his people,
 the respect and admiration which he 1 compelled among people of other de- 1 nominations and his splendid accom- i plishment in building two memorials