South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-12
CELEBRATE FEAST
Of TABERNACLES
Jewish People Are Temperate
Says Rabbi Contradictory
Peace is That Which Comes
From the Almighty.

The feast OF tabernacles was OBJ
served Sunday morning at Temple
Bethel A tabernacle OF the tradi-
tional type stood upon the altar. The
choir was assisted by the Jewish
chorus Mr.. Hans Roeder played a
cello solo. Rabbi Cronbach spoke as
follows:
Christian temperance workers oc-
caslonally tell me that II all people
were temperate as the Jews there
would be no need OF temperance agi-
tation or prohibition campaigns.
1T Is a familiar fact that saloons
do not thrive IN a Ghetto. When the
Jews move into q neighborhood the
saloons move out
cit is out OF sympathy with the
difficulties and efforts OF our nOn-Jew-
ism fellow citizens that / watch with
interest the attempts to reduce and
abolish drunkenness.
You need not be a prohibiuonist
you need not be a teetOtaler. Still
you surely cannot deny that drunken
ness is a frightful curse and that 70
get rid of drunkenness no pains or
sacrifices should be regarded as ex-
cessive
The tendency in religion has been
10 emphasize and perhaps over-em-
phasize that rest is holy. Work has
been carried on under conditions that
are largely unfair and unwholesome
and that is how work got 20 be looked
upon as something unhOly and pro-
fame.
"As the conditions Of labor get TO
be more humane, wholesome and fair
the holiness OF work will get 10 be
more and more an article Of faith. To
make people work excessively and TO
underpay them for their work is not
only wicked, IL is saoreligious. il is
abusing a holy thing.
There is a Joy above all joys. the
Joy OF the heart that has found its
place and its peace in God. How real
IS that jOy-the JOY that does not de-
pend on circumstances or conditions.
the joy OF knowing that He, the In
effable Light, the Emulgent Grace, is
yours. your very own.
The Joy that need not be bOlstered
up by success or fattery or comfort
or bright prospects. the JOY that you
carry around in your hearts inner
most shrine The storms Of life touch
that JOY. the gloom Of death cannot
alright that JOY.
I'VE have to pass through pain and
anguish 10 win that joy. Heart per-
furbing sacrifices have TO be made
We have to be humbled in the dust
many a time. before we can be lifted
up into this JOY OF joys. Cherished am
billions must be renounced, fond hope
must be inundated upon self-denials
altar.
Il never pray in this pulpit that
distress and trouble may always be
far To do so might be to pray for
the death of this joy cOnsummate.
II love the Chl.Eren in our Sun
day school, 1 love these who are not
In our Sunday school. Just because
love them j would not wish that
their lives be ar uninterrupted run Of
coziness and success.
Just because / love them / want
them to know what anguish is. just
because 1 love them / want them to
know how the bitter cup tastes. Just
because I love them ] want them 10
pass through defeat and disappoint-
ment till. wearied OF LIES shams. dis
satisfied with life's tinsels, they fly for
refuge into the arms OF Him who is
the rock Of ages, the one fixed stake
TO which the spirit may cling amidst
life's storms and floods"