South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-09
PROGRESS IS DUE
To yNHAPP INESS
SIS Steam That Makes the
World Go Round" Says
Rabbi Cr0nbaCh.

Celebration Of the Jewish New ear
which began Thursday morning and
continues until Friday evening. was
marked Thursday with appropriate
services at Temple Bethel. DR.. A.
Cronbach gave short sermon. his
topic being Destiny" Special music
including the cornet obligato in sim
ulation Of the traditional rams horn.
was a feature of the services in the
Orthodox churches. Ii is no longer
part Of the Temple Bethel eXer-
cises.
Or. Cronbach said in part Thursday
morning.
1T is not possible for men to -
always happy; because il is human ma
tuTe no sooner TO attain one thing
than promptly TO desire something
else. We reach one mountain summit
only to discover lOftier mountains
towering ahead of us.
Gould you abolish unhappiness
YOU would abolish the steam that
makes the world go. 1t belongs to
the deep down essence of this uni
verse that things should always be
changing. 1t was change and change
and change throughout the aeons be-
fore man appeared on earth. Indeed
were il not for the astronomic and
geologic change upon change man
would not and could not have APP
peared And long after man disap-
pears from earth if such a time should
come. as it probably will, there is still
going to be change upon change upon
change.
Forces at Work.
Nov the forces that make for
change exist not only in the clouds
and the winds and the sun and the
rivers. They are work in the minds
and the wills of all living creatures
They are at work most decidedly in
the mind and will of man.
And this throws light on the So
called evils of the world What is
pain. what is unhappiness. what is
misery? 1t is, so to speak, the con-
tact of the human mind and will with
the law of change. Unhappiness is
simply the signal that we must get to
work and makes changes somewhere.
Better yet, it is our own personality
already at work effecting the change.
Therefore. 1 say. unhappiness there
always will be. Were change to stop.
life itself would stop. Yes, the very
universe would stop.
1.-The day may come when wars will
cease. But universal peace is, by no
means, universal happiness. Peace
would simply make people free to no.
tice and to suffer from certain evils
escaped attention. The day may
come when poverty will be no more.
But that would let people free to ex-
perience other forms of misery which
had escaped notice, just as already
now the well-to-do have troubles of
which the poor do not dream.
JOv of the Struggle.
Thus you see that not enjoyment
is our destined end or way our JOY
is to be not the joy of those that feast
but the JOY of those who struggle, not
the JOY of those who are comfort
able. but of those who learn how to
conquer, not happiness but blessed
ness.
Just as our ancestors declared with
heart and soul and might that God is
one. just as our ancestors never re-
fused to give up life itself in the name
Of the affirmation that God is one. so
does it behOOve us to preach and to
live the gospel that man'is one. No
body denies any more that God is one
Every shot in yonder battlefelds.
every snarl of i'll will right i'm our
midst. is n denial that man is one.
But man is one. Hear O Israel, hJ-
mainly our brotherhood, humanity is