Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-26
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DR.. E. ". CaZisch
Req. Edward Leigh PcU. D. D.,
Offers Congratulations on
Anriuersdru.

Among the many congra,ulatorv
messages received by Or. T.. \. Calisch
on the twenty-tifth anniversary OF hi.
ministry at Temple Beth .ihahah COM
Ing from all denomina;iou is the fol-
loving from Rev. Edward Leigh Pen.
d, II, distinguished Methodist minis
ter and writer:
My dear DR.. Calisch,-The life ne
rec!use. such as l have been compelled
20 I'VE TOY many years. though seeming
i me narrowest of all lives. is not
wanting III opportunities for unco!orcd
VISIONS or unbiased Judgments: and
! mop" sinai! not he regarded as mere
j. emotional when l say, as | am now
glad 20 say. that in my opinion no man
/ mas done so much for the spread of
catholic ideas and the catholic shirt
among US. for the development of orr
sense OF human kinship, for the de-
s'rHctlon OF senseless preiudices and
for the announcement OF 4 cordial
sympathy and understanding between
races as you have done in your TWEEN
ty-hve years of distinguished service
IN this city
IN many ways you have helped to
quicken our consciousness OF the essen
iial unity OF humanity. You have
helped US to realize that as God is one
50 his people are one. You have helped
together: you have helped Hebrew and
Christian 10 believe in each other; YOU
have helped US to remember that as the
heart Of the Eternal is wonderfully
kind so His children should be not
merely tolerant but kind-wonderfully
k!nd-toward one another
Il hope that YOU will live 10 see the
day when. through the influence of
your spirit and teaching the last ves-
" n he i'm
udices shall have vanished from among
us. Great as your work has been there
Is Sun! enough OF this sin among our
people 20 make us hang our heads in
shame. | presume there are still some
Jews who are unable TO understand
how any good thing can come on: Of
Nazareth, but I confess have neither
the heart nor the face to complain
while so many OF my own people are
stiil blind TO the good that has come
out Of Jerusalem. There are many
Things in this world of which none of
US are proud. but as Christian the
thing that humiliates me most of all
is the unaccountable social attitude Of
many Christian women. which. more
than anything else. IL sccms to me. has
delayed the day OF perfect amity be-
tween Jew and Gentle. Woman, l sup
pose. will be the last mystery to be
solved. and /. therefore, expect to re-
main more or less mystificd TO the end;
out l should like very much before I
80. to understand just what 1t is in
the heart of Christian women that
makes her do one thing. 7 should like
to understand what it is that prompts
her. after growing up with beauti-
full girl. whom she has learned TO love:
after going TO her in subsequent years
for help in all her fine philautrophies:
after raving over her beauty, her tai
e rh
sonality. her Sentlencss of spirit her
purity of heart; after saying thou
sand times that she should grace the
highest social station in the land and
above all. after assuring herself that
this friend Of her Sirlhood has the
bluest of bluc blood in her veins, that
kings and poets and prophets adorn her
ancestral line. and that she comes of Il
race that gave 10 the world Him whom
She calls her Lord and Master---I
should like. say. to know what is in
the heart OF this Christian woman that
prompts her the moment she enters Il
social club to turn and slam the door
in the face of the sister Of her Christ!
II am sure that your own immediate
friends and congregation are not more
grateful for your achievements than
many other among our people who.
though bearing Il different name, are
proud to think of you as Il leader amOn-
us: and 1t IL with a Keen sense of obli
cation TINT am sending YOU with this
feeble appreciation OF my own sincere
thanks and consr mutations upon the
completion with honor OF these TWEEN
ty-fve fruitful and noble spent years
May the blessing Of God rest upon You
and yours. and may He spare you for
at least another quarter OF century
Of equally fruitful service in our COM
munity.
VERY siDcercly y,,urs
tSigned)
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