Year: 1879

that though the number OF the schoolgong youth is
exceedingly small in proportion to the population,
yet part of them are pretty regular in their at
tendance The rest do not go to school at all in the
long winter partly for want of warm clothes, partly
because the pedagogia too far from their homes.
The above particulars not the hasty generalizs-
tons Of passing travellers they are the welauthen-
ponder them carefully may probably come to the
conclusion that in Russia there would be less nibil
wise TO wonder at the possibility of dictator
ship by General Gourko or by General Todleben.


A RABBITS FAREWELL.


REV. DIR. EINHoRN's LAST SERMON TO HIS


FLoCK-A NOTABLE CHURCH SCENE IN


LEXINGTON AvENUE-REvIEw1NG THE La


BoRs OF FORTY YEARs-THE JEWS AND THE


CIVIL WAR.


The Temple BETHEL, at the corner of Sixty.third
street and Lexington avenue, was crowded to
flowing yesterday morning when the Rev. DR.. Elm
horn. the rabbi Of the congregation. gentleman
past the three score and ten allotted to man in gen.
era ascended the pulpit for the last time in
his life. Having been retired by his congregation.
owing to his advanced age, he delivered his farewell
sermon at a time when all the dignitaries of the
Jewish Church in America happened to be
sembled in New York delegates to the recent
Hebrew Convention. The platform was
cupied in addition to the officers, by
rev. LIZ. UOttuclls OF the Temple Emauu-E ia,
New York; Rev. Henry 7. Jacobs, of the Thirty
fourth Street Synagogue. Rev. DIR. Leneht. Of
New Orleans; Rev. DR.. samfreld, of Memphis Tenn.
Dr. Einhorn said, with considerable emotion that
it sad to reflect that the hour of parting had
come at last after thirty-eight years of pastoral
life To consider what had been the result of
their labors curing the twenty-three years Of his
stewardship in New York, to consider the future of
the BETHEL congregation, he intended to answer
several questions which always excited the minds of
the ocean navigators Of old. and which he now de-
sired to ask himself.


THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.


IT am not afraid" continued Dr. Einhorn, ITO
review my labors at this late day. When still
young man abroad America was ever to me an ideal.
the great land of the future. and the
land where reformed Judaism would surely
flourish When. then, while in Pesth hungary
received the call to go to Baltimore, thanked God
that would be a helpmate in the great cause of
Jewish reform. I came here q Hebrew, the same
was in the old country, with this difference.
that in Europe the cause Of religious progress
was held down with an iron hand, while
here we enjoyed the fullest freedom for
religion. Now. as to our internal affairs, it is true
that during my American pastorate the Cleveland
Conference was held which protected sham Judaism
and against which 1 raised my voice with
all the power at my command, and 1 was
compelled to oppose it's platform, its tenets
its resolutions as unjudaisc, but when in 1870 the
Rabbinical Conference was held at philadelphia the
ideas of true Judaism came to the front ut last,
and the most learned colleges of Europe ap-
plauded our efforts, and have since ad-
After had been here only a short time how dis
tressed was when saw that this glorious sun
not shine % brightly haa dreamed in W youth
that the American sun would shine. 1t
black with the spots of African slavery promi..
nent rabbi of the city OF New York. now in eternal


lite, printed thousands of copies Of speech made by
him. defending the strength of our holy hora and
the Talmud this institution of slavery resisted this
desecraton of our Holy Writ at the time with all
tho force, all the power at my command and /
defended our holy religion against such servile and
base attacks. This about the time that the civil
war was about lowering its clouds upon this land.
That these efforts on my part were most difficult you
will all readily understand when you remember that
nearly the whole OF my congregation in Baltimore
sympathizers with the South. and the
air became pregnant with dark forebod-
ings. that not much time elapsed before I
made preparations to leave that city. Aye,
thanks to the precautions Of number Of brave
young men, who, fully armed. had stood guard over
my home, my departure was not interrupted by any
evil action that was lurking in the minds of many
wrongheaded persons When now after years have
passed these stirring events, / look back
upon the days of 1860 and 1861 can hardly realize
how a single Israeite could be found who did not
enlist in the ranks Of the Union army and array
himself under that banner OF freedom, which has
been the symbol of our redemption and happiness.
To be Hebrew means to be u champion of liberty.
Since the assumption OF my ministerial duties in
this city the Sabbath question has often been
n
few have urged that the day should be changed.
l for could agree to that change.
There be doubt that if you do not want to
the doors of your temple closed forever you
must do something to revive the religious feelings
OF the masses, but that object be attained
by changing the Sabbath.


IsRAELs FUTURE MISSION


And now rs to the race whence come. pro-
claim that am Hebrew-one of Gods chosen
people that 1t Is our mission part and parcel of
this people to be and remain the great teachers
of mankind. Whoever calls religion q religion
of race falls very wide of the mark which IL has


filled in the past and will fill in the future upon the
worlds history. Whatever may be the symbols
of religion, Whatever may be differences,
it is 1sraeps mission to aim high and aim
higher forever, to place mankind upon that
plane where. indeed. all members of the human race
can be regarded as having been moulded In
Gods likeness. Do not then, prevent Judaism
from going higher and higher. / have
deavored to live up to these ideas during
the many years of my pastorate. Let us hope that
the works which we have practised during that time
may bring forth ample fruit for yourselves and pos
terity. You will now this pulpit occupied by
younger man. but he Is learned in the law,
pious devotee to our faith and eminently good
shepherd 1t Is hard, hard indeed, to say FAREWELL
but, said at FIRST, the hour of separa-
ton has come, and for you all, Israeites
of New York, beseech Gods best blessings,
that He may keep you and protect you and bless
you and yours, this noble country Of adoption,
this grand city of our homes. AS to you. men,
bers of my own congregation, though / may
not be with You hereafter in this pulpit
l cannot. l will not separate from you
until the hour of death. Then only at the
call of Jehovah shall 1 sever those connec-
tions which, buried in the innermost recess OF
my heart, keeps you all in constant relations with
my inmost affections whether your pastor
your friend. May the God Of Israel guard. guide
and protect you. Amen.


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