Year: 1872

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Light Of Faith, Truth, Virtue-What Is


Needed to Mako Ju daism Perma nent


and Beloved Here.


Notwithstanding the disagreeable morning,
goodly congregation gathered yesterday IN the
Temple Emanuel to listen to the parting words Of
Rev. DR.. Gutheim, who this evening leaves New York
for New Orleans where he has accepted call to
minister to his old congregation who have during
his absence organized on the plan OF the Temple
here and erected synagogue after its model In
the course of reading they have begun Genesis, the
first chapter of which was read yesterday, and
from the following verse OF which the Doctor
preached :-"And God said, Let there be light, and
there was light" Light he said Is the most beneficial
object in creati0n-the richest jewel in the crown
OF creation. What would all that we have and
hold dear be worth were 1t not for the light that
shines upon us-those variegated flowers that
brighten our pathway? The panorama OF life
which passes before us day by day would be OF no
avail to us with0uti it, without that sun which the
Almighty created TO rule the day all would bc


SWEET rs THE LIGHT


and pleasant to our eyes. Desolate indeed is he
without the light Of this world he would be more
helpless than babe and poorer than the poorest.
sweets the light to man Il is the greatest bless.
ting us an example that we should walk in light





may infer It's importance. without this


ss wSSa On n %y n
SAYS the Psalmist and the soul that is imbued
with answering faith in God walks in light. But
Let us nen said the Doctor, cultivate this light OF
faith in our souls Light is also truth as well as
and upon the life o man. truth Of such prac
tcal effect that those who would act differently to
gain evanescent n0t0riety which does not rightly
hnlI nrrlu n mn
the hypocrisy OF their natures Let the truth grow
and spring up in our hearts and look down from
God Of truth, send Thy truth abroad into ali the
earth and guide us in the way that we should go.n
Light is virtue also, and virtue should ever be
taken for light since its opposite Is darkness Vice
shuns the light OF day. but by virtue alone there
arseth light in the darkness. Let us then practise
this virtue as the light which God has bestowed
upon and planted in our hearts.


LIGHT is ALSO KNOwLEDGR,
without which man cannot know God. II Is know-
edge chained TO virtue that brings peace and Joy
to the human soul and that makes our lives happy
| to ourselves and a benediction to those around
sight into things past, present and future-into the
things that relate to this world and to that which


70 come Is m fhs tn io1roa o. gs rs
blessing Of faith, virtue, knowledge, that we should
always vs. view Il and profit BY It. me lay is light
far as the light has penetrated this law Of God has
been and Is to be acknowledged. II has been
spread abroad by this TOrah Let u.s. then cultivate
and enjoy this light and impart Its blessings unto
others. This said the Doctor, is the last Sabbath
shall be with you and what better subject ne asked
could he speak to the congregation aboutY There
were some things, he said, tnat In parting he de-
sired to impress upon their minds One OF these
was better observance OF the Sabbath; another
was closer union with other bodies OF lsraelltes
and representation In the Board Of Delegates OF
American Israeites-a society that is recognized
in Europe as the mouthpiece and representative OF
American Israelites.


The Doctor then gave


FEW PARTING WORDS
OF explanation. He has been four years with the
Temple congregation, and, according to agree
ment has preached twice o month In English and
performed such other clerical duties as the Church
Board had assigned. When he came among them
he believed there was desire to cultivate English
preaching and to make II more available and use
ful, but he has never been asked even to offer
prayer in English unless In the absence OF his re-
spected colleague He had come, therefore, in
some sense, to look upon himself as being rather
ornamental than useful to the congregation. He
would gladly have made his services more availa-
BILE to the people, but they evidently did not want
them; and hence, when his old congregation called
him, he accepted because wider field Of useful
ness would open up before him there. At the
Doctors remarks many tears were shed, and at the
close he was bade godspeed by many.