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RABBI FRANKLIN'S INAUGURAL SERMON PACKARD SIX SPORT IN CREAM
COLOR FEATURE OF AUTO SHOW
(Delivered before Congregation Beth El of Detroit on Friday

evening, Jan. 27, 1899.)

My friends, a covenant sacred not
only to you and to ate, but of serious
import to the house of Israel and to
the cause of the larger humanity of
which we are a part, is about to be
consummated in this supremely sol-

emn hour. A new link is to Ise added
to the chain of your glorious history;

for verily I believe the bard spoke the
truth who said:

"To thine own self be true
And it shall follow as the night the
day.
Thou can'st not then be false to any
man:'

As my better judgment, shaped by
a new chapter is to be written in the contact with the living world, refined
book of my life; and together we are by reading and tempered by the sug-

to work and watch—you to maintain gestions of those fitted to advise, shall
that honored place among congrega- dictate, I shall preach and teach and
tions of this 'mai which your worth live. Neither courting nor giving
and your works have justly won for
you, I to rise to the possibilities of flattery; neither believing nor enter-
usefulness that may be mine in this taining the gossip monger, I shall seek
new sphere to which your respect and and fellow truth so for as it may be
confidence have generally exalted me. revealed to me. Where weakness is
In coming to you today to take up wronged, where justice is perverted.
the sacred duties of this honored posi- where truth is falsified, where pov-
thin I am not insensible of the tremen- erty is neglected, where suffering is
dous responsibilities to which I am unrelieved, where innocence is tempt-
bending my shoulders. Only too well ed, where humanity is forgotten, I
do I know that a spot whereon shall not hesitate to raise my voice in
have stood an Adler and a Kohler, earnest protest, for this have I come
where a Zirndorf and a Grossman to work and watch with you.
have thrilled you with their sublime
Neither within nor beyond the
utterances, is consecrated ground. ranks of our brethren in faith shall I
Would that the mantle of their inspir- attempt to tickle the palates of men
ation might sometime fall on me! with words of honeyed sweetness. It
Their places in your homes and in is my experience that the essential
your hearts I know I cannot fill. But condition for gaining the respect of
what I am-1 am for you. I bring our fellows it to respect ourselves and
you my heart and my hopes—my love to uphold our own ideals. As this is
and my life. I come to you with the a Jewish congregation, I shall teach
Psalmist's prayer upon my lips: (Ps. the ethics and the ideals of the Jew:
CXIX. 125,) "Deal with thy servant, and I know that doing that, we shall
0 God, according to thy goodness, and gain the respect if not the esteem of
teach me Thy will. I am Thy servant, the men and the women of this con-
do Thou but give me understanding munity. The time, I believe, has pass-
that I may know Thy truth."
ed when the Jew need hide his light
The meaning of life, my friends, under a bushel; when we need scrape
can be correctly interpreted only in and cringe and bow in gratitude at
terms of duty. The larger the duty each ignorant and patronizing ac-
and the better we fulfill it, the fuller knowledgement that one may he a Jew
is our life. Honor, glory, even oppor- and yet not sacrifice respectability
tunity is nought save as it carries and manhood. The day has come
within it a larger obligation and re- when the Jew may stand in the front
sponsibility. For myself that is the ranks of men and boast his origin. He
message of this sacred hour. I there- from whose loins the prophets sprang
fore pray for strength and wisdom so must indeed have fallen from his
to live and act that my acceptance of height if today he shudders before the
these larger duties here may redound glance of recognition. Shame on the
to your peace and to the blessing of Jew who is dishonored by the title.
the holy cause for which we stand. Surely, not Judaism, but he is be-
Coming thus to you with prayers, smirched.
Yet, strangely enough, the custom
not promises upon my lips, I cannot
but recall the hour more than six has forced its way even into sonic of
years ago when for the first time in our pulpits of attempting to tacitly
my life the sacred privilege was mine cover the fact that Judaism is today
to stand before the men and women a living force, standing for something
of my former congregation, to whom concrete and tangible, representing
in sorrow and in tears I bade farewell a mission and sounding a message to
one week ago tonight. Standing be- the world. However, I believe that
fore them young and inexperienced, this pulpit has ever been fearless and
my thoughts untamed and my ideals forceful in its defense of Jewish
unrestrained by contact with the real homes and hopes, of Jewish ethics and
world about me, I said then, "The only ideals. In the sincerity of this one
promise I can make to you is this: purpose at least it shall not retro-
That in all my doings to myself I grade. Yet let none fear, as I know
shall be true." Tonight, dear friends, many do, that intensity of love for
I come to you, older in years, broad- Judaism is synonymous with a desire
er in experience, maturer, I trust, in to restore dogmatism to the syna-
thought and wiser in judgment, but gogue. Once and for all, I declare my
withal no better prepared to promise belief that Judaism is not dogmatism,
you what I shall do than was I then. it is not only a theological form of
I can only repeat, yea, and with em- thought. Judaism is idealism, it is
phasis, that same promise. Here as spiritual aspiration, it is life. I can-
there, in this larger as in the smaller not conceive of Judaism apart from
sphere, I shall be true to my own self, the affairs of the living world! It con-

Motor

A HOME IN GROSSE POINTE

One of the outstanding features of
the automobile show will be a Pack-
ard Six sport car in cream color with
jet black wheels. The sickle head.
lights and the familiar Packard radi-
ator seem to prove the new saying
that appears in their new catalogue,
Only Packard can build a Packard."
All of the new Packard cars carry
four-wheel brakes and of course an
automatic stop light, which with true
Packard thoroughness is built into the
brake lever and not added as an after-
thought. The gasoline gauge is car-
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is a beautiful walnut finish. Rear
view mirror, windshield cleaner, toilet
cases and smoking sets, and k ton-

neau light have been added and a
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The battery box is located on the
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accessible. Steering is easier because
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knuckles.
Another attraction will be a Pack-
ard Six touring car in deep lake
striped with casino red and a Pack-
ard Eight five-passenger coupe in
Westminster gray striped in black.
There will also be a Packard Six five-
passenger sedan, a four-passenger
coupe and a seven-passenger sedan in
standard l'ackard blue as well as the
Packard Eight seven-passenger tour-
ing, four-passenger roadster and
seven-passenger sedan-limousine.

cerns the home and the heart and ev-
ery phase of active being. What does
less than that is not the religion of
the prophets, and hence, to my mind,
not Judaism in its noblest and most
inspiring form. To teach that, the
rabbi himself must first of all he sin-
cerely convinced of the integrity of
the cause for which he is working. He
whose convictions are half hearted can
never inspire a multitude to follow
him. Did I not bring to you an en-
thusiastic love for the faith for which
our fathers lived and died, I should
not dare to stand before you. God
grant that that love may grow in
depth, in fervor, in intensity, lighting
and warming your hearts and enkind-
ling in many souls the spark of de-
votion and devotedness.
It is sometimes said that the rabbi
is the legitimate successor of the
prophet! At last when he enters up-
on the discharge of his solemn obli-
gations he ought to hear as did Ezek-
iel, the solemn command (III:17)
sounding in his ears "Son of man, a
guardian unto the House of Israel
have I made thee, and thou shalt hear
the word of my mouth and shalt warn
the people for me."
Yea, the guardian, the watcher

must the preacher be, the careful and
conscientious guide of life's unfolding.
The rabbi is primarily a teacher, as
his name implies but for that reason
—mark it well—the pulpit should not
he transformed into the chair of a
professor. The "isms" and the "olo-
gies" are all very well in their place,
but coming here the heart yearns for
something which cold philosophy will
never satisfy, and the soul longs for
something of sympathy, of sentiment,
of love, of life. And hence, though
scholarship is undoubtedly one of the
essential requirements of the success-
ful preacher, sympathy is too mighty
a force in the true church to be alto-
gether absent. Philosophy is cold and
unappealing. Learned disputations
may redound to the minister's glory
and tickle the vanity of some of the
congregation who imagine that they
understand him, but the hearts of the
people will remain untouched by them
and they will leave the house of God,
their souls as thirsty as they came.
Cold intellectuality is not what is
needed in the pulpit today. God
knows the world is calculating and un-
sympathetic enough and that in the
mad competitions of life nothing is
sacred; that in the arena of business

PAGE SEVENTEEN'

friend and friend, brother and broth-
er, father and children, do not hesi-
tate to meet and to trample upon each
other's lives. Here, then, we need feel-
ing; we need sympathy; we need
something to stir the nobler emotions.
We want our pulpits to ring again
with the soul stirring appeals of an
Isaiah and a Jeremiah; we want the
hearts of our people to be thrilled with
the sublime and fervent utterances
of an Ezekiel and a Haggai and a
Malachi; we want them to hear again
when they are sorely troubled the
soothing words of sympathy, "Though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall 1st--
conic white as snow." We want the
pulpit to stated for something more
than an outlet fur scholarly sermons.
ti' e want it to represent an influence
that shall uplift and ennoble life; that
shall make hearts purenehoptis sweet-
er, thoughts lovelier, strivings loftier,
love deeper, sympathy surer, idealism
grander. How else can we interpret
the prophetic mandate to become the
guardian of Israel?
Surely none will imagine that I am
pleading for more sentimentalism in
the pulpit for I loath it with all my
soul. I only crave for that warmth
of enthusiasm for the things touching
real life which too frequently is driv-
en out of the pulpit before the ab-
stractions of the stars and the meta-
physics of earth's mysteries. For my
part, I consider that the preacher has
his grandest triumph when through
his words some darkened soul has
been made to see the light or through
his works some despondent spirit has
found new courage, hope and strength.
What nobler work is any man's to do
than to lead thirsty souls to the living
waters, the well-springs of life?
Briefly, imperfectly, have I thus ac-
quainted you with what I conceive to
be the ideals for which the modern
rabbi ought to strive. With all the
enthusiasm of my nature and with all
the love that my heart holds, I shall
work in your midst for their realiza-
tion. Other men may have better
thoughts and wiser plans, but the in-
dividuality of men must be remember-
ed and respected. When these ideals
shall be realized, others, higher and
better, let us hope, shall take their
place and lure us on to even nobler ef-
forts.
I felt that in my ministrations in
your midst I libell not work alone. If
there is one thing that affrights my
soul, it is the thought of being alone,
alone—it is the most terrible curse
that can befall man. Joy loses its
sweetness, sorrow becomes more bit-
ter than it really is, if someone, some-
one who loves us, is not near to re-
joice with us in our happiness and to
support us in our grief. But here such
fear I do not entertain. Your gener-
ous co-operation with my honored pre-
decessor, no less than your hearty re-
ception of my self and dear ones, as-
sures me that I shell not be without
helping hands and sympathetic spirits
about me. Indeed, were it not for this
conviction, I should not have had the
courage to come to you. Still, this one
hope permit me to voice in closing
tonight. I bespeak your co-operation
in every department of congregation-
al activity—in the synagogue, espec-
ially in the Sabbath school, and in the
charitable and educational phases of
our work. I know that you will not
disappoint my hopes In this regard.

Yes, one other thing. 1 want the young
men and the young women to stand
beside me. In their hands is the fu-
ture of this congregation and the Ju-
daism of thin city. They may make it
what they will. To them I pledge my
whole-souled co-operation in every
righteous work they undertake.
Now why prolong these words? Let
our lie-es be the witness to our prom-
ises, and our works he token of our
word's sincerity. As days doll on and
we grow more and more into each
other's lives may we not hope that to-
gether we shall do God's work,
strengthened because Ile approves
and blessed because we love the
work?
The covenant we make tonight to
uplsuild our congregational ideals, we
consecrate in the name of our pure
lessees and our innocent little ones.
May God look with favor upon this
new union, may Ile strengthen my
hands, may Ile awaken your sym-
pathies for the exalted work before
us and through our co-operation may
this congregation become a useful fac-
tor in the life of this community, a
toms for good in Judaism's sacred
cause, a helping hand to that human-
ity which drives upward and heaven-
ward. Amen.

J. N. F. NOTES

Club Buys More Land:

The Forget-Me-Note of Zion, one
of the local Young Judaea clubs, has
the distinction of having redeemed
more land in Palestine than any other
club in the city. The Forget-Me-Nots
have just purchased another dunam
of land in Palestine for $20, this
making the third dunam in a little
over a year to the credit of the club.

Lithuania Pledges $100,000:

At a conference of Lithuanian
Jews recently held at Kovno, a reso-
lution was adopted pledging the Jew-
ish communities of Lithuania to raise
within the next three years $100,000,
the equivalent of 6,000 dunama of
land, in land donations for the Jewish
National Fund.

$3,000 From Chicago:

'

The National Fund Council of Chi-
cago, of which II. Steinberg is chair-
man, has remitted to the end of De-
cember $3,000 in Flag Day money,
National Fund box collections and
Golden Book inscriptions. This brings
up the total of J. N. F. remittances
from Chicago for 1923 to over
$10,000.

ZIONIST TRIBUTE TO
MEMO Y OF HARDING

Contribution Sent by Organic

zation to Memorial Fund

for Late President.

NEW YORK. — The Zionist Or-
ganization of America makes public
the following letter addressed to
President Coolidge, honorary presi-
dent of the Harding Memorial Fund;
"The Zionist Organization of
America deems it a privilege to send
the enclosed contribution to the
Harding memorial fund as a tributq
to the memory of our late President
Harding.
"It is our belief and conviction
that the late President will be recog-
nized by the American people as one
of the great Presidents of this repub-
lic. Ile was a big-hearted man of
fine emotion and great vision; a
friend of every cause that had for
its purpose to help the oppressed and
to ameliorate suffering throughout
the world. In this he made no dia.
Unction, between race, creed or color,
"The Jewish people will always re-
member him as the man who signed
the resolution favoring the establish-
ment of a Jewish national homeland
in Palestine which passed unani-
mously in both houses, and when ho
received the Zionist administrative
committee in its official capacity at
the White House he again expressed
his deep sympathy with the aims and
aspirations of the Zionist cause.
"We beg to assure you, Mr. Presi-
dent, of our deepest respect and cor-
dial greetings."
In response to the above letter, Oa
Zionist Organization received the rot,
lowing reply from the secretary to
the President, E. T. Clark:
"It has been a great pleasure to
receive your letter of Dec. 24, with
which was enclosed the check of the
Zionist Organization of America for'
its contribution to the Harding me-
morial fund, and to transmit the
check to the officers of the organiza4
thin. I have forwarded to them, also,
your letter, because I know its tri•
bute to the late President will bd
gratification and inspiration to thosd
who are carrying forward the effort
to establish an appropriate national
memorial to him.

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