October I, 1943 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle I6 never do the dastardly things ones be honored. By their graves continues her work for this cause club spirit increase in strength? which the Nazis are doing today. we dedicate ourselves to the up- VALOR There is obviously no use in call- If she does yield to the popular lifting of our thoughts and feel- indefatigably. to the purification of our ing ourselves Jews unless in this cries of revenge, she will have ings, All the time that Lily Mon- conduct, to the furthering of (Continued from Page 12) to lower her standards, until they hour of disaster we feel that tagu was working for Liberal deeds of love, mercy and good. cial service work is no exception. Judaism, she was strongly op- God, our Guardian, neither slum- cannot be distinguished from Nazi ness." standards. Not so can our dear Lily Montagu's club on Dean posed by her father who was the bers nor sleeps. His spirit fills Street, Soho, was the first social leader of the Orthodox group, the universe. Our tragedy does settlement for women in England. and who in fact forced some of not affect our faith. How can it? Soon Miss Montagu found the the original members of the Jew- War is a denial of God's teach- girls, and the girls found her. ish Religious Union to drop theif ings, and war created our trag- But girls have families and, as affiliation. When Samuel Mon- edy. The challenge has come to the years went by, the West Cen- tagu died, he left only a relu- us unmistakably to order our own tral Club became the social cen- tively small estate to Lily and lives anew, to turn our hearts tore of the whole community. Marion because of this interest Godward, to listen to God, and Fathers without jobs, brothers in of theirs. The terms of the will to dedicate ourselves more earn- difficulties, mothers beset with a still cause the gossips of London estly than ever to the cause of thousand troubles, all streamed to shake their heads; and even peace and freedom. You who real to Miss Lily for advice and help. this money that he left, Miss this paper, as well as I who No one has ever been neglected. Montague can never use for the write it, belong to a small group Eventually, Lily Montagu was furtherance of Liberal Judaism. of very ordinary folk, but if offered that very high position She, therefore, cannot join the every small group feels as we do in English life, the office of Jus- Liberal Jewish synagogue, al- there is no doubt that a better tice of the Peace, the first worn- though she speaks from the pul- life will be established. "As I left Whitefield's after an so honored. Her work has pit regularly. She is president of never been perfunctory. Even the West Central Liberal Jewish our beautiful service on Saturday, today she writes personal letters Synagogue of London, of which April 19, a man pressed my hand every week to hundreds of her the author once had the privi- in a kindly, sympathetic way, and girls and friends scattered now lege of serving as minister, and said: 'All right, Miss Montagu, in every corner of the world. there she serves as lay preacher. we shall have our revenge! If Lily Montagu is helped by her Even as a young girl, Lily he meant that a Berlin woman We extend sincere good wishes for a sister Marion, who shares coin- Montagu was religious. To her, who had given her life to some New Year filled with happiness and pletely all of her activities and faith' and action are one concept. piece of work for nearly 50 all of her ideals. Lily makes no The author has the prayers which years should experience my kind blessed with full measure of prosperity important decisions without con- were written for her Jewish of heartache, when she saw the and may these wishes continue to find suiting Marion. The two of them working girls when she was but outward shell destroyed in a few together have practically sup- 20 years old. They are often minutes; if he meant that an- fulfillment into the many years beyond. ported the Girls' Club, which poorly phrased, sometimes naive, other woman should see the place was enlarged and rebuilt near the so different from her sure, pre- shattered which had echoed night original location. Lily Montagu cise style today, but these pray- after night for 27 years with the CHARLES H. LOTT was once the sister of the corn- ers show a religious character joyous sounds of young people munity, then the mother, now that passes understanding. It is bent on recreation and education, General Manager the grandmother. Her girls meet said that when she came to and revelling in activity; if he once a year for a reunion. Some America in 1929 to receive the meant this, then indeed he offered of them are literally grandmoth- honorary degree of Doctor of me a poor form of consolation. ers. There is a Lily Montagu Letters at the Hebrew Union In memory of our dead, I would would not be complete without College, Lily Montagu could not urge you to cast hatred out of DCTHOIT. MICHIGAN telling of her work as the foun- pay her own fare because of your hearts, as hatred is destruc- der of Liberal Judasim in Eng- her father's will. Nothing, how- tive, and through hatred we lose CASS—BAGLEY land, as Isaac M. Wise was in ever, deterred her, and it is re- our standards and aspirations. America. • Together with her markable that she still maintains We love our country, our Eng- friend, the late Dr. C. G. Monte- a deep love for her father. In land, and insist that she must fiore, founder, editor, and patron the biography in which she wrote of the famous Jewish Quarterly of her father, she says of their Review, she assembled a group relationship: "There was just a of like-minded men and women painful silence, beneath which in 1902 at the home of her sister, hearts ached to commune. Only Mrs. E. L. Franklin. Soon regu- the daughter, and those of her lar worship services were held, family who shared her point of and a prayer-book was prepared view, could fully understand that with the assistance of the late this silence was beyond the con- Dr. Israel Abrahams, then teach- trot of human will, as they both er of homiletics at Jews' College. had been touched by `the• time- The movement grew, and an or- force' which offers no escape." ganization, known as the Jewish The religious and social welfare Religious Union, was formed, of work which Lily Montagu start which Miss Montagu was the ed continues despite setbacks and leading spirit. In 1926 she, Rabbi hardships. In a letter, which she Israel Mattuck, and Dr. Monte- wrote to some of her friends after fiore founded the World Union the Settlement Club which was for Progressive Judaism, uniting destroyed and in the bombing of Liberal Jews all over the world. which 27 people lost their lives, Regular conferences of the World she said: "How are we going to allow Union were held until the very outbreak of the war, and they this disaster to affect our lives? will be resumed when the war is How are we going to honor the over. Lily Montagu, as organiz- memory of our beloved 'dead? ing secretary of the World Union, How are we going to make the DETROIT-L(1AD -HOTEL on the eve of A NEW YEAR • With deep gratitude in our hearts • With hopeful prayers on our lips • With thanks for the opportunities in America. THE UNITED DAIRIES SAM GRANADIER Another year has passed with the march of progress. I always at this time pause for a moment to exchange felicitations. 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