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Excerpt from Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Vol. 12: Containing the Proceedings of the Convention Held at New Orleans, May 5-10, 1902 For we that bless you from the house of the Lord congratulate ourselves upon your selection of this Southern metropolis for your deliberations, not in the expectation, however sure that may be, of intellectual treats, of delightful converse, not even mainly be cause Of the certain benefits of information and enlightenment which your discussions will confer upon listener and reader; we Shall praise and thank you from God's house for the infecting enthusiasm, the increase of hopefulness, of Jewish loyalty and Jewish feeling which you will leave behind. It is the religious spirit of your debates and the Jewish atmosphere Of your person alities which we welcome with expectant joy. All over this country we sorely need a religious renascence. The modern man everywhere, perhaps in America most of all, needs to round out his life into spiritual harmony by lifting the mystic well-springs of emotion and fancy to equal fellowship with dom ineeringintellect; needs to enshrine the abstract principles of ideality beyond the acid cynicisms Of hard and blind matter - Of-fact; needs to temper the dull glare of despotic commonplace by the healing, many-hued rays of the inner light. We cannot build homes on the crown of the highway; nor can we build Character, much less gain peace of soul, without true homes. Our liberty rests on ideals; the soundness of citizenship and Of manhood is safe only in the loftiness of firm principles; we live, literally, as a commonwealth and as a culture, by the faith that is within us. (hab. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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