The Minister's Work - 10/07/1916

11 that it can be done, our spiritual & religious conscience, must be awakened, our pride must be touched, our attitude must be changed & a sense of responsibility must be infused into the hearts of each one of you. But ___(if?) calls as eloquently & as low as it ever did in the days when (striken: of) Israel's (striken: supreme glory) glory ______(should?) ____________ & her influence was paramount. The Business of the Synagogue is the business (striken: of) not of one man or even a few men but of all who one affiliates with it. His concern is your concern. its work is your work, its goal & its future is yours as well as mine to accomplish. Hence & let me emphasize this fact which has become an axion (striken: _________ needless?) that is self evident in Every Church organization of the World: with your unselfish cooperation Your Earnestness & Eagerness to serve the highest interests of this Community, nothing absolutely nothing is impossible. Without it you can only expect the same (Striken: deplorable) deadening paralyzing conditions that Mr. Marshall & a multitude of others all over the land are deploring. You have no right to expect anything more because you have contributed nothing of any real value _______making your

12 religious & cultural organizaton (inserted: the) success it ____ to be. ____Every Great business institution needs the sincere interest, working ability & efficient cooperation of each one (striken: every) (inserted: of its) members in order to make it a harmonious whole & a pronouced flourishing, ____________ in like manner is it ___________ (comparative?) (Striken: that) for the attainment of splendid results (inserted: in any Church organization?) that there be a combination of effort (striken: ____?) all pulling (inserted: together) towards the same end-success. (striken: the) Precisely the same agreement applies to every institution on Earth whether it be religious, social civic or political. I have (striken: am ___(placing?)) _____(placed?) before you an analysis of a situtation that confronts (striken 95 percent of) (inserted: every ___________?) (Striken: ___?) Community of this Country ______(providing?) one or 2 shining expections and I have ventured to suggest a remedy (striken: ____?) the logic of which (insert: ____ appeal to _____ sense of ___________________) is un________. It is worth pondering over, it is worthy of the deepest mediation. It is worthy of your prayers that God may give you that spriritual insight, that sense of fairness & justice to a supremely sacred cause that will (striken: open for you) enable you to see how little of yourself and your ____ & your time you have given to it; how negligent you have been, how deaf to the

13 call of your beautiful religion & your community and how much you could have done, had you chosen to give it a thought. I say it is worthy of your prayers (striken: that) this ___________(holiest?) day of the _____ year?) that God may quicken your conscious (striken: arouse you) awaken you to the necesity of the hour; that God fill you with a holy determination henceforth to (striken: be) _______(answer?) the call of your congregation to the claims of (striken: the) God's House upon you, a determination that will __________ (convert?) every one of you here into enthusiastic efficient workers towards a goal that shall make (striken: you) it a proud distinction to be known _______ (member) & spoken of __________ _________ as a true sone of Israel. (Striken: _____________ May God give strength)