A plea for more culture instead of materialism, for the working together of ministers of all denominations towards one goal, the betterment of mankind, was made here by Dr. Charles Otis Judkins pastor of Glens Falls, N. Y., church, in an address at the eighty-seventh anniversary of the Temple Covenant of Peace, the oldest Jewish congregation in Pennsylvania and one of the fifteen oldest in the United States.
Dr. Judkins asked Jew and Genik alike to forget all about the past and to get away from material things for at least an hour a day and think about spiritual things and the betterment of man. He bewailed the differences in religious beliefs, stating that all serve one God, and asked the ministers of Easton to preach to their congregations the culture of being and not of doing.
Several Christian ministers took part in the anniversary exercises and carried messages of good-will from their congregations.
Rabbi David A. Alpert, pastor of the Temple Covenant of Peace, announced that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will deliver the address at the eighth anniversary next year.
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