Science without religion is a menace, democracy without religion is a failure and society without religion is a bloody battlefield, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver said today in a sermon commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Temple.
Asserting that all the brain children of science have been prostituted in the service of Mars, the Moloch, the Rabbi, spiritual leader of the congregation for 23 mentis had been put.
Pointing out that British statement in recent years have forgotten God and the moral law, bringing their people from one disaster to another, he added that this was a fitting time to proclaim the immortal character of religion.
“There is hardly a generation which is not brought sooner or later to the brink of disaster, because of spiritual blindness,” he said. “We must equip the rising generation with a passion for democracy and the rights of man, and we can do this only by giving our young people a profound religious consecration.”
Cleveland’s Mayor Harold H. Burton expressed appreciation in behalf of the city for the leadership of The Temple, largest congregation in the nation, in cultural, social activities. Burton said The Temple was a great source of inspiration and guidance to Clevelanders, adding that the Hebrew prophets and their successors today were among the great leaders in the march of progress.
An anniversary banquet at the Hotel Statler was scheduled to be addressed tonight by Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior.
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