Letter from Mendes, H. Pereira to Morais, Sabato. Keene, NY; Aug 1895
- Title
- Letter from Mendes, H. Pereira to Morais, Sabato. Keene, NY; Aug 1895
- Date Created
- 18 August 1895
- Format
- 4 pages on 3 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 7, Folder 8
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34q7r88p/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34q7r88p
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx7FF8_12.xml
- content
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Rev. Dr S. Morais
546 N 5
Philada.
Penna
Aug 95 H. P. M. and the seminary
Keene, N. Y.
Essex County,
Aug 18 1895
My dear Sir and friend
I will be glad to place an afternoon at the disposal of the Seminary as before. I would prefer to do all my work there on one afternoon because of the time it takes to go to and fro and the fatigue.
I have been thinking much of the Seminary and I think more strongly than ever that its salvation will be your coming to New York for personal supervision. The sacrifice you must make.
The Presidents of our congregations and of the Seminary must consult as to your salary so that it be at least $3000 or whatever you now receive.
Your status must be official in my congregation and emeritus in your own, with the right to officiate in New Philad. periodically and on Holydays if you desire.
Your constant work will be the Seminary.
not simply the teaching and government of the boys, but to push the seminary by correspondence with the many congregations available and by judicious issuing of printed matter.
A young man in Phila. as your associate minister would have the inestimable advantage of having your advice until by by securing personal friends among the members, he made his position somewhat solid and could bring their personal friendship to support him in case of need.
This would secure your congregation's adhesion after your decease,--may it be far off, Amen.
You know that you are the prop of the Seminary. I could not lend it the strength it gets from you. I am sure Dr Drachman cannot. You know that if it falls, its fall will be a huge strengthening of the enemy.
I pray I can not asking too much of you.
Is it not enough if you maintain your intimate con-nection with Phila. for the rest of your life, giving it your services while strength to do it is vouchsafed to you, and to lay your bones when the time comes in the midst of the flock you have tended so many years and where
your own loved ones are resting.
That there are many problems in the way of this proposition, yes.
But is the strengthening of the Seminary desirable?
If so, all these problems must be met one by one resolutely, and the solution of each as resolutely obtained
Pray think over this. Do not let our energies and communal money be wasted by the fall of the Seminary.
With kindest regards and hoping you and your dear ones are well as we are vy truly yrs H. Pereira Mendes Keene Essex Co N. Y. - Identifier
- p34q7r88p
- identifier
- SMBx7FF8_12
Part of Letter from Mendes, H. Pereira to Morais, Sabato. Keene, NY; Aug 1895
Mendes, H. Pereira and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Mendes, H. Pereira to Morais, Sabato. Keene, NY; Aug 1895”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/88341