| Show AFTER YOM KIPPUR At p m on Frida Friday the of October Yom Yom Kippur will be over Thousands of my so-called so Jew Jew- Jewish Jewish Jewish ish brethren will leave the syna syna- synagogues synagogues and not return to pray again till tUl next Yom Kippur arrives for say they a whole day spent in fasting and prayer ought to last aman a aman aman man for one year without troubling the Father too much and too often It is a fact that everyone who has attended to his prayers on Yom Kippur 1 leaves f 8 ves the place of worship with a light heart because he takes a firm conviction with him that the Lord God whose holy name he has mentioned a thousand times in a thousand prayers during the day has accepted of his chicken which he offered unto unto him and of his fasting and supplications and that his sins are forgiven and forgotten Seme Some even think that should they happen to sin again during the year into which they have ste stepped ped Ed the chicken and the Kippur un Yom 1 ULU Kippur of Ui next year will Intercede with the Father in their behalf as did the Yom Kippur which has just dis dis- disappeared disappeared disappeared appeared 1 s The orthodox Jew however re- re returns t t turns more often to meet his GodIn GodIn God sIn In the synagogue Some even go twice every morning day day morning and r evening to evening to offer prayers for the speedy return of the Messiah of whom the Prophets have s spoken spoken- spoken and ken ken- and for the restoration of Judah and Jerusalem I have during my life been accustomed ao- ao to see my father rise every morning morning as early as four o'clock o and spend hours in prayer and ini In k i deep meditation over the promised promised- Shiloh and then at six o'clock 1 his and finish proceed to synagogue his or early devotion T and then repeat his visit to the fihe sanctum at sunset Thousands of other orthodox rab- rab rabbis rabbis bis and aud laymen A dc the same yea large large numbers are weeping every F Friday evening at the ruins ruing of the Temple at Jerusalem and millions have been gathering themselves f for r over 1800 years upon upon Yom Yom pleaded Kippurs and fasted and prayed and pleaded ed for the coming of 1 rand t tand and all with one accord finished the Yom Kippur by exclaiming hA A A year from now we will be in Jerusa- Jerusa Jerusa- Jerusa Jerusalem Jem lem But alas they are stilt still without a Shiloh still driven and scattered among the nations nation of the world world- still without a home home s still not in m Generation 4 after generation dies a away ay the son sou on Inherits inherit a from his father the same prayers the same testament to pray play r for the tha coming of the Messiah bu but alas no answer for 1800 years s But what is the comfort of even eve i ian an orthodox Jew in the hour of i ideath death 3 The Talmud narrates the following follow- follow b ing of the celebrates celebrate Rabbi a contemporary of the the- Apostle Paul which shows what Paul calls The spirit of bon bondage bondage r rand and fear Rom 8 15 under which virtuous men under the Jew the the- h ish Jew dispensation lived and died Before Rabbi s death dead his disciples addressed him r Rabbi light of Israel thou t strong rock right hand band pillar why dost dolt thou weep He an answer we r them If about lead lend they were to me before a king of flesh and bl blood who is today here and tomorrow 1 In M the grave who V if he were an angry ry with me his anger would not Lt Jaa hat forever if he put me in boo bon bon bondage dage his bondage would not Y be everlasting and if he condemned me to death that death would not be eternal whom I could soothe with words and bribe bribe bribe- with money yet even in these Air Air- ir- ir l cu instances I 1 should weep Bu But r i inow now I am about to appear before tM the awful majesty of the King o- o Kings before the holy and blessed ble ed wOne One who is and who liveth tot tat Hever ever whose just anger may maybe be he i i eternal who may doom me to e ever ever- r i lasting punishment Should He i condemn me it will be be- beto to death ut further hope nor can I j B But y y Him with words nor bribe Him im with money There are two 0 e roads before me one leading to i- i tc Paradise and the theother other to hell bell cud aDd k ka a kI I know not by which of these I go fe Would Would I not weep i We thus see in Rabbi Toc fi naps nap's s death a signal instance of i tie R T So k 1 r Ali t y t etory character of Rabbi n- n l Even this famous man was wasi to feel to-feel feel and exemplify that the Che deeds of the law there shall e h h be justi justified fied at t a contrast is prescribed in f tory of the celebrated Rabbi Q el aI one who had profited i re many of his equals in ih age ageg the a Jews religion being exceedingly jealous of K diet h of his Ills fathers He t those tra traditions off he had 1 d them loss 1088 for Christ andr and r r rin l ite In n the prospect t of eternity ex- ex exE r Jy exclaims Henceforth E ter ja 1 laid up for me me a crown of which winch the Lord the the the- righteous Judge shall give me aty att at J t day and in the animating y of the Redeemers Redeemer's triumph death leads on the Christian with the exultant shout 0 where is thy sting 0 jr e where is thy victory Thanks Saks be to God w who use us usi i e victory through Jesus the Mes- Mes Mesh our Lord t h DR DB ED ISAACSON t OAN FO FORK K Sept 27 1889 |
