Show PROMISE TO JUDAH last tuesdays july jtb which in the hebrew calendar I 1 ia the tbt seventeenth dab day of we the month Irb ammus the four fourth ib of their ecclesiastical year was w genor gener 1 ally observed among orthodox jews jew all over ivor the world an a day of fasting and prayer in accordance with a commod custom it to the he anniversary of tb the beginning of the destruction or of the he temple in jerusalem by the romans u der suan in ID we the year 70 of aurra our vara ra on that oay the people were driven from worship in the temple portions port lonc of the walls were torn down the he altaro were despoiled deepened of their rioh rich adornments and the torata or too ten com mana mems after burnt DR we he torah and dent destroying royiDa the the bonne set up op a great crone in the holy 01 holies dolif where the ark had been for after this thia there was no 0 o more burnt no more no DO more worship to io the great temple twelve days daya later on the first do doy day Y of 01 i the he month of ab which in IB july elal in modern reckoning the great fire which consumed cona umed the temple aud a large portion of the city of m was BB started arted Bt this event Is in commemorated sunu annually ally by nine days of lasting and prayer beginning beR inning july this was waa undoubtedly the greatest grea teet calamity that bad befallen the jewish nation and no do wonder that it to la slow alow to fade tway eway from the in memory mory of the t ea e the fact however that it to ie atilla cause of prayerful mourning in that the lose la Is not irreparable the great lawgiver mosen predicted that to the law would be followed by the desolation of the land of f their father but repentance and a return to the be covenant would bring brlas forth to rth new blessings then than the lord thy god wilt will turn thy captivity ana aad have hare compa comp fialon abalon upon thee aua will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the lord tb thy god hath bath scattered thee if say or of thine be driven oat unto we the utmost parti part of heaven from thence will the lord thy iby god gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee and the lord thy god will bring thee into the land anti which thy fathers possessed and thou halt abaft possess it 11 and he will do thee rood goods and multiply thee bee above thy fat fathers bers 13 dout 5 tola this to lg the promise to judah that will be fulfilled speedily ape edily |