Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-18

aJswisa Nsw YsAR.- g The iessiysle 81 RoaA Hashas
nah, Of New Year, is considete b the Jews 40 nj
ofthe most importantof Al their holy conversational
and was observed in this city with due ceremopies
"And the Lord spake unto Noses saying, spe4t
unto the children of Israel saying, in the seyefth
month in the first of the month shalt We rive .
Sabbath, . memorial of blowing of trumpets On
holy convocation, ye shall dc no servile woFk. =
And in Numbers, chapt. XXX, '. l. the command is
day of the month ye shall have holy convocaton,
ye shall do servile work, it is day of blowing
the trumpets unto you" Although not onesof the
three great festivals upon which all Israel gathered
at the temple to appear before the Lord, yet X is,
nevertheless, considered as one of the first among
the principal holy-days, and as such has always
been celebrated by the members of the Jewish per-
suasion. This is considered by the Israelites as
day of judgment to all flesh, which is to decide their
fate for the coming year-not because they do not
consider the destiny of man or any other day less
subject to the control of Providence but they hold
that this particular day the absolute consequence
of mems actions and the fate of nations and chimes
phar, or cornet of rams horn which is commanded
in Levtcus, chapt xiii, v. % to 25 and Numbers,
chapt. ". is ceremony peculiar to the festival and
is not only observed to the day, but the hearing OF
it is obligatory all Jews. 1t has direct refer.
to, and close connection with, the service OF
the day. 1t proclams, as the Israelites believe Goo
and His day of judgment. 1t is intended to call
forth terror at the judgment 1t likewise expresses
thanks in the Psalms: ''Hallelujah praise Him
with trumpet sounds !'-and it also denotes the
restoration of Israel All these ideas connected
with, and expressed by, the sounding Of the cornet
this day, which is also called gone LIE Rouroson,
or day of remembrance" and gone 1srulo, " the
day of blowing" The prayers which are recited
on this holy day enumerate such verses of the
Sacred Writings as relate to the supreme reign of
the Deity, to His omniscence and to the trumpet
which at once is to proclaim the liberation and ex-
press the joy of mankind.
All orthodox Jews, so far as practicable, attend
these Synagogue services for the special purpose of
praying to Almighty God for the forgiveness Of all
their sins committed during the previous year. In
their own language it is the period-applying terms
temporal to things spiritua-for the annual settle
ment of accounts between man and his Maker; a
Gay, too, on which an overruling Providence maps
out Dictates apd DEGREES all the events and expert
ence, whether for veal woe, of every one of his
creatures for the ensuing year. Following this
great day Of DEGREES come nine days, which are
called the Days of Repentance, which are spent in
fasting until noon each day, and attendance at the
Synagogue for the purpose of offering prayer to
Omnipotence TO mitigate, alter, reverse any evil
day, however, is the point allotted according to this
belief for this intercession to cease, which is called
the Day of Atonement; after which there can be
no appeal from the fixed REORGANIZATION Of the
events of every ones life for the current year. The
day upon which this final day falls this year will be
next Saturday, and will be observed in solemn fast
from six o'clock on the evening of the 18th to the
same hour the evening of the 18th instant
FASH Union, i1th inst.