, 1873-11-28

Eloquent Address TO the Assembled
Congregation by tho nev. DR..
N1nchnl.
Thanksgiving Horvicoa wore held yesterday
morning at II o'clock at tho Synagogue corner
Of Peck court and Wabash avonuo. Tho Row.
DR.. H. Machal delivered tho sermon. 10 began
by ssylug that ut tho tino thoir foro-
fathers lived IN tlloir own land, aud
agriculture wAs their special occupation,
tho law ,nale 1t a duty Of evory Israslitc, when
he had gathered the proauoa Of the soil, to tako
tho first of everything and lay 1t on tho altar Of
lie Lord with tho confossions 10 Lord God,
I confeBs that all poHsons came from Thine be-
nign hand. A wandering syriau was my father.
who went down to Egypt and sojourned thore
with family fow in numbor, hut bocamo therca
nation, great, mighty, aud humorous. And tho
Egyptians trcatod uH Ill, and afflicted us, and laid
upon us hard labor. And wo criol unto tho
Eternal, tho God Of cur fathors, and tho
Lord heard our voices, and looked on our
aiIliction and no trouble aud our oppression,
aud with a mighty hand uo brought ia forth out
Of Egypt, brought US into this plaao, and gayo
unto us this land, . land flowing with milk and
honey"
Inyoluntarily this confession Of old Israel oame
to Lis mind on this occasion. pointing At tile
mercy OF tho Lord, at this day which has boon
Bet apart to give thnnks to God for oil the beng
fits bestowed during tho past year. Horo thoy
saw no bounds of exclusion, no partition wallis
that hhd boon erected to separate ono man from
another on account Of religion, but tho call for
tho observance Of this day had boon directed to
all. And when thoy thankfully liftod up thoir
voicea to Him for tho thousands Of
benefits bestowed upon thom, their
frat thought on such occasions must
always bo tho power aud mercy OF God
they had experienced in everything, from tho
long i9 time they had boen but wandering
strangers, oppressed and afflicted, but through
the mercy Of God thcy we're now enjoying froe-
! dom md Independence. For centuries, hated
and pcraccutoaa through, trials and trbulation.
flowing with milk and honey. This day. had
nothing TO do with sootnrianism, and places
| thom whore thoy do not appear as Israolitoa,
| that ia as party, which looks only for its own
intorcsta, trying to follow ita personal aims and
chooaiug peculiar way loading to It's own hap
linoss hero below, and to Its omn heavon
| beyond tho grave; but rather as Americana
Gs froo cltizons Of FREQ country, A,ld as active
the history of bygouo ,sgoe, or Of tho present
timc, they could clearly measure tho civilized
condition Of different nations from tho relation
in which they stood to tho 1sraolitoa. Arbitrary
/ violence niWayB hppear9 IN tho persecution OF
their unhappy brethren, fanaticlsm alwsys
looked for nourishment in their religious aoll.
| Curse and poverty stigmntizcd the country from
which tho Jews were driven, for everywhere the
| persecution for religious ideaB goea always hand
In hand with an oppression OF right aud justice.
and love aud Kindness toward their breth-
ren il always connected with liberality and
humanity. Therefore not they alone, but the
whole civilized world had cause to lit up thois
thankful honlts to tho Lord that tho time has
passed. when religion formed q torch in tht
hauda Of fanatica to destroy tho brilliant diador
ense and which shone before them in gloomy
nights. Tho timo had pasaed whon they looket
With indifference at the woe or veal Of tho coun
| try wherein thoy hsd found : safe refuge. 10
| day thoy counted among tho most onterpriaing
and publc-Bpirited citzens, who wers at IL
timoa to lay the little they hava On tho altar oi
their adopted country and mourn In its naisfor
iktuun and reiQlfA il It's happiness.