The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-16

unto thee tt was Hhewed. that thou mightesi
know that the Lord ;nsas Is ;n none else be-
His voice that He might inst -uct thee; and upon
earth He showed thee His gre, nte' ana thou
heardest HIS words out OF the M o. Sne nre.
10 In thine heart, that the Lord He IL Co.. IN heaven
above and upon the earth beneath; there - none
else" You are all acquainted with our mora. law.
said Mr.. Isaacs. The Ten Commandments delivered
to our fathers on Mount Sinai are not only I'M our
ssynagogues but they are In every Christian chuvcn
we VIII stand by our own charter. We are certain;
81" DOES NOT MEAN "wE"
II am the Lord thy God" does not and cannot mean
plurality OF Gods. And MIR. Isaacs said he looked
iGr the day when proclamation viii be issued de-
caring That the Lord Is one God. "UntO thee IL
was showed" said Moses. There was nothing Sc
cr r, ABOUT It, But some of our modern IsraeIites
ASK what right they have to be bound by the laws
ana statutes OF their fathers. IL we recur back to
OUT history ne said we shall find that fathers
commanded, and to teach their children to do ike
wise. They were satisfied that the Lord would not
g;yS tiem any laws that were not for their we'll
hear" How ready we all are to call upon God In
the time OF adyerstv and trial and suffering and
apt we are to forget Him. "And because He loved
tiny fathers therefore He chose their seed after
them, and brought thee out in His sight with His
mighty power out of Egypt. TO drive out nations
rom before thee, greater and mightier than thou
art TO bring thee in to give thee their land for an
inheritance In recurring to
THE SCENE ON MOUNT SINAI
we must see what the law says. IL was to he for
all times and for all nations We hear that law
but we do II not. We it before us in the ark
OF the testimony; we hear It read in the syna-
gogues every Sabbath day, and In our families and
In our schools; We see 1t and hear 1t in concurrent
testimony, but we viii not do It, We run after
strange gods whereas 1t was shown thee, accord
ing to the text, that the Lord is God and there
Is none else beside Him. There is no mediator
wlth no companion Tor God. The DecalOgue
ments relate to the duty OF man toward God, and
the other six to the duty of man to man, and 1t Is
imperative upon us that all these should be strictly
observed. by dsObeying them we run great
risk. While the commandments OF men have been
destroyed or ignored, these commandments, de-
livered to Moses on Mount Sinai, have been
made mi ,rd the rb 1oundati4n of the laws OF
changed the law, they have never denied
the unity of God. No Jew will worship another
GOd nor Will he worship idols And yet there is
sense In which we all worship idols OF some sort.
Our fathers, while waiting for the law with the
membrance of Gods great and gracious deliver
fell down before it.
WE HAVE OUR GOLDEN CALVES,
too, which we worship every one in the chambers
OF his own heart. The poor have their idols as well
as the rich. But we should never forget that the
Lord our God Is one Lord, and that there il none
else beside Him.
Mr.. lsaacs offered a few remarks, in closing, to a
youth who had been admitted to the MitZa. He
urged him to love the Lord his God with all his
heart, and TO honor his father and mother, that mis-
days might be long in the land which the Lord his
COO should give him. And he must never forget
that unto him 1t was Showed that he might know
that the Lord He Is GOd and that there is else
beside Him. Mr. Isaacs closed with fervent
prayer for the peace and prosperity of Israel and
the coming OF the Messiah among men.