The New York herald., 1873-08-24


dividuality and the Result of Modern
Labor-SavinE Appitances-Preparati
for the Approaching Jewish Festivals.
To-day begins the month OF Elul in the Jewish
calendar. This month is looked upon by Israelits
who care anything at all for days or months as
OF preparation for the holier days and months
that follow in September October and November
when the great festivals are crowded within
a comparatively brief period. Hence DR.. Huebsch
yesterday preached sermon designed IN its
subject and treatment to awaken in
the minds Of his congregation thoughts and feelings
appropriate to the sacred occasion in prospect.
His text was !. Samuel x. 6-Samueps words to
Saul-"And the Spirit OF the Lord will come upon
thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them and shalt
be turned into another man." Mans individ-
uality, the Doctor remarked, Is his own inalien-
able property, bestowed by God, and which cannot
be exchanged either by the Giver the possessor.
But, while it cannot be exchanged, 1t may be
developed and cultivated, and the Creator
gives the power and the ability for
this end. Sometimes, by utter neglect, this
DEVELOPMENT is HINDERED.
or perhaps absolutely crushed out. Sometimes it
comes slowly or tardily and may not come until
the eleventh hour and sometimes, again, circnm-
stances are SO ordered by the mercy OF God that
mans individuality may be developed much
earlier and more speedily than we had hoped or
derlul, and the rapid development gives the man
the appearance OF having been turned into another
man.
When Saul, the son OF. Kish, met the prophet
Samuel he was q man Of a thoroughly worldly CASTE
The business that led him to the man OF God was
OF purely material nature. From all the riches
hidden In the prophets mind he wants only the
poor knowledge OF where his father's lost team
may be found. And vet this apparently material.
istlc man possessed in his own heart the qualities
which fitted him to become the annointed OF the
Lord and the ruler OF great people. But his true
wa a m
And II he had not met the prophet--if the peculiar
complication & OF circumstances had not given
WARDS speedy development-he might have
lived and died the simple Saul, good for nothing
of his father When he was told by Samuel that
he was the chosen OF the Lord to rule over Israel
Saul could see nothing In himself that could enttle
him TO TINS honor or Justify the Divine choice But
should verify the truth of the prediction. and gave
him altogether new and different ideas from
those that had hitherto engrossed his mind
Samuel pointed out sacred places where
S % nGy and
arouse his dormant spiritual nature until he, too.
should Join the prophets and become another
man. The Doctor then detailed the circumstances
as given in the Scriptures of Saul's meeting with
the pilgrims going toward Shiloh, and their dona-
tOn OF bread and wine and his subsequent meeting
OF the prophets, whom he joined, and 1t became
PROvERB IN ISRAEL
MANY a simple business man, the Doctor continued.
who possesses within himself those qualities and
characteristics which, II properly cultivated and
developed, would raise him to the sublime
OF God; but for want Of such Development
and cultivation he may be yet grovelling among
the most material things of this lie, and be fitted
only Tor such pursuit as Saul was engaged in when
he was discovered by Samuel Earnestness,
energy assiduous endeavor are the characteristics
OF most OF our business men, and If these qualities
were as faithfully directed toward spiritual they
are toward material things how grand the result
would be In the higher and purer virtue and mo-
rality and integrity OF our land and peOplei
The Doctor then naturally touched upon the
TWO KINDS OF LABOR
physical and intellectually which men are mate
riallzed, or spirituazed, as the case may be. He
Eden. and remarked thar labor was both blessing
and curse 1t was blessing when 1t developed
the higher faculties OF the indiv dual soul; IL
was curse when it kept man plodding
from morn to night for the bread that
he and his family might eat. And thus he
though in modified sense. But Noah's invention
OF the plough helped to tighten labor and to lessen
the drudgery OF agricultural toll. And the Doctor
looked upon the numerous labcr-saving machines
OF the present day as so many means for increasing
the opportunities for intellectual development
poverishing others. The Doctor, in his appica-
uon, urged his hearers to put themselves
in the way OF the sacred places and the
piOus people; 10 meet in their synagogues and
sanctuarieS at least once week and to take coun-
sci OF their prophets ana rabies, that so they may
ture and become other and different men than the
mere materialistc grovellers OF earth. He also
reminded them of the beginning OF the new month
Elud to-day and OF the festivals OF Israel that take
place by and by and for which they should now
begin course of preparation.