The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-04
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SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP.


THE IMPORT AND DESIGN or HUMAN SUFFER-
ING-JAcoB's DAYS FEW AND Evn.-DR.
GorTHEILs DrscoURsE.
The Penccos,al festival has left its remains In the
Temple Emanuel, where yesterday festoons OF ever
greens suspended from every favorable point
The congregation. TOO, larger than ordinarily
gathers there a June day. They had been
reading that portion OF the history OF Joseph Egypt
which touch.ngIy describes the meeting OF Joseph
and his father Jacob and the introduction OF the latter
to Pharaoh, who asked him how old he The
swcr OF the patriarch to this question the
from which DIR. Gotthcii dscoursed-sThc days OF
tho years OF my pilgrimage are 1870 years;
few and evil have the days OF the years
OF my life becn and have attained unto the days OF
the years Of the life OF my fathers in the days Of their
pilgrimage What sad and disheartcni'g account
that is said DR.. Gotthc, from one who had worked so
faithfully and lived so abundantiy, aud who had been
blessed by God in such extraordinary lie was
sometimes far too.solicitous for his welfare and
adopted devices that cannot justify He sometimes
chose the crooked instead Of the straight path great
deal of his disappointment caused by his own in
judcous discrimination between his children But had
he not deserved better of tho hand of righteous God
than that At tho end of 100 years. he should be
PEELED to say that all his days evil II consult
experience and consider tho years that have
OF God. even such lives may be said TO nave been few
and evil And this brings up tho question that has
pressed upon our hearts from the earliest age,
WHAT Is HUMAN scrPsRxG FOR?
what does II mcany IL could know Its meaning
and design befo ehund should have place the
exercise OF faith. But faith In and Bc st,
and know that tho hand that chastises is fathers"
Tho time will come when the veil will be drawn away,
the darkness VIII disappear and all the paths OF trbu
laon will become roads Of peace forever. So speak
eth faith, and SO speaks your religion to you. The
very highest perfection OF the jewish religion Is
sanctity the name OF God to you In the darkest hour
But II is necessary 70 look around and within US to
II this doctrine is supported by experience
This question profound and our astute philosophers
have not provided us key by which may unlock
suffering. Tho vsitatons OF God sometimes fall thick
AMI fast upon the dearest affections OF hearts
And yet for the human heart nature makes prov
ison and takes no thought OF IT, DR. Gothci referred
to the beauties OF nature and It's response the
iments and fraites OF the soul, and lhen said that
there Is evidence In all this that Ia done for
benefit. Nature expcnds herself in this way whether
there be human heart 10 enjoy 1t not. She goes
straight to her purpose and docs not mind II one two
or ten human hearts are crushed She makes no ac-
count of the human heart; much so, indeed, that
the conclusion was forced upon thinking minds In the
oldcn time that there were two dees governing this
world, and that sometimes master and some
times the other But who do not believe In moro
than one Supreme Cause, what shall we saw AS We
learn more OF natures laws say suffering will
cease but don't think experience viii bear thisout
jacob at 100 years felt all the burdens Of old age,
did his fathers in more advanced years. Is not truo
that
CIVILIZATION LrGrTEvs THE BURDENS or THE RACE
Is increase of suffering also. There of
misfortune known to-day that were unknown 100 years
ago. The relation OF nature 10 toe human heart re-
mains the II is true that man, but
she is obcdient 10 his will only to certain degrce
Sometimes he rules aud sometimes he is crushed. Is
thcve not truth IN jacobs statement that his life
pilgrimage and that his home somewhere else?
Does not point the fact that this earth is not the
home OF the human hearty If It were should not
have been endowed with the attribute ofove. Gcrmau
writer has beautifully said that tho idea Of Immortality
Is but the home sickness and longngs of the human
heart Here we md those things That We love most
and best taken from us; and do you think that
this longing To meet the loved again gwen
rs for n0thingY IL Is tho voice Of Heavenly
Father calling to himself | know that
because this homesickness Affects every human
heart there must be common home Tor all Here
may be divided by crceds and naonalitics and
cal distncons but when all this shall be done away,
and when that which now tormcnts and makes us
doubt and wavcr is gone. shall then find that the
human heart was not forsakcn, but that brothers.
hand had carried through those trials and dangers
But just Jacob did shall look at last TO the
home, not Egypt but IN the land OF promise, and
shall ind that God goes down with us INTO the
land OF the shadow OF death and brings us up to
ow