The New York herald., 1876-12-31

them, acquaintances and friends are in tears. The
aged man and woman drop on also. as In moment,
and are laid in that last resting place OF the dead,
where the wicked cease from troubling aud the weary
are at rest And turn again and again 10 the Scrip
lures and the same truth repeated over and over
that we the way of all the earth. You see in the
beautiful Torah OF this morning You David stand
ing before solomon, his son. in inc last moment OF the
grca, Enes life and he gives counsel and advice to tho
young man who to be his successor to the throne
Of Israel, IN words following tho text, H. Kings, H.,
LvE is A JOURNEY.
Lie 10 jour ley, Mr.. Jacobs repeated and death Is
the apparent goal Of all earthly existence We walk
awhile In this dangerouspath whose end is the grave
And IL seems to be nscr bed on all things, "A heap OF
dust thol aud all that thou shalt be-" But while
the facts OF death decay thus before
in tho experiences OF every day, what are the les
sons which this broad truth should bring TO our
mndsy They indicate and teach hrst, the nothing
ness OF all earthly business. spends
his years gathering up wealth; but he never
thinks, with the royal psamist go the way OF all the
EARTH and had he all the wealth OF CrGsus he could
not buy one moment oil time in which to live. And
then the votaries OF fashion in the midst of their
moment and go the way OF all the EARTH but this tact
rarely II ever troubles them But We learn another
lesson iron tho inequalities OF lie over which we
grievc and IN our grief the messenger comes to tell
US that we too must shortly 20 the way oi all the
carh but when that end to be reached divine love
has wisely withheld from our vision.
THE GRAVE IS NOT END OF LIYE.
But want to toll you to-dav, said the preacher,
that the grave is not the end of life; that there is
something within US which bids look for something
real and permanent beyond this earthly sphere Death
and lite are thus linked together aud we shall live
beyond the grave. Judaism and the doctrine OF the
souls Immortality are so blended together that
you divorce them And this idea OF Immortality
does upon the ipse dirit OF ndividual
OF men, but is based The word OF God and
Tho spirit OF man lives cternay, and the reunion OF
body ana % spirit VIII M ake Pace oo ns grave But
among the motives or rewards Of obedience TO the d
vine law. Tnat was not necessary IL was well under
stood, and indeed It is moro than limited at in the
Mosaic legislation But in the time OF Moses the Israeli
were gross.m ana worldly TO be influenced
by such considerations. But have you noticed
that there is not single command in the Mosaic law
that TO believe IN Cody Nevertheless, the facts
and principles of their lives showed that the Hebrews
believed God, and hence there need Of spe.
cal legislation this point Neither was u necessary
enforce belief in the doctrine of the souls mmor
very nature OF When the Creator made
man He breathod into his nostrils tho breath
the others, it is said tha. they were created mere
animal exstences Mr.. Jacobs here quoted texts OF
Scripture in support Of his position, such as :-Our
soul shall bc bound up IN tho bundle OF the Lord in
thy light shall We light &c He regretted that
there men who have nominal connection with
aud name In Israel TO-DAY who deny tho validity or
authority Of tho Scriptures; but they are few and
feeble and have influence over nor following among
the people.
THE TESTIMONY or REASON
But reason teaches us that the Immortality OF the
soul mus. be absolute truth, for were II not all
morality and immortality, would ccasc and the injustice
OF all human and divine legislation would be apparent
Reason bids us, matter OF necessity, to hold to
this doctrine and cling to It with an abiding faith.
And there is instinct in man which bids him hope
and look Tor hereafter. There is instinct
In which bids him consider himself
something higher and grander and nobler than
tho boasts that perish We must hope
for joys that submer than those that come to
here. We must not consider those that are lost
to us rs lost forever. but as SIMPLY parted for time,
and by and bv we snail see them IN tue presence OF
our Father and God Immortality Is q common
hope OF all mankind; death is tho end Of the journey
OF all mankind, but It is not the end OF humanity.
Judaism Is wide in its teachings and catholic In It's
doctrines and teaches that tho righteous OF all the
nations OF the earth will be parakcrs of tho bliss ~
heaven. This is the lesson that shall land etcr
nty and shall reach the goal Of fc in another
better sphere than This. The Tamud teaches, too that
the righteous when they dead are considered II
they living. Perish the idea that while here bc-
low be the sport Of fortune and that this TO
DO the end OF usthat there Is no place In which tho
inequalities Of life shall DO rectihed. But while 60
the way OF all the earth. lot hopc and believe that
the end shall be at Gods right hand where tnore
pleasures evcrmore.