The New York herald., 1877-09-09

FoRTY-FoURTH STREET sYNAGoGUE-THE LORDS
BENEFITS SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. DE
soLA MENDEs
This handsome synagogue never looks better than
on these high festivals when every available seat is
secured by those who love the orthodox Hebrew
vice. with an excellent choir and with the additional
attraction Of eloquent preacher. Such
offered to those who visited the Forty street
congregation yesterday The Rev. DR.. De Soa Mendes
selected for his text Psalm cxvi. What shall
render unto the Lord for all his benefits to-
ward me? l will take the cup Of saliva
tion and call upon the Of the Lord''-to which
he added quotation from the Mdrash Raba, referring
10 Gods throne OF mercy. He said The Scriptural
command gives reason for the convocation OF tho
first day OF tho seventh month" Passover connects
with Egypt, Pentecost with Sinai, tabernaces with
the Desert OF the Wandering, but New Year has
local association. Nor has it any significance Dor-
rowed from the calendar OF agricultural people,
being unconnected with wheat harvests and first
fruits IL 10 only to be memorial OF the sounding OF
the cornet. We LETT with our memory alonc, and
let US use 1t day useiully and salutarily
MAN A WONDERFUL STRUCTURE.
One OF Judahs kings lay upon his death bed He
was going to DIE, but with consumnate eloquence he
prayed TOR lie pointing out what great good ne had
done. His prayer was granted. though the monarch
rested the verge or the tomb, and Tor King Hczeka
there dawned glorious New YEARS. morn, such
mortal never saw before since In his gratitude,
jewish tradition says that he composed the Il6th
Psalm from which The text is taken. Though not
HeZekiahs as pious or as energetic yet IL becomes
equally TO return our thanks for benefits received
Let inqure-First, what benefits we have enjoyed?
secondly from whom they came? thirdly, how We
return our grattudeY
Besides existence we enjoy wonderful structure
which shames the great Inventions OF the age. Man
possesses engine inside his body which gives him
power to rend rock or bend "a pin, more wonderful
than the steam eDginetho one using food, the other
COAL for fuel. The electric telegraph Is distanccd by
the subtle nerve fluid. The grandcst network OF
teegraphic communication is outdone by tho In
tricatc complex OF nerves, between which 1t Is
impossible TO insert pins point That promising
idea the telephone, exists in far finer mechanism in
the human ear. We are fcarfuy and wonderfully
made. The whole world seems ordained Tor our COM
forts and wants. Its contents are not did not
call them into beng, and yetwe them IL Gods
favor that gives them to u.s. Again, the festive recol
lections call up departed friends, younger stronger
better than ourselves. Why do We survive?
Amid an in1nity of deaths from disease and
accident that are around God has brought
to this New Years morn. All these things
have enjoyed. Each individual has many special
beneas to Iecai-God's help mysteriously sent when
mems ailed the struggling. death sick chlld restored
misfortune wardcd of. Can them all 10 mind, said
the Doctor. Memory rules to-day Look ut the pages
OF your life and you will find them scored and under.
scored in Cots handwriting Bless the Lord with all
your souls and forgot not any OF his benefits
FROM WHOM THE BLESSINGS CONE.
You cannot breathe Of the perfume and think not
sok thA x0aas xou cannot dissoeiats The bounty and