Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02

sympathy, Ieellng IL something of Christ
Ian duty to recognize nothing of religion
among the rites. Very different is it on
Easter day, when the Protestant and the
Catholic, each, perhaps, deploring the re-
ligious existence of the other, yet unite to
make it such holiday that all the other
celebrations in the year cannot equal it in
purely religious Importance. The affairs
blossom forth with typical lilies, and
vines, and the loftiest music known to the
church peals through the organ loft, while
crowds
FALL UPON THEIR KNEES
Or turn their faces upward, silently joining
the choral with the strains their souls alone
sing. Lips dumb to song wake almost to
harmony at Easter, and congregations lis
ten with hushed breath to melody which is
worship. The best singers sing the best
music, and the man down in the pew who
cannot even whistle tune, and the woman
in the pew whose anguish it is that she
cannot even murmur cradle song without
discord, feel all their longing and regret,
their up. reaching and far. reaching, interpre-
ted. Oh it is well to be in the mystery
occasionally ; to cit in front and be absorbed,
as cup is filled with the amber and blood
OF wine, in the action and sound which art
has made seem so gushing, free and spon-
taneous. The ordinary human cannot
bear to be always behind the scenes. he
must give himself up to illusion once in a
yesr. and why not give his reason holiday
at Easter, round which day traditions
wreathe and beliefs cling to give him ex-
cuse for mental surrender? Believe, then,
for once, that eloquent words are unstudied,
that flowers spring by miracle along the
chancel rail, that the inspiration of song
comes with the moment, that the bonnet
Of beauty grows from the air for the head
it adorns, that all inspiration is impromptu
and never was rehearsed, and you will find
yourself crushed SO low on the stool of
humility that you will confess the ex-
perience you have given yourself a strangely
new and sweet one.
AT THE CHURCH OF NoTRE DAME,
The little, odd, old church where the SER
mon is given in French, and the singing is
a boast, as well as at Grace Cathedral and
at Trinity, there is such quantity of ritual
and wealth the observer may crowd into
his day so much of Easter that lesser holi.
days will pale into insignifcance indeed.
The masses flock toward st. Mary's and
st. Ignatius, and St. Patrick's chimes
send Easter notes tumbling everywhere
about the roofs, till every creature is sum-
moned to hear the ancient tidings told
again. The doors of Calvary, and Beth
any, and Grace, Advent, Plymouth, st.
Gregory, st. Paul, 81. Luke, st. John
again swing to the entrance of many wor-
shippers, and the day becomes dull one to
the man who fails to keep Easter, for lack
of companionsaip. And yet just by little,
and by that little ever so much, Easter
here, and every other religious day, seems
lapsed from Easter and other religious
days in the New England. where they
make so much of religion. When it comes
to such virtues as free of-heart and free Of
hand California people are Al, but | have
heard folks say there was something in the
winds that blew from the Pacific ocean
which took the life out of mans religion
at a puff. Yet every day is kept it is
only that we can't somehow seem to do
more than get up on stills when the surges
that toss on the Atlantic side have reached
the nights. But on the Sabbath before
announcement was made that contributions
would be received towards the dinners of
the poor. ''Come to church and bring
your babies on this especial day." said one
of these preachers. We shall have an
orchestra, and what with its playing and
your singing and your babies crying, we
shall have noise that will go up to the
Lord. We shall have long table, which
we hope to see piled with
PROVISIONS AND FLOWERS.
There will be wagon to distribute after
the sermon to any addresses you may give.
If you can only afford to bring a turkey
for yourself, bring that 10 add to the heap.
Then be thankful over it here, and when
we are through take it home and be thank
full over 1t there" The response came
Thanksgiving morning in turkeys, ducks,
chickens, hams, beef, mutton, potatoes,
canned fruits, -four, and even as it had
been said so it was done. Perhaps we
don't reach the nights here, but the winds
of The Pacific sometimes blow US such per-
fumes from the sweet shores of charity
lying somewhere fair to the winds sweep,
that it becomes an incense 10 us which
inspires to action.
0ae cannot live lopg in San Francisco
and be wholly ignorant of the customs of
the Jews. Your shopman is Jew, your
musician is Jew, your landlord is a Jew,
and your next door neighbor is of the same
blood and religion. Close your eyes and
remember how old the Jew is, then open
them and as you behold him brisk, clear,
sharp eyed, strong in spirit and in body,
think how young he is and how young and
numerous he will be when your thin Amer.
lean blood has run cut by reason of small
families dwindling down to child or so
each, and SO on to nothing. One Jewish
family in our block has more children than
all the rest of US put together, and each one
race. An old Irishman once apo,ogized for
the seeming stupidity of his youngest child
by saying, 1--WE don't look fur much from
Marthy, mellow; bein' as she's the last of
'leven she's nothin' but the leavin's." But
the eleventh or the twentieth child of the
Jew asks and needs no excuse to be made
for him, and from the first of the flock to
the youngest weanling. each one is as thor
oughly Jew in characteristic as his father
We have had no Jews turning Gentle for
ROMANTIC REASONS,
But in several instances here the Gentle
has entered Jewry for the sake of marriage.
Yet Deacon Lakershim, of the Baptist
Church, was once OF that persuasion, and
is now very pillar belonging to the enemy
"a rich man, too, and strong with influ-
ence. 1t is a very interesting matter to
observe the Jewish holidays and find their
foundation, from Yom Kippur and the
Fast of Esther to its merry masquerades
of Purim, in that grand specimen Of Jew
ish literature. the Old Testament. You
will be made welcome to the greater part
of their ceremonies, privately, if you be
friend, and at any rate, though stranger,
you will be received with much courtesy
at the synagogues. 1t is always treat to
visit the prominent places of worship,
and especially during holiday time.
The lectures delivered in English by
DR.. Vidaver on Saturday mornings are
never surpassed in the pulpits which ex-
pound our doctrines, and while Rabbi
COINS discourses are in German, the rich
baritone of Mr.. Wolf, the cantor, and the
exquisite singing of the choir, are attrac.
tions sufficient of themselves. Whenever
attended Emanuel during Emperor
NortoE's life I never failed to find him in
SO that / used to say " Em.
peror Norton and l." when asked who