Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-07
"ROSH HASHONAH."
Celebration of the Jewish
New Year.
SERVICES AT THE SYNAGOGUE.
Rabbi Schreiber Delivers An Inter-
esting Address to a Large
Audience.


vices at the synagogue were celebrated
with appropriate services. The syna-
gogue at the hour of 10 o'clock was
crowded with worshippers. A quartette
lead by Professor Loeb furnished excel
lent music, and at the conclusion of the
regular services, the confirmation Of
Freddy Kreamer took place. Rabbi
Schneider in the course of his remarks
said:
The thought that another year of our
lives is gone never to be recalled shakes
the heart with its very monotony. No
matter how many important events it
may comprise the year passes quickly
away, and with it's pain and care, its sue
cess and failures, its joys and sorrows,
lies behind us forever. In what it holds
it differs perhaps so little from those that
have gone before it that at the end of q
little space Of time we shall not be able
to remember it apart from the
as thus everything comes and
remains; but the word of the Lord en-
dureth forever. One has only to recall
tie countless pleasures, great and small,
of the year to feel anew that life is truly
worth the living. Life need not be
measured by it's temporary length or
shortness, but by higher, nobler stand
ard. There are single moments which
outweigh hours, days, months or even
years; moments in which past and
future seem obliterated and the present
alone is reality. Has not the past
year contained for each of us such
moments? And even those who were
compelled to struggle hard in the great
battlefield of existence, and who have
carried away many painful wound from
the dangerous fight; those who were dis
appointed in their hopes, cheated in their
inspirations and deceived in their pros
poets, can they sincerely claim that the
last year has proved failure? Even
pain and sorrow have their time
and are common to all who
live. The remembrance of pleasure
is not always source of gladness for it
is OILY the innocent and worthy pleas
ules which are compatible with our du-
ties toward God and toward our fellow
beings. The true joy of existence will
never be succeeded by repentance or re-
morse, while the transient pleasures of
the moment are not seldom of charac-
ter SO fittingly described by the Prophet
Habakuk: Suddenly will they arrive
as thy tormentors, they will awak-
en- thy Affections, and thou wilt be
prey to them" What remains
after the pain and affliction which We
must endure in life has subsided?
Hope. Hope, that wonderful flower
which thrives upon every soil, but no.
where better than upon soil which was
watered and fertilized with tears. Better
is adversely, with hope, than blind
confidence in present prosperity. There
are many who believe so firmly in the
immutability of their happiness that
they spurn many small Joy that comes
in their way because they anticipate
much greater pleasure.
We are all soldiers in the great army
of mankind, battling in the cause of
human progress and improvement,
some to fight as captains, some to do vail
ant service in the ranks, some to shout
the paan of victory, others to fall
wounded and crippled in the rear. But
as in every battle, even so in the great
struggle OF existence, the fallen and the
wounded have a share in the victory.
By their sufferings they have helped
to them. The purpose of mans
life is not happiness but worthiness. Hap
piness may come as an accessory, but
we must never make it an end. There is
great striving within us for perfection;
in it we live and are exalted above the
clod. The experience of progress in the
past, the hope of greater pre- gress in the
future is the redeeming feature of life. To
all those whose burning pain is not yet
soothed at the end of this year, and who
are not susceptible to hope; to
all those who have commenced the clos
ing year under joyful auspices and to-day
broken down and crushed, the New
Year exclaims. "It is in Gods hand
but also in your own heart that before
the New Year is finished you may thank
full and trustfully look upon Him whose
reviving light is nearest when the night
is at its darkest"