Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-17
AT THE SYNAGOGUE.
Full Text of Rabl Rosenberg's
Sermon Last Night.

Deeds more important than sounds, and
men more instructive than words
My FRIENDs:-It is reported in the
good book of Job that the Almighty
asked satan: "Hast thou put thy heart
on my servant Job?" Satan evades
the question, and instead of an honest
reply to a direct query, comes out
with an argument against Job. The
Almighty had asked him, hast thou
put thy heart, hast thou thoroughly
and impartially searched into the
deeds and motives, feelings and wish
es, sentiments and intentions of the
man Job, who is my servant, innocent,
STRAIGHTFORWARD, God-fearlng and
turning from evil? and satan behaves
satanically, telling him as much, 81
do not care for that; 1 am engaged in
fault-finding, and 1 will try"
| My Friends!-Upon life's Journey
you will find many such as satan.
The better the man, the more eagerly
will satan examine more critically his
shortcomings. Perhaps the passage
before US contains this idea: The Al
mighty in his great benignity asks
satan, "hast thou put thy heart on my
servant job" that thou, admiring
and truly approaching good man,
highest be ennobled thyself? But
satan feels no such desire. He is
satan because no is not impressed
with the necessity of becoming better,
wiser, nobler, more enlightened and
more generous. He sees not the good;
he has an eye for evil only, and so is
lat %c in ~, M;
any rate, these words convey the
contemplation OF great and good men,
with their deeds, sufterings and tri-
umphs, there is more instructive
learning can convey. 1t is plastic
speech; it is dramatic doctrine; it is
telling.
1t is maintained in the Talmud that
when man after his death appears
before the court on high he is asked the
I question first: "Why hast thou not
engaged thy mind in the divine Iaw?"
| Why didst thou not pay more 'atten-
ton to divine lessons, to moral and in
tellectual improvement? If one then
answers, was too beautiful, hence
too much exposed to worldly entice-
ments, too much engaged in dressing
and pleasure-seeking, in balls, the
aires, operas, concerts, calling and re-
ceiving calls, he or she will be an
swered: "Thou vast not more beau
tiful than Joseph, the son of the beau
tlfUl Rachel, who withstood all the en-
Elements and allurements, and re-
NAMED faithful to the God of his
fathers, the sacred cause Of his race,
the teachings of his venerable father.
If one shall answer, 1 was too poor,
had to work to earn my daily bread
to support my family, had to work
also on the Sabbath and holidays IN
order to earn livelihood; and you
know there are such men in this
world-then he or she will be told
"Thon vast not poorer than Hillel
who split wood for livelihood in the
city of Jerusalem, yet did he appro
pirate half of his wages to pay the
door-keeper at the academy in orde
) to gain admission, and to hear honor
cd sages eXpound the law. If on,
shall answer, 1 was too rich, too mucl
:, engaged in business and speculations
the rise and decline of prices an,
stocks, higher and lower percen tages
1t had no time to attend to ideal al
\ fairs, when the reality of materialisr
absorbed my life, he or she will be al
awered: Thou vast rot richer tina
Eliezer ben Harsum, the high prizes
who succeeded his brother Simon, I'll
We just; he had sixty cities on land All
Dy sixty ships on the seas, and yet
1t. was always engagrd IN the study