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the divine law, in moral and intellec-
tual advancement.
The author of this beautiful ia BILE
quotes no words, he quotes men, more
Instructive than words. The mind
more easily retains and actualizes
such noble types as Joseph, Hillel and
Eliezer, than it can the book of i'm
pressive lessons which these names
suggest. BY admirable deeds the
heart of man is moved to admiration,
the sublime in the human character
moves man and child to veneration.
This admiration and: this veneration
are the best moral teachers, the most
efficient preachers of religion. 1t is
the greatness of the book Of Genesis,
and many other chapters of the Billie,
that it teaches its lessons by classical
human figures, in plastic and drama
tic language.
This method of teaching was imitat-
ed by the rabbis of old in their fables
and allegories. the teachings of men
instead of words, of deeds instead of
sounds. The most useful reading for
the purpose of self-culture is history
and biography, if one understands
how to put his mind and heart into
the great features in the characters of
great men; and this it was which the
Almighty asked satan "hast thou put
thy heart upon my servant job" and
satan said no, as do many human be-
ings. who KAYE eyes and see not the
good, the beautiful, the sublime, the
imperisha ole and eternal.
AS our chanukah festival is quite
near at hand, says the man at our ell
bow, we will be told the old story
again about Antiochus, Epiphanes
and his edict to make an end of .Ju-
daisim, the heroic suffering of pious
Massidim, old Eleasar, Hanah and
her seven sons and other matyrs, old
stories so often told, so commonly
known, known even to the children,
it is of no use to repeat them. Friend,
we reply, "Hast thy put thy heart on
my servant, job" Have you ever
sufficiently contemplated, admired
and venerated those ancient classical
figures, which look like lofty snow
capped mountains, swimming in an
endless sea of mist. If you have in
deed contemplated them sufficiently,
then you cannot help seeking them
again and again. The man who has
gone one hundred and three times to
see Shakespeare's Hamlet gave us a
satisfactory explanation of this extra
vagance. Did you never have good
friend whom you heartily loved and
ever get tired Of that friends cOmpa-
i To
meet HIM again when he was absent?
home after long journey? Did it
not do your heart good to hear him
tell his story? Well, then, said he,
love and admire Hamlet. l have put
my heart in his excellencies and
could go and see him many hundred
times. Therefore we ask once more
"Hast thou put thy heart upon my
servant, Job?" Have you put your
hearts upon those sublime fl gnres of
Hillel, Joseph and Elieza? Have you
contemplated the holy zeal, the d.
vine enthusiasm, the deathless love
to God, to Israel, to Gods law and
to Gods truth, which distinguished
those men? Have you caught fire
from their fire, sparkstlying from the
ancient rocks? Have you sufficiently
admired and venerated them to be-
come like them? If you have not,
they ought to be reproduced a thous-
and times before the feeble memory
of this lazy-busy generation, till the
lethargy and indifferentism of the
masses he overwhelmed, and the
spirit enliven these dead and bleach
ed bones. If you have, then their
company must be welcome, a thou
sand times welcome to you, those old
friends of humanity, those glory
crowned children of the living God,
those brilliant diadems upon the
head of the human family. You must
be DESTROYS of seeing Hamlet hun
dred and three times.
Perhaps we have forgotten that not
all men like good company, but we
speak to those that do. Perhaps not
; all men wish to be instructed, but we
address those who seek divine lessons
and who search after truth and wish
to improve and advance, to those who
want to have satisfactory answer to
make when they appear before the
court on high. To them we say
u MEN are more instructive thar
!, words" Amen.
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f. evenings sermon was the singing O
n Hear Us Our Father" by Misse
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