The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-01

There is but One Sou'
IN tbe Jewish religion the Feast Of
wsoks is now being celebrated. 1t al
,,ys occurs on the sixth day Of Swan,
rbjch set in last night This feast Is
,I.o called Chag Hakozir-harvest feast
because the harvest commenced in
palestine soon after Passover, and was
sri.bed in tho different districts during
,bs seven weeks. (see Deuteronomy
Is, 0 and Loviticus 90, 10 to %.
In tho synagogucs the feast Is Partic-
,l,rly celebrated as the day OF the rev.
.,,ion on Mount Sinai and tho promul-
,alion OF the ten commandments given
n Moses. Therefore the Israelltes call
!, scman Matan Toroscnu-Feast of the
rromulgation OF the Law.
services were held at the synagogue
,,st night, and services will be held this
morning at ten o'clock. AT last nights
services lev. LII DuAlAAlC4h4 NS'A'SASN&
Tho following sermon:
No are tonight assembled here to
Celebrate tho greatest event, to COM
Semorato the highestof blessings which
tbe Almighty ever caused to gladden.
Tho hearts OF thinking mon, and espe-
cialIy OF that once great people OF
which we constitute but a small and
feeble remnant. A portion of tho i'm
measurable good was bestowed on us
N particular and the entire mass OF
men in general by the light which was
shed over the world by the revelation
irom Sinai. A ilamo was kindled on
Ioreb that sheds warmth and light
even unto this day; fountain was made
70 spriug from which our people first
drew, still draw, and now the whole
civilized world continues to draw tho
waters OF life until the end Of days. Just
as the Divine command dispelled dark
ness in the physical world, n second sun
shone forth on the horizon to warm and
illumine the moral world, when the
eyer.mcmorable words were heard from
Sinai's height: ~ am tho Lord, thy
God" When people learn that there
il but one God, from whom all truth
and goodness como, they will turn away
from idolatry and look up in worship
and love or lear to God. It seems to us
ridiculous that people anywhere or at
any time should believe in idols or in
more gods than one. BUTT was not so
easy to learn
THAT THERE IS BUT ONE GOD:
There was a time wien all but the
people of Israel worshipped idols, and
another time when the Israelites and
all other people Of the world wor-
shipped idols. Some OF you are
perhaps surprised to hear that there
Is trace left OF heather worship even
to this very day, and that is tho names
Of the gods as We have them in our
week days. What is more beautiful,
more blissiul than the sun from which
all light and heat, growth and life pro-
ceeds. The sun, the heathen thought
must surely be god and so the first
day Of the week was named after the
sun. Next in grandeur and beauty and
sweetness comes the moon; the next
god, and Monday was called after her.
Above these two there is the bright,
pure and boundless sky called Tuis or
in Greek Zeus, after him Tuesday was
named. Then came the wind. ever
moving. blowing, bowling. This god
was called Wodin, hence the name Of
Wednesday, Next they feared. the ter.
rible thunder whom they worshipped
blythe name OF Thor, hence our Thurs.
day. And then they had lovely and
cheerful goddess OF spring called Freyar
the free and fresh one, and her name
was given to Friday, while Saturn was
the god OF ripeness Of the seeds and his
name is still preserved in Saturday.
These and similar gods the old Teuton
or Anglo Saxon worshipped, and almost
every other nation had other names for
these deities.
Now you may think or ask what
harm was there in such mistaken wor-
ship Of God. We know God is not
benefited by our worship, neither can
hebe harmed or lose when tho idolators
worship their gods. Did you ever read
description Of au Indian dance
in honor Of the sun god.
They take two or more young
men, tho strongest they can get, and
torture them By all kinds OF rawlings &c
death, while their mothers and friends
rejoice at this glorious feasting Of the
gods. And this was done on fat
larger scale in Mexico, where the affairs
Of the gods reeked with human blood
Likewise did the old German and Anglo
Saxon, Roman and Greek, Egyptian
and Hindoo people in the remote past
commit the most cruel and terrible
crimes to appease their wild, blood
thirsty, passionate and furious gods.
WHEN STORMS CAME,
Orpestilence, famine or death. war OF
any other calamity, they simply be.
lleved they had to bring great and
precious sacrifice OF human lives and
human happiness to appease the angry
gods. Such things could only happen
IN dark or remote ages, but superstition
and ignorance reigned oven in thi:
country 200 years ago.
Why suck occurrences could take
place was because the Sinai words ~ am
iheLord, thy God" had not and have not
Seye1l to this day fully penetrated man.
END. 1t is true that most OF the
hie"then idols have been cast aside and
forgotten by tho nations which once
9slieved in them. In Christian and
;aohammedan lands they kneel only be,
lore tue God Of Abraham, and all over
Inc globe men long and crave for the
spltit Of all spirits aud the Lord OF all
Lords. To Rabbi Joshua DO Chan the
Emperor Hadrian once said 3: "lf your
1od Is everywhere, show him once to