The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-01

DR.. Simon Peiser Is Greeted BY
Fashionable Audience.
HIS SERMON WELL RECEIVED


The synagoere. corner Of Seneca aud
Eighth streets. was filed with fashion
able congregation last evening 20 listen 70
tbs reform Jewish New Year services and
leet1re Of Or. Ssnon Psiser. Of Cincinnati
hats sas the only old custom observed. the
es-ance Of lie sermon being very ssrnila,
to those Of the Unitarian church A
special choir rendered appropriate music,
shieh vas sung II Engiish, and tie trio.
Hear Cs, o Father by Mra Capt Wal
lace, J. kohn and ]. r. Noble. Was swestiy
sang.
lie services were q tirely new 70 slarEs
number, al orthodox Customs being
dropped and the sermon delivered in En-
gifsa- The doctor was slightly nervous At
the beginning. which soon wore o6. and
BIS sermon vas handled in . scholarly
manner
The doctor chose for his text the fourth
verse Of the attn chapter Of the prophet
Amos: Fer thus saith the Lord 30 the
house OF Isrssi. seek ne and ye snau live. "
The keynote Of Dr. Pciser's reiigious De-
lief 1as contained in the second paragraph
OF his eloquent discourse, wherein he said j:
TO initiate God what must we 10 We
must work and perform good deeds. We
must make our activities Of God pseasin 2
works. The real value OF life - measured
not By words but by deeds: only that day
counts in our life which has Witnessed the
performances of . good action; only he
lives truly who Is active for God and
human society, who leaves continual
traces Of good and useful aets- / do not
mean by this acts that are for our own
profit and advantage. but acts that adj
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manity. Not pious talk nor fasting nor
prayer of themselves give real meaning TO
the life; pious deeds alone are the crown
OF life; ploas deeds alone represent alone
real plesy. OaIy be who works consinu-
ally for the good cause. only be lives a
true life. Such life Is heavenly and on
earth immortal, for every good deed is a
seed that gathers TO itself other good
deeds. ali leaving . never dying impress
upon the lives and actions of the world.
HIS life is real and true life that does not
end when the soul takes leave OF the body.
bat that lives On both in the higher world
designed for the good aud in his works on
earth below.
He wflo seeks God viii also find how
real life must and ought 10 be. If We sup
pose that the bilssfulness Of our future life
consists In the fact that our knowledge and
perception of God will be more perfect
that we shall be freed from all pains and
trials OF this life. then indeed We shall ap-
proach the nearer 10 this happy state the
more We try 20 attach ourselves In our
whole conduct TO God.
100 great an attachment TO earthly
goods separates man more and more from
God. The more worldly matters fili his
soul the less room. remains for the divine.
The more his aim Is directed toward the
enjoyment Of pleasure the less value will
he attribute 20 the pleasures of heaven.
He who considers material profit. material
merit, material enjoyment, the climax Of
bis ambition. can be take very much in
terest in God and the dIvinsa Does il re-
quire illustrations TO prove these state
ment.f Look 81 the present generation.
The great love Of earthly gain leads
men more and mora from God and removes
Their. But should we entirely rsnounee
pleasure and enioyment7 By no means.
God has pat rs upon this earth and has
made as ruler over al that il brings forth.
But the earth and what belongs to her
ought not 70 be the aim OF our ambition
Our heart must not be fully captured BY
earthly pleasures. Our heart must belong
10 God. must look toward the divine. Re-
IrIon and virtue must always be our chief
attractions. Only when this course is
pursued, only then our life may be called
Iife--a true life. He who clings to God
can early loss harm him? Can earthly
want how him down. Can bodily pain
siiiiet nim7 He rem aims qaiet and happy
amidst the most cruel pains. He lives
happy and conten ted even If God has WIS.,
TIED him With misfortune. He has surely
acquired the true life because he has no,
only sought God, but has found Him.
He has lsbored and his labored was
crowned With success. Happy the man. "