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their charity does not SLOp aI nOfnes With them 1t ia an innate quality, never sleeping.
 Tho at times crushed and kept In subjectlon. forbidden the professions and hot allowed liberal education, the Israelites always displayed a onderful interest in literature and the fine arts and their progress, as soon as free scope was permitted, was wonderful. No race can point with more pride to greater number of brilliant men. Think of Mendelsohn, the musician, Heine, the poet. Spinoza, the philos- opher, Gottschalk and Thalbefg. the pianists, and Monteliore, the philan- throphist. These names have como ringing down the ages aud will go on 80, with many new ones added. until eternity.
 Of the literature that came from the Israelites much Is known, and innumerable volumes have been pre- sented. The Bible is, of course, the first and most important volume and is t0 Do found in nearly al homes. The next important volume and one of which very little Is known, Is the "Talmud" which is q prose volume in which ali the 1 branches of science are represented, besides which are a number of excell- ent moral sayings, which were sub sequently inserted with little vafia- tion, into the New Testament and the Koran. Some of the most beanti- full figures Of speech. ever known, come from tue Talmud.
 ] Faithful in regard to all duties Of life, the Israe.ites are doubly faithful to the religion of their ancestors
 From times almost prehistoric, they have faithfully and unerriDgly obey ed Gods commands and observed the days set apart as holy days. But as time haa swiftly and surely passed away, reformatlons have been worked and many of the old, time worn customs have passed into oblivion. Many days, celebrated with great ceremony by our fore fathers have come to be only quiet festivals and some very minor ones are now no. observed at all Rut from one end of the known world to the other, as long as their is time, two holidays will stand forth pre- eminent, will never be changed, never die put. They are Rosh. ha-shona or the day of New Year, so fittingly ob- served last week and Yom-Kippur the awful, holyday, whose hours of penitence makes us wOrthier of Gods benign grace and blessing. Ills day of attunement, for the cele- bration of which we are here assem- bled tonight, is the holiest of holy days, the day which we give entirely to God and to the purifying of our soul by repentance. During this day no thought of the world or oi its pleasures may enter our minds. We are to spend the time from sun set until sun set In prayer and serious meditation and to abstain from food and drink. For the Lord said, "On the tenth day of the seventh month Is the day of atonement, Il holy con- vocation shall l. be unto you and a fast day; on is no manner of work shall ye do, for 1t is q day Of atone ment. to make an attonement for you before the Lord, your God; 8 Sabbath rest it shall be unto you and ye shall fast; on the nineth day of the month at evening shall ye begin, from evening unto evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
 Truly it is a great privilege that God has given us, this great day of attonement, to remove from our souls the burden Of sin, duties neglect cd, bad thoughts and passions encouraged. increased vices and days wasted. 80 that every year we may, as it were, begin q new life with a clean and spotless soul and q light, joyful heart.
 The penitence Of this holy day does not consist Of mere prayers for forgiveness and nothing more. It means active penitence, reparation for the past and good. stern resolu- tions for the future 1t is little bet ter than superstition, in fact 1t is superstition. 10 suppose that after shining for a year. we are fully and freely absolved from wrong by day of fasting and prayer. These latter are but empty forms unless accom- panied by active and true penitence. The ancient Egyptians had list of F deadly sins. and regret without amendment was accounted one of them. All religious observaneos, even our great fast of Atonement arc vain unIasa arcolnOytnind hy