The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-19
FEAST OF CONCLUSION.
END or THE lIEBRET HoLY DAYS
ron THE IEAR.
Service on sunday slight at Beth Ahaba
synagogue sermon Of Rabbi
Calish Was Eloquent.

The synagogue Beth Ahaba was open
for RELIGIOUS services Sunday night sun
Gay being The Jewish Feast Of Conclu-
sion. closing The Hebrew holy-days Of the
year.
Rabbi Calgch preached an eloquent SER
mon on this occasion TO numerous con-
sroeauon.
His subject was "Prodigal Nature and
his remarks were as follows;
All the while tho earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest. and cold and heat
and sunmor and winter. and day and
night shall not Ccasc.-Ccnosis viii p
This season OF the year serves 20 bring
90 mind tine tNhausticssnoss ci nature.
the full.handed generosity with which hh.
- won't 90 scatter her favor qua hel
bounues unto blvd and beast and man.
ThroLghout 40 che summer $40 have srcn
the various forms OF vegetation bud ana
bloom and flower ana fade, and tHc emo
less species succeed one another from
thc time OF the tulips and crOclses. the
brave pioneers OF Flora's annual aoNeu.
tiu now when the last slips OF tho golden
Iod are modelling boz TIC autumna. winds,
and the rod-haw berries are dropping
from The bushes.
when one walks in field or forest in
the fuu tide of the summer strength. one
cannot help but bo impressed with the
sense OF nature lavshncss and prodi-
SALTY. The field. even though failow and
untitled. is alive with the children of the
floral kingdom. They stud the earth as
tho stars the heavens. for In very truth,
are not the stars the flowers of the firm
ament as the flowers are the stars of
tho earth? We pick up the cOmmonest
Wild rose. and we find upon each an ai-
most countless number OF sepals and
petals. were we To consider how each Of
these petals falls from rose. how count
Jess are the roses that in single city
grow and are grown. what a colossal
number Of petals do spring into life TO
adoru and hcauufy Tor briCf spell the
face OF tho earth and the life of man and
then TO fade and fan to earth.
THE AUTUMN.
And now. as we pass down the streets.
We note tlc leaves falling from the trees.
How many leaves that arc upon q single
tree liow they had grown from the time
they first uufolded, in the spring. from
fhc tiny modulo ON the twig-how they
bad rendered pleasant and grateful
shade Tor man or beast during the tor.d
hours Of the summer days. How beau
tlfm they are growing now under the
spell OF autumu'e alchemy What an
artist BE- this season of the year. What
glorious ColOrs does he hold upon his
palette. with what def touch does he
lay the brush upon each leaf and how
ln answer TO that touch DO they grow
crimson and sold and scarlet and red
and reflect the most gorgeous hues that
ESQ can behold. And then how they fade
and turn dull and brown and yellow ana
iere-and then, ass If respondent at their
dulncss. drop shiveringly from the
branch. wander aiulessly i'm the air for
moment or two. then huttcr To the
ground 90 bo tramplcd under foot-to de-
cay and tester aud To- be decomposed into
their primord.al clements.
These thoughts come TO ms as we see
hut ana inhntcslmal part of the whole
but the trees on a single block Of a sin
clio street in "a city. Consider now how
incomprchcnsibly multitudlnous are the
numbers that must be found I'm all the
places where tread the feet Of man or
where rests the vision Of his eye. Con-
slider further that
"Such blessings prodiPal nature pours
Thaf o'crstpched mankind enjoys but half
her stores.
Ia distant wilds, by human owes unseen
She rcars her flowers and spreads her
velvet green"
HER ThODlGALfTY.
AS these thoughts come crOwding 90
our minds. there comes with them the
query. ls not nature thus wastciult
Does she not teach the lesson of thrift
less extravaganza. in that so much is app
parontly nocdiossly produced. and goes
seemingly u.olCssiy 90 destruction? To
those who have made but the slightest
acquaintance with workings Of the uni
vcrs this question has am immediate am
Ewcr. There is no loss in AN the cos
mos. In AN the endless towering Of
seed. and death aud decay ol plant and
lear and bud loo AN the ccasclcss workings
OF tho majestic forces of the universe in
all the endless sound of life and death.
OF birth and corruption, from the rolling
Of a stone 20 the shooting Of "a star. from
the fam OF am acorn to the crashing %
an OAK from the babblc of a streamot
10 tho roar of the oceans from tho death
or am ant so tho destruction of q world.
IN 400 tho endless evolutions of the hosts
o. earth and heaven-in them an not an
atom goes TO waste-
"The drop of dew
That tremhlcs on the leaf or flower
ls hut cAhalod. TO fan anew
ln summers thunder shower.
PtrhIpsIto shine within The bow
That fronts the sun at FUN of day;
Perhaps 10 sparkle IN the flow
or fountains ar away
Natures dice arc always loaded and
I'm her rubbish heaps and corruptng piles
there DE tho p0tcuualucs Of endless life
and henchCCucc. Nature teaches man
boo many ways. she gives to him his lam
cuage. bis AIT. his architectural methods
and designs his mechanical devices, his
music and his philosophy. She supplies
The wants OF his body.hs brain aud his
SOUL n hmitlcss forms and ways. bee
cause back of all his forces and agencies,
back OF all her potencies and powers rests
The supreme and eXhaustless power.
what are sciences hut maps of uni
vcrsal laws. and universal laws but the
clanccls of universal power. and univer-
sal power bat The outgoinss of the uui-
vcrsal Mindf'
We sec full well how nawie7 ly POLLS
the cosmic harmony and though nature
rs urodigal with stars and stones. and
lavish with Leaf and bud. and profuae
with petal and sepal and magnificent
with majestic ocean as with murmuring
brooklct yet in all there IS no waste no
cXuayagancc. no useless consumption. no
unnroductive squandoring Nature does
not usc a steam engine go crack a nut
and when ns behold what We deem TO
he vastcfui destruction. we VII. hnd that
~ fs but ..rlffv forest Tht-th1t ln the