The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-26
THE "DAY OF ATONEMENT'"
oBSERVANCE OF THE JEWISH HOL-
 IDAY BEGAN LAST EVENING.

Services Held In All the synagoSues and
 Several Halls In the City-Large Com
 gregation at the Orange Street Temple
 Heard an Excellent Discourse by the
 Rev. MT. Levy-To-day's Observamces.
 The most important of all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, began at six o'clock last night and will continue until the same hour this evening. It is the only day strictly observed by both the Reformed and Orthodox Jews the world over, and is the last of the days of penitence, reckoning from the first of the month Tishri, the beginning of the Jewish New Year.
 The day is one devoted entirely to fasting and prayer, services being held in all the synagogues and in many ducted and no food partaken of during the twenty-four hours. Last nights services were held in the Orange street Temple from to 8 o'clock in Music Hall on Court street from 5 to g o'clock, and in the other synagogues of the city at similar hours. With the Orthodox Jews the services will last from o'clock this morning until 5 this afternoon. There will be several short intermissions. At Orange street Tem- pie last night the services were con- ducted by the Rev. MT. Levy. Some unusually fine music was rendered by a quartette choir, assisted by the fine church organ and an orchestra com- posed of MT. Ward, cello; Nathan Strauss, flute, and s. Lauber, violin. Wallace Moyle sang several solos. The Rev. MT. Levy gave an excellent discourse on the question whether the new religious ideas be taken up and the old ones cast off. He said that it was not an easy matter to introduce new system of religion unto ourselves, which are already deeply rooted in their old views and ideas. Develop ment and progress must be gradual. He declared himself willing to do away with the ideas of the past and take up the new, but he would not give the new ideas to those who were not prepared for them. He would not give meat where milk was needed. He must ap- preciate the value of the new. The new idea is only different arrange ment. It is probable that all past his- tory could truly be called the renais- sance. The world seems to move as well as the earth. The new things of to-day are simply the latest phases of the old. Religion of to-day is the de- of oJJ uy6 U- ing reached the new, cast off the old? Shall we give up the old theories sim ply because of the new? If we can read in the ten commandments of high CT ideas of life and better duty let us do it let us not fear to discuss the truth, for it is increased by each ex- penditure; it is ours to keep and be- stow and keep on bestowing.
 Rev. MT. Levy then spoke of the holi- day Tom Kippur. He said it is one of the oldest and it is the strongest in vi- tality. It has undergone the vlclss1- tudes of time and circumstances. It embodes principles which can never be moved. Persecution can not affect it. It brings the scattered remnants of Israel, even the callous and indifferent, to a. full realization of their position. The day of Atonement, or more proper ly, of Reconciliation. Judaism teaches the doctrine of reconciliation in the hearts of all men. The change is not to be in God, but in man. Man is to be reconciled and not God. It is set day in the year in which man shall give himself up to God and examine himself. It is a call for man to think, to search himself honestly, diligently and seri- ously and how to live up to higher ideals.
 Services will be held in the Orange street Temple from 10 to 1 o'clock to- day and from to o'clock. The Rev. MT. Levy will have charge of the servi- ces and will preach in the morning. The afternoon service will be in the na- ture of a memorial service, and a young divinity student, Henry Fisher, will as- sist in this service.
 Business houses conducted by Jewish citizens will be closed all day, and all possible labor suspended.
 All food Is abstained from for twen- ty-four hours, beginning last night at sundown and continuing until sundown today