The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-15
Services at the Synagogue Through
out the Day.
SOLEMN AND IMPRESSIVE
TWO ADDRESSES DELIVERED
BY RABBI LoEwENsTEIN.
Devout Jews Spent the Day In Fast
ing and Prayer-Responsive Mu-
steal Service Under Direction of
Prof Pederson-Dr. Loewenstein
Criticised the Backsliders.

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From 10 o'clock yesterday morning
until 5:45 the Jews of the reformed
church celebrated the most solemn and
ceremonious festival of their church
Yon, Kfppur is observed on the tenth
day after the Jewish New Year from
shutdown to shutdown Yesterdays SER
vice continued without any intarmis-
sion during the hours Indicated And
every devout Jew spent that time in
fasting and prayer. The service wa.
the usual Hebrew ceremonial. Read
ings from the Bible and responsive SER
vice and in the afternoon most i'm
pressive responsive musical service.
This part Of the service was under the
direction of Professor Peterson, whose
quartette choir, Madame Swenson, Miss
Edna Dwyer, Carl Scheid and Mr.. Sid
doway, rendered the solemn music in a
most perfect manner.
Rabbi Loewenstein's Sermon.
At the morning service Rabbi Loew-
enstein preached on Self guaging." In
opening he spoke of the childish plant
Il am just as good as So and So, which
we all so often make use of. He said:
child do we draw a lesson, more fruit
full in resources than the richest mine
ever worked, more deep in it's significa-
ton than the deepest well ever bored
INTO mother earth. Just as the child
answered the teacher who chided it
ABOUT It's work by making the above
quoted reply, so do we all of us answer
a Gliding in the same childish man
ner. why, MI So and So does the same
thlng. We apologize for our actions
and would excuse them by the childs
excuse. Man has grown to manhood,
ana yet has not forgotten the customs
of his childish days. He has learned
much in the school of experience. but
one lesson he has not learned, one e,si
ample has escaped his notice, one prob
lena very important one in life-he
has not solved, and this is the problem
of self-guaging.
My friends, man is a creature of
custom. He puts himself in touch with
ms surroundings without the slightest
effort. He can associate with the low
est orders of society and be like them
and the next minute finds him a rung
higher up the ladder of fame. perfect.
ly at ease with the inhabitants there
OF. And so he passes from one rung to
another until he lands at the topmost
rung, from whose elevated height he
looks down upon his less fortunate
brethren, still clinging to the ladder and
striving to gain the ascent, and as he
LOOKS at them his heart swells with
pride at his own fortunes and would
TAIN condemn those beneath.
Friends, many of us judge ourselves
py our surroundings and consider our
serves as good as our associates. This
is all right as far as it goes but it
viii not do to be satisfied with lust as
good-but we must strive for what is
right" -
Address On Atonement.
The Atonement'' was the subject of
Raobl LoeWenstein's address in the af-
lernoon He preached from the pas
sage, For this thing that l command
you TO do is not too. difficult, neither is
IL TOO far off. 1t does not lie beyond the
seas. nor in domains where we need
send messenger to seek it,
The speaker SAID: What words are
these that Moses spoke to the assem-
bled congregation This DUTY of the
atonement is near to all of US. 1t must
lie In the heart and mind of every one
The Bible particularly specifies every
one OF US. We are the makers of our
own destiny, and We must fulfill the
divine command, each person for him
a. we w not Work Tor ourselves,
VINO viii labor for US? And vet. though
every one of us has his duty tn nar-
FORM, he may choose his own method of
DONG 1t. Each of us must plan to do
Tor himself in manner that will be a
cement and not detriment, so that a.
portion of the building of humanity ha
VIII have share. We must 50 shane
our lives that when the day of atone
ment comes we will not think orr GIn-
ties too hard"
Inc rabbi then criticised very severe
~ the Jew who does not properly OBJ
serve his Yom Kippur He have q
habit of saying that religion is eood
enough for our neighbors. and of beino.
informed on politics, government no.
iltlcal economy and every other sub
Ject under the sun. There is no reason
on eafth why man should be so neg
lgent that he will walk the streets
with big cigar in his mouth on This
most holy and fast day.
line Jew who does this is acting in
oehance and impudence of the ex-
pressed will of Cod
Inc speaker then found very serious
lault with the younger people of the
church, whom he finds very NEGLIGENT
OF their religious duties. 1--WE had bet-
Ter abolish the ceremenials of our re-
ilglon than have them treated lightly
by our young people" ~
Referred to Dreyfus Case.
In conclusion, the rabbi Indirectly re-
ferred to the Dreyfus case, and to the
great wave of sympathy that has swept
over the country for the prisoner.
Our position as Jews today is such
that our fathers never enioved A. tba
present moment every nation is sneak
ing good word for u.s. Catholic. Ems
copalian, Methodist, all alike. are in
terested IN our welfare We are aft the
very pinnacle of our strength, and WIN
retrograde? We can make our position
more lofty and we will be placed in
contempt if we fall"
The final hour of the atonement SER
wee was OF strictly devotional char
acter, the audience Joining with tba
rabbi in prayer.