The San Francisco call., 1903-09-22
OBSERVE BIRTH
Of NEW YEAR
The Jewish Community
Greets With Joy It's
Annual Festival.
Impressive Services Held in
All Synagogues Of
the City.

The eve Of the new year 1864, according
20 the Jewish calendar. was celebrated
last night. Services were held in all the
synagoeues at sundown. 1t being part of
the Jewish system 10 make OF all their
religious observances home celebTa-
tions," 10 encourage family gatherings,
and thus promote that unison Of interest
and sentiment which intensifes family
union, there were gatherings Of relatives
and friends at the Jewish homes after the
services at the synagOgues.
The new year services, il is pointed out
are preparatory toShe day Of atonement
and are intended to awaken religious zeal,
SO that man may be ready to recommence
his spiritual ascent as the result Of the
religious exercises Of the day Of atone
mcnt
The shofar, or rams horn. which is
blown at this time. is symbolic Of this
awakening.
The religious exercises at the syna-
E0gues last evening were impressive. At
$3.50 o'clock the Rev. DR.. Jacob Nieto de-
livered a short address at Sheriff Is-eel.
lie chose for his subject The Sorrows
that Heighten Our joys" showing that
even the most dreadful experiences served
10 consecrate their joyous moments.
CAIAMITIES HEIGHTEN JOY.
Sacred TlernorleE- ne Sa4Q. lOlOAGQ Slue
bv side with sensaU Uions OF happiness. Sor-
row heightened their joys because it sea-
s0ned them with a higher thought and
impaired 10 them therefore a more sub
lime significance
In passing over the happenings of the
last year DR.. Nieto showed how even the
Calamities that had befallen the Jewish
people had heightened their JOY, in SO far
as il had convinced them not only that
4s1fr
their cause. tut were yet embarked upon
a spiritual mission that was well worth
the suffering.
Dr. Nieto said that Israel's mission
would not be ended until full equality be
granted all men in every country, without
regard 10 religion or any other artificial
distinction"
The Rev. Dr.. Voorsanger in his lecture
On The Coming Man at the Temple
Emanuel began by saying that they
would meet the incoming year with the
greatest satisfaction because. he said. the
sound Of the and the hammer was
heard in the land, while theirs was the
earning of the ak and the hammer.
Throuehout the land. he said. an army
was busy with the ingathering Of the
fruit. but they. he said. were privileged
10 rejoice in the inEathering because a
considerable part belonged 70 them.
Dr. N0orsanger said that in the aggre-
gate the work of their hands had sue
ceeded perhaps beyond their expectation,
and through the pushing crowds and
heaving muititudes many had come to
the front DR.. NoOrsanger denied that
there was a coming man That man
upon whose face shone the light Of God
was always with them though like dia
monds in the depths of the earth, he was
only discovered by what they called acct
dent. But, said the doctor he was there
nevertheless, and was doing Gods work.
and that work would count I'm the aggre-
gate until the lineaments on his face were
photographed on the entire generation.
GODS MEN NEEDED.
THE coming man." said Dr. Voorsang-
er never comes. but always is. and he is
Gods man; and Gods men are needed to
accomplish p destiny for the human race
FAR beyond the material considerations Of
present day civilization"
AT the Bush-street Synagogue the Rev.
Dr. IsadOre Meyers oficiated last night.
his sermon being on New Year Gifts"
Rabbi Levy viii preach sermons before
MS congregation at the Geary-street Tenn
Tle this and tomorrow mornings
Services were held at the new syna-
eogue. Keneseth Israel. Russ street.
This morning there will be services in
al the synagogues Of the city, and with
the exception of Temple Emanuel there
viii be services again tomorrow morn
ing.
Elaborate musical programmes have
been arranged and the choirs have been
augmented for the festival Of the Jewish
new year. One feature will be the rem
dering Of ancient religious melodies