Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-09
DRAWS A LESSON
FROM BABYLON
DIR. MYERS breaches SERM ON
ON AToNEMENT
Graphically Portrays Tragedy of the
Doomed City and Brings His Hear
ers to Understand Parallel With
Modern Conditions

The opening services of the Day Of
Atonement, the most solemn in the
Jewish calendar, were held last even
ing at Temple B'nai Birth and the
Synagogue Beth Israel. AT the former
DR.. S. Hecht preached on 1.-The Willing
Messenger" The traditional music
was rendered.
At the Synagogue Beth Israel DIR.
Isadore Myers preached an eloquent
sermon, likening the vices of the pres
ent day to those of ancient Babylon,
He said in part:
ut is the last night of Babylon, the
mightiest and most beautiful city of
the ancient world. The Babylon with
her beautiful temples, she that was
the empress the proud, is now on the
eve of being conquered by the power
full legions of the Modes and Perslans,
who are at the gates.
people are given up to life. There
is revelry and all sorts of orgies, and
the enemy outside the gates. In the
temple is the king presiding over
thousand lords of the realm and the
ladies of the harem and during the
feast the king sends for the golden
vessels and they drink.
There are numerous images of gold
and silver and they worship them and
drink out of the vessels taken from
the temple of the law. The enemy is
still without
Drink! Drink, oh, Babylon! This is
your last night and that of your king.
The clashing of arms shall take the
place of the clashing of cups and wine
will turn into blood. The thousand
lords shall be stat bed to the heart
and the work of the conquering Modes
is established.
Death Sits Enthroned
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ace. Death sits enthroned on the dead.
THE king is arrested by the sign
of hand. Lights are put out and the
hand writes on the wall in letters
of fire. The meaning no one knows.
AT last the king offers the purple and
the golden chains and One-third the
kingdom, but no one can tell the
meaning. The dowager mother turns
/ finds the king in terror and she
comforts him. asking that the vener-
able seer of the Jews be summoned.
Daniel, covered with age and hon
ors, appears before the frightened king
and speaks. oh, king, your father had
been taught a lesson which humbled
him. You have not humbled yourself
and you have lifted yourself up against
the Lord of Heaven. You have COM
mitted sacrilege and taken the pure
and holy vessels and defled them
you and your lords and women of the
harem. You who have glorified gods of
gold and brass that cannot see, neither
hear nor think, and the God in whose
hands is your breath and destiny
Him you have not glorified. There you
read your doom. God has weighed you
in the balance and found you want
ing
"That night Babylon fell. The king
was killed and the Persians were the
conquerors.
FRIENDS, is it not true with all of
us? Are we not at a banquet of life,
enjoying lawfully or unlaWfully all
the pleasures we can reach? We are
forgetting the enemy is very near
Death is outside the gates. The citadel
of our life is being besieged and yet we
sip and sip of the pleasures of life,
and the enemy is without
Sometimes we are suddenly start
led when we realize fate is writing
message that may terrify us.
"Then our mother--sWeet, dear
mother-our religion, addresses us in
order for us to know what fate is writ
| ing. The heavenly appointed judge, our
own conscience, listens to what we
are
ut is on this day of atonement
every Israelite listens to his own con-
science. Let it speak without flattery,
| lift the veil and tell us the truth as
we are and not as we would appear.
"You have been given the vessels of
Gods temple and have actually been
drinking to excess Think of the holy
vessels God has given us-vessels taken
from the hottest heaven and bestowed
upon you. Have you abused them?
Have you not given the best for the
gold and silver? What sacrifice for
the mighty dollar have you not made?
Do you think that in a moment God
| can forget all this?"
| "There is a pair of scales suspended
| from the throne Of God and all must
be weighed in it. viii you be found
wanting? Sons and daughters OF
Israel, be true to your heritage; re-
spect your parents next to God. On
this day will God make atonement for
YOU"