The San Francisco call., 1905-01-01

sentiment have no relationship with
the very same movements and same
trumpetings that characterized the day
when the law was given from Mount
Sinai, those periods when joy and vic
tory and holy festival influenced the
early peoples of the earth.
Who will say that there is no feeling
of thankfulness in the hearts of the
nation when, with horn a-blowing and
flags waving, it gives vent to its JOY
over victory or any great national
event?
The ancient New Years service, OBJ
served in the synagogues even at this
period, is considered one of the most
impressive in the Jewish liturgy 1t is
composed of three parts, which refer,
respectively, to the sovereignty, justice
and mercy of God and as each part is
concluded the shophar is sounded from
the pulpit.
The first part, "Malchioth," proclaims
God the universal king.
The second part, 'Zichronoth, en-
phasizes that God remembers the work
of the world and visits all creatures
and that nothing remains concealed
from his eyes
The last part, "Shopheroth." speaks
of the scriptural shophar, and especial
ly as it is connected with the giving of
the law on Mount Sinai, when its tones
E, H.
ence to the time when the great
trumpet will be sounded ''to declare
the universal triumph of liberty and
religion
In poem sermon founded on pas
sages from the Talmud. by the Rev.
Isidore Myers, B. A, in Montreal in
1897 (5657 Jewish year., the following
occurs:
What solemn thoughts each blast compels!
sound bosom SWellS;
Our soul Is stirred by every note
That issues from the shophars throat
The fist, which ''Malchioth' is named,
In which Gods soyereignty's proclaimed,
Commentaries a fact sublime
Recalls to mind creations prime
When God creating cut of nought,
This world into existence brought
This universe by wisdom planned,
And framed by HIS almighty hand
Whose order beauty. harmony
We everywhere plainly see;
Whose every part, below above.
The impress bears of gracious love,
The shophars voice does drst record
The coronation of the Lord.
Thus. from its first mention up to
the present period, has the shophar
been given the most profound and
grave consideration. -.
Besides the sounding Of the horn in
the 'hotr of religious and Joyous .festi
war to summon and. assemble the
army, and in this respect it is first
mentioned in Judges, iii:21:
And ii came to pass. when he was come. that
.he blew trumpet in. the mountain of Ephraim.
and the children Of Israel went down with him
from the mount, and he before them.
Subsequent verses relate the defeat
of 10000 lusty men and the downfall
of Moab, much resembling the bloody
conflicts of later centuries, sans ma
chsnery of modern warfare.
And here we find the horn brought
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from its initial requirements, when 1T
served to bring the people together to
hear the law read amid the laundering
and lightning and darkness which after
prevailed and filed the assembled null
titude with awe and fear.
:. After all, in comparing the past with
the present there seems but the diff
ference in the manufacture, design and
manipulation of material and the ad-
yantages in these times of having more
powerful and more scientific imple-
ments with which to annihilate foe.
Indeed 1t is doubtful whether anything
could be more effective on modern
battlefield than the Staying OF 10000
valiant men, as was done by the Is
raelites who answered the shophar's
!: :call to arms
The shophar has been utilized in
other than times of law-giving and
war, for 1t Is told in Isaiah xxvii:1S:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the great trumpet shall be blown and they
shall come which were ready to perish in the
land of Assyria, and the outcasts In the land OF
Egypt, and shall worship the Lord In the holy
mount at Jerusalem
The prophet foretold that the sho-
phar should announce the recall of the
people from exile. Therefore it is seen
how, stride by stride, the shophar. the
horn or trumpet, grew in use and favor
and need in the worlds earliest period.
It's sounds were welcomed by those
to whom the law was handed down,
its notes were and are maintained by
one denomination to voice the anniver-
sary Of Gods coronation.
BY that same people its sound Is re-
sorted to as an alarm or warning of
the approach Of the day of atonement
and that they. should review the ac-
tions of the past year and prepare to
become reconciled to God by means OF
confession to him of their sins and
promise of amendment.
One other reason for the blowing of
the shophar. even at this period, Is to
emphasize to the Jewish community
the conviction that the time will come
when the shophar will announce, ac-
cording to The word of the prophet, a
universal freedom when all oppression
and tyranny shall vanish and the
reign of absolute liberty will be mani
tested throughout the world.