The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-09
JEWISH NEW YEAR
IS USHERED IN
Temple B'nai Israel Scene of
Pretentious Ceremony in
Celebration.
RABBI FREUND breaches
CARRIES ELOQUENT MESSAGE
TO HIS CONGREGATION.

Inc New Years spirit with its happy
greetings and cheerful surroundings is
present among the Jews all over the
world. The gladstone season was begun
last night with appropriate services in all
the Jewish temples in the world. At Tenn
pie Bnai Israel the ceremony was beau
| tiful and impressive The temple was
crowded with adherents to the Jewish
faith and with Gentiles who went to OBJ
| serve the celebration
A particularly strong feature of the
opening of the new year at the temple was
the music. A contraito solo. 'The Beau
tlful City" was pleasingly sung by Miss
Sigried Petersen. the we'll modulated voice
of the singer lending itself naturally to
the exquisite melody of the song. She was
accompanied by Miss Bessie Barnett with
NlOlln COngato- The service was sung by
a quartette. Rabbi Freund delivered the
sermon, The Passing and the Present -
He said in part:
L With a Boruch Habbo. we greet ali
fof you on this day, which ushers in our
great holy season. You who have been
faithful in the discharge of duties
which you felt were sacredIy imposed
as me obligation Of your religious affil-
latlOn; you who may have, for one rea-
son or another, been less observant; YOU
VINO have felt the impelling call of the
day To one and all of you we extend
season.
| you evidence once again the inexplica-
| bic hold of these YOmim Naraim. these
days which call into play whatever
| feelings are latent in the Jewish breast
Yes, this is YOm Zikkaron which is
one of the significant appellations of our
New Year day; this day of remem-
brance does not lose it's hold on the af-
| fections Of Jewish people. Whether
the link connecting them with their
past is marked by an attachment of the
religions or the race whether they be
observant or Indifferent Jews the day
has its potent effect, to call them to a
realization of their responsibilities in the
| cause of common Judaism
Pledges Renewed.
And the message, receiving its ac-
centuation, finds one and all ready to re-
new their pledge of consecrating them
selves. their very selves. to the work
which Providence has allotted them. For
the time being, at least, all are fervent
| in their ard0r to champion IsraeFs cause
the heritage that naught but death can
sever from their grasp.
I'VE are about to usher in a new year
Historical associations are in no wise con-
nected with the day And yet We are at
no loss to connect a life-giving message
to its observance. The call OF the day
finds a responsive echo in the hearts of
all of us, and Time has a meaning which
embodies the philosophy of life.
In our count of time we notice mu-
tation; times change and we with them.
True, we may be the things that are the
passing and the changing, but amid our
changing conditions there is a permanence
which we should keep in sight, certainty
which we are to bear always in mind
Hannah's Prayer.
This has nowhere been more beauti-
fully illustrated than in the selection from
the Bible which has been used for the
Haftara of this day. Hannah's prayer
stands pre-eminent in religious literature.
to point out the significant lessons of
what is passing and permanent.
There is none holy as the Lord for
there is none besides thee: neither is there
any rock like our God. The Lord order
eth death and giveth life; he bringeth
down to the grave and briugeth up again;
the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich;
he bringeth low and liftetn up. For the
pillars Of the earth are the Lords and he
hath set the world upon them. He will
keep the feet Of the righteous and the
Wicked shall be silent in darkness; for
not by strength shall men prevail
TO repeat these sacred words from sa-
cred writ, words which find a frequent
repetition throughout the Bible, would be
sufficient TO satisfy us of the feeling of
them of former days as to what has en-
during value.
Its Religious Importance.
Recognizing this, what shall be the les
son for all of us by such a significant
day as the New Year day? What shall
we learn from this day different from the
civil New Year which we join our CO.
citizens In celebrating at another period
of the year2 Is there a difference in the
Communication of time? Why not sink our
differing individuality into a conformity
with those who so largely outnumber us?
The answer is given in the closing verse
Of Hannah's prayer. which We have quot
ed: Not by strength shall man prevail.
Larger numerical forces may be aTrayed
on the side of a civil observance of a New
Year, but the religious import of our dis
tinct observance gives us the strength to
continue in the present even as did our
fOrefathers in the past
1--WE can effect perniahency in but one
unaIterable way, by each one of US re-
naming true to our cherished Ideals. The
time needs US and our teaching. Other
wise IN the maelstrom of existence, We
should long ere this have been assimi-
lated and swallowed up. But the world
needs today, even as in the past. the ever
insistent and constant working of the
Jewish heart This to effect IS a task,
which we dare not. we may not shirk.
Tonight we are happy to usher In our
New Year in our own house of worship.
One year ago. by force of circumstances
which we could not control, we enjoyed
the open hearted generosity and hospital
ity of a neighboring church. We read in
such actions sign of the times. The
animosities which had previously been
evidenced throughout time. are gradually
passing away and dying out And in their
place are those manifestations which tell
of the bringing 10 the surface OF the
truly human feelings, which should unite
ali people in the bonds of common fell
lOwship.
Passing are the petty feelings; more
enduring are the signs, writ large on our
horizon, of a dawn of a better day for
man.
Efforts for Peace.
within the past year movements of
large import to mankind have received
formulation. Specifically, we refer to the
efforts among the nations, to minimize
the possibilities of war. The attempts
may be pooh poched by some, but the ef-
fort is worth being made, to teach men
their common kinship as men, as marks
of their progressing understanding Of
hfe's requirements.
And for us, the Jews, the year draw
ing to close has it's monition, as teach
ing the lesson Of the passing and the per-
manent. The camp of Israel is learning
the needed lesson of unison. The dis
sensiOns which have rent Israel into
warning factions have gradually lessened.
as each is willing to allow that these
and these are the manifestations of the
living God"
Jealousy should not rend the camp
OF Israel into the hostile hosts. whose
strife can bode good for none, and GER
fafOfu evil The mi Cfdpr ic FOr sO rooHv