Year: 1876

history OF humanity and take all tho circumstances
by which surrounded, however we may regard
those parental obligations which generally mis-
understood, should readily perceive how
interviewer they into the history OF our nation
But It is not confined nation or one
country. And II will inquire into 1t We shall hnd
that duties which due by parents to children and
by children TO parents sadly neglected. Now and
again you will the abandonment OF principle alto
gether by both. II you will consider the agencies
that produce those results you will find that too
often parental responsibility has been forgotten
and the pernicious example Of those older In
crime has full sway over the minds Of the children
Now while Is true that virtue charms IT s also true
that does the same, and the latter seems 10 nave
most influence TO draw away the young from the pain
Of truth. And our ancient rabbis understood this
when they declared that iniquy produces nquity and
ono duty produces the performance Of another Ana
80 also


This merely the statement o learned men, but Is
also tained In the written Word o. God And is
not confined 10 ono single page but spread through
1t all Aud without going further than the lesson read
to-day (Deut XXI, lS) we may see the same thing.
gated by parents Others but must be accepted and
realized by every parent in he community H. Is
God-eiven responsibility Now am certain, sa'a DIT.
jacobs that what say will be considered wel-worn
platltudo AS well AZ philosophical truism Every
mind that Will reason and think Tor itself
in this world Is seli-existinT self
creating And when we see evil in cbdren we natur-
j
believe as other sects do IN original sin, bus we do
believe that trarsgression begets another And, IN
Mr. Jacobs opinion, many, If not all the transgres
suits merely OF passion, and which are injurious to u
daism. wranslings and quarrengs abide IN the home
such and tho child that Is the offspring of
such marriage will be of that character described
in the text, that will not hearkon to the
voice of father mother-the child that VIII
nnd any other place attractive than
home II parents quarrel is it any wonder that
their children despsc tho instruction OF either father
nd fnl nm in al
But sometimes the best homes will produce the worst
children well there is nothing IN that to initiate
against good homes What II the best medicine does
sometimes produce bad resultsy Must we, therefore,
discard medicine altogether There nothing IN this


Indeed there are so few SUCH cases that they
ry become conspicuous by their paucity. Ana We
tell how many OF those cases are the product OF
faulty or neglected education. Mr.. jacobs gave bis
congregation some


and example before their children Parents should be


the same home they in church and before the
community. You deceive the people, said the
RABBI, but you cannot deceive your children When
and manifest very different spirit ut home they
will very get measure and learn after while
to despse hypOcre, even In the relation OF father
or mother. Mr.. Jacobs considered the classes
and kind OF excuses that given for parental
neglect OF chldren-press OF business outside
Tor fathers and OF domestic duties for mothcrs &c
He thanked God tor the mothers Of Israel who accept
tho responsibility and &C! the par. o. iasner ana
aud pride o tho Jewish race Is is due TO the mothers


in Israel to-day and not the men, that there Is saliva


ton all for the young Of the And yet 100 Oon
the OF the child deceptive The voice is Jacobs
but the hands Esau'G You that children will have
their wsy Then you should begin correction
early; for when the twg 10 young IT can be bent
bat the stately oak canhot be moved an inch Teach
your children to love the house OF God and the ser.
vices Of the sanctuary-such services We have had
rendered here to-day said the preacher-and they will
love and respect you Make your homes religious and be
the same day in your homes As you
In tho synagogue. Let God be honored in your homes
and HIS blessing will rest upon you and upon them
But II you Danish religion from your homes DO you
pect your children TO grow up piousY They Will not
Make your homes then blessed homes fer your children
home 10 them.


A JEWISH CONVERTS CANARD DE-