The American Jewish Pulpit

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Excerpt from The American Jewish Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent American Rabbis Light is the emblem of Judaism. Among all the sacred pieces of the tabernacle the greatest prominence is given in the law to the golden seven-armed candlestick. To keep its lights in purest order and brightness is one of the chief duties of the priesthood, suggestive, no doubt, of the diffusion of knowledge of God incumbent on the guardian of the sanctuary. Indeed, Heathendom in general marked religion by the glare of fire, by the sacrificial blaze and smoke whirling up to heaven. To Christendom, too, religion is a hazy mysticism, a blind belief rather than an enlightening and convincing truth. And ask the modern pagan, (he atheistic moralist, after the nature of that feeling which prompts man to kneel before a Supreme Being, and he will respond in similar strains : This is all emotion and pathos, a fire within, a steam engine to impel the soul to a right conduct, yet wrongly applied to our thinking faculty. The Jewish religion, on the contrary, presents itself as a light to brighten up the path of man and as a convincing truth to guide him. It desires him to walk in the clear daylight of reason, not in the dim twilight of a misty faith. What the sun is to the earth, God is to spiritual man, the central source of all light, life and progress, whether moral or intellectual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.