And because the children are_not taught earnestly to honour God, they neither learn to honour their father and their mother. For these two command. stand together, or fall together. The sense of devation which Jewish sons and daughters cherished towards their parents was typical and proverbial. It lasted not only during the lifetime of the parents. It continued to bear fruit long after they slumbered in the peaceful embrace of death. Now, however, the sentiment of filial piety is fast disappearing. Reverence of parents is giving way to arrogance and overbearing, an attitude that strips the Jewish home of its traditional beauty. We miss now in many houses the all embracing love of the family, the consecrating harmony of the soul. the invisible bond of the spirit which unites the hearts and bends the minds on one common pursuit.
It is related that after the diverse parts of the tabernacle had been constructed, the artisans brought the result of their labours to the assigned place, and proceeded to erect the sanctuary, when to their great amazement they discovered that one part of the building would not fit the other. As they stood despondent beside the mass of disjointed building material, Moses arrived. He skilfully put the bolts and bars in their places, and lo! the tabernacle stood erect, one, whole, undivided structure. In the sanctuary of our homes where peace and holiness should be ever present! much is out of joint, and only Moses with his moral teachings can set it right. May the influences of the Mosaic religion which on this day began to spread its light in the world, turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so learnt the country and the ways of the people through long residence and study amongst them, whilst our cousins also insist upon a change with every alteration in their own administration. But Dr. Thomson ought to put a curb upon his press agents if, assuming he should be appointed, he is desirous of creating a good impression amongst all foreigners here.
In every second line they impress the fact that he is beyond everything else a most ardent constitutionalist. and on top of this they make an appeal tothe romantically mind-led because he claims descent from the Stuarts, the Douglases and the Bruce. Well, the Stuarts were not very strong on constitutions and the best that can be said for them is that they were immensely fascinati people. Furthermore, every man who comes from north of the Highland Line will protest that the only way to spell the family's name is Stewart. Then the Bruce was about the most vacillating character in all history. Poets mainly have made him famous. Certainly jhe was a wonderful tactician and military professors say he brought about the bayonet. One good thing he did was to administer that very tremendous wallop to de Boune—and even then, the mad_ Berserk rush of the latter suggests that he made himself an easy mark. The Doneglases had some slight fondness for the laws—when they were not antagonistic to the Douglases—but they had a way of being a law unto themselves, and the staunchest retainers of the greatest of them were "the gentle Johnstones," for a description of whose tender ways refer to "The Fair Maid of Perth."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.