The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

DAY OF ATONEMENT.-At sunset this evening the holiest day in the Jewish year will begin, a day set apart for prayer and devotion.

The Day of Atonement is comparable with no other in the relative regard with which it is observed. The traditions and ceremonies which mark some of the Jewish holidays may have brought them into disrespect, and caused their commemoration to be neglected; other days may have fallen into partial decay, because the events which they mark are considered obsolete, but the celebration of Yom Ha-Kippurim is enjoined upon the people of Israel as a perpetual observation, and the Sabbath of Sabbaths, as it is termed in the Scriptures, may be said with assurance to be the most strictly observed of any of the holidays. Every synagogue on the globe opens its doors at early dawn and closes them only when the sun has set at the close of day, and in many a small hamlet, where the weakness of the community renders impossible the consecration of temple or synagogue, a place of private worship is substituted, where the heart of man, though secluded from the great band of followers, is none the less devout in its outpouring to the Eternal, who has promised. "For on this day He will pardon you, to purify you from all your sins, that you be pure before your God."

Special services will be held to-morrow by Dr. Gerstell, the Rabbi, and music at all services will be under the direction of Prof. W. H. Sheib.