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that duty, that fidelity & love for one's Country and one's fellow creatures
will be ultimately rewarded with God's divine & choicest
blessings, while crime & murder, corruption and degrate dishonour
will suffer the just penalty & requital that must fall
to the lot of the workers of iniquity.

Let us then on this day of Judgement, while we stand in
solemn attitude before God's throne of Justice, inspired by
feelings of Kindship and brotherly love, of sympathy for
the poor & the afflicted, think of the beautiful and
sublime ideas that this occasion awakens in our hearts.
As a race & as a nation, we have during our eventful career
passed through numberless periods of the severest trials
and troubles through which we have learnt to look up to
God, to know Him. Through suffering, the Jew has learnt
to feel keenly for the misery of his fellowman and to acquire
a sympathy which is so pronounced as to become one of the
main characteristics of his nature. Let us cherish this virtue
let the love for all mankind regardless of creed or
nationality awaken in the hearts of others a Kindred
feeling, and as suffering is the very birthmark of
humanity,