Excerpt from Discourses on the Jewish Religion, Vol. 1
It is now full thirty years since the first two volumes of my Sermons, under the title "Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion," were laid before the public, and for many years past the small edition, consisting of five hundred copies only, has been exhausted, and the occasional demand for the work could not be supplied. Since the date of the first appearance of my public addresses the number of Israelites has in creased immensely in this country, and a new generation has sprung up to whom I would gladly leave these volumes as my religious legacy; for such as they are, they contain the sincere outpouring of an honest heart, if I know myself at all; and therefore I hope that they will be useful to some, conscious that they cannot be injurious to any of our people. Since the first edition was issued many changes in our religious affairs have taken place among us; but in my own mind the old faith has not been supplanted by the new ideas which have found so many adherents and many advocates among men claiming superior learning. Notwithstanding the lapse of so many years, therefore, a few verbal corrections only have been deemed necessary, and not an idea has been altered to suit the more modern taste, convinced as I am that truth is unchangeable, and I hope that the heart of the vast majority of Israelites will still respond to the instructions laid before them now, as was the case three decennia ago, when I was perhaps the only Jewish public speaker in America.
Advancing years have admonished me not to delay issuing the remainder of my manuscript and to revise what I have printed already.
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