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 The Dalston Synagogue, from its foundation, has consistently pursued a conservative policy, and has undoubtedly helped to stem the tide of a subversive radicalism in the sphere of English Judaism. Its services, which have steadily conformed to the old traditional modes, are accounted among the brightest and most inspiriting in the Metropolis, and have never failed, Sabbath after Sabbath, to attract large congregations of worshippers, the largest, in fact, of any of the constituent Synagogues of the Union. Under the guidance of a succession of able and devoted men, imbued with a deep sense of the sacred obligations entrusted to them, the Dalston Synagogue has in very truth been a living Synagogue, a well-spring of vital force, that has poured its fertilizing waters in more than one field in the field of religious education, in the field of Jewish culture, in the field of juvenile philanthropic effort and has stirred the stagnant soil in many-places with a new life and a more bracing energy. In the old familiar words we say-