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 Christianity and the Jew 
 
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CHRISTIANITY AND THE Jjt 
 
 Jin Jippeal to the Church of Christ 
 to Preach the Gospel to the Jew 
 
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 By 
 
 DELAWARE W. SCOTT 
 
 Wilh Foreword by 
 
 FRANK M. THOMAS, D.D. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South 
 
 CINCINNATI 
 
 The Standard Publishing Company 
 
Copyright, 1914, by 
 The Standard Publishing Company 
 
To 
 
 my faithful and loving wife^ 
 
 Frances Smith Scott, 
 
 who has toiled with me in the preparation 
 
 of this work, 
 
 this book is affectionately 
 
 dedicated. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 I. 
 
 Christianity and the Jew 13 
 
 II. 
 The Jew and the Great Commission 19 
 
 III. 
 The Cost 29 
 
 IV. 
 Christianity and the Great Commission 36 
 
 V. 
 Christianity's Debt to the Jew 45 
 
 VI. 
 The Jew in Ancient History 52 
 
 VII. 
 
 The Jew in American History 59 
 
 VIII. 
 The Jew in Literature, Arts and Science 67 
 
 IX. 
 The Jew's Contribution to Religion 75 
 
 X. 
 The Spiritual Unrest of the Jewish People 85 
 
 XI. 
 
 The Hand on the Dial 93 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 A book like this needs no introduction. It 
 speaks for itself on one of the greatest themes that 
 can come before mankind. For the final explana- 
 tion of the relation of Jew to Christian is the 
 explanation of human life. The secret of the pres- 
 ent universe lies unfolded there. Hence this book 
 is epochal. It deals with the two greatest facts in 
 history — Judaism and Christianity. It is a timely 
 book because never has the Church of Jesus Christ 
 been so interested in her Jewish brethren as now. It 
 is an interesting book because it portrays in telling 
 and eloquent language the infinite debt which Chris- 
 tianity owes to Judaism and the mighty part the 
 Jew has played in history. It is a significant book, 
 appearing at a time when Judaism is facing the 
 third great crisis in its history. It is a noble book, 
 marked by sanity and brotherly love, breathing the 
 true spirit of Christ. It is a providential book 
 because it will help to focus the kindly feeling now 
 rising throughout Christendom toward Israel into 
 a mighty tidal wave of genuine affection before 
 which the veil that hides the true Messiah from 
 that people must melt away, and they, too, shall see 
 our King in his glory. It gives me a holy joy 
 to commend it to every Jew and to every Christian, 
 May the Spirit of Jehovah make it a ministering 
 
8 FOREWORD 
 
 angel toward the bringing in of that day when we 
 shall be no more twain, but one in Christ Jesus our 
 Lord. 
 
 Frank M. Thomas. 
 Eastertide, 1914. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 It is with no little trepidation and anxiety that 
 this unpretentious volume is sent forth. This little 
 book and I have had many pleasant hours together. 
 We have chatted by the fireside, we have walked 
 in the moonlight, and have lain on the same pillow. 
 We have been companions together for many long 
 and weary months. 
 
 "Christianity and the Jew" is the child of 
 prayer. Years ago, in my youth, I formed a deep 
 and lasting admiration for the Jewish people. I 
 loved the heroic in the races of men, and no history 
 gripped me with such force as that of the Jews. 
 When a child they played for me in the role of 
 warriors, and I stood with them on many a battle- 
 field ; when in college they played for me in the 
 role of the torch-bearers of civilization; but now 
 they are playing for me in Jehovah's plan of the 
 world's redemption through Jesus Christ. 
 
 Years ago I wondered no little why the Jews 
 were so hated and so mistreated by the Gentile 
 nations. I heard men speak well of other races — 
 the German, the French, the Spanish, the English, 
 the Japanese — but no man had a good word for 
 the Jew. Then I saw churches standing every- 
 where, their doors flung open wide, giving a wel- 
 come to every race and tongue in the world, but 
 
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10 INTRODUCTION 
 
 none to the Jew. I heard preachers pray for every 
 nationality under the sun, but never did I hear a 
 prayer offered that the Jew might be saved. Then 
 I watched the missionaries go out to every tribe 
 and family of earth, but none went out to the Jew. 
 
 The plea of this little book may be weak and 
 clumsy, but surely it is timely. Its message may 
 not reach very far, but my earnest prayer is that 
 it may reach deep. If it can rouse a few souls 
 to join with Paul in his prayer that "all Israel 
 might be saved," I shall be amply repaid. If this 
 book comes to you, receive it kindly, and hear its 
 message. And then, as one who loves Christ and 
 his people, think — think — think. 
 
 The wise man of old said, "As a man thinketh 
 within himself, so is he." As we think about God, 
 so are we; as we think about Christ, so are we; 
 as we think about the commission of our Lord, 
 so are we; as we think about the Jew, so are 
 we. Evidently we have been doing some very 
 wrong and very narrow thinking in these past few 
 hundred years. We have done a great deal of 
 thinking about the Jew. And our thinking has 
 grown into deeds, and deeds have grown into 
 history, and history has created a sort of sub- 
 conscious mind in us that the Jew is not worth 
 saving. The language of the Psalmist fittingly 
 describes the condition of the Jews throughout the 
 world to-day : 
 
 "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, 
 Thou knewest my path. 
 In the way wherein I walk 
 
INTRODUCTION 11 
 
 Have they hidden a snare for me. 
 
 Look on my right hand and see; 
 
 For there is no man that knoweth me: 
 
 Refuge hath failed me; 
 
 No man careth for my soul." 
 
 The church is making provision for the salva- 
 tion of the Japanese, for the people of China, and 
 India, and Africa, and the islands of the sea. Is 
 it not high time that we were beginning to pay a 
 debt that reaches back across the ages to the 
 times of our Lord and Saviour, when he gave his 
 great commission to a few Jewish apostles and 
 evangelists, "Go ye therefore, and make disciples 
 of all the nations"? From whom did you receive 
 this good news of Christ? From a Gentile 
 preacher? Yes. But from whom did he receive the 
 good news? From another Gentile preacher. But 
 from whom did he receive it? From another Gen- 
 tile preacher. And thus we trace it back, back, 
 back, through generation after generation to the 
 time when these Jewish apostles and evangelists 
 "went everywhere preaching the word." 
 
 The light of all the ages converges upon us 
 to-day, and the divine compulsion that once sent 
 Paul forth to preach Christ to the world should also 
 lead us to exclaim, 'T am debtor both to the Jews 
 and to the Gentiles, both to the wise and to the 
 foolish. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to 
 preach the gospel to every creature — including the 
 Jew." 
 
 Delaware W. Scott. 
 
 Louisville, Ky., March 10, 1914. 
 
I. 
 
 Christianity and the Jew. 
 
 How strange it seems to us to-day, as we 
 approach the subject of "Christianity and the 
 Jew," that we immediately become conscious of the 
 fact that we are strangers. Can it be that we 
 never met before? "Have I been so long time 
 with you, and dost thou not know me?" Did you 
 ever hear a sermon on the subject? Did you ever 
 hear a preacher pray for the conversion of the 
 Jews to Christ? Is it one of the adjourned ques- 
 tions in the realm of Christianity? 
 
 Rabbi Shanfarber, of the city of Chicago, 
 recently said: "We Jews have given religion to the 
 world, but we have little ourselves. We gave God 
 to the world, yet we have little of God in our 
 hearts. The Jews are not studying their Bible — 
 other people are studying it. Our tremendous 
 indifference is our worst ailment. We are troubled 
 with the teaching of agnostic atheism, materialism, 
 and Christian Science." 
 
 No races of men have ever been so intimately 
 related and associated together through all the ages 
 as the Christian nations and the Jews. And yet no 
 two races could possibly be further apart. They 
 live, as it were, in two distinct and separate social 
 and religious hemispheres of the same great world. 
 
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14 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 The Jew has purposely swung completely away 
 from Christianity, and Christianity has shamelessly 
 swung away from the Jew. There are two great 
 and fundamental reasons for this world-wide gulf 
 existing between Christians and Jews. 
 
 First: The Jew Himself. His hatred for Gen- 
 tiles dates back to the time when he established an 
 iron-clad law that "the Jews have no dealings with 
 the Samaritans." And the long years of bitter 
 trials, and persecution, and plunder, and robbery 
 have not tended to soften his heart. Then, the 
 Jews as a nation openly rejected their Messiah, and 
 repudiated his claims upon them as his chosen 
 messengers to the world, nineteen hundred years 
 ago. There has never been any relenting nor 
 shadow of turning to this day. They steadfastly 
 set their faces against the gospel of Christ, and 
 to-day they are just as resolute in their hostility 
 to Jesus Christ as when they stood in Pilate's judg- 
 ment-hall to cry, "Away with him! Crucify him!" 
 
 Second: The Unchristlike Spirit of Chris- 
 tianity. "The Elect Lady," "The Bride," "The 
 Lamb's Wife," has shamelessly and malignantly 
 abused and neglected the Jewish people. The 
 Church of Christ, through her intolerance and 
 bigotry, has forced the Jews to stand where they 
 now stand in their attitude toward Christianity. It 
 is not the Christ enthroned in human hearts, but 
 rather the absence of the Christlike spirit in the 
 church, that has driven the Jews to assume their 
 relentless hostility toward Christianity. The Chris- 
 tian nations have robbed, and plundered, and hated, 
 and hunted, and slaughtered the Jew in the name 
 
CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 15 
 
 of religion through all these centuries, and who 
 can really condemn him for his contempt for it? 
 The Christian nations have treated him no better 
 than Nineveh, and Babylon, and Syria, and Persia, 
 and Greece, and Rome, and Turkey, and Spain, and 
 Russia have treated him. The world to-day 
 despises Mohammedanism for her merciless war- 
 fare on defenceless women and children of Chris- 
 tian faith. But how much better have the 
 Christian nations treated the Jew, and for the very 
 same reasons? 
 
 Even in our most cultured Christian communi- 
 ties we find this spirit of bigotry, hatred, and 
 intolerance manifesting itself. The children in our 
 Christian homes soon learn to think and to speak 
 in terms of contempt for the Jew. And where do 
 they learn it? They learn it from Christian 
 fathers and mothers. In the public schools of 
 Christian lands the children of Jewish parentage are 
 twitted all day long by such infamous terms as 
 "Jew," "Sheney," "Christ-killers," and "Crucifiers." 
 The effect of this unchristlike spirit is enough to 
 drive the Jewish child to despise the Christian relig- 
 ion. What hope can we have of ever winning such 
 a child to love and honor the Christ whom we 
 profess to love and honor? 
 
 In Louisville, Kentucky, a short time ago a 
 Jewish child came into her father's store weeping 
 bitterly. The father asked her what the trouble 
 was, and she told him how the children of Christian 
 parents had called her a "Christ-killer." The father 
 had his storm of rage — and who can blame him? 
 If your children should be insulted and abused 
 
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 every day because of your faith, would you not 
 soon learn to despise the system of religion that 
 gave birth to the insult? If the children of Moham- 
 medan parents would heap insult after insult upon 
 your child, would you not soon learn to despise 
 Mohammedanism ? 
 
 He was a Jew who declared in the early ages 
 of the church, "But I would not, brethren, have 
 you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in 
 your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath 
 befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be 
 come in ; and so all Israel shall be saved : even as 
 it is written, There shall come out of Zion the 
 Deliverer: He shall turn away ungodliness from 
 Jacob: And this is my covenant with them, When I 
 shall take away their sins" (Rom. 11:25-27). 
 "Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication 
 to God is for them, that they might be saved" 
 (Rom. 10: 1). "For there is no distinction 
 between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord 
 of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him : for, 
 Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord 
 shall be saved. How then shall they call on him 
 in whom they have not believed? and how shall 
 they believe in him whom they have not heard? 
 How shall they hear without a preacher? and how 
 shall they preach, except they be sent?" (Rom. 10: 
 12-15). 
 
 God has made no distinction between the Jew 
 and the Gentile. Christ made no distinction 
 between the Jew and the Gentile. The Holy Spirit 
 made no distinction between the Jew and the Gen- 
 tile. Who, then, made the distinction? And who 
 
CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 17 
 
 makes the distinction to-day ? Both Jew and Gentile 
 are responsible — the Jew, through his contempt for 
 Christianity, and the Christian, through his con- 
 tempt for the Jew. Thus a gulf, as wide as the 
 ocean itself, has come between two races, which 
 only the love of Christ can ever bridge. "For the 
 same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that 
 call upon him," but the Jew never hears it, he never 
 feels it, he never sees it. 
 
 Can Christianity exist without the Jew? Some 
 would say, "Yes, certainly Christianity can exist 
 without the Jew!" Yes, Christianity will march 
 triumphantly onward without his presence in the 
 ranks of the church and his voice in her councils. 
 But this is not the question under consideration. 
 The question is. Can the Jew exist without Chris- 
 tianity? But can Christianity exist without the 
 influence of the Jew? The Jewish nation launched 
 forth Christianity on her heaven-born mission, and 
 gave her the machinery and the power for her con- 
 quest of the world for Christ. They gave Chris- 
 tianity its holy background, they gave it its spirit, 
 its enthusiasm, its zeal, its faith, and its courage. 
 And we can no more separate Christianity from 
 Jewish influence, and expect it to stand, than we 
 can separate the mortar from a great building, and 
 expect it to stand. 
 
 Christianity drew its heart-blood out of Jewish 
 veins, and it is the very child of Jewish parentage. 
 The very warp and woof of Christianity was woven 
 in the loom of Judaism. And while we may exist 
 without his bodily presence in the Church of Christ, 
 we can not exist without his influence and his con- 
 
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 tribution to the faith once delivered unto the saints. 
 The whole plan of Go<i for the redemption of the 
 world through Christ is stamped in Jewish thought, 
 moulded amid Jewish environment, sanctified by 
 Jewish sacrifices, played upon the stage of Jewish 
 history, and by Jewish actors. 
 
II. 
 
 The Jew and the Great Commission. 
 
 As the Jews were God's chosen people to bring 
 Christ into the world, so, in the providence of God, 
 they became his chosen people to preach Christ to 
 the world. For eighteen hundred years before the 
 coming of Christ, they were heralding the Messiah 
 of God to the world. He was Moses' "Rock and 
 Shield," he was Joshua's "Captain of the Lord's 
 Host," he was Samuel's "Strength of Israel," he 
 was David's "Anointed," he was Isaiah's "Wonder- 
 ful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, 
 Prince of Peace," he was Daniel's "Messiah," he 
 was Zechariah's "Fountain," he was Haggai's 
 "Desire of All Nations," he was Malachi's "Messen- 
 ger." All of these prophecies were given in 
 anticipation of his coming by holy men of Israel. 
 Then, after the Christ came into the world, he 
 was Matthew's "Christ, Emmanuel, Governor," he 
 was Mark's "Holy One of God," he was Luke's 
 "Judge and Consoler," he was John's "Bread of Life, 
 Lamb of God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, 
 Alpha awd Omega," he was Paul's "High Priest, 
 Mediator, Author and Finisher of Our Faith," he 
 was James' "Lawgiver," he was Peter's "Bishop and 
 Advocate." 
 
 The world waited through long centuries for 
 
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20 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 "The Prince of Peace," and "The Desire of All 
 Nations," to come. But at last, "when the fulness 
 of time was come," the Jews became the messengers 
 of God to preach the good news to the world. 
 
 When Christ was ready to enter into his min- 
 istry, he chose twelve Jews to be his apostles, and 
 for three and one-half years he trained them for 
 the greatest mission ever committed into the hands 
 of men. Christ's commission of the world-wide 
 proclamation of his will among men was taught in 
 a succession of three great steps. 
 
 I. The Mission of the Twelve. It was lim- 
 ited to the house of Israel. "These twelve Jesus 
 sent forth, and charged them, saying. Go not into 
 any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any 
 city of the Samaritans : but go rather to the lost 
 sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt. 10:5, 6). 
 They were to learn their first great lesson in world- 
 wide evangelization at home. Then came the sec- 
 ond great step forward : 
 
 II. The Mission of the Seventy. "Now 
 after these things the Lord appointed seventy 
 others, and sent them two and two before his face 
 into every city and place, whither he himself was 
 about to come. And he said unto them, The har- 
 vest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: 
 pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he 
 send forth laborers into his har\^est" (Luke 10: 
 1, 2). They were to prepare the way for Christ. 
 Their message was, "The kingdom of God is come 
 nigh unto you." Through their work among men, 
 under the special direction and oversight of their 
 Master, these crude fishermen from Galilee were 
 
THE JEW AND THE GREAT COMMISSION 21 
 
 being trained for the larger task that lay before 
 them. They were in the school of missions, learn- 
 ing from Jesus Christ how to preach the gospel of 
 the Kingdom of God among men. They learned 
 many great lessons, but none greater than that 
 Jesus Christ was the Son of the living God, and 
 that he came to seek and to save that which was 
 lost. It may seem to us that they learned the les- 
 son of world-wide missions rather slowly, yet when 
 we remember that the whole plan of God was in 
 direct conflict with their race prejudices and tradi- 
 tions, we almost marvel that they ever learned the 
 lesson at all. But gradually they grew from 
 entered apprentices into fellow-crafts, and from 
 fellow-crafts into master workmen on the temple. 
 Their horizon was gradually expanded until at last 
 they could see, as Peter was at last forced to 
 acknowledge, that "God is no respecter of persons." 
 Slowly Christ had trained them to the point when 
 they were to enter the full consummation of the 
 plan of the ages. 
 
 III. The World-wide Commission. Then came 
 the third and final step. "And Jesus came to them 
 and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath 
 been given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go 
 ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, 
 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of 
 the Son and of the Holy Spirit : teaching them to 
 observe all things whatsoever I commanded you : 
 and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end 
 of the world" (Matt. 28:18-20). "And he said 
 unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
 gospel to the whole creation. He that believeth 
 
22 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 and is baptized shall be saved: but he that dis- 
 believeth shall be condemned" (Mark 16: 15, 16). 
 "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, 
 and rise again from the dead the third day ; and 
 that repentance and remission of sins should be 
 preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning 
 from Jerusalem" (Luke 24:46, 47). "Jesus there- 
 fore said unto them again, Peace be unto you : 
 as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 
 Whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven 
 unto them : vv^hose soever sins ye retain, they are 
 retained" (John 20:21-23). 
 
 And then came the final instructions. "But tarry 
 ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from 
 on high" (Luke 24:49). "But ye shall receive 
 power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: 
 and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and 
 in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the utter- 
 most part of the earth" (Acts 1:8). Such was 
 the stupendous task set before them. They would 
 have almost staggered before the great commission, 
 "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the 
 whole creation," had not the authority of Jesus 
 Christ stood as one pillar, and the personal pres- 
 ence and leadership of Jesus Christ stood as the 
 other pillar in the commission, one on either side, 
 to uphold it and to insure ultimate success. 
 
 Jerusalem was the dynamo, from which was 
 to go forth the message that was to electrify the 
 nations. So, in strict compliance with their divine 
 instructions to tarry in Jerusalem until they should 
 be clothed with power from on high, we find 
 the apostles and disciples waiting in Jerusalem for 
 
THE JEW AND THE GREAT COMMISSION 23 
 
 the ten days intervening between the ascension of 
 Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pente- 
 cost. They spent those ten days in earnest prayer. 
 There was no promise from Christ just how long 
 they should have to wait for the quickening power 
 of the Holy Spirit. They simply prayed a Pente- 
 costal revival into existence. "And when the day 
 of Pentecost was now come, they were all together 
 in one place. And suddenly there came from 
 heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty 
 wind, and it filled all the house where they were 
 sitting. And there appeared unto them tongues 
 parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon 
 each one of them. And they were all filled with 
 the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other 
 tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 
 2:1-4). 
 
 This was the first great translation of the word 
 of God into the tongues of the nations — a verbal 
 translation — and yet so astounding and so con- 
 vincing that devout men, Jews, from eighteen 
 different nations, sojourning in Jerusalem, were 
 astonished beyond measure, and cried out: "Behold, 
 are not all these that speak Galilseans? And how 
 hear we, every man in our own language wherein 
 we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, 
 and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and 
 Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in Phrygia and 
 Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about 
 Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and 
 proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them 
 speaking in our tongues the mighty works of 
 God." 
 
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 They were acting within the full province of 
 their great commission, as they brought the message 
 of the crucified and risen Christ to the thousands 
 of eager listeners who heard and saw that day the 
 mighty works of God. And in the great sermon 
 that followed, Peter laid the foundation for a 
 great world-wide empire. He builded better than 
 he knew. The events following Pentecost show 
 conclusively that the apostles, as they were guided 
 into all truth by the quickening power of the Holy 
 Spirit, were led to declare things which they would 
 not otherwise have declared, and which they did not 
 then even understand. They taught the universal- 
 ity of the Kingdom of Christ, a principle utterly 
 foreign to Jewish minds and hopes. Their long 
 centuries of race hatred had led them to believe 
 that the Kingdom of God could not extend beyond 
 the material kingdom of David. But gradually the 
 Spirit opened their minds, and the truth of Peter's 
 declaration, "For to you is the promise, and to 
 your children, and to all that are afar off, even as 
 many as the Lord our God shall call unto him," 
 began to dawn upon them. But not until Peter 
 was led of the Holy Spirit to the house of Corne- 
 lius, that he might open the door for the Gentile 
 nations, did they realize fully and completely that 
 "God is no respecter of persons: but in every 
 nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteous- 
 ness, is acceptable to him." 
 
 There were four great milestones in the great 
 commission, four mighty strides to be made by the 
 church toward the conquest of the whole world for 
 Christ. 
 
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 I. Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the point of 
 departure. There were many great reasons why 
 the gospel should have its beginning in Jerusalem. 
 It had been the great city where God's name had 
 been reverenced for a thousand years. It was in 
 Jerusalem that the temple of God stood, where the 
 altar stood, where the paraphernalia of the Old Tes- 
 tament dispensation were kept, where the priesthood 
 of the house of Israel had served for a thousand 
 years, where the prophets had sent forth their 
 messages. It was in Jerusalem that the heartbeat 
 of Jehovah had been felt in his compassion for the 
 world. It was here that Christ was crucified, where 
 he was buried, and where he arose from the grave. 
 It was in Jerusalem that Christ took his ascension 
 back to the bosom of the Father. And it was in 
 Jerusalem that the Holy Spirit came upon the 
 apostles, and qualified and equipped them with 
 power to proclaim the gospel of Christ, a new dis- 
 pensation of God's mercy, to the children of men. 
 It was in Jerusalem that so many of the types 
 and shadows of the Christ of God and the New 
 Testament church were reflected on the background 
 of Old Testament history. The apostles took the 
 first step as set forth in the outline given by Christ 
 in the great commission, when the multitude cried 
 out, "Brethren, what shall we do?" And Peter, 
 the mouthpiece through whom the Holy Spirit 
 spake, said unto them : "Repent ye, and be baptized, 
 every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, 
 unto the remission of your sins : and ye shall 
 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. . . . They then 
 that received his word were baptized: and there 
 
26 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 were added unto them about three thousand souls." 
 The beginning was made, and an entering wedge 
 had been driven that was to rend the nations of 
 earth. Around this Httle center was to revolve the 
 machinery that was soon to shake the world. 
 
 II. All Judaea. The apostles took the second 
 step in the great commission when "there arose 
 on that day a great persecution against the church 
 which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scat- 
 tered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea" 
 (Acts 8:1). And "they therefore that were 
 scattered abroad went about preaching the word" 
 (Acts 8:4). 
 
 III. Samaria. The apostles took the third step 
 in the great commission when "Philip went down 
 to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto them 
 the Christ" (Acts 8:5). This was a long stride 
 toward the goal, for who had ever dreamed before 
 that Jews should ever preach the good news of 
 salvation to the Samaritan people? But it came 
 in logical sequence. The Samaritans were cousins 
 to these Jewish evangelists, they accepted the larger 
 portion of the Old Testament, they were children 
 of Abraham, and they were rooted and grounded 
 in the promises of the coming Christ. But the Jews 
 had no dealings socially or commercially with the 
 Samaritans. But when the Christ came, he shared 
 his glorious ministry with them. And his great 
 sermon on the Messiah was preached to a lone 
 Samaritan woman at the old well at Sychar. But 
 when his disciples came from the city, and found 
 him in conversation with the woman, "they mar- 
 velled." But she went with flying feet into the 
 
THE JEW AND THE GREAT COMMISSION 27 
 
 city, crying, "Come, see a man who told me all 
 things that ever I did : can this be the Christ ?" 
 "And from that city many of the Samaritans 
 believed on him because of the word of the woman 
 who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. 
 So, when the Samaritans came unto him, they 
 besought him to abide with them: and he abode 
 there two days. And many more believed because 
 of his word; and they said to the woman, Now 
 we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we 
 have heard for ourselves, and know that this is 
 indeed the Saviour of the world." Christ was 
 simply sowing the seed of the kingdom in Samaria, 
 and soon Philip came to reap the great harvest. 
 What a change had taken place in those few years. 
 Jews and Samaritans found that they were brethren 
 in Christ. 
 
 IV. The Uttermost Part of the Earth. 
 Then, under the splendid leadership of Saul of 
 Tarsus, the Jewish evangelists entered the last 
 great lap in the line of march as set forth by 
 Christ, "to the uttermost part of the earth," and 
 we are to finish it some day. Paul received his 
 marching orders from the Christ himself. "He is a 
 chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the 
 Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel." 
 Jews may turn away from Christ, but Christ still 
 clings to them. Then the Holy Spirit said to the 
 church at Antioch: "Separate me Barnabas and 
 Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 
 Then, when they had fasted, and prayed, and laid 
 their hands on them, they sent them away." 
 
 We then watch the beacon-lights of Christianity 
 
28 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 flash from Antioch to Cypress, then to Perga, then 
 to Antioch in Pisidia, then to Iconium, then to 
 Lystra, then to Derbe, then over all the region of 
 western Asia Minor to Troas. Then from Troas 
 they flash to Philippi, then to Thessalonica, then to 
 Berea, then to Athens, then to Corinth, then to 
 Ephesus, then to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem 
 to Rome. 
 
 The first twelve chapters of the Book of Acts 
 cover the first three steps in the great commission — 
 Jerusalem, Judaea, and Samaria. The last sixteen 
 chapters relate the thrilling story of the beginning 
 that was made in the last step in the great com- 
 mission. The first twelve chapters cover home mis- 
 sions; the last sixteen chapters cover foreign 
 missions. The first twelve chapters are distinctively 
 Jewish; the last sixteen chapters are distinctively 
 Gentile. Paul could say with great joy at the end 
 of his life of missionary labors : "Without con- 
 troversy great is the mystery of godliness ; he 
 who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the 
 spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, 
 believed on in the world, received up in glory." 
 
 The territory covered in this half century of 
 missionary labors embraced the vast regions from 
 Cyrene and Ethiopia on the south to the Alps 
 Mountains on the north ; and from the Euphrates 
 River on the east to the Pillars of Hercules on the 
 west. The gospel of Christ had been preached 
 throughout the Roman Empire before the close of 
 the first century. And it is well worth remember- 
 ing that this stupendous task was accomplished 
 through the labors of Jewish evangelists. 
 
III. 
 
 The Cost. 
 
 As we enter fully and freely into the study of 
 the relationship which the Jew sustained to the 
 commission of our Lord, and the marvelous results 
 attained through his zeal and courage as he labored 
 under that great commission, it is well worth while 
 to consider at what a cost he bequeathed this 
 legacy to us. The enormous sacrifices of devout 
 Jews for the cause of Christianity in the world 
 reach back to the time when the Master called 
 to the fishermen on Galilee, "Come, follow me," 
 and "they left all to follow him." Later on in 
 the ministry of Christ, Peter raised the question, 
 "Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee." 
 
 And Christ warned them of the cost. "But all 
 these things are the beginning of travail. Then 
 shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall 
 kill you : and ye shall be hated of all the nations 
 for my name's sake." "But take ye heed to your- 
 selves : for they shall deliver you up to councils ; 
 and in synagogues shall ye be beaten ; and before 
 governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake 
 for a testimony unto them." "And ye shall be 
 hated of all men for my name's sake : but he that 
 endureth lo the end, the same shall be saved." 
 "They shall put you out of the synagogue : yea, 
 
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 the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall 
 think that he offereth service unto God. And these 
 things will they do because they nave not known 
 the Father nor me." "But ye shall be delivered 
 up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, 
 and friends; and some of you shall they cause 
 to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all 
 men for my name's sake." And yet, in the face 
 of all these warnings of pain, and affliction, and 
 hatred, and persecution, and death, they said, "Let 
 us also go, that we may die with him." And Peter 
 exclaimed, "Lord, with thee I am ready to go both 
 to prison and unto death." 
 
 And what was their earthly reward for preach- 
 ing the gospel of love and salvation to the world? 
 Every warning of Christ of the cost of preaching 
 his gospel was actually fulfilled. The Master simply 
 gave them an inventory of the trials and tribula- 
 tions that would come upon them, and not one 
 single item was omitted by the paymaster — the 
 world. The time came when they were hated of 
 all the nations for his name's sake; when they were 
 delivered up to councils; when they were beaten 
 in the synagogues; when they were led before 
 kings and princes ; when those who actually put 
 them to death thought that they were doing God 
 service; when they were disowned by friends and 
 families. 
 
 While the Acts of the Apostles tells but little 
 of the abuse, and hatred, and contempt that the 
 world heaped upon them, legendary history throws 
 some light on the dark picture in the end. Simon 
 Peter was crucified head downward in the city of 
 
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 Rome; Andrew was crucified on St. Andrew's 
 cross; James the Elder was beheaded in Jerusalem 
 by Herod; John was banished to the Isle of Patmos 
 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea; James the Less 
 was crucified in Egypt, or was thrown from a high 
 pinnacle; Jude was martyred in Persia; Philip 
 suffered martyrdom in Hierapolis in Phrygia; 
 Bartholomew was flayed to death ; Matthew suif ered 
 martyrdom in Ethiopia; Thomas was shot to death 
 by arrows while at prayer; Simon the Zelote was 
 crucified; Judas committed suicide. 
 
 However true or untrue this legendary history 
 may be, there is a source from which we draw a 
 truthful story of the trials and tribulations of those 
 who said, "Let us also go, that we may die with 
 him." Through Luke's historic narrative of the 
 Acts of the Apostles, and through the Epistles to 
 the churches, we can see something of the fearful 
 cost of preaching Christ to the world. Let us hear 
 the testimony of men who were warned of the 
 fearful cost of preaching the gospel in the world, 
 and yet who went undaunted to the task. As the 
 world made its contribution to the fearful catalogue 
 of things that Christ had foretold should come 
 upon them, we read : "Whether it is right in the 
 sight of God to hearken unto you rather than unto 
 God, judge ye: for we cannot but speak the things 
 which we saw and heard." "They therefore 
 departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing 
 that they were counted worthy to suflfer dishonor 
 for the Name." 
 
 Paul said: "We are fools for Christ's sake, but 
 ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are 
 
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 strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 
 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and 
 thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have 
 no certain dwelling-place; and we toil, working 
 with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being 
 persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat: 
 we are made as the filth of the world, the off- 
 scouring of all things, even until now." 
 
 Paul said, "After the manner of men I fought 
 with beasts at Ephesus." Oh, what would the 
 world give for a look into the amphitheater at 
 Ephesus, to see the tragedy enacted there! Oh, 
 what would the world give if Luke or Paul had 
 only told us the circumstances that threw him to 
 the wild lions or tigers in the arena, while the mob 
 yelled with brutal glee at the conflict! Only eleven 
 words are written in description of the scene, yet 
 they are words that are fraught with tremendous 
 significance. 
 
 Paul said : "Even as it is written. For thy sake 
 we are killed all the day long; we were accounted 
 as sheep for the slaughter." "And now, behold, I 
 go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing 
 the things that shall befall me there: save that the 
 Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, say- 
 ing that bonds and afflictions abide me. But I 
 hold not my life of any account as dear unto 
 myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and 
 the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, 
 to testify the gospel of the grace of God." "How- 
 beit what things were gain to me, these have I 
 counted loss for Christ. Yea, verily, I count all 
 things to be loss for the excellency of the knowl- 
 
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 edge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have 
 suffered the loss of all things, and do count them 
 but refuse, that I may gain Christ." 
 
 Paul said: "Of the Jews five times received I 
 forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with 
 rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered ship- 
 wreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 
 in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils 
 of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils 
 from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in 
 the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among 
 false brethren: in labor and travail, in watchings 
 often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in 
 cold and nakedness." 
 
 Peter declared : "But if a man suffer as a Chris- 
 tian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify 
 God in this name." "If ye be reproached for the 
 name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the spirit of 
 glory and of God resteth upon you : on their part he 
 is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." 
 "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery 
 trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove 
 you, as though a strange thing happened unto you." 
 
 Every Jewish evangelist and apostle were ground 
 to pieces between the upper and nether millstones 
 of the world's hatred and contempt for the meek 
 and lowly Nazarene and his message. Nor is the 
 way any smoother for the Jewish evangelist and 
 disciple to-day. Let a Jew accept Jesus Christ, and 
 he is immediately disowned by family and friends, 
 distrusted by Gentiles, and boycotted by the world. 
 
 Christianity is made too cheap for some of us 
 to-day. We give up nothing to obtain it, we 
 
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 sacrifice nothing for it, we undergo no hardships 
 to promulgate it to the world. If it should cost 
 us one-hundredth part of what it cost the early 
 disciples, there are a good many millions of us 
 who now claim to be followers of Christ who would 
 turn our faces away and reject him. And if it cost 
 the preachers of this Christian land a thousandth 
 part of what it cost the Jewish evangelists who first 
 proclaimed Christ to the world, several thousands 
 of us would find that our health would not permit 
 us to remain in the ministry. Worldliness in the 
 church has so cheapened Christianity that the church 
 is crippled and shorn of her power by this horde 
 of unregenerated pagans. But for a Jew, then 
 and now, it meant, and means still, the sacrifice 
 of the things that are most precious in the world 
 — home, friends, and even life. 
 
 But let us stand with John on Patmos, and have 
 him draw aside the curtain of God's glorious and 
 eternal world, and show us the fruitage of the 
 age of martyrs for Christ. Jewish evangelists 
 sowed the fields with the good seed of the King- 
 dom of Heaven, and the earth yielded her golden 
 harvest, and hatred and bigotry reaped it with 
 her sickle keen. It has been asserted that fifty 
 million martyrs perished for their faith in the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and John wrote: "I saw the 
 souls of them that had been beheaded for the tes- 
 timony of Jesus and for the word of God." "And 
 one of the elders answered, saying unto me. These 
 that are arrayed in white robes, who are they, 
 and whence came they? And I say unto him, My 
 lord, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These 
 
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 are they that came out of the great tribulation, and 
 they washed their robes, and made them white in 
 the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before 
 the throne of God; and they serve him day and 
 night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the 
 throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. They 
 shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; 
 neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any 
 heat: for the Lamb that is in the midst of the 
 throne shall be their Shepherd, and shall guide them 
 unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall 
 wipe away every tear from their eyes." 
 
 Ah ! who were they ? Many of them, doubtless 
 most of them, were Jewish martyrs to their faith 
 in Christ, for the flaming red banner of persecu- 
 tion had not been unfurled at large over the Gentile 
 nations at the time when John wrote of this vision. 
 How many of the apostles, and evangelists, and 
 prophets, and elders, and deacons of the early 
 church were in this throng! Paul, in writing to a 
 Gentile church, and enumerating the things which 
 he and his colaborers had suffered for their faith 
 in Christ, said, "I write not these things to shame 
 you." But how such lives of sacrifice, and patience, 
 and suffering ought to shame us who have done 
 so little, and who can bear so little reproach for 
 the name of our blessed Lord. 
 
IV. 
 
 Christianity and the Great Commission. 
 
 The commission which the Jew received from 
 our Lord Jesus Christ became our commission when 
 we heard and obeyed the message that was so 
 faithfully proclaimed to the world by these Jewish 
 apostles and evangelists. The commission which 
 bade him, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
 gospel to the whole creation," has become our 
 divine marching orders. And the obligation is just 
 as binding upon us to-day as it was upon them 
 nineteen hundred years ago. Age nor transmission 
 from oine race to another has in nowise dulled the 
 edge of the sword of the Spirit. 
 
 But how faithfully have we obeyed this com- 
 mission? It reads to-day just as it read nineteen 
 hundred years ago. The command of the Lord is 
 still: "Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all 
 the nations, baptizing them in the name of the 
 Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 
 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I 
 commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, 
 even unto the end of the world." The lines of 
 march may be reversed, but the message remains 
 unchanged. Age, nor progress, nor civilization, nor 
 conditions of men have taken away a single iota of 
 our responsibility. 
 
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 We stand at the ends of the earth to-day, at the 
 last milestone in the commission of our common 
 Lord. It may be the providence of God that we 
 are to begin in this our day to take the reverse 
 steps in the great commission and preach it back- 
 ward to the point of beginning — the uttermost part 
 of the earth, then to Samaria, then over all Judaea, 
 and at last in Jerusalem. For where did Christ 
 ever ordain that his gospel should cease to be 
 preached in Samaria, or Judaea, or Jerusalem? 
 Did Christianity's obligations cease when the people 
 of Jerusalem, and Judaea, and Samaria were scat- 
 tered among the nations of the earth? We are 
 preaching Christ in Jerusalem when we preach 
 him to the people of Jerusalem wherever they may 
 be found to-day. While the chosen people of God 
 are not in the land of their fathers, they are in 
 the land of our fathers, and wherever they are, 
 in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, or the islands 
 of the sea, there is our obligation also. 
 
 Paul holds us fast to the issue. "So all Israel 
 shall be saved." But where? Not in Jerusalem, 
 for they are not there. Not in Judaea, for Israel 
 is not there. Where then? "Brethren, my heart's 
 desire and my supplication to God is for them, 
 that they may be saved." "For there is no distinc- 
 tion between the Jew and the Greek: for the same 
 Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all who call 
 upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the 
 name of the Lord shall be saved." 
 
 The history of the church through these past 
 centuries may be written in the heartbeat of mis- 
 sions. Nothing else was worth writing during the 
 
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 history of the church of the first century. And 
 nothing else is worth writing now. If the church 
 is not reaching out to the ends of the earth to Hft 
 up all races of men, then she has nothing to write. 
 If the corporate life of the church consists only 
 of suppers, and bazars, and euchre parties, and 
 picnics, and shows, and entertainments, then let 
 us draw the curtain over her shame. The wise 
 man of old said, "Where there is no vision, the 
 people cast off restraint." This is as true in the 
 life of the church as it is in the life of the individ- 
 ual. Churches are dying every day because they 
 have no vision, they never see beyond the little 
 hamlet where the church stands, they think only 
 in terms of the locality in which the church stands, 
 they aim only to reach the community around 
 them. Such churches have nothing to write in the 
 glorious achievements of Christianity in the world. 
 
 Each age and generation has witnessed some 
 great missionary achievement of the church, as 
 Spirit-filled men caught the vision of world-wide 
 evangelization for Christ. And standing promi- 
 nently in the forefront of the church's advance, 
 like a captain before his host, leading them on to 
 victory, may be seen a score of great missionary 
 leaders, worthy successors of Paul, and Silas, and 
 Philip, and Barnabas. 
 
 To the Goths went forth Ulfilas, just as Philip 
 went down to Samaria, "and proclaimed unto them 
 the Christ." To Armenia went forth Gregory; to 
 France went forth Pothinus; to Ireland went forth 
 St. Patrick; to Scotland went forth Columba; to 
 England went forth St. Augustine; to Germany 
 
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 went forth Boniface; to Denmark, Anaskar; to 
 the American Indians went forth John Eliot; to 
 India went forth WilHam Carey; to Africa went 
 forth David Livingstone; to China went forth Rob- 
 ert Morrison; to Japan went forth St. Xavier; to 
 the Hebride Islands went forth John Paton; to 
 Samoa went forth John Williams; to Formosa 
 went forth Mackay; to New Zealand went forth 
 Karl Ritter. 
 
 But where is the great missionary leader who 
 has gone forth during the past eighteen centuries 
 to the "lost sheep of the house of Israel"? We 
 look in vain for him, we listen in vain for his 
 message. We have sent forth the missionaries by 
 the score to the dark continent of Africa, and all 
 Christendom rejoices in the bountiful harvest that 
 has been gathered in. We have sent forth the 
 missionaries by the score to China and Japan, and 
 we have watched the light break in these darkened 
 lands. We have sent forth the missionaries to 
 India, to Korea, to Thibet, to Manchuria, to 
 Madagascar, to Turkey, to Armenia, to Arabia, 
 to Cuba, to Porto Rico, to the Philippines, to South 
 America, to the islands of the seas, and everywhere 
 that humanity is found to-day. And we are 
 preaching the gospel to almost every tongue and 
 dialect, to almost every tribe and family of earth, 
 but there has been no gospel for the Jews. 
 
 And here in our own free America, America 
 ordained of God to save the world, the Church of 
 Jesus Christ stands at every open port to meet 
 and to greet the great incoming flood-tide of 
 immigrant strangers that are pouring through our 
 
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 gates in search of homes, bread, Hberty, and hope. 
 And to this vast host, the church extends a greet- 
 ing and a welcome in the name of Jesus Christ. 
 Missions are opened for them, the Bible is reached 
 out to all of them, save the Jew. Of all the 
 nationalities who are pressing through our open 
 doors, none are more desirable as citizens of this 
 great, free America than the Jews. And yet we 
 treat them as though they were the scum of the 
 earth. Has he no soul to be saved? Possibly he 
 could teach us more about God than some of us 
 know. We, the Gentile nations, have been his 
 pupils to whom he taught the existence of God — 
 do the pupils excel their masters in knowledge? 
 
 To-day we have hung a girdle of gospel bells 
 around the earth, but none of them ring out their 
 welcome and invitation to the Jew. We have 
 translated the gospel message into almost every 
 dialect known in the world, but so little for the 
 Jew. We pray for every tribe and family of earth, 
 that they may know the fulness of the love of 
 Christ that passeth all understanding, but no voice 
 is lifted up in earnest supplication with Paul's, 
 "My heart's desire and my supplication to God is 
 for them [Israel], that they may be saved." Truly 
 the Jew can say, "No man careth for my soul !" 
 Why this neglect? Why this unpardonable and 
 shameless discrimination? The answer is writ in 
 letters large enough to be read the world over — 
 
 "INGRATITUDE AND BIGOTRY" 
 
 In bringing this indictment of high treason 
 against heaven and treachery to the Jew, we are 
 
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 fully conscious of the fact that many attempts at 
 justification will be made. As of old, "they all 
 with one consent began to make excuse." Some 
 would say, "The Jew does not want the gospel!" 
 When fully ninety-five per cent, of the Jews of the 
 world are as ignorant of Christianity as are the 
 Mohammedans, having no New Testament in their 
 own language, and possessing nothing but tradi- 
 tional history concerning Jesus Christ, and that 
 warped and distorted in justification of his cruci- 
 fixion, how do they know whether or not they 
 desire Christianity? The Christ of history and the 
 Christ of Jewish tradition are two different char- 
 acters. If they could know Christ as he actually 
 lived, and taught, and suffered, it would completely 
 change their viewpoint. While they gave birth 
 to the Christ and his religion, the average Jew in 
 the world is as ignorant of the actual facts to-day 
 as if Christ had been born in India. And the best 
 that the Christian nations have done for him 
 through all these centuries has been to plunder, 
 and rob, and persecute him in the name of religion. 
 Who would want Christianity on those terms? 
 
 Possibly they do not desire Christianity. Neither 
 do the Mohammedans, neither do the people of 
 India, neither do the people of China. It is only 
 as we reach the devotees of these great heathen 
 religions, one at a time, and acquaint them with 
 the beauty, and peace, and holiness of Christ, does 
 Christianity become desirable to them. The great 
 masses of people in heathen lands to-day do not 
 want the gospel because they are satisfied with what 
 they have. And only when they become acquainted 
 
42 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 with Christianity, and contrast their own hollow 
 and empty religious forms with the beauty and 
 holiness of Christ, can we hope to lead them away 
 from their superstition and fear. 
 
 And the missionary who sends back a message 
 from the heathen fields that the people are begging 
 for the gospel, sadly misrepresents the facts. The 
 masses are totally ignorant of Christ, and how can 
 they desire that of which they are totally ignorant? 
 It has never been, nor is it now, true that the 
 masses of heathenism are begging for the gospel 
 message. 
 
 Take it in our own land of gospel privileges, 
 where Christ has been preached for generation after 
 generation, and where the rich fruitage of Chris- 
 tianity is ripest, where the monuments of Chris- 
 tianity stand everywhere as a glorious testimony 
 to the truth of the gospel of Christ, the masses of 
 unbelievers are not even calling for the gospel to 
 be preached unto them. There are millions of men 
 and women in our own land who live within hear- 
 ing distance of the church bells, who are in seeing 
 distance of the light of Christianity, and who are 
 in touching distance of her helping hand, who will 
 neither hear, nor see, nor touch the Christ of God. 
 They are willing to accept the charities of the 
 church, but they refuse to accept the Christ. They 
 can witness every day the power of the gospel 
 to change men's lives; they are unwilling to have 
 their own lives changed. All over this land "The 
 Spirit and the Bride" are calling to the masses of 
 unsaved men, "Come," but they spurn the gospel 
 call and turn a deaf ear to the gospel message. The 
 
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 man who can justify himself in his hostility to the 
 Jew, and his failure to preach unto him Jesus, 
 simply because the Jew does not desire Christian- 
 ity, can justify almost anything else in the world. 
 And reasoning from this hypothesis,- "That the 
 Jews do not desire the gospel," we would have 
 to close our ears and our hearts against every other 
 heathen race in the world for the very same reason. 
 China, and Japan, and India, and Africa, and the 
 cannibal islands of the sea have slaughtered our 
 missionaries because they did not desire Christian- 
 ity, but we sent others to take their places. And 
 thus, almost every heathen land in the world has 
 been sanctified by the blood of men and women 
 who feared God more than men. 
 
 But some will say, "But the Jew will not hear 
 the gospel." But he will hear it if it is preached 
 in love. He is hearing and obeying it to-day in 
 many quarters of the globe where Christians pos- 
 sess a sufficient measure of the love of Christ to 
 preach it to them. The Jewish mind and heart is 
 in a more receptive state to-day than at any time 
 since the days of the apostles. They are slowly 
 yielding to the gospel message, and with a united 
 effort, and faith, and prayer of Christendom, Paul's 
 prayer, that "Israel might be saved," will some day 
 be answered. We find not only races of men, 
 but individuals by thousands, right in our midst who 
 manifest an open hostility to the gospel of Christ, 
 and yet we are striving to reach them with the 
 very gospel that they despise. And this is why 
 the church stands in the world to-day. And when 
 these conditions that surround us on every hand 
 
44 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 are passed away, then the mission of the church 
 in the world will be complete. By what process 
 of logical reasoning can we justify our failure to 
 preach the gospel to the Jews? 
 
 But the Jew of our land, and of every land, 
 will hear the gospel if it is presented to them in 
 love and patience. But he will not hear it any 
 other way, nor would it be the gospel of Christ 
 if it were presented in any other way. It is our 
 firm conviction that if Christianity would give her- 
 self in the fullest possible measure of love, and 
 prayer, and consecration to the preaching of the 
 gospel of Christ to the Jews for ten years, and with 
 the same devotion that we are preaching the gospel 
 to other heathen races in our midst and in the 
 heathen lands, there is no field in all the world 
 that will yield such glorious results. And the his- 
 tory of the church for the past nineteen hundred 
 years is a sufficient verification of the loyalty and 
 zeal of Hebrews when once they accept Christ as 
 their Lord and Saviour. A hundred thousand 
 Christianized Jews would shake the world for 
 Christ again, just as they shook it with their mes- 
 sage in the beginning. The church is neglecting 
 her greatest and most powerful asset in the evan- 
 gelization of the world for Christ — the Jews. 
 
V. 
 
 Christianity's Debt to the Jews. 
 
 In the preceding chapters of this humble work, 
 we endeavored to set forth the relationship that the 
 Jews sustained to the commission of our Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ; also the relationship that the 
 Christian world now sustains to the Jews because of 
 the commission of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
 Christ. Now we shall endeavor to set forth some 
 great reasons growing out of these relationships why 
 Christianity should preach the gospel to the Jews 
 who are scattered among the Christian nations. 
 
 The great commission for the universal proc- 
 lamation of the gospel to the whole creation is laid 
 deep in the heart of Jesus. From this commission 
 there is no appeal. But there are some great sec- 
 ondary reasons why Christianity should manifest a 
 friendlier interest and a deeper sympathy for this 
 neglected and mistreated people. Either the Jews 
 are the most undeserving race of men in the world, 
 or we are the most ungrateful. The Jew has done 
 more to build Christianity upon her firm basis in 
 the world than all other races of men combined. 
 And were the gospel of Christ human and not 
 divine, the blessings which it has brought to the 
 world would be sufficient alone to make all nations 
 debtors to the Jew. 
 
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46 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 Frederick the Great once demanded of his chan- 
 cellor proof for the truth of Christianity, and the 
 statesman replied, "The Jew, the Jew!" In the 
 freat ebb and flow of the world's national life, five 
 hundred petty kingdoms and empires have been 
 swallowed up in the merciless strife among men. 
 And yet, amid all this crushing and rending of 
 empires, the sway of principalities, and the over- 
 throw of dynasties, the Jew has retained his iden- 
 tity. He is the most interesting man in all the 
 world to-day, because he has the greatest history of 
 any man in the world. He has never changed his 
 faith, he has never changed his creed, he has never 
 turned his face away from his ancient ideal. From 
 the day when God called Abraham out of Chaldaea, 
 and told him to journey to the westward to the 
 land which he would show him, "and he went out, 
 not knowing whither he went . . . for he looked for 
 the city which hath the foundations, whose builder 
 and maker is God," to this day, the history of the 
 Jew reads like a romance. And while the Jew has 
 spent most of the centuries a wanderer in a strange 
 land, yet he has always kept his windows open 
 toward Jerusalem. Through man's inhumanity to 
 man he has been kept from living in his beloved 
 city, yet no power of earth has been sufficient to 
 keep him from praying toward his beloved city. 
 
 God promised Abraham that his seed should be 
 as the sands of the sea, and as the stars of the 
 heaven for a multitude. And to-day, amid all their 
 vicissitudes, amid all their great, overwhelming 
 national disasters, amid all their strife and slaugh- 
 ter, they are as the sands of the sea and the stars 
 
CHRISTIANITY'S DEBT TO THE JEWS 47 
 
 of the heaven for a multitude. And yet, like the 
 sands of the sea, the tides of human destiny have 
 rolled them far from the land of their nativity, and 
 have piled them upon the shores of every land 
 under the sun. 
 
 And God further promised Abraham, "I will 
 bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee 
 will I curse." "For thus saith Jehovah of hosts : 
 After glory hath he sent me unto the nations that 
 plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth 
 the apple of his eye." No student can look well 
 into the history of the world for the past four thou- 
 sand years and fail to see there the hand of 
 almighty God stretched out to defend and to lead 
 his chosen people, and wreaking vengeance and 
 destruction upon the nations that have dared to lay 
 a restraining hand upon them. 
 
 One of the great proofs that there is a God, 
 omnipotent and powerful, ruling the world, and 
 making the nations of earth to praise his name, is 
 the ever-present hand of God in Jewish history. 
 "For the kingdom is Jehovah's; and he is the ruler 
 over the nations." "Jehovah thy God shall cut off 
 the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in 
 to dispossess them." And the whole history of 
 Israel throughout their eventful history is one grand 
 record of God's protecting care. 
 
 God said : "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, 
 until he come whose right it is: and I will give it 
 him." And through the ages God has been over- 
 turning, overturning, overturning, as a farmer plows 
 his fields, turning under the thorns and thistles, and 
 sowing again the good seed of the coming kingdom. 
 
48 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 He has overthrown tyrants and godless kings that 
 a better race of men might rule in the world. The 
 valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the Tigris, 
 the plains of Syria, Esdraelon, and Philistia, and 
 the plateau region of the Lebanon hills have been 
 God's great harvest-fields that felt the keen sickle 
 of the great Husbandman of the earth, as he made 
 room for his chosen ones. 
 
 God threw out his battle lines to the southwest, 
 and Egypt felt the wrath of his power, but Israel 
 was there to give God the glory. He threw out his 
 battle lines to the south, and Amalek fell, but Moses 
 was there as a witness for God. He threw out his 
 battle lines to the eastward, and Nineveh and 
 Babylon tottered to their ruin, but God's chosen 
 people were there as the representatives of a race 
 of men whom God had chosen, and to read the 
 handwriting on the wall of the nations that were 
 doomed. God threw out his battle lines to the 
 north, and Persia fell, but Esther and Mordecai 
 were there as silent witnesses. He threw out his 
 battle lines to the northwest, and Greece and Rome 
 were shaken, but Jewish evangelists were there to 
 preach unto them Jesus. And God is still over- 
 turning, overturning, overturning the nations of the 
 world, that the kingdoms of this world may become 
 the kingdoms of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 "Careless seems the great Avenger; 
 
 History's pages but record 
 One death-grapple in the darkness 
 
 ' Twixt old systems and the Word ; 
 Truth forever on the scaffold, 
 
 Wrong forever on the throne — 
 
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 Yet that scaffold sways the future, 
 
 And, behind the dim unknown, 
 Standeth God within the shadow, 
 
 Keeping watch above his own." 
 
 The nations that surrounded Israel at the begin- 
 ning of her history are now buried beneath the rub- 
 bish of centuries because of their crimes against 
 God's chosen nation. They are gone the way of all 
 the earth, while the nation that they sought to 
 destroy still lives. And Turkey, Spain, Russia and 
 Austria are now reaping the harvest of retribution, 
 and some other nations are yet to feel God's venge- 
 ance poured out upon them for their bloody deeds 
 against the Jews. It may be said, with no little 
 pride, that the United States of America is the 
 only nation in the world that has not mistreated 
 the Jew. 
 
 God's covenant with Abraham was, "In thee 
 shall all the families of the earth be blessed." And 
 Peter takes up the very same thought nineteen hun- 
 dred and fifty years later and proves its complete 
 verification in Jesus Christ. "Ye are the sons of 
 the prophets, and of the covenant which God made 
 with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in 
 thy seed shall all the families of the earth be 
 blessed." If this be true, and we are constrained 
 by the overwhelming testimony of the ages to 
 believe that it is true, then, we are, of all men, most 
 contemptible and mean if we fail to recognize in 
 the Jew the fulfillment of all these promises of 
 God. 
 
 We are the recipients of the richest legacy ever 
 bequeathed by one nation to another. All that we 
 
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 possess to-day in the realm of revealed religion has 
 come through Jewish channels. When Paul stood 
 in the midst of the Areopagus on Mars' Hill in 
 Athens, he said to the Athenians: "Ye men of 
 Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very 
 religious. For as I passed along, and observed the 
 objects of your worship, I found also an altar with 
 this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. 
 What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set 
 forth unto you. The God that made the world and 
 all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and 
 earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 
 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he 
 needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all 
 life, and breath, and all things; and he made of 
 one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of 
 the earth, having determined their appointed sea- 
 sons, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they 
 should seek God, if haply they might feel after him 
 and find him, though he is not far from each one of 
 us: for in him we live, and move, and have our 
 being." And here Paul clinched the argument by a 
 quotation from one of their own poets, Aratus, "For 
 we are also his offspring." What was true of the 
 men of Athens, has been true of all the nations of 
 the earth. The "UNKNOWN GOD" has been igno- 
 rantly worshiped among the nations of earth 
 through all the ages, but the Jew alone could 
 declare him unto men. 
 
 The Jew gave the Bible to the world. Could 
 there be any Christ without the Bible? And how 
 would you prove that Jesus is the Christ, the Son 
 of the living God, but for the Bible? The Jew gave 
 
CHRISTIANITY'S DEBT TO THE JEWS 51 
 
 US the doctrines of the Fatherhood of God, the 
 Lordship and Messiahship of Christ, and the 
 brotherhood of man, and then he gave us the proofs 
 for them. The Jew has never poured the riches of 
 his legacy into any nation vv^ithout blessing it, and 
 wherever Christ and the Bible have not gone, there 
 you will find darkness, and fear, and pitiable misery. 
 The fullness of the blessing promised to Abra- 
 ham came when "God so loved the world, that he 
 gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
 on him should not perish, but have eternal life. For 
 God sent not the Son into the world to judge the 
 world; but that the world should be saved through 
 him." Recognizing, therefore, our unbounded debt 
 to the Jew for the blessings that are the common 
 heritage of all men to-day, let us make a sort of 
 inventory of his gifts to the world. And then, as 
 true and honorable Christian men and women, let us 
 pay tribute to whom tribute is due, honor to whom 
 honor is due, thanksgiving to whom thanksgiving is 
 due. 
 
VI. 
 
 The Jew in Ancient History. 
 
 The Jew has a national right to be proud of his 
 history, for he has been making history longer than 
 any race of men in the world. A bigot sneered 
 at Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) when he arose in 
 the English Parliament to make a speech. He 
 hurled the only weapon that bigotry, and intolerance, 
 and race prejudice can use, by calling the eminent 
 statesman "a Jew !" Lord Beaconsfield calmly 
 replied to the insult: "Sir, I can well afford to be 
 called a Jew. When your fathers were naked sav- 
 ages in the wilds of Germany, my fathers wor- 
 shiped God in a golden temple in Jerusalem!" 
 
 Long before Socrates taught philosophy and 
 Herodotus wrote history, the Jews were living the 
 most sublime philosophies and making history. 
 Long before the Greeks captured Troy by strategy, 
 Joshua led the hosts of Israel around the walls of 
 Jericho, and watched them crumble before the 
 touch of the hand of God. The Jews had a civil- 
 ization long before Greece and Rome had letters. 
 When poor, blind Homer was writing his immortal 
 Iliad and Odyssey, "the sweet singer of Israel" was 
 writing his immortal Psalms. Long before Bab- 
 ylon and Nineveh began to be felt as world powers, 
 Israel was a mighty nation, holding sway over the 
 
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THE JEW IN ANCIENT HISTORY 53 
 
 vast region from Egypt on the south to Phoenicia 
 on the north, and from the desert on the east to the 
 sea on the west. Long before Rome was founded 
 by the Tiber, Jerusalem was a city of great wealth 
 and culture. Long before the magnificent Parthe- 
 non was constructed on the Acropolis in Athens, 
 King Solomon was constructing the temple of God 
 on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. 
 
 When the ancestry of every European king and 
 prince chased the wild boar and fought the wild 
 savages of the forest, King Solomon sat upon an 
 ivory throne, in a golden temple in Jerusalem, hold- 
 ing communion with the great God of the universe. 
 His counselors were the torch-bearers of civiliza- 
 tion long before Greece and Rome began to awaken. 
 The history of the Jew has been interwoven with the 
 history of the world for nearly four thousand years. 
 
 They saw Egypt rise and fall like a giant. They 
 saw Nineveh and Babylon totter to their ruin. They 
 saw Edom and Moab, Philistia, and Tyre and 
 Sidon buried beneath the rubbish of the centuries. 
 They saw Greece and Rome loom up on the west- 
 ern horizon, they heard the thunder of the distant 
 conflict between Greece and Persia, between Rome 
 and Carthage, and they themselves soon felt the 
 hot breath from the nostrils of the Greek and 
 Roman cavalry on the Esdraelon. They heard the 
 crash and roar of battle at Marathon, Thermopy- 
 lae, Salamis, Plataea, Chseronea, Issus, and Arbela. 
 They watched, as it were from afar, the ever- 
 changing kaleidoscopic figures of nation arrayed 
 against nation in the death-grapple for power and 
 spoil. 
 
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 Nor did the Jew come out of this irrepressible 
 conflict unscarred. Like the Greek, the Jew could 
 not keep out of a fight. Through their warlike 
 temperament and training they became a world 
 power, and then it took the best blood of the nation 
 to maintain that power. Nations pressed them in on 
 every side, and with internal strife that rent the 
 nation into shreds, and with the ever-rising tide of 
 Nineveh, Babylon, Syria, Persia, Greece, and Rome 
 pressing them in at every angle, the Jewish mon- 
 archy soon fell to pieces. Then ten tribes were 
 carried away into captivity in Nineveh, followed 
 soon by the fall of Jerusalem and the seventy years 
 of captivity of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin in 
 Babylon. The remnant of the tribes of Judah and 
 Benjamin returned from Babylon to rebuild the 
 city of David, but the glory of the kingdom had 
 passed away forever. The Jews withstood the 
 Greeks for a little while, but at last their temple 
 was desecrated and despoiled. Then they felt the 
 hot breath from the nostrils of the Roman cavalry, 
 and the Jewish nation was soon prostrated at the 
 feet of the proud mistress of the world whose 
 throne was in the city by the Tiber. 
 
 Through their great oppression and unbearable 
 wrongs at home, pillaged and plundered by nation 
 after nation, their temple desecrated, their old relig- 
 ious rites and ceremonies mocked by Gentiles, with 
 Gentile garrisons stationed at every crucial point in 
 the kingdom to oppress and enslave them, there 
 came the migration of the Jewish people, when they 
 were soon scattered like dust among the nations of 
 the world. Thus, in God's own good providence, 
 
THE JEW IN ANCIENT HISTORY 55 
 
 they became the heralds to announce to the world 
 the coming of the Prince of peace, the Redeemer 
 and Saviour of all men. 
 
 Into every great political, religious, educational, 
 and commercial center of the Roman Empire came 
 little bands of Jews seeking a haven of rest from 
 the tyranny and oppression at home. There he 
 built his synagogue, there he worshiped God, there 
 he began to hope for the Deliverer, there he opened 
 the Scriptures of God and invited the nations of 
 the world to read the wonderful promises that 
 Jehovah had made to Abraham, that in his seed 
 should all the nations of earth be blessed. 
 
 How precious must have been the announcement 
 of the angel which startled the shepherds as they 
 watched their flocks by night on the hills near 
 Bethlehem : "Be not afraid ; for behold, I bring you 
 good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the 
 people: for there is born to you this day in the 
 city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord." 
 
 The world's waiting was over. The doors of the 
 temple of Janus were closed, and the great Jewish 
 heart unconsciously joined in the song of the angel 
 host that sang over the manger-cradle of the world's 
 Redeemer in Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the high- 
 est, and on earth peace among men !" 
 
 But the peace was of short duration. The birth 
 of Christ was only the lull in the cruel conflict 
 which had raged around Jewish standards for four- 
 teen hundred years. The dogs of war were soon 
 loosed again, the banners of war were soon 
 unfurled, the low murmurings and mutterings grew 
 louder and louder until at last the storm burst in 
 
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 all of its terrific fury. Roman legions took up the 
 line of march towards the gates of Jerusalem. The 
 revolutionists soon swept the land free of its Roman 
 garrisons. Maesada, the great fortress east of the 
 Jordan, was taken by storm and its Roman garrison 
 was put to the sword. Then, under the splendid 
 leadership of Eleazar, the castle of Antonia fell, 
 the Roman garrison was put to death, and thus 
 Jerusalem rid herself of the hated Gentile oppres- 
 sors who had held sway over the city for many 
 long, weary years. 
 
 Both Judaea and Rome rose to the highest pitch 
 of enthusiasm to meet the impending crisis. Cestius 
 Gallus, the Roman legate of Syria, marched upon 
 Jerusalem with a large Roman army, but his forces 
 were cut to pieces in the gorges of Bethoron by 
 the Jewish forces. All negotiations of peace 
 between Judaea and Rome were broken off, the 
 Jews had committed themselves to the issue, and 
 were ready to abide by the consequences, whatever 
 they might be. 
 
 Nero, the emperor of Rome, selected Titus 
 Flavins Vespasian, one of his very best generals, 
 to put down the revolt in Palestine. While Rome 
 was mobilizing her army, the Jews were strengthen- 
 ing their fortresses, enlisting their forces, gathering 
 their supplies and munitions of war, and by the time 
 Rome was ready to strike, Judaea was ready to 
 return the blow. Vespasian landed his forces and 
 marched with fifty thousand men into Galilee in 
 the spring of 67 A. D. Opposed to him was the 
 young but inexperienced rabbinical scholar, and 
 afterwards the great Jewish historian, Josephiis. 
 
THE JEW IN ANCIENT HISTORY 57 
 
 Vespasian gained the greater part of Galilee without 
 a sword-stroke, and Josephus took refuge in 
 Tiberius with his small, undisciplined band of 
 Galileans. Josephus was at last compelled to sur- 
 render, and all Galilee was overrun- 
 Nero died in 68, and the next year Vespasian 
 was chosen emperor of Rome. The emperor 
 entrusted the control of affairs in Judaea to his son 
 Titus, with instructions to press the war to its bitter 
 end with all possible speed, and then hastened away 
 to Rome. Like an avalanche he swept down upon 
 the city. At the very point where Jesus Christ 
 stood and wept over the city, the famous Tenth 
 Legion of the Praetorian Guard pitched its tents. 
 The siege lasted from April until September, five 
 months of terrific struggle, five months of suffer- 
 ing, hunger, and slaughter. Jerusalem was blood- 
 stained within and without. A breach was at last 
 made in the wall, the gates were battered down, the 
 temple was burned, the city pillaged, and the little 
 remnant of heroic defenders, their wives and chil- 
 dren were led away to grace a conqueror's tri- 
 umphal entry into the capital city of the world. 
 Their enemies had conquered at last, and Jewish 
 courage and heroism had been crushed, but not 
 broken. Titus had thundered at her gates for five 
 long months, but when he at last entered the city, 
 he entered it through the graveyard of the Jewish 
 nation. 
 
 From that day to the present he has been a 
 wanderer in a strange land, with no place to call 
 his own, despised and rejected of men, a sojourner 
 in a land of strangers, seeking peace and liberty 
 
58 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 of conscience which has not often been found. But 
 wherever he went, into whatever country he sought 
 refuge, whatever land he chose as his own, whatever 
 national banner waved over him, there he became 
 a patriot. And it may be safe to say that he never 
 dishonored the flag he chose to follow. 
 
 Since his own land was despoiled, and his own 
 city destroyed, and his own altars overthrown he 
 has commingled with the nations of the world, and 
 yet he has never lost his identity as a Jew. He 
 could no more be assimilated by the nations that 
 engulfed him than gold can be assimilated by the 
 earth. He has changed his language, he has 
 changed his dress, he has changed his business, he 
 has changed his avocation so as to meet the 
 demands of the age and nation in which he lives, 
 but he has never changed his character. They are 
 still a peculiar people, the marvel and miracle of 
 the ages. 
 
VII. 
 The Jew in American History. 
 
 The Jew's intimate touch with American history 
 began even before America was discovered. On the 
 same day, and with the same pen that Ferdinand 
 and Isabella, of Spain, signed the infamous edict 
 which drove from their land more than 250,000 
 Jewish subjects, they also chartered the expedition 
 of Christopher Columbus to sail in search of East 
 India lands, which unexpectedly resulted in the dis- 
 covery of the American continent. The expedition 
 of Columbus completely changed the map of the 
 world. Scientific and geographical knowledge was 
 also completely revolutionized. The expedition of 
 Christopher Columbus was the most important 
 achievement ever undertaken by men, and its influ- 
 ence on the world has been excelled only by one 
 event — the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. 
 
 But the money for the expedition of Christopher 
 Columbus was furnished by a Jew by the name of 
 Santangel, and not by Queen Isabella of Spain, as 
 has been believed for four hundred years. Recent 
 examinations into the old Spanish records of the 
 times of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Dr. Moses 
 Kayserling, of Buda-Pesth, Prof. H. B. Adams, 
 and other eminent scholars, have established beyond 
 any peradventure, that "J^ws, and not jewels," 
 
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 formed the financial basis that equipped the ships 
 of Columbus and sent them forth on their wild 
 venture. 
 
 The old diary of Santangel, the Jewish financier 
 of Spain, and the official records of the State 
 Department of the Spanish Court reveal the facts 
 herein set forth. Record after record shows that 
 Santangel made loan after loan to the King and 
 Queen of Spain at the time when Columbus was 
 fitting out his little fleet. And while Queen Isabella 
 offered to pawn her jewels for the expedition, it 
 did not become necessary for her to do so, as 
 Santangel furnished the required amounts. 
 
 The charts by which Columbus sailed in search 
 of a new world were drawn by a Jew by the name 
 of Jehuda Cresques. The ship physician was a 
 Jew by the name of Bernal. The ship surgeon was 
 a Jew by the name of Marco. The first man to see 
 land was a Jew by the name of Triana. And the 
 first man to set foot on American soil was a Jew 
 by the name of Torres. 
 
 As the Jews were so intimately connected with 
 the discovery of America, it would seem perfectly 
 logical that they should be intimately associated with 
 America in her rich privileges. And so have they 
 been. They looked upon America as their new 
 land of promise. There was no other land in the 
 world where he could set his foot and be at peace. 
 America offered to them an asylum of rest from the 
 political and religious tyranny which not only pre- 
 vailed in Spain, but also throughout Europe, Asia, 
 and Africa. It seems that whenever the Jew 
 knocked at the gates of the nations, and asked to 
 
THE JEW IN AMERICAN HISTORY 61 
 
 be admitted within their sheltering folds as a 
 citizen, to participate in their achievements, and to 
 share in their prosperity or their adversity, that all 
 the brutality and hatred in men flamed forth. 
 
 But America was an open door to this persecu- 
 ted and maltreated people who had sought peace 
 and liberty among the nations and found none. 
 They felt that the arm of political tyrants and relig- 
 ious bigots was not long enough to reach across the 
 sea. So they turned their eyes to America as their 
 new land of political and religious freedom. They 
 were early identified with the settlements in Ameri- 
 ca, and took part in the struggles and hardships of 
 our forefathers who laid the foundations for this 
 great American Republic. But the same relentless 
 and bloody hands that had clutched them in Spain, 
 and England, and France were soon reached out 
 to lay hold upon them in America. They were 
 restricted in their property rights, their trading 
 privileges, and their religious liberty which they 
 had so earnestly sought in the New World, and 
 more than once the mob spirit in men burst forth. 
 But these restrictions of trade, property rights, and 
 religious freedom were gradually removed until, at 
 the time of the Declaration of Independence by the 
 English colonies, all men stood on equal commercial, 
 political, and religious terms in young America. 
 
 The Jews were settled in New Amsterdam (New 
 York) as early as 1654, and soon they found their 
 way into every colony from Massachusetts to 
 Georgia. But not until the establishment of the 
 Constitution of the American Republic, which guar- 
 anteed full religious liberty to all men, did the 
 
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 Jews come to America in any considerable numbers. 
 At the outbreak of the American Revolution there 
 were groups of prosperous Jews in New York, 
 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Providence, Boston, New- 
 port, Charleston, Savannah, Richmond, and in many 
 of the smaller towns and villages along the Atlantic 
 seaboard. But a very conservative estimate places 
 the number of Jews in America at the time of the 
 revolution at not over thirty-five hundred. 
 
 The Jews were among the very first to respond 
 to the call of their country when the news from 
 Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill electrified the 
 whole country from New Ham.pshire to Georgia. 
 The Non-importation Ordinance of 1765, which 
 was the first concerted movement looking toward 
 the independence of the thirteen English colonies 
 in America, contained the names of nine Jewish 
 patriots. These are Benjamin Levy, Moses Mor- 
 decai, Bernard Gratz, Sampson Levy, Mathias 
 Bush, David Franks, Joseph Jacobs, Hyman Levy, 
 and Michael Gratz. 
 
 When Washington's army was shivering in 
 their mud huts at Valley Forge, and the cause of 
 the American army seemed hopeless, with little 
 food, scant clothing, poor shelter, without visible 
 means of procuring these, with smallpox raging on 
 every hand, with treason in the camp, and with a 
 strong, well-fed, well-clothed, well-sheltered, well- 
 officered, and well-armed foe in the land, a Jewish 
 merchant of Philadelphia, by the name of Solomon, 
 gave over six hundred thousand dollars to feed, 
 and clothe, and shelter Washington's army. And 
 he never asked for, nor did he ever receive, a 
 
THE JEW IN AMERICAN HISTORY 63 
 
 dollar of it in return. Other Jewish patriots also 
 signed bills of credit to aid the American cause of 
 independence, and altogether they appropriated a 
 million dollars to the cause of the American arms. 
 Jewish patriots fought in the rank and file of the 
 American army, and almost every battlefield, from 
 Lexington to Yorktown, was sanctified by Jewish 
 valor and Jewish blood. 
 
 Three members of Washington's staff were 
 Jews. Three Jewish soldiers bore the body of the 
 brave De Kalb from the battlefield of Savannah. 
 A Jew was sent with special messages from the 
 American colonies to Jay and Franklin in Europe. 
 Jews fought in the Indian Wars, in the War of 
 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the 
 Spanish-American War, many of them reaching 
 high rank, both in the army and navy. 
 
 When the battleship "Maine" was blown up in 
 Havana Harbor in 1898, the Jewish press was out- 
 spoken against the outrage, and Jewish blood boiled 
 with indignation. And when war was at last 
 declared, and the call was issued by President 
 McKinley for volunteers to avenge the insult 
 offered to our flag by Spain, Jewish patriots were 
 among the first to respond to the call to arms. 
 The muster-rolls of the army show that more than 
 four thousand Jews embraced the opportunity 
 afforded them to avenge a crime that was committed 
 against their fathers in Spain more than four hun- 
 dred years before. 
 
 The first man to volunteer for service in the 
 war with Spain was a Jew. The first man to fall 
 in the attack on Manila was a Jew. Seven of the 
 
64 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 famous "Rough Rider" regiment, commanded and 
 led by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, were Jews. There 
 were ten Jewish artillerymen in the famous Astor 
 Battery. Fifteen Jewish sailors went down with 
 the ill-fated battleship "Maine." 
 
 During the history of the United States, Jewish 
 statesmen have sat as members of Congress, in 
 the United States Senate, in the Supreme Courts of 
 both State and nation, have been members of 
 Presidents' Cabinets, have been diplomats and 
 ambassadors of this great nation to the nations of 
 the world. They have held the highest offices in 
 the gift of the American people. Judah P. 
 Benjamin, a Jew, was the Secretary of State of the 
 Southern Confederacy. And not only in America, 
 but in every land the world over, Jews have risen 
 to the highest positions of trust and honor in the 
 gift of nations. Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), once 
 Prime Minister of England for twenty years, was 
 a Jew, Sir Rufus Isaacs, the present Lord Chief 
 Justice of England, is a Jew. 
 
 Standing in the forefront of the political arena 
 of Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Great Brit- 
 ain, and the United States are Jews who are the 
 peers of the best statesmen of the age, or of any 
 age. Jews have sung some of the world's sweetest 
 songs, have played some of the world's greatest 
 dramas, have painted some of the world's greatest 
 pictures, they have composed and played some of 
 the world's greatest music, and have been among 
 the world's greatest merchants, lawyers, poets, writ- 
 ers, teachers, philanthropists, and financiers. He 
 was a Jew who led in the crusade in New York 
 
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 City to give pure milk to little children that reduced 
 the death-rate among infants from ninety-six thou- 
 sand to sixty-three thousand in a single year. 
 
 Americans attain to greatness and distinction in 
 America, Englishmen in England, Frenchmen in 
 France, Germans in Germany, Japanese in Japan, 
 in the land of their fathers, surrounded by every 
 fostering influence, and encouraged and protected 
 by their national life and national institutions. But 
 the Jews, like Daniel, Ezra, Esther, and Mordecai ; 
 like Disraeli and Isaacs, force their way up to 
 distinction and honor in a strange land, surrounded 
 and submerged by grinding hatred, bigotry, and 
 intolerance. A man does not deserve much credit 
 for reaching the highest station, fame, and success 
 when a million friendly hands are reached down to 
 lift him up; but a man does deserve praise and 
 honor when a million envious hands are reached 
 upward to drag him down, and he can succeed in 
 spite of them all. 
 
 Jews own more property per capita than any 
 race of men in the world, fewer of them are 
 drunkards than any race of men in the world, 
 fewer of them are paupers than any race of men 
 in the world, fewer of them are criminals than 
 any race of men in the world. Only five Jews 
 have ever paid the death penalty for crime in the 
 history c f the United States. Fewer of them 
 are victims of hereditary diseases than any race of 
 men in the world. Charitable institutions seldom 
 hear his petition for help, divorce courts rarely see 
 his face, and the slums and tenderloin districts 
 seldom hear the silent footfall of Jewish women. 
 
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 Life insurance companies rate the Jew forty 
 per cent, higher as a risk than any other race of 
 men in the world. Nearly one-half of the gold in 
 the world is in Jewish hands. They hold the 
 financial balance of power in Germany, Prussia, 
 Russia, Austria, France, Great Britain, and the 
 United States. Throughout continental Europe 
 they hold the balance of power in the press of the 
 nations. And in the United States Jews own and 
 control the four papers having the largest circula- 
 tion in America. And still, such nations as Russia, 
 and Turkey, and Spain, and Austria will persecute 
 the Jews! And still Christianity has spurned the 
 Jews! O Thou insufferable and blasphemed Lord 
 God, open our eyes, that we may see ! Remove 
 the hatred and prejudice from our hearts, that we 
 may give honor to whom honor is due, credit to 
 whom credit is due, praise to whom praise is due ! 
 
 "If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 
 Wild tongues that hold not Thee in awe; 
 
 Such boastings as the Gentiles use. 
 Or dearer bonds without the law — 
 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 
 Lest we forget, lest we forget." 
 
VIII. 
 The Jew in Literature, Arts, and Science. 
 
 We are too prone to think of the Jew in terms 
 of poHtics, and commerce, and statesmanship, and 
 war, and we are too apt to forget the Jews' contri- 
 bution to Hterature, music, painting", sculpture, dis- 
 covery, and invention. The Jews are a versatile 
 race. He is at home in any calling. He can fight, 
 he can sing, he can paint, he can delve into the 
 mysteries of nature, he can mould the governments 
 of the world, he can write, he can preach, he 
 can plead at the bar, he is at home on the platform 
 with the orators of the world, he can play his part 
 well in any realm of thought or investigation. 
 
 The Bible is the foundation of all literature, and 
 every writer, both of the Old and New Testaments, 
 was a Jew, with but one exception. Luke, the 
 historian, is the exception, being a Greek. The 
 Bible has had the largest sale of any book ever 
 written, has been longest read, has been most uni- 
 versally read, and has been most earnestly read of 
 all books. The Bible is the only universal book. 
 We find it in the heart of Africa, we find it in 
 the jungles of India, we find it in Thibet, we find 
 it in old China and in new China, we find it in the 
 shadow of the pyramids, we find it in the islands 
 of the sea, we find it in the homes of the rich, 
 
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 we find it in the homes of the poor, we find it in 
 the homes of the old, we find it in the homes of the 
 young, we find it in the homes of the wise, we find 
 it in the homes of the unwise the world over. 
 There is not a spot so dreary, so desolate, so far 
 removed from the light and culture of civilization 
 that the Bible is not found as a lamp to the feet 
 and a light in the pathway of the children of 
 earth. 
 
 The Bible — not the Old Testament alone, but 
 the Old and the New Testaments as companion 
 volumes of God's completed plan of the ages — 
 has changed the map of the world. Take a map 
 of the world to-day, and place your finger upon the 
 nations that hold the balance of power in the world, 
 and your finger will rest upon the nations that 
 walk in the light and guidance of the sacred Scrip- 
 tures. And then take a second map of the world, 
 and place your finger upon the nations where the 
 light of civilization shines brightest, and it will 
 rest upon the nations where the open Book is in 
 the hands of the masses. Civilization has reached 
 its highest point of excellency where the dis- 
 tribution and usage of the Bible is unrestricted; it 
 reaches its next highest point of eflficiency where 
 the Bible exists in restricted usage and privilege. 
 But the lowest point in the efficiency of civilization 
 reached in lands where the use of the Bible is 
 most restricted is infinitely better than the highest 
 civilization attained by the nations that do not have 
 the Bible at all. 
 
 The Bible has inspired the great philanthropies 
 of the world. Hospitals, and schools, and colleges. 
 
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 and homes, and charitable institutions stand every- 
 where in Bible lands, but we look in vain for them 
 in the lands where the Bible has never gone. India 
 looks to the Christian nations to feed her starving 
 millions; China looks to the Christian nations to 
 relieve the distress in her flood-swept districts; the 
 Balkan states look to the Christian nations to feed 
 their hungry thousands. 
 
 The Bible makes nations. What has made such 
 nations as England, and Germany, and the United 
 States? Did commerce make them? Did philoso- 
 phy make them ? Did the merciless plunder of other 
 nations make them? Did science make them? 
 Lying as the basic principles of all civilization and 
 power are the two great corner-stones upon which 
 these great nations rest : "Hear, O Israel : Jehovah 
 our God is one Jehovah : and thou shalt love 
 Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all 
 thy soul, and with all thy might." "For God so 
 loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
 Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not 
 perish, but have eternal life." On these two great 
 principles, honor and reverence for God the Father, 
 and loyalty and obedience to the Son, rests our 
 national life. Take these away, and how quickly 
 our civilization and power will wane. 
 
 Other books come and go, but the Bible goes 
 on forever. The works of comment and exposi- 
 tion of the Bible are more voluminous than all that 
 remains of Greek and Roman literature combined. 
 An English antiquarian has found that the number 
 of commentaries that have been written on the Bible 
 exceeds sixty thousand volumes. 
 
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 Out of a thousand books published each year, 
 six hundred of them never pay the cost of pub- 
 lication, two hundred of them just pay the cost 
 of publication, one hundred yield a small profit, 
 while but few of them make a fortune for the 
 writer. Of a thousand books published each year, 
 six hundred and fifty are forgotten by the end of 
 the first year, one hundred and fifty more are for- 
 gotten at the end of the third year, and only fifty 
 of them survive the age that reads them. Of the 
 fifty thousand books published during the seven- 
 teenth century, hardly sixty of them survive to the 
 present age; of the fifty thousand books published 
 during the eighteenth century, not more than sixty 
 of them remain with honor. For thousands of 
 years, thousands of writers have struggled to build 
 for themselves a literary monument that would 
 survive the wreckage of time, but to-day there 
 are not over five hundred of them that are remem- 
 bered. The others have been forgotten in the 
 onward march of the world. Of the two hundred 
 prominent writers of the nineteenth century, how 
 many will be remembered by the next generation? 
 
 But the writers of the Bible have never been 
 forgotten, and their writings have never grown 
 old. In the generations that are yet unborn, men 
 may cease to read Homer, or Virgil, or Livy, or 
 Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Dante, 
 Hugo, or Longfellow, but men wall continue to read 
 David, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark, 
 Luke, John, Paul, and Peter as long as the world 
 shall stand. The twenty-third Psalm, the fifty- 
 third chapter of Isaiah, the fourteenth chapter of 
 
THE JEW IN LITERATURE 71 
 
 John's Gospel, the twelfth chapter of Romans, the 
 thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the 
 last chapter of Revelation will continue to com- 
 fort men when all other pages of human literature 
 have failed. 
 
 The Scriptures of God have been the source 
 from which many of the world's greatest writers 
 have drawn their greatest themes and their loftiest 
 inspiration. Goethe had the walls of his room 
 covered with Bible maps and pictures. Milton 
 found his theme for "Paradise Lost" in the Scrip- 
 tures of God. Shakespeare's "Lady Macbeth" was 
 only bloody Jezebel. Lord Byron caught the beauty 
 and ruggedness of his style from the prophecies of 
 Isaiah, and he draws from Sennacherib's invasion 
 of Judaea the theme for one of his grandest poems. 
 Macaulay crowns his most gigantic sentence with 
 a quotation from the Bible. John Bunyan saw only 
 in a dream what the apostle John saw by revelation 
 on the Isle of Patmos. Scott's "Waverley" novel 
 characters are all Bible characters under different 
 dress. 
 
 Where would you look for such poetry? Milton 
 said, "There are no songs like the songs of 
 Zion." Or where would you look for such oratory? 
 Daniel Webster said, "If there is aught of eloquence 
 in me, it is because I learned the Scriptures at my 
 mother's knee." Peter's sermon at Pentecost, 
 Paul's sermon on Mars' Hill, Paul's defense before 
 the Sanhedrin are among the world's masterpieces 
 of logic and eloquence. When Sir Walter Scott 
 was dying he called for "The Book." The attend- 
 ant asked him, "Which book — 'Lady of the Lake,' 
 
72 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 'Ivanhoe,' 'Marmion' ?" "No," he said gently, "there 
 is but one book — the Bible." 
 
 Patrick Henry pressed the Bible to his breast on 
 his dying-bed and said, "Blessed Book! The 
 greatest of all books, which I have had no time 
 to read, and now it is too late." Locke paid the 
 highest tribute to the Bible. "It has God for its 
 author, salvation for its end, and truth, without 
 any mixture of error, for its matter — it is all pure, 
 all sincere ; nothing too much, nothing wanting." 
 Rousseau said of it, "Peruse the works of philoso- 
 phers, with all their pomp and diction ; how con- 
 temptible they are compared to the Scriptures." 
 
 The influence of the Bible is no less marked in 
 art than in literature. Great artists have vied with 
 each other in paying tribute to the Man of Galilee 
 and the scenes of his life and ministry. The great 
 artists of the world have felt that the highest ideal 
 in art was to paint the face of the Man of Sor- 
 rows. Munkacsy's "Christ before Pilate," Schaef- 
 fer's "Christ the Comsoler," Rubens' "Cross of 
 Christ," Dore's "Christ Descending from the 
 Prsetorium," Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," 
 Hunt's "The Shadow of the Cross," Kirchback's 
 "Christ Blessing Little Children," Plockhorst's "The 
 Good Samaritan," Hofmann's "The Worship of the 
 Magi," Bida's "The Calling of the Fishermen," 
 Dore's "The Rich Man and Lazarus," Hofmann's 
 "The Sermon on the Mount," Raphael's "The 
 Transfiguration" have made the life and ministry 
 of Jesus of Nazareth to live anew on canvas. 
 
 Raphael. Sargent, Dore, West, Naac, Titian, 
 Plockhorst, Murillo, Hofmann, Da Vinci, Harrach, 
 
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 Munkacsy, Horst, Lang, Schaeffer, Rubens, Dore 
 and Kirchback have hung before the world the 
 scenes of Bible history. Few of the painters of the 
 world have become famous who have ignored the 
 scenes of the Bible. Just a few months ago the enor- 
 mous sum of $700,000 was paid by Mr. P. A. B. 
 Widener, of Philadelphia, for a picture of Christ 
 and his mother, painted by Raphael when he was 
 but twenty-two years of age. 
 
 Not only has the Jew influenced the literature 
 and art of the world, by giving the Bible as the 
 foundation and inspiration of all literature, and 
 the scenes of the Bible as the themes for the 
 world's greatest pictures, but his contribution to 
 science has been equally marked. Koller, the dis- 
 coverer of cocaine, was a Jew. Koch, the eminent 
 tuberculosis specialist, was a Jew. Rosenthal, the 
 great nerve specialist, was a Jew. Maimonides, 
 "The Jewish Aristotle," ranks as one of the world's 
 greatest philosophers. 
 
 In the realm of music may be mentioned the 
 illustrious names of Mendelssohn, Strauss, Ruben- 
 stein, Benedict, Rosenthal, Hofmann, and Joachim. 
 In the realm of painting and sculpture may be men- 
 tioned the names of Solomon, Jacobs, Levy, Meyr- 
 heim, and Lazarus. Sylvester, the eminent mathe- 
 matician, was a Jew. Sir William Herschel, the 
 world's great astronomer, was a Jew. Cohn, the 
 noted botanist, was a Jew. 
 
 Not only did the Jews contribute the writers 
 of the Bible, but they contributed its defenders and 
 historians as well. Neander, the world's greatest 
 church historian, was a Jew. And possibly no 
 
74 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 greater work in defense of Christianity was ever 
 written than Edersheim's "Life of Christ." It 
 came at a time when it was sadly needed to stay 
 the tidal wave of German rationalism which was 
 striving to shake down the fourfold gospel narrative 
 of Christ. This masterly work bound the four Gos- 
 pels together with a firmer clasp that has not been 
 broken. 
 
IX. 
 
 The Jew's Contribution to Religion. 
 
 However great as may be the world's debt to 
 the Jew in history, literature, art, science, music, 
 statesmanship, commerce, discoveries, and invention, 
 had he done nothing more than to give birth to 
 the Christian religion, this alone should be suffi- 
 cient to cause the heart of the world to pulsate and 
 throb with gratitude. Judaism and Christianity 
 number one-third of the population of the world. 
 Then, Mohammedanism, which is but a spurious off- 
 spring and counterfeit of Judaism, also has its 
 fountain-head in "Father Abraham." 
 
 The Jew has come down the ages, holding aloft 
 the torch of inspiration and revelation, teaching the 
 Fatherhood of God, the Lordship and Messiahship 
 of Jesus Christ, and the integrity and authenticity 
 of the Old Testament Scriptures. Light from 
 heaven shone brightly on the pathway of Israel 
 from the call of Abraham to the close of the 
 prophetic age. Then the New Testament age 
 opened with a great outburst of heavenly light 
 when the Son of man stood forth and declared, 
 "I am the light of the world." 
 
 Paul declared : "What advantage then hath the 
 Jew? Much every way: first of all, that they were 
 entrusted with the oracles of God." The one 
 
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 supreme and potent factor of the Old Testament 
 and New Testament Scriptures is the tone of con- 
 fidence and authority with which they speak. The 
 Jew was God's mouthpiece in the world ; his herald 
 of better things to come. And we can not but 
 stand in reverence before their faithful perform- 
 ance of their heaven-born mission. 
 
 The whole plot in the great drama of human 
 redemption, from Eden to the Cross, centers around 
 one sublime figure, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The 
 only essential difference between the Christ of the 
 Jews and the Christ of the Gentiles is, that the 
 Christ of the Gentiles came nineteen hundred years 
 ago, while the Christ of the Jews is yet to come. 
 Peter declared, "For no prophecy ever came by 
 the will of man : but men spake from God, being 
 moved by the Holy Spirit." To the Jew, then, 
 were given these oracles of God to speak to the 
 world the evangel of the unity of God, the divine 
 Sonship of Christ, the forgiveness of sins, and the 
 redemption of the world through the efficacious 
 atonement of Jesus. 
 
 Lying at the base of all divine truth and revela- 
 tion of God's word and God's will to men were 
 Jewish prophets and apostles who spake to the 
 world from time to time the will of God, the mercy 
 of God, the justice of God, the love of God con- 
 cerning the world. Little by little, word by word, 
 promise by promise, statute by statute, through age 
 after age, spanning the distance from the fall of 
 man in the Garden of Eden to his restoration in 
 Jesus Christ, the whole plan of the ages was woven 
 together, stamped in Jewish thought, spoken by 
 
THE JEW'S CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGION 11 
 
 Jewish lips, penned by Jewish fingers and played 
 upon the stage of Jewish history. 
 
 He was a Jew who wrote the history of the 
 world for the first twenty-five hundred years while 
 the nations walked in darkness. He was a Jew 
 who penned those immortal lines: "In the begin- 
 ning God created the heavens and the earth. And 
 the earth was waste and void; and darkness was 
 upon the face of the deep : and the Spirit of God 
 moved upon the face of the waters. And God 
 said, Let there be light: and there was light." Fie 
 was a Jew who wrote, "Thus saith Jehovah, Thou 
 shalt not," which has been a restraining rein over 
 man's turbulent passions through all these thou- 
 sands of years. He was a Jew who stood on the 
 heights of Jesrael, and cried : "For unto us a child 
 is born, unto us a Son is given ; and the govern- 
 ment shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall 
 be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Ever- 
 lasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase 
 of his government and of peace there shall be no 
 end, upon the throne of David, and upon his king- 
 dom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice 
 and with righteousness from henceforth even for- 
 ever." 
 
 He was a Jew who wrote : "He was despised 
 and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and 
 acquainted v/ith grief : and as one from whoni 
 men hid their faces he was despised; and we 
 esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our 
 griefs, and carried our sorrows ; yet we did esteem 
 him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But 
 he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
 
78 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our 
 peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are 
 healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we 
 have turned every one to his own way; and 
 Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." 
 
 They were Jews who stood on the watch-towers 
 of the nations and looked out on the coming events 
 of the world. They watched the rise and fall of 
 nations, they saw the crumbling of empires, the 
 sway of principalities, and the rending of kingdoms, 
 as God overturned, overturned, overturned to make 
 room for the coming kingdom of Christ. They 
 foretold with amazing accuracy the trials and 
 tribulations which God would visit upon the chil- 
 dren of disobedience. Then they looked forward 
 through the centuries to the coming of the Christ, 
 the Redeemer, the Saviour, the King. They foretold 
 where he was to be born, to whom he was to be 
 born, the miraculous manner in which he was to be 
 born. They told of his wonderful life, of his won- 
 derful ministry, of his miracles, of his sufferings 
 and humiliation, of his betrayal for thirty pieces of 
 silver, how men would cast lots for his raiment, 
 how he would be wounded in the hands, and that 
 not a bone of his body should be broken. They 
 told of his death, of his burial, of his resurrection, 
 of his ascension, and of his mediation for a 
 redeemed world before the Father's throne. 
 
 She was a Jewish mother who became the 
 chosen vessel of God to bring the Lord Jesus Christ 
 into the world. "And she brought forth her first- 
 born son : and she wrapped him in swaddling 
 clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there 
 
THE JEW'S CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGION 79 
 
 was no room for them in the inn." They were 
 Jewish shepherds who were startled by the 
 announcement of the angel, "Be not afraid: for 
 behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which 
 shall be to all the people : for there is born to you 
 this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is 
 Christ the Lord." They were Jewish shepherds 
 who heard the angels sing over the manger-cradle, 
 "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace 
 among men." 
 
 He was a Jewish prophet who was entrusted 
 with the oracles of God, who stood forth on the 
 banks of the Jordan River and cried, "Behold the 
 Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the 
 world!" "There cometh after me he that is 
 mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am 
 not worthy to stoop down and unloose." He was 
 a Jewish prophet who baptized the Lord Jesus 
 Christ in the river Jordan. They were Jewish 
 fishermen who heard the call of the Christ by the 
 Lake of Galilee, "Come, follow me!" "And they 
 left all to follow him." It was amid Jewish 
 scenery, and with Jev/ish players, that the Man of 
 sorrows staged the mightiest drama of all the ages. 
 
 He was a Jew who prepared the upper room 
 in Jerusalem where Christ observed the Jewish 
 Passover feast with his apostles, and where our 
 Lord instituted the memorial supper as the monu- 
 ment of his death and sufferings. They were Jews 
 who sat with him in that upper room on the night 
 of his betrayal, and who sang with him those 
 beautiful passages from the old Jewish Hallel. 
 
 Christ's soul was passing through the shadow 
 
80 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 cf the cross that night, and the disciples were heavy 
 with grief. Yet they sang together : "The cords of 
 death compassed me, and the pains of Sheol gat 
 hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 
 Return unto thy rest, O my soul ; for Jehovah hath 
 dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered 
 my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my 
 feet from falling. What shall I render unto 
 Jehovah for all his benefits unto me? Precious in 
 the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints. O 
 give thanks unto Jehovah : for he is good ; for his 
 lovingkindness endureth forever. The stone which 
 the builders rejected is become the head of the 
 corner. This is Jehovah's doing; it is marvellous 
 in our eyes. Oh, give thanks unto Jehovah ; for 
 he is good ; for his lovingkindness endureth for- 
 ever." 
 
 He was a Jew who came to beg the body of 
 Jesus of Pontius Pilate, and he wrapped the body 
 in a linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, 
 wherein man had never lain. He was a Jew who 
 came with an offering of an hundred pounds of 
 myrrh and aloes to anoint the body of Jesus for 
 burial. They were Jewish women who came to the 
 tomb of Jesus very early in the morning of the 
 third day to see the sepulchre, but were astonished 
 to find that the great stone had been rolled away. 
 And the angel of the Lord said to the women : 
 "Fear not ye ; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who 
 hath been crucified. He is not here ; for he is risen, 
 even as he said. Come, see the place where the 
 Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples, 
 he is risen from the dead ; and lo, he goeth before 
 
THE JEW'S CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGION 81 
 
 you into Galilee : and there shall ye see him." She 
 was a Jewish woman who stood without the tomb 
 of Jesus weeping her heart out, when two angels 
 said unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou?" She 
 said unto them, "Because they have taken away my 
 Lord, and I know not where they have laid him." 
 And when she had thus said, she turned herself 
 back, and beheld Jesus standing, and knew not that 
 it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why 
 weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" Mary sup- 
 posed him to be the gardener, and, thinking that he 
 might know something of what had become of the 
 body of Jesus, she said, "Sir, if thou hast borne 
 him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and 
 I will take him away." Christ said unto her, 
 "Mary!" Oh, she had found her Lord, her Master, 
 her Friend, and she went with flying feet to tell 
 the disciples, "I have seen the Lord ! I have seen 
 the Lord!" 
 
 They were Jews to whom Christ gave the com- 
 mission : "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of 
 all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the 
 Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 
 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I 
 have commanded you : and lo, I am with you 
 always, even unto the end of the world." They 
 were Jews who were dwelling in Jerusalem, "devout 
 men from every nation under heaven," who saw the 
 manifestation of the power of the Holy Spirit 
 poured out upon the apostles at Pentecost, who 
 heard the first gospel sermon preached in the 
 world, who cried to Peter and the rest of the apos- 
 tles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" 
 
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82 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 Then, he was a Jew who used the keys of the 
 kingdom of heaven, and opened doors that day that 
 no man could shut, and shut doors that no man 
 could open, when the Holy Spirit answered the 
 question of the multitude : "Repent ye, and be bap- 
 tized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ 
 unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall 
 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For to you is 
 the promise, and to your children, and to all that 
 are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God 
 shall call unto him." And they were Jews, three 
 thousand of them, representing eighteen different 
 nations, who obeyed the first gospel sermon of 
 the new dispensation, and were baptized in the 
 name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy 
 Spirit. They formed the first church of Christ in 
 the world, the mother church of us all. Around 
 this church of Jewish disciples was to grow a world 
 power, and every church in the world to-day is the 
 offspring of the mother church in Jerusalem. Jeru- 
 .salem was the city of beginnings. 
 
 He was a Jew who declared, "And in none other 
 is there salvation : for neither is there any other 
 name under heaven, that is given among men, 
 Vi'herein we must be saved." He was a Jew who 
 cried, "For I am determined not to know anything 
 among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 
 He was a Jew who declared, "I am ready not to 
 be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the 
 name of the Lord Jesus." He was a Jew who 
 declared, "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the 
 Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Gentiles 
 foolishness; but unto them that are called, both 
 
THE JEW'S CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGION 83 
 
 Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and 
 the wisdom of God." 
 
 He was a Jew who declared, "Brethren, my 
 heart's desire and my suppHcation to God is for 
 them, that they may be saved. And so, all Israel 
 shall be saved." He was a Jew who declared, "If 
 any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be 
 ashamed ; but let him glorify God in this name. 
 For the time is come for judgment to begin at the 
 house of God : and if it begin first at us, what shall 
 be the end of them that obey not the gospel of 
 God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, 
 where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?" 
 
 They were Jews who formed the membership of 
 the church for the first seven years of her history 
 in the world. The first Christian martyr was a 
 Jew. The first convert to Christianity in Europe 
 was a Jewess. They were Jews who planted 
 churches all over Asia Minor, northern Africa, and 
 continental Europe. 
 
 But back of this glorious picture of triumphant 
 faith and courage, there is the dark background of 
 a nation's apostasy. "He came unto his own, and 
 they that were his own received him not." Jewish 
 elders, and scribes, and Pharisees stood in Pilate's 
 judgment hall and cried, "Away with him ! Away 
 with him! Crucify him! Crucify him! His blood 
 be on us, and on our children !" 
 
 From that day to this they have been an epithet 
 
 and a byword among the nations of the world. 
 
 Oh, how bitter have been the fruits of disobedience 
 
 and unbelief ! No greater proof could possibly be 
 
 offered for the truthfulness of the Christian relig- 
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 ion than that the very men, into whose hands had 
 been entrusted the oracles of God, spared not their 
 own nation for their unbeHef and apostasy. But 
 everywhere the same principle prevailed that 
 appeared in Antioch in Pisidia. The Jews blas- 
 phemed the name of the Lord Jesus, and Paul and 
 Barnabas spake out boldly and said, "It was neces- 
 sary that the word of God should first be spoken to 
 you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge your- 
 selves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the 
 Gentiles." And unto this day they are reaping the 
 consequences of their stubbornness and unbelief, 
 which they invoked upon their uncovered heads in 
 Pilate's judgment hall nineteen hundred years ago. 
 But a better and brighter day is dawning. 
 
X. 
 
 The Spiritual Unrest of the Jewish People. 
 
 There is a spirit of unrest prevailing among the 
 Jews scattered throughout the world to-day, as in 
 no other period of their history. The Jews are 
 drifting from their ancient moorings, but toward 
 what are they drifting? Toward what can they 
 drift? Everywhere the signs of the times point to 
 the cleavage of the old faith. What shall they sub- 
 stitute for it? They can not drift far from the 
 faith of their fathers, because there are too many 
 anchors to hold them, and too many voices calling 
 to them out of the glorious past. Christianity is the 
 only logical conclusion. 
 
 That there is this unmistakable drift of the 
 Jews away from their ancient faith and toward 
 Christianity, the tone of the Jewish press through- 
 out the world is a sufficient verification of these 
 facts. The alarm that is felt by Jewish editors, both 
 in Europe and America, and the repeated appeals 
 and warnings that are sounded out to the orthodox 
 Jews, are indicative of the great crisis that has come 
 to the Jewish nation. 
 
 Since the Jewish newspapers reach nearly all 
 the Jews in this country, it is exceedingly interest- 
 ing to note the anxiety that is felt m the ranks of 
 their leaders of political and religious thought. The 
 
86 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 Jewish (Yidish) Daily Neivs, in its issue of Decem- 
 ber 18, 1910, published a long article on the subject 
 of Christianity among the Jews. The caption of the 
 article was striking. "Two Hundred and Four 
 Thousand Baptized Jews in the Last Hundred 
 Years. Mournful Figures Pui^lished by a 
 Learned Jew at Wien." 
 
 "The Learned Jew" referred to is Dr. Zalson, 
 of Wien, Austria, the widely known Jewish author 
 and lecturer on the Jewish race. In his lecture Dr. 
 Zalson set forth some figures of the number of 
 Jews in the world who have accepted Christianity 
 in the past hundred years. He admitted that 204,000 
 Jews left their ancient faith and accepted Christian- 
 ity in the past hundred years. Of this vast num- 
 ber, 22,000 were in Germany, 28,000 in England, 
 44,000 in Austria, 84,000 in Russia, and 13,000 in 
 America. 
 
 He set forth the fact that the number of Jews 
 who are embracing Christianity are increasing every 
 year. In the year 1890 three hundred Jews in one 
 city left their ancient faith and accepted Christian- 
 ity. In the same city in the year 1904 six hundred 
 Jews accepted Christ as their Lord and Saviour. 
 
 The editor of the Jewish (Yidish) Daily News 
 tried to give reasons for this alarming drift of the 
 Jewish people toward Christianity. And the very 
 fact that a Jewish paper should give space to these 
 facts, and to issue its appeal and its warning to 
 the Jews throughout the world, is very significant. 
 And the very fact that such a noted scholar and 
 lecturer as Dr. Zalson should embody these facts 
 into a lecture, is also very significant. 
 
SPIRITUAL UNREST 87 
 
 In the columns of the Jewish Comment, of Balti- 
 more, of the issue of December 30, 1910, the editor 
 gave space to a very lengthy article under the 
 caption of "Apostasy in Jewry," from which 
 we quote the following: "Take, for instance, the 
 case of the 'Mschumodim,' the many instances of 
 the Jews who are leaving their faith to embrace 
 that of the Christian majority and are increasing 
 at an alarming rate. Whoever can remember the 
 feeling of horror and deep-felt indignation that the 
 very mention of the word 'apostate' was wont to 
 call forth from even the most ordinary Jew; how 
 it was synonymous with all that was mean; how 
 all, even the nearest of kin, avoided all contact with 
 the traitor; his brothers and parents rent their gar- 
 ments and sat on the floor for the seven days of 
 mourning, and how his very name became a curse, 
 will wonder at the transformation that has come 
 over our people these last few years." 
 
 Dr. Melamed, the eminent scholar of London, 
 England, in his great book, declares, "The Jews 
 have now scarcely anything in common with the 
 Jews of the Bible." Dr. Hertz, the chief rabbi of 
 the British Empire, declared in a sermon : "Hosts 
 of our men and women of to-morrow are losing 
 belief in Israel's future, and are drifting into 
 unbaptized apostasy." From an article that 
 appeared in Die Welt, the noted Zionist organ, we 
 quote the following: "Two hundred and twenty-four 
 Berliners left Judaism in that year (1911), most of 
 them identifying themselves with the Lutheran 
 Church — this does not include children. Among 
 them were persons of prominence — Dr. Otto 
 
88 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 Brehms, of the Lessing Theater; the 'cellist, Dr. 
 Heinrich Gruenfeld. Thirteen were physicians, four 
 lawyers, eight engineers, and three chemists. These 
 are not dry leaves that are falling away from 
 us, but the very best. . . . Well-informed people 
 know that in Russia are to-day currents in Jewish 
 life which are setting toward Christianity." 
 
 Judaism is religiously hopeless, and intelligent 
 Jews throughout the world can not ignore these 
 facts any longer. And the preceding quotations 
 from Jewish addresses and editorials show conclu- 
 sively that they are not ignoring them. For cen- 
 turies the Jewish people have manifested a silent 
 contempt for Christianity, but now they are creating 
 a missionary sentiment among their people in the 
 endeavor to combat Christianity and hold the 
 younger Jews in their synagogues. 
 
 In the issue of The Truth, a Yidish paper pub- 
 lished in New York, in the issue of December 30, 
 1913, a census of the Jewish population of the 
 world was given as follows: There are 13,350,846 
 Jews in the world. Of this number, there are 
 9,950,175 in Europe; 484,359 in Asia; 404,836 in 
 Africa; 3,194,061 in America and 19,415 in Aus- 
 tralia and the islands of the sea. Of the 9,950,175 
 Jews in Europe, 6,064,415 are in blood-stained Rus- 
 sia. This census gives them a larger numerical 
 strength than they ever possessed in the palmiest 
 days of their history in Palestine. There are more 
 than a million Jews in New York City alone, which 
 is more than there ever were in Jerusalem at the 
 height of her power. 
 
 Of this million Jews in New York City, only 
 
SPIRITUAL UNREST 89 
 
 40,000 of them ever attend a synagogue. In Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, there are 19,000 Jews, and not over 
 3,500 of this number are attendants upon their 
 synagogue worship. Many other great Jewish cen- 
 ters in this and other countries reveal the same 
 startling facts, showing that the synagogue worship 
 has lost its grip on the Jewish people. Mr. W. J. 
 Solomon, editor of the leading Jewish paper, the 
 Hebrew Standard, placed the Jewish population of 
 the United States at 2,150,000. And Dr. Carroll, 
 the religious statistician of the United States Gov- 
 ernment, gave out the religious census of the 
 United States at the close of the year 1913, and 
 placed the number of Jews who attend their 
 synagogue worship at only 143,000. And therein 
 lies an awful tragedy. 
 
 If they are turning away from the ancient faith 
 of their fathers, to whom will they go? To what 
 will they go? There is entering into the Jewish 
 race a wedge that must either drive them to Christ 
 or into ultimate atheism. The Jewish people face 
 one or the other of these two alternatives. Every- 
 where there are the unmistakable signs of disinte- 
 gration of the old Jewish faith that is alarming. 
 Judaism is adrift, and it must either anchor the 
 craft to the Rock of Ages or be dashed to pieces. 
 
 And there are reasons for this unmistakable 
 drift of the Jews away from their ancient moor- 
 ings. Ever since the day when they stood in 
 Pilate's judgment hall and cried, "Away with him! 
 Away with him ! Crucify him ! Crucify him ! His 
 blood be on us, and on our children!" no voice 
 from God has spoken to them, no angel of the 
 
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 Lord has come to comfort and to console them in 
 their sorrows and afflictions, no prophet of God 
 has come to lead them in wisdom's ways. The 
 silence that has prevailed in their ancient sanctu- 
 aries for nineteen hundred years has been the silence 
 of death. The Christ of God was "despised and 
 rejected of men," and heaven has seemed closed 
 against their cries. 
 
 During the nineteenth century Christianity 
 entered Judaism as an opening wedge to pry her 
 from her fixed course. There are at present 
 organized and active missionary societies at work 
 among the Jews as follows: Africa, 4; Canada, 6; 
 United States, 41 ; Asia, 6; Australia, 2; Europe, 58. 
 Including societies, auxiliary societies, stations, and 
 outstations, there are at present four hundred 
 pivotal points in the world where concerted and 
 earnest effort is being made to lead the Jews to 
 Christ. And not without effect. In an issue of 
 the Canadian Jeivish Times of April 11, 1913, in a 
 plea to counteract the influence of Christian mis- 
 sions among the Jews in that quarter, it makes the 
 following remarkable admission : "The missionary 
 influence in the ward has reached a high pitch 
 among the Jewish children. The missionaries con- 
 duct sewing-schools and Sunday schools, in order 
 to attract Jewish children, and at the same time 
 accustom them to singing Christian hymns." 
 
 And with what results are these labors being 
 crowned? It has been estimated, as previously 
 mentioned, that two hundred and four thousand 
 Jews accepted Christianity during the past one hun- 
 dred years, and two thousand Jews have preached 
 
SPIRITUAL UNREST 91 
 
 the gospel of Christ during the past hundred years. 
 The most conservative estimates claim that three 
 thousand Jews have been baptized each year of this 
 twentieth century. 
 
 Already six hundred thousand copies of the New 
 Testament have been printed for inquiring Jews. 
 There are 310 Hebrew Christians in the Church 
 of England alone, of which number thirteen 
 are bishops. While there are thousands of Chris- 
 tianized Jews in the world who are not ashamed 
 of the gospel of Christ, there are many thousands 
 more who are followers of Christ in secret, but 
 who have never possessed the courage of their con- 
 victions to step over the line and confess Christ 
 openly before the world. 
 
 In the United States there are 147 missionaries 
 at work among the Jews, fifty-one of whom are 
 Hebrews. In a rare volume, "Some Jewish Wit- 
 nesses for Christ," by Rev. A. Bernstein, published 
 in 1909, the author gives a short biographical sketch 
 of 525 eminent Jewish men and women who have 
 not been ashamed of Christ as their Lord and Sa- 
 viour, Beginning with Pentecost, he mentions Jewish 
 converts to Christ in groups of hundreds and thou- 
 sands. Then, from the close of the apostolic age, 
 and reaching down to our own times, he mentions 
 these 525 Jewish witnesses for Christ, their trials 
 and tribulations for their faith. This list contains 
 the names of bishops, college professors, scientists, 
 writers, musicians, statesmen, painters, sculptors, 
 philanthropists, lawyers, doctors, and philosophers. 
 
 In the list are such striking names as Disraeli, 
 once Prime Minister of England for twenty years; 
 
92 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 Edersheim, the author of the "Life of Christ," rec- 
 ognized and accepted the world over as the greatest 
 work of its kind ever written ; Neander, the great 
 church historian; Mendelssohn, the world's famous 
 musician; Herschel, the great astronomer; and 
 Bishops Hellmuth, Alexander, and Schereschewsky. 
 It is a new book of martyrs, which should be read 
 by every Christian, both Jew and Gentile, in the 
 world. But it tells only a part of the story of Jew- 
 ish martyrdoms, faith, and courage. For in every 
 land there can be found scores of Jewish Christians 
 who, like them of old, have given up all to follow 
 Christ. This is the leavening that must leaven the 
 whole lump. 
 
XI. 
 
 The Hands on the Dial. 
 
 What is our relationship to the Jew? Do we 
 owe him anything? Are we, as Christians, under 
 any obligation to the Jews? Does not common jus- 
 tice constrain us to reach out a helping hand 
 to the friendless and helpless? Does not the 
 very Spirit of the Christ, whom we profess i^ 
 follow, demand that we should preach the gospel 
 to every creature? Paul said: "To the Jew first, 
 and also to the Greek." Have we outgrown 
 the obligation? For nineteen hundred years we 
 have rejoiced in this glorious gospel that was 
 preached to the Jew first, and then to the Greek. 
 And now, it seems to me, it is nothing short of 
 sheer cowardice, sheer disloyalty to God, sheer dis- 
 loyalty to Christ, and treachery to the Jew, if Chris- 
 tians refuse or neglect to return this gospel to those 
 from whom we first received it with usury. 
 
 The Jews are a proud and stubborn people. 
 And while we deplore their stubbornness, we can 
 not deplore their national pride. He can trace his 
 ancestry back through nearly four thousand years 
 of most illustrious achievements. There is not a 
 man living in the world to-day who can boast 
 that in his veins flows the blue blood of Pharaoh, 
 or Sennacherib, or Belshazzar, or Nebuchadnezzar, 
 
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94 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 or Alexander, or Caesar, or Hannibal. But there 
 are more than thirteen million people in the world 
 to-day who can say with no little pride that in their 
 veins flows the blue blood of Abraham, and Isaac, 
 and Jacob. 
 
 In almost every city in the land there is to be 
 found the illustrious Levy family. Who are these 
 but the sons of Levi, whose fathers were the royal 
 priesthood of the house of Israel for a thousand 
 years, and who to-day, were it not for the wrong 
 and the injustice of the powers that be, would be 
 serving before the altars of Jehovah God in his 
 temple in Jerusalem? 
 
 When Napoleon stood with his legions in the 
 shadov/ of the pyramids of Egypt, and watched 
 the long lines of the enemy forming for battle, he 
 roused them to the highest pitch of courage and 
 enthusiasm with the cry, "Soldiers, from yonder 
 heights forty centuries look down upon you !" But 
 there stands in our midst to-day a race of men 
 whose fathers at least saw some of the pyramids 
 in process of construction. And it may be that some 
 of those great stones in those giant monuments 
 were sanctified by the blood of Jewish fingers. 
 
 At the least they looked upon the face of the 
 Sphinx before it had grown gray with age. They 
 stood in the hall of Memnon and looked upon the 
 splendor of Thebes before Time had toppled them 
 into ruins. Moses and Aaron led a mighty host 
 out of Egypt while she was still in her glory, and 
 before her crumbled walls, her broken columns, and 
 her magnificent statuary became the silent watchers 
 over the tombs of her buried kings and princes. 
 
THE HANDS ON THE DIAL 95 
 
 Has God forsaken the Jew? Has God left him 
 helpless and hopeless in his apostasy? Has God 
 forgotten the promise that he made" to Abraham, 
 and so faithfully reaffirmed to Isaac and to Jacob? 
 Has Christ turned away from them? Has the Holy 
 Spirit forsaken them? No, God, nor Christ, nor 
 the Holy Spirit has left them helpless and hopeless. 
 God's mill grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly 
 fine. 
 
 In Jer. 16:14, 15, we read: "Therefore, the 
 day shall come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no 
 more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up 
 the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, 
 As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of 
 Israel from the land of the north, and from 
 all the countries whither he had driven them. And 
 I will bring them again into their land that I gave 
 unto their fathers." 
 
 In Joel 3 : 1-3 we read : "Behold, in those days, 
 and in that time, when I shall bring back the cap- 
 tivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all 
 nations, and will bring them down into the valley 
 of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon 
 them there for my people and for my heritage 
 Israel, whom they have scattered among the 
 nations." 
 
 In Zech. 2:1-4 we read: "And I lifted up 
 mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a 
 measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither 
 goest thou? And he said imto me, To measure 
 Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and 
 what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel 
 that talked with me went forth, and another angel 
 
96 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 went out to meet him, and said unto him, Run, 
 speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be 
 inhabited as villages without walls." 
 
 In Jer. 32:37-43 we read: "Behold, I will 
 gather them out of all the countries, whither I have 
 driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and 
 in great indignation; and I will bring them again 
 unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell 
 safely. And they shall be my people, and I will be 
 their God : and I will give them one heart and one 
 way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of 
 them, and of their children after them : and I will 
 make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will 
 not turn away from following them, to do them 
 good ; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that 
 they may not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice 
 over them to do them good, and I will plant them 
 in this land assuredly with my whole heart and 
 with my whole soul. For thus saith Jehovah : Like 
 as I have brought all this great evil upon this 
 people, so will I bring upon them all the good that 
 I have promised them. And fields shall be bought 
 in this land." 
 
 In Rom. 11: 15, Paul says: "For if the casting 
 away of them is the reconciling of the world, 
 what shall the receiving of them be, but life from 
 the dead?" And in Rom. 11:23-26, Paul reasons 
 further: "And they also, if they continue not in 
 their unbelief, shall be grafted in : for God is able to 
 graft them in again. For if thou wast cut out of 
 that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast 
 grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; 
 how much more shall these, which are the natural 
 
THE HANDS ON THE DIAL 97 
 
 branches, be grafted into their own olive tree ? For 
 I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this 
 mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that 
 a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the 
 fulness of the Gentiles be come in; and so all 
 Israel shall be saved." 
 
 And in Rom. 11:12, Paul says: "Now if their 
 fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the 
 riches of the Gentiles; how much more their ful- 
 ness?" Thus we find that the Jewish people are to 
 be called out of the nations that have plundered 
 them; that they are to return to their ancient land; 
 that they shall rebuild Jerusalem, and that it shall 
 be without walls, for Jehovah shall be unto them 
 a wall of protection; that they are to be grafted 
 into the good olive-tree of Christianity. "And so 
 all Israel shall be saved." 
 
 The time is coming when the Jews are to return 
 to Palestine, to lay again the foundations of a 
 mighty empire upon the ruins of the old kingdom 
 of David. And if we are interpreting rightly the 
 signs of the times, we are now living in the begin- 
 ning of this mighty undertaking. The Zionist move- 
 ment is an epoch-making force that is sweeping 
 over the world, a movement that is awakening the 
 keenest interest among the nations, a movement that 
 is destined to give birth to a new nation, a move- 
 ment that is calling Jews from every quarter of the 
 globe to enter again into their lost estate. 
 
 With the crumbling of the walls of the old 
 Turkish monarchy, the doors that have been closed 
 so long against the rightful owners of Judaea are 
 now swinging open wide to admit them into the 
 
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 land of their fathers. Their hopes rose to the 
 highest expectancy during the Balkan War. In it 
 they saw the possible fruition of their dreams — either 
 that the Balkan states would drive Turkey from 
 the rank of nations, or that Turkey would become 
 so completely bankrupt that she would agree to sell 
 Palestine to the Jews. 
 
 But these hopes are not shattered in the least 
 by the outcome of the struggle. In anticipation of 
 coming events, thousands of Jews are already there. 
 They are buying up the land, they are installing 
 the machinery of a new nation, they are introduc- 
 ing modern methods of agriculture, they are build- 
 ing railroads, they are building schools, and colleges, 
 and hospitals, and banks, and telephone and tele- 
 graph lines. Plans are now being formulated to 
 establish a Jewish university in Jerusalem. 
 
 The flood-tide of hatred and ill-will toward the 
 Jew has reached its crest, and is now receding so 
 fast. And to-day the world is throbbing and pul- 
 sating with friendliest interest in this great world 
 movement of the Jev»^s toward their ancient home 
 land. This century will surely witness the greatest 
 migration of a thousand years — Hebrews coming 
 from the east and from the west, from the north 
 and from the south, speaking every language of 
 earth, entering in through every open door, whose 
 hearts are aflame with the pent-up fires of centuries 
 of conflict. And as they enter in through the gates, 
 into the land made sacred by the promises of God, 
 and sanctified by the noblest history of earth, they 
 will come singing, "Bless the Lord, O my soul : and 
 all that is within me, bless his holy name!" 
 
THE HANDS ON THE DIAL 99 
 
 Shall we permit them to again enter Palestine, 
 to lay again the foundations of a mighty kingdom 
 there, without incorporating into their political, and 
 social, and religious life the principles of our Lord 
 and Saviour Jesus Christ? 
 
 Nineteen hundred years ago the Man of sor- 
 rows stood on the hilltop overlooking Jerusalem. 
 And as he gazed upon his beloved city, he wept over 
 it: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the 
 prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto her ! 
 How often would I have gathered thy children 
 together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under 
 her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house 
 is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye 
 shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say. Blessed 
 is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" And 
 how empty and desolate has been their house for 
 nineteen hundred years ! 
 
 The hands on the dial point to the hour when 
 Christianity must press home the claims of Christ 
 upon his people, that when they shall lay again the 
 foundations of their ancient glory and power in 
 the world, they shall be laid upon Christ and him 
 crucified. 
 
 Oh, how the subject grips us, and fills us, and 
 thrills us! And how we, in fancy, can see a time 
 coming speedily when there shall be a re-enactment 
 of a scene which startled Jerusalem nineteen hun- 
 dred years ago, when a new triumphal entry of our 
 Lord shall be made into Jerusalem, when a new and 
 a mighty host of the redeemed of God shall shout 
 as did they of old, "Hosanna ! Hosanna ! Hosanna ! 
 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord !" 
 
100 CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEW 
 
 "He has sounded forth the trumpet 
 
 That shall never call retreat ; 
 He is sifting out the hearts of men 
 
 Before His judgment-seat; 
 Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him ! 
 Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. 
 
 "In the beauty of the lilies 
 
 Christ was born across the sea ; 
 With a glory in his bosom 
 
 That transfigures you and me ; 
 As he died to make men holy, 
 Let us die to make men free; while God is marching on.