Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-01-11
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NJ. NJ. NOAn's LECTURE AT New Yc

NJ. VI. NoAHS LECTURE AT NEW DIRK.
This gentleman, (M. M. NoAu,) is
well known in the editorial and po-
litical world; he delivered a lecture in
New York to a numerous and highly
respectable audience, composed ofJews
and Christians, upon the political res
toration of the Jews, to their ancient
inheritance, the land of PALESTINE
He gave his own opinions, those Of an
educated and liberal Jew. of the causes
which overthrow the Jewish common
wealth, and reduced the Jews to their
present condition. He then described
their social condition under the pcrsc-
cutions and hardships which they had
endured in almost every Christian COM
munity, and the prejudiccs which pre-
vailed against them, even in our own.
lie then referred to the promises con-
tanned in the Old Testament, of their
restoration, which, as he understood
them, referred to national or political
regeneration, and said that the present
age was suspicious of such event.
AS some of his views arc peculiar,
and at least plausible, VIC will state
them as interesting to portion of our
readers. He denies that the Jews were
punished NEARLY for the crucifxion Of
the Savior, and urges that they were
the blind, unconscious instruments Of
Divine power for the establishment of
Christianity. AS jew, addressing an
audience of Christians, he solicited a
candid consideration OF his opinions
upon this subject, which, of course.
must be different from their own. He
regarded Jesus of Nazareth as re-
former, who appeared in the midst of
dcgcncracy into which the Jews had
fallen, and Of the oppression inflicted
upon them by the Romans. He de-
scribed Jesus as a rcsolute ,uncomprom-
Using relormer, who denounced evil of
all kinds, but urged nothing against the
Jewish law lie said that as Jesus
had proclaimed himself "Son of God
and the Saviour Of the World" the
Jews, who had known him from child
hood as an humble individual, and now
tremblcd under his whitening rcbukc.
prosecuted him for blasphcmy, and
that as his preaching had raised Sc
dition, he incurred the censure of the
Roman govcrnmcnt,whi inflicted up
on him the punishment offs own laws,
cruciIixion. lie denied that Jesus bad
violated the Jewish law, and pronounc-
cd his condemnation illegal, but urged
that he was cruciiicd by the Romans
for sediton, and not by the Jews for
blasPhcmy; for asserting the prcroga-
tive of Caesar, and not for violating the
laws of Moses; and the insults offered
to him at the crucilixion were the work
of the Roman soldiery, and of those
mobs which, in all ages, even in our
own, always dcsccratcd every thing
sacred. lie addeththat had Jesus been
acknowledged as "King Of the Jews"
the Jewish religion would have baen
totally extinguished in Roman pagan
ism, and Christianity would have died
with its founder; but that Judaism be-
ing preserved by the sacrifice of Jesus,
and the ecclesiastical tyranny Of the
Roman empire being thus ayerted,
Christianity was left to take root. and
finally grew till it overspread the civ
iized world. aud has reached its
present supremacy and promise. In all
this Mr.. Noah saw mighty miriclc, Of
which the Jews were the instruments;
and the Christian world instead Of per-
scouting them as the slaycrs ofthc Saw
Jour, ought 10 regard them with graft
tudc as the unconscious instruments in
the hads of God, of blessing mankind
with Christianity. From all this we
infer that Mr. Noah regards the Mes
siah as having come TO the Gentiles. but
not TO the Jews, and as yet to come to
the latter.
He then advcrtcd to the coming Of
the Messiah to the Jews, saying thatall
the prophecies relating to this event
indicating political and spiritual com
ing. or in other words, the restoration
Of the Jews to their country as nation,
and not their conversion to Christiani
ty. On this point he believed that the
Jews never will be converted, but will
be forever kept a distinct people, as