Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-02-18
THE JEWS IN SELE-DE-
FENSE.
An Attack Upon ''Irreverent
Moody.
From the Jewish Times.1

1eI The Jewish communities in the u nit,
y States can have no rightful quarrel vii
n Dwight l.. Moody, SO long as he keel
= his missionary labors within legitima
= bounds Now, however, this itlneral
. preacher has provoked every Jew in tf
u world to take him in hand and give hill
d a sound drubbing. In Philadelphia, o.
b Wednesday Of last week, in his impro
yised church, into which huge frcigh
: depot had been converted. he went out o
4 his way to assail the Jews as race witt
e unusual venom and malevolence, an,
Il with a pack of lies which not even tn
f Satan OF Christian mythology could hav'
: If an iliiterate hod.carrle
calls the Jews "Christ Killers" he is t.
he pitied and forgiven, for he know:
!. no better. But for man in the position
of Moody to say the same thing to 6
meeting of ten thousand excltable people
and to repeat it q dozen times in one
breath, with all the fervor of his exotic
oratory, is an objectionable outrage.
!, 1.-The blood Of Jesus is upon the Jews
to-day, wanderers as they are all over
the world" said the blasphemer to his
audience, and his intention evidently was
to arouse prejudices against those of our
citizens who worship God according to
the religion of Moses. Indeed he would
even deny us the boon of American cit
izenship, since. if the Jews are merely
wanderers all over the world, which
means vagabonds, they can acquire no
fixed resldence anywhere. are outcasts
aud outlaws, are a people without coun-
try and without rights. Such is the
logical conclusion to which Moody would
lead his hearers, and just such insane
babb)mg brought about the persecution,
wholesale robbery and massacre of Jews
in other countries aud il past ages.
Does he want to hau! down the bright
flag of civil and religious liberty, the
glory of America, and to raise the black
banner of intolerance in its place? Is
he intent upon tanning into furious
conflagration the sparks of bigotry that
still lie mouldering in the hearts of the
and uneducated? In law
every man is presumed to intend the nat
ural consequences of his acts, and
Moody's acts are his sermons. ApplylngI
this rule to him, his indefensible on
s)aught on the Jews as a race convicts
him of the tlarlng crime of attempting
! breach of the peace and inciting q
riot.
1t would be useless to tell Mr.. Moody
that the Jews had little to do with the
of Christ, 1t that event did
happen as it is related in the New Tes-
The Jews had no part in the
! Roman province, ruled by Roman of
icials, its courts presided over by Roman
Jadges, and its town garrisoned by
Roman soldiers.
These historical deductions are neither
lew nor have they been asserted by :
Jews only, but may be found in the +,
,rudite works Of eminent divines, both
# the Catholic and Protestant Churches
l
clsm is simply prejudice lnflamca to an
degree, and inasmucn as
're udice always squints when it looks, :
nd lies when it talks We suspect that
yen these truths Of history will make no ;,
IMPRESSION on his mind. :.
We have already said that on the oc- :,
aston referred to he he'd most wickedly. ;.
Ie spoke Of meeting of one thousand :, ;.
ews some years ago, where one of them . ;.
lorjfed IN the honor Of haYing killed = :.
'nrist, and every one present clapped his =
snds in applause. No such meeting
,as ever held, and no Jew in the world . !.
YER made such an impudent and infa- :,
lous assertion. Perhaps the Rev. Mr. =,
Loody has read somew here q notice OF =
le Alliance Isre,ite Uuiverselle, which - -
as Its central organization in Paris, with :;
ranches extending to every country on 9,
pe globe. f.
Let Dwight L. Moody look around him y,
his own country. Here he will finl n
lat the Jews are among its best citizens, =;
I'd contribute their full share 70 Its :,
IN
1t is probable that iir. Moody knows aa
,thing of all this. Before he "exper-
nced religion" and was ''coyerted," he al,
u opportunity of informing himself hi
is /. 5. oclations as dispenser Of drinks 20
O. ,hind a whisky bar were not OF W,
nj togiye him much knowledge OF the
orld beyond the merest scum and dregs wi
society. That knowledge OF what is "a "a
" and mean he has acquired, and the ~
llgarity by which he disgraces the pull, &C
/, is the best evidence that he retains II. CIR
Jake was called upon in the Recorders wi
ourt to give testimony in favor of the mi
od character of Pete, who bal been on SIC
Christmas bender. "Jake," said the ~
dge, .do you know Pete. the prison n
?" ..Oh, yes, sab, kno's him oetterr Nj
= nigs.r in Atlanta. ."''Is he sober and ,
2" dat 'pcnds 'pou de 'kasion -
bge; some time he's sober n some Hi
,e he's 'dustrious. sab. :" when is he
Der 80 ..mos' ginerally when be aiu't Nc
no money, Jedge. /" ''When is he in a.,
striOus?" stJis' bout the same time.
l.. s.Suppose he has N oney2" "Den ]
j putty lierble to be de drnnkes' and ha
les nlgger dat de COOL Lord ever put OF
t into dat's de trnf." Pete was incar vi
sted the next niEute.-lA lanta Con- vi
u'ior. ma