Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-20
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations. on Many Subjects.


is Sam Small who has applied for ordi IA
tion by the Episcopal Church, and who is
already laboring under its auspices. 1t
seems bit incongruous to think of Sam
in surplice, but he will probably fit it
well. Will Sam Jones be the next con-
vert?'
The Beacon (Cong.) saws: 1--WE once
heard DR.. j. NJ. Buckley say that he al
ways read the Sisa for two reasons. First.
for good, clear, vigorous Anglo-Saxon the
editorials of the Sun were unexcelled and
second, that it was his business to fight the
devil and he wanted the latest news from
headquarters"
The Hebrete Journal says: "Our gratif-
cation will readily be understood at the
announcement that Temple Emanu-El has
| resolved upon a discontinuance of the
courses of lectures on Christian topics at
the Sunday services. The step was an
eminently wise one TO take, as we have re-
peatedly pointed out The lectures only
evoked the animosity of our Christian
friends, without being at all satisfactory to
Jews. 1t is hoped that the lecturers at
these Sunday services will be enabled to
find suitable Jewish subjects upon which
to discourse, or better still, discontinue
entirely the un-Jewish service, which even
lectures cannot Judaize."
A choir-master writes the following let
ter to the Liriaq Church (P. E.): "Now
that the season of Alleluias' is at hand,
please allow me to make use of your col
umns to suggest to choirs and people that
they adopt the authorized instead of the
vulgar pronunciation of the word Ale
lula. When Miss Miggs rejoices she says,
ALLY Looyerp and many persons follow
that lady's use, which is so unlike the Or
thodox one, that Dickens thinks it neces-
sary to indicate it phoneticallv. If we
profess to be even a peg above Miss Miggs
in the point of education, let US not take
her English as a standard, but give the "a
its proper sound, YOU If any difficulty
is experienced in accomplishing this feat,
it may be lessened by practicing the word
divided, Al-el-you-ia, and repeating it
more and more rapid, ill the q coalesces
with the following vowel"
The Independent says it must be remem-
bered "that if the Jews are ostracized to
any extent, they do their share in ostra-
cism. Their mark of the Abrahamic COW
enant' their seventh-day Sabbath, their
peculiar dietary rules, separate them from
the rest of the people. They hold them
selves apart from intermarriage. They re-
gard themselves as peculiar people, in a
sense different from what any other race in
the country does. Holding themselves
thus distinct and separate, they have no
right to object if that distinction is recog-
nized and if it excites certain amount OF
social dislike. We cannot invite Jew TO
our table without feeling that we are in
danger of displeasing him by some unin-
tended neglect of his rules of diet, or with
out being sure that he will be on the
watch not to be BETRAYED into some such in
fraction. Those who refuse to eat any but
'cosher' meat, with Hebrew word written
on the flank of the carcass cannot accept
invitations to Christian table; they hold
| themselves too good fsr IL, or at least too
ceremonially pure. Now we do not for an
| instant mean to say that they are not JUS
tihed in their separation; what we mean
| to say is that the conditions of this race
prejudice are as carefully fostered by Jews
as by others"
The Christian Union says: "That a
! prejudice does exist against the Jews can
| not be doubted; that it is due in any re-
spect to any present religious teaching in
! either church, Sunday-school, or the fam
| lily, we do not believe; on the contrary,
| We believe that this teaching has done
and is doing much to mitigate and over
| throw this prejudice. The prejudice is
| partly hereditary. The old religious ran
cor, which was so marked in the Middle
Ages, and which excited to much baleful
prosecutions, is not yet quite extinct il
lives on in spite of rebuke and remon-
STRANGE from preacher and Sunday-school
teacher. The chief relic of that religious
antlpathy which Is at the root of all re-
ligious persecution is seen in the unchris-
tian dislike of Jews and Christians for
each other. We somewhat doubt whether
it is stronger on one side of the invisible
boundary line than on the other; but as
the Jews are in the minority, they are the
sufferers. The race prejudice under which
they have for so long time suffered, by
excluding them from much of social life
and from most avenues of political prefer.
ment, has shut them up to money-making
avocations, and to that success which is
measured by money. The result has been
the development, common but by no means
universal, of sordid temper in business
not spirit of dishonesty, but too ex-
elusive spirit of bargaining-and, par.
alleled Herewith, of a spirit of social os-
tentation, produced by the fact that all
other methods of social recognition have
been shut against them except that OF
wealth display. As to remedy, there is
but one; it is that those of Jewish faith
who recognize that a sordid spirit and a
wealth display are in some sense the char.
acteristic vices of their race. should create
such public sentiment among their own
people against both vices as will aid those
who are not Jews in insisting, as we are
glad to see the contributors to this con.
census do, that prejudice against Jews as
such is wholly unchristian and immoral.
For ourselves, we are glad of the occasion
to say that it is SO, and to say this with
emphasis"
Concerning the symposium" in the last
| number of the american Hebrep, the E'r-
anIiner (Baptist) says: "One thing which
seems clearly evident from these sixty
answers, though not expressed in any OF
them, is that the word prejudice was i'll
chosen. A prejudice is a prejudgment, an
opinion formed without knowledge of the
| facts, and having no reasonable ground.
The antipathy towards Jews, which un-
doubtedly exists, cannot in fairness be thus
characterized There are well-defned
reasons which explain it. To large ex-
tent the Jews themselves are responsible
for it. They protest against being disliked
in the lump, as race. They say, With
perfect justice, Treat us as you treat other
people, judge us as individuals; if you find
Jews who are low-toned morally, or under
bred, avoid them as you would Gentiles of
the same stamp; but don't exclude us from
your hotels, and clubs, and social circles,
and public schools, merely because we are
Jews. But, while they depreciate racial
prejudice, the Jews are continually en-
phasizing racial peculiarities. They are
conspicuously clannish. They hold them
selves apart religiously, and to a large ex-
tent socially. They have Sabbath of
their own distinct from that of the Chris
tians among whom they live. So far from
desiring inter-marriage with Christians,
they denounee and forbid it. Such at
least is the position of orthodox Jews, if
we may trust published representations of
their practices, which have never been
contradicted They do not adapt them
selves to the interests and pursuits which
| occupy average church-going Christian