The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-20
Or. SWALLOW IN REPLY
He Again Defends the Old Faith
Against the Latter Day Ad-
vanced Thought.
Holding Fast Those Things That
Have Been Proved to Be
Good.
Rabbi Schulman, President Wise, and
Other Advanced Thought Defenders
Taken to Task.

If mistake not. Rabbi Schulman misap-
prehends his mission when he calls in ques-
ton my right to correct the utterances of
any one who publicly misrepresents my be-
lief and the belief of a large and %respecta-
BILE portion of the religious world.
Rabbi Schulman misapprehends the facts
when, by implication, he says Hscuba is
nothing to me and l Am nothing to Hecuba,
For Hecuba is more than life to me and, in
significant al l am, l will be true to Hecuba.
I am an adopted son, and since Hector, her
first born, is dead, and Paris has gone after
strange gods, l will DO my best to defend
her from the sophistries and wooden horses
of the Greeks.
am an adopted son Of Abraham (Gen.
1851 with all the rights and immunities OF
my lineal brother (Eph. $50 DR.. Schulman.
His father, Shem, and my father, Japhet.
were brothers; they we're good friends and
honored their common father, and ours;
and 'blessed be Jehovah, the God of
Shem," who has converted Japhet and caus-
ed him to dwell in the tents of Shem (Gen.
1927 and Eph. 2:13-16). We, Christian
descendants Of Japhet, esteem it a great
favor to be admitted to the tents of Shem,
and the desire of our hearts and our prayer
to God is, that our Hebrew brethren may
not forsake the faith Of their fathers and
our fathers and go after strange gods.
The Christian descendants of Japhet, there
fore. have as much right to study the He
brew scriptures, the early rabinioal writer's
and all of Judaism prior to the Christian
era, as the Jews have. And w AVE done
as much to give those scriptures to the
nations of the earth as the Jews have. Now.
my brother, the rabbi. must understand l
am in my Fathers house, and have no heart
to ''scold" my elder brethren, and have no
''sneer" in my composition, not even for
the Sadducees. who have 40 hope of the
resurrection and tine companionship of
angels and the spirits of just men made
perfect.
can only regret the rabbi is 80 exclusive
as to deprive us Christians of all benefits of
the Hebrew scriptures and Judaism. / am
afraid he is not SO advanced as were Paul
and Peter when they opened the door to us
gentiles eighteen centuries ago. We
Christians are more liberal; we will receive
every Hebrew brother with open arms, and
welcome him with warm hearts to all the
privileges of the Christian church and the
Christian scriptures, wherein they will find
portrayed the best thoughts and the purest
life the world has ever known.
With these views the good doctor must
feel | have no heart to scold, and there is
not a sneer in my composition for any son
of Abraham. / used the word Sadducees to
.sxpress in the briefest manner their lead
gag doctrine not as a sneer. My ideas of the
Sadduoees has always been that they held a
high social position, but denied the resur-
rection and the existence Of angels and
spirits.
DR.. Schulman suggests that President
Weise did not use nobody in an unlimited
sense. y y He meant to assert no
clear-headed thinker whose authority COM
mands respect, believes in said doctrine"
This is worse than what no did say. Pres
ident Wise is doubtless too great a man to re-
sort to such puerile arguments, and too much
of 4 gentleman to insult those on the other
side.
DR.. Schulman thinks l use the argument
of numbers to support the doctrine of the
resurrection. Not at all. There was no eff
fort to prove or disprove the doctrine. It
was simply a question whether the asser-
ton Nobody now believes in the resurrec-
ton of the body" is true. l affirmed it not
true in the broad sense; for there are at
least zoo, 600, 900 Christians and Mohammed
ans who do believe in the resurrection of the
body. 1 did not hint even that SO vast a
number must have at least one who could
be called a somebody. | did not say the
Russian Christians had any liberal views,
nor was it intimated that the pope and
Gladstone were sufficiently "clear-headed"
to command respect" But if the vast
numbers disturbed the e~quanimity of Rabbi
Schulman and brought to his mind the old
proverb, vox populi, vox del, it is not my
fault.
Nothing was said in my article about the
Jews being afraid; SO it was not my fault
that the rabbi made an argument to prove
the Jews are not now and never were afraid
OF numbers and that heads do not count in
such matters.
When a man makes the argument on
both sides 1t is easy to put the best ones on
his " side. 1t is easy to make q man of
straw, who believes very little and whose
opinions are not worthy of much respect;
but the great God has made very few such.
Our good Rabbi Schulman seems to mis-
apprehend the forces most efficient in NOV
ing the world. He is 'surprised" that a
humble citizen should dare to ~criticise the
utterances of the great "clear-headed"
President Wise. He forgets it is the t, nth
uttered rather than the greatness of the
utterer, which moves the world. He foreets
Magma est verltas, ct praevalebit. In
rellgiouo matters truth is the great all
powerful motor. 1t matters little
whether it be uttered by learned priests or
power of truth: About 1,S0O years ago thoye
was a noted contest between the Jewish
hierarchy, the learned Sanhedrim, then
suftlclentlo powerful to overawe the pro-
cufabCrS ana Kings OF the Roman empire at
Jerusalem, and Il few ignorant mechanics
and freshmen of Nazareth and Galilee.
And, what is remarkable, this contest was
over the very doctrines SO absolutely re-
pudiated by President Wise-'the personal
coming of the Messiah'' and the "resurrec-
tion of the body"
This Jewish hierarchy, of which Saul of
IarSuS was so proud:
was borne upward till | trod
Among the hierarchy of Col.
had declared the Nazarene an imposter.
and compelled PLATE TO cruelty him. A few
mechanics of NaZarGne ard the fishermen
OF Galllee went up to Jerusalem, the very
citadel of Sanhedrim, and there proclaimed,
the Messiah has come in the person of
Jesus of Nazareth: whom they with wicked
hands had cruciied God has raised from
the dead. On the first day of this contest
between the ignorant fishermen and the
'clear-headed," learned Pharisees 1900
Jews went over to the fishermen, and this
number was soon increased to '5,0J0.' and
'multitudes of both men and women" CON
tlnued to JOIN the fishermen, and with them
many of the Jewish priesthood" Ii thirty
years these fishermen and mechanics had
made 30 many converts in all Asia Minor.
Northern Africa. and IN Greece and
Italy, that the temples of the
national religion of the Roman empire,
were we'll nigh deserted; and in a few years
the emperor joined the fisherman's church
and the civilized world recognized the per
sonal coming of the messiah and tho resur-
rection of his crucifed body. Such is the
power of truth.
But Rabbi Schulman will say this was be-