Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-02

not even the GEAR himself! In short from the
| street gamin. who. in his childish ignorance
delights in reminding You and your children.
are Jews" up 70 the lady and gentleman Of
refinement who cannot overcome strange and
indefnable aversion against the Jew, or at
least the name Of Jew. there are many thou
sands TODAY, even in this country, sharing this
peculiar prejudice. Whence this strange phe-
nomena2 What is IL that causes such dislike
for . certain namo and the people who bear ii?
THE cHIrr CAUSE.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Stoddard In his admirable
lecture on Jerusalem and the Holy Land"
touched upon the chief cause when referring
to the New Testament account of the crucifix-
ion. For eighteen centuries the church has
taught that the Jews crucif1ed the Savior.
Consciously or unconsciously the church was
led to look upon the supposed murderers and
their descendants with n dislike akin to hatred
True, in our days the church does no longer
sanction bloody vengeance as melted out during
the middle ages against the hapless Jew with so
much cruelty and fury. Religious persecution
in civilized countries today is a thing OF the
past! Christianity, as understood and taught
by its best exponents. now beholds as its true
mission the exercise OF love and good will to all
mankind. Christian men and women who, like
Mr.. Stoddard. strive to condone for the wrongs
the world the name OF jew act in that true
Christian spirit. Scholars have long clearly
shown that the Romans, not the Jews, crucified
Jesus; that the jews had no reason for putting
Him to death; that crucifxion was not jew
ish mode Of capital punishment, and that at
that time Jewish courts had lost all jurisdiction
in pronouncing the death penalty. And
again and again the injustice has been
pointed out OF holding future genera
tions responsible for any supposed crime
committed by few men many hundreds of
years ago. Mr.. Stoddard, in manfully and eo-
fyn rhs h.,fn cd
houses in all the larger cities Of the Union. is
engaged in truly Christian mission OF justice
and love. Justly and properly does he meet
the prejudice and hatred against the Jew. or
the aversion against their name, with the fact
so well known, yet deliberately overlooked
that He whom the Christian world worships
was born a Jew and lived as jew MIR. Stod-
dards departure, in connection with. other
signs Of the times pointing in the same drec-
ton, justify us in the hope that the Christian
world will more and more free itself from ac-
customed prejudices against the Jew-remove
the stigma which former ages had fastened
upon name associated with what is dearest
and hottest to both Jew and Christian-and yet
learn to regard the Jew asa worthy co-laborer
In the cause OF religion and humanity, a
brother and friend.
STRIVE TO LIVE DOWN PREJUDICE.
And as for rs. instead of frowning down pre-
JUDGE, let us rather strive to live it down
wherever we may meet it! Let us show by our
lives that certain unfavorable traits ascribed to
the Jew do not exist in reality, and that, if they
ever did exist we can rid ourselves OF them.
Let us prove to the world that the virtues with
which We are credited are the Jews today as
ever! Let us, above ALL be true to ourselves.
true and loyal to our country, true and loyal to
our Judaism-as Hebrews. as Israelites or as
Jews. And as faithful mother will cling to
her child with love the more intense and ten
der the more others may dislike or chiie or
malign 1t. so will We love the name of jew
ami strive to reflect honor upon it and cherish
1t as we cherish the grand and noble history
which that name. as with magic wand, con-
jures up within our memories and within our
hearts! And surely the day will come when
the name jew" will be fully and completely
indicated and when we joyfully may repeat
the words in which almost 1000 years ago that
name was conceived:
This time will give thanks unto the Lord"