The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-26
BUILDING A SYNAGOGUE.
Lessons From the CentuPiCn's Generos-
ity to the HebrOWs,

Ivy 10 Soo n0OTOWBs
In the First Methodist Episcopal church
yesterday morning the Rev. w. p. George,
D. D., preached on, 1.-THE Building of q
Synagogue" taking his text from tho sew
NTH chapter Of Luke: HE loveth our ma
hon and hath built NJ . synagogue" The
sentence was uttered about the Roman
centurion whose servant was sick, and it
vas given a. reason why the sick man
should be healed by the Jewish doctor
that his master had loved the Jews and
lad provided the means whereby Jewish
house of worship could be erected. From
lhe beautiful story the preacher drew
many wise lessons.
The first of these was that the master
held the servant dearly. and was willing to
10 much for him. and that il was good
that men should serve their employers in
The various vocations of life with spirit
That rises above the mere dollars and
cents. The servant was sick and needed
the masters tenderness and sympathy
more than at any other time. and he
needed help both bodily and spiritually.
From that it was argued that it had always
been the policy of the Christian churches
10 engage in work that uplifted humanity.
The heather nations of the earth had
built no hospitals. but the Christians in
oil ages had not only looked after the well
fare of the soul. but had paid due regard
to the needs and requirements of the body
o we'll
DR.. George showed that the master,
wherever he is found, has duties to per-
form to others as well as rights which he
may exact from them. The preacher then
told number of interesting stories con-
serning the futility OF tracts for starving
men. and advocating . practical charity
and religion.
The minister then turned to . considers
ZION OF the character OF the centurion. He
Was described as q Roman soldier, .
eeathen, man whose trade it was to kill.
Belonging to the race of conquerors, he
had been cordially hated, aud with per-
haps just reason. by tho Jews, but still he
had broad and liberal spirit. and he pro-
tded the means to build synagogue.
The speaker said there were two ways Of
governing men: one was BY oppression
and the other by winning them. He cited
the example of England's treatment of
Ireland. and said that. while the entire
sanli did not always lie with the governors,
yes the conduct of the mother country to-
wards Erin had resulted in q legacy of
"sO iu the neirt OF every lrisumcu, no
matter in what part of the globe he might
ee. 10 prove the opposite theory, the
minister cited the case Of Aisace and Lor-
faine, which provinces had been % mildly
ruled by France that, when Germany con-
saefed them, the people were more at
.ached TO France than their own original
Iatherlaad.
Abiding to the hatred which the Jews
entertained towards the centurion, DR..
oeorse proceeded to analyze the cause OF
u Tie alluded to the treatment that had
been accorded the Hebrews as having
Teen inspired rather by satan than by the
spant OF the meek and lowiy Jesus, and
characterized tue Jews as the most mar
Vicious people of sll history, for when the
Pfogen,iors Of the Saxons were still the
simplest OF barbarians the Jews had .
legislature and \ code of laws which is
stal intact even unto this day.
Ds George then gave many historical In
ssanees of the iliioeral treatment that had
ecen rracticed toward the Jews and said
taat the heart of the centurion broke
sarongh AL these prejudices: that he,
thoash Roman. saw the beauty that
Were was in Judaism and aided the people
70 erect their synagogue. The speaker
SAID that IL he had unlimited wealth he,