The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13

when the beautiful doctrine, Peace
on earth. good will toward men,,
taught by a Jew, shall be practiced,
then will the wanderings Of the jew
cease; then will the Jew be ready to !
die in Christianity. n Christianity
will be ready to die in Judaism; both
terms will die and the term humanity
will take their place" Such were the
words with which Rabbi Joseph
krauSkopf closed his lecture last even
ing on the subject of The Blank Leaf
Between the Old and the New Tesla
mentS."
Rabbi Krauskopf is a learned and
cultured gentlemen and held the in
terest of d large audience for two
hours while he talked mainly on the
characteristics of the Jew. The lee
turer referred to the persecution Of the
Jews in Russia, where hundreds of
thousands had been driven from their
homes for the heinous crime of being
Jews. No people in the whole history
of the world had ever been subjected
TO such treatment as the Jews. Both
in his native land and roaming abroad
as a ~vagabOnd, the Jew has been de-
spised and spit upon and buffeted. But
the same hand hat has cast him out
has asked him back and offered the
portals to him. While PLATE was with
one hand crucifying Jesus, the Jew,
n writing owe his cross, This is the
king of the Jews" he was, with the
other. founding another and spiritual
kingdom which shall yet embraceAal
the earth. The dying Rabbi was r@1t
when he prayed, Lord, forgive tRem.
for they know not what they do"
Isabella, of Spain, when she signed
the edict eXpelling 5000 0 Jews from
Spain, was at the same time assisting
] Cv111rDahrr1 70 dfEnnNrap a nur world
where the Jew was better treated than
in any other LAND on the face Of the
earth.
Russia with one hand smites
the Jew, and with the other
welcomes Moses Montefiore, ths
Jew Philanthropist. to her palace.
Germany makes laws against ane
Jews, but takes Herr Wicket. askeN.
into it's high national ~uncils At
one and the same time the Jew is
honored and despised.
There are, said the speaker, three
distinct classes of Jews n in the
faces of each class may distinctly be
read the characteristics of the saint,
the sage and the vagabOnd. The eX-
pressiOns "as rich as a Jew" "as cum
ming as a jew" "aS mean as q lew"
las divine as a Jew" are common the
three former especially. The Jew
shuns handicrafts. he shuns hus-
bandry. he goes into trade, he is a
usuerer, a ShylOck and worse. [ am a
Jew and my picture of the Jew is at
least frank, and the wonder is that
there is any type of the Jew but tha
vagabond left. He has been perse-s
cuted more mar all other peoples. but
today there is among them the most
advanced people spiritually, intellec-
tually and morally.
What is his crime? What brought
all the punishment upon him? He is
guilty of h crime of being only a
Jew" He is guilty Of giving to the
world its God, of giving to the half
of mankind it's Savior. The first to
follow and die for the Savior was the
Jew. He is guilty Of giving 10 the
world prophets, bards, law-givers
whom the world honors. He is guilty
Of giving b world the Sabbath. He
is guilty of giving the world the first
government. He is guilty of giving
the world its brightest lights. Ae is
guilty today of being the moz acc
full, l~aw-abiding, Industrious %fOtic
citizen. He is almost a stranESr in
the police courts and divorce courts.
His footsteps are not known on the
gallows in the United States. He has
given the world it's foremost states
men, economists, composers. scuIptors,
painters, actors. He is guilty Of be-
ing clannish, more clannish thar he
ought to be-. persecution has made
him clannish. He is also guilty OF
calling his a. the chosen people OF
God. The Jew is made Of that dough
of which gods are made; trample on
him today n you are on your knees
to him tomorrow. Egypt. Syria. Baby
lOnia. Rome, Greece, Spain, GERMANY.
Russia, they all tried to exterminate
the Jew and all failed. Benjamin
DISraeli when tainted in the British
parliament with being a Jew replied
that it was not decreed that a superior
race should ever be absorbed by an in
ferior.
The Jew lives because God waSs
him to live. he has a mission to peS
form which only a Jew can performi
n when he shal have completed his
work there will be perfect peace
among men and for the purpose OF
establishing that peace, the Jews are
world.
In speaking of the crucifxion OF
Jesus h speaker pointed out that
although the Jews as a nation had
rejected Christ because h was not
the kin of Messiah they ex-
liver them from the Roman yoke
it was the Romans who had crucihed
him because they considered him
guilty of treason and because ths&
thought he wanted to be the king Of
the Jews when Judea was a depend
ClCy VI ILOIle.
The mission of the Jews is to estab-
lish h fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man: and Judaism, the
mother. and Christianity, the das1gh-
ter, will be united. There is a
Christian living today who honors
Christ as a teacher and preacher more
than the Jews do.
The Jew is exchanging the store for
the school. and the bourse for the uni
versity. the pack for the pillow. He has
permitted others to wrest from him
the honor of being the greatest tanker
n merchant. No longer Is he quoted
as the greatest merchant or the
wealthiest banker in the land. He is
permitting none, however. to wrest
from him the fame of being among the
first in the learned professions.
The days of persecution have passed.
except in Russia, and mere liberation
is passing. When the doctrine forgive
US our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against u.s. is lived up
then the mission of the Jew shall have
been fulfilled and then he will die.