St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-25

udices against. the Jewish religion.
He shows abundant charity for all
faiths, and says, wherever religion
builds his altar, flames a burning
bush, which makes the place holy.
He shows full appreciation of Chris
tianity, and says 1.-The cross has
been for millions and millions of peo-
pie the emblem of the highest" He
shows entire sympathy with Jesus
and His teachings. OF course, he ig-
noreS the miraculous element of
the story, and sees Jesus birth and
life as wholly natural, but not the
less does he think Him divine, and
calls Him "Son of God" That
: birth was no less noble when the
miraculous star above it becomes a
myth, and he says Jesus Himself
became "a light such as the South
ern cross cannot boast, and before
which the Northern stars pale" He
praises the sermon on the mount as
the most abundant casket of jewels
drawn from the treasure house of
high moral Inspiration and says
las long as man has not lost that
appreciation for purity which is his
best heirloom, these words of Jesus
will come to the soul as the whis-
,pered proclamation of the Highest"
In the substance of this sermon he
sees nothing original with Jesus,
and says that every thought in it,
from beautitudes to Lords prayer
can be duplicated in the Jewish liter
ature of that time. But he says
Jesus gave to the old thought
new form and force, a "directness
and pithiness that the rabbinical
maXims of equal tenor almost alto
gether lack" Jesus took the crude
material from the great mine of
Judaism, but unler His treatment
the ore changed into ready coin.
Through his words Judaism was car
ried to the world. The presentation of
our old ideas, remodeled by His
touch, conquered the Roman empire
for the light"
DR.. HirSch seeks to show that Jesus
was opposed by very few of the Jew
ish nation, and that it has been a
great mistake to blame them for his
death. The New Testament represents
Him as acceptable to the mass of the
people, and says that even priestly
Jerusalem gave him a triumphal
entrance. DIR. Hirsch thinks he was
opposed by few except the family of
Annas, which, according to the Tai
mud, had the monopoly of that profit
able trade in the temple that Jesus
tried to drive out. Hence, the high
priest Caiaphas, 1.-The son-in-law of
the proprietor of that BAZAAR" re-
sented it, and moved his friend PLATE
to have Jesus put to death as a dan
gerous disturber of the public order
and the Roman rule Herein Dr.
HlrSchS argument is not satisfactory
He seems too much disposed to berate
Rome and shield his own people, But
If the New Testament story is to be
taken at all, Jesus, although con-
demned and slain by Roman rather
than Jewish methods, was defended
by the Roman procurator, and OPP
posed quite extensively by the Jewish
priesthood. But, of course this is no
reason for blaming the Jews. If their
priests did oppose Jesus, it is no more
than priests of all religions have done
to reformers, and if they did cause his
death, it is no more than Christians
themselves have done to unnumbered
Jews. DR.. Hirsch's defense is very
noble. Of coure. he sees him as a
man, but he says, because man, son
of God. because man, therefore divine,
as you are, as every man is son of
God" But he sees him as a most
eminent son of God, and says, the
Jew, of whatever shade of opinion, is
willing to acknowledge the charm, the
beauty, the whole-souled perfection of
the great Prophet of Nazareth" .e