The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25


was given to Christianity, our sister,
Judaism's elder daughter, to teach men
that Gods throne may be established
on earth only through the dissemlna-
ton of the teachings and practice Of
love and peace and good Fellowship
Let me say here in defense of the
Gallilean rabbi, that we do not any
longer hold Him responsible Tor the
Misrepresentation made or him by the
church. He was great reformef. lie
aimed like his predecessors, the
prophets, to advance his fellow man
and elevate the race. Not He is respon-
sible for the cruelties and bloodshed
which afflicted the Jews during the
ages of martyrdom. Living in TINS gio-
rious land in this glorious age, where
liberty and equality are the passwords
of society. We are proud to point 10
Jesus as a scion of the house OF israel.
We are proud to claim Him, not as
God not as a Divine Man, but as CO.
religionist, a brother Jew, whose. lips
We're touched with the sacred fre taken
from Israels altar. Whose message 70
humanity was-one God, one brother
hood.
Let the Christian clergy make this
Christmas memorable. Let them thun-
der into the ears of their congregation
the message of good Will toward all
men, Let Them remind their congrega-
lions most forcibly that glory can only
be accepted in the highest when peace,
peace between all men-Jew and Chrls-
tian believer and skeptic-iS harmonl-
ously established on earth. Let them tell
their congregations that the Jew. the
brothers of Jesus. did not Kill a God IN
carnate as there is no historical evil
dence corroborating thisvile charge. Tell
them that the Jews, as Jews, did not
clamor for the blood of their country
man. who loved them and preached 10
them the sermons of the prophets; that
there may have been few bloodthlrSty
politicians who opposed the reforms in
augurated by Him. Tell them, That
even if the Jews were instrumental III
shedding that precious blood, they We're
| only agents carrying out the VIII ana
the design of the All Father. for had
not Jesus died the world would be ever
Iastingly damned. And instead of os-
tracising the jew and caricaturing him.
respect him as an instrument of God
and as a brother worker in the destiny
of the human family. Let the clergy
boldly repeat the utterance OF their
4 Master-.For salvation is of the jews.
1 Let them practice that humane precept
of their Master. Love We one another.
| .By this shall men know that you are
! my disciples. that We have love one for
the other Let them boldly tell their
congregations that Jesus taught no
/ dogma but duty; He taught no creed
/ but deeds, as seen In that famous
/ sermon on the mount, WIele RE lay >
/ particular stress on purity, morality.
! peace-loving and righteous acts-these,
! according To His teachings. entitle one
I to fellow ship with God. Tell them that
"A man should be judged not by the pro-
fession of his creed, but by the moral
/ and ethical life he leads Not those
! who say. Lord, Lord" but they who do
MY Fathers will, etc. Tell them that
citizenship. manhood and womanhood
4 depend NOT on certain forms ana falth,
but on faithfulness to dutR Tell them
that the standard of morality IS not
! confined to one book, to one orGaniza-
ton. but it is engraved upon the heart
Of man, and that Pope was right when
/ he said:
{" For modes of faith, let graceless zeal
OTIS fight.
His can't be wrong whose life is in the
right.
Then joyously we will usher in the
festal hour the natal day of Israel S
Son. at whose birth was heard the me
lodious refrain GLORY to God IN the
highest; on earth peace, and good Will
toward mem