Mohave County miner., 1899-09-30
Jew and Christian.

ten communes with his children, that,
when he has message to convey, he
chooses his messenger and sends us
his word in his own inscrutable way.
When God felt the hour had come to
reveal himself to man, he chose for his
messenger the patriarch Abraham, aud
gave to him the courage to proclaim.
in the midst of idolatry, the belief in
an unknownable and unseenable God.
When the Almighty felt the time was
at hand to uplift his people, he chose
Moses as his messenger, and touched
him with the spark of divinity, and
the children of Israel became the pos
SCISSOR of the immortal Ten Command
ments. When the hour arrived for
these commandments to be spread
among nations of the world, Jesus was
chosen, who, through bis disciple, Paul,
became the herald of Gods word, and
thus brought to the benumed and be-
nigned minds of the heather nations
a moral joy and spiritual bliss there
tofore to them unknown.
Had there been no Abraham, there
would have been no Moses.
Had there been no Moses, there
would have been no Jesus, there would
have been no Paul.
Had there been no Paul, there would
have been no Christianity.
Had there been no Christianity, there
would have been no Luther.
Had there been no Luthers, there
would have been no Pilgrim Fathers
to land on these shores with the jew
ish Bible under their arms.
Had their been no Pilgrim Fathers,
there would have been no civil or re-
ligious liberty, tyranny and despotism
would still rule the earth and the hu-
man family would still live in mental,
moral, and physical bondage.
Had there been no Jesus and no
Paul, the God of Israel would still be
the God of handful, the God of a
petty, obscure, and insignificant tribe
of Jews.
Had there been no Jesus and no
Paul, the magnificent moral teachings
of Moses would still be confined to the
thinly scattered believers in Judaism,
and the great world of men and women
would have been left so much the
poorer because of their ignorance of
these benign teachings.
Let those of us who are Jews be
thankful that there was Jesus and
Paul. Let us more keenly appreciate
that, through the wonderful influence
of these heroic characters, the mission
of the jew is being better fulfilled and
his teachings are being spread to the |
hooks and corners of the I
world by Christianity, "a religion by |
which millions have been, and still are,
quickened and inspired" Let us not |
forget that, through the influence of |
Jesus and Paul, the ten commandments
of Moses. the sublime utterances of |
Isaiah, of Micah, of Jeremiah, the !
proverbs of Solomon, and the psalms |
of David, have brought and are bring |
ing, and will continue to bring, balm
and comfort, joy and happiness, spirit |
ual bliss and moral sunshine into IN
told millions of homes.
Thus is the Christian, through Jesus
and Paul, deeply indebted to the jew,
and thus is the jew, also through Jesus |
and Paul, deeply indebted to the
Christian. The Christian and jew of |
to-day, each in his way, is manfully |
striving to perform his part in preach
ing the belief in God whom they have |
in common, and who is all Just, all |
wise, ard all-knowing. Each is trying |
to do his share to fulfill his mission by |
spreading among his fellow-men love
for morality and righteousness.
Christianity and Judaism are sup
Elemental to each other. Had there |
been no Judaism, there would have |
been no Christianity. Had there been
no Christianity, the message of Juda-
ism could not have become so speedily |
There is ample room
in this broad world for the followers
of both beliefs to accomplish, side by
side, most heroic religious and moral |
work. A difference in matters of the
ology need in no way interfere with
jew and Christian preaching and
teaching the fatherhood of God, and
living in the spirit of the brotherhood
of man. So to teach and SO to live,
born under the influence of
church or synagogue, whether looking