The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-11
REnEEMING raE LEW.

REDEEMING THE JEW.
The cable dispatches for some time past
have had more or less extended refer
ences to the movement In progress in
England for as 1t Is expressed, the re-
demption of the Jews. Over In London
they have a body in existence called
THE London Society for the Christian
ization of the Jews" and the world is
graveiy Informed through the cable that
that society Is attaining wide proportions
throughout the United Kingdom. The
redemption movement, we are assured,
is being pushed with renewed vigor both
at home and abroad, and, if the san
guine expectations Of many of its promf-
nent members are ever realized, there
Will be NO more Jews to affront the re-
fined feelings or to arouse the racial or
religious prejudices of that worthy class
of society which in every land is intent
on making people good according to
their own peculiar Views of goodness.
The president of this ambitious re
demption'' organization rejoices in the
impressive designation of the Rt Hon.
Sir John Henry Kennaway. The RI.
Hon. Sir John has succeeded In having
his humane plans with reference to the
sons of Abraham cabled quite at length
to this inert land where the disposition
to redeem people has for many years
past been In state of hopeless collapse.
He regards the Jewish nation as lost and
lonely, and in order, no doubt, to enable
them to find their way once more and to
take them out of their condition Of lone
Illness, he and his society propose to pre-
pare them to accept the New Testament
and to lay before them the hope, as he
puts 1T, ''of a life beyond the grave. omen
TO them as heirs through Christ of a
glorious Immortality"
There can be no doubt in the world as
to the deep sincerity of the Rt. Hon.
Sir John Henry. Kennaway. But the
world has yet to see even the most re-
mote indication on the part of the be-
nighted Hebrews of a desire to be re-
deemed. The life beyond the grave to
"hlch they look forward is not known
to differ in any essential particular from
Sir Johns conception of future bliss and
why their refusal to accept the divine
origin and inerrancy of the New Testa-
ment should be subject of such deep
concern to Sir John and his friends when
so many Of the followers OF Christ are
at this time unwilling to accept anv such
view OF the sacred documents is some
thing which the ordinary unredeemed
sinner would find it hard to understand
DO the Jews want to be redeemed"
Do they want to be ''Christianfzed7 ," Ara
they deeply concerned, or, for that mat
ter concerned at all, on the subject as
10 whether the life beyond the grave
which Sir John and his society would
lead them to differs materially from +be+
for which every good Jew is preparing
himself every day of his life? No: no. a
thousand times no. The Jews are Meth
er lonely, nor lost. They have the splen-
49, AetSOityp OeVelOD0d among
them, of minding their own business
Neither Sir John nor any of the modern
redemptionists ever heard of the Jews
starting out to redeem" other folks,
Ihen why try to perform the operation
on them? 1t Is no use Good Christians
have tried the operation before today
although on somewhat different lines TO
those pursued by Sir John, and it is re-
cited in history that some certain Jews
did for the time make an appearance
of having been redeemed" But thew
didn't stay redeemed It must. we
fear, be regarded, under all the circum-
stances, as doubtful matter whether
even the qualified success which attended
the efforts Of the medieval Christians in
the effort to redeem and Christian
ize'' the Jew awaits the efforts Of Sir
John, and that the only reasonable thine
to do under the circumstances is 70 al
low the Jew to remain In his present
hopelessly unredeemed and sinful state