Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01
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In the Literary Digest are found ex-
tracts from an appendix to a new edi-
ton Of Croly's novel Salathiel. in which
number Of Jewish scholars and rabbis
express their views In reply to the ques-
tion: What is the Jewish Thought To-
day Of Jesus Of Nazareth" A study Of
the several answers makes II clear chat
wonderful change Of sentiment has
taken place among the followers OF the
Mosaic faith on this, to Judaism vital
question. Long centuries have passed
since the darkness OF blindness fell over
the people, and the Nazarene was deliv-
cred up to a cruel death as blasphem-
er and consplrator, New light is dawn
ing, and the divine mission Of the Cruel
fed one is, at least in part, acknowl-
edged
The subjolned paragraphs give a good
idea Of the present Jewish estimation
OF the Founder OF the Christian religion,
Dr. lsidore Singer says;
The great change In Jewish thought
concerning Jesus OF Nazareth / can not
better illustrate than by this fact:
When | was a boy, had my father, who
was very pious man, heard the name
OF Jesus uttered from the pulpit OF our
synagogue. he and every other man In
the congregation would have left the
building and the rabbi would have been
dismissed at once, Now, II Is not
strange, In many synagogues. to hear
sermons preached eulogistlc OF this
Jesus and nobody thinks Of protesting
in fact, We are all glad to claim Jesus
as one Of our people"
Dir, Kaufman Kohler, a New York
rabbi, IS quoted thus:
His name as helper Of the poor. as
sympathIzing friend OF the fallen, as
brother OF every fellow sufferer, as low
er Of man and redeemer OF woman. has
become the Inspiration. the symbol. and
the wotchword for the worlds great st
achievements in the field of benevo-
lence. While continuing the work OF
the synagogue, the Christian church
with the larger means nj her disposal
created those institutions OF charity
WondrOus things. The very sign OF the
cross has lent a new meaning, a holier
pathos o. suffering. sickness, and sin,
so ms 10 offer new practical solutions
Tor tho great problems OF evil which MI
the human heart with new Joys Of self
sacrificing love. All this modern Juda =
ism gladly acknowledges, retaining
Jesus as one OF Its greatest sons. But
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church, however broad, holds the key
TO manv-siie1 truth II waits for the
time when all life's deepest mysteries
viii have been spelled and TO the ideals
pi sage and saint that NJ the seeker OF
AN that is good, beautiful. and true
VIII have been Joined. when jew and
Gentle synagogue and church. will
merge into the church universal, into
the great city Of humanity whose name
Is God ls there"
Cosare Iombroso who Is known all
over Oh" world for his researches in
crlm.noIogy has this TO say Of Jesus:
ON my eyes Jesus Is one Of the great
rot gonluses the world has produced.
na' Dee was ike all genluses. somewhat
unbalanced, anticipating by ten CEN
'''' N|I' emancipation VI tue save.
ana hy twenty centuries socialism and
the emancipation Of woman. lie did
not proceed oy a precise, systematic
demonstration. but through short SEN
fences and by leaps and bounds. so
| That without the downfall Of the Tenn
pie. and without the prosecutions Of
the Christians under Nero. his work
would have been lost"
Dr. Max Nordau has these striking
sentences:
Jesus Is soul Of our soul. as he IL
| flesh OF our flesh. Who. then. could
think Of excluding him from the people
OF Israel? st. Peter will remain the
| only jew who said Of the son OF David.
| l Know not the man. II the Jews up
! 70 the present time have not publicly
! rendered homage to the sublime moral
beauty of the figure Of Jesus. It is be-
cause their tormentors have always
| prosecuted, tortured, assasslnated them
| IN his name. The Jews have drawn
| their conclusions from the disciples "a.
10 the Master. which was a wrong a
! wrong pardonable In the eternal Vic.
| tins OF the lmplacable, cruel hatred Of
those who call themselves Christians
Every time that a Jew mounted 10 ths
sources and contemplated Christ alone
without his pretended faithful. ne cried
with tenderness and admiration: Put.