The Sunday globe., 1901-06-02

criminologist and professor in the Uni
yersity of Turin, says:
In my eyes Jesus is one of the
greatest geniuses the world has pro
duced; but he was, like all geniuses
somewhat unbalanced, anticipating by
ten centuries the emancipation Of wo
man, He did not proceed by a precise
systematic demonstration, but through
short sentences and by leaps and
bounds, so that without the downfall
of the Temple, and without the perse
cutions OF the Christians under Nero
his work would have been lost"
DR. Max Nordau, the critic and phil
osOpher, writes:
Jesus is soul of our soul as he is
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
4 know not the man. If 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, assassinated
them in His name. The Jews have
drawn their conclusions from the dis
ciples as to the Master, which was
wrong, a wrong pardOnable i'm the eter-
nal victims of the implacable, cruel
hatred of those who call themselves
Christians. Every time that Jew
mounted to the sources and contem-
plated Christ alone. without his pre-
tended faithful, he cried, with tender
ness and admiration; Putting aside
the Messianic mission, this man is
ours. He honors our race and we claim
his as we claim the ospels-flowers Of
Jewish literature and only jewish -
DR.. Emil G.. Hirsch, of the Sinai Con-
gregation and professor of rabbinical
literature in the University Of Chicago,
says:
Under close analysis, his precepts
will be found to contain nothing that
was new. There is scarce an express
sion credited to him but has its analo-
gon i'm the well-known sayings Of the
rabbis. He did not pretend to found a
religion. The doctrines he developed
were the familiar truths of lsraels
prophetic monotheism. Nor did his
ethical proclamation sound a note be-
fore unknown in the household Of the
svnag agocue or in the schools. He was in
method a wonderfully gifted Hagadist.
His originality lies in the striking
form which he understood to give to
the old varieties of his ancestral re.
ligion. He moved the hearts of the peo-
pie
"The Jews Of every shade Of reli.
oious belief do not regard Jesus i'm the
lieht Of Paurs theology. But the gos.
pel Jesus. the Jesus who teaches so SUI
perbly the principles Of Jewish ethics
is revered by all the liberal eNpounders
of Judaism. His words are studied;
the New Testament forms a part OF
Jewish literature. Among the great
preceptors that have worded the truths
of which Judaism is the historical
guardians. none. i'm our estimation and
esteem takes precedence Of the rabbi
of Nazareth. To impute to MS suspi
cious sentiments concerning him does
lis gross injustice. We know him to
he among our greatest and purest'
The Globe reproduces these beauti
ful tributes to the Christ as man
which to the Christian thinker goes
along way to prove His divinity even
TO Jew or infdel for what other Jew u
other infdel since the world was ere
ated can stand COMPARISON with the
"Rabb of Nazareth" When the con
cesslon is made that He was the most
perfect man who ever lived the ac
lJnowledgment Of His divinity is not
afar off-even by the Jew.