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THE HEBREWS or TO-DAY.
subject of Talk by Rev. samuel
Frender mt Wesley Church.

subject of a Talk by Rev. samuel
Frender mt Wesley Church.
Rev. Samuel Frender, a former He
brew rabbi. but now a minister of the
Congrega gtional Church, lectured at
Wesley Monumental Church last night
on Hebrews of To-Day" He was in
troduced by Rev. Ed F. Cook, to whom,
before he began his address, he ex-
pressed his gratefulness for the minis
ter's kind words.
The speaker used as his text Isaiah
tx, s: For unto us a child is born,
unto us son is given; and the gov
eminent shall be upon his shoulder;
and his name shall be called wonder
ful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the
everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace"
las often as 1 have the privilege of
addressing a Christian audience" he
said, L am moved to think that my
ancestors and theirs have SO often
been separated by hatred. All hail the
nour when this prejudice shall have
ned away and we can together quote
the prophet and with special emphasis
on us say For unto us a child is
BORN"
IN speaking of his own conversion,
MI. Freuder said it was brought about
by the reading of the New Testament.
He became Christian about IL years
ago after he had served in synagogue
Tor about five years. The reason that
more of his people have not also en-
braced Christianity is because of the
IO,OOOUOO Jews, scattered all over the
slope, according to the prophecies of
old, but a very few have the oppor-
tunity of readin gthe New Tesla
ment.
He explained the difference between
the orthodox Jew and the reformed Jew
or the present day. Then he cited
various incidents tending to show that
Christians and Jews are much nearer
each other, and have mutually higher
regard for each other than was the
case even a few years ago. Some of
the Jewish congregations of New York
nave, he said, introduced the practice
OF holding services on the Christian
Saopath; the congregation of the sym
agogue in Jacksonville have rendered
their temple for the use of the congre-
cations of Christian churches which
were burnt during the fire, and have
not yet been rebuilt; while in this very
month, in Springfield o., the minis
ter OF a Congregational Church admin
istered the Lords Supper to his con-
gregation while gathered in a syna-
SOSue lHdC ndu Deen onered them until
their church, destroyed by fire, could
be rebuilt
Mr. Frender expressed the belief that
many of his people could have been
Chr1st1anized in former ages, but that
they were not approached in the right
manner, and told, as illustrating this
fact, the following apocryphal story:
An freshman in conversation with a.
priest informed the reverend father
that he had converted a Jew. THAT
was most meritorious act, Pat" re-
Piled the priest; "how did you do it?''
1T was his way" said Pat. "I saw
a man in the water like to be drowned
and so 1 jumped in and swan out to
him. L caught him by the head and
lifted his face out of the water and
then saw that he was a Jew. DO YOU
believe in the Holy Roman Catholic
Church, said L; he said No. so l let
him go and he sank. Presently he came
up again and he looked so weak that
| caught him again and asked him
the same question, but he was stub
born and said mo- again; but when he
came up for the second time thought
I'd give him one more chance, so
asked him the same question over. L
do believe he said. Then die in the
faith, 1 said. and + let him go, and he
was drowned