The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
'IF SAVIOR
CAME TO
or CHICAGO
DR.. HirSch Says Jews
Would Give Him
Welcome
Hebrews Always Loved and
Admired Him and Have
Followed Exam lie Better
Than Christians"

| Chicago. April 24.-"If Jesus Chris
should return to the earth tomorrow
he would be welcomed in every Jew
ish synagogue in the land. and every
Jew would say with David. Lift uT
your heads. o ye gates. and be yC
lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the
king Of glory shall come in"
Thi. was the Climax Of a lecture by
Rev Hirsch delivered last night be.
fore the Epworth League Of st. James
Methodist church. Ellis avenue and
Forty-sixth street The big audience
gave the speaker a storm OF applause
when he sat down. the chairman of
the meeting thanked him for It by a
riiing vote and as he had eulogized
the Lords Prayer, the meeting was
closed with II, DR.. Hirsch repeating Il
In unison with his Christian friends.
THE Jews" said DR. Hirsch. "do not
believe at all in original sin and In.
helrted depravlty. They believe ev.
cry man Is a responsible, free agent,
and Is not involved in the guilt Of
his fathers or his children. OF course
therefore, they do not believe the
story OF the fall OF man in the Book OF
Genesis in rs literal sense They az.
cept the teachings OF the higher crit.
icism aud consider the story OF the
Garden OF Eden az an allegory.
AS they reject the doctrine OF orig
inal sin, they reject Of course. tn
doctrine OF redemption from sin. They
believe In a Messiah but the Messiah
Of the Old Testament is temporal
prince, who shall reign over the Jews
after they shall have been reunited
and become a nation again in Pales.
tine. Al least the orthodox Jews be
lieve this but the liberal Jews do not
believe In the Messisnic prophecies at
all. For instance. the prophecy IN
Isaiah, supposed to teach the mirac.
ulous birth Of Jesus. was undoubtedly
spoken OF by Hezekiah. and. properly
translated. there Is nothing miraculous
about H.
The Jews hold that Jesus preached
nothing but judaism. The supremacy
OF the commandant 20 love God and
man. the doctrine Of the fatherhood
OF God the doctrine that the Sab
bath was made for man. the abrogat
ion OF the law of retaliation, the oh.
legation to love even ones enemies,
and the Lords Prayer. which We read.
ily admit Is the sublimest petition
ever framed In the human language
an these We cain were taken from
the Jewish writings, some Of which
were composed hundreds OF years be
fore Jesus was born,
Moreover, when Il comes TO prac.
ticing the loving prccepts OF Jesus, the
Jews claim that the Christians have
made an utter failure OF IL. The
truth is, Jesus was crucihed by a
Roman Governor and Roman soldiers
and. though the cruCificion was lnstig-
gated by Jews, il was by few jealous
priests and not by the mass OF the
jewish people, who admired and loved
him as is evident from his triumphal
entry into Jerusalem the day before.
so far as the modern Jews, are
concerned, they regard Jesus as one
OF the noblest spiritual teachers that
ever appeared in the world and that
the Jews have furnished the only
shining example OF obedience. The
so-Caned disciples OF Jesus have per
secuted the Jews with savage feroc.
ity for ages the Jews have borne their
prosecutions with lamblike gentleness
and silence"
DR.. Hirsch then presented the be
lief OF the Jews in the resurrection and
the Immortality OF the soul. He said
II could not be denied that men had
souls and the bare existence OF a soul
proved its immortality after death.