The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
JESUS
and THE
JEWS
Notable Lecture by Or. HIrsch
Before Christian EndaaVlrsTs
at Chicago.

Chicago. April 24.-'Tf Jesus Christ
should return to the earth tomorrow he
would be welcomed In every Jewish syna-
gogue in the land every Jew would say
with David Lift up your heads. ys
gates. and be ye lifted up ye everlasting
doors and the King Of Glory shall come
I'M"
This was the climax of lecture by
DR.. Hirsch delivered last night before
the Epworth league I'm the st. James
Methodist church. The big audience gave
the speaker a storm of applause when
he sat down. the chairman of the meet
ing thanked him for him lecture. the
people thanked him for IL by risin.s
vote, and as he had eulogized the Lo~t
prayer, the meeting was closed witt IL.
DR.. Hirsch repeating IL In unison with lis
Christian friends.
"The Jews said DIR. Hirsch. "do not
believe in original sin and inherited de-
pravity. They believe every man is re-
sponslble free agent, and is not involved
i'm 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 its literal sense. They
accept the teachings OF the high critt-
cism and consider the story OF the garden
OF Eden as allegory.
"As they reject the doctrine Of orig
mai SIN tncy REJECT, Ot Course, lAo ooc-
trine OF redemption from sin. They
believe I'm 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
nation again in Palestine
"At least the orthodox Jews believe
this. but the liberal Jews do not believe
I'm the Mesianic prophecies at all. For
instance, the prophecy I'm Isaiah supposed
to teach the miraculous birth OF Jesus
was undoubtedly spoken OF Mezektah.
and properly translated there II nothing
miraculous about II.
"rhe Jews hold that Jesus preached
nothing but Judaism The supremacy -of
the commandment to love God and man.
the doctrine OF the fatherhood of God, the
doctrine that the Sabbath was made for
man, the abrogation of the law of retalia-
! ton the obligation to love even ones ene-
/ mics, and even the Lords prayer. which
/ we readily admit is the sublimest petit
| ton ever framed In human language--all
these we claim were taken from the Jew
ish writings some OF which were COM
posed hundreds of years before Jesus was
| born
Moreover when Il comes to practicins
the loving precepts OF Jesus, the Jews
! claim that the Christians have made an
was crucified by Roman governor and
! Roman soldiers and though the cruci-
| fixion was instigated by Jews II was by .
few jealous priests and not by the mass
of the Jewish people, who admired and
loved him, as is evident from his trium-
phal entry into Jerusalem the day before.
80 far as the modern Jews are con-
cerned they regard Jesus as one of the
noblest spiritual teachers that ever ap-
peared I'm the world and that the Jews
have furnished the only shining example
of obedience. The so-called disciples or
Jesus have prosecuted the Jews with
savage ferocity for ages. and the Jews
have borne these prosecutions with lamb
like gentleness and silence"
DIR. Hirsch then presented the belief OF
the Jews in the resurrection and the Inn
mortality of the soul He said IL could not
he denied that men had soul and the
bare existence OF a soul proved its Inn
mortality after death.