Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-26
FOR TOLER ANCE.

A lecturer Of Hebrew extraction a
member OF a business firm in Sacra-
mento, Cal, the other day addressed a
Unitarian society on the subject or
Jesus the Jew He noticed the change
that has taken place In the sentiment Of
enlightened Jews toward Jesus and the
religion that centers around Him. He
told OF how the Rabbi, who was his
teacher, refused TO touch book in
which the name Of the Nazarene occur
red, while now Jews are studying the
life and sayings OF Him, as given by
the eyangellsts MS well as by modern
scholars, And then he made an elo-
quent appeal for liberation in religious
matters on this point he said in part;
Had there been no Abraham, there
would have been no Moses Had there
been no Moses there would have leen
no Jesus. Had there been no Jesus,
there would have been no Paul Had
there been no Paul, there would have
been no Christianity. Had there been
no Christianity, there would have been
no Luther. Had there been no Luther,
there would have been no Pilgrim faith
ers to land on these shores with the
Jewish Bible under their arms. Had
there been no civil or religious liberty,
tyranny and despotism would still rule
the earth and the human family would
still live In mental, moral and physical
bondage. Without Jesus and without
Paul, the God OF Israel would still be
the God OF a handful the God Of
petty, obscure and Insignificant tribe
OF Jews. Had there been no Jesus and
no Paul the magnificent moral teach
ings Of Moses would still be confined TO
the thinly scattered believers In Juda-
ism, and the great world OF men and
women would have been left so much
the poorer because OF their ignorance
OF these benign teachings"
This Is indeed we'll said. The devel-
opment of mankind Is a continuous evo-
luton, planned, guided and superIn-
tended by the Power that clearly fore
sees the end from the beginning. 1t Is
all on the program. Gods dealings
with mankind from the remotest an
tiquity has all been for the consumma-
ton OF His educational plans, There
Is no accident or chance In Il. As the
pupils OF school in the first class
commence with the rudlments Of knowl-
edge. and Is carried onward 70 ever
higher principles, so mankind In the
hands OF the Advise have been taught
from the beginning, with view to the
degree OF perfection now attained, and
the still higher degree TO be attained
hereafter.
The folly OF mems hating one another.
and quarrellng, on account OF different
views Of God and eternal things, is APP
parent. II could not be, were II not for
the fact that so many religionsts have
perpetuated the old Pharisalsm OF the
Jews, instead OF the doctrines of Jesus.
What Is needed in our age is the proc
lamatlon OF the Fatherhood OF God, as
Jesus taught It. When that is accept
ed there car be no hatred for religions
sake. Sorrow there can be for those
who err and refuse to repent, but not
luminosity. When the divine Fatherhood
Is accepted, Jews and Christians, Mo-
hammedans and Hindoos, all may learn
to love one another, as children OF one
family. Each may in his own way
strive to arrive at the fountain Of
truth, but between them all, there can
be fellowship, provided they are honest
In their beliefs and pure IN their lives.
That Is Christian teaching, very
much forgotten