The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BY TIE REV. FRANK DE WITT rALMAeE. D. D.

New York? He is a Jew. Why was AL fred Dreyfus sent to Devils island to be more inhumanly treated than any gov ernment would ailew any man to treat dumb brute? He was Jew. Why the clannishness of the ghetto2 Because the gentle by sneers and ssoffs refuses to associate with the Jew; therefore the Jew finds most of his associations with the Jew. Why the public r'dicule against a class of men who are the greatest financiers and masters of barter and gain of the world? Because for centuries the Jew had no way of making living eX- cept through barter and gain and as money lender. He could not hold land for the princes and the people would TOD him of his land. He could not go into statecraft or into the army, because there he was not allowed to go. Though social recognition in certain regions is now ac- corded to the Hebrew race, as the Brit ish house of lords has been opened to them, yet even today a strong barrier of social preferment is the fact of man belonging to that race a representative of which Shakespeare immortalzed in Shy lock, the cruel and remors aless creditor.
 obIfterate Social Prejudice.
 I contend that racial prejudice is op- posed to the spirit of Christ and Chris tianity, and l base my belief, first on this journey that our Lord took through Samaria secondly, on account of the les son which Christ taught in the parable of the good Samaritan" which he spake unto the shrewd lawyer who was trying to entrap him by a series of catch qnes- tions; thirdly l plead for this obliteration of social prejudice because the Jew is not only as honest as the gentle, but men tally, morally and physically is in every way his equal, if not his superior Equal in honesty; Benjamin F. Butler few years before his death gave this testi' mony: For forty years, save one, have been conversant with the criminal courts of Massachusetts, and 1 have never yet had a Hebrew client. Thinking this matter over as I was coming home, met the learned judge of one of the high est courts, and he bore witness with me to the same effect. He, neither at the bar nor on the bench, had ever seen a, Hebrew arraigned for crime" Governor Vance of North Carolina when in office pardoned a Jew because he was the first Hebrew who had ever been arraigned and convincted for crime in all the his- toray of the state. Where there was one North Carolina Hebrew thief there had been ten thousand gentle criminals. Am l not right in saying that the Hebrew is as honest as the gentle?
 JeW ana 1enIlle EQudls
 Equal is the Jew to the gentle in the sweetness and purity of his domestic life. Not only are they faithful as a race as husbands and wives, but they are also irreproachable in their relations as par ents and children. You never hear He brew girl insulting her mother. You never see a Hebrew son sitting in the presence of an old father when that father has to stand. Filial duty is always practiced in the Hebrew home. The Hebrew fire side is as pure and noble as any gen tile fireside.
 Equal is the Jew to the gentle in reference to brains and philanthropy, as well as purity and honesty. Who were Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn. among the greatest of composers? Jews. Who were Benedict Spinoza and Baron Rothschild? Jews. Who was the mightiest opponent of William E. Gladstone and the favorite prime minister of all the Victorian era? Benjamin Disraeli, a Jew. Who was Judah P Benjamin, whom the great sen ator of Missouri George Vest declared was the best mentally equipped man he ever knew in public life and who after the civil war became the leader of the London bar? A Jew. He was. like Sir George Jessel and Moses Montefiore and Baron Hirsch, Jew Oh my friends, on &C., count of the gospel teachings. on account of the honestly and purity of the Jew, let us try to break down the clannishness of the ghetto. Let us try to do this not by social prejudice but by learning to welcome the Jew into our homes as we would be willing to welcome an Italian, a Frenchman. an Englshman Scotchman, a Russian or a Swede. Let us break down the clannishness of the ghetto by going forth with brotherly love to greet the Jew as Christ the Hebrew went to visit the Samaritans.
 Why Jesus Revealed Himself.
 second reason, I think why Christ must needs go through Samaria was that he wished to reprove a social prejudice He held converse on that journey with a notorious female outcast. She was not a respectable" sinner By that I mean she was not one of those able to travel forbidden paths and yet cover up her sinful tracks so that the worlds prying eyes did not see them. She was not a hypocrite, living two seperate lves-one life which made her outward reputation good and other life which schowed her inner character to be bad. She did not sin in secret. She sinned openly She was like the far famed Catherine of Rus sia, she was like ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, she was as vicious as Cleopatra of Alexandria. whose poisonous blood ought to have choked to death the fatal asp which she once hugged against her white skin. She was one who not only openly sinned, but boastfully and defiantly seem ed to glory in her sin. To show her that he knew how stained was her life Christ said unto her: Thou hast well said, I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands. and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband" She was a woman at that time living in open adul- terry Yet 1t was to such a social out cast as this that Christ offered the water of life" It was to such human being as this that Jesus revealed himself and permitted her to become gospel messen- ger to summon her people to hear his dis course
 o ye evangelsts and gospel preachers,