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GULF STREAM
Of HUMANITY
is THE JEW, SAID DR.. JORDAN.
DISCUSSED THE JEW, HIS GOD, HIS
BIBLE AND HIS RELIGION.

Held UnwittinEIy With an Innuei'
Many Jewish Persons Attended the
Servicc-UnbecOmin in Honest
and Sensible Persons to HarbOr
Race Prejudice-BfbIe the Begin
ming of All wisdom and All That
Is Good in Moral, Mental and
Spiritual World Eliminated from 1t.
To a large congregation, in which
were many persons OF jewish
faith, Rev. DR.. J. D. Jordan, pastor OF
the First Baptist Church, delivered
sermon last night on 1.-The Jew, HIS
God, His Bible and His Religion" He
explained in a brief introduction to the
sermon that it had grown out of a con-
versation that he held recently with a
stranger.
During the course of this talk, Dr.
Jordan said, the stranger had remarked
that he despised the Jew, his God, his
Bible and his religion. Later it turned
out that the man was a professed inf
del. In his views. however. DR..
Jordan saw the opportunity of putting
| before his congregation it's indebted
ness to the Jew for the very things that
this man professed to despise, and so
out of the incident grew the sermon.
Great nations, like individuals, have
their great faults and peculiarities,"
he said 'as well as their great virtues
and graces. 1 do not propose while dis
cussing this subject to deal with the
peculiarities of which jokes are made,
for the Jew can joke about us as well as
we about him; nor will 1 speak of Shy
lock, who was only an imaginary Jew,
but rather of Joseph and David, who
were much better examples of the Jew
than was Shylock.
Tribute to Jewish Women.
If we come to a comparison of their
women, too, we shall find that while
the Gentiles have given us women like
JeZebel and Cleopatra, the Jews have
given US women like Ruth and Esther.
To sum the matter up, in all nations
can be found the lowest types of the
low characters as well as the highest
types of the best. 1t is not becoming
in honest, sensible and broad-minded
people to harbor a race prejudice /
recognize fully the teaching that of
one blood God made all the nations
on the face of the earth. A mans
man for a that every man has a
soul, in large sense, he and / are
brothers and dependent one on the
other.
Abraham, the father of the Jewish
race, was called of God. Other ma
lions went on their own way of de-
velopment, but the Jews were made
teachers, that God might have among
the peoples of the earth a race to
represent him. They are an example
of what a nation worshipping the true
and living God can become. 1t was a
nation set as a light to other nations,
and there is nothing in the way of
spiritual or religious thought that is
pure and good than can not be traced
either directly or Indirectly to the Jews.
Though the Jews, and the Jews only,
was the true and living God revealed
to the world.
Jew Gulf Stream of Humanity.
THE lew is a marvel in his preser-
walton of his race, his blood and his
characteristics. The Jew is the Gulf
Stream of humanity. He has flowed
down the centuries through all coun-
tries. and nations of the earth. and
yet to-day his blood. and his charac-
teristics, are as pure, and distinct, and
as strong, as in his. greatest days in
Palestine. Such can be said of no
other people on the face of the earth.
THE God of the lew is the I'M
changeable God, the God of purity.
The Jews are clean people for their
God impressed on them in his teachings
a cleanness of body as we'll as of mind
and heart. There can be but one God,
he must be supreme. the creator and
the benefactor and such is the God
of the Jews.
LAS to the Jews Bible-blot it out
and you would throw cloud of black
est darkness on the mental. moral and
spiritual life. Without it where is our
origin, where our destiny, where our
laws? The Jews Bible is the beginning
of all learning and wisdom in the men
tai, moral, legal and spiritual world
and whatever may seem to have been
added to it's teachings has simply fol-
lowed in their wake.
THE religion of the Jew is simply
Love God with all they heart. and
thy neighbor as myself There is no
higher teaching than this. The Jews
Bible is ours-we take it from Genesis
to Malachi. we go farther, and take
the New Testament also whichs is a
fulilment of the old.
THE Christ was a Jew so were all
His Apostles. We go farther than the
Jews, but in doing so we follow the
teachings of the most illustrous of
all the Jews. the Christ.
HE in whom I believe and whom
would be like was a Jew. My Lord
and Master was a Jew-'A light to
Tighten the Gentiles and the glory of
thy people, Israel To us He is the
wisdom of Cod and the power of