The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
DR.. HIRSCH RfBUKES
CHRISTIAN NATIONS
Noted Rabbi Reviews Disposi.
ton to Prosecute Jews for
Crime of Crucifixion

Before an audience completely filing
the temple, DR.. Emil G. Hirsch, the
foremost rabbi of American Judaism.
spoke on the Jewish view of Christ last
evening.
In impassioned language the rabbi
reviewed the disposition of Christian
nations to persecute the Jews for the
crime of the crucifixion of Christ for
which they were not TO blame.
THE world has not forgotten or for
given the crime which was never COM
mitted by our race" said DR.. Hirsch.
/ And for that one death they have
asked for millions of deaths among the
Hebrews. There are thousands of
Jews in Russia that have suffered from
fanatical Christians for the death of
him called Christ. Thirty thousand
of them are fighting in Manchuria for
the car that has maltreated them,
their parents and children. They are
Jews that are held accountable for the
crime committed 1900 years ago. And
yet these same Christians say he said,
Love your enemies A peculiar love
they show to the Jew"
Profoundly and with particular en-
phasis on the history of the Hebrews
at the time Christ was on earth, DR..
Hirsch wove a fabric of fact that, not
disputing the wonderful goodness and
ultimate usefulness of the Christ he
used to prove according to Jewish doe
trine that he was not the Messiah.
Commenting upon the fate of Judea,
DR.. Hirsch originated the thread of his
argument that Jesus was but great
prophet
Rome Swoops Down
During the internal revolts in Judea
at that time said the rabbi. Rome
was called in to intervene. She swooped
down upon the defenseless city of
Jerusalem, and her legions entered the
city. But once there they would not
leave again, and under the shadow of
her suzerainty kings were permitted to
sit upon the throne, but Rome never
spared the religious principles of those
they conquered.
Before the coming of the Messiah
the Jews had always been taught that
there would be such political disorder
and internal dissenSion, and their no
ton was that a Messiah was to burst
forth like a sun after night and COM
pensate by its splendor for the worry
and awful dissension. What these
Missionaries dreamed OF had apparently
come to pass when the NaZarene came.
National life was lost. Josephus tells
us that throughout the country bands
of robbers roamed about and struck
down the weak. Fathers did not know
whether they could trust their sons, or
mothers their daughters. Times were
out of joint, and indications were that
there was about to be a change, and
that Messiah was about to come.
I'm these times of national and re-
ligious disturbances was born he of
Nazareth. He was a Galilean, a MEM
Der Of that nation who loved liberty
and hated tyranny. They felt the in
dignity of the position of Judea most
keenly. We know that in the Cali
lean mountains when a mother gave
birth to a son she prayed that he would
be the long expected Messiah. Others
had preceded Jesus in the claim that
they were Messiahs, and just decade
before Jesus a man died at the hands
of the Romans because he claimed TO
be the Messiah.
What Does the Jew Expect
WAS the Messiah a redeemer from
sin? No. The orthdox Jew prays
three times a day for Messiah. but
what does he expect? Not redemption
from original sin. The Messiah is for
him a king who will lead him back TO
Palestine and who, after the establish
ment of a kingdom. will rule over 1t
according 10 the principles of the JUS
tice which rules over Israel.
And in those days they dreamt Of
Messiah that they expected soon who
would lead them against Rome, with
sword in hand on TO victory and in
dependence.
The description in the new testa-
| ment does injustice to the Pharisees
The records of that book according TO
higher criticism were written at least
five decades after the events which
they are supposed to chronicle, so that
the Epistles of St. Paul are the oldest
| parts of the new testament. The pic
lures Of the Pharisees in the new testa-
ment are all one sided There has
never been religious community freed
from hypocrisy. The Pharisees were
anything but hypocrites. They be-
lieyed that Israel had been reserved
by God for a peculiar purpose. 1t was
their religion to be pious Jew meant