Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
The Mission and Character Of n. Jew

BY DIR. Robert Stuart Macarthur. Pastor
Calvary Baptist Church, New York City.
The Jew still has a great mission even
In countries called Christian. One part
OF that mission Is to convert Christians to
the religion OF Christ. Many so-caIled
Christians are so unlike Him whom they
call Master. that they have virtually re-
pudiated his lordshlp in the affairs OF their
daily lives. They are utterly unworthy OF
the Christian narsa.
TIL Jew belongs 20 the oldest aristoc-
racy In the world. Americans who boast
of having come over in the Mayfiower, and
Britons who claim as their ancestors
those who came over with the Norman
conquest, alike excite a smile on the part
of Jews whose blue blood can be traced to
Solomon and David. 10 Joshua and Moses.
to Abraham and Adam.
The Jew deserves high honor for his pa
triotism in all countries and centuries.
This statement is true of the Jew In Spain,
both before and after the Spanish inqui-
sition; OF the Jew In Germany, although
the Germans are now among the greatest
Jew-baiters. forgetting that the Jews re-
sided on the Rhine, enjoying a high civ
ilization when the ancestors of German
Gentiles roamed the forests. clad In boar
skins; of the Jew in France, som Of
whose greatest soldiers and marshals were
Jews; true of the jew I'm England, even
when pitilessly driven from the country,
which was his home for centuries, or when
enjoying the complete emancipation Sc
cured 10 the jew in 1858. when he was no
longer obliged to subscribe the oath, O
the faith OF a true Christian and the
statement is equally true OF the Jew as IN
American patriot in the war or the revo-
luton, in the war OF 1872, and I'm the civil
war, According to Hon. Simon Wolf. as
quoted by DR.. Madison G. Peters, SS4 Jew
ish soldiers served in the union and con-
federate armies during the civil war. Some
OF the bravest soldiers in both armies were
Jews. Their names shine with a luster
which Will grow brighter with the passing
years.
The Jew has an equally honored place in
poetry and in art. Matthew Arnold goes
so far as TO call Heine the most import
ant German successor and continuator of
Goethe In Goethe's most important line OF
activity" Jews In almost every country
In Europe have attained fame as poets.
novelists, dramatists. actors. musicians
and esSayists, and as painters and sculp-
tors.
The greatest historian OF the Christian
church Is Neander; IL is affirmed that his
name originally was David Mendel, and
that his father was a Jewish peddler. Did
space permit, the roll OF Jews as mathe-
maticians, astronomers, ~philologists and
biologists would be given. In medicine
SNNS AAhNCa always hiallltdaIlt0 ~ IOTeTIOSI
place. As philosophers. jurists and scien-
lists, the whole world has crowned the
Hebrew with honor. From the lays OF
Joseph. Moses and Daniel to the time OF
Lord Beaconsfield. the Jew has been pre-
eminent as a statesman. This remark APP
plies to Spain, to Portugal, to Holland to
Germany, to France, to Italy and to Eng
land. In the financial world, he has al
ways been recognized as king. In the pull
pit, he has been a great power for GOOD
and for God.
He has endured persecution with a
heroism worthy OF the noblest saints and
martyrs the world has ever produced. In
Spain, where the Jews had numerous
colonies since the time of Hadrian. their
fortunes were confiscated and their bodies
were tortured eight centuries before the
Spanish inquisition. Afterward they en-
dured all the horrors of that satanic In
QUESTION. Autos da Re happened In Portu-
gal as late as 1776. and In South America
as late as 1912. The story OF these terrible
prosecutions Is written IN the blood OF
Gods ancient children.
Racial hatred and religious bigotry are
twin relics of barbarism. The cruel per-
~secutors of those early days, and OF today
In Russia, are disciples OF s~ataninity rather
than of Christianity. So-called Christians
OF this character made atheism respectable
and even co~mmendable.
The Jews today, In their patient endur.
ance OF unspeakable wrongs, better Illus.
tratc the ideal character set forth by
Christ than do the hendish prosecutors
who falsely bear the Christian name. II
the conduct of these prosecutors were con.
sistently Christian. many Of us would re.
pudiate the Christian name.
i most heartily congratulate the Jewish
people OF America that on Thursday
November 30, next, Thanksgiving day, they
are to celebrate the two hundred and
iftieth anniversary of the settlement oi
Jews In America. Their consistent patriot.
ism, symmetrical education, intelligent In.
dustry and noble character nave been I'm.
portant factors in the development OF ths
American republic. The past Of the Jew
In all countries and centuries has beer
heroic and triumphant; his picture will bt
respondent and glorious. All hail to the
Jew in every land, and especially In oui
W noble, free, radiant and queenly
America.