Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26

At the regular Fellowship service
last evening the address was delivered
by Col. H. Weinstock of Sacramento,
who took for his subject the title of his
famous volume Jesus, the Jew" In
introducing the speaker Mr.. Mills
stated that, although an Israelite. he
might be called the best Christian in
Sacramento. Mr.. Weinstock said in
part:
Had there been no Abraham there
would have been no Moses. Had there
been no Moses there would have been
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
fathers to land on these shores with
the Jewish Bible under their arms. Had
there been no pilgrim fathers there
would have been no civil or religious
liberty. Had there been no civil or
religious liberty, tyranny and despot-
ism would still rule the earth and the
human family would still live in men-
tai, moral and physical bondage.
without Jesus and without Paul, the
God of Isreal would still have been the
God of a handful, the God of a petty,
obscure and insignificant tribe; the
magnificent moral teachings of Moses
would still have been confined to the
thinly scattered believers in Judaism,
and the great world of men and women
would have been left so much the
poorer because of their ignorance of
these benign teachings.
LET the Jew, despite the centuries
of persecution and suffering be thank
r,,1 fI,ot q
Let him more fully appreciate that
through the wonderful influence of
these heroic characters the mission of
the Jew Is being better fulfilled and
his teachings are being spread to the
remotest hooks and corners of the
world by Christianity, "a religion by
which millions have been, and still are,
quickened and inspired Let the Jew
not forget that, through the influence
of Jesus and Paul. the ten command
ments of Moses, the sublime utterances
of Isaiah, of Micah, of jeremiah, the
proverbs OF Solomon and the psalms of
David, have brought and are bringing
and will continue to bring balm and
comfort, joy and happiness, spiritual
bliss and moral sunshine into untold
millions OF homes.
"Thus is the Christian, through
Jesus and Paul, deeply indebted to the
Jew; and thus is the Jew also, through
Jesus and Paul, deeply indebted to the
Christian. The Christian and Jew of
today each in his own way, is man.
fully striving to perform his part in
preaching the belief in the same God
who is adjust, all-wise and all-know-
ing; each is trying to do his share by
spreading among his fellow men a love
for morality and righteousness.
christianity and Judaism are sup
Elementary to each other. Had there
been no Judaism there could have been
no Christianity. Had there been no
Christianity the message of Judaism
could not have become so speedily uni
versalized There is ample room in this
broad world for the followers of both
beliefs to accomplish, side by side, a
most heroic religious and moral work.
A difference in matters of theology
need in no way interfere with Jew and
Christian preaching and teaching the
fatherhood OF God. and living in the
spirit of the brotherhood of man. So
to teach and so to live, whether born
under the influence of church or syna-
cog, whether looking upon the Naza-
rene as man or God, is to win moral
happiness in this world and in the
world hereafter.
May the spirit of the humble teacher
of Gallee enter the hearts and minds
of Jews and Christians and lead them
to Judge their neighbors as men and
as women and not as members of
particular race or followers Of par
ticular belief. And may the same spirit
lead Jew and Christian to judge each
other by the daily life; to shun only
the wicked and vulgar and to welcome
to their hearts and their f1resides the
good the true and the virtuous, no
matter under what form they worship
our common Father.
"Let the Christian, in accordance
with the dictates of his conscience, con-
tinue to preach Jesus as the divine
man who lived humanity, and let the
Jew learn to look upon him as the
human man who lived divinely.'
Jesus instead of being the dividing
line between Jew and Christian shall
thus become the connecting link be-
tween the divine mother religion, Juda-
ism, and her noble daughter, Chris
tianity.
MAY Jews and Christians learn to
love their neighbors as themselves, and
by example as well as by precept be-
come nations of priests and a blessing
to humanity"
Mr.. Mills announced that at the
Wednesday evening meeting Of the
Fellowship a stereopticon lecture would
be given by Mr.. G. d. Willard of the
Municipal league on New Civic
IDEALS in which views would be pre-
sented of the most attractive pro-
eressive features in other cities and
also of the Greater Los Angeles.