The sun., 1910-01-09

creed, that IL one thing. think the
word thing fits him we'll. II you mean a
man who has Jewish parentage and who
respects bis religion even II he cannot
those jewish ideas and ideals which
separate Judaism from Christianity,
that Is quite another kind OF Jew. II
you mean by the word jew q man OF
Jewish parentage who does observe all
the duties and who does cherish all ideas
and ideals Of his religion. that ID being
Jew honestly. honorably and truthfully.
IF Christian marries a jew Of the first
kind referred to there is little to say:
That kind OF Jew is invertebrate and
suppose some people can live happily
with even a jellyfish But no self respect:
ing Christian who is a Christian by belief
and in practice and not merely a Chris.
tian by accident OF birth can be happy II
married to an invertebrate. No self
respecting Christian woman can respect
lives like a Christian, who has nothing
in his home, nothing in his life TO show
that he is Jewish. who alienatest himself
from the synagogue and avoids Jewish
circles.
.The jew or Christian who believes in
the religion in which he has been born or
educate(, who lives his life in accordance
with it's customs or who accepts its dis
tinglishing doctrines cannot live happy
married life IL married to one OF another
faith than his own. Conversely the con-
scientious Christian cannot live a happy
married life IL the Jewish husband or wife
insists upon observing Jewish customs
and the requirements OF the jewish
These customs and requirements are
interviewer with the daily life OF the jew
who lives up to his religion. for every
declares that the Lord is one and the only
God. III the Christian spouse believes
that Jesus is also a God here 10 q clash.
Furthermore the members Of both families
look askanoe at each other. There can
not be anv real. loyal. whole hearted COM
mingIing Of the families by those mem
bers who are loyal to the religion in which
they were born and which they profess.
The next question is Are the jews and
the gentiles nearer together to-dsyE
A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
That Jews and gentiles are nearer
together to-day is true. great numoer
Romans and not the Jews who put Jesus
TO death. and therefore have no feeling
against the Jews on that account. A
| great number OF Christians know that the
Jews in all countries to-day are de-
scended not from the jews who were IN
Jerusalem when Pontius PLATE, the
Roman. arrested Jesus and executed him
as leader Of incipient rebellion, but are
descended from those Jews who lived
in other parts OF Palestine. or who lived
in south Europe or in north Africa, AND
even in far OF Spain in that fateful month
of that fateful year. They could nc
more have heard Of Jesus and the Greek,
| mot Jews) who cried Cruelty HIml
J than we in New York to-day can hear oi
what happens in Timbuctu or KAN
ohatka, where neither steam nor electricity
-Christians and Jews are nearer to.
gether to-day because better minds
Of both understand that religion Is Z
matter between man and his God. ThiI
keeps us separate in home life, but i
draws US together in political or CONNER
cial life.
-As TO the question, Do we. feel II, I
calamity II a Jew is converted into tn,
Christian faith?' So few Jews are con
yerted out Of conviction that IL is hardl,
necessary TO answer. Jews are convertet
as a rule for revenue only
form Of conversion in order TO get mar
ried. Or a Christian does the same. l
in a feiRned conversion and the trutl
comes out sooner OF later. In my owl
experience Of thirty -ive years find tina
happily. Sometimes Jewish men hav
married Christian girls on color and tn
Christian girl goes through the form o
conversion. Sometimes good Christiai
girls have married bad Jewish men an
have been made Jewesses:
The man may fancy himself in Low
with her, but in few years there IL any
thing but happiness between them. hithe
thew separate or they live 'nominaliy 70
gether' perhaps in the same house, bu
with their hearts far apart. The painfu
them. A marriage which means un
happiness is n calamity.
Afhe next question is, will the syna
Rogue accept into the Jewish faith con
vert OF different race OF inherited rcli
gion? Yes. certainly. provided the con
vert is sincere.
DIFFERENT WAYS or JEW AND GENTLE
-.Would the welfare or commonwes
of the country be better IL there was
closer association OF Jew and gentle
This in a serious question. For tn
political and commercial purposes OF th
commonwealth Jews and gentiies are ons
In social life they are different and !
reliS Sious life they are very different.
believe that every citizen should have
religious education and should have m
hgiOus convictions.
sIf a man is only a nominal Jew {
Christian and has no real belief IN Go
as the Being to whom he is PERSONAL,
directly responsible, he is a menace TO III
. commonwealth. Morality without a b'
, lief in God is theoretic. History has
! thousand times demonstrated this and hs
: shown that morality without the COZ
seriousness OF ptTbOfAl ICopOuotDihty
. God is a failure There were many ethc'
culturists in Greece and Rome when bot
, were most rotten. You cannot be cor
, scious Of your responsibility to God
, YOU call yourself jew and do not live
Jewish life that il Jewish because loyl
: to Jewish law and it's presentation Of God
will. A Jew or Christian untrue to h
God may well be untrue to his countr,
, How can a commonwealth be well {
better OF with such invertebrates?
! As for the question concerning II
purity of the Jewish race. what do "
mean by the expression the Jewish rac'
As Du Maurier observed, there are yer
, few Christians OF eminence who have NJ
. in them a drop Of the precious fui'
Therefore IL by race you mean bloo'
then il is difficult to answer the queetic
as TO the purity OF the Jewish race. for
, believe many Christians, eminent an
not eminent. have Jewish blood.
, The Jews have lived for over so
wears, have spread all over the work
, and il would be very strange II they hs
not intermarried and become merge
with the general population. Their d.
scendants are OF the Jewish race in u
sense that they have Jewish blood
! them. but they are not OF pure Jewish rae
On the other hand there are Jews, hun
/ dreds of thousands Of them, who haS
ever intarunarriad and who have mali