Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Rev. MT. very's Views.

MT. Editor: I wish to dissent from
 The Bulletins sanction of Mayor GaSnor,s refusal to allow the gospel to be preached to the Jews in Brooklyn district The sanction of such an act would be more in keeping with yellow journalism than by a paper that gen. orally has a right view upon civic and moral questions When a state off, free exercise of religious thought eith- CT outdoors or indoors, it seems to me he is exceeding his authority; and coming dangerously near of prescribing rights guaranteed by the constitution of the United States to every citizen. MT. Gaynor lays much emphasis upon what we have received from the Old Testament Scriptures. etc, concluding, therefore, that because of those valued traditions. they should be let alone. But a Jew. and a very much greater
 man than MT. Gaynor can ever hope to be, said that he would be willing to be .accursed." that .shis brethren (the Jews) according to the flesh,' might know Christ and the Gospel. Evident ly he counted it worth while to preach the gospel to the Jews. notwithstand- ing the many redeeming features of what they know and what they were they needed redemption and this can be obtained only through the gospel of Jesus Christ Then, too, the found CT of this Gospel to be declared and propagated, whatever it may cost or involve; says: This gospel shall be preached in all the world and to every creature" It is plain therefore that this commission cannot be full filed unless men fired with it's worth and importance carry it to men who would never turn aside to hear 1t in a regular place of worship. The spirit that opposes outdoor evangelism is neither of God nor of the truth, for it is this sort of ministry that has, more than any other one thing, guar anteed to this great American repub- lie it's most cherished liberties. And to classify such effort under the gibe of proselyting is misnomer. for the presentation of the Gospel appeals to the mind. heart and conscience of men and leaves with them the matter of decision. what each shall do with Jesus, who is called Christ Then there is another consideration Where there are Jews and Gentiles, the Jews have the first claim Nupon the Gospel, for the order of propagating the Gospel was ito the Jews first and then to the GentiIe.' The fact. therefore, that the Jews believe in the lone true God, and their traditions come down to us from the twilight of the world," does not seem sufficient from the Gospel which MT. Gaynor seeks to expound- l recall one who having accepted the Gospel, preached it all over the world as essential to salvation, and he was a Jew of the highest culture, and claims his new religious experience to be a revela ton from heaven; and this revelation was not given to him for his own edificatfon, but that in me, says Paul (the Jew) first Jesus Christ might sheW forth all long suffering, for a pattern to them that should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting" T.. Tim i:16- Speaking of the Old Testament, which Mr. Gaynor makes so much of, and too much cannot be made of it, if the spirit is discerned, for the letter of it apart from the spirit killeth," says the apostle Paul sIf the ministrations of death. written and engraved in stones was glorious'- which glory was to be done away in Christ''-"how shall not the illustra- tion of the Spirit Gin the Gospel be rather glorious'l seeing then we have such hope we use great boIdness of speech Such things were deemed expedient by this converted Jew, who has given to us about a third of the New Testament, in order that the 'sveiI' still over the hearts of his breth- for every Sabbath day in reading in Moses and the Law, that "veiP' re- mains untaken away But when they return to the Lord Jesus Christ, that "veil'' shall be taken away. And with a great deal of wisdom he asks How shall they hear without a preacher ?" Perhaps MT. Gaynor and ''wise-minded Americans" may answer this, but for those that know by actual experience what the Gospel of salvation means, the surest and safest way is, as the Gospel demands, to Ego out into the streets and lanes and compel, by earn est entreaty men to come to Christ. So instead of city officials obstructing the work of evangelism. they are morally bound to lend whatever influence they may be able to give, not for the Jews only but for all nationalities- To this end the Tight of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ will be manifest, and peace on earth and good will among men" will become a fact instead of a theory.
 Do me the kindness of printing this in your paper as one who desires to put myself on record as being preju- diced in favor of the Gospel as the means by which civil and religious liberty shall become permanently fixed in this glorious republic for which my father gave four years of active serv- ice in the late civil war. An open Bi- ble and free gospel can alone make a free people!
 REV. J. R. VERY.
 [And what q Gospel of peace 1t would be if the Hebrew invaded the Baptist neighborhood. the Baptist the CafbaIif- ppiOhhorf1o05S TTrif1r-