The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-10-14

Brooklyn, N. Y, October 2.-Pastor
Russell of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
addressed a large and very attentive
audience today at the Academy of Mu-
sic from the above text He said
Ours Is day in which. more than
ever before, the statement of our text
is dlsputed-d isbelieved-b Jews. Gen.
tiles and Christians. The great Chris
tian author, St Paul. agrees exactly
with the words of Moses in our text,
saying. without the shedding of
blood there Is 40 remission of sins"
Hebrews tx. %. The orthodox jew
and the orthodox Christian. therefore.
are i'm substantial agreement as TO the
( foundation of things and the unortho
dox are In agreement of opposition
The latter agree that there Is no neccs
sity for Sin Atonement-that the later
thought of all the wise men of the
earth. the greatest ministers and rab.
bis, Is that there is no such thing as
Original Sin: hence could be no such
thing as necessity for caccelling it-of
making an atonement or satisfaction
to Justice on behalf of it. Two things
have contributed to these unorthodox
unscriptural views.
a. The agnoStic Jew not only dis
putes the Bible as an authority on the
subject. but. in addition. admits to
himself that If the shedding of blood
If the sacrifices commanded by the
Levitical code for Sin Atonement be
admitted to be right and necessary. il
Jewish people have had no Sin Atone
ment in any sense of the word for
more than eighteen centuries, because
Sin Atonement must be made accord
ing TO certain specified conditions or
else ii could not be made at all. The
loss of the Ark of the Covenant con
tanning the Law, and covered by the
mercy seat, was one of these disasters
The destruction of Jerusalem, the City
of the great King. was another. and.
above all, the Law required that the
sacrifices should be killed. and the
presentations scientifically made to God.
only by Il priest who could show his
lineage as II son of Aaron.
(2J Since the destruction of Jerusalem
A. ID. 70. the Jewish nation has been
scattered and devastated by their foes
some of these, alas. claiming to be
Christians and dishonoring the name
of Jesus. As result all official rec
ords and genealogies of the Jewish
people are broken. vitiated. destroyed
Undoubtedly there are numerous de
scendantS from Aaron living today: but.
since they cannot prove their descent.
they are absolutely forbidden to at.
tempt to make Il Sin Atonement on the
Atonement Day Viewing the matter
from this standpoint the unOrthOdOX
Jew feels all the more inclined TO re
pudiate the necessity for any Sin
Atouement. Alas. indeed. many of
them seem not only to have lost con
fidence in the Mosaic arrangement. but
to have lost faith entirely in personal
God. We hope and believe that many
of these are sincere and will be blessed
and assisted back to faith shortly and
TO a better understanding of the holy
Scriptures and of Gods dealings with
their nation
jewish Atonement Farce.
In view of what we have said, all
must see that II would be impossible
:, for the Jews properly to observe the
Atonement Day. having no priest nor
other facility necessary to the require
ments of the Law. Nevertheless. an out
ward show Of ceremony is kept up. On
the proper Atonement Day of their year.
!. the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month,
the Jew 6guratively acknowledges that
the merit of che previous sacrifice has
expired He fasts. He prays, accord.
ing to the original program. But he
has no priest. No bullock Is slain for
the sins of the tribe of Levi. No goat
Is slain for the sins of the other tribes
t And no blood Is taken into the Most
Holy to make an Atonement. Not
t only have they no priest to officiate
D but they have no mercy Some
| of them wiring the neck of rooster,
r swinging 1t over the head three times
But this was not the sacrifice of the
+ Day of Atonement and could not take
r its place.
w e SuOulu not De LnlSuHueISlOou us
holding up the Jew to ridicule. Quite
p to the contrary, we sympathize with
d him. We appreciate his reverence for
the Divine Law and his desire for fel
e lowship with God in the cleansing OF
Y his sins We would, however, suggest
S to them that nothing is to be gaineg
e by deceiving themselves and each oth
= er into the supposition that tkeir
S Atonement Day brings them any relief
l. or harmonizes them in any ser je OF
d the word with the Almighty, What
). they do is n mere farce. The sooner
, this be acknowledged the sooner will
p their honesty in the matter bring them
n into the proper condition of heart &c
q recognize that the sins of more than
eighteen centuries rest upon them un
4 cancelled and that this is the explana
ton of the calamities that have be
. fallen them
When Israelites come properly to un
derstand the situation. they will see
that all their hopes center in Mes
slabs Kingdom. Messiah is not only
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