The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-24
EAEBl SALES OF ST. LOUIS DE
cLAREs COMMON PEOPLE
FRIENDLY TO JESUS.
1000 TEARS OF ABUSE
Has Been Eased On Liael--S- ddueee5
and Romans Responsible for
Conviction and
Crueifixion.

It. Louis, Aprik-23-In striklns
sermon before his congregation at
Temple Shaare Emctn, Friday evening"
Habli Sale took up Jesus Of Na2a-
reth," and reiutat.an OF the claii1
that the Jews were responsible for
crucilixion. This claim, Ir
sale said, Is responsible for all me
persecution Of the Jews. He main
tained its impossibility and injustice,
on the ground that the Phariseas, wno
were the real rank ana file Of the
Jews at that time, taught love and
justice as JESUS himself, tha, they
were grossly oppressed by the Saddu
Gees, their priests, who were in
league with Roman tyranny, and that
such part as the Sadducees took in
Christ's death did not in any way
represent he Jewish people. 'thie".
fourths of whom had never even
heard of Jesus name" Part of the
sermon follows:
"WhatRIHaye We TO Do With Jesus
Of Nazareth? There can be no douat
in the mind of the unbiased student
Of history that the Jews have been
the victims OF religious prejudice and
fana;icism From this cause. more
than any other, their martyrdom mas
sprung. They have been branded as
tie "Christ-killer aAd with this sits
ma hey have wandered through the
centuties suffering unparalleled tor
tirss. To this oyershadowing libel
$hat his ancestors were to blame far
the tragedy on Calvary, may be
traced the social and political lisabil-
Hy under which the Jew labors to his
day. If it were true that they she |
the blood Of an nno2ent man, their
have grieyously answer
ca II for they have borne a million
cross for the one tha, was raised
on C5lgotsa.
Masses Followed Jesus.
The history of mankind is Stained
with more than on. judicial murder
and were it not for the peculiar dog
mas which, after bis death became
sttached to the man of Nazare,h, r's
unjust execution would have tcen ad-
dyed like all others. i, Il
"The Jews, as a people, should no
more be taxed for the death of Jesus
than the Germans for the execution
of John Huss, the English for behead-
ing Charles T., or the French for tfe
taking the life of Louis XVI. The
Gody Of the people were not a parry
to these executions. The Gospe. 5
themselves show that Jesus hal a
large following among The people IN
the unonimous statement hat the
chief priests and their henchmen did
not dare to lay hold of him at tie
feast, lest a tumult arise among the
people,
"Now the masses belonged to the
party OF lhe Pharisees, as we kn "
from unimpeachable testimony, AMI
this fact alone we're sufficient to ex-
onerate them. even If there were no
other proof that the Pharlsees could
have had no cause to desire his re-
moval. II there be one fact which
stands out uncontrailcted in the Cos
pei narrative, it is that the chief
priests and their adherents were
mainly instrumental IN bringing Jesus
to trial and condemning him. Al
anias and his son-inlaw, Caiphas, aud
all the ecclesiastical worthless of those
days, were Sadducees. The higa
Priests, the family of oethus, who had
risen 10 power and eminence through
the house of Herod, were the deposi
taries OF judicial powers In those days
and of course the sole functionaries
in the temple. The Pharisees were
the patriots, imbued with strong re-
ligious and national convictions, and
as we know from Josephus and Rah-
hinical sources they waged incessan'
warfare against the Saddueean afis
tocrats, who sough. to tyrannize anf
exploit the common people
Both the Judaean king and the
high priests were hirelings of Rome
and between the Romans and theil
satellites the people were between
the upper and the neither millstoue
When we consider this sta.e of affairs
it Is not surprising to find these two
agents Of cruelty and oppression fed
Grated against man like Jesus, who