The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-13
JEW MAKES CHARGES
 AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Says They Do Not Preach Gospel
 to the Hebrews-Church is \ Dead Because it Has Neglected
 This Duty

Hartford, April 12.-In an address at the First Baptist Church last night
 Joseph Cohn strongly arraigned the
 Christians for their conduct toward the Jews.
 'sIt is rare thing" he said. "to
 find a real friend to a Jew. The Jews
 have doctrine that every Gentile is a born Jew-hater. They explain the occasional occurrence of a kindly one | amongst them by saying that Jew ish soul has fallen in the body of Gentle. Tonight I want to bring be- fore you a Jewish problem, very briefly in outline In Romans I:16. Paul | says I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for 1t is the power of God unto salvation to all that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. These words, to the Jew first, gen. orally get left out when that text is quoted and the. text stops at tall that believeth.' Tonight Jew has the power of interpretation. The only di- vine order always found in the Bi- ble to the Jew first
 ''These words grate on the nerves of the Gentle but they stand to this I day. Christ came to the Jews. He told his disciples to go to the lost
 sheep of the House of Israel. It was
 not until the end of his ministry that he said, Go ye to all nations Be-
 gin with the Jew. Paul always went
 preached to the Gentiles. He never ! varied that order. As long as the
 early church followed that order it | was blessed. Something is the mat l ter with the church to-day. Various | things have been tried to awaken the church but you can't tickle a dead
 man. The reason you have to-day a dead church is that you have no Jews in it. The church does not go to the
 Jew first, nor last nor at all. This Is the greatest crime of the modern church. God has given the world a
 use it. That recipe is preach the gospel to all the world. but to the
 Jew first
 T base my appeal on your direct responsibility to God. I want to take away from your minds the idea that
 Christ The ratio of the conversions
 of Jews to the heather in proportion
 to the work done for them is 2 to 1. | The church has not tried Jewish
 work, has not given it fair chance. The Jews do not know that the Mes
 coming year after year. They think
 that he will come and put an end to their troubles. In New York there are a million Jews. One man out I of four you meet there is Jew. Yet
 will tell you that not 10000 of those Jews in Christian New York have ever been told the story of Jesus Christ" The speaker spoke of the martyr
 dom of the Jews throughout the cen- l turies. He told of the torturing of l the Jew in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, and of the recent massa- cres of the Jews in Russia "All these murders" he said. "have been done | through the church and in the name | of Christ Do you wonder that the Jews hate ihe Christians and the churches? DO you blame the Jew be- cause he curses the cross?"
 He told of the long search of his father before he found the Messiah | and of his work in New York; how from words in the Talmud he con- | cluded that the Messiah must have | come; and that the revered Talmud
 was in error, and of his final deter
 imitation to come to America, where | he had been told that he would learn of the Messiah, who really had come, | only his people did not know it. He
 concluded with an appeal to those present to pray for the Jewish mis- sion and to contribute money to it. 'It is the work of the very God of Israel and every Christian should | have Sboro in