The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-29
CHRISTIANS TAKE ALL
BLESSINGS A j LEAVE
ALL CURStS 10 JEW
SAYS REV. j. H. ROSENBERG TO
GATHERING AT FIRST METH
ODiST CHURCH.
WORLD CAME TO JEWISH RELIGION
Shows Viewpoint OF Jew With Regard
To Christianlty-Rabbi Says "a Had
Rather be a Swine Than a Chris
tian"-Pleads For Help.

Declaring 1--WE take all the bless
ings in the Bible to ourselves, anC
leave all the curses to the Jews" Rev
J. H. Rosenberg, Superintendent OF
Christian Hebrew Missions in Tennes
see. spoke to well filled house at the
First Methodist church on Sunday
night. He said The Christian Church
thinks it is the whole cheese, but il
is merely a partaker of salvation, not
all of it,"
He read the parable of the olive tree
in Romans and spoke from the fif-
teenth verse of eleventh Romans. He
stated that the Christians have two
ways of looking at the Jew: Cd AS a
noble, vast people, the elect of God;
or 90 A miserable, ignoble people,
whom God has sent straight to hell.
Neither of these is the correct view
point, said the preacher. They should
be looked upon exactly as Christians.
He stated that the glory of the Jew
fish people consists in their nearness to
God in His plan of salvation. God
has not revealed Himself to the world,
except through Jesus, a jew" he stat
cd He stated: THE Jews are the
exception of the worlds people. They
are the most highly esteemed and be-
loved of God. God identified Himself
with the Jews, and redemption could
be brought to the world only through
Christ, Jew"
The speaker said that the reason
the Jew could not accept Christ was
that they had no true conception Of
sin They look upon sin as an act,
not a state, he stated. The Jewish
people cannot conceive of sin Of
omission, only of commission, was his
opinion. He stated that the Jew be-
Heved that the Messiah had never
come; that they we're looking for Him
inst as earnestly as the Christians
The Jewish people expect Him to come
with dominion from sea to sea. He
stated, the Jewish people stumble over
the completely of His humiliation
DR.. Rosenberg stated that the Jew
ish people look upon Christianity just
as they do upon idolatry He said that
everything degrading in the Jewish
mind is connected with Christianity.
He said "The Christians have come
over to the Jewish religion; the gen
tiles have become believers In Jew,
Jesus Christ" He quoted a celebrated
Rabbi as once saying to him Il had
rather be a swine than a Christian"
The same Rabbi said "Your Christian
ity is a beautiful religion, but | have
never met Christian" The speaker
T1old at length of the persecution of the
Jews by the Christians. The Jew, he
said, had formed their opinion of
Christianity by contact with the Chris
tions themselves He then told that
the object of the Jewish Mission was
to tell the Jew of the true Christian
:1ty, and to attempt to convert them to
the doctrines of Christ.
He closed with an appeal to the peo-
pie to be generous to the Jew to give
him the place in the world that was
ibis by right; to show him that Chris
tianity was the only religion that war
ranted his belief and confidence.
At the conclusion of the talk sub
stantial collection was taken up for
the benefit Of the Missions.