South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-11


wide view OF events and his keen.
| investigating mind has always TN
PEELED him 10 discover and analyze
the cause OF all great movements
This is what has placed many Jews
, like Beaconsheld and others amonF
/ the great statesmen and publcists
I OF history. DIT. Cron bach's state
ment may be theoretically rabbini-
cal. but ii is also extravagantly radi-
cal.
Reasons For Non-acceptance.
or equal interest is DR. Cron-
bach's three reasons why Jew
should not accept Christ: CD Il
refuse 10 accept the religion Of
those who burnt my ancestors" 1t
would be just as consistent for the
Belgians to refuse 10 breathe the
same air as Germany because the
Huns committed such atrocities
among the Belgians. or for a drown
/ ing Armenian to refuse a life-belt
| thrown him by a Turk because Tur-
! key has prosecuted his ancestors for
/ ages. The rabbi seems to desire 10
/ perpetuate hatred. Supposing the
Christians should keep up hating
the Jews because their ancestors
wickedly instigated the death Of
Jesus and the Jews would retaliate
with hate. what would be the re-
suit? The Jews would soon become
extinct inasmuch as the Christians
could furnish several times as many
haters as the Jews. Fortunately the
majority OF Christians and Jews do
not think as does the rabbi.
90 Z believe in the unity Of God.
Trinity is not unity" Americans
think differently. We have an unity
OF government with a trinity of de-
partments; the executive, legisla-
tive and judicial. DR.. Cronbach
would have us think that if there
were three members IN a family
there could be no unity in the home.
At least the argument is funny #
not fundamental.
CD THE Bible commands, thou
shalt have no other gods before
Me- Exactly! The command
comes from the Triune Cod We
agree. Ye- the above arguments
against the gospel are typical of
such criticisms whether from Jew
or Gentle. There is much majestic
grand and divine about the religion
OF the ancient Jew. It is 10 be re-
GREETED that If the modern Jew re-
fuses Christianity that he should
also refuse the Hebraic idea Of God
It seems as If the Jew. Conan,
was near the truth when he said
that the modern Jew is rapidly
drifting into infdelity If not atheism
because Of MS rejection of Christ.
Christianity Makes Gift.
One cannot help but think DR.
Crorbach's arraignment is an un-
gracious one For centuries the
Jews by the "wailing WALL at Jeru-
salem and elsewhere, have been
praying for the privileges of again
possessing the Promised Land. No
one thinks that all the Jews of the
w. rid could ever had taken two
miles of that land from the Turk,
and if they did conquer 1t that they
could hold it two months alone. And
no one denies but that the allies
could have conquered Palestine
without the aid of q single Jew. Yet
we see Christian nations allied to-
gether. conqIering Palestine, giving
it to the Jew without money and
without price" and then establish
ing a protec-orate over the land SO
that the jew may enjoy the free
gift without injury from the "un-
speakable Turk"
why did these nations do this2
Only because they were impelled
by Christianity 10 do so. Where or
when, has a Jew expressed gratitude
TO the gospel for this wonderful
gift?
Anyway, we have on record a
Jewish rabbi who has launched 2
challenge against that Christ whose
commands have given the Jew the
realization of his fondest hopes.
Deucacy renders it inappropriate
to answer the rabbits reference TO
Christ's parertage. The argument
advanced is so we'll known and time
worn and has been SO many times
conclusively answered that it needs
no space here. No expectation is en-
tertained that the rabbi viii be con-
vinced Of his error. Minds have
varied all through the ages. OF
certain class in his day the Savior
said.
IF they hear not Moses and
the prophets neither will they be
persuaded through one rose from
the dead"
This reply is only to record regret
that anyone should seek 10 inter
rupt without cause, the good feel
ing between Christians and Jews
existing in South Bend and else
where.
The challenge is useless. Look al
II from a human viewpoint. The
Jewish religion started with Abra-
ham. Today the Jews number Il or
Is million. But the particular
phase Of Judaism advocated By the
rabbi numbers only a fraction OF the
~ million. While Christianity
starting one thousand and nine hun
dred years later, today numbers six
or seven hundred million adherents.
One wonders what has been gained
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