Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-03-09
Tells of Source
Of Christianity
Macon Baptist Outlines What De-
nomination Owes to Jews

MACON, March Drew DR.. Will
liam Russell Owen, pastor of the First
Baptist church, preached last Sunday
night on what the Baptists Owe the
Jews" He was heard by a large
congregation.
In other sermons of the series, DR..
Owen spoke on what the Baptists
owe other denominations
He said in part:
1--WE who are Genties believe that
Jesus is the Messiah of whom the
psalmist sand and pirophets wrote
and the faithful dreamed, He is the
answer to us who are Christians of
the worlds hungering quest after the
perfect religion and the fullest revela-
ton of Jehovah.
"But Judaism is thousands Of
years older than Christianity and
Judaism has in it all of the germs
which we believe came full-blossomed
in Christ
Jehovah Blessed the Jew.
Abraham was the Father of Is
rael and Jehovah promised to him
that blessing which has made the
Jew the wonder race of the world.
I will bless them that bless thee;
and in thee shall all the families of
the earth be blessed and still again
did God confirm that strong pledge
to greatness with the added word, I
Will make of thee great nation, Cen
csis 1872.
Staggering out from the land of
the Chaldean fireworshippers seek
ing to follow the cali of his God the
Father OF the Jewish people had
born in his heart passion to teach
the world the oneness of the eternal
indivisible God and to summon the
races of all the earth into final unity.
Beaten, blasted and broken by the
vicissitudes of the homelessness and
slavery and exile; disciplined and tut
orcd and cherished by the most inti-
mate friendship and protecorate and
tender care of God Himself this pc
cuiiar and mighty people wrote the
world its laws on tablets of stone and
carved by the hand of its own Jeho-
yah; this people sang for all the ages
to come the worlds sublimest poetry
in the majestic psalms and this peo-
pie started benefcient streams Of
blessings according with that early
promise by which the world has been
made a fertile field for the worshipl
and alteration of the montheistic ideal
OF religion ever since their early rise.
In. that golden age of glory when
David sat upon its throne, Israel was
the wonder and admiration of all the
world
Jew Financed Columbus.
"A Castillian Jew, Louis de Santen-
gal, advanced Columbus 1900 ducats
and persuaded the queen to give him
her support and it has been said "Not
Jewels (of Isabella) but Jews were
the real financial basis for Columbus
discovery of America Authority
says that Suzanne Fonterosa, Jew
ess, was the mother of Columbus.
Rodrigo de Trianna, Jew, first saw
land from Columbus ship and Luis
de Torres, Jew, was the first to set
foot on American soil
Amos Lawrence, of Boston. and
Judah Touro, of New. Orleans, a Jew, |
gave the first money with which was
built the monument of Bunker Hill. |
the first shaft of glory to American |
valorous deeds.
Other Illustrious Jews
TN the field of craftsmanship the |
world owes to Israel: Gambetta, the
frst president of the republic of |
France; Disraeli, the master mind oil
English politics for quarter of a J
century; in poetry Oeinrich Heine
and Jehuda Halevi, the Spanish poet
sang their immortal songs; Israel
Zangwell wrote, "The Jewish mission
will never be over till Christians
come to the religion of Christi" RAJ
chei and Bernhardt and Junius Bru-
tbs Booth in the field of are werel