The Denver Jewish news., 1923-06-06
tcontinned from last week..

VAPASfNSS
Jewish worship is the chief OF the diff
fcrentine wherein the inward and out
ward clements of jewish life meet and
llei,d. Even though Jew,s and Christ
inn> meet in worship, be it remembered
that Christians breathe Christianity In
the circumuinbient air. Everything In
IL non-lewish world makes against the
retention of Jewish loyalty. In the
Western world as 1t is. everything
mikes for Jewish disintegration.
But the heart of the whole matter
lies. ussI see II. In Mr.. Holmes making
for one thing and thinking and speak
ing of another. What he would have,
and what l ut his side would have. Is
thnt Jew and Christian shall work to-
rctler. toll together. serve together. But
| they are mistaken. utterly In error. who
Imagine that 1t is our failure to wOr-
ship together which makes impossible
our working together. From the minds
Of Jews and Christians who alike hear
me, wOnld remove the erroneous no.
tiOn that II only We can worship to-
rc,her ti,cn we will be one. and the old
be,;i ended.
| Ny fundamental objection to the plea
for the common worship Of lew and
Christian. save as these should and do
meet together from time to time in n
common service. il that the propose.
involves wrongly placed emphasis
for my part would do what In me lies
In order to prevent Jew and Christian
alike Imagining that II is the difference
OF worship that divides them or that
keeps them apart. and that worshipping
together would or will solve all their
problems. t..4a
infinitely more IL necessary. ratlitf
than less. despite Mr.. Holiness finely
spoken message Jews and Christians
nrc not Kept apart by the fact thnt We
are Jews nor that Christians are
Christians. not by the circumstance
that we worship as Jews nor YET by the
fact thnt Christians worship as Christ
ians. Nothing In Jewish faith or life
stands In the wny Of perfect aud fra
icrnnl accord Oh the part of the Jew
with tho Christian. The doctrine OF
the chosen people il not 40 firmly or
widely held by Jews today as to stand
between Jews nnd Christians. What
stands In the way Of u higher unity Of
Jew and eiirixtian IL something that
Mr, Hd,wes ylc.F not ae,se. hecs,,sa It
~ SO foreign ~ m. avn sosIi1 anacly.
the whole Of the attitude Of Christen-
dom townri the Jew. Worshipping
f..th the low from time to time may
help tn corwct this. but more is needed
on the pnrt of the Christinn-a new
understanding of the fifth of the Jew,
n new attitude toward the life OF the
Jew or tcward the living Jew. -
Two things keep Jew and Christian
upart-the un-Jewishness Of the Jew
and the Christlessness, Of Christendom.
II IL the un-Jewish Jew who excites
abhOrrence. 1t IL the Jew without a
God the Jew who lightly
cnsts away the ennobling and exalting
memories Of his past, the Jew ready to
all for mess OF pOtnge the high and
molly things In the faith and life OF
Israel The Goddess Jew, the Jew strip
\ ming himself. ns 1t were, of the Jewish
God consciousness and turning his back
upon the moral genius Of his people, the
Jewish man who IL cheap or mean or
rcwdyish the Jewish woman who IL
Sulynr-these stand between jew and
Christian and not cur wOrshipping to-
yether as Jews.
but IL Jews and Christians are In
some measure kept apart by the un-
.Iewisln,ss of the Jew. let 1t Ike stated
without fear and with utter courage
.liat what most of all stands between
Jew, and Christian Is the Christlessnesus
Of ChriSten,lOm. What is needed Is not
that Jew aud Christian shnfl worship
together for an hour. but that Jews
become re-Juslaizetl and Christmas at
last be Christinnized. 1 would, II l
could, win Jews to Jewishness.
would. II 1 could, proselytize Chris
tians in the direction of Christianity.
The most urgent and imperative need
of the world today is the Christianiza-
tiOn OF ChristendOm.
Once ngnin protest. as I did touch
ing the Oberammergnu spectacle.
against selling priceless things too
c.lanply-religion for some tears. or for
IL sigh OF sympathy with suffering. In
the same way / protest against the
proposed solution of one of the pro-