The Denver Jewish news., 1923-04-04
EXCERPTS FROM SERMON
DELIVERED BY MAXWELL
+. LEVY BEFORE THE AD-
VENTISTS BIBLE CLASS
SUNDAY, MARCH 31ST.

triumph of civilization and the utter
annihilation of the spirit of hate is
sadly lacking in the world today. Grim
reality has unmasked the feigned mill
email ideals which were so prevalent
a few years ago. The smOldering fires
of the baser passions of humanity have
burst forth in all their fury threaten
ing to overthrow the very pillars of
civilization. Many a disgraceful scene
of extreme racial hatred has cast its
foul blot over the nations of the Eu-
ropean world, until we recoil from even
II reflection upon their sordid details
IThey evidence the fact that hatred is
still the ruling passion in the breast of
humanity. that sin of ignorance holds
the world i'm its deadly grip.
And for all the madness and inhu-
manity of men, the intrigues, the plots
and counter-plots innumerable the race
hatred and class antagOniSm, the per-
fidy of Il world gone mad, for all this.
the semi-civilized lands of Europe have
made the Jew the scape-gOat and have
turned ON him the edge of their wrath.
We are not surprised at the wave of
anti-semitism leaving its trail of
wounded hearts. broken homes and
blasted hopes in Russia, the Ukraine,
Poland or n Turkey. but it seems in
credible that n sane American. breath
ing the spirit of freedom and justice.
could even dare to publish as facts, the
dime novel fiction, born of diseased
and degraded mind. which is found in
the Ford pamphlets. Surely this out
burst of hatred is but a kindred spirit
to the baseness which inspired the dis
graceful mob scenes of an East St
Louis. of Oklahoma or Louisiana. for
it could not represent the greatness of
real Americanism.
Blind passion is still the erratic guild
ing star for n substantial part of the
human race. The acceptance of the
MARKHAM program for n world Utopia
by so many. formerly thought TO he
sane dependable hut now known to he
enthusiasts of Il poisonous Rolshevistic
And it is just such calumny. as has ap-
pcared in the pages of Worlds Work
and "The Dearborn Independent" which
| is eagerly graspcd at by the same class
of men who would become Intoxicated
with Bolshevism. Blind passion accepts
| the untrue more readily than the true.
We hope that this anti-semitic poison
may never incite any class of men to
the violence, which would make of
America II vast Russian maclstrom.
But we never thought that the New
England stronghold. wherein freedom
itself was cradled, would ever become
the prey of liberty destroying ele-
mcnt. As Christians, yes as Americans.
Jew or Christian. black or white. Pro
tcstant or Catholic. we should decry
this venomous spirit, a relic of the
dark ages. l feel constrained and
ashamed to mention the Harvard Incl
dent.
The Jew has been "A builder of civ
iliZation--never its destroyer. He may
well he proud of his lineage and his
heritage as well. The prophet of an
cient Israel. Heaven inspired as he was.
has given to Jew and Christian their
precious heritage of religious faith. The
oracles of God We're entrusted to the
Jew. The law of GOd-the basis of
through the worlds greatest lawmaker,
Moses. the Jew. The promises of an
Inheritance in n new earth. where sin
is banished and righteousness prevails.
We're made through faithful Abraham.
the father of Israel. The very fabric
of true Christianity was woven by the
prophets and apostles-all of them
Jews. The early Christian church was
made up almost entirely of Jews, with
a few. Gentle proselytes. And yet the
Jew is legatee of innumerable crimes.
perpetrated in the sacred name of
Christ. by n Christianity that is but
pagansm veiled in Christian garb.
In striking contrast with the tender,
loving ministry for the people of the
Book" is the venomous. snarling hatred
of those who defame the name of their
redeemer by posing as his followers.
Much of the so-called Christianity is in
deed melange of worldliness and
church forms. with but little of the
spirit of its founder. Trials, tribula-
tions. prosecutions, sorrows, offences,
come to humanity, not because of ma
tionality, race or creed but because we
live in world where sin prevails and
Death is King. Throughout the many
long years of spiritual and intellectual
darkness of MEDIEVAL times. the life
of the lew WIS in constant peril. His