Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-31
AFTERMATH OF A CARELESS SERMON!

The hunger for the meight popularity Stephen
Wise has been than satiated by the avd with which the
has pounced his latest Jesus The
ation disregard the whole incident yet the
dispatches pouring into the office this week carrying the
Wiseesus tempest to the exclusion of everything else
leave US hardly another item which to comment
We have heard Stephen than
Carnegie Hail. 1t of his hobby subjects for Sundays falling
Christian holidays His theme generally that Jesus by vir
of his Jewish background able give Christian world
the Jewish code of ethics that code ethics
us as for anybody else So far good What then caused the
tempest this time?
have just read Wses sermon as reported it was review
of Dr. Kasner book translated from the Hebrew the
Nazarene Reviewed by the the Book Nook last month";
Dr. kauner in his book anayzed the teachings of Jesus
formulated the testament and found they divided them
selves into two parts those which virtually exact repons
of the Jewish teachings and those consisting of Jewish ethics
carried by Jesus of Nazareth to the extreme which have
tendencies likely to destroy the Jewish national unit and the Jew
h religion Dr. Kausner that Jesus of Nazareth
cannot be held responsible for everything which Paul. and the
other of his followers who mainly did with his
teachings"
Dr. Wise that the book suggested the following question
to him:
be liberated great body
ogmas touching the Christ of Christian dogmas?
Not that Jews may be Chrsanized but that Christianity
reinstate Jesus the Jew'
In this strain said Wise has often spoken before and
not much harm has been done But three things combined to
make this particular Jesus sensational In the first place
Wise chairman of the Zionist campaign and the Mrach
group which admits didn't him the place. has been
watching him with eagle eye and bearca In the second place
of the New York Sun sadly in need of
stuff and good stiff headline if he had to twist things get
it, And finally in humble opinion judging from the seno
graphic report the which about
stupid and muddled Wise guilty ofone
with which clever reporter could do almost anything he pleased
For example:
81 changed my childhood idea that Jesus is myth.
Jesus Jesus Jesus Jew And to us
this terribly startling and original Wise congregation has
to hire Carnegie Hall for thousand morning, less and
pay Stephen hundred dollars week He continues;
n the light of this undeniabe truth (hat Jesus was) shall
either the of
and Chresness which have out of the
touching the of his death because Chsendom
is not yet become Chrstan?'
Well by this time recall Stephen of old his must
have been swinging wildly the tune of his stenor
booming Stephen hypnozed by his
oquence saying something deathess And here is
Israel Jesus the and the Jew to mankind For the
Chrsendom has denied him in deed though affirming
Is not the hour for his eow-Jews to
place exactly where he beonghis radiant ws teacher
in Palestine of the first century,
Ahal The reporter needed Whatever else the con-
text Wses might have by way of explanation didn't
matter The next morning the headline:
STEPHEN WISE URGES JEWS TO ACCEPT .JESUSH
lots similar vein If were betting we'd lay ten to