WAISENHAUS SYNAGOGUE. JULIEN STRASSE
57064-1945-46 FURTH, GERMANY 8 & 9 Sept 1945

## ROSH HASHANAH

Morning Service

Order of Service

<table><tr><td>SHACH'RIS</td><td>Early Morning Prayers</td><td>Cantor Weinstock</td></tr><tr><td>PSALM 145, Page 58</td><td></td><td>Responsive</td></tr><tr><td>BORCHU, Page 71, Cong. Standing</td><td></td><td>Cantor Wilner</td></tr><tr><td>SH'MAH YISROEL, Page 7 Cong. Standing</td><td></td><td>Unison</td></tr><tr><td>V'AHAVTAH, Page 7</td><td></td><td>Unison</td></tr><tr><td>AND THOU SHALT LOVE, Page 8</td><td></td><td>Unison</td></tr><tr><td>AND IT SHALL COME, Page 10</td><td></td><td>Responsive</td></tr><tr><td>VAYOMER, Page 11</td><td></td><td>Chaplain</td></tr></table>

* OVINU MALKAYNU, Page 106, Cong. Standing, Cantor & Cong

## TORAH READING CEREMONY

<table><tr><td>SERMON</td><td>Chaplain</td></tr></table>

## * SHOFAR PRAYERS

MUSAF Cantor Eliezer Wilner

* KOHANIC BENEDICTION Cong. Standing

## ADDITIONAL PRAYER READINGS

AIN KAYLOHENU, Page 147 Unison

OLAYNU, Page 43 Cong. Standing, Cong. Chaplain & Cantor

MOURNER'S KADDISH, Page 47 Unison

ADON OLOM, Page 147, Closing Hymn Unison

BENEDICTION, Cong Standing Chaplain

* Asterisk marks prayers recited on the second day only.

## HAPPY NEW YEAR

JUNGE & SOHN
BRIANSEN

This sermon was preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, on Sunday morning, January 16, 1944. The occasion was the dedication of a Prayer Monument on the Cathedral porch. Many requests for the sermon have led to its being put in print for distribution at the Boston Shrine.

Edwin J. van Etten.

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# "A WING AND A PRAYER"

## I

THIS morning on the Cathedral porch we are dedicating a shrine monument or marker. The symbol of the globe easily represents the world wide places where our service men and women find themselves today. The eagle speaks for himself as our traditional American symbol of freedom and liberty. The four sides of the base pedestal provide convenient space for four panels with their invitation or summons to prayer and remembrance.

(1) *Pray for all those in service*

"In His hands are all the corners of the earth"

(2) *Pray for our country*

"Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light"

(3) *Pray for just and lasting peace*

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain"

(4) *Pray for those who give their lives for our country*

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil"

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II

What about prayers in war time?
What about prayers here at the shrine,
or indeed, prayers anywhere? This is
a matter of very deep concern and in-
terest to one who thinks of the sub-
ject. In time of war there is always an
atmosphere of excitement and hysteria.
There is apt to be a mood of hatred
and vindictiveness which gives rise to
practically pagan prayer. More than
this, in days of war emergency there is
always a recrudescence of sentimental-
ity and superstition in the matter of
prayer. We face today a veritable del-
uge of prayer success stories. Almost
every magazine contains reports of
supposedly miraculous answers to
prayer. Capt. Rickenbacker tells how
"Seven Came Through" on rubber
rafts in the Pacific. Someone else
boasts that God is his co-pilot. Here
is a private who tells his chaplain he
has been miraculously saved by a little
New Testament he was carrying in
his vest pocket. Many are the stories
of wondrous escapes wrought by mi-
raculous medals, leaves from old fam-
ily Bibles or prayer books. Why did
it happen at Dunkirk that a boisterous
English Channel was so calm and
there was a heavy mist or fog to cover
the British troops in this debacle?
Why did the tide turn just in time to
bring its waters into the Thames River

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and so prevent the destruction of St. Paul's Cathedral?

These fortunate coincidences are interpreted as specific acts of divine intervention. They make happy endings to desperate stories. They are likened to old time legends of events at the Red Sea and the River Jordan. The unseen anti-aircraft which put bombers to flight are compared to the old time story of invisible hosts of God's angels. All these success narratives exactly meet the twelve year old mentality of a moving picture audience. More sober thoughts, however, come to the mind of adult people. Who gets the breaks in prayers? How does one get these breaks? What is the technique one should use to secure such signal advantage? Is there any particular formula or open sesame or abracadabra which will bring results? How can one take out such life insurance?

It is very hard to draw the line between sentimentality and what we may call sentiment. Anyone who has been in a position of desperate danger and has experienced rescue from that situation will probably never cease to feel that he did, indeed, find answer to his prayer. We are all human beings and as long as we live we shall probably always find instinctive impulsive expressions coming to our lips. "God

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help us!" "God save us!" Such impulsive ejaculatory phrases are the prayers of crisis and escape. They are the primitive emotional prayers with which perhaps we surprise ourselves. There are—they say—no atheists in foxholes! When a drowning man is going down for the third time, when a traveler finds himself at his wits end; then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble. These primitive childlike prayers seem part of our universal human experiences. Some times they seem only the reflex action of minds and spirits in sore distress.

It is very hard to draw the line between superstition and fact. Probably few of us would be ready to follow the logic or the philosophy inherent in the use of miraculous medals. The medal, after all, is only a piece of metal. Spiritual qualities of interest and care and protection cannot in the nature of things be physical qualities which can reside in silver, nickel, or even gold. God's grace is not a physical thing which can be measured or weighed in material things. To look on physical matter as possessing any spiritual qualities is the road straight to magic. It is the road straight away from personal value and religion. Yet having said all this the fact remains that even a medal may be a reminder! Every time we look at it or every time we feel it in

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our pocket, it may bring memories to
mind of things we wish to remember.
How false the idea seems to our better
judgment that certain times or certain
places should be more fortunate for
prayer than other times or places!
Surely God is spirit to whom all places
are known and to whom all things are
always present. What nonsense then to
build prayer shrines or to suppose that
any certain time or place is of peculiar
advantage! Yet having said this we
know the practical meaning of empha-
sis! Our patriotic holidays are not the
only days on which we are patriotic.
We would have the virtue of patriot-
ism on the fifth of July just as truly as
on the fourth of July. We would prac-
tice the grace of our religion on Wed-
nesday and Thursday just as truly as on
Sunday of the holy day. By taking cer-
tain days we emphasize to ourselves our
patriotism and our religion for all the
other days. By taking certain places
and setting them apart as consecrated
spots for prayer and worship we em-
phasize to ourselves the sacredness of
all life in all places. To use a certain
form of words or to perform certain
ritual acts—how foolish to suppose any
special virtue or efficacy in those par-
ticular words or acts! Are there not
a thousand other words equally good
to use? Are there not other acts and
gestures just as truly expressive of

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our thoughts and desires? Yet hav-
ing said this there is not one of us
who cannot understand the possible
values of a blank check. Granted
one has the proper bank account, the
amount for which the cashier will
honor his check depends simply and
solely on what he writes there. If he
writes one dollar no cashier will pay
more than one dollar. If he writes
ten dollars no cashier will pay less than
ten dollars. What we get from any
word or from any gesture depends di-
rectly on what we put into it. This is
no magic or superstition. This is in
accord with the best findings of psy-
chology and common sense.

III

It is in the light of our present day
situation that one feels a deep concern
about our prayers in war time. We
want our prayers to be as sane and sen-
sible as we can make them. It is no
disparagement of any great thing to
point to its lowly origin or to caricature
its times of immaturity. The cry of
a baby may develop into the gift
and genius of language. The crude
scratches on the wall of a cave may be
the beginning of the world's great art.
Just so the tom-tom cacophony of the
jungle may be the beginning of great
music, and the mutterings of some
midnight witch and the incantations of

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some ignorant wizard may be the be-
ginning of our sciences of chemistry
and medicine. It is never an indict-
ment of a great idea to belittle its
primitive and humble origins. Those
origins may hold the seed of a great
tree. They may be the first ripple of
a great incoming mighty tide. It is no
disparagement of the idea of prayer to
recall its possible abuse along the line
of sentimentality or superstition. The
mature man, however, does want his
prayer to become adult. He knows the
place of chance and coincidence in our
universe of law and order. Probably
he does not expect divine interruption
which would upset the universe. Prob-
ably he does not expect magical inter-
ference to avoid collision or disaster.
His prayer must be big enough to in-
clude loss as well as seeming gain. It
must have a place for men on rubber
rafts who are not rescued as well as for
those who are. It must have a place
for men whose Bibles or medals do
not save their lives as well as for those
who find these things surprising means
of safety. Above all, the mature spirit
will come increasingly to understand
that God's door of entry into human
life and experience seems almost al-
ways to be through the heart and mind
of man. It is the courage and endur-
ance, the hope and faith, the ingenuity
of Capt. Rickenbacker which made

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possible his rescue. As Archbishop Temple wrote of the disaster at Dunkirk, "I have seen it said that the deliverance at Dunkirk may have been an answer to prayer but it was more certainly due to the devotion, enterprise, courage, and discipline of Navy, Mercantile Marine, Army and Air Force. Certainly it was due to these, but where do these come from? Those who are accustomed to pray to the "Lord of all power and might" who is "the author and giver of all good things" will not draw any contrast there. All honor to the heroic men through whom that deliverance was wrought; and thanks be to God who inspired and sustained them in their endurance and achievement."

## IV

I hear someone saying, "There seems then small use in prayer." It is just an echo of one's own voice. It is just a letter which is returned marked 'address unknown.' It is the boomerang with which one hopes to hit an outside object only to find that the boomerang returns and strikes one's own head. It is merely a mirror into which one looks only to see his own reflection.

Once upon a time it is recorded that a man was praying in a garden. His was no success story prayer. His prayer had no happy ending. He was no

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hopeful twelve year old. This prayer
of His is the only recorded instance in
which He ever asked anything for his
own personal life or affairs. His pray-
er was not granted. It was not simply
delayed—it was denied and refused.
The prayer did not change any outside
thing. It had no objective results in
the physical world. His life was not
spared. But see how the prayer chang-
ed Him! See His poise and His self-
control, see His restraint and courage,
see His sense of backing —
more than twelve unseen legions of
angels to stand behind Him! Consider
too, how his prayer changed the cup
which He must drink. Here is miracle
and real miracle! There is no bitter-
ness left in the cup. There is no sense
of shame or indignity, there is no
crushing sense of utter loss and ruin.
What small business to change outer
things, compared with the tremendous
business of changing the inside spirit!
His cup is no longer a mere legal exe-
cution or even a sad martyrdom. His
prayer has changed all that. It has
opened the door to the great spirit of
the universe. Standing on tiptoe
reaching out as wide as his hands can
stretch he finds there a touch of an-
swering hand. Gearing his life into
its topmost speed forward he finds that
there and only there his machinery can
engage itself with the machinery of

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the universe. His cup is an effective cup of self-dedication and self-consecration. It opens new vistas and new horizons and boundaries for life. It puts on his lips a gladsome refrain. "Though he slay me yet will I trust Him." "Though wars rise up against me yet in this will I be confident." "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."

V

Our topic today is taken from the lines of a present time popular song. This song relates in ballad form the story of a disabled airplane whose one wing is shot away. The men radio a message to the ground that the crew is all safe and that they are coming in on a wing and a prayer. Here is a picture of the combination which always wins. Here is a symbol of the collaboration always necessary between God and man. It is not prayers alone in the sense of merely wishful thinking or self-hypnosis. It is not mechanical wings alone in the sense of mere physical efficiency. It is the wing and the prayer together which is the synthesis we need. From all our men and women in service I think I hear a message this morning. It comes to us from all the towns and villages of New England; it comes from all the camps of our armed forces; it comes from all our

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farms, mills, and factories; it comes
from our many islands in the Atlantic
and Pacific; it comes from Africa and
Italy, from Britain and Northern Ire-
land, and from the Near East and the
Far East. The words I hear are very
old time words and they come with
fresh significance. They are the words
of our text this morning:

"Pray for us: for we trust we have
a good conscience, in all things
willing to live honestly. But we
beseech you the rather to do this,
that we may be restored to you the
sooner."

(Hebrews 13: 18-19)

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A CHRISTIAN IN AN AGE
OF ANXIETY

We have a way of looking back at past ages
and giving them names—names that we
think best describe the chief characteristics
of the time. For example, we call the period
of the eighth and ninth centuries The Dark
Ages, the Middle Ages the “Age of Faith,”
and the 18th century the “Age of Enlightenment.”

But we haven't waited for future gener-
ations to give us a name—we have given it
to ourselves. We call our time the “Age of
Anxiety.” Peculiar, isn't it? We are so cer-
tain about our uncertainty!

But this doesn't really surprise any
thoughtful person. We are all aware of real
threats—both seemingly big ones and seem-
ingly little ones—to ourselves as persons
and to society as we know it; quite apart,
that is, from the usual and obvious threats
of death and disease. All of these threats—
and we will talk about them more specifi-
cally in a minute—are genuine realities in
our lives. And the question is: how do we
meet them?

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That is a big question, and I won't pretend to know all the answers—or even most of them. But I do want to make one observation about a Christian's response to this anxiety that we all feel and fear. You will note that I do not say that a Christian feels no anxiety. He does. Sometimes more than others. The important thing is—how does he handle it?

Well, in the first place, he reacts fundamentally like everybody else—that is, he tends either to withdraw or to attack, and sometimes he goes through a mixture of both. For example, if someone hurts me, my instinctive response is to get away from there, or to hurt the other person in return —hopefully, more than he has hurt me!

Now there is no point in all the world in feeling guilty about these responses. As surely as the sun rises, this is how you and I are going to respond to anxiety. And don't forget that we have ample evidence of our Lord Jesus himself doing the same things: how often we read of him picking up and heading for the hills, or how many times the New Testament records his devastating anger. Don't feel that you have to go one better than Jesus!

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It is at this point that we begin to come
to the matter of how a Christian may
handle his anxiety. First of all, he can begin
to relax because he doesn't have to con-
demn his automatic instincts. And that is
no small blessing! When God himself chose
to become one of us in the person of Jesus,
he made it perfectly clear in his own be-
havior that we need not be ashamed or feel
guilty about being angry or afraid.

Now we are beginning to get somewhere.
For you see, anger and fear are perennial
blooms, and they do not die once they have
blossomed. In other words, if someone
hurts me, I respond with anger and fear;
and having done this, I now carry with me
a certain apprehension that it will happen
again, as indeed it will. And now, you see,
I am perhaps even more likely to encounter
hostility and feel it deeply, because I am
looking for it. And not only I—but every-
body else is doing precisely the same thing!
So it is wrong—and unhealthy—for me to
look for some state of being in which I will
never express or encounter anxiety.

And now we begin to sense what the real
trouble is—the trouble, by the way, that fills
more hospital beds than any other affliction

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does in this country. The danger is not that
you and I will know anger and fear. The
danger is that we will stay that way. The
danger is that anger and fear will become
our characteristic way of life. And that is
the difference in Jesus' anger and fear, and
it can be the difference in how the brothers
and sisters and little children of Jesus Christ
handle anxiety, how we deal with our own
anger and our own fear.

In other words, it is one thing if anger
and fear are episodes in the story of our
lives as we move toward some good and
significant end. It is altogether another
thing if our anxiety becomes such a major
part of our life that we never go anywhere
at all, and in fact give up our commitment
to achieving a meaningful life. To borrow a
line from the westerns, you never get to
California if your fear of the Indians is
so great that you simply cannot bring your-
self to leave St. Louis!

Easier said than done, however, that
business of leaving St. Louis. Crossing the
swamps, the prairies, the mountains, and
the deserts of life is dangerous, as all those
hospital beds will testify.

And here I speak for myself. I need a

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guide who has been out there before me,
someone who has seen even the worst and
who survived, and who is willing and able
to take me across. I need someone who not
only has felt, but who feels what I feel.

To put it another way, I need someone
who can meet me in my deep need to be
loved, and guide me through the dangers
that might induce me to stop short on the
road to maturity, and bring me out on the
other side as one who (like my guide) is
able to meet the needs of others for love as
well. For I cannot give what I have not got.
That is part of what St. John had in mind
when he wrote: "Herein is love—not that
we love, but that he first loved us. If God
so loved us, we ought to love one another."
Left to my own devices, I confess to you
that there is more in me of anger and fear
than there is of love. Perhaps that may
sound familiar to you.

And so it is a source of comfort and of
strength to know that I am loved by Jesus.
And the movement of my life as a Christian
is like traveling in a fog towards a light,
and Jesus grasps me by the hand to find the
way. As we draw nearer to the light, the
fog comes in patches and wisps, and I be-

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come aware that on the other side of Jesus over there, he has hold of someone else with his other hand, although I'm not sure that I know who that other person is. But finally, when we have drawn close enough for the light to dispel the fog a bit more, I look and—the face of the other person holding Jesus' hand is the face of that person who insulted me; and even as I look at him, his face changes and—it is the face of the fellow who laughed at me. The face changes again, and—it is the face of someone who ignored me. And once, it almost seemed as though 'the face resembled—myself.

Whoever they are, they are apparently worth as much of Jesus's effort as I am. It seems that other fellow and I must have the same needs. It is still a long trip we have ahead of us—perhaps we can become friends. Apparently what God has in mind is not just Jesus and me—but Jesus and me and you. Jesus and us, on our way towards the light, the light that is also called peace, the light that is also called truth and joy, the light that is also called love. The light that is called God. On our way—together.

The next time you become angry or

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How to
be Sure

made through Him, and the world did not know Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name." (John 1:3, 10, 12)

Have you received Him?

How, you still ask?

Well, God likens our life to a home, with the heart as the door to the home.

In the last book of the Bible, Jesus said:

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him." (Revelation 3:20)

Perhaps this is the method our Lord is using to speak to you. Are you willing to open the door of your life, to invite Jesus to come in and take control of your life? Are you willing to place all of your trust and confidence in Him and in His merits, rather than in your own? If so, let me suggest you complete the transaction by praying something along the following lines:

"Dear God, I know I am a sinner, and unable to save myself. But I do believe you love me, and that you sent your Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins.

"Right here and now, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins and I invite you to come into my heart, forgive my every sin, and grant me your gift of eternal life.

"Thank you, dear Lord, for hearing and answering my prayer, and for coming into my heart and life, as you promised you would. Amen."

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THERE'S probably more uncertainty about the most important matter in the world than about any other. Let me illustrate: If you were to ask 100 persons at random about war, politics, or pollution, you would get a fairly definite opinion from most.

But ask the same 100 persons, "Are you a Christian?" or, "Are you going to Heaven when you die?" The vast majority would answer with varying degrees of doubt — "I don't know"... "I'm not sure"... "I'm working on it"... "I've no idea."

Most of these same persons would tell you that they believe in Jesus Christ, and that they believe in Heaven. Yet they don't know whether or not they are going to Heaven.

What, by the way, would *your* answer be?

Most of us know definitely whether or not we are working and whether or not we are married. Yet we do not know whether or not we have eternal life.

Most persons know where their destination is when they're traveling somewhere. Yet ask them where their *final* destination will be — where they will be living *forever* — and very few know!

I've talked with a great many persons about this matter, and I believe I now have a better understanding of the problem, and the reason for the uncertainty and doubt.

Basically, the misunderstanding revolves around what is involved in attaining eternal life and going to Heaven. If you were to ask the average person what one must do to have

eternal life, he would probably answer by listing one or more of the following items:

1. Join a church

2. Be baptized and/or confirmed

3. Live a good life

4. Obey the Ten Commandments

5. Live by the Sermon on the Mount

6. Go to church regularly

7. Follow the teachings and example of Christ.

Now, all of these represent something that man does, or tries to do. They reflect the popular idea that eternal life in Heaven is a reward to be won.

But Jesus said:

> "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." (John 17:3)

The Bible further makes it clear that we cannot win or earn our way to Heaven. Eternal life is not a reward for what we have done or tried to do; it is a *free* gift.

> "... the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23)

> "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast." (Ephesians 2:8,9)

So long as a person thinks that he must earn his way into the presence of God, he can never be certain that he is going to Heaven. He is generally honest or sensible enough to realize that he is not able to be good enough to measure up to God's perfect standards. And for

one to say, "I know I am going to Heaven," sounds like the ultimate in pride and boasting, if Heaven is reached through good works.

The Bible teaches that we must realize that we cannot be good enough, that we cannot merit or work our way to Heaven — and that we do not need to! But we are to realize, instead, that the way to Heaven has been opened by what Jesus Christ has done for us. No matter how bad or good we may be, or think we are, any one of us can qualify.

The Bible tells of those who

> "... not knowing about God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own ... did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."

(Romans 10:3,4)

You see, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for our sins — yours and mine — by His death on the cross. He paid for eternal life, and now He offers it to you and to me as a free gift. By simply recognizing our need for a divine Saviour, and by accepting God's payment for our sins and our salvation, the matter of our eternal destiny is immediately resolved.

This is the way — the only way — to know for sure that you have eternal life.

Do you have this assurance?

If not, you can right here and now. How? The Bible says, speaking of Jesus Christ:

> "All things came into being through Him; and apart from Him nothing came into being ... He was in the world, and the world was

I KNOW SOMETHING SO WONDERFUL that I must tell you! It is so vital that it may change your entire future as it did mine. In fact, the decision you make about it will affect you both in life and death.

First, let me emphasize that this message is absolutely true, because God said it. When God makes a promise you can rest upon it, because His promises can never fail. God will not make you believe this message—that is your choice—but He *will* hold you responsible for having heard it.

It is a very personal message—something you must decide about. You must say either “I will” or “I will not.”

Here is the message. It is an exact quotation from God's Word, the Holy Bible:

> “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3:16.

Did you ever hear such wonderful words? Think for a moment what they say. They reveal three marvelous facts.

* First, “God so loved the world”! Since you are in the world, He loved you. If that doesn’t astonish you, remember that when God loved you, He loved a sinner! The Bible says that we all have sinned (Romans 3:23). And if you are honest you will agree.

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Although God loves you, He still hates your sin. Since God is holy and must punish sin, He must make a holy way of saving sinners. Otherwise the sinner must pay for his sins, and that would mean spending eternity in hell (Revelation 20:15).

* The second great fact is this: **He gave His only begotten Son**"! God loved you so much that He sent His Son to earth to become a man and die on the Cross of Calvary so that you might be saved.

You see, someone must pay the penalty of sin—either you or a sinless substitute. God gave His Son Jesus Christ to be your sinless substitute. He shed His blood so that your sins might be put away, so that you might have eternal life.

* And now the third tremendous fact: **"Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life"**! Think of it! God gives eternal life to those who believe in Jesus Christ. The Savior has finished the work. He has died, has risen from the grave, and has gone back into heaven. Now your part is to believe in Him.

This simply means that you must agree that you are a sinner, realize that Christ has paid the full penalty for your sins, and then receive Him as your Lord and Savior.

This is the message which I had to tell you. Now you must make a decision. Will you accept Him, or reject Him? Will you believe on Him, or refuse Him?

Think of it once again:

"For God so loved the world, that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever be-
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## ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

F. RUSSELL ESTY, is Chairman of the Board, United States Banknote Corporation. He has for more than thirty years known as his personal Saviour Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah and Saviour of all who believe. He invites his Jewish friends to receive Christ also. "Behold God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid: For the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation." Isaiah 12.3.

Bible References: 1. Deuteronomy 7:8; 2. Deuteronomy 8:3; 3. Deuteronomy 10:15; 4. Deuteronomy 31:8; 5. Isaiah 63:8; 6. Isaiah 63:9; 7. Psalm 34:9; 8. Jeremiah 31:2; 9. Genesis 12:2; 10. Genesis 12:3; 11. Exodus 19:5; 12. Joshua 1:9; 13. Genesis 49:10; 14. Deuteronomy 18:15; 15. Isaiah 9:6; 16. Micah 5:2; 17. Isaiah 52:10; 18. Exodus 14:13; 19. Isaiah 1:18; 20. Psalm 103:10; 21. Psalm 103:12; 22. Psalm 32:1; 23. Leviticus 17:11; 24. Isaiah 53:11; 25. Isaiah 53:6; 26. Isaiah 53.5.

All scripture verses are from The Holy Scriptures, revised in accordance with Jewish tradition and modern biblical scholarship by Alexander Harkavy as published by Hebrew Publishing Company, New York

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# GOD and the JEWS

... but stand thōu still à while, that I may
make known to thee the word of God.

I Samuel 9:27

## GOD'S LOVE FOR THE JEWS

But because the Lord loved you, and because
he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto
your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with
a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house
of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt.¹

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to
hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he
might make thee know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.²

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to
love them, and he chose their seed after them,
even you above all people, as at this day.³

And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee;
he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither
forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.⁴

For he said, Surely they are my people, children
that will not lie: so he was their saviour.⁵

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the
angel of his presence saved them: in his love and
in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them,
and carried them all the days of old.⁶

O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed
is the man that trusteth in him.⁷

I have loved thee with an everlasting love.⁸

## GOD'S PROMISES FOR THE JEWS

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I
will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shall be a blessing.⁹

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed.¹⁰

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed,
and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people: for all the
earth is mine.¹¹

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of
good courage: be not afraid, neither be thou dis-
mayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee wither-
soever thou goest.¹²

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until he come to
Shiloh; and *unto him shall the gathering of the
peoples be*.¹³

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a
prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.¹⁴

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government is upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor
of the Mighty God, of the Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.¹⁵

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though thou be
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of
the shall one come forth unto me that is to be
ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old,
from everlasting.¹⁶

## GOD'S SALVATION FOR THE JEWS

All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of our God.¹⁷

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not,
stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord,
which he will shew to you today.¹⁸

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the
Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.¹⁹

He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor re-
warded us according to our iniquities.²⁰

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath
he removed our transgressions from us.²¹

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.²²

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I
have given it to you upon the altar to make an
atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.²³

He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my servant justify
the righteous before many, and he shall bear their
iniquities.²⁴

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the Lord
hath caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon
him.²⁵

But he was wounded through our transgressions,
bruised through out iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon him, and with his wounds we
were healed.²⁶

Then he took me to Romans 10:9: "If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved."

Then he showed me where Jesus Christ appeared to many after His resurrection including more than 500 at one time (1 Cor. 15:6). In our business we're lucky to have one eyewitness.

I said: "Yes, sir. It is clear, isn't it?" and he asked, "Have you ever invited Jesus Christ to come into your life?"

"Heavens no, I didn't even know I was suppose to."

He said: "Why don't you?" and I ducked him again.

## A FRIENDLY PERSISTENCE

But he was a persistent fellow and he kept showing me what the Bible says, like "Now is the accepted time: behold, now is the day of Salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2).

We were back in the automobile by this time. All the way back downtown he kept showing me what the Bible says. Finally, we drove up on the Monument Circle at the very center of Indianapolis.

I started to get out of the car and he asked me again, "Jack, won't you just let loose, and let Christ come into your heart?"

I got out of the car and closed the door. But the window was open and I put my head back in the window and said, "Yes, I will." And as best I knew how I prayed a brief, stumbling prayer and received Christ into my heart as my personal Saviour."

I meant business with God, and God meant business with me. That was May 25, 1960.

I didn't see any visions that day and I didn't hear any thunder; I only did one thing. I acted in simple, childlike faith upon the Word of God. And I found out for myself that there is one thing that God cannot do—He cannot lie.

When I did what He asked me to do, He did precisely what He said He would do. He came into my heart. And I was, as the Scripture says, born again of His Spirit.

It was the beginning of a whole new life.

And it can be for you, too, if you'll take the same step. ☐

Jack Brown

SHALOM - SHALOM

P. O. BOX 11392
MEMPHIS, TENN. 38111

Jack Brown, attorney-at-law with Jenner and Brown of Indianapolis, is a CBMC International Director serving Area 7 (Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia). He is a member of the Indianapolis CBMC.

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## A Lawyer Judges a Case

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## A LAWYER JUDGES A CASE

I'm a Hoosier, born in Indianapolis. My mother died of a ruptured appendix while I was still a child. Raised by grandparents, anything I wanted, I got.

Eventually I decided to become a lawyer. After graduating from Indiana University I went to Columbia University Law School.

Following the war, I came back to Indianapolis and joined the largest and the oldest law firm in the state, specializing in corporate and business law. After starting my own firm, I was appointed by President Eisenhower as United States Attorney for what is known as the Southern District of Indiana which encompasses two-thirds of the state, 60 of the 92 counties.

I was the third youngest of 90 U.S. Attorneys in the U.S. and Territories, and exercised great power.

During this time I had no need for the Bible. I had no need for Jesus Christ. I wasn't the least interested in spiritual matters. I went my own way.

Shortly into my second four-year term, I resigned to return to private practice in partnership with former United States Senator William E. Jenner. I was disenchanted because the Justice Department would not let me go forward with the trial of Emmanuel Blum, the man who organized the Communist Party in Indiana and surrounding states. They dismissed the indictment because of a Supreme Court decision.

As I climbed the so-called ladder of success, I became more and more independent. I was self-sufficient, self-made.

### A TIME TO THINK

One day I was involved in a head-on collision.

As I lay in that hospital bed slowly recovering, I realized for the first time that it really didn't matter what I surrounded myself with, I was going to leave

this world the same way I came in, naked and alone. So I began to ask questions to find out just what this life was all about. There's nothing like a close call with death to cause you to begin to want to get the pegs in the right holes.

I asked one of our clients—a businessman with a large annual income, "Bob, if you die, what are you depending on?" His answer? "Why Jack, it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere."

Can you imagine this kind of foolishness coming from a successful businessman?

Others said: "Why, Jack, if the good you do in your life outweighs the bad, you're going to be okay."

Well, as a prosecuting attorney and as a United States attorney, I sent literally thousands of men to the State Prison and to the Federal penitentiary. I've talked to a lot of these men, including multiple murders, and I have yet to talk to one of them that didn't think the good he'd done in his life outweighed the bad . . . at least by just a smidgen.

I talked to others who were members of churches, pretty religious fellows. But none of them were sure, and it didn't make sense to me that something as important as your immortal soul was a "think so" or a "hope so" proposition.

I figured anything as important as this had to have an answer, but nobody seemed to be sure.

### AN INVITATION TO LUNCH

Finally one day, 14 months and 14 days after that head-on collision, my phone rang. It was a friend who had been one of my assistants when I was United States Attorney. And he had with him a business friend who also happened to be a member of the Christian Business Men's Committee of Indianapolis.

"Jack, I've got a fellow here in the office who has all the answers—all the answers!"

Since, in the 25 years I'd been practicing law, that

was the first and only time that statement had been made to me, I quickly accepted his invitation for lunch.

They picked me up and there across the luncheon table, for the first time in my recollection, I heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This businessman knew the Bible. That impressed me, for by this time I was fed up with people's opinions. He showed me Romans 3:23 and had me read it. "For **all** have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

I said: "You've made your point. What's your next one?"

The next verse said: "He that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten son of God" (John 3:18).

### ONLY THE SENTENCING REMAINS

When I read that I was condemned already, it really got through to me that I was in serious trouble.

Because, you know, when a person is condemned already, the jury has returned the verdict and there's only one thing left: the sentencing by the judge.

Then he took me to John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

He said: "How about it, Jack? Will you trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?"

"Hold it! You make this all too simple," I retorted.

You know what he said? "It's a funny thing, Jack. The Lord didn't make salvation just for lawyers; it is simple. It's so simple, we miss it." He explained to me that salvation was a gift because it cost God so much. He willingly sent His Son to die on the cross, to pay the penalty His justice demanded for your sins and for mine.

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At Day's End

Is anybody happier because you
passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you
spoke to him today?

The day is almost over, and its
toiling time is through;

Is there anyone to utter now a
kindly word of you?

Can you say tonight, in parting
with the day that's slipping fast.

That you helped a single brother
of the many that you passed?

Is a single heart rejoicing over
what you did or said;

Does the man whose hopes were
fading, now with courage
look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it?

Was it well or sorely spent?

Did you leave a trail of kindness,
or a scar of discontent?

As you close your eyes in slumber,
do you think that God will say.

"You have earned one more
tomorrow by the work you
did today?"

["[LC]", "God is the source of a satisfying,\nworthwhile life", "\"Thou wilt show me the path of life:\nin thy presence is fulness of joy;\nat thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.\"", "Psalm 16:11\nאֲשֶׁר הָאֱלֹקֵינוּ לְשָׁמֹوت הַמִּשְׁכֹּת הַמִּשְׁכֹּת הַמִּשְׁכֹּת הַמִּשְׁכ

Man has separated himself from God.

GOD'S CHARACTER IS THE STANDARD BY
WHICH MAN IS TO LIVE.

"Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy."

Leviticus 19:2 : קְרִשִׁם תְּהוָה בִּי קֹרֶשׁ אַרְבָּעָה אֶל-הָבָם

Anytime man deviates from God's holiness, he violates God's standard, and this is called sin. Obviously, then, all of us have sinned.

"For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not."

Ecclesiastes 7:20 (cf. Psalm 53:3-4) : כִּי אָלָה אַרְבָּעָה אֶל-הָבָם וְלֹא יָהָס

Since God is holy and just, he will not establish a personal relationship with anyone until his sin is dealt with because he cannot allow sin in his presence.

"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,
and canst not look on iniquity. Habakkuk 1:13

תִּהוּר עִלִּים מִרְאֹת הַיָּהוָה אֶל-הָבָל לֹא תִהוּר

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