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APPEAL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE

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An Appeal
TO THE

Jewish People.

RABBI

I.

LICHTENSTEIN,
Of Budapest.

{Translated from the German by Mrs.

Baron

PRINTED FOR

THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY TO

23,

ISRAEL.

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AN APPEAL
TO THE

Jewish People.
BY

RABBI

I.

LICHTENSTEIN,
Of Budapest.

{Translated

from

the

German

by Mrs, Baron.)

PRINTED FOR

THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY TO

Hon. Secretary DAWTi
23,

ISRAEL.

BARON,

GROVE ROAD, HIGHGATE ROAD, N.W.

EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE,

Her Majesty s
DO\VNS
Printers,
N.E.

PARK ROAD, HACKNEY,

MY APPEAL.
ENTREAT
it

you to read

this little

paper
read

calmly from beginning to end.

To

thoughtfully, without prejudice,

and

undisturbed
people
selves or deceived.

by

the

outcry

made by
attentively

who
I

are either deceivers themit

beg you to read

and honestly, and to judge if its contents are logical, based on sound judgment, and deeply rooted in that Rock on which Moses stood when he beheld the
glory of God.

The times
in

are past

when

public thought

was

led

bondage by certain newswriters, and when men of

to cry

narrow and indolent mind expected an unenlightened

laity

Amen
her

to anything they gave out to be

dogma and beyond

entered

dispute.
right.

Reason
"

has
cries
at

at

last

upon

Wisdom
;

aloud,

she calls at the top of the market

gates
;

the town

through the whole town her cry resounds "

viii.

(Prov.

1-3).

Mankind is now mature and of age to understand and appreciate truth, which is eternal and absolute,
A
2

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though

formerly

misjudged.

Everybody

is

now

zealous for his

own sound judgment and

nPtDljl

indepen-

dent convictions.

NJ IdS
in

Well,
love

let

us understand one another in brotherly

and goodwill.

Let us go hand

hand without

reser\-e,

but taking with us the plummet of reason

;

and of a spiritual religious consciousness let us consider whether that which I have already written, and now ^\Tite, is worthy to be cherished as in accord with the signs of the times, the hopes and expectations
of Israel, with our past, present and future
it
;

whether

harmonises or no with that which

is

genuine and

unadulterated of our Jewish sentiment and maxims. \\'ith the Psalmist I fervently pray, " Remove from

me

the wa}- of lying,

I

and grant
the

me Thy law
of
I

gra-

ciously.

have
I

chosen

way
me.

Faith

judgments have
testimonies;
in the

laid before

hold fast
I

Thy Thy
walk

O
of

Lord, put

me

not to shame.

way

Thy commandments,
have penetrated
boldly

for this enlarges

m}- heart."
It is true,
I

far into

the Holy of

Holies

have

my

enemies

say

madly

crossed the Rubicon, and trodden an unfrequented

path, hitherto

shunned like the pest by everj* Jew, their Rabbis. I have paid homage by and especially to the founder of Christianity, and rendered Him praise

Redeemer of the World, the Saviour, the But, humanly long-expected Messiah of the Jews.
as the

speaking, do not
require

our eventful, truly epochal times,

extraordinar}-

means,

bold

thoughts,

and

thorough

reforms

Are

not

new men now more

than ever needed, who, conscious of the purpose of

their being, shall be as

peoples of every family

also the need of Israel?
fallen out in himself

new channels of good to all and race ? And is not this

Scattered in
all

the world,

disunited
yet in

Israel,

who
the
I

and with himself, dismembered, has yearned so longingly, and

vain,
!

for

coming of the
I

Angel of the

Covenant
and

What

who

can
?

effect

the regeneration

resurrection of Israel

Who

shall bring to pass

(xxxvii.)

the prophesied

miracle

of Ezekiel?

" Behold,
before Me,

send

My Angel, He

shall prepare the

way

He shall suddenly come to His Temple. The Lord whom ye look for, the Angel of the
Covenant
(Mai.
iii.

shall

appear, saith

the

Lord

of

Hosts"

i).
I

At the very outset

struede, that
it is

make my honest and pubHc

and inward

confession, the result of earnest thought

mv

steadfast, unalterable conviction,

is

that Christ, and no other,

of

intended in this passage

it

the

Prophet,

and

that

was
I

fultilled

in

His

appearance.
as an old

Yes, as a Rabbi grown grey

faithful to the

in

office,

Jew
the

Law,

confess candidly,
;

Jesus

is

the predicted Messiah of Israel

is

Christ,

and

no other,
for

nniH ^xS^
long,

Angel of the Covenant,

whom we

have ever expected.

and whose Advent our people He is come! This is now my

shout of rejoicing, which

my

lips

God

will,

my prolonged

life

shall serve to

and pen, and, if make known.

"

He

is

the most worthy successor of

Abraham, Moses,

and the Prophets, for He beheld in cloudless light that which they saw dimly as through mist, and longed for with holy presentiment and awe. At the
time of the
sacrificial

death of Christ, the

secret were

veil of the

Temple was
glory of the

rent in

two, from top to bottom, and the

revealed in

Lord and His

all

brightest light to
**

the world.

we have heard of Him and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him If we say that we have fellowis no darkness at all. ship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do But if we walk in the light, as He not the truth. another, is in the light, we have fellowship one with
This
is

the message which

and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us "This is the confrom all sin." (i John i. 5-7). demnation, that light is come into the world, and

men

loved

darkness rather than

evil.

light,

because their

deeds
hateth

were

For
neither

everyone

that

doeth

evil

the light,

his deeds should be

reproved.

cometh to the light lest But he that doeth

his

truth

cometh

to

the light, that

that

deeds
in

made
(John

manifest

they

are

wrought

may be God

iii. 19-21). " Arise, shine, for thy Light

is

of the

Lord

is

risen

upon

thee.

come, and the glory For behold, darkness

;

covers the earth, and gross darkness the people but the Lord and His glory are risen over thee. And the
Gentiles shall walk in the Light, and the kings in the

brightness of thy rising " (Isa. Ix. 1-3). " O House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the " (Isa. ii. 5). Or shall Israel alone light of the Lord

be untrue to his longing, his hope, his ideal

Israel

Shall

God's possession

above

all

people, the priestly

kingdom, the holy people, elected and called of God

to render priestly service to the world, to stand at the

head of the nations as the most excellent witness of God's truth, light, and salvation, as represented by

Moses and the Prophets, proclaimed by Christ, and written in the New Testament shall Israel wilfully, defiantly, and obstinately renounce such high privilege ? Truly deplorable and hopeless is the case of the man

who has
self,

lost all confidence in

God
in

as well as in himhis

and

folds his idle

hands

bosom, saying,
despicable

despairingly,

" There

is

no more hope or possibility

of improvement for me."

That nation
itself,
;

is

which

obstinately

surrenders
all its

and, so doing,

crushes the hope of

natural mother

sons

who wickedly
it;

it is like that unexclaimed, " Neither I

nor thou shalt have

cut
is

it

asunder."

But,

on

the other hand, that people

immortal, who, in spite

long
subjection,

worthy of honour, and of temporary weakness and

powerless

and
but

helpless,

neither

despair or give up hope,

faith in their

continue to cherish

hidden energy,
life.

in their future,

and

in a

revival of national

What power
Roumania,
their
scientific life,

is

that which but lately raised to pros-

perity the degraded

Servia,

and neglected States of Greece, and Bulgaria, notwithstanding

the
destruction
;

political

dissolution,
servile

of

all

and

degradation

in spite in

of the

stupidity,

ignorance,

the

enervation,

which the
by
the
it

inhabitants
terrible

have been held for centuries and despotic Turkish government?

Was

not inextinguishable hope?

times,

the

longing
past

for

better

thought on what their

had been, sad

memory
to

of departed glory, united

with the impulse

awake out of the national sleep of centuries ? The noblest among them felt ever more and more impelled towards freedom by the history of their land and people, their proverbs and national songs. You may well reply The mighty hand of Russia, as of other powers, was to be seen here, compelling and giving freedom. But look at Hungary forsaken and abandoned of all the world. What power was that which
:
!

restored

life

to

its

withered, dried-up bones, which

it

renewed

its

suspended constitution, and gave

power
in

to re-assert its nationality,

and

to

blossom anew
its

unexpected prosperity

Was it

not perhaps
its

songs,

breathing hope and promise of freedom,

poets,

patriotic

the songs of the grandchildren singing their

ancestors' courage

and strength, of the never to be

self-sacrilice of

forgotten
inspiriting
irresistible

spirit of

their

heroes
;

the the

inexhaustible

love

of

Fatherland

impulse
listen

towards
to

freedom
I

and

indepen-

dence
for

But

me

as

say

We

groan and

cry and sigh for our Messiah, and out of very longing

Messiahs
versity
!

Redemption, we have often been misled by false and yet how inconceivable What per;
!

What

unnatural confusion of thought

Let

us suppose a poor

man

in great need,

who
;

expectantly

waits to obtain a number in the lottery, being told, " Your lot has won the highest sum you can draw

your money when you

will "

would he not hasten

if

home and make

it

diligent search to satisfy himself

were true?

Now, through

all

these centuries, thousands upon

thousands of the most excellent of all nations have " Rejoice and be glad, O cried triumphantly to us daughter of Zion, behold thy Redeemer, He is come.
:

He

spreads out His hands to you,

He

will

gather you
:

wings He as a hen gathers her chickens under her comes on the mountains and leaps on the hills
;

behold, he stands at thy door and knocks."

Open

to

me,
have

my

beloved,

my

sister,

my

dove

Thy

fathers

often

followed
divine

false

Messiahs,

idolatrously

rendering them

homage; shut thine

ears no

inquire of longer, open thine eyes, search thy Bible, thy Prophets, read the New Testament attentively, and thou shall find Moses here, the Prophets there,

Christ as

Redeemer, Messiah, in the midst, God found, over all. " Seek the Lord while He may be wicked the Let near. call upon Him while He is way and the unrighteous man his forsake his and thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord,

He
for

will

have
will

mercy upon
abundantly
hearts,

him, and to our God,

He

pardon"
as
at

(Isa.

Iv.

6,

7).

"

Harden not your

Meribah, as

in

the

day of Massah, in the wilderness, when they saw fathers tempted Me, proved Me, although see how and My works" (Psalm xcv. 8). "Taste
your
kind the Lord
is the man who trusteth His saints, for there is ye Fear the Lord, in Him. The lions lack and to them that fear Him.

is;

blessed

no lack
suffer

hunger, but they that fear the Lord want no

good thing. Come, ye children, listen to me, I will xxxiv. teach you the fear of the Lord" (Psalm
9-12).

A 5

10
" For whosoever shall call on the
shall

name
on

of the
in

Lord

be saved.

How

shall they call

Him

whom

they have not believed, and

how

shall they believe in

Him

of

whom

they have not heard

they hear without a preacher?

And how shall And how shall they

?

preach except they be sent

beautiful are the feet of

as

it

is

written,

How
!

them

of

peace
X.

and bring glad tidings of good things

13-15).
to

that publish the gospel "

(Rom.

"But

whom

shall

I
?

speak, and

whom
is is

shall

warn that they may hear

Their ear

closed, they to

cannot understand, the word of the Lord reproach, they hear it with reluctance "
All
else

them

(Jer. vi. 10).

the
it

Jew

will

receive with respect, however

opposed

may

be to

God and His word.

Every-

one, however forgetful of God,

and worldly-minded,

the greatest sinners and most hypocritical braggarts,

he
the

will treat

with the greatest esteem.

of

He

accepts

latest

phases
the

modern
strangest

thought,
principles
grief!

and smiles
advanced
will

benevolently at
only one thing

he not endure, that Christ should be preached to him, and whosoever dares to name that sacred name with
reverence,

oh

horror!

oh

him he will curse and execrate bitterly.* Dear brethren, " I am the man that hath seen

affliction."

works as a teacher in my late community of Tapio Szele, who, conversing with a sorely
still
* An accomplished lady, who was conversing with me, exclaimed, when her arguments had all been met, " Heis everything great, eveiy thing noble, if only He were not called Jesus Christ." We Jews call Hiai UVJ" (Ycshua),

A Jew

was

my

laconic answer.

II

afflicted

man, whose

sickness

is

incurable,
faith

and
trust

to

whom

in no consolation remains but " There God, tells him, with the hardihood of folly and calumniates, avoids, This infidel is no God." is There me, because I preach the gospel.
:

and

insults

yet

another,

a wolf in

sheep's

clothing,

who does
thine

not

understand

the

difference

between

and

mine,
as
it

observes the law of Moses his business does not touch his gain, who keeps

who

only in so far

sells Chametz open on Sabbaths and festivals, and fanatic, this man rages against me with at Passover
;

unappeasable fury.
light of the

Yes,

men who

continually

make

mightiest precepts of Jewish Rabbis, who practise the liberal-minded secute me; religious leniency to themselves and others in
greatest

law per-

matters, have declared

and branded me

outlaw and excommunicate, of as unfit for my office, on account

me

my

testimony for Jesus Christ. blind Why, I ask, this unconquerable apathy, this against one inextinguishable hate, this fanatic rage

most excellent of the of the greatest, most exalted, to deny, of religion, who, it is impossible
founders

has brought to

a whole world, civilisation, salvation, incomprehensible! redemption, and blessed faith? It is judgments of the and thoughts In our days, when the of Nero's monster a past are being recast, and even eulogists, when a contype finds champions and critique in favour of servative Rabbi publishes a positive religion, Spinoza, who combated every who for forty years these days, I say, an old man, of his modest robbed has held his office in honour, is and persecuted to the uttermost, because
livelihood

12

he has dared to raise the cry to his people, " Search and seek, plunge into the pure, untroubled stream of divine teaching take note of the general moral ruin
;

and degradation,
children.

and
go

consider
prejudice,

the

good

of

your
be

Let

be

reasonable,

upright and

impartial;

and,

when you have thus

and buried religious convictions, the Old and New Testament will witness to you, beyond all dispute, that Christ is our only that He, only He, hope, our Saviour and Messiah

made way

for

your

stifled

and no other,
of our God."

will

bring us to Zion, to the

House
deep-

But, be rooted

it

as

it

may,
or

will not

conceal

my

convictions,

be dismayed

either

by the

mean, malicious tricks of secret foes, or by the " For Zion's sake rough blows of open enemies. will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake
will
I

not keep silent, until her

righteousness arise

and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. Gentiles may see thy righteousness, and
thy glory,

That the
all

kings

and thou shalt be called by a new name, of the Lord shall name " (Isa. Ixii. mouth which the "I say, then, hath God cast away His people? 1,2). God forbid! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed God hath of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Or not cast away His people which He foreknew. Elias, how of says Scripture the what not ye know
he
ing.

made
Lord,

intercession

to

God,
killed

against

Israel,

say-

they

have

Thy
I

prophets,

and
alone,

digged down Thine

altars,

and

am

left

and they seek

of

my
?

life.
I

But what

saith the

answer

God

to

him

have reserved to Myself seven

"

T3

thousand
Baal.

men, who have not bowed the knee

so

to

Even

there

is

at

this present

time also
of

remnant

according

to

the

election

grace

(Rom. xi. 1-5). I sow the seed

though
assuredly
it

undismayed and undiscouraged,

with
it

may

be

tears.

The time
and bear

will
fruit,

come when
will

will

ripen

when he

return with joy

who
on

bears his sheaves

with him.

"

Here

stand

my

watch and

set

me upon
said
to

the tower, and look and see what will be

me, and

what

shall

answer
clearly

him

that

reproveth me.
says.

The Lord, however, answers me and

visions,

Write the
he

paint

it

on a tablet
is
it

that
for

who
not

runs

may
time,

read.

The
the
tarry,

vision

yet
shall

an

appointed

but

at
it

end
wait

speak
for
it

and
is

lie.

Though

for

it,

will surely

come, and
shall

will

not tarry.

Behold,
his

he who
heart.
ii.

stiffnecked,
the just

he will have
live

no

rest in

But
I

by

his faith''

(Hab.

1-4).

" For
for
it

am

not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,

is

the power of

God unto
and also
written.

every one

that

believeth, to the

Jew
as
it
i.

first

to the Greek.

For

therein
faith

is

revealed

the
is

righteousness of

God from

to

faith,
(

The

just shall live

by

faith "

Rom.
I

16, 17).

If

speak here of faith and

if

confess Jesus as our

Messiah,

speak with enthusiasm of His worldof

is

wide

mission,

that

Light-tower

the

Tower

of

David
with

which
its

built to

illumine the dark horizon

heavenly radiance, so that we

the wilderness of this
life,

may

not go

astray in

but keep the

14

narrow road of salvation

the simple,

in

sight

if I

bring forward

sublime, unsurpassed, divine teaching of

the

New

Testament, and recommend every one

who
Lord

strives after righteousness

and the
;

fear of the
I

to

seek therein

for

themselves

if

encourage

my

Jewish brethren to draw from the crystal spring and youth-renewing well of the apostle, that they may
recover in body and soul, and, newborn,

may
it

rejoice
is

and be glad

in the living

God

if

do

this,

not

to force into undue prominence any dogma, any sign or wonder, but simply to draw attention to the Godordained way of Salvation, as contained in the Holy

Scriptures of the Old and

Christ
history,

New

stands as the central

Testaments. There point the miracle of

in

the goal of Israel's history of miracle,

its

whom

all

power and perfection

!

is

found.

Israel,

shy of miracle
of miracle,

because without
the

faith.

Israel,

born

who has
;

God

of miracle as his father

and author
filled

in

miracles

whose history is encircled and with miracles of God, stumbles at the Israel, whose of the New Testament
Israel,
!

prophets were

continually

obliged

to

confirm their

words by miracles and signs who have known an Elijah and an Elisha, who, on necessity, multiplied meal and oil and bread, cleansed lepers, and raised
the dead
V.
(i

Kings
I

xvii.

14,

21

2 at

Kings

iv.

5-44

1-27)

Israel,

say,

stumbles

the miracles of

Jesus Christ, in whom Israel's line of prophets culminated and ended.

Leave, for the present, these signs and miracles of Christ, and concern yourselves with those words
in

His gospel which go home so powerfully to heart

15

and conscience. So doing, you in the way, the Being of Christ

you, and truly
it

will

make progress
be revealed to
miracle in
will

will

will

be as

K^p

(Isa. ix. 5),

Person, the miracle of

cease
to

all

history.

Then you

wonder that the marvellous

is

Saviour-life of

this divine Master

full

of miracle.

They
the

are

all

miracles of healing and love, in which

is

His calling as Saviour

miserable
is

apparent, and His love to

evidenced

by deed.

Miracles to
for the

satisfy the curious, to serve

relief of

His own glory, or

His own personal necessity, you

His holy
faith
life.

will seek

for in vain in

Miracle served His word,

it

to

strengthen

where

found entrance.

For

such as opposed

Him

and yet sought for signs.

He

had only the

be given to
(Matt.
xii.

drastic reply,

"This

evil

and adulterous
"

generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign

it

but the sign of the

prophet Jonah

39).

He

required faith, as
to

God

requires faith of those

;

who come

Him

seeking help
to

faith, that

is,

open-

ness to His

Word, devotion

His person, reliance

on His help.

"Jesus turned Him about, and when He saw her He said. Daughter, be of good comfort, (Matt. ix. 22). thy faith hath made thee whole " "And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem
^''^

consideration.

book has appeared quite recently which is worthy of serious It is wTitten by Prof. J. M. Charcot, and is entitled "Saving Faith," founded on knowledge and experience (Der Heilende Glaube). Yes, Christ will come again in unimagined gloiy and splendour. Then, for the first time, we shall perfectly understand Him, and perfectly adore. Now we see through a mirror, a word which is dark to us, but then
*
little

face to face.

"Now I know
Cor. xiil 12.)

in part, but then shall I

know even

as

am

known"

(i

i6
of Jesse, and a tender shoot from his roots.

And

the

Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the

Lord

and

shall

make Him
Lord
;

of quick understanding

in the fear of the

and

He

shall not judge after

the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing

of His ears.

But with righteousness

shall

He

judge

the poor, and

the earth
;

reprove with equity for the meek of

and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall

He

slay the wicked.

And

righteousness shall be the

girdle of

His

loins,

and faithfulness the girdle of His

reins " (Isa. xi. 1-5.)

Thus does
such divine

Isaiah describe the coming

attributes

Son of David,

do

the

Prophets ascribe to

Him. Truly He is a miraculous Person, both divine and human, but still I will not enlarge here upon His wondrous birth and wondrous return to the Father
a

stone

of

stumbling

to the

unbelieving, notwith-

standing that an Elijah also ascended to heaven in a

fiery chariot

and
will

in

storm.

(2

Kings

ii.

11.)

Again,

not speak of the Holy Spirit or the

Christian doctrine of the

Spirit

Godhead Father, Son, although our Chassidim, who claim to be

and
suc-

cessors of the heroes of the

the orthodox in
in

Talmud, and with whom Judaism now go hand in hand, believe

in ten

a tenfold

godhead,

emanations,

who with

En-Sof (the Eternal) form one absolute, inseparable These say, " As unity, with ten sides and ten faces.
the
fire

with

its

flames

and

its

sparks

is

but one,

so the Eternal with the Sefirot radiating from

Him

is

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most advanced "' Rabbis cannot think of God without the Shechina Neither will (glory) and the tyipTl Hin, Holy Spirit. whose sacrifice I here represent Christ as the Lamb of
one
in

being."

Many

also

of our

death was an
often repeat

atonement, although our Talmudists

**

The

righteous bear the sins of their generation."

" As the death of the red heifer

also the death of the righteous
will

is
is

an atonement, so
atoning."
that

But

I is

here only emphasize the

fact that

Jew

an enemy to his own

morally a suicide,
as his Messiah,

flesh, a traitor to

himself,

and
to

who does
not

not finally recognise Christ

and render
unite

Him

the

homage due

Him who

does

with the pioneers and

heralds of Christ and exclaim in accord with them, " Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done

wondrously.
gotten

Him

His right hand and His holy arm have the victory. The Lord has proclaimed
all

His salvation before

righteousness,

peoples,

He

has revealed His

He remembered

His grace and His

truth to the house of Israel." " Here is the patience of the saints, here are they

who keep the commandments of God and faith in Jesus, who is not come to destroy but to fulfil the
law and the prophets."

ni^DC Protocol
Third

of the

first

Assembly of Rabbis

at

Braunschweig,

June 1844.

edition,

page 105,

i8
Brethren, away to Jesus,
Spirit

who by

the wings of His

into a purer

has borne

countless

thousands
;

region, into the

kingdom of heaven

made
the

fruitful

the spirit of the nations,

who alone has who has averted

direction to

death-blow from the

sacrifice,

human

victim of degraded

heathen

who

has given a
life,

new

thought and manner of

nations and states.

Who
their

and a new existence to like He has awakened dead

senselessness, taught

consciences

out of

true

dignity and nobility,

broken down the separating walls

of classes and races, and established brotherliness and

equality of

mankind before God ? Certainly He has effected that which was prophesied of the Seed of David, His work has been that of the predicted Messiah and the true Seed of Abraham, through

Him
yet

all

nations

of
It
is

the

earth

are being and

will

be blessed.

possible to

shut
the

our eyes to
less

these patent
for

facts,

but

we

are

not

blind

doing

so.

It is true

blessing,

you can point me to curse and not to and bring to my remembrance the iniquity
of Christianity through
all

and abominable treatment which has encountered us

in the

name

the centuries

the torture, the oppression, the martyr-piles, and the

blood,
history.

which
of

many pages You may well make me

stain so

of the

Church's
hateful
to

note the

doings

the

Anti-Semites,

and their attempts

I

poison the minds of the peoples against us, but,

is

ask,

Israel in its past

?

and present

itself free

from such
?

reproach

have we

nothing to mourn
in

and repent

Have our

ancestors ever spoken

the

same

spirit

as our father

Abraham,

''

Let there be no

strife

be-

tween

me and
for

thee,

between
raged

my herdsmen
?

and thy
bitter
tribe,
?

herdsmen,

we
strife

are

brethren

"

Has not
tribe

unappeasable

between

and

brother and brother,

among
in

those nearest related

Have there not been

yet,

the past, and are there not

Jews enough who, full of envy and mistrust, endeavour to spoil their brother of honour, and would even snatch the scant food from his mouth ? " These are wicked people, Jews only by name," so you answer

me

you on the authority of the plain teaching of the New Testament, that Christians who do not love every one, whose hearts do not beat in love
;

but

I tell

and brotherliness
or race,

to their neighbour, regardless of class

who

are revengeful or do evil of any kind,

that such are Christians in

name

only, like those

Jews

who who

are only Jews according to the flesh,

Christians

are alien to the spirit and

word of

Christ, unre-

generate, sin-stricken souls,

whom

every true Christian,

every real follower of Christ, must denounce as unclean, and avoid, Shadows of the night which disappear

before the

light of

day.

Look, then, not into the

" Light
is

darkness, but into the light. pleasant thing

it

sweet, and a

is

for the eyes to behold the sun."

God

has His people

among

the peoples, and Christ His

spiritual disciples in the churches.

Step out of your

narrow

circle

you, and see what

and rub your sleepy eyes; look about is being done on every hand by
;

the true disciples of Christ

faith,

see the sacrifice of their

the work of their love, the

of

their spirits.

life and endeavour Admire those noble Christian women

who, instead of frequenting places of entertainment, balls, concerts, and the like, for the love of Christ,

2Q
visit hospitals,

tend the sick and bind up wounds,

who

venture on gloomy nights into dens of vice, to raise

the fallen, to save the tempted from destruction, and
to lead the erring to virtue

and to God.
chiefly
in

Admire the power

in
all

of Christ in the

Christian

lands,

numerous youth Germany and

literature,

England, who, instead of reading pernicious

read the Bible, instead of frivolous songs sing psalms,

and instead of loose

meetings.
Lastly,

company, frequent devotional

the Christian

be just to

messengers, the

missionaries,*

who

for Christ's sake

go out into the

world, the Bible only in their hand, without weapon or defence, and who, renouncing comfort, and defying
privation

and

weariness,

offer

the

gospel

to

the

heathen, and in such

self-denying

work

are neither

dismayed by the savage cannibal or the fatal climate. Learn to honour and appreciate those friends of Israel

among

the nations, those Philo Semites among Christiansof whom Professor Franz Delitzsch, of Leipzig,

was one who "behold the God

His
in
feet,

of Israel, and under

as

it

were, a beautiful

sapphire

like

the

colours of heaven
truth the

when

it

is

bright,'"

pure, spiritual,

original

and who hold Mosaic faith:

of offence, and given my * Ah I have again committed an unheaid Who dares to speak in Impossible enemies a new point of attack. all men after Christ Himself? of hated most the missionaries, praise of the But truth And above all, who speaks in praise of the Jewish missionaries ? missionaries as also and experience have set me free. It may be among
!
!

in other

human

societies, that there are

some

self-serving, sordid natures,

yet the greater

are earnest, truly pious and tried disciples of Christ, for the salvation of mankind and also of the zeal fervent with glow who to their work," and their recomTews. "The Lord reward them according

number

pense be perfect with the Lord, the God of

Israel.

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Lord our God is one God. And Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy might and thou shalt love thy neighbour
" Hear,

Israel, th

thou shalt love the

as thyself"

(Mark

xii.

29-31).
in the

power of His Spirit seek to give expression to that which was the heart and soul of the revelation of God by Moses and the " My in them it is truly come to pass Prophets
These follow Jesus, and
;

name

is

had
its

in praise

among

the nations, from the

i.

sunrise to

going

down"

(Mai.

11).

These friends of Israel have no desire to turn us away from the one God our Father, but to bring us to Christ, as to Him in whom Jehovah dwells, and who has appeared to redeem His people; as to Him
also in

whom

Faith, Hope,

and Love, those three

the
arteries

heavenly

powers,

which

are

of

true

Judaism, course together in their original source and

heat.

the

If we call on Him He Good Shepherd, through

will reveal

Himself as

the

tender

mercy of
sit

our God, whereby the dayspring from on High hath

visited
us,

to

give

light

to

them
78, 79).

that

in

darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet

into the

way

of

peace" (Luke

i.

Dearest

Brethren,

we

are

in

the

midst of the

we are scattered among the nations who worship the God of Israel in Christ; whether we recognise it or not, we are walking in the light which Christ has shed over the world, and we enjoy How long the fruits of His having come as Saviour. shall we continue cold and lifeless? how long shall
Christian world,

we

repel

and hold aloof from

Him whose

is

the

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and the Prophets have their fulfilment and completion ? No more do we dwell pent up in the Ghetto, the time of our inequality as citizens and deprivation of political

Crown

of Israel, in

whom

the

Law

rights

is

at

an end, we share
our
Christian

in

all

the intellectual

privileges

of

fellow-citizens.

Why
in

then

should

we

longer

remain
in

cooped up
for

the

narrow

spiritual

Ghetto,

which

centuries

long we have dwelt, whose walls have long since been broken down and overcome by a new spirit of
life?

Rabbinic-Talmudic
fortress

Judaism,

that

wonderful
built

old
in

of the

tenacious

Jewish mind,
is full

up

opposition to Christianity,
of ruins.

of breaches

a heap

Gone
virtues,

is

the old Jewish piety, gone the old Jewish

Scripture and tradition,

kindled by faith in

the whole armoury against oppression and persecution

The barest unbelief, the boldest is decayed. immorality and worldliness, meets us in the Jewish not the Talmud only, but with youth of our day
;

countless

Jews,
scoff.

Moses

and the Prophets are also

become a

Who

can heal

From whence shall help come? The true halm this wound of Joseph ?
lies

of Gilead for Israel

in

the

hand of Jesus.

New

enemies of our people have arisen, the Anti-Semites have sown a dragon's seed which ripens to a horrid
harvest.

This new Goliath will receive his deaththe Semites, Jesus and His Apostles, by from blow Range yourthe grace and truth of His words. selves under the banner of Jesus, and then we can

overcome our enemies with

their

own weapons, and

23
destroy their
molehill.
?

Is

God with
is

us,

then

can be against us

But God

not with us

if

who we

are not with His Servant and Child Jesus.

And
King
?

will

Israel cease to be a nation

when

at last

he recognises in Christ his Redeemer and MessiahShall

we then be absorbed
be an end to our
;

in

Christendom,
then,

and

will
?

there

God-consecrated
at
last,

people
attain

By no means
position
to

Israel

will
is

the

which he

called of

God.
the
all

At the head of the nations, as the

people of Salvation, from

first-born,

whom
that

the

Saviour of
in

peoples

has
of

arisen

as

nation

which the
its

Kingdom
will

God was

first

founded, and reached

perfection in Jesus, the

true

King of

Israel.

Then

be

fulfilled to
;

Israel those prophetic promises as

yet

unfulfilled

then
"

become

true

words of Zecharia shall Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, at

the

that time ten

men

out of

all

the languages of the

is

nations shall take hold of the skirt of him that

Jew, saying.
that

We

will

go with you,

for

we have heard
;

God

is

with you " (Zech.

viii.

23)

as also the

word of Isaiah: "At the last times shall the mountain of the Lord's house be exalted, and be high above all the mountains, and all nations shall
flow

unto

it.

And one
ye, let

shall

encourage

another,

saying.

Come

us

go up to the mountain of
of the

the Lord, to the

House

God

of Jacob, and

will walk in His For from Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. O House of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord ' (Isa. ii. 2-5).
will

He

teach us His ways, and we

paths.

24
Jesus sa3'S:
the Hfe.

"I am the way, and the truth, and No one cometh unto the Father but by
xiv.
:

me"
that
shall

(John

6).
I

them and

said

''Then spake Jesus again to am the Light of the AVorld, he

shall

foUoweth

me

not walk in darkness, but

viii. 12).

have the Light of Life " (John

!

Israel

Arise, shine

Thy Light

is

come.

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