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grace of God and not the winning
of office, or the exploitation of parties
and newspapers. Journalism is yet
too unripe to do more than guess
at truth from a single side. The
statesman stands mainly for politi
cal organism. Until he dies he is
suspect. The pulpit remains there
fore still the moral hope of the
universe and the spiritual light of
mankind.
It must bo non-partisan. It must
bo non-professional. It must bo
manly and independent. But it must
also be worldly-wise, not artificial,
sympathetic, broad-minded and
many-sided, equally ready to smite
wrong in the mighty and to kneel
by the bedside of the lowly and the
poor, the weak and the afflicted.
I have so found ' most of the
clergymen I have known during a
long life, the exceptions tdo few to
remember. In spite of the opulence
we see about us, let us not allow
oursolves too much conceit and pride.
Especially may the pastor of this
flock emulate the virtues of that
village preacher of Whom it was
said thatr
"Truth from his lips prevailed with
double sway,
And those who came to scoff re
mained to pray. ,v
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A man he waa to all the country
dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds
a year.
e e
Hia house was known to all the
vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but re
lieved their pain;
The long-remembered beggar was his
guest,
Whose beard descending swept hia
aged breast;
The ruined spendthrift now no longer
proud,
Claimed kindred there and had his
claim allowed;
The broken soldier, kindly bade to
stay,
Sat by the fire and talked the night
away,
Wept o'er hia 'wounds, or tales of
sorrow done,
Shouldered hia crutch and show'd
how fields were won;
Pleased with his guests the good ihan
learned to glow,
And quite forgot their vices in their
woe,
Careless their merits or their faults
to scan,
Hia pity gave e'er charity began!"
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AN EVANGELIST AT BAY
Under the title "Abnormal Sensi
tivity," Mr. Henry Wattorson thus
answers a critic:
The editor of the Courier-Journal
haa received from Rabbi-H. Q, Ene
low, of the Temple Adath Israel; the
following letter:
"My Dear Mr. Watterson: I read
with great Interest your address at
the dedication exercises of the First
Christian church last night, printed
in today's issue of both our morning
papers. For some reason you
thought it necessary or desirable or
proper to drag into your discourse
the old subject of the Jew's rejec
tion of Jesua, As there is no man
in the country whose voice reaches
farther than yours, and none whose
brilliancy and eloquence I personally
admire more, would you allow me to
say a word on the subject that seems
to perplex you so?
You refer to a friend of yours, 'a
gooa raooi in this city,' that once
wrote you a letter on this subject.
Hia communication, somehow, dis
pleased you, for while you admit
that what he said concerning the
treatmont accorded the Jew on the
part of the churches going by the
name of Christ, waa true and in ac
cord with your own views, you none
tha leas printed hia communications
'without comment or reply and now
you refer to it as 'the Hebraic
screed.' Why 'Hebraic screed, pray?
If what the rabbi wrote you was true,
and he was right as far as he went,
and that far you yourself are willing
to go with him, though you do not
think ho goes as far as you would
wish to see him go, why dismiss hia
communication as an 'Hebraic
screed?' Was it simply because a
Jew wrote it, that the truth became
a hateful 'Hebraic screed?' J don't
know who the author of that letter
was, and I never saw it, but surely
the truth can't be damned by merely
calling it an ugly name.
In spite of what you say about tho
controversial character of that 'He
braic screed,' dear Mr. Watterson,
will you allow a humble admirer of
yours to tell you that we Jews are
not all given to controversy on re
ligious topics, and particularly on
the subject of Jesus. In the middlo
ages our enemies often forced us into
controversy, as- you may read in any
history, and we are proud to say that
the men on our side as often as not
knew how to take care of them
selves. And if we are pricked into
controversy nowadays, though the
whip and tho thumbscrew and the
fagot are the fashion no longer as
means of religious persuasion, would
you have us graciously and meekly
whisper, No, thank you, sir, and not
a word besides? Withal, you will
find less controversy in our Jewish
pulpits than in any others, as will
be witnessed, I hope, by those non
Jewish men and women who honor
us with their attendance.
May I tell you, in a few words,
where your difficulty seems to lie in
tho matter of what you call the rejec
tion of Jesus by the Jews? It' is a
difficulty experienced, I venture to
say, by quite a few of our friends.
It is simply that you overlook the
difference between the appreciation
of Jesus as a great man and teacher,
on the one hand, and His acceptance
as Lord, Christ and Savior in the
Christian sense, on the other. One
may be perfectly willing to acknowl
edge the qualities of Jesus as man
and teacher, even to acclaim Him, aa
you do, as 'the single immortal Jew
o the Ages,' and yet be far from ac
cepting Him in the Christian way aa
Lord and Savior, or be willing, aa
you put it, 'to call Him Master and
kneel in love and pity at His feet
"As for yourself, you say, What
matters it whether Jesus was of di-
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