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king of the Jews. Moreover, the set- mulgated the theory that Jesus was a
of Jesus or of his deity or of the va-
Ling up of a new sect in his name myth and that other non-Jews in
lidity of the superclaims which some
was
the work of his disciples, of which other countries did the same.
of his followers have made for him,
The theory has seldom, if ever,
are as indifferent in their relation to he himself had not the slightest ink-
• been put forward by a Jew of recog-
an appreciation of the influence which ing.
As to the lack of originality on the nixed scholarship. We have always
in the course of the ages he has exert-
the historical character of
ed upon civilization and culture as— part of Jesus and the Jewish charac- conceded
Jesus. We have denied his deity. On
of
to quote Dr. Lake—is the beauty
ter of his teachings, this has a been
num., that ground which always we Jews
By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN
Homer dependent upon our belief in very thoroughly gone into by
the reality of the Greek gods. If only ber of Jewish scholars—among them have stood, we stand today. Only the
There is a book just fresh from the press which, because it is so thought- this thought could he pressed home to the late Isaac M. Wise, founder of veriest seeker after sensation can find
yoking and because it touches so many fundamental religious problems, overenthusiastic Christians who are the Hebrew Union College, and hi s lin this standpoint anything starting-
ly or strikingly new. I quote a Chris-
become of epochal importance, Moreover, the fact that it is lying in wait with their theological disciple, the late Joseph Krauskopf
is l
written
by a man who speaks with recognized authority upon his subect will traps to lure the Jewish soul and to of Philadelphia. The latter in his tum authority when I say that Jesus
added weight to what he writes. It is published under the title The those unreasonable and unreasoning book "A Rabbi's Impressions of the was not a god become man, but he
give
au thor is Dr. Rirsopp Lake, Jews who believe that every word Oberammergau Passion I lay de- was a man become god.
i
and its
Religion of Yesterday and Tomorrow"
Now then, what does all this come
spoken in praise of Jesus of Nazareth votes many pages to a citation in par-
sor of Early Christian History in Harvard University,
to? If in truth, the ethical teachings
s - The book of almost 200 pages deals bravely, but with th e care and the is not merely untruth but sacrilege, all
profe
a llel columns of the sayings of Jesus
precision of an accurate and painstaking historic, with the theological the ground upon which the disputants with those of the Talmud. For in- of Jesus are Jewish teachings and if
then we Jews, like Christians, give
storm that Inns raged during the nineteenth century, and while the author in a present unfortunate controversy stance, it is shown that there is
bectively those events that in the past have shaken the religious are standing, would be cut from under scarcely a word in the so-called Lord's our assent—what is the logical and
treats o
Prayer or in that majestic Sermon on I necessary inference to be drawn? Is
foundations, he ventures also to play the role of a prophet in their feet.
its
ROI
the course of the development of
One simply must understand that the Mount which has not been taken it that the Jews are cutting loose
from the moorings of their fathers
that he dares to predict what may be
is
only
fair
to
say—are
in
the
great
characters
in
history,
no
less
His
leanings—it
B
bodily out of the older Jewish writ- faith? Is it that they are turning
religion in the days to come.
when they belong to the domain of re- ings.
their backs upon their own sacred tra-
the direction of a liberalizing of re-
the future will probably pay the same lift on than to the domain of politics,
Let it be said in passing that this ditions and that they are heeding the
ligious dogma.
from this book, which because kind of disinterested attention to the must be objectively dealt with. That is not plagiarism on the part of the lure of the conversionist? Is it
It is
of its newness I take it but few of you Messianic question as they will to the in the past their power and place and writer. But it was simply the normal as Mr. Sargent would have it that
have had the opportunity to read, that details of Homeric theology. Special-. influence has been distorted and lids- thing that he who was steeped in Jew- the synagogue is broken down—de-
ists will continue to discuss it, interpreted
under the goad of the prej- ish teachings to the very marrow of
.
1 quote a few sentences in introducing
cre p it, obsolete, its crown fallen from
p artisanship
his bones should use those teachings
my theme. Professor Lake says:
times even with warmth. But they
head, and that the church—young,
"I think that the religious minds of will not think that their own religi3 must play no part en the judgments in the guidance of his own disciples• its virile,
aspiring, sits enthroned? May
is affected by it or that the value of that %•e form of them. It should be Any argument therefore as to the ac-

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with that pre-Christian Jewish litera- taboo their words of inspiration To
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ture which alike in style and content do no is to fall into the very trap
and spirit is closely imitated in the which our enemies have laid for us.
JOHN BALLANTYNE, Chairman of the Board
In recent discussions the question
New Testament parables and sayings
Vice-President
President
WALTER R. JOY
attributed to Jesus. This is to take has arisen as to whether Jesus was
JOHN ENDICOTT ..
FRANK A. DUWE....Assistant Cashier
Vice-President
nothing away from the greatness of a man or a myth. To me, the very
DAVID GRAY
Assistant Cashier
L. GEO. BOTT
the man. For himself, he claimed no raising of this question seems ridicul-
JOHN P. HEMMETER Vice-President
Assistant Cashier
R. F. MILLER
13ENJ. G. VERNOR
Vice-President
more than to be a great Jew. For ous. It is the setting up of • straw
Assistant Cashier
R. A. KRUGER
him, that was honor enough. It was man for the single purpose of knock-
ROBERT B. LOCKE
Vice-President
those who followed him who made ing it down. Dr. Enelow has shown
Auditor
E. F. FORMELL
CHAS. B. BARTOW, V -Pres.& Cashier
such extravagant claims as to his de- that, peculiarly enough, the question
as
to
the
historicity
of
Jesus
of
Naz-
ity and his Messiahship. Indeed it
DIRECTORS
Was contrary to his expressed wish areth was never raised by the Jew
Luman W. Goodenough
John Ballantyne
that Peter proclaimed him the Mes- but always by the non-Jew. Ile cites
David Gray
Ford Ballantyne
siah. Ile knew full well what fate for instance the case of Professor
Casa W. Beneees, Vice Pees. sod Gra. NW.
Arthur
Drews
of
Carlsruhe,
who,
Oren S. Hawes
Walter 0. Briggs
'had overtaken other so-called Mes-
Clifford ot Balk"
John P. Hemmeter
siahs of his time, like for instance more than 25 years ago, published a
Ray E. Danaher
!MANCHE&
book in which be attempted to prove
Horace E. Dodge, jr. Albert E. Sleeper
Judah of Galilee.
Emil Stroh
John Endicott
It was just these claims made by the that Jesus was a myth like many of
B. Ford, Jr.
John W. Watling
disciples, and among them that Jesus the other mythological heroes of his-
Ilaweramdt
Boalterwil
was king of the Jews, which inevit- tory and that it was a Jew—Rabbi
9707 /await Cwwwwl
Goosed Mown Bldg.
ably led to his crucifisipn on the Klein of Stockholm—who tried to
charge purely political and not relig- disprove Drew's theory. Ile further
ious, that Jesus was breeding sedition calls attention to the fact that in this
against Rome by proclaiming himself country Professor William Smith pro-

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