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INNSBRUCK. — (J. T. A.) —
The Christian population of this
city is boycotting the offices of the
two Christian lawyers who defend-
ed Philip IIalsmann. This action
is imperiling the existence of the
attorneys.
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the highest circles of Rome. Aqui-
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las, of the Roman nobility, trans-
lated the Bible into Greek, for the
lytes. The Bible presents evidences benefit of cultured Romans. It is
reported that Gamaliel, the great
of both tendencies. The national-
Jewish teacher of the first con-
istic bias is revealed in the t
test against an edict forbidding
of Ezra, who orders his people to Jewish proselytizing, which was
Secretary of the American Pro.Falasha Committee.
put aside their strange wives. The under consideration following the
conversion to Judaism of Flavius
more universalistic thought is ex-
By RABBI J . MAX WEIS
Clemens, the cousin of the em-
In the midst of recent discus- of having been divinely select
pressed in the Book of Jonah and peror. When Rome, the conqueror
ed
sions about _Christian missionizing for a mission to mankind is like a in the story of Ruth. The startling of the state of Judea, and Chris.
among thjrZews, it might be inter- bomb set to go off at a specific (I fact is today accepted that the tianity became one, through Con-
, eating Weak ourselves whether the
time. An explosion, in some for
l'harisaic rabbis of Palestine even stantine's recognition of Christian-
'Jew, who has expressed his resent- or other, is bound to come, •
sent missionaries into distant lands ity as the religion of Rome, the
ment over this activity, ever en-
If we scan the world today • , a each year. The Maccabean king, Church became militant toward
gaged in missionary work. One shall find in
China the very la st John Ilyrcanus, had gone is far as the Jew, and Jewish missionary
would expect missionary y e 0
remnants of a people that ob- forcibly to convert to Judaism, activity of all forms practically
be a logical outcome of the Jew's
served Judaism for many cell. following a military victory, the ceased.
belief that he had been chosen by
It is quite evident that the far-
, people in the land of Idumea, to
God to spread the true knowledge thries. A large collection of their
the south of Palestine, from which flung reach of Judaism can be ex-
of Him among the peoples of the literature and prayer books was
plained, not by the story of the
group
came
the
most
ruinous
of
recently
acquired
by
the
Hebrew
earth.
Union College of Cincinnati. In Israel's rulers, King Herod, whose Lost Ten Tribes, which no serious
Does it not seem amazing that a far-off India, in the city of Bom- Idumean family had achieved po-I student of Jewish history accepts
people with this sort of belief did' bay, one meets the Bene-Israel, a litical power and royal marriage today, but by a definite Jewish mis-
not become militant, to the exten dark-skinned people that practices with the 111accabeans.
sionary zeal, richly varied in its
of using the sword, like Moham the Jewish faith.
More potent than the acceptance forms of expression.
inedans, to compel others to ac
In Jerusalem and Arabia we , of proselyte, or the compulsory
cept its faith? That sort of idea
have large numbers of Yemenite , adoption of Judaism through mili-
Jews, who show definite traces of a tary force, was the literary pro-
racial mixture with the Arabs. A paganda in which the ancient Jew-
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few months ago the world was ish world engaged. When the in-
startled by the story of a French fluence of Greek culture, in the
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aviator who, in flying over the Sa..i wake of Alexander the Great, was
hark desert, came upon a settle. moving across the Mediterranean
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ment of people who regarded world, the Jew produced count-
themselves as the only Jews left on less works that enabled the Greek
earth.
and the Roman to gain the Jewish
In Abyssinia, in central East point of view. The Septuagint,
Africa, there are 100,000 to 150,• the Greek translation of the Bible,
000 Falashas, a dark-skinned peo was but. one instance. Philo, the
pie that has followed the faith of great UeArish philosopher of Alex-
E. M. WATTERS, Prea.
Judaism for at least 2,000 years andria, on the eve of the birth of
Christianity, wrote for the non-
Shortly more than a year ago,
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spoke with a Jewish merchant ., Jewish world of his day with such
from Afghanistan in Southern power that his influence on Chris-
Asia, who described to me the tian thought has persisted to this
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wretched plight of thousands in day. The books of the Apocrypha,
his country who fear openly to without which it is quite impossib
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avow their Judaism. Right in our without which it is quite impos-
own New York City, in the Harlem I
Brass and Iron
district, there is a congregation oil
Negro Jews, who wrongly claim
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an Abyssinian origin. They were
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most likely taught their Judaism'
by Portuguese Jewish masters inl
the West Indies.
Doors, Grates, Grilles,
Host' did Judaism make its way
Wickets and Railings
around the world? On the sur-
face, it seems that we have a prob-
lem in explaining how it happened
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An examination of the literature!
Brans. House Numbers
and records of the Jew shows no!
"Jerusalem Society for Promoting!
Judaism Among the Heathen," as
Alterations of All Kinds
a counterpart of the "London So. ;
ciety for Promoting Christianity
Among the Jews." We have no I
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"Home Missions Board" or a "For-
eign Missions Board." We had no'
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St. Patrick to convert the Celts of
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Ireland. We had no special order,
of Dominicans to accompany a
Marco Polo on his world travels. ,
We produced no Francis Xavier
who did not rest until he had plant.
ed the cross in Japan. And we had
no David Livingstone to penetrate
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into the heart of Africa.
The incontrovertible fact re-
mains that the Jew did engage in
missionary work. If the Jew had
not possessed a missionary spirit,
there would have been no Chris-
tianity today and no Mohamme-
danism. These two religions are
the most potent answers to the'
' question of Jewish missionary ac-
tivity. They are the ineradicable
HOWARD II. CRAWFORD, Pres.
evidences of the mood and spirit
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these two daughter religions was
Wet Wash and Rough Dry able to overthrow the religions of
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Greece, of world-conquer-
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ing Rome, and of the keen and in-
telligent Arabic tribes.
This sweeping change in the re-
ligious map of the ancient world
did not come about mechanically.
The Jewish personal factor and the
Jewish group factor were con-
stantly at work. Granting that no
"Board of Missions" existed in Je-
rusalem to control these activities,
the missionary ferment was cease-
lessly operating.
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We ought to explain at this ,
point that the Jews were by no
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Those who possessed a more uni-
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MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)--Jews
in a city in Manchuria were the
victims of a pogrom perpetrated by
former Russian White Guards, re-
ports received here state. A num-
ber of Jewish casualties occurred.
The attack upon the Jews seas
made in the course of the White
Guard retreat. Jewish houses
were plundered, Jewish women at-
tacked and the Jewish youth killed.
The pogrom was halted only with
the capture of the station by the
Red army. Many Jews were per-
mitted by the Red army to pass the
Soviet border and to proceed to
China.
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