SEPTEMBER 15, 1902 2:19-21) The Apostle assures us that the church is the temple of God, and that it is the body of Christ under Jesus its Head. Various agencies have been in antagonism with the church, Head and body for the two days mentioned, the fifth thousand year period and the sixth thousand year period, and it still continues while we are in the beginning of the seventh period; but the Lord's promise is that now shortly the temple, the church, his body, shall be complete and he will raise it up, raise it from ruin, raise it to the perfection and glory of the Millennial kingdom. It is in harmony with this that we may recognize the church with her Lord as be ZION’S WATCH TOWER (291-292) ing a part of the bread which God is preparing. Our Lord Jesus was the bread which came down from heaven, and we have partaken of him, of his merit, and have been thereby transformed; and we, as the Apostle declares, have become part of the one loaf, the one bread, and we also, as part cf the one bread, are being broken with our Lord, and thus indirectly this preparation of the church and her association with her Lord are represented in the three days victualling which is provided for the world of mankind, and necessary to them before they can pass over Jordan and enter into the Millennial Canaan. Vou. XXIII ALLEGHENY, PA., OCTOBER 1, 1902 No. 19 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER BLINDNESS GRADUALLY COMING OVER NOMINAL CHRISTENDOM AND GRADUALLY TURNING AWAY FROM FLESHLY ISRAEL Is it not remaikable that as nominal Spiritual Israel begins to stumble into unbelief over “the stone of stumbling” —rejecting the ransom-sacrifice of Christ—the Jews, Israel after the flesh, begin to get glimpses of Jesus such as they nave never before had? Note the following eulogistic expressions respecting our Lord, from the lips of eminent Jews of our day:— “I regard Jesus of Nazareth as a Jew of the Jews, one whom all Jewish people are learning to love.”—Isadore Singer, Editor of Jewish Encyclopedia. “Jesus was the gentlest and noblest rabbi of them all. In Jesus there ig the very flowering of Judaism.”-——Henry Berkowitz, Rabbi of Rodeph Shalam Congregation, Pennsylvania. “Jesus is soul of our soul, as He is flesh of our flesh. Who, then, could think of excluding him from the people of israel ?’—-Max Nordau, M. D., Paris, France. “Even the most conscientious Jew may, without hesitation, recognize in view of the immense effect and success of His life, that Jesus has become a figure of the highest order in the history of religion. The fact that Jesus was a Jew should, I think in our eyes, rather help than hinder the acknowledgment of his high significance.”—N. Porges, Ph. D., Rabbi, Leipsig, Germany. “We Jews honor and revere Jesus as we do our own prophets who preceded him.”——Jacob H. Schiff, New York City. “I am of the opinion that we should endeavor with all possible zeal to obtain an exact understanding of the great personality of Jesus, and to reclaim him for Judaism.”—M. Lazarus, Ph. D., Professor of Philas University of Berlin. “Tf he (Jesus) has added to their spiritual bequests new jewels of religion, truth and spoken words, which are words of life, because they touch the deepest springs of the human heart. why should not Jews glory in him?”’—Gustav Gottheil, Ph. D., Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel, New York. “We want our children to know that in Jesus of Nazareth, Judaism produced one of the most beautiful types of humanity, one of the world’s greatest teachers.”—Dr. K. Kohler, New York. A MINISTER ENCOURAGES HIS FLOCK Rev. Dr. Reid, of Watertown, thus explains to his people the present status of the doctrine of hell, and meantime gives us a suggestion of how impious he considers his congregation of “saints” to really be at heart. He evidently knows “his sheep” to be downright hypocrites. He says, as reported, evidently by himself, in the public press:— “The age of religious barbarism is past. Science, the accentuation of the Fatherhood of God, man’s moral nature and spiritual experience make the hypothesis of a material hell incredible. The world would cast out the preacher who would dare to repeat today the message of Jonathan Hdwards, that the view of the miseries of the damned would double the ardor of the love and gratitude of the saints in heaven. “Yet there is a hell. Yet there are lost souls. guilty do go into everlasting punishment. “You are in hell when you cannot look your fellow creature in the face because of the wrong you have done him; in hell when you would like to wring your own neck; in hell when you do not have a word to say for yourself, but are struck dumb bv the consciousness of your own meanness and arrogance and baseness. You are in hell when envy, hatred and malice hold carnival in your heart; in hell when you know that vou are not telling the whole truth; in hell with all your lies, losses and perversions and distortions of the truth. Perhaps there is a chapter in your lives that you Yet the keep closed or sealed because of its iniquity or infamy. Then you are in hell now; in the hell where men skulk and start and fail; in the hell where the limbs tremble and the heart thumps and the flesh creeps and the teeth chatter and the blood runs cold and the hair stands on end, the heart stops and the cold sweat overpours the face.” JEWISH HOPES RESPECTING PALESTINE The Jewish Exponent furnishes the following information: The failure to secure satisfactory terms from the Sultan of Turkey, as noted recently in these columns, is felt keenly but has not discouraged the leaders. “Dr. Herzl set forth the standpoint of the Zionists, and formulated the conditions of Jewish settlements in a selfcontained part of Palestine and in other parts of Asia Minor, on the basis of a Charter. “These proposals were carefully -considered from the Turkish side. Through his representatives the Sultan declared his fullest sympathy for the Jewish people; but the concessions which His Majesty expressed himself ready to make for a Jewish settlement could not be considered adequate according to our Zionist program. The negotiations have thus, this time also, remained without result. Nevertheless, the Sultan caused Dr. Herzl to be assured of his esteem and sympathy. The relations have in no way been broken off. On the contrary, we may hope that the advantages which a regular and legally guaranteed settlement of Jews present according to our program, will be recognized by the Turkish Government to their full extent. “For that moment the Zionist organizations must be prepared; the agitation must be carried on incessantly, and the material means must be collected. The more efficient our movement, becomes, the more speedily and surely will it reach its goal. “Jt is rumored that the Actions Comite of the Zionist movement in Vienna is now seriously considering the proposition to hold the next Zionist Congress in New York. The question will probably be decided upon at the October meeting of the comite. “Lord Salisbury is credited with having said on the Zionist solution. ‘It is a question of sixty per cent; if sixty per cent of the Jews desire Palestine, they will get it’ It is, however, rumored that Lord Rothschild, impressed by the Alien Immigration Commission—which, when it again meets, will sit in Soho, the French quarter of the metropolis—and his conversations with Dr. Herz] will lead in a movement for the settlement of a large number of Russian Jews in lands, as Disraeli put it, ‘in propinquity’ to Palestine, and at present under the British flag. When his lordship will move, or whether at all, a short few months should tell, but from excellent sources I know that he has some such scheme in mind, and that the details are being investigated on his behalf. “Lord Rothschild has heretofore held outwardly a most impartial attitude on all solutions, and whilst steering clear of Zionism has let it be known that he does not view attacks upon the movement with favor. Hence the idea he is studyir' may prove one that will unite all parties, and with his name at the back of it there would be no financial difficulties.” STARTLING STATEMENT IN NEW YORK PULPIT New York, Sept. 7—The Rev. Dr. R. 8. MacArthur, at the 100th mecting in the Evangel tent today, assailed the doctrine of baptism. He declared that the dropping of water on an infant at birth was heathenism, and that the idea that God would forever condemn an innocent but unbaptized babe makes Him a tyrant. That utterance, coming from Dr. MacArthur, had a wonderful effect on his hearers. They rose to their feet and applauded wildly. The scene was striking. [3081]
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