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Bev. S. B. Roliold 145
not forget that liberal Judiasm with all its complacent acquiescence, in
acknowledging the uniqueness and greatness of Jesus and accepting
certain Christian ethics, is a combatant, more dangerous to Christianity
than orthodox Judaism.
If we follow this liberal tendency, we see at once its aim and where
it ends. It is an unholy alliance; the rationalistic Jew is following
the rationalistic Christian.
Can you not see the danger into which we are drifting? This is of
vital importance. It means life or death to the Christian Church.
Now, what is the real difference between the Jew and the Chris-
tian? The real difference is, the Cross of Christ. And it is our duty
to go to these Jews and declare that Jesus is not merely one of the
ancient prophets, not merely the greatest of the prophets, but that He
is the Divine Son of the Living God, the only begotten Son of the
Father, the effectual Paschal Lamb of God, the complete atonement,
the first-fruit of them that slept, the Risen Christ, the ascended
Saviour, the soon-coming and reigning King. Unless we do this with
an absolute certainty, then all our efforts and missionary enterprises
are doomed to failure.
We do not want the Jew to become a gentile. What we want is that
the Jews should be reconciled with Jesus Christ, first of all, their
Elder Brother; then, with God through Jesus. It means harmony and
peace with God through the Prince of Peace. And when the Jew will
be reconciled with Jesus and with God, then there will come recon-
ciliation between the Christian and the Jew, and the Jew and the
Christian. So it is a matter of duty to protect our faith. A dead
Christ means nothing. A living Christ is what makes our lives one
with Him. And Christianity is not a mere thing of faith; Chris-
tianity is life, and Jesus is the life within us.
2. Gratitude. I hardly need speak on this point. All we have today,
the Divine idea of God, the Divine idea of true worship, the Book that
you have, the Bible, the Institute, what would it be without the Book?
and the Jews have been the means of God to prepare all this. If I
had time I could show what the church owes to Israel, from first to
last. Who were the first martyrs of the Christian faith? Who were
the Apostles and evangelists? But when I think of all this, I think
of One who is greater than all these, the One who did not take on
Him the nature of angels, but came from the seed of Abraham, "to
become a blessing to all the nations of the earth."
Blessings abound wher’er He reigns;
The prisoner leaps to loose his chains;
The weary find eternal rest,
And all the sons of God are blest.
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