Save the Jew by L. L. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 28, 1916

Save the Jew

By L. L. C.

THOUGH it sometimes seems difficult to help the Jews, yet we have been urged through the Spirit of prophecy to do very much more for them. We have a Jewish Department organized, with Elder F. C. Gilbert as secretary, which is struggling hard to help this needy people. In view of the statements of the Spirit of prophecy, it is interesting to find others also recognizing that the Christian church is not doing for the Jews what it should. In answer to an inquiry sent to the Questions and Answers department, the Christian Herald, of July 26, 1916, says:—

“You are perfectly right in inferring that the Christian church has never even begun to realize its responsibility to the Jews and the power it might have in winning them to Christ. You are right also in stating that many Jews—particularly is this true of the younger generation—are ignorant of their own Scriptures. The most successful Christian Jewish workers are those who emphasize the fact that when a Jew becomes a Christian, he does not by that act become any less a Jew. Christianity is the fulfilment of all the hopes of Judaism. Christianity is the best and only interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures. The writer of every book of the Bible was a Jew. The Founder of Christianity was a Jew; the arguments are unanswerable which show him to be the Jewish Messiah. All his apostles and all the original members of the first Christian communities were Jews. The church should indeed, just at this time of world upheaval, make a new, direct, vigorous campaign to reach and save the Jew.”

L. L. C.