The Cause of Jewish Apostasy
By Editor
THE Jewish Messenger says: “It is useless to deny that the majority of our people, especially the young, are not attracted to our religious shrines, except on rare occasions.” And the Family Treasury adds: “The young Israelites do not stick to the faith of their fathers. Neither do they become Christians. They cease to be religious. And the chief cause of their apostasy is that the young Jew has no Sabbath. He is for the most part surrounded by such associations as keep him from the synagogue on Saturday; and so he neglects religion, and becomes an infidel.” But that isn't the primary reason. The reason which lies back of even the Sabbath-breaking is that the life of the Jewish religion died out more than eighteen hundred years ago, and since then it has been mere dead formalism. The young Jew becomes an infidel, because the religion of his fathers, totally rejecting Christ, is itself practically infidel.