The Peculiar People Resumed
By Editor
After a suspension of nearly five months, caused by the death of its former editor, Rev. H. Friedlaender, The Peculiar People, a Christian journal devoted to Jewish interests, again makes its appearance, this time as a monthly instead of a weekly publication as formerly. In his salutatory, the new editor, Rev. W. C. Daland, says that "there is between the Jews and the Christian nations a misunderstanding centuries old," and that to correct this will be his work. "The Peculiar People," he says, "will strive to show the Jews that Christians are not all Jew-haters, that many Christians have a sincere regard and a great care for the true welfare of Israel." It will also "strive to show to Gentile Christians that they have totally misconceived the Jewish spirit, that they have undertaken by a wrong method to win the Jewish nation; namely, by Gentilizing the Jews instead of giving them the pure gospel and leaving them to become Christian Jews." The resuscitated journal has a wide, rather unpromising field, but while we have no expectation of ever seeing the Jews as a people embrace Christ, we doubt not that there are among them many who may be reached and saved by the gospel of Christ. In this work we bid The Peculiar People Godspeed.