February, 1939
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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Around the King's Table E D I T O R I A L
The Jewish Skirt In Zechariah 8:23 are these words: “Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, “W e will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” This passage is prophecy not yet become history. W e look for its fulfillment in God’s good time. The reason we under stand it to be a prediction yet unfulfilled is that Zechariah prophesied along with Haggai after the restoration of the Jews from captivity and during the time of the reconstruction. Haggai’s message was more or less local and had to do with matters immediately at hand. Zechariah, on the other hand, bore a message more extensive. It reached across the age to the latter days and predicted the triumph of Messiah come to reign. In connection with this triumph of the Messiah will occur the return of Israel with the consequent restoration of Pales tine and reconstruction of Jerusalem and the reconstitution of the Jewish State. At this point of the prophecy, the mil lennium is in view when the nations of the world, seeing Israel's prosperity, will "take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, say ing, W e will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” What a re markable change in place for the Jew this describes! Instead of fleeing, he is to be followed. —followed for the sake of his leadership. The day is coming when in stead of persecuting the Jew, the Gentile will follow him to God. The Jew will be the leader of a great revival. Obviously this change has not happened. The restora The Editors submit this reprint from a column by Howard Vincent O ’Brien in the Chicago Daily N ew s of June 27, 1938, as a reminder of the predicament of the Jew- hater. But we can go still further than the journalist’s comment and can remind men that the world’s greatest book is a Jewish book—the Bible. The world’s only Sav iour is a Jewish Saviour—Jesus Christ. The Christian church was originally made up of Jews converted to the Christian faith. The kingdom we pray to come will be a Jewish kingdom. And further than this, every gate into the Holy City is a Jewish gate, for written thereon are “the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel." In this world and the next, the Jew-hater is in a dilemma. In all seriousness and with the gravest concern, pity the poor Jew- hater! The Chicago Daily News quotation follows: Pity the poor German! If he has heart disease he can’t use digitalis, because it was discovered by a Jew, Ludwig Taube.
with Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize win ner, physicist, and Chairman of the Execu tive Council of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan is reported to have said, “The decay of religion in the United States and the loss of faith of mod ern youth means the elimination of old-time superstitions and outworn creeds.” The famous physicist further is described as saying, “W e are sloughing off the eternal trappings, the impediments of the religion of Jesus. W e are coming more and more to see that its essence lies just as Jesus made it, in the spread of the spirit of altruism, the spirit of thoughtfulness, not for self, but for others.” If what is reported is correct, Dr. Mil likan’s "hopeful sign” lies in the loss of faith in what has been cherished for cen turies as orthodox, evangelical Christian ity. From the scope to which Dr. Millikan confines the "essence” of the "religion of Jesus,” we judge that the words “old-time superstitions and outworn creeds” include inspiration of the Scriptures, the Genesis cosmogony, the virgin birth, the atone ment, and the resurrection. W e can under stand easily why these truths are not ac ceptable to the natural man, for “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.” As a physicist, Dr. Millikan has done extremely valuable work. But although he is trained to think by the laws of logic and on the evidence of facts, Millikan expresses incongruous convictions and conclusions that are amazing. He accepts Jesus on the basis of a teacher of altruism, but evidently rejects Jesus as the Truth incarnate. The difference between the teacher and the Truth is very great. In accepting Jesus as [Continued on page 59] If he has cancer he can get no help from the great specialist, Ferdinand Blumenthal. Professor Blumenthal has been forced to leave Germany. If his wife needs the services of a gynecologist she will have to consult somebody besides Drs. Nobl and Oscar Frankl. They have committed suicide. So has Dr. Knopfelmacher of Vienna. Pity the poor German! He may like music, but he can’t listen to Tos canini because^ Toscanini’s daughter is married to a Jew, Horowitz. He may like modem music, but he may not lis ten to the works of Arnold Schoenberg, who has been proscribed as an exponent of “cultural bol shevism.” He may like the music of the past, but there will be no more performances of Goldmark, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Offenbach. The poor German may like to read. But the list of authors whose works must not be read grows constantly longer. To the list of forbidden German writers has now been added a list of Austrian writers. Pity the poor German! His world shrinks ever smaller. More and more cramped, he tries to be comfortable in the iron strait-jacket of the psychology that a madman has given him. Each day he cuts himself a little more adrift from everything that we have learned to call civilization. Pity the poor German!
tion has not taken place. But we are won dering where the Jew will get this “skirt” that the Gentiles will grasp. Is God now flailing the flax to get the linen out of which to weave this skirt? W e wonder. Is Europe God’s place of weaving? We won der. At any rate the signs multiply, and the most significant of all signs is the Sign of the Jew. W e long for the day when Gentiles will take hold of his skirt and say, “W e will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Change Comes to Bible Lands The most interesting and significant spot on earth is Palestine. Land of the world’s most thrilling history, it will also be the theater of the world’s most thorough change. In the December issue of the National Geographic Magazine is a most illuminat ing article on the change that is coming to Bible lands. W e commend it to every Christian. The alteration that now takes place in Palestine is simple in comparison to the great transformation that will extend to climate, soil, man, and beast. Since the days when Abraham followed the Euphrates out of Chaldea and made his way into Canaan, this land has been not only the most significant spot on earth, but also the most strategic. It is destined to play an important part in the future of God’s program. W e watch it with interest and note the increasing confirmation of Bible truth that comes because of the change in Bible lands. Dr. Millikan’s “Hopeful Sign” A recent press report in the Los Angeles Times carried the news of an interview If his tooth aches he cannot have the comfort of cocaine: for that would be utilizing the work of a Jew, Solomon Strieker. He will find it hard to avoid typhus unless he takes advantage of what two Jews, Widal and Weill, learned about this disease. If he has diabetes the aid of insulin is not for him; for a Jew, Mikowsky, had a hand in its discovery. If he has a headache he must shun pyramidon and anti-pyris, discovered by the Jews, Spiro and Eilege. If his child has convulsions he must avoid chloral hydrate, the discovery of a Jew, Oscar Liebreich. Pity the poor German! If he has syphilis he cannot allow himself to be cured by salvarsan, because that was discov ered by the Jew, Erlich. He must not even try to find out whether he has syphilis, because tne Wassermann reaction used for that purpose is the discovery of a Jew. If he suspects he has gonorrhea he must not investigate, because the method used is the discov ery of a Jew, Neissner.
THE WORLD’S DEBT TO THE JEWISH RACE
Pity the poor German! If he has ear trouble he can’t go to Heinrich Neumann, the specialist who treated the Duke of Windsor. Professor Neumann is a Jew.
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