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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I NE S S the Jewish people is, and of right ought to be< at home in all lands. Israel, like every other religious communion, has the right to live and to assert its message in any part of the world. We are opposed to the idea that Palestine should be considered the homeland of the Jews. Jews in America are part of the American nation. The ideal of the Jew is not the establishment of a Jewish state, not the reassertion of Jewish nationality, which has long been outgrown. We believe that our survival as a people is dependent upon the assertion and the maintenance of our historic religious role and not upon the acceptance of Palestine as a homeland of the Jewish people. The mis sion of ths Jew is to witness to God all over the world.” There are many sentences in this statement that call for criticism and comment, indeed that call so loudly that it is almost impossible to be silent, but the criticisms and comments are so obvious that any one who has even a moderate knowledge of what the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments teach as to the mission and future of the Jew, and any considerable knowledge of the his tory of the Jews during the centuries of their Dispersion can make the com ments and criticisms for themselves. We suggest that our readers ponder this pronouncement of the Central Conference of American Rabbis carefully and follow out the lines of criticism and comment suggested by it. It cer tainly is calculated to suggest many interesting and profitable lines of thought.
CHRIST AND THE WAR “Nothing has happened in this war which has invalidated a single claim ever made by Christ or on behalf of Christ. Not, a thing has taken place in the world which has weakened one of Christ’s principles. Christ never was so necessary, never more so; never more unique and never more sufficient. It is a great thing by an infinite proc ess of exclusion, like this war has been, gradually to rivet the attention of the world upon the unchangeable One, the One who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. He came not only to pro claim a message, hut that there might be a message to proclaim. Thank God for the chance of the ages to go back to our colleges and into our homes and into non-Christian nations and fix atten tion on the only One that has not slip ped and fallen. There He stands other than all the rest, strong among the weak, erect among the fallen, clean among the defiled, living among the dead— Jesus Christ the Lord.” — John R. Mott.
BOUNDLESS HUMPTION A handful of men of ordinary ability, meager attainments, and nominal relig ion, declare themselves to be the chief representatives of world scholarship and piety. Such disgusting self-conceit is so offensive to the great multitude of educated Christians, that it might fitly be termed Unmitigated Gall. The Bible Champion would better characterize it as Boundless Bumption. It is time for some plain speaking and stern dealing with the Apostles of Bumption. We have made the offer, before a great audience of learned and educated men, to furnish ten great Scholars who are Evangelical, for every one who is Infidel. We were not chal lenged then, nor have been since. Let all Christians declare this everywhere, that the world may know that Infidelity is so discredited, that those who repeat its hoasts, are not only behind in schol arship, but are little less than crimin als, so overwhelming is the evidence at hand. — Rev. J. Benson Hamilton.
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