Ingersoll and other infidels and completely succumbed to their destructive criticism of the Scrip tures. His neighbor prayed five times daily for him throughout his course in the university, that his faith would not fail or be misguided. One day she urged him to read of ex- Rabbi Wertheimer and to get in touch with the Rev. John Solomon whom she called a Hebrew Chris tian. This term was an enigma to him because the word “ Christian” was always associated with Gen tiles. Feinberg wavered. Should he de spise his heritage and turn to the Gentile’s Christ for help? Yes, he decided, he would hear this man. The Rev. John Solomon, a Pitts burgh missionary with the Ameri can Board of Missions to the Jews, showed him the blood line from Leviticus 17:11 to Hebrews 9:22 and explained how Jesus of Naza reth had fulfilled all the Messianic claims. From then on Feinberg had no peace until the consummation of his conversion described above. “ No one needed to explain to me the meaning of the first verse of Rom ans 5,” he says. “ I experienced first hand the ‘peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’ ” He could no longer follow blindly the ceremonies of his family’s orthodoxy and was forced to leave home. At the advice of some Chris tian friends he went to a small school at College Point, Fla. where he taught history and took courses in Bible on the side. From there he went to Dallas Theological Semi nary where he took six years’ work in four. Upon graduation in 1934 he was made instructor in church history there while he finished his doctorate on the millennium ques tion — contrasting the pre-millen- nial view with the a-millennial. It was published upon the recommen dation of Dallas’ late president, Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer. It was the first of many books to be written by Feinberg. In 1932, just after his first year
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at Dallas, he had travelled through Chicago on his way to mission work in Detroit and had met Anne Frai- man, a Moody Bible Institute stu dent who was teaching children at a Jewish center in Chicago’s south side. She had been bom in Russia just before the Bolshevik revolu tion and was driven to hardships with her family by living in forests to escape persecution. Anne and Charles were married in 1935 after his graduation from Dallas. Their home in Whittier, Calif. is blessed with three children: Paul, 20; Lois, 18; and John, 12. Paul is now enrolled at UCLA. Lois, a lifetime member of the California Scholarship Foundation, is also at
tending UCLA. She is in her fresh man year on two scholarships. Not long ago Dr. Feinberg entertained some of his students in his home. In a Bible quiz game John, the youngest Feinberg, outstripped the seminarians with his ability to quote the passages called for. Mrs. Feinberg is shy and retiring, a good complement to her husband’s aggressiveness. She will be alone more than ever this coming year as Dr. Feinberg’s duties increase and out-of-town trips are more fre quent. The professor has one bold ambi tion: to study in the Hebrew Uni versity in Jerusalem — land of his people. END-
The King's Business/July 1958
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