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Show Hebrew Christians Accept Christ as True Heritage Herit-age of the Israel of God By SIR LEON LEVISOX, English Hebrew Christian. I AM glad that the church of Christ in America is awakening to its duty in presenting the Gospel to the Jews, because the Jew is just what the country makes of him in which he lives. In other words, each country has a Jew which it deserves. We Hebrew Christians believe that we are really entering upon our inheritance of prophets and Psalmist when we accept Christ, who is the only true heritage of the Israel of God. It was left to the Trotestant churches to become the readers of the Bible. God left to the Jews this precious legacy, but they have imprisoned impris-oned it like the ponderous volumes of Talmud; it was left to rot in the dust of their own libraries. In Christianity there is no doctrine of experience which is not illustrated illus-trated by Jewish Scriptures. But there is something more. At no time has Moses lived in such a real manner or any of the prophets in the hearts of the Jews as Jesus has lived in Paul and His other disciples and in rare souls through the age who stand out so brightly in the history and experience of the church. America is a great country. It has endless possibilities and one cannot can-not but foresee a glorious future for it. It has, however, great problems to face and it all depends upon how these problems are handled. In the first place, the problem of the education of the youth of the country seems to me to be the most important one. If religion is left out of the school curriculum and the upbuilding of the charter of the future citizens citi-zens on a sound basis is not attended to, then this country can never become truly great. The second thing that strikes one is the question of assimilation. To a newcomer, there seem to be communities within communities. With their own native presses as means of communication, in their own native languages their customs, manners and habits seem to prevail still and even their children who are brought up in those atmospheres and spoken to in these languages cannot but remain to a large degree what their fathers fa-thers have been. |