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Show ATTITUDE OF JEWS TOWARD MESSIAH ONE OF KINDNESS Rabbi Charles J.'Freund defined the Jewish attitude toward the Christian Messiah as one of kindness and respect, at the regular Friday evening services in Temple B'Nai Israel last evening. "My subject tonight is the Messiah." said the speaker. "The subject is timely time-ly on account of the production in our city next Tuesday of Handel's magnificent magnifi-cent oratorio of that name. Taking for granted that you are to listen to the oratorio, you will notice from the words that the passages sung snd recited, re-cited, are mainly from various chapters in the Biblical book of Isaiah. The theme assumes that what Isaiah said and wrote pointed to one whose life and death should be the fulfillment of the great Isaianic prophecies. "The position "we take is not one of ingratitude. Rather might such a charge be made of those who take a harmless text and put into it a meaning mean-ing foreign to the author. The only way open to come to anything like a fair study and decision is to take the text in its contextual standing. Then we will be in position to say whether Crophet or subsequent history are in armonious agreement as to what was meant by 'Messiah.' " |