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Show mi. nnowNcs i,EtnnE. "Il Id Ilia Jem I'rtrtlfr thrill!' A ljurillon Aiurrrrrd la tho .rllif. Tbo beautiful Jowl.li aynigoguo wa. well filled Jut night with an attentive at-tentive audience gathered In crJer lo learn what Hie renowned lecturer had to any upon the above etatcd auljett The lecturer, having Iwcn briefly Introduced, aald hi. lecture waa not calculated to elicit applauae, but ho would dl.cuaa thla autlect with all reverence, 11 had been forced upon him. Mr. Moody once, before a large audlrnco bad credited tho following fol-lowing alatement to a learned Jewl.li lt.bbll "1 glory In th. fact that our forefather, crucified Clirl.t," an I tbl., th. famou. .vangell.t held to b. tbeoplnlonof.il Jewa. Henator Har. g.nt had aald: "The Houtherneia nny a. welt deny that they ued lo ahoot nlggera a. Hi. Jewa can deny that they aaaaatlnatod Je.ua." Amcrllona Uko then had forced the ajaakcr to lake up the t ulject and to etaud up for hi. people. peo-ple. The lecturer did not, however, wl.li to Interfere lu the luut with the faith of hi. Chrl.tlan brethr.u, for It could be logically proved that thl. IUimIIoii wa. Immaterial lo their fuu uarnentat doctrine. Ihe aker I. ft Jow and not a Chrltllan, but for thl. evenlug he would place hlnelf on the platform plat-form of tho Chrlnllat,. and believe that Jr.ua waa u divine U lug whocatne hero to aacrl flee Hlmielf for the aalvatlon of mankind, Jml to proro that uotuly can bo a Chrl.tlan andbellove the Havlor waa cruclfleil lytheJewa. Ai-vonling lo 1'aul In Horn. vll. Chrlal waa a man and muit be Judgiil a. a man. I The lecturer vu olt.n confui-ed In hi. New Te.t.ment quotation.. quo-tation.. The eighth of Jbiruana haa norifereuceatall to the humanity of Chrl.t, UltKthai 1'hll.ll wa. allud edto). ChrUtwn.liouuJ to carry out lllirol.a.am.ii In every detail, for had anybody au.jiectid Jllnlof brltlrr In ire Ihau a mortal man, He would not have leeii crucified and H. could not have fulfllli-d HI. inlailon. He inuat therefore I Judgeil a. auy other nun, iieltlur mole nor le... Chrl.t came to bu aacrlllcod. How, I. Inim.t.rl.il. The following qucUon were iro poevd. 1.) Did the Jew., themaalvii), crucify Chrl.t? J.) Or, were they In. alrumenlal In brlnglug It about? ;.) Did they approve of the cruel-flxlon? cruel-flxlon? 4.) Doth. Jaw. today glory In lit 6.) Dor. the hl.lory of the Jew.Juatlir the ioiu.lu.ion that the blood of Chrl.t ha. como upon the Jew., tu a cure? All the., quoetlon. th. epcaler emphatically em-phatically denied. Thehltorlauioftho age Iguoro the crucifixion of Chrl.laltogether.TiU'llua haa merely at pAi.Ing remark about Je.ua, and Jrwephu. doe. not mention Him at all. Th. apeaker kn.w there I. n paragraph In Jtwephu. alvut Jc.ua, tail It wa. admitted to bo an Interpol.. Iluii. Then thute are Hie feur Uorpel., but there tile tpealcr did net lie. Ilevr, and the Talmud the Clul.tlaue could not read. Having thu. .uiiiuiarll and remark-ably remark-ably eaay dl.pueed of all hl.lorlcal data, Iho rjaker had nothing but clr cum.tantl.l evidence lelL And the "clrcuni.tantlal evldeniu" waa given. A caMi wo. auppoMvJ, I,et ua aay that Hie Indiana lial conquered tho Unlte.1 HUlr. and mado Hilling Hull the ruler, l'.very political right had bocu taken away from the cltlaoua and they were all aerfa. Now a rumor arlte. that a mau coiuc. who will bo the deliverer. Hut thu Hoiitheruera on hearing that hi. nimti la John A. I-ogatiot llllnola, refUM to accept Mm. finally he I. killed by the Indiana arid IhoueAiid. with hlrn. Another dellverar arl.e., but the Northerner, refuau to acce t him, and ha I. butchered by thu Iudlaue and thouuind. with hhu. Tho American, by thl. time will want no more dellv. erera. Jlut then another man ouie from Hanta l'e, N. M., and by hit noble character, eloquence, i tc, galna great topularlty. Ho 1. proclaimed a deliverer de-liverer and thou.and. follow hhu. Hut ho I. alio, finally, ilalu by the Indiana. Thl. represented the ajieak.r'. Idv4 of thu altuatloli lu Judea at the thuu of Chrl.t. Tho Jew. wer. conquered by the Itomani. Many deliverer, had ai-carcd ai-carcd and len elalnnd Je.u. among the ri-u, but not by the Jow. but by the llomnue, Thu leclure waa Interapured with many good ruuuuke,. well aa with aomo ai variance with thu only lit., torlcaldat. uo havu. Tuthlacallio. gory mu.t bu rouuted the aanrtlou that the ciuclllilou took placu on Hie Habbaih whlluthe Juki irere In the temple, and the aUteiuent that Judaa wa. kcowu to be an lione.t man. The lecturer cloee,! with an elcquent apal for religlou. tolerance, miking Hie.p-i-alall Hie more touching, be-cau.o be-cau.o It contained a quotatlou Horn a aermon of the greaict teacher thu w orld ever had, Je.ua Clirl.t. |