That Christian ministers should stop teaching children in the Sunday schools that the Jews are responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus is demanded in a recent letter to the London “Jewish Chronicle” by D. G. Baker, who notes with disappointment that at the recent conference of Jews and Christians held in London for the purpose of bringing about a better understanding between the faiths the Christian ministers didn’t give positive proof of their desire to establish good will.
“To detest the Jew is the first lesson the Christian child receives,” says the writer. “His first lesson is at his mother’s, or nurse’s, knee; he is there taught that God came down on earth and lived as a Man in order to save mankind, but that the wicked Jews killed him. When the child is a little older, he learns, at day-school and at Sunday-school, alleged details as to how Judas, the Jew, with all a Jew’s avarice and greed for money, “betrayed” the Lord for thirty pieces of silver, and delivered Him into the hands of his enemies—the Jews, of course. The young child is supplied with minute particulars of the sufferings of his Lord and Saviour on the Cross. It follows, quite naturally, that the Christian child, having imbibed this teaching, finds his heart going out to the Jews in an ecstasy of love and good-
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