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REV. LOUIS JACOB EHRLICH, CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO, WILL MAKE RENEWED EFFORT
TO WIN HIS JEWISH BRETHREN TO THE MESSIAH HE HAS FOUND—A REMARKABLE ANSWER TO PRAYER.
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HE burning anxiety of a .genuinely
converted Hebrew for the salvation of
his “kinsmen after the flesh,” is a pic
ture full of pathos. It ought to in-
spire and stir to action every Gentile Chris
tian who beholds it—but somehow we are
“slow of heart to believe,” and help.
Rev. Louis J. Ehrlich, who is opening a new
Hebrew Christian Mission in Atlanta this
week, puts the position and hardships of the
Christian Jew very strikingly when he says:
“When a Jew is converted he is obliged to
keep straight. The Jews cast him out; the
Gentiles distrust him, and if he don’t keep in
the straight and narrow path, the Devil will
get him sure. He has nowhere to go but to
his new-found Messiah and Lord and here
he goes and stays.”
Mr. Ehrlich, who is well known to the read
ers of The Golden Age, has long felt that he
must conduct a special mission to his people
and he has wisely desired more attractive and
inviting quarters than he formerly used. Af
ter praying over the matter for some time,
trying to come to an understanding of his
duty, he came into The Golden Age office one
morning recently to get his mail, and opening
a letter bearing a Canadian postmark, out came
a check for SSO. There was no letter —just a
few lines of sacred verse. The Christian Jew
cried some and laughed some —and we are
CIVIC LEAGUE SAYS- -Christ is the Only Means of Escape
N speaking of the “signs of the times,”
a learned man recently said that we,
as a nation, have come to the parting
of the ways to the forks of the road,
an
that if we take to the right and keep in the
paths of righteousness, our success as a nation
will be safe and permanent; but if we keep to
the leftin paths of unrighteousness, like all
other “nations that forget God,” we “shall
be turned into destruction.”
A few days ago one of our daily papers
published an article from the pen of an emi
nent man of culture and ability, who in speak
ing of materialism, selfishness, commercialism
and covetousness, among other /things said:
“This evil seed of social selfishness —the doc
trine that material good is the highest good —
must be destroyed.”
“By both precept and example a nobler doc
trine must be propagated; we must maintain
and constantly set forward the truth that the
true end of human life is spiritual, not mate
rial; and that material good is real good only
when it is used to serve this end.”
“Preachers must proclaim this truth in all
its full-orbed beauty and cease enjoining the
gospel of benevolence in such a lop-sided way
as to create more covetousness than they cor
rect.”
“Our people of wealth must cease using
their wealth as a mere toy, or they will bring
on a political revolution in which they will
lose the wealth which they use (or misuse)
so unwisely.”
“Our men of wealth are as blind as bats,
if they do not see what all this means. Some
of them may have tarried so long under the
garish lights of gilded clubs, sumptuous ban
quet halls and luxurious opera houses that
NEW HEBREW MISSION IN ATLANTA
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Rev. L. J. Ehrlicih, Christian Jew.
not sure but that he performed just a little
of that Davidian stunt known as “the holy
dance.”
Anyway, several smaller checks followed
from widely different sources. His mission
purpose was decided. He put this money in
a separate account in the Third National
Bank and went to looking for a suitable place.
He found it at 180 Whitehall street, near the
corner of Garnett and one block from the
By S. T. Nicholson, Secretary.
they can not see well in daylight; but, if so,
it is time they were clarifying their vision by
abstinence from such things for a season. It
is time they were showing more wisdom in
their personal expeditures.
If the wealthy people of Atlanta, for exam
ple, have spent recently in one week above
$90,000 for opera tickets alone, not to mention
their other expenditures during the same
week for costumes, dinners and turnouts, they
will do well to make some notable contribu
tions now to Christian education and for some
other things which money is transmuted into
higher good. It is time to show a better side
of themselves after having shown the vain
side so glaringly.
Riots in the palace mean in the end riots in
the streets. So it was in Babylon, in Rome,
and in Paris: and so it will be in America, if
we fail to learn the lesson which, as yet, it is
not too late to acquire.
The devotees of commercialism may de
nounce the disciples of socialism as much as
they will, but both parties are planted upon
the same evil principle of the over-estimation
of material good. Let the commercialists re
nounce this principle and begin to live on a
higher plane, and socialism will wither away.
But let them continue their riotous living, and
they will fan the socialistic flame which will
consume them.”
With all our boasted civilization and ma
terial prosperity there is much unrest abroad
in the land, and the “impending crisis seems
to be “in the air.” In conversation a day or
two ago with an observing brainy man one
of long experience in the business and politi-
Central Baptist church, of which he is a be
loved member.
As his mission will be undenominational, he
has secured well-known men of different de
nominations as an advisory board, auditing
his accounts and receipts and helping him in
a general way to direct the work. They are
as follows: Rev. S. R. Belk, pastor PJrk
Street Methodist church; Dr. A. R. Holderby,
pastor Moore Memorial Presbyterian church;
Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, pastor Central Baptist
church; Rev. Geo. Nussman, pastor German
Lutheran church; Mr. A. M. Beatty, layman
First Christian church, and William D. Up
shaw, editor of The Golden Age. Those in
terested in this vital but long-neglected work
can send contributions direct to Mr. Ehrlich
at the above address and they will be ac
knowledged through The Golden Age. He now
needs some chairs and tables to help furnish
the mission, and in order to make the work
as nearly self-sustaining as possible, and also
for the purpose of scattering good literature,
religious books will be sold, or given away
where needed, and contributions of whole
some books, new or old, will be gladly received.,
Jews will be especially invited to the mis
sion for inquiry and instruction, and the su
perintendent will occasionally hold evangelis
tic meetings for Jews and Gentiles —a work in
which he has been greatly blessed..
cal world, speaking of commercialism, graft,
greed, selfishness and other evils of the day,
he seemed much discouraged and utterly dis
gusted, could see no remedy and thought it
would finally end in revolution. Conditions
are doubtless bad, but there is a remedy.
We want to repeat in part the words of
an article of last week that the situation
should be faced both conscientiously and hero
ically by the leaders of Christian thought and
activity. The hour is here when all Chris
tians should render the largest possible ser
vice in the conversion of sinners, in reaching
the children and youth of our land, and in
saving and uplifting of the community and na
tion. The Gospel of Christ is the only means
of escape.
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S. T .Nicholson, Secretary.
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