Earlier
in his career Arno had been a Methodist missionary working to reach Jews
on the lower East Side. He and his family were supported by the church.
15 But he was accused of Judiazing 17 and when the Zionist movement began
he severed his relationship with the Methodist church.18 He then started
his magazine which stated that it “preached to the Gentile church in behalf
of the Jew.” His new ministry was supported by Zionists.
His account of his meeting Scofield reveals that he arranged the financing for Scofield’s proposed reference bible. 19 But Arno was writing a cover-up and not an objective history of the events. We now know that Scofield was being managed by Samuel Untermeyer 20 and that the book was owned by Oxford University Press.
So it is more probable that Untermeyer was working with contacts at Oxford in England and they hired Arno to do the book while Untermeyer controlled the front man.
Arno lists the financial backers of the book. Two of them were members of the Lotus Club on 14th Avenue. Other contributors were mentioned but none that he listed were Jews. Untermeyer who was a member of the Lotus Club and was controlling Scofield was not mentioned. Arno knew Untermeyer was paying Scofield’s rent at the club.(**Note) Apparently, Arno chose not to mention the names of his Jewish backers.
It is interesting that on page 2 of the original Scofield Bible, he acknowledged the influence of Oxford scholar B. F. Westcott. Westcott 21 had died in 1903 while the book was being written. He was close to James Balfour. He and Balfour were both into spiritualism and had séances together at Balfour’s London townhouse.22
Balfour
was an ardent Zionist. He and his close friend Edmond Rothschild were
the signatories to the infamous Balfour Agreement which deeded Palestine
to the Jews in 1917. Rothschild controlled Jacob Schiff in New York who
controlled Samuel Untermeyer.
So we see that Gaebelein and Scofield were connected to a Bolshevik Jew
and a closet Jesuit in the Church of England. Each of these men were but
one face away from Edmond Rothschild. Rothschild it was said, “owned”
Zionism.
If Edmond Rothschild was involved in the Scofield Bible project he would see to it that no one ever knew it. He always operated through agents. David Rausch mentions that people were “filtering” money to Arno and unlike other ministers at that time,he always seemed to have money.23
Rothschild began pouring a fortune into Zionism at about the time Arno started his Zionist magazine in 1894. Some of that money may have trickled down to the lower East side. And Arno like Balaam was a prophet for hire.
** Mark Twain made a famous talk at Lotus Club in 1900, Scofield might have been in the audience. (He lived there.) Next Page
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