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''LOVE TIE JEW" SAYS DR PETERS IN f SERMON
 AT NEW YORK. WHAT NE OWE ISRAEL. ? Anti. semltes Are Out of Place in This Age of Enlightenment,
 He Says.

Rev. Dr, Madison C. Peters, pastor of Bloomingdale Reformed church, Boulevard and west 66th street recently preached a sermon on What We owe Israeli
 Among other things he said:
 T love the Hebrews their fneom- parable poetry, their peerless pro phets, and their matchless history. Christ, the ideal of the race, was a Jew. All the apostles were Jews.
 '.The unhappy actors in the cruci- fiction were Jews and Gentiles to gether. Together. According to orthodoxy they had 70 option in the matter.
 1t may be true that the Jews would not have done otherwise if they could, but they certainly could not have done otherwise if they would.
 Therefore among fair minded men, Jewlsh blame for the cruci- fiction has become a dead issue. ltI Goes not seem fair to lay the deed of his ancestors against the Jew and his deeendents down to the slxtieth generation. Christ came to his oxn. and His own received Him rot, but with his expiring breath He pleaded, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Is it not time to forgive and forget what Christ forgave 1,800 years ago2 The cruelty which tke Jew has not suffered, and the injustice which has not been heaped upon him cannot be named. And what is the Jews crime? What has he done to merit the world'sig gnominy? He has given Moses, who, in the twelve United States of Israel, gave to the world, the first republic.
 CHhIpIlANS AND JEWS.
 Christianity has its roots in the Old Testament. Christians are Jews gone to fruit The Jew has not only been the factor that for four hundred years supplied the na- tions of the earth with money, but in every departmental of human ac- tivitY the Hebrew race has furn- ished proportionately greater nun per of great men among the greatest of the earth than any other race.
 If ever a people demonstrated the power of education it is the Jewish race. IL has furnished a Kimich in philoiogy, a Spinoza in philosophy, HaIevy in poetry, au Ezra in astronomy, a Traube in medicine and a Disrael in litera- ture. The most jealous advocate of the higher education of woman in this country, and the moving spirit in the establishment of Barnard College, was Mrs. Anna Ma than Meyers. The treasurer, Mr. Schiff, is. also a Jew. Columbia College has three Jewish professors. The University of New York, the Col lege of the City of New York, liar yard, John Hopkins and the Ual- versailles of Wisconsin and PennsyI- yania, are among other well-known colleges who have Jewish professors
 sThe most enthusiastic supports CTS of our public schools and all must admit that tbe Jewish children are among the brightest and most behaved. As rich as Jew, is changing to AS wise as a Jew
 'sIn music, the Jews can lay claim to such names as Mendelssohn, Of eebach, Jouchine,, Meyerbeer, Kossini, Rubenstein and Goldmark. In statesmanshlp. Benjamin Dis- raeli, Jules Simon, Fould, Cremieux Gambetta and Lasker.
 l "The professorships filled by Jews in our leading colleges show that they have peculiar aptitude for the highest political science. We had, a..few years ago, six Jewish 1 judges in our city courts, and the l Attorney-General of this State,