The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
DOCTOR PETERS
 LAUDS THE JEWS Makes Eloquent Address at
 Temple Emanuel. SYNAGOGUE IS CROWDED Audience Comprised Representatives
 
SYNAGOGUE IS CROWDED
Audience Comprised Representatives From Every Walk of Life-Glve Rapt Attention for an Hour
 and a Half.

and a Half.
 The Rev. Dr. Madison c. Peters. the well known Baptist preacher for years pastor In New York, but now in charge of great Peoples church in Baltimore and distinguished as the author of Jus tice to the Jew" "The Jew as a Patriot" ]" and "The Wit and Wisdom of the Tal- mud" delivered a brilliant and telling lecture last night at Temple Emanuel on What the Jew Has Done for the World"
 The audience was probably the largest that ever assembled in the Temple. The aisles and gallery were crowded and many left unable to gain admittance. It was as representative an audience, too, as could possibly be gathered togeth- CT In Birmingham and was highly cos mopoltan Students, judges, lawyers, physicians and ministers were on hand and all gave the most careful attention during the entire lecture, which lasted for an hour and a half.
 Howard college attended in a body; there were representatives from the Bir- mingham seminary. from Pollock Stephens institute, from the Salvation Army. from the Polish and Russian Jews and from every walk of life. Among the prominent men in the audience were the Rev. Dr. L. c. Handley, the Rev Father P. A. O'Reilly. Dr. A. J. Dickinson, the Rev Dr. W. P. McFerrin, Judge N. B. TN. IT oI.lIf Dr. M Newfield presented pr. A. P. Montague. president of Howard college, to the audience and he in turn introduced pr. Peters Dr. Montague and Dr. Peters have been personal friends for many years and are both Baptist ministers. A large and cultured audience was present. During the evening the following musical numbers were rendered: Lost Chord, 1" (Sullivan)--B. L. Michel son.
 Violin solo, by Miss Kline. Duet, 'Maying" (Smith)--Messrs. Houp- pert and Michaelson.
 Accompanist-Prof. Fred L. Grambs.
 Dr. Peters lecture dealt largely with the part the Jews have taken in the arts and sciences, and the general progress of our civilization. Among other things the speaker said:
 Few Christians know the relatively enormous part taken by the Jews, eman- cipated but few decades, in the civiliza- ton of mankind Lord Beaconsfeld. when taunted in the House of Lords for his Jewish extraction, exclaimed, II can well afford to be called a Jew" When the modern Jew enlightens himself upon the achievements of his race practices the 1 virtues and avoids the faults of his an- cestors, he will prepare the way for a glorious future for himself and his des- cendants.
 Torch-Bearers of the World.
 While the ancestors of European kings and nobles were reveling in coarseness or ignorantly bending their backs to the commands of their superiors, the Jews were the torchbearers of the world. At a dinner party, two or three men got into a somewhat tiresome talk about the antiquity of their families. Disraeli turned to a friend and said: Think of these fellows talking about the antiquity of their families to me-to me, whose ancestor was the accepted lover of the Queen of Sheba." It Is related that when Sir Moses Montehore was taunted by a political opponent with the memory of Calvary and described as one who sprang from the murderers who crucified the worlds Redeemer, the next morning the Jewish philanthropist called upon his as- sailant and showed him the record of his ancestors. which had been kept for two thousand years, and which showed that their home had been In Spain for two hundred years before Jesus of Nazareth was born.
 Quakers. who. In the simplicity of their ordinary life may be supposed to conform more closely to religious precepts than most religious bodies. are the longest lived people, of whom we have record Next to them come the Jews.
 Vital Statistics.
 The average term of life among the Gentles is twenty-six years. Among the Jews 1t is thirty-seven. The life insurance companies, who have made the science of statistics a profession as the basis of commercial computation. will tell you that the life of the average Jew Is more than forty per cent more valuable than that of any other people, except Quakers and preachers.
 Why are the Jews so much less subject to consumption, cholera, croup, typhus and scrofula? Since 1t is sometimes nec- cssary to kill dozen hogs before sound pair of lungs can be found, 1t does not seem strange that consumption is so prevalent dHOHe tuc cdtefb Ol sWlne. Close investigations have disclosed the fact that nearly one-half of the animals killed are not kosher, or fit to be eaten. Our way of killing meat is, through it's proneness to become tuberculous, perhaps the cause of more disease than all other agencies combined.
 lnborn Kindness.
 If the bigoted authorities of New Am sterdam, who gave permission to a few Hebrews to settle in their city, "upon condition that they should always sup port their own poor" could see how well they have kept the promise, made more than two hundred years ago. those old burghers would open their eyes in sur prise upon the many and magnificent be- nevolent institutions, covering every con- ceivable case of need. which testify to