The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-20
RUSSIA AND THE JEWS.
POWERFUL SERMON BY REV,
 WILLIAM BEARDSLEY.

hdebtedness of Christian to the Jew
 His Subject-Russia's Treatment Has
 Been PersistentIy Harsh and Cruel
 Said the Preacher-Their Sufferings
 Should Awaken Our Pity and Sym-
 pathy
 At St. Thomas P. E. church yester- day morning the rector, Rev. William Beardsley, preached a powerful ser- mon on the Russian outrages upon the Jews. MT. Beardsley took for his text St. John iv., 22: "Ye worship ye know not what. We worship what we wor- ship: for salvation is of the Jews" He spoke in part as follows:
 The nations of the world, so-calIed Christian nations, have a bitter record to answer for in their treatment of this long-suffering people. Why is it that somewhere they are forever being per- 0S|nLOoS SLAS WV ALAO" L1AC1A pCSdAietAA ties, but they have been accentuated and developed by an age-Eong, uniform treatment, shameful and indefensible. But, then, where is the nation or peo- pie so free from everything which off, fends, that 1t can voluntarily assume the duty of training through chastise- rnent this ancient people of God? Are Russian morals and manners and tastes so exquisite that they can con- stantly take up the task? And this brings ne to the thought towards which have been working. Russia has recently been the theater of disgrace full scenes, scenes which have quicken ed the throbs of human hearts through out the world, scenes in which the poor Jew was again the victim. I like to think that the reports which have come to US are frightfully exaggerated, but be that as ta may, if they are but par tially true they may well stir our right eous indignation. What! have we lived nineteen hundred years under the beau- tiful influence of that ideal Man of the house and lineage of David, not to be moved by the wholesale slaughter, for no other reason than racial prejudice of His brethren, and because His brethren, our brethren? The Jew is bound to us in the common bonds of humanity as well as through the great Elder Brother Jesus Christ. Whatever may be his faults he is a man with all the feelings of a man. Antonio's friend Salerino never answered Shy locks queries: Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, pas- stons? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the samo winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, ado we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh. If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that" am not quot ing shylocks words because approve of Shylock, who, of course, is an "in- conceivable masterpiece of character ization," but the crafty, and cruel, and overreaching, and flesh-loving usurer is made to say, even when his heart is warming with the thought of re- venge, what must ever be regarded as the truth, that Jew is not less man because he is a Jew.
 Now, I don't know that any protest we may make will help our brethren of Israel in far away Russia, but these are not the days when the mad mob, unrestrained by the authorities, can wreak its wrath upon the innocent and helpless for no other reason than that of racial prejudice without raising a storm of protest. I care not in what corner of the world the wrong is done. But whether our help is only such as may be given through the relief fund, and in that way everyone can help, we >oRn ct least spaek out in condemnation