Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
THE CHRISTIANS UN- CHRISTIAN TREATMENT
BAPTIST PLEADS BOLDLY FOR ASKS CHRISTIANS TO RIGHT
 AGE-LONG WRONG.
Members of the First Baptist churet Hear Remarkable Sermon by Pastor on Subject of lnjust-
 ice to Israel.

Boston, Dec. S.-Sunday at the Rap tist church, Dr. F. H. Rowley took
 to right the age-long wrong.
 christian Treatment of the Jew: A
 Plea for Justice in the Name of Chris tianity" He said in part:
 | I speak under the sense of a deep obligation. owe it to this pulpit, 10 the very spirit of Christianity it.
 self, that the fair and honest word be | spoken concerning a great body of men and women who have suffered | beyond all others at the hands of that which, under various forms and in many lands, has been known as the
 religion of Christ. If in the name of Christianity the Jew has been made
 to bear all that prejudice and religious
 bigotry and inUorerant hate could heap upon him, then in the name of Chris
 tianity let us confess our appalling sin and do what We can, though late, l to right the age-long wrong.
 How they smite us, those words of the Jewish novelist. Israel Zangwill, in his "Dreamers of the Ghetto: The Jewish mission will never be over till
 the Christians are converted to the re- ligion Of Christ" There is no more inhuman story of wrong, of persecu- 1 ton. of bitterness and reviling than
 that which recounts the treatment the Jew has received from men and
 nations bearing the Christian name.
 For 1500 years, and even up to modern days, in certain nominally Christian
 lands, ingenuity has exhausted itself
 in the invention of means whereby the
 Hebrew might be insulIed. plundered,
 tortured, crushed.
 The Jew comes down through the l Christian centuries with a trail of i blood and tears behind him that has
 no parallel in the annals of mankind. l Spain grew rich upon the Israelite,s s | gold while her dungeons hid the aw- | ful secrets of his anguish and her tortures broke his patient heart. Italy
 robbed him of his wealth and then 1 subjected him to horrors of the inquisi- tion. Germany encouraged his thrift | and then confiscated the fruits of his toll. England kept his money, but banished him, an outcast from her shores. France has rung with the anti-Cemite cry, and with the words liberty, equality, fraternity upon her lips, struck down her Jewish children. And Russia-what pen can write, what I tongue can tell the story of Israels
 woes in that land that has been cTim-
 soned a thousand times with Hebrew
 ploodi In such an hour as the present,
 brutal leaders have but to spread some idle tale of Jewish plot. and the un- Il governed mob begins its reign of ter i. TOT. Resisting their infuriated per se- Cutors, the Jews are shot down by the
 soldiery, stabbed with bayonets, burn
 ed alive in their places of refuge. till
 we are told that within iea weeks 2S, 900 have been killed and 100, 900 in iured.
 Surely we are dead to all the finer
 feelings of humanity, cruelty selfish because we are safe, most unlike him
 We call Lord and Master, if these re
 ports of bloodshed and suffering, ex
 aggerated though they maye be, dc
 not stir our souls into pity and move us to all possible efforts at relief. He who told the story>of the good Samari
 tan, he whose heart was as wide as human sorrow. does he not bid us ans 3 wer that call for help and in the name
 of our common humanity utter oul 6 loudest protest against this inhumani
 ty of man to man? What better proof : could Christian America give the Jew ish world that her religion was iron P God, than such a response to this
 despairful cry as would convince i , that the God it has found in Christ i: f still the God of Abraham and of Isaac ' and of Jacob?
 4I1 --T hs n worlds unpaid debt to the Jew. Hi: f patriotism, the part he had played il Q our own national affairs during ant I since the struggle of the colonies fO f independence, his services to humani Q ty in science. literature, art, music V statesmanship, finance, the grea 2 names that have made illustrious S, r. many pages in the history of ever! s nation of the western world, were s- passed in review. The popular ide; Q that as a people the Jews were ricl if was shown to be most mistaken one r. the actual fact being that if thei Q wealth were capitalized and equall. i. distributed among them they woult if as a race be among the poorest of al l. people. The following words wer IT quoted from Gen. B. F. Butler: 'Fo n 40 years, save one, I have been con -t, versant with the criminal courts c a Massachusetts and many other states V and I have never yet had a HebreS -s client as a criminal; furthermore. a never saw a Hebrew in a prisoner
 box for crime in my life"
 .el Then followed the plea for the bar II isnment from our hearts of the unhol a and ancient prejudice with which 8 if many have persisted to this very houi III Willing as many of us may be to at st knowledge humaity's obligation to tn D. Jew above that we owe to any othe
 race, or to all others combined, ho'