Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-27
SPEAKS FOR THE
STRICKEN JEWS.
Rev. Simpkin Discusses the Sub
ject, "What the World
Owes The IeWs.'
MAKES AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.
says Russia VIII Pay the Price OF
Atrocities Committed al Odessa
And Warsaw.

Rev. +. A. sSimpkin preached yester-
day morning. in the Phillips Congrega-
tlonal church on What the World
owes the Jews" and in behalf Of the
stricken people In Russia who are be-
ing hunted like Wild beasts. I'm part
the speaker said,
Il am debtor to the jew Paul
spoke for Christedom in this sentence.
In an especial sense that was only per
sonal did Paul use this phrase. lie was
a part Of the Jewish life, born into IT,,
nurtured at it's bosom, absorbing its
truth aud religious life, strengthened
by its culture. dedicated to its service,
carrying a mission 10 its people. Neri-
ly he was debtor In peculiar ana per
soual way, hut he was at one with the
soul OF the apostle In recognizing y
common debt to the Jewish race. For
centuries-too many Of them. the world
was guilty Of foolish and baseless
hatred against the wandering Israelite,
because Of chlldishly literal reading
Of the greatest fact IN history as II re-
jew, persecution and ostraCism rob-
berry and repression. sarcasm ana Gym
iclsm were the only things the Jew
knew at the hands Of those who, pro-
Tossing to be followers Of the meek
and lowly Christ, the greatest Jew Of
all Jewish history. because forsooth the
ecclesiastical leaders 1900 years ago
pushed 10 it's merciless end a persecu-
ton of our Lord Jesus Christ.
one bushes for his creed and the his
tory of its touch upon the world when
he becomes familiar with the cruel die
IT, and bloody deeds which have eX-
pressed the Christian attitude toward
the Jew. For with one or two excep-
tons every shameful outbreak against
the jew, the sacking Of the Ghetto, the
pouring Of blood till the cutters run In
the Judenasse, the ostracism that has
been exercised. the social outblotting OF
the Israelite from every avenue Of life
save that Of barter and loan These all
have been the actions of nominally
Christian nations, and whether It be
medieval England. France, Spain,
Italy or Germany. or modern Ru1 Ia
and Republican France, the issue Is no
less shameful because the cross and
name of Jesus have been invoked in
the doing. II is only within the past
century and a half that I'm the most
enlightened Christian countries there
has been given to the children OF Abra
ham that fair and Just treatment which
has made life bearable and lifted from
the brow OF the jew the shadow of the
centuries. from his soul the prison
bands Of repression and injustice,
THE jew in himself is entitled to
respect and warm appreciation apart
from those deep and peculiar religious
claims which are to be pressed IN this
hour. The very presence in the earth
in such numbers of this peculiar people
of God Is to be wondered at when one
remembers how the mills Of the CEN
turtles have ground him as he has wan
dered--the one race Of Christian history
without country.
We have heard with aching heart the
roan:
But we must wander witheringly,
In other lands to die,
And where our fathers ashes be
Our own may never lie.
Our temple hath not left a stone
And hooking sits on salem's
throne"
The national life and character which
broken and scattered as chaff by the
wind, can still hold In It's tiniest frag-
ment the passion Of that which was
glorious under David and Solomon and
Maccabeus, and which surrendered SO
slowly and painfully Its entity under
the pounding Of ritas' hammer 40
years after the crucihXion. is a thing
for wonder. That soul which has pro-
duced, under slightly favorable con-
L H.,
SpinoZas, Beaconficids and Hirschs Is
soul to be viewed with reverence,
for II proved the rich and the fecund
quality OF the protest. since II stretches
from Abraham by Moses and Isaiah
and John the Baptist and Jesus rich
with power TO bless 40 centuries.
The Christian church needs 10
awake not merely to the moral neces-
city of securing for the Jew, equity
and justice in every land under the sun
because he shares with US the father
hood of God, but must above all with
clearer vision measure that which we
owe TO the jew and In great pas
sion OF love and pity seek to discharge
the debt we owe.
The twentieth century will, | believe,
see no blacker thing than the wicked
massacres OF this year, 1905. In Rus
ria, where at Odessa and Warsaw, Rus
sian cruelty has again broken forth.
Think of II, In a short space of time
tx coo Jews, men, women, children
killed like vermin by Russian cruelty
and hate.
Russia will pay the price she paid
for Kishnev at Mukden. She should
pay for the shocking brutalities OF this
last month In another blow aimed at
her by every decent Christian govern
ment on the face of the earth. The
fleets of Chrlstendom, which are sailing
today to seek TO compel the sultan "a
order and justice IN Macedonia ought
TO sail to Cronstadt and odessa with
the writ Of justice and the demand Of
Christian civilization that the lsraelite
shall have IN common with every crea-
ture the right to life and love and
happiness and religious belief The
blow which entrenched barbarlsm re-
ceived in .he palace of Peterhof last
month I'm the issuance of the Magma
| Charta OF Russian freedom should be
followed by another IN the combined
protest Of Christians against this bru-
| tality. America, which had an ear for
| cuba and her people should hear the
| wall of these children Of God and
should protest more emphatlcally than
| IN the day following ISshnieff | urge
| YOU to write TO tho warm-hearted
| president OF this republic to petition