The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
CONGRESSMAN MtDERMOTT'S
AMAZING SPEECH.
Commendatory Eplstle From an Eminent
APOSTLE OF Jewish Enlightenment.

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Apos''e vi 'e"'o"
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-o"' ! uoh '
wish to throw stones at any OF my Numerous
theological friends either Of my " te'le'Sua
campus or Of the other side or the mousse, out
1 doubt whether OF the about three nuhuIeu
Easter scrmons which were dehVereu Wy n
rabbis OF this country Tuesday last OF OF sue
more than one hundred THOUSAND Mh!S"
will be preached Easter sunday mex ~ III
churches of the multiform gospe' Variatlons
from the Atlantic to the Paoino, very iua,y
Will be recorded with the same hohois III ~
annals Of Jewish and Christian emahelpa.,on
as the warning address when was ior"aIueS
on April IL by the courageous hepreSentaVi'S
OF New Jersey from the United states Iapltol
to the Imperial Palace at TsarsKoe,oeio VIC
the offices OF their Excellencies WIS INV
Durnovo. Allan l.. McDermott epose W
the point. q thing which. alas. ID y ei"oye
done. and In many cases can De oone oy ouI
professional servants OF the Loro ooVeueo
overbearing church trustees anu narIo"
minded ecclesiastical courts oeeraoe .hont
to humble tools OF superstition ana oaia"oe
sheet.
BEING myself q kind Of lay preacher wisn. IN
the very midst OF the Hebrew Pessach lesti'ai
and on the eve OF its Christian counterpart, 70
aux q jewish postscriptum TO hepresentatiV
MoDsrmott's sermon on the CruoinAion oi
Christ.
To begin with Were I a multi, or eVen .
single, millionaire | would already have glVen
TO my printer the order TO print. In tnree OF
four different languages. several hunureus
OF thousands OF copies Of this splendid re-
vlndication of truth and Justio e In order 70
be spread among the masses, here and IN
Europe. This hint to my friends on william,
Pine and Wall streets win probably suince
TO wake them up for a while from their
monotonous ticker eading. An now let me
hew to the line. whithersoever the chips may
fall. .
During 100 years Of the Christian era
exclaimed the religious tribune OF the Cap'Toi,
nearly every fanatic who evolved from MS
mean and miserable brain q command from
uooron' nbaarSrIiy and diligently persecuted
those Of his fellow men who disagreed with his
insanity. While thus engaged In the con-
eenlal occupation Of numbering each other,
irenzieo Heaiote vi neaiiy On aotn.t tha
oreeds nave maze common cause asaiues ~
Jews, with whose blood the world mas been
drenohed. Persecution OF the Jews because
49, 90 1o,s Ia to-dov tolerated In but few
eney u 1--we - 80 - % ,ar No tho
paris OF .ne Cnf.salsh WILL t.I, .So, 10 hraothad
In the vords .Christ killer Is found In the
avss and nm the tongues Of Christians In the
New World as well as In the oid.
Let us stop here and ask ourselves less the
broad question why fifty Jewish generations
nav been Ia tne pas m", .han INV ny
Christian sister generations' thah sHoW ny
the deeper query why our own Ju~deo-Chris-
tian generation living in the blessed TWEEN
.,ath oantrry ottar Chriat does mt oossess
.ha an aa ~ atom At least the oontinuanoe
in the future OF this stupid hatred and use
less carnage by ordering its religious account
nnts Measrs The theolooian ma Of the various
oreeds aud pseudo creens. 10 oeiVe hohestiy
into the archives OF the houses OF the
Lord and to furnish o truthful aud clear
woIaeo reoo,u Vi ."en
and immortality and the many ~taphysi
problems for whose solution humanity has
o oSe bnil}}eonSsm Of dollars Without Advancing one
single step on the dark road Of life.
aide OF the Jordan / will remain on the jew
ish hank of the river. Well, TO make 1t short,
/ i partly our Nhs Jewsl gym 4 ia "A dhs e., ,Rs
wworld have not vet been fully eradicated. even
in this most liberal and generous republic OF
oirs I'VE do nothing. or next TO nothing, TO
Laws the ienets OF our religious faith and our
poiitioo-economioal conditions in the differ
auated Oriental traditions and customs which
stamp ls, and WIN STAMP us as long az
Chr stia ne as FIJI aliens. semi-aliens or quar-
ter aliens. according to purse, general educa-
tion and pronunciation OF the yernaCular by
he sons ~ Shem,
II here In one special task which Providence
seems to have imposed upon the 100 600
lows liyine in this country il il to be the
Sniiritual osartermssters of the tens of thou
sands OF their foreign brethren who are land
m III y human teinTs suffer in their
acnnomicsi and social advancement on &C.
coTnt ~ their dogred cinRine 10 n few ,tse-
iess naranhernalia of religion. but II ia revolt
inc 10 Know that eminent American bankers.
Judges LAWYERS and merchants, liberal minded