Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-23
Jewish War Relief
Day Next Friday

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upon them. II Is catalogue OF crime.
and A. a Christian man, with shame for
the lChristian church. I confess and adj
init that the church whose professed
faith IL charity and love for ali. for the
brother hood OF man, for the Fatharhoc0
OF God. and Notwithstanding that pro-
fessed faith has inflicted such cruelty and
injury upon the Jew. Noa because he
waa a sinner above ali other sinners. but
because he was Jew, And for this roa-
son they made an eutcsst Of him. I'M
sheltered by the Christian state, un-
shielded by the Christian church. ana VIC
timised by both.' n
1T u a fact embedded IN the history
OF the past ana the right the proper,
the just. thing for the Christian church
TO do. 10 70 try to pay--in fun measure
il never can-bue 20 try 20 pay that
reparation debt. and now s. the time.
In this his bitter hour, In his starving
ana suffering hour. now u the time 10
pay II. The debt Il due. Il is overdue, and
tho payment now should be made ana !
appeal not merely 70 the soma OF Zion
here. my Jewish fellow citissns, but ADJ
PEAL TO my Christian fellow citisene IN
this land 10 pay and discharge promptly
ana generously this rspafation debt to tho
Jew.
IL has been intimated IN the copmuni.
cation from the vice president. Il IL also
oivilization's debt TO the Jew, for who
that II familiar with his history can fail
to recognize the invaluable service which
he has rendered TO the progress OF man.
kind. II IL fact beyond question, be-
yond dispute. that there Il scarcely any
branch OF art, or science, or literature,
or letters. In which the Jew has not
rendered great service TO civilization, and
accomplished notable results.
OF course / DO not mean 20 say or
imply that this Il true OF the whole
Jewish race, but neither e Il true Of any
race or people In ita entirety. but a race
OF 9 people should be or ought 10 be
judged. not by their worst. but BY their
best and no one who Il not hlstory-blind
can fail 70 recognise the notable service
which the Jew a. his best will compare
with the best OF any race up 10 our
modern civilization. from Moses, the great
teacher Of righteousness, down 70 Moses
Mendelssohn. the great philosopher ana
thinker; from Isaiah 70 splnoEa. the war
SOD intoxicated. and many more IN other
days OF scarcely less repute.
Il say Il IL civiii4auon's debt TO the
Jew ana nov say again In this. his
sad and bitter hour. his affilctsd hour.
his sofgerings his homeless. his starving
hour. now u the time. for civilization 10
pay the debt which Il owes 20 the Jew.
"but beyond all that and hisher per-
haps than All that. Il Is huuanlty's
debt. Some one has said that human re-
lationships. a. they become less close.
are more difficult 20 moralize, and n "A
true. but human relationships today are
becoming not less eiose. but more close
Human life everywhere, in spite OF our
present belliserency ana strife. is touch.
ina human life. rather q 81 touching 81
self. everywhere touching itself II IA all
one.
Il recall that Emerson. IN his essay ]
think. on the American Scholar. says
something like this: 'Tns sods Al ths
outset divided man into men thar they
might Be helpful 70 himself. as the hand
Is divided into fingers 20 better serve ia
end Human life today Is but one
great hand stretched Qua over the earth.
and the different races Of men are but
the different finger parts and members
Of that hand. and the hand Il Indebted
70 lts fingers; cannot DO its work or b
itself without them. and the different
races Of men are the finger parts. ane
II ono race or finger on this human hand
Is wounded and crippled and hurt. the