The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23
Made in Connection with the
Movement to Raise Large
Relief Fund.

Active work in the movement ia
raise relief funds for Jews in the war
stricken regions Of Europe and Asia
will be started here tomorrow with
large committee Of Jews and Gentiles
enlisted. In connection with this
movement Bishop David H. Greer, OF
New York, Episcopal clergyman, re-
recently delivered the following adj
dress urging Christians to contribute
literally to the fund:
am here tonight 10 voice by my
presence, for whatever my presence
may be worth, and also by spoken
word, my sympathy and to persuade
others toward that sympathy for the
suffering, starving Jewish people, men,
women and children on the other side
Of the seas. / am moved to do this,
not merely by sentimental consldera-
TONS though such considerations are
always legitimate, but as an act Of
justice. 1t is a debt, a debt in the
first place which the Christian church
owes to the Jewish people; II Is a
PREPARATION debt for the cruelties and
the crimes which II has inflicted upon
them. 1t is catalogue OF crime, and
as Christian man, with shame for
the Christian church. whose protested
faith Is charity and love for all, for
the brotherhood Of man, for the father
hood Of God; and notwithstanding
that professed faith has inflicted such
cruelty and injury upon the Jews, not
because he was a sinner above all
other sinners. but because he was q
Jew, and for this reason they made
an outcast Of him, unsheltered by the
Christian church and vicltiniized by
both.
PREPARATION Debt.
II is q fact imbedded in the history
cf the past and the right, the proper,
citizens. but appeal to my Christian
church to do, is to try to pay-in full
measure 1t never can--but to overdue;
and the payment now should try to
pay that PREPARATION debt, and now is
the time.
In this his bitter hour, In his starv-
ing and suffering hour, now Is the time
to pay It. The debt is due, It is Of
art, OF science, or literature, or let
tiers, in which the Jew has not been
made and I appeal. not merely to the
sons Of Zion here, my Jewish fellow
citizens, but I appeal to my Jewish
fellow citizens In this land to pay and
discharge promptly and generously
this reparation debt to the Jew.
It has been intimated In the com.
municatlon from the vice-presldent, It
Is also civilizations debt to the Jew,
for who that Is familiar with his
history can fail to recognize The In
valuable service which he has render
ed to the progress Of mankind. 1t Is
fact beyond question, beyond dis
pute, that there Is scarcely any branch
rendered great service to civilization,
and accomplished notable results.
Judging the Race.
OF course. l do not mean to say or
imply that this is true OF the whole
Jewish race. but neither is It true Of
any race Of people in It's entirely, but
a race or people should be or ought
TO be Judged, not by their worst. but
by their best, and no one who Is not
|history-blind can fail to recognize the
notable service which the Jew at his
best will compare with the best OF
any race up to our modern civilization.
from Moses, the great teacher Of
|righteousness, down to Moses Mendels-
sohni The great philosopher and think