The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-20
AGE ONLY IN MIND,
SAYS JEWISH HEAD
OF ALLIANCE IN j. S.

81 don't believe in old age said
Max I. Reich, president of the Hebrew
Christian Alliance of America, when
his age was mentioned in an interview
Tuesday. "One never gets old except
in his own mind, and if he will but
open up his soul and let the spirit of
God descend upon him ne will never
become aged So many people, after
passing a certain point il. life, look
back into the past rather than TO the
present Live in the present with an
open mind for the affairs of the pres
ent, and let the past be forgotten.
That is the maxim for keeping young.
I feel as young today as l did 80 years
ago"
Mr.. Reich is here as the representa-
tive minister OF the Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting of Friends and is the
first of their ministers to bear GER
tificate to Indiana since 1854. He
will address a Joint meeting of local
Friends churches 70 be held at the
South Eighth Street Friends church
at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening
Richmond is the last stop on a lone
tour over the state, he having been
to Winchester, Muncie, Marion, An
derson, Greenfield, Amboy, Plainfield
Sugar Grove, Paramount, Spiceland
and Maple Run.
OF Jewish Origin.
Max I. Reich is of Jewish origin
| having been born in Berlin, Germany
His father was an Englishman anc
/ after the death of his mother, WHIT
/ was under the dominion of Germany
! he and his father returned to Eng
i land He made his first visit t
| America in 1886 and at that time wa:
a pioneer evangelist working in Kan
sas, Indian Territory, Arkansas ant
Texas. He returned to England il
I 1892 and did not return to the Unitet
States until 1913 and then he did no
remain but few months.
| The outbreak of the World wa
| found him in Denmark from which
place he made haste to return t
! America by the way of England, h
! arriving in the United States in JanJ
airy, 1915. All of these trips wer
made under the authorization and eel
i tificate of the Philadelphia Friends
for whom he is now the official rel
resentative in this territory.
Soon after the armistice Mr.. Reic
went abroad to visit Germany an
Holland where he says the Quake
faith is experiencing a revival sine
the war. The Quaker conception c
Christianity" says Mr.. Reich, at
mystical inwardness, appeals power
fully to the German mind" TIL
breakup Of German militarism has re
moved a mountain out of the way G
of the spread of Quakerism in Gel
many, according to Mr.. Reich.
Aims for Brotherhood.
In speaking of the Hebrew-Christia
Alliance, he said: "The Hebrew
Christian Alliance of America aims a
the bringing together of Hebrew
Christians of all denominations into
brotherhood and desires to keep i
touch as far as possible with the Jew
ISL nation, and thus help to bridge tn
gulf that has so long separated tn
Jewish people from Christianity" NJ
Reich is the president of the allianc
and also editor of the Hebrew Chri!
tian Alliance Quarterly, the nations
organ of the organization.
He has preached the gospel in 81
different languages, including German
Danish, Norwegian. Dutch, French an
> English. He devotes a large part {
> his time to Bible instruction in ed,
cational centers by giving a series {
, lectures on different parts of the B
BILE. He also is the author of man
books and pamphlets, the latest {
which is entitled Skeletons of Me-
sianic Prophecy in the Book {
|, Isaiah