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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
had been the principal tools of the erties. To adopt; therefore, a policy
Spanish conversionists. But the Jew of silence and indifference is to set
remained unshaken in his beliefs, ourselves down as arrant cowards
firm and loyal to the tenets of his and weak fools. Like the Maccabees
faith. In/ the spirit of the Macca- of old, we must announce and hurl
bees he answered, "Who is like our protest to the startled consci-
Thee, 0 God Among the Gods!" ence of such clergymen who think
The lesson that should be learned they have an exclusive monopoly of
from the experiences of Graeco- . truth and, therefore, must convert
Syria, Spain and Russia has not others to their way, of thinking.
yet been learned by all men, it has Every man who believes that liberty
not yet been learned by the Epis- of conscience is the inalienable
copalians. At the recent Episcopal right of every individual to worship
convention held in the city of St. God according to the dictates of his
Louis, after many lengthy discus- own conscience—everyone who is ,
sions devoted to a consideration of genuinely interested in the progress
methods to be pursued in bringing of religion in America, will con-
the Jews to Christianity, it was de-
demn the offer made to us by the
cided to issue an official invitation
members of the Episcopal church
to all Jews to come within the fold.
to embrace their religion.
The Price of Silence
A Madness Which Has No
Perhaps, we could afford to pass
Method.
these incidents by. Perhaps we
Why should the Episcopalians
could afford to ignore all ef-
seek
to convert the Jew ? Can
forts of missionaries who unlike
Jew is immoral?
their predecessors mentioned'above, it be because
Surely
not,
in
e
the
history
of the Jew
th
do not employ force as their wea-
which stands out in bold relief, it is
pon. Perhaps we could afford to
his morality, his saneness, his mod-
let such occurrences go by un-
eration, his purity of life. Do
noticed, were it not for the fact they seek to convert us because we
that our attitude in this matter in- are ignorant? The Jews' ac-
volves, to a large extent, the happi- tive and prominent participations
ness or misfortune of the Jew in in the affairs of the commer-
years to come. Every time we sub- cial world, their quota of rep-
mit to what is wrong, we make it resentative men and women of
more difficult to get what is right. this country, their achievements
Every time we allow such inroads in the realms of science, art, and in
upon our rights and liberties, we
make it more difficult for our chil-
dren to secure their rights and lib-
all of the world's fields and endeav-
or, in the universities and colleges,
brand as unfounded such a belief.
Or, perhaps, is it because we are
irreligious that our generous, con-
version-mad brethren would oblige
us with their faith? Nothing could
be more absurd than such 'a plea,
for at all times, whether at the pin-
nacle of plenty or at the very plinth
of poverty, the Jew, like Isaac of
old has built his altar, called upon
the name of the Lord, and pitched
his tent wherever he sojourned.
The Jew is opposed to conversion
because he believes that not precept
but example, and not belief but
life, are the tests of a moral life.
The Jew could never possibly think
of forcing his creed upon anyone,
for he feels that with God, charac-
ter counts for more than creed, and
conduct is of higher value than dog-
ma. The Jew is opposed to con-
version because it contravenes the
fundamental principle of human
rights. The Jew is opposed to con-
version because he denies the claims
of Christian theology. The Jew de-
nies the Atonement, the Immaculate
Conception, the Resurrection of the
body of Jesus, or the Trinity. He
denies the characteristic dogmas of
Christianity from beginning to end.
And in view of the many brands
and types of Christianity, the Jew,
,
(Continued on page 15)
WAR WILL NOT INTER-
FERE WITH JEWISH
RELIEF WORK
Ambassador Gerard Says Arrange
ments Have Been Made for
Continuance of Aid.
(Special Correspondence)
NEW YORK, April 9.—Arnbassador
Gerard, who spoke for a few minutes
yesterday at a fair and concert in the
Star Casino, at 107th street, to raise $5,-
000 for Jewish war sufferers at War-
saw, said he had made arrangements
before leaving Switzerland for contin-
uation of the transtrission of funds to
Jewish victims of the war in Poland. -
"Do not fear that the entrance of the
United States in the war will prevent
your aid from reaching the people for
whom it is intended," Mr. Gerard told
the members and friends of the United
Warschauer Relief Society.
The funds hereafter will be distribtited
through C. L. Marcus, from Berne,
Switzerland. Mr. Marcus, who is a New
York banker, had been in Germany and
Poland on this work for some months
before the Ambassador left Berlin. It
was through the presentation of condi-
tions to the Ambassador by Mr. Marcus
that Mr. Gerard undertook the work of
aiding the Warsaw Orphan Asylum and
Home for the Aged by obtaining finan-
cial support from the Rockefeller Foun-
dation, which is now contributing $1,200
monthly.
The American Jewish Relief, the Cen-
tral Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering Through . the War, and the
Jewish People's Relief will meet town-
row afternoon to decide what effect the
entrance of the United States into the
war is to have on the activities of the
Organizations in the territory occupied
by the Germans.
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