Friday, September 15,
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GOOD WILL
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ling with basic problems of Ju-
de-Christian relations.
The department of social edu-
cation and action of the Pres-
byterian Board of Christian Edu-
cation sponsored a nationwide
essay contest among Presbyter-
ian youth on "How Can Chris-
tian Youth Promote Better In-
terfaith and Interracial Relation-
ships?" In Buffalo and other com-
munities, Catholics joined with
Protestants and Jews in creating
a permanent interfaith commit-
tee on public decency. Similar
committees to deal with juvenile
delinquency were organized in
many communities. A statewide
interfaith massed chorus festival
was sponsored by Bnai Brith in
New York.
The collections made in the
two Jewish Sunday school classes
in Asheville, N. C., were con-
tributed for three months to pay
for anti-tuberculosis work among
Negroes. At the University of
Michigan Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation nine Jewish girls volun-
tered to read for a near-blind
Negro student so that he could
complete his academic work. In
Quincy, Mass., an interfaith corn-
I.nunity center was established
through a gift by the Grossman
family.
A pa r tic u larly encouraging
manifestation of good will in
action was the growth of city
and state inter-racial and good
will commissions. Such commis-
sions now exist in New Jersey,
Minnesota, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Connecticut, Den-
ver, New York, Los Angeles,
Columbus (Ohio), Seattle, Pitts-
burgh, Massachusetts, T ex a s,
North Carolina and Rhode Is-
land. A National Clearing House
for Information on Race Prob-
lems was organized this year to
guide in the creation of additional
commissions and to aid those
already in existence. The healthy
expansion of intercultural educa-
tion programs in the public
schools throughout the country
also pointed up the progress of
good will in action. At the Har-
vard Graduate School of Busi-
ness Administration there was
established a Louis Kirstein Pro-
fessorship in Human Relatiens
"to point the way toward maxi-
mum cooperation among all
groups in the nation."
Bnai Brith's Hillel Founda-
tions continued to play a valu-
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able role in strengthening good
will in action. The Sara Delano
,Roosevelt Interfaith Houoe at
Hunter College was dedicated
during the past year as a unique
college center for interfaith ac-
tivity. The House was purchased
on the initiative of Bnai Brith
by an interfaith committee of
civic leaders. President Roose-
velt expressed the hope that
"This movement for tolerance
will grow and prosper until there
is a similar establishment in ev-
ery institution in the land." To
the existing Bnai Brith inter-
faith student fellowships at
Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, State,
Alabama and Brooklyn Colleges,
there were added last year sim-
ilar awards at Wisconsin and
Minnesota, and at the University
of Kansas in memory of William
Aden White. Interfaith work
scholarships were also created at
the New York municipal col-
leges.
One of the most dramatic
manifestations of good will in
action occurred in Melrose, Mass.,
where a group of Catholics and
Protestants undertook at its own
expense to repair and replace
headstones and monuments in a
Jewish cemetery desecrated by
vandals. In Troy, N. Y., a rabbi
was elected president of the
ministerial association, the first
non-Protestant to hold this office.
The Protestant clergymen of
Cleveland chose a Negro as their
president for the first time. Crea-
tion by Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy, outstanding Cath-
olic layman, of the all-Christian
National Committee Against Per-
secution of the Jews, was one of
the most striking signs of good
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will in action last year.
Finally, there are many ex-
amples of contributions by Chris-
tians to Jewish institutions and
parallel gifts by Jews to Chris-
tian agencies. The late Cardinal
O'Connell gave $1,000 to last
year's United Jewish Appeal in
Boston while the Rt. Rev. Henry
St. George, presiding bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
made a similar gift to the same
agency. In Hammond, Ind.,
James Post, a non-Jew, headed
the UJA campaign while 77 out-
standing Negro leaders contrib-
uted $755 to the United Jewish
Appeal. Non-Jews in the Civil-
ian Public Service Camps, whose
earnings average five dollars a
month, instituted voluntary fasts
in order to be able to contribute
to the UJA. A church service
in Walkes-Barre, Pa., was cli-
maxed by a collection for Jew-
ish refugee aid.
In West Hartford, Conn., Jew-
ish funds helped pay for the re-
building of the First Church of
Christ, which had been destroyed
by fire. Leading Jewish busi-
nessmen of Kansas City raised
$20,000 to help make the Com-
munity Church debt free. The
pair of candelabra presented by
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publish-
er of the New York Times, to
St. Paul's Church, East Chester,
N. Y., national shrine of the Bill
of Rights, was matched by an-
other pair of candelabra given
to Temple Sinai, Boston, by Al-
fred H. Avery, a non-Jew.
Stories like this could be multi-
plied by the hundred. But those
instances of good will in action
for the year now ending are
among the more dramatic exam-
ples of those that have come to
public notice and the many more
that made no headlines but gave
proof in a practical way that
the American people not only
preach brotherhood but practice
it through good will in action.
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source of contradiction among
men, and of dispute and ani-
mosity and hatred and fierce
struggle unto death even. A
man's foes, he warned, were go-
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household. Think not that I am
come to bring peace, he said.
I came to bring the sword.
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and inter-that; not of
surely. It is considered rather
particular recommendation for
pastor or a priest when it is ' a a
of him that he is loved of every-
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body,
body, rich and poor, labor and
capital, young and old, belie
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and unbeliever. Little does
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by those
that all these eulogies stand in
formal and flagrant contradiction
with the words of the Lord him-
self who said: "Ye will be hat-
e d by all for my name's sake"
and who even \vent further when
he declared: "Woe unto you if
men speak (not evil, but' well
you!"
Isn't
that a surprising
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According
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the word of their Master, Chris-
tians were to be hated, that is
tians
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and c o ntempt.
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pect to be treated as virtual out-
casts from polite society. And
instead of that we find them re-
spected, honored, decorated, in-
stalled in the highest positions,
pampered, applauded and loved,
Something has gone wrong here,
obviously. Either Jesus was
wrong in his prognostication of
hatred, or his followers have con.
ducted themselves in such a man-
ner as to prevent the accumula-
tion upon their heads of the hat-
red their Master promised. What
has happened? Did he miscalcu-
late? Did Jesus commit a psy-
chological error in not foreseeing
that his religion of love would
turn logically into the exact sit-
uation we encounter today, in
that his followers are indeed
loved and not hated? What is
the answer?
The answer is on record in
Jesus' own words: "Ye shall be
hated of all men for my name's
sake" . . . but . . . "blessed are
those who are persecuted for
the sake of justice and righteous.
ness" . . . and . . . "blessed are
ye, when men shall revile you,
and persecute you, and shall say
all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake," i.e., be-
cause of his cause, because of
the things he stands for, because
of what is particularly his busi-
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