The cry of the suffering transcends all national and racial barriers, Cardinal Hayes, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, said to-day expressing the hope that the appeal of the Joint Distribution Committee for 2½ million dollars to relieve Jewish distress in Eastern Europe will meet with the whole-hearted support of all the people of New York irrespective of race or creed.
In 1926 the Christian citizens of the United States were asked to raise a fund in addition to that which was being raised by the Jews of the country in the United Jewish Campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee, an appeal to this effect being issued by a number of leading Christian clergymen and publicists.
The appeal was signed by the Rev. Anthony, Chairman of the Committee for Goodwill between Jews and Christians of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, Dr. Church, President of the Carnegie Institute, Dr. George Elliott, editor of the “Methodist Review”, Rev. Fagnani, of the Community Church, Dr. Lynch, former editor of “Christian Work”, Dr. David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Leland Stanford University, California, Mr. Edwin Markham, Dr. Nathaniel Schmidt, of Cornell University, Mrs. Scudder, Processor at Wellesley College, Mr. William H. Short, and Dr. George F. Moore, Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University.
“All who become aware of the facts, whatever their religious faiths may be”, Bishop William T. Manning, the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, wrote in conveying his personal contribution to the fund, “will sympathise with the effort of the Jews of America to aid their suffering and destitute co-religionists in foreign lands, and will wish you full success in raising the amount needed”.
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