Opposition to immigration restrictions as being unChristian was voiced at the closing session of the first united convention of the Congregational and Christian Churches here. No resolution was drawn up on the subject of immigration or the lowering of tariff rates, but the papers read in favor of a more liberal policy in both matters are to be published with resolutions on other subjects.
“We have no Christian right to more room than we need, while others are over-crowded,” declared one speaker. “The Golden Rule must apply among nations. Efforts to secure privileges at the expense of other peoples, black, brown, yellow, white or red, whether through isolation, discriminatory and unwarranted immigrant exclusion, or other plans and programs, are un-Christian.”
Since this liberal branch of Protestant churches is opposed to proselyting amongst Jews, the subject was not even brought up in any of the discussions of the Home Missions Council which met at the same time. The general feeling of the Congregational and Christian Churches, which together number more than a million members, is that they should fully cooperate with and encourage Jews in the practice of the latter’s own religion, whose fundamental ideas they regard as being identical with their own.
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