“The sympathy of all Christians must go out to the persecuted people, the Jews,” Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, declared here yesterday in an impromptu address delivered at the Temple B’rith Kodesh before an Institute of the Christian Clergy of Rochester, attended by 125 clergymen. Lord Halifax was introduced to the gathering by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein who presided at the meeting.
“No greater appeal has ever been made to the thought and to the soul of men than in that courage and sacrifice which are required in fighting the evil that we are facing today,” the British Ambassador said. “You see it expressing itself in deeds that are vile, in foul bestiality that the human mind finds it almost impossible to accept. I especially think that we should not permit our consciences to become dulled by all this. We must try to keep aflame with indignation against the cruel indecencies. Or otherwise, we are in danger of losing ourselves too. And in regard to this the sympathy of all Christians must go out to the persecuted people, the Jews. Everyone of us must seek to lend every measure of help that is in our power to the people who has suffered and is suffering such a grievous wrong. This is a direct challenge to free men to those who search for and seek to live by truth. The most precious heritage of man is his will to think and worship in freedom.” Lord Halifax concluded by stating that “our Christian civilization has received much from the old Hebrew Prophets.”
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