An appeal that British non-Jews promote good will between Jews and Gentiles was made today in a letter to the Time from the Council of the Society of Jew and Christians.
The letter, signed by the Marchioness fo Aberdeen and Temair, Viscout Bearsted, the Bishop of Croydon, Profesor Herbert Loewe. Dr. Claude G. Montefiore, Professor Charles S. Myers, Re. P. McCormick, chaplain to the King, Miss Maude Royden, Professor R. H. Tawney, Rev. T. Rhondda Williams and Rabbi Mattuck, suggested that “those many Christians who have shown sympathy in onw way or another with the sufferings of the Jewish community of Germany might wish to record their interest permanently by joining this society, which was founded to promote goodwill and mutual understanding between Jews and Christians.”
“Its method of work,” they declared, “is to give an opportunity to Jews and Christians, by conferences and meetings and in other ways to work for the promotion of their common ideas in mutual respect of difference of religious beliefs. It is felt that Jews and Christians might by working together promote the influence of religion on the life of the nation; and that the rligious motive which actuates both, if consciously directed towards peace and goodwill, cannot fail to be a powerful factor for righteousness.”
The aim of the society expressly excludes any attempt at proselyting, it is pointed out, nor is it the intention of members to promote a common religion.
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