Leading clergymen from all parts of the Pacific Coast, delegates to the Pacific Coast Theological Conference held in Seattle, today were on record as deploring widespread anti-Semitism in Germany under the Hitler regime.
The expression of sympathy for Jewish victims of Hitler persecution came at the closing of the Conference from the Rev. Hugh M. Rac, Vancouver, B.C., of the United Church of Canada, who declared:
“Although the Conference affords no opportunity for formal resolutions. I may say that the Christian conscience of our people has been stung to the quick with the recitation of incidents of the oppression of the Jewish section of Germany’s population. It is our hope that such a deplorable condition will be short lived. When we consider what the world owes to the Jewish people of the past for their cultural contribution and as we now recognize their present capacity to serve humanity in the newer and nearer relationships of all peoples, sorrow and resentment stirs our hearts.”
Rev. Rae’s denunciation of Hitler anti-Jewish tactics came after a paper on Judaism was read by Rabbi Ben-Zion Bokser, Vancouver, spiritual leader and only Conservative rabbi in Western Canada.
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