The 150th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. yesterday adopted the report of its standing committee on social education and action expressing sympathy with “the persecuted of the world” and commending steps to prevent race discrimination in this country.
The assembly expressed itself as “deeply shocked at the continuance of persecutions based on race in Germany, Austria, Rumania and other nations,” warned of a “peril of the curse of anti-Semitism” in this country and called for “ceaseless vigilance” to safeguard the civil liberties of “all people.”
The report said: “We stand with the persecuted of all the world. We sympathize with our Jewish brethren in the United States, many of whose relatives are the innocent victims of fanatical hatred abroad. We commend the National Conference of Jews and Christians for all its labors to the end that race murders and race discriminations shall not happen here. We emphasize the importance of the observance of Brotherhood Sunday, February 19,1939, and we urge our churches to join in this observance.”
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