For what is believed to be the first time in history, the symbols of the Christian and Jewish religions will be carried side by side when ministers and rabbis join tonight at the Riverside Church, Riverside drive and 122nd street, in a service of consecration to peace and renunciation of war.
The symbols, the Tablets of the Law, the Star of David and the Cross of Christ, will be borne at the head of the processional and the recessional opening and closing the service.
Among the rabbis participating in the service, which was called by an independent body of twenty-five clergymen of both faiths, will be William F. Rosenblum of Temple Israel, who served with the United States Navy, and Samuel J. Levinson, president of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers.
Rabbi Levinson will give a passage from the Old Testament Scripture, while Rabbi Rosenblum will make one of four scheduled “Testimonies for Peace.” Other speakers will include the Rev, Dr. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; the Rev. Dr. W. Russell Bowie of the Grace Protestant Episcopal Church and the Rev. Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers of the Broadway Tabernacle Church. All are veterans of the wa#More than 150 ministers of vari-
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