The sufferings of the Jews of Europe were commemorated on the occasion of Tisha B’ab in a prayer offered at the opening of the session of the House of Representatives today by the Rev. Dr. James S. Montgomery, chaplain of the House.
“We would not allow the garden of Israel of God to die out of our grateful memory,” the prayer said. “Her flowers are of perpetual bloom. We would hear again the voice of Moses and feel the warm, brotherly spirit of Jonathan and David, calling, pleading for tolerance and shaming man’s inhumanity toward his brother man. Our Mother of us all, amid the grim ghostly cruelties of the dictator lands, let thy righteous judgment fall and condemn eternally the wreckers of the world’s glory, whose dust no epitaph will flatter and no sacred monument call back their deeds of darkness and death.
“Do thou hover above the synagogues of our country as thy children breathe again the spirit that once inspired old Judea as they view the far flung lands of a righteous God.”
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