OBLIGATION TO JEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 100, 8 April 1936, Page 11

OBLIGATION TO JEWS

“Nonsense About Race” APPEAL BY BISHOP Speaking at the English Church Assembly on Germany’s treatment of Jews, the Bishop of Durham said:— “It is not possible for any constituent member of the civilised world to ignore certain fundamental obligations which are involved in its membership of this civilisation. This treatment of the Jews does violence to fundamental conclusions which civilised humanity has reached, “We, as co-inheritors with the Germans of the great heritage of civilisation, desire to bring home to them that in the fervours and frenzies of her revolution they have been carried into a position which they can only maintain at the final price of excluding themselves from the fellowship of civilised peoples. They are hypnotised by the power of this racial doctrine. This nonsense about race —as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against—is sheer hallucination and nonsense. “We. who are children of Christendom, cannot exclude from our minds the vastness of the obligations under which we stand to the Jewish people. Our divine Lord according to the flesh was a Jew. His Apostles were all Jews. The sacred Book which we read is a Jewish book. It is preposterous, base and almost incredibly mean that we, the children of Christendom, should turn on the ancient people of God to whom religiously, spiritually, morally, we owe almost everything we value. We can make it clear from our hearts that we loathe and detest this attitude which is obtaining in Germany.