PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16651, 17 November 1925, Page 8

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

TO BE USED BY JEWS. A Jewish congregation will worship every Friday evening and Saturday morning for the next year in the Duryca Presbyterian Church, Underhill Avenue and Sterling Place, Brooklyn, New York. This is the Union Congregation of Brooklyn, which is building a two-million-dollar house of worship on Prospect Park Plaza at the south-east corner of Eastern Parkway and Plaza Street. The Presbyterians have loaned their auditorium to their Jewish neighbours free, except for light and heat. The Jewish congregation has been homeless since the city took over its synagogue, at Bedford and Lafayette Avenues, for a traffic court. Rev. W. G. Clark-Duff, the pastor of the Presbyterian church, sat one night in the pulpit between two rabbis of the congregation, the Rev. Dr. Louis D. Gross and the Itev. Dr. Simon Cohen. Mr Duff made an address of welcome and Dr. Gross responded. "It is significant of a new order of things in the world when a Jewish congregation can worship in a Christian church and when a Presbyterian minister occupies the same pulpit with rabbis of Israel,” said Dr. Gross. "We glimpse therein the vision of a larger fellowship of humanity, for surely out of the travail of a nation, out of the welter of misunderstanding and conflict, out of the uncertainties and anxieties that now afflict tire peoples of the earth —out of it all surely must issue a nobler consummation than anything men have yet attained, looking to a rebuilding of a humanity, a revaluation of life, a new emphasis upon divine truth in the light of which man, democratised roan, shall stand purged and purified, exalted above the errors and the evils with which clashing creeds and dogmas have in all ages past shackled his soul. < “Even now out of the fears of the world there come with the force of a new revelation the divine diction—hale loses, love wins. Through brotherhood only can ttie world ent dure.”