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Show A PROTESTANT ON MIXED MARRIAGES. Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise preacher at the Free Synagogue in West Eighty-first street, New York, recently, on intermarriage. He took a most emphatic em-phatic stand against the intermarriage of Jews and Christians. "Intermarriage is not a problem it is a fact," he said. "And it is not as serious as some think. In the Scandinavian countries, in one out of every three or four marriages of Jews, it is an intermarriage intermar-riage with a Christian. Among the Jews of Germany Ger-many about one in five of the men marries a Christian, Chris-tian, and about one in six of the women. In the United States the proportion is much less. "It has been said that if there were to be a great increase in these intermarriages it would eliminate the prejudice against the Jew. It would do more-it more-it would eliminate the Jew. "But, my objection is based not merely on that account, but on fear of the loss and harm that would accrue to Christendom and to Christianity as a result. Christianity usually loses the Christian in such a union, and almost never gains the Jew In marriage there should be a maximum of oneness, one-ness, a minimum of dissimilarity and indifference. "And then there is the danger to the children who fre the fruit of intermarriages, the danger that comes from having no fixed spiritual home neither here nor there." |