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Show TRUE CHRISTIAN FEELINGS BETWEEN BE-TWEEN CATHOLICS AND JEWS IN GERMANY. When hearts are drawn closer together to-gether and a 'spirit of good will sincerely sin-cerely expressed, regardless of creed distinctions, it shows that religious prejudice, which is always anti-Christian, is dying out. Such brotherly feelings were witnessed In Germany recently. A new Archbishop was appointed ap-pointed to the ancient See of Cologne. From all quarters he received messages mes-sages of peace and good will. That which pleased Archbishop Simar and the Catholics of Cologne most was the good will manifested towards him by the Jews, who, headed oy trie president of the synagogue, Herr Jakob de Jonge and the rabbi, Dr. Franck, came in a body and expressed their kindly feelings feel-ings and congratulations to his grace on assuming spiritual charge of the archdiocese. . , The following is a'part of Dr. Franck's congratulatory' address: "Ancient as the Cologne diocese Is, the Israelite population' is as ancient. But at nearly all times" the prelates on the archlepiscopal throne of Cologne have displayed friendly and benevolent dispositions toward the Jewish community. commu-nity. Especially in the Middle ages, when the Jews on the Rhine suffered severely from the fanaticism of the misguided mob, the Archbishop of Cologne Co-logne afforded help and support to the sufferers. I need only mention Archbishop Arch-bishop Am Did and the never-to-be-forgotten Engelbert II of Falkenburg. This tradition of good will on the part of the Cologne Archbishop to the Jews has continued to the present day. Your grace's predecessor, His Eminence Cardinal Krementz, lives in the grate ful and respectful remembrance of the Israelite population of the diocese. When the eighties and nineties of the century just closed, our co-religionists were being harshly oppressed and persecuted per-secuted in Russia, Archbishop Krementz Kre-mentz of Cologne, true to his motto. Caritus urget, gave me proofs of his sympathy for the great work of rescue, res-cue, which had great influence on its success. And so we greet your grace and trust that you will continue the traditions of the past." The speaker then referred with delicate del-icate apprehension and sympathy to the new prelate's work at Bon university univer-sity as a teacher of dogmatic theology, as well as his pastoral labors in Pader-born, Pader-born, and concluded his cordial message mes-sage of good will with the beautiful words of Isaiah viii SO: "The Lord shall give thee rest continually, "and will fill thy soul wJ'.L brightness, and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a fountain whose waters shall not fail." No less cordial was Archbishop Si-mar's Si-mar's reply, and particularly happy his quotation from "one of the greatest men of Jhe Hebrew race two thousand years ago" St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans in which he dwells upon the privileges of the Jewish people as the possessors of God's Word and the "people of the Covenant." He declared that his sentiments were those of every ! bishop in the Catholic church. |