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Show LEVI EDGAR YOUNG PRAISES JEWS AI MEETING The Jews are the best people on earth, but they have been maltreated, cursed and condemned. The ' reason we think of Jews, as money lenders close and commercialized is becauso christians have pushed them to the j wall and they have been made to 1 I fight for their existence, according to j Prof. Levi Edgar oung of the Unl-I Unl-I versify of Utah who delivered an ad- . 1 dress before the members of tho :prir-thood of the North Weber stake in the Third ward chapel yesterday afternoon. A Hebrew chair is soon to be udded I to the lTniversity of Utah, Pror. YounK 'stated Rabbi Rice of Salt Lake City Will then teach Hebrew In the original II 'to Ihe Mormon boys. And when that j time comes let the world beware. Prof, j Young said, because with a knowledge 1 j of Hebrew in the original and with th power of the priesthood resting upon them, there will be no argu- j, , ment against, ihe message of the Mor- I mon church to the world Wotherspoon Presides. President J Wotherspoon presided and President Frank W. Stratford conducted the meeting that filled the ; chapel to capacity. The opening hymn jwas "We Thank Thee. O Lord for a Prophet," and prayer was offered by J Patriarch George v Larkin of the 1 Weber stake. Selections on the organ were rendered by Mrs. W. D. Van I Dyke, Jr., who also accompanied the j sinking. ii Prof Young stated in his address j ithat it was the belief of the Latter 1 I day Saint s that ihe Jews were the best 1 people on earth and that they would soon return to their land and city and the Jews shall eventually know that 1 they really did bring forth the Re- deemer of the world. Rabbi Rice of Salt Lake City, ac- II cording to Prof Young, has staled his belie! that the children of the Jews jwill receive of the goodness of the world and he has aLo expressed his belief that If it is clearly made known 1 , to them, as is now asserted by the 1 Christian world that their race cru-t cru-t fied the Christ, they will assuredly I show to Jehovah how sincerely they ,can repent uf a wrong committed in ig- norance. .... i in Midst ot Nations, The meaning of the word Jerusalem, Jerusa-lem, Prof. Young said, is "the midst of nations." According to the peace league, he said, Jerusalem will be in the midst of the nations Ke told how j when General Allenby conquered Jerusalem, Jer-usalem, he told the inhabitants that the British had not come to destroy but to beslow gifts and the speaker went on to show how before return-ing return-ing to London, the great general gave orders for the cleaning up of the city !j and the installation of sewer and wa-I wa-I ter systems. U The speaker told of the many times Jerusalem had been wrested from tho Uews prior to the time of Christ and jj how at the coming of Christ it was a beautiful city, but had again be- f come degraded as a city in iniquity, i It was in this city that Christ was II crucltied. Seventy years later the Ro- mans entered the city and it was de jl stroyed. Thirteen centuries after Christ, the city of Jerusalem was besieged and 1 destroyed seventeen times the speak er reminded his hearers. It has been j held by the Turks tor 600 yars and the places of the nativity and crucifixion ', of Christ, ho said, had been held by a people who had no belief in the great message of Christ. When General Allenby entered tho city of Jerusalem in December, 1919. he stated to the citizens lhat in behalf be-half 01 the allied forces of the world he had brought to them not war, but I peace. He came to give them a feel- II ing of democracy and a religious at- 1 titude of Jesus Christ. Orderly gov- II eminent would be expected and the i Ity was to be made a beautiful placo 1 in which tho Jews should dwell for- I ever. Jews Going Back. Tho Jews are going back, Prof. I Young said. But how they have suf- I I fered. He said they were tho most 'moral people on earth and especially 'the women. The reason the women j were so moral was because of their belief that one ot their number should ; bet 11 mother of the Christ and in the I face of that fact that the Jews believe that Christ is yet to come the women j are highly moral because of the de-Blre de-Blre to be the mother of the Redeemer Re-deemer In the course of his address Prof. Young said that the Mormons were the most tolerant people in the world today. Men who have truth, he said, never tear down another man's rell Igion. That, he said, tearing down other people's religion, is the refuge ! of cowards and sinners Error has I two enemies, ho said, truth and Itself. ' Truth, has but one enemy, and that Is error. The speaker said he regretted that representatives of tho church and the slate were at sessions of the convn-ition convn-ition hid In Pittsburg where an attack at-tack was made upon the Mormon Church. The people who called tho convention and those who attended, he said, had no other object than to tear down other people's beliefs. Mormouism is the great truth the world has todav, thee peakor declared. It combines everything that Is great and good and it takes an highest type to understand and believe the intel Lectual moral character of it. 00 |