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I come before you with this God inspired instrument, "Jesus' Christianity by a Jewess," to combat bigotry and unjust prejudice, to awaken your conscience, and to protest against the cruel, outrageous persecution of the Russian Jews by so-called Christians.

Remember, my Reverend Sirs, it is not the heathen, nor the pagan who are the cruel persecutors-but so-called Christians; the iniquity is in your midst-which not only disgraces the whole of Christendom and outrages our common humanity.

Consider well, O ye captains of Christian missionary work!

While you are sitting here singing hymns of "O How I Love Jesus," and "Rescue the Perishing," infamous Russian Christians are slaughtering innocent men, women and little children. The plea of religious belief should no longer be accepted as an excuse for crime.

To Israel all the world is a debtor, and should recognize the obligation it can never repay.

As ministers of the Gospel it is your bounden duty to bestir yourselves to action-individually and collectively; to publicly and persistently protest against persecution, and arouse the American people to their sacred duty to aid the helpless and oppressed. And may the work of your hands rest upon you and yours-for "Blessed are the Peacemakers."

Ministers' Conference. A resolution commending Nadage Dorée in her work on behalf of the Jewish people in Russia was enthusiastically passed.

New York, Nov. 2, 1905.

Resolved, That the Baptist Ministers' Association of the City of New York and vicinity most heartily sympathize with Miss Nadage Dorée in her chosen work on behalf of her persecuted people for Justice and Civil rights so long denied.

Nadage Dorée illustrates in "Gelta" the wrongs of her people with a heroic pen.

Her plea for human sympathy as it shines forth in every page of her latest book, "Jesus' Christianity by a Jewess," will produce infinite results for good in arousing the Christian Conscience of the World.

Her protest, backed by the Spirit of the Martyrs, and her persistent efforts attracting wide and serious attention to the con

tinued persecution of the Jews in Russia, finds its answer in the flames of revolution.

We deeply deplore the bloodshed that appears now pending in Russia, the inevitable pathway Liberty has trod through all history, and pray Almighty God to stay the hand of ignorance, brutality and bigotry, to the end that love, peace and righteousness may yet reign in Dark Russia.

And be it further Resolved by our Association, we do most earnestly pray that our brethren from their pulpits warmly recommend Miss Nadage Dorée's books to arouse the world's attention to the persecution and inhuman wrongs the Jews continue to suffer in Russia, and call upon Christian men and women, irrespective of Creed, Dogma, or condition, to alarm the conscience of the whole civilized world for freedom of Religion which should be the faith of the World, "The love of God and the Brotherhood of man.” *

* So far the Resolutions have remained mere hollow words, without any practical action. Alas!

ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS.

August 27, 1906.

Nadage Dorée's stirring appeal to arouse Christendom to its duty in behalf of the oppressed Jews.

Nadage Dorée, a highly cultured young woman, with a big heart filled to overflowing with love for humanity and a burning desire to help and save the persecuted Jews in bloody Russia, delivered an eloquent address to a large audience at the Auditorium last night. She said, in part: The Christian world has appropriated the gifts of Israel's genius but has unnaturally withheld and denied its obligations to the Jews. She indicted the government officials for their shallow sympathy, and their saying, that they were impotent to give justice to the persecuted Jews: the race who had given them their Bible; Christendom tramples under

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