January, 1939
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T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S
"DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM! WEEP NOT FOR ME, BUT WEEP FOR YOURSELVES AND YOUR CHILDREN!''
"For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say. Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." Luke 23:29. And now Hitler has run amuck; a world conscience has been stirred by the outrages against innocent and helpless Jews. Frenzied mobs, with fiendish hate for the Jew, suddenly sprang up in all parts of Germany, and a reign of terror, such as
pudiation of Nazi-ism and all it stands for. Here are two paragraphs from its edi torial, “Cold Terror’’:— “The terrible events of the last five days can hardly be erased from the minds of mankind. The hopes we had, often against our better judgment, have proven to be false. The excesses of the mob, destroying property, maltreating people, are now be ing followed up by a cold terror, which, in its consequences, will be much more
in the inherent decency of the German people, we herewith protest against the dark powers that use this murder as a wel come excuse to let loose the lowest instincts against defenseless people, trying to cover up these wanton acts with phrases like indignation of the people’ which bear the stamp of the Ministry of Propaganda.” We Meet The Emergency Every facility we possess, every shred
has not been known to civilization since the days of Russian pogroms and S pan ish Torquem adas, ensued. A h a lf cra z ed Jewish boy, Herschell Gryszpan, seventeen years of age, had escaped from the inhuman savageries of the Nazis, and had found shelter in Paris. There, the memories of what he had suffered in Germany, and the realiza tion that his mother and father and brothers and sis ters were still in the land of the Nazis, so worked I f u p o n his nerves that in a f moment of madness he shot Ernest Von Rath, of the German Embassy in Paris. This incident was seized upon by the Nazis as the excuse for the wild and u n p re c ed en ted outbreak against the thousands of helpless Jews throughout the land. Innocent men, women and children were beaten. Jewish stores, where the ;
of experience God has given us in these 44 years of Gospel approach to the Jew, all must now be bent to bring to the pitiful victims of Nazi cruelty our bit of Christian com fort and help. We are cabling money as fast as we can to our relief cen ters in Europe and Pal estine. This money is being paid out mostly to Chris tian Jews, believers who have trusted their all to the Lord Jesus Christ; to these we owe a debt of love that we can never repay. We ask that the Lord’s people shall stand behind us, that they shall not place upon us the burden of rais ing money. Money must flow into our treasury in a continuous stream, that we may pour it out again to comfort the families who now sit in the shadow of a great sorrow. * * * * * i- Ask God what shall be your share. Then, fill out
Innocent victims of Nazi persecutions. Taken by our workers in Paris.
desperate Jew was putting up his last strug gle to eke out a living in the midst of a hostile Nazi population, these stores were looted, windows smashed, merchandise taken away; and if the Jew dared protest, he was beaten until protests were im possible. Entire Jewish families were committing suicide. These suicides were by Jews high up in banking, law, manufacturing. They had been waiting and hoping for some turn of events which would enable them to get out of Germany with at least a little of the money they had worked so hard to save. But now everything was in collapse, and they saw no way out but suicide. This was preferable to being driven like cattle to the concentration camp, for treatment too vile and brutal to mention in these columns. The leading German language newspaper of America, the Staats-Zeitung, smitten to the very heart of its conscience, cut its bridges behind it, and came out in a re
horrible than the brutal acts themselves, committed under the pretense and official palliation of ’spontaneous reaction.’ "We do not believe that the German people, that our relatives and dear friends, are participating in the horror mankind has witnessed. AVe condemn the murder act in Paris, as we are condemning all violence, all excesses. Because we believe
the coupon. It will speed on its errand of mercy. You will receive also The Chosen People each month which will be a blessing to you in bringing new revelations of God’s purposes for Israel in these last days of a rapidly dying age. May God help us to do what is right before Him in this solemn hour of world history.
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