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of expressing in some concrete manner their deep sympathy for a people millons of our coreligion-
ists whose sufferings of body, mind, heart & soul it are
indescribable would require a modern Dante to depict
in graphic colors. True it [ ] must have been somewhat
perplexing to our beloved President to concede to a request in
which the entire Country is called upon to interest themselves
in a specifically sectarian people. But the voice of one
common humanity seemed to ring so loud in his ears,
that he was brave enough to disregard precedent &
pronouce the Word. Unless I am greatly mistaken there
are thousands of people in this Country who are awaiting
this opportunity to do something of a concrete nature for a
people who have done so much in helping to build countless
Christian Churches, Colleges, Schools & institutions of
Every Conceivable nature. At that almost historic meeting
of Jewish people recently held in the city of New York
& at which nearly one million dollars was there & then
subscribed Bishop Greer was among the notables present
in order to raise his voice in a plea for the suffering
starving Jewish peoples. In the course of his address he