gubernatorial commissions, in which, commenting upon the terrible
atrocities recently perpetrated upon the _Jews_, the Minister lamented
"the sad condition of the _Christian_ inhabitants of the southern
provinces." Cardinal Manning concluded his eloquent address with the
following words marked by a lofty, prophetic strain:

There is a book which is common to the race of Israel and to us
Christians. That book is the bond between us, and in that book I
read that the people of Israel are the eldest people upon the earth.
Russia and Austria and England are of yesterday, compared with the
imperishable people, which, with an inextinguishable life and
immutable traditions, and faith in God and in the laws of God,
scattered, as it is, all over the world, passed through the fires
unscathed, trampled into the dust, and yet never combining with the
dust into which it is trampled, lives still, a witness and a warning
to us. [1]

[Footnote 1: In reproducing the quotations I have followed in the
main the account of the Mansion House Meeting contained in the
pamphlet published In New York under the title _Proceedings of
Meetings held February 1, 1882, at New York and London, to Express
Sympathy with the Oppressed Jews in Russia_. The account of the
_Jewish Chronicle of_ February 8, 1882, offers a number of
variations.]

After several more speeches by Canon Farrar, Professor Bryce,[1] and
others, the following resolutions were adopted:

[Footnote 1: James Bryce, the famous writer and statesman, subsequently
British ambassador at Washington.]