RUSSIA'S JEWISH PEOPLE 83 



Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D.D., in a recent 

 explanation of a Sunday-school lesson, said : 



Let it not be thought that we are justified in treating 

 the Jews unkindly or critically because the Gospel 

 was preached to the gentiles after the people of Judea 

 rejected it. We can never earn God's love or approval 

 by frowning upon those whom He loved and amongst 

 whom He lived and died. We want to do all we can 

 to make the Jews know that Christ was their Messiah, 

 and those who ill-treat them and are cruel by word 

 or action will not only lose the favour of God, but will 

 incur His displeasure. 



Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., has given 

 me the privilege of quoting from his published 

 addresses delivered at Temple Keneseth Israel of 

 Philadelphia. 







The story of his visit to Tolstoy, 1894, is especi- 

 ally interesting. No one of our Jewish fraternity 

 is to my mind more trustworthy than he in the 

 elucidation of now existing relations between the 

 Russian Jews and their Government. 



I quote as follows : 



While within the Russian borders, I was privileged 

 to come in contact with many prominent Russians, 

 one of them, M. Witte, who at that time was Minister 



