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Stapled wraps. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet (approx. 8" x 5.5") with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is Fair condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have noticeable generalized toning, along with spots of foxing and a patch of foxing to both the bottom front and bottom rear corners. The front cover of the booklet has detached from the rest of the contents. The text pages are generally clean, but all have noticeable generalized toning, most of the pages have a patch of foxing to the lower page corners. This booklet contains an address that Rev. Dr. Abram Simon gave at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church in Washington D. C. On Nov. 129,1922 as part of a movement to help unite not only groups of Christian denominations, but also to help bring Christians and Jews into a more unified understanding of each other. Worldcat lists only 5 or 7copies of this booklet worldwide. "So spiritually uplifting is this service that, if it represents the best of your religious teachings, " the rabbi Abram Simon told worshippers at a Congregational church with an invocation of scripture, " 'thou almost persuadedest me to be a Christian. ' Were you to attend my services, I am inclined to believe that in the openness of your noble hearts you may be tempted to say, 'I believe I am a Jew. ' " Likewise, New York City's Labor Templethe ecumenical institution established under the auspices of the national Presbyterian Churchinvited ministers and rabbis to participate in its lecture series and to address audiences consisting of both Christians and Jews. Jonathan C. Day, the minister who served as the organization's superintendent, believed the appeal of these speeches to mixed audiences lay in the "large common interest" that bound the two traditions together. "Neither the rabbi nor the Christian minister can speak of a thing bearing upon the religion of either that is not common to both, " Day wrote. He interpreted this shared spirit as evidence of a sea change in cultural values. " (from SAVING FAITH Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age David Mislin CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, ITHACA AND LONDON Copyright 2015).