The issue did include an editorial titled "The Refugees and Ourselves," but it was about the "grave duty" of American Catholics to help European Catholic refugees. Jewish refugees weren't even mentioned.
An editorial in the leading Protestant magazine Christian Century did address the Jewish refugee problem: It argued that America's own economic problems necessitated "that instead of inviting further complications by relaxing our immigration laws, these laws be maintained or even further tightened."
A few months later, refugee advocates proposed legislation to help German Jews that could not be construed as undermining America's economy. The Wagner-Rogers bill would have admitted 20,000 children -- too young to compete with American citizens for jobs. Yet even then, Christian Century found a reason to oppose helping the Jews.
"[A]dmitting Jewish immigrants would only exacerbate America's Jewish problem," it wrote.
One notable Christian response to Kristallnacht was an initiative by the U.S. branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Less than two weeks after the pogrom, the YWCA established a Committee on Refugees, which undertook information campaigns aimed at persuading the public that refugees were loyal and hardworking. Unfortunately, the YWCA's national board soon lost interest in the project and declined to fund it. According to Professor Haim Genizi, the American Jewish Committee ended up providing much of the committee's budget.