The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-01
LETTER FROM PLAQUEMME.

LETTER FROM PLAQUEMNE.
GALVESTON, Oct. 20, 1868,
Feast Of Saints Simon and Jude.
Editors MoFning Star and Catholic Messenger:
Gemtlemen-The startling proposition laid
down by the London .Je,cisA CAronicle, (and
which find extensively copied in the so-called
| religious as well as the secular Journals Of Eng
land, Canada and the United States) Wis
That no jew, not the inmate Of o lunatic
asylum, or refuge for IDIOTS, can suppose that
any man, born, reared and educated as . Jew,
can possibly become Christian from coNvIc-
TIoN"-7induces me to refute this, by your per-
mission, through your columns; and can but
hope that the press win give the refutation as
extensive o circulation az they did the above
enormity, -. 81, - 's &, RI
The reverend clergy Of our own holy mother,
the Catholics Church, have numberless living
evidences Of the falsity of the statement above
referred to; hence L write not for them 80,
much as for your lay readers.
L am descendant Of the ancient high priests
of the jews, with the Jewish historian jose
plus among my ancestors; who, like myself,
from his mothers side, was of the Maccabean
race; his father, Mathathias, also being chief
priest. g., NJ.
am by birth, rearing and education a Jew.
ish priest, of noble descent, with royal and sa-
cerdotal blood in my veins. The Je,cish Chron-
icle will know what mean when say am a
COHEN. Before became of legal age (eccle-
siastically) i. e., "Bar Mitzveh," had been
taught at the Beth hamedrosn" and "Cheder,
of Rabbi Loeb Glagau and Rapporport in He
GO u
Bible of the Old Testament) with "Targum,
Rashi and Blur" (Commentaries) the 'Shul-
chon Orech" and the "Blishna" (the oral OF
Evolutionary law of Moses) aud on my thir-
teenth birthday (the Jewish legal age) re-
ceived the degree of "Chover."
did not stop here, but being youth of lei
sure, continued my studies-the "Gemarah,'
the "Cabala," "Sepher habbachir," "Zohar ;"
the renowned authors, >" Rashbi," Rabad,"
" Rambam," "Haraph," in turn, were read,
studied searched thoroughly; nor was salts
fed until at the tender ago of seventeen, re-
ceived the degree of Raj Morenu."
simultaneously with the above studies,
sought and received instructions in the Catho-
lie doctrine; Tread the New Testament, studied
the Catechism-for, mark We, became early
satisfied that an sinner that the Jewish
church (since the abolition of the sacrifice for
atonement, with the destruction of the Temple
at Jerusalem) possessed no sacrament whereby
I could propitiate offended God, as just as
He is merciful; found nothing in Israeps
communion wherein His justice and mercy
could meet, embrace each other and forgive my
sins. Hence, I went further, searched, and
found in the Christians Redeemer, my Jesus,
the God-man-THE "METATRoN" of the Caba-
la, Evolutionary oral teachings of Moses) who
atoned for my sins; who established sacraments,
by the means of which 1 could from time to
time renew my spiritual life.
Thus early I became Catholic Christian
FROM CONVICTION. though hindered by my pa
rents. did not receive Catholic baptism
til after my arrival in America, at an age of
twenty one years and four months.
am satisfied that thousands of Jews would
follow my example but for their gross ignor-
ance of the Evolutionary dogmas of their own
church, as well as their ignorance of what
Christianity teaches. AS to the editors of this
Jewish semi-religious press, most of them are
eleves of German Polytechnic schools and uni
versities, who have become SO deeply imbued
with the infidel and rationalistic dogmas of
those irrelgious pest-houses above named, I'M
til they mistake pure Deism, RatiOnalism, ETC.,
for religion, and thus teach in the columns of
their pernicious journals poisoning the minds
of their more ignorant co-religionists; becom-
ing blind leaders of the blind until both sink
into the miro of unbelief, immortality and athe.
ism.
They have the daily prayers for their
version OF, respectfully, yours,
MARIA ALPHoNsUs.
ACTORS IN THE SPANISH REvoLUTIoN.-A