Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-30
CUPID THE POTENT.
All Things Make Way for the
Small Divinity.
FAITH ABANDONED FOR FONDNESs.

An Illinois Girl to Become a Jadaist in
Order to ftarry an Israelite-A Com.
municant of the Episcopal Church, Sht
VIII Deny Her Savior Rather Than
StiHe Her Love-Rabbi Moses Views OF
Proselytism and Advice to the Young
Man.
CHICAGO, March 3O-In a few weeks
new member will be taken in by the Kehi-
lath Anshe Maariv, which means "Con.
gregation of Men of the w est" the old
est Jewish congregation this side of New
York. The new member, who will be re-
ceived in the synagogue at the corner OF
Indiana avenue and Thirty-third street,
is the daughter of a well-known man in
Jacksonville, Ills. Her name is Anna L.
Gregory, and until short time ago she
was devout Episcopalian. She becomes
a Jewess, so far as an American girl can
become Jewess by joining a congrega-
ton, because she is going to marry Meier
+. We'll, who is a young man of Jackson
vile.
She Will Have to Deny the Savior.
She will renounce her family traditions
and the religion of her people in order TO
be a better companion through life for her
husband who is TO be. One of the ques-
tions she will be asked is: "Do you believe
that Jesus Christ died to save mankind?"
and the reply must be mo" or Anna will
have to give up Meier. This Mr.. We'll
learned in an interview with Rabbi Moses.
She will also have to overcome the tradi-
tional feeling of Christians against Jews
because, the rabbi said, otherwise she
could not live in harmony with her hus.
band
Advice to the Young Man.
Rabbi Moses further told Mr.. We'll:
You should send your sweetheart to Chi
cago, where she should live with respect
able Jewish people and learn whether she
likes their manner of thought and their
religion. Hitherto indifference
on your part, while not desirable, was
pardonable. Henceforth it is not pardon
able, for if you are not as ardent in your
old faith as your sweetheart will become
in her new faith you viii not live alto
cether happy"
The Young Woman Doesn't Finch.
The young man went away and yester-
day a dispatch came from Jacksonville to
say that Miss Anna l.. Gregory had re-
nounced her Christian faith, left the Epis-
copal church, in which she had been a
communicant, and created social sensa-
tion by going to Chicago to learn Judaism
all because of her love for Meier We'll.
Mr.. We'll is a prominent and well con-
nected merchant of the town and Miss
Gregory is of family that belongs to fine
society in Jacksonville.
Not Favorable to Prosely ytism.
Rabbi Moses said last night: Il am not
much in favor of making proselytes indis-
criminately. Proselytism is not in my line.
If people like America it is not necessary
that they should come here. If they profit
by our example and work at home on our
lines we are as well satisfied. Just so in
our church. 1t would not be best that all
who are impressed with our doc
trines should join our congregations.
They Were Bent on Matrimony.
"In the case of Mr. We'll he and Miss
could not marry them while she was a
Christian. l did such thing once when l
was a young man and ambitious, but it is
against my principles now. So l agreed to
take Miss Gregory into fellowship"
Advised Them to Marry.
When We'll went to the rabbi and told
his story the rabbi said: Marry her any
how; you can so to any justice of the
peace and he will marry you in a twink
ling; or you can 90 to Rabbi Hirsch at
Sinai temple. He has married Jewish
young men to Christian young women be-
fore now" But We'll did not believe in
that sort of thing and said that Miss
Gregory wished 20 become Of the same
faith as her sweetheart.