New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-10
A LIVELY PIyI 7 S CEN E.
Nathaniel Fri edmann Thrown Bodily out
ofa Jewish synogogue.
He breaches Christ Gruoifed and Creates
an Interesting Sensation.
At one time be lived in New Ulm and At
tended College.
The Pioneer. Press of SUNDAY Olives an

. a man is interested who is known to ma
8 ny in New Ulm and who is the husband
d OF one OF Adolph Dietz's daughters. 1t
/ says: Yesterday, which was the Jewish
i Sabbath, at $50 in the afternoon, the
hour when the descendants ofJacob meet
i to pray and listen to discourse from a
rabbi, the synagogue Of the Sons of Ja-
d cob was filled with devout sworshippers.
4 A strange rabbi. for such he was taken to
be, arose and began to preach in the
Hebrew tongue. He was clever and the
audience was much taken with him.
i Suddenly he began to preach Christ cru
CITED. A match dropped into can Of
4 powder could not have created a greater
Ecommotion. Instantly the congregation
was on its feet demanding that the man
be put out of the house. The man con
tinued to preach Christ as though talk
ing to the most appreciative audience,
and a moment later everybody made a
rush for him at once. He attempted to
defend himself, but was knocked down,
and after his head was right we'll
thumped on the floor, dragged and
thrown out of the synagogue.
The stranger took the hint and con-
cluded that he was not wanted there.
So he hunted a drug store, which was
! lZimmerman's corner of Tenth and Wa
basha, and had himself patched up. In
the melee some of the women became
frightened and ran out to find police
man. Presently the Rondo street patrol
wagon was at hand but the stranger was
Egone by this time, and as there was no
one there to point out who should be ar
rested the wagon returned to quarters
without a prisoner.
1t seems that the stranger was a con-
verted Polish Jew named Nathaniel
Friedman, who lives at 626 Lawson str.
He claims that he was invited there by a
pl''lil1llel1l LICl1Dtl VI lilc oOllS VI oeCoto,
and told that he might preach a short
sermon. He says that the man knew
that he was Christian and that he would
preach Christ.
The church of the Sons of Jacob is
what is denominated orthodox, which
means that they adhere to the old jew
ish belief with all the pristine traditions.
Simon jacobson, an East Seventh street
merchant, is president of the society
Friedman came to St. Paul from Poland
4 about four years ago, and was then a
member of the orthodox Hebrew faith.It
1 is said that he was rabbi. After he was
q here a few months he became converted
: at a mission out on Payne avenue. He
was then sent to Il religious college at
Z New Tim. He graduated from this col
q lege not long ago and entered the field
of mission work. He is a good talkel
and very intelligent.
lIr. Simon jacobson was seen by q
Ireporter last evening, and said: Fried
mann was hired to quit the Jewish faith
and join the Christians. The synagogue
was full of people this afternoon; there
) must have been 500 or 600 there. We
.Ego there at that hour of the day to pray;
At 5 80 it is the custom for some rabbi
! to preach. Well, friedman appeared
i there shortly before 5 o'clock and
preached Christ. We didn't pay any
attention to him, but continued to pray
At $50, when, as he we'll knew, it was
time for a rabbi of our faith to begin
preaching, he got up and began to
preach Christ. This was too much. We
told him to stop and reminded him that
it was time for a rabbi to preach and
i that he must vacate the pulpit. But he
kept on preaching IN spite of the warn
q ing. Then, Of course, we put him out.
There wasn't anything else for us to do.
He had our pulpit without permission
was preaching doctrine exactly oppo-
site our faith, and doing it at a time
when it interrupted our religious exer-
cises.
Friedman stated last evening that he
should bring suit against the Sons d
Jaeobto recover damages for his injsr-
les, etc. He had not decided as to who
he would employ as attorney; but the
Sons Of Jacob will employ Ben Davis te
defend them in case he sues. Fried
mann is not seriously hurt, but has some
big bumps on his head which he received
'Iby having his head thumped on The
I floor