Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-25

ing IN Paris about 1850, were wont to
cruelty members of their order, in emu
lation Of the crucifixion of Jesus, in the
belief that the souls of the surviving
members would be saved by the sacri-
fice of their fellows. In 1917 the Pas
chelians," an Austrian sect, murdered
man, his wife and their daughter UNI
der the delusion that the trio, who re-
fused to go with the fanatics were pos
sessed of tie devil. On the following
day they crucified one of their own
number, a girl Of Is years, who had Of
fered herself for death, in imitation of
the death of Jesus, in order to save the
souls of her fellow believers. In 1923
the leader of a Pietistic circle in Switz-
erland. after having dispatched her Sis
ter, who gave her life as means of
saving the souls of her relatives, was
command, in order that she might die,
rise again after three days, and restore
to life the sister whom she had slain.
In 1866 two mothers, adherents of the
Holy Men" slew their sick children.
believing them to be victims of demoni-
acal possession. In 1875 Hungarian
miller, belonging to the "Nazarenes,'
killed his son as an Offering for his own
sins, after the fashion of Abraham. In
1870, in Irkutsch, Russia, one of the
'sSchismatics" convinced himself by
prayer and fasting and much scripture
reading that to save his soul he must
be crucified. Accordingly he attempted
self-crucifixion, and succeeded so far as
the circumstances of the case would
permit. In 1880, in the government of
Perm, Russia, peasant killed his child
as an Offering for sin, and buried the
body in an ant-hill. Likewise, in the
government of Vladimir. another peas
ant killed both his children in due
Abrahamic form, and while the babies
bled under the fathers knife the devout
| mother celebrated the service by read
ing aloud selected portions of the TWEEN
ty-second chapter of Genesis. In 1854,
| in the government of Tamboff, Russia,
a peasant, convinced that to save his
soul man must have sin to repent
of, killed neighbor with an ak in or
der to satisfy this highly imperative
condition.
1t is part of the creed of the Wan
derers," a Russian sect, that Anti
christ rules in high places there, and
that. accordingly, good men must have
| naught to do with governmental affairs
of any sort. In conformity with this
belief. man murdered, in various in
genious ways, twenty-five men, women
and children, including his own wife
| and babes, in order to free them from
the danger of losing their souls by suf-
| fering the communicating contact of the
government census taker. This occur
| red in 1897 The "Deniers." another
| quite interesting Russian sect believe
| that evil taints all earthly good, and
| that the only escape is death. In 1925
\ sixty of these men, strong in the faith,
| after having murdered their wives and
| children, permitted themselves to be
put to death, one by one. by their lead
| er. The "Scourgers." who also form a
widespread and influential sect in Rus
| STA, in obedience to the behests of their
savior are in the habit of indulging
| in human sacrifice. cannibalistic feasts,
erotiC dances, and other lewd proce-
dures as an extremely efIitacious
method of keeping the hand of evil
| from off their immortal souls. So the
"Muckers' of Kongsberg and the cele-'
| brants of the Black Mass in Paris af-
| ford further examples of the use of a
ritual of eroticism, coupled with a prac-
1 tice of the most abandoned and obscene
/ behavior. to promote the eternal well
4
/ this series of instances cited in proof
Of the thesis that fanatlcism may be-
4 come a source of crime is afforded by
the account of the notorious "Skopzi." "
/ A belief in the practice of castration as
/ a necessary means of saving the soul is
| a cardinal tenet of their faith. The
/ diabolcal cunning and ingenuity dis
| played by them in accomplishing, with
| or without the victims consent this
manning operation upon young and old
/ alike make them at once the most dam
gerous and the most despicable of Grim
4 inals.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MRS
EDDY.
THE Founder of Christian Science"
Is the title of an interesting and timely
| article in the November number of the
/ New England Magazine. by Henrietta
i H. Williams
The Rev Mary Baker Eddy, discov-
erer and founder of Christian Science,
author of the denominatonal textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the
/ Scriptures and the acknowledged
i spiritual adviser of very large and
growing body of intelligent Christian
/ men and women, is a woman whose his
/ tory is intensely Interesting to thought
full people of all shades of opinion. In
4 a little more than quarter of century
this gifted woman has established a
church with thriving branches all over
the world and converted to her ideas of
practical Christianity hundreds of
thousands of people.
This excellent article reveals the
Header of the Christian Science move
! ment in way that is new to most
readers, for we see her in the friendly
setting of her New England home,
among the hills of New Hampshire,
where she was born and reared, and
where she still loves to dwell in the
busy retirement of Pleasant View" in
/ the suburbs of Concord.
Mrs Williams has evidently been
i faithful in cleaning the facts in regard
to the life of Mrs. Eddy, for she relates
some incidents never before published,
of the home life and training of the now
4 famous woman, which show how her
experience prepared her for the work
4 she has accomplished. The article is IL
Illustrated with twenty-five haif-tone
/ engravings which add greatly to its
value as history. Some of the scenes
of Mrs Eddy's childhood are particu-
Harry interesting to students of Chris