Blue-grass blade., 1903-06-14
APPLIED
CHRISTIANITY--THE MAS
SACRE AT kISHINEFE,
BY HARRIET M. CLOSZ.

We hear much nowadays about the
Golden Rule taught by the pagan sage
Confucius, and attempt to read the
title to practical Christianity by its
precept, but in doing so we overreach
the mark and become humanitarians
instead of Christians. Perhaps this
latest Christian horror in Russia will
bring the nations to a realization that
so long as we accept the Bible as a
guide and Jehovah as our God and ex.
emplar, we are under obligations to
commit the most dastardly and helm
Gus crimes against men and the most
monstrous and beastly assaults upon
women.
We do not expect decisions in the
courts of today in direct opposition to
the statute books, then why should
the nations stand aghast at this Rus.
sian massacre by Christians when Je-
hovah the great law-giver instigated
and carried out innumerable diabol-
lsms OF the same kind? Now there
was David, that mighty man of valcr,
the man after Gods own heart, the
man of many immoralities who saved
neither man nor woman alive to bring
tidings to CATH. Sam. xvii: IL.
The man who came unto the house
of the Lord and worshipped," and i'm
mediately fell upon the children of
Ammon and brought forth the spell
OF the city In great abundance. And
then brought forth the people that
were therein and put them under saws
and harrows of iron ana under axes
OF iron and made them pass through
the brick-kiln, and thus did he to all
the cities of the children of Ammon'
III. Sam. xii: 30-31. Rememberins
his work this little massacre of a few
hundred Jews seems quite insignifi
cant when we refer to the wholesale
affairs that are recorded in the inspir
ed book
The Associated Press records a
number of the horrors perpetrated by
the Russian Christians as told by DR.
Doroschewki, national hospital physi-
clan at Kisheney, after he had exam
ined the victims. Here is one: "A
Jewess named Lura Fonarschi was
brought here with two nails seven
inches long driven into her brain
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indeed though done in the heat of
rioting, but turn to Judges iv: 81, and
read OF the woman Jael's deliberate
treachery Then Jael Heber's wife
took a nail of the tent and took a
hammer in her hand and went softly
unto him and smote the nail into his
temples and fastened it into the
ground for he was fast asleep and
weary. So he died"
The following chapter declares that
this woman "smote off his head after
she had stricken and pierced through
his temples" and her praises were
loudly sung for the act
Further dailies state that "A Jew
named Charlton lost his upper and I'M
der lips which were cut away with a
kitchen knife after which his tongue
and windpipe were pulled out through
his mouth with pincers. The ears of
another named Selvzer were cut off
and his head battered in twelve
places. A carpenter was surprised at
his work and both of his hands were
sawed off with his own saw" But
refer to the accounts above mention
ed of David in which thousands met
this same awful fate instead of only
two or three Jews. A couple of years
ago a similar massacre occurred on
the Chinese frontier and 5000 China.
men were drowned or had their brains
beaten out with clubs, and yet civil
lied nations listened to another blood
thirsty Russian Christian Duchess
Vladimir proclaim in public that mot
a Chinaman should be left alive while
there is Russian to kill him"
These royal perverts are keeping
very close to the divine guide and ap-
plying Christianity in a way calculat-
ed to open the eyes of the blind. The
account continues: "A Jewish girl was
assaulted by several of the brutes
who then cut out her eyes with a
pocket knife. One woman after try
ing to defend her children was thrown
on the pavement, disemboweled and
feathers and horse hair stuffed into
her body" We shudder to read these
horrors and yet we read without the
tremor of a muscle the account in
Mum. XXI of the spelling of the Mid.
ianites under the direction of Moses
and Eleazor, the priest, in which thir-
ty-two thousand virgins were saved
alive for the use of Gods chosen peo-
pie, the Israelites, and we are com
PEELED to admit that this Jew batting
affair is mighty Insignificant and that
we are still a long distance behind
the exploits of our revered Jehovah
Those of us who deplore the assaults
made upon women should read the &C
count of the Levite who sought to es-
cape personal injury by turning his
wife over to the Benjaminites for a
vile purpose, and when arriving at
home, HE took knife and laid hold
on his concubine and divided her to-
gether with her bones into twelve
pieces and sent her into all coasts of
Israel. xix. The Incidental
losing of an ear or lips or tongue or
limbs is overshadowed by this grew.
some tale that bears the seal of in,
spiration.
A little while ago Baron Won Kettle
Ter was tortured by Chinese and
Christendom resounded with protests
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