Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-05

a hullaballoo is made over him. Some years
ago they captured one, Rev. Samuel
Freuder formerly Jewish Rabbi. He
confessed Christianity and was made mis-
sionary to his own people. We do not know
the motives of the man in confessing
Christ nor would we judge them. He might
have been sincere and he might not. In
any event he was dead failure. The fact
that he had renowned Judaism, the faith of
his fathers, for the infidel, gave him small
standing among his own people. They
would neither listen to him or heed him.
These conditions caused him to seriously
reflect upon his situation and so at last he
determined to renounce the new faith and
If he had need of any to return to the old.
Now the story goes that while holding
forth in the name of Jesus and him cruel
fed for our sins, at the Hebrew Messianic
Conference in Park Street Church, New
York, he broke forth in violent remuneration
which is said to have both disturbed and
shocked the congregation. According to
published reports he said:-
Il have never baptized Jew. From this
day forth l will never baptize Jew or
anybody else.
IF l ever preach in a Christian pulpit
again, may my right hand forget its cum
ming, and may my tongue cleave to the
roof of my mouth
1t is now up to the exevangelist mission
airy to keep his word. 1t is also comforting
to know that he does not even intend to
baptize anybody much less Jew. His
declaration not to preach no more in
Christian pulpit ought to be extended to
other cults and if he wants to preach any
sort of a gospel let him take up and advo-
cate humanity's cause for the balance of
his life.
Great is the power Of religion! Greater
still is the power of that religion known as
Christianity. Well, indeed, has 1t been
said that rivers of human blood have flowed
because of the envy, malice and hatreds
that it has successfully engendered. Re-
ligiOus frenzy is responsible for many
crimes, but none more hideOus, none more
revolving than the crime reported from
Nazareth. Pa, in which Robert Bachman,
fanatic who had imagined himself as god,
deliberately stamped a five-year-old girl,
Irene Smith, to death as a means OF OFFER
ing a sacrifice upon the blood-stained
affairs of this world-cursng despotism
According to the published accounts,
Bachman, the leader of religious sect
known as the blouse of god" and regarded
by all his followers as the king of all man.
kind" had conducted wild-Orgied religious
meeting which had lasted necessarily for
two days and nights. At the close OF the
meeting, Bachman grabbed the child, threw
her to the ground, and crying out that the
body of the little girl housed devil, de-
liberately jumped upon her with both feet,
stamped upon her in such fendish frenzy
that the life Of the infant was soon sped.
The child was a neice OF the fanatical re-
ligious murderer, and he, together with the
parents of the child, who, 1t is said, stood
by and witnessed the horrible sacrifice,
were arrested on the capital crime of MUIR
der. The account given in the papers say
that the trio take their fate calmly and re-
signedly, looking upon the horrible death of
the child as a divine decree.
And this from religion which sings,
Suffer the little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not" Poor, deluded fol-