The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-01
RABBI RHINE ON
 RITUAL MURDER"
LOCAL PULPIT DlSCOURSES ON THE FAMOUS TRIAL NOW ON
 IN RUSSIAN COURT.
Regards the Interest Centered in the Trial Merely an Effort to Arouse Prejudice Against Jewish Race.

Rev. Dr. A. B. Rhine delivered a powerful sermon at the Temple last nigh. on the Ritual Murder" charge now being heard in the RussiSl courts, where undoubtedly much $ being made of an individual criminal charge upon which to arouse preJu- dice against the whole of the Jewish people Rev. Rhine aid not mince matters in giving expression to lis views on the subject. and proved a rare acquaintance wi.h the facts that have led to the trouble. He said in part:
 The trial of Mendel Bells, Jew ish workman of kieff Russia, on the charge of murdering a Christian child for ritual purposes, whith Is now going on in Keiff, is a striking example of the lengths to which the Russian governmen: is willing to go in its determined efforts to eXtermi- nate the Jewish people.
 The bloody Czar and his sat 9l- llbGS llEN El ilCGlldbth bNAOAA fC 'iANANN the ignoran. Russian mobs to riot, plunder and murder: the fre0cent history of Russia is eloquent te5tI' mony to that fact. Now. howay 3r, with a refinement of cruel.y, the Rus sian government is determined o murder the fair name of the Jew by ascriEing to him the infamous l-e of murdaring the innocent Christian children in the name of his religion.
 Civilized people anywhere will only shrug oheyr shoulders at the cowardly revival of q medieyah rep etition and will of course refuse to ray heed to it and pass it by Wi;h the silent contempt it deserves, In Russia, however, this charge win the approval of the Car behind t.. will find easy credonce in all Chris tian countries, with the result that new massacres or Jews Yiu be in. stigated, and Jewish blood will flow in Russia again as in ,he days Ct kishinef
 "It is for this reason that the pres ent trial of Beills assumes such tragic Importance. If he be found guilty, and the Russian government is do. ing it's utmost to eoGyict him, and to shield the real criminals the doom of the Russian Jew is sealed
 Now the question is not whe6h er Beiiis had killed a Chris tian boy CT not The evidence so far adduced would clear him from all guilt in any civilized county, it is true, but 1t is possible that a Jew may some. times be guilty of murder It would ba almost beyond all reason to eX- pect that a people numbering twelve million souls would not contain a few criminals. though all fair minded people will admit th.t the proportion of Jew criminals is rather small.
 In the present case, however, the importance attaches to the fact that Bellis is accused of the crime of murder committed in the name of the Jewish religion: and it is only another proof that supersItions die hard. This infamous lie was first born in the brain Of a perverted Jew ish convert to Christianity in l1i4 in connection with the dlscoY3 Of the dead body of a Christian child named William, Of Norwiad. England, who was subsequently cannonized by tie church.
 The ignorance bieotry and super. stition of the Christian middle ages accepted this lie without inves' iga- tion, and the Jews were made mar tyrs to this invention since that time. Hundreds and thousands of Jews were tortured to death under this charge. History records 12l in- stances where JewlEh communities and individuals were made the vic tims of plots that under the cloak of this charge. as late as 1900, and in such enlightened country as Prus- sla; this charge was revived in Kor- fiz against an innocent man, as Q result of an anti-Seminite plot. Who can tell how many thousands of vic tins fell in so-callet- Christian coun- tries in the course of the last eight hundred years?
 The Jews of today surely need not defend themselves against su h an atrocious accusation. Any man who has a spark of humanity left in him knows that Jews are not mur- derers by religious commandment. The Jewish Bible is the property of all the civilized countries and what ever of progress mankind has made in the last two thousand years is the result of the teachings of the Jewish prophets or those who were inspired by them-and the Bible does not teach murder.
 If a protest against the infamous charge will do any good, this protest must come from the representative of Christianity, from the Christian pulplt It was the medieval Chris tians and superstition that afoisted this He upon the Jews, and it must be the enlightened Christian public