Christian Missonaries Among Jews

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1915, Page 3

Christian Missonaries Among Jews

s UIIUI.VISH'S STittWG umiaa Aii inquest was held at liethnal Ureeii _ 011 Hornby 011 the body of Esther . -tiyams, -ID, a married woman, of Hol- , mes-avenue, Brady-street." I The husband, a foreign Jew, said that I on .Saturday night, when lie arrived 1 home, nis wife told him that tiioir ; diatighter Polly, who had said silio would , only work in a workshop run by Christians, nad not come in ,and had left a letter. In it she said ehe was going to live in a Christian home, although she knew how badly her parents thought of such places, because she felt she must blot out her old life of misery. She was going to work iiard and lead i better life. fcihe had had enough of workshop life, and her parents must try t'j manage' without her. She added that it was her own decision. Continuing, the witness saiid tiiafc alter reading this his wne went upstairs. Shortly afterwards she called to JUiiu, and 110 found her lying on the floor. Wile died ibelore a doctor arrived. 'I ho medical evidence showed that rupture of a 'blood vessel of 'the heart was the cause of death. Hosts Shead, a married daughter of the Hyamses, said that her sister had became acquainted with a guild; of missions les working among tlie Jaws. The women connected with it Had told her sister that she was doing too much tor her parents. They undoubtedly turned her against her family, and she declared she would go to the guild anu be trained as a missionary. The Coroner remanied tliat it would 110 doubt ibring down upon him the censure ol certain ecclesiasical authorities, although ho hoped to survive it, when h ■, said that he thought it was an unwarrantable impertinence for one person to interfere in the religious a hairs of another. If people would only lead their own lives according to the teachings of their own religion, they would lind their time fully occupied.

The jury returned! a verdict 01 "Death from natural causes,"—-London Timoe.