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142 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. He then handed to Mr. Snell, to be read to the assembly, the following most honorable and Christian protest against a prevalent calumny upon the Jews in Europe and the East : In the East the belief is current among the ignorant masses of the population that the Jews use for purposes of religious rites the blood of Christian children, and in order to procure such blood do not shrink from committing murder. In consequence of this belief, outbreaks against the Jews are frequent, and innocent victims are subjected to many indignities and exposed to great danger. In view of the fact that such erroneous ideas are also current among the ignorant of other countries, and that during the last decade both Germany and Austria were the scenes of trials of innocent Jews under the accusation of having committed such ritual murder, I, as a Christian minister, ask this Congress to -ecord our conviction that Judaism forbids murder of any kind, and that none of its sacred authorities and books command or permit murder, or the use of human blood for ritual practices or religious ceremonies. The circulation of such slander against the adherents of a monotheistic faith is un-Christian. The origin of the calumny must be traced to the Roman conceit that early Christians used human blood in their religious observances. It is not consonant with Christian duty to allow this horrible charge to go unrebuked, and it is in the interest of Christianity's good repute that I ask this Parliament to declare that Judaism and the Jews are innocent of the imputed crime as were the Christians of the first century. I}iternational Obligations to China; by President W. A. P. Martin, of the Imperial College of Peking. The Koran and other Sacred Scriptures; by J. Sanna Abou Naddara, of Paris. Read by Mr. Snell. Women and the Pulpit ; by the Rev. Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Read by the Rev. Dr. Augusta J. Chapin, of Chicago. The Voice of the Mother of Religions on Social Questions; by Rabbi H. Berkowitz, of New York, Read by Dr. Joseph Stoltz, of Chicago. The Fourteenth Day. — Sunday, September 24. afternoon session. The assembly were led in the Lord's Prayer by the Rev. George J. Lemmon, of Schaghticoke, N. Y. The Relation of Christianity to America; by the Rev. Pro-