# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S94
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94 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...crowd of Jewish children was won over for Christian instruction on Saturday and Sunday. From here, an eighteen-year-old youth who had already been under Christian instruction for some time was also baptized on March 8, 1903, after passing his examination, by the mission's secretary at Immanuel Church on East 83rd Street. Then, all at once, the pillars of Israel reappeared, like a dark, threatening specter out of the pit of hell. They had heard of the success of the Jewish missionary on Ludlow Street. At once warning after warning against our missionary appeared in the Jewish press. In these warnings the old fables were served up to the Jews again, as though our missionary were etching a cross onto the arms of the Jewish children that could never be erased. One article claimed that our missionary had taken more than a hundred Jewish children into a convent and baptized them there against their will. This article appeared the day after a Christmas celebration with 98 Jewish children had been held in a hall rented for the purpose. With what hatred and bitterness the aforementioned Jewish faction was filled against our mission can best be seen from the following excerpt of an article that appeared at that time in the Jewish daily paper. In translation it reads as follows: 'The black plague in the form of the Jewish missionaries has turned once more to the East Side and is pouring its poison into innocent young children. The bats of the Lutheran Church have long had their eye on the Jewish youth. Through their *Meſchumed* [apostate — a convert from Judaism, used here as a term of contempt], the missionary, they have always earnestly tried to turn the Jewish children of this neighborhood away from their parents and their faith. The headquarters of their mission filth is located on Ludlow Street, a street packed full of Jews. There the dark morality of the foreign faith is preached not only to old Jews with gray beards but also to small, defenseless children. On the Day of Atonement, a day every son of Israel is supposed to spend fasting and praying in the synagogue, one finds a whole crowd of Jews with their children at the sinister missionary's, where they sing, kneel, and pray to Jesus Christ. O Jewish fathers and mothers! Do you even know how far and how deep the cross has driven its roots into the Jewish youth? Wherever one goes, one hears no singing from the mouths of our children but that of the Meſchumed of Ludlow Street. This should wrap all the Jews of the East Side in shame and disgrace. O fathers, mothers, and Jewish religious leaders, let