Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — GIVES UP HER FAITH FOR LOVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIVES UP HER FAITH FOR LOVE.

Mi** Belknap Abondon* Christianity to Become Paul May's Wife. To embrace the Jewish faith and renounce her belief in the divinity of Christ is something of a task for a woman, even though it be undertaken for the man she loves, yet this is what Miss Belknap, whose father was once Secretary of War, has undertaken. For over a year there has been a love match between Miss Belknap and Paul May, a young man well known and liked in diplomatic circles in Washington. The marriage of the couple was opposed by both families because May is a Hebrew and Miss Belknap, of course, is a Christian. In order to circumvent the match, if possible, and make the young man forgot his inamorata, Mrs. May secured his appointment a year ago as an attache of the Belgian legation in Japan. But through all the period of his enforced absence his heart was true to the girl he left behind, and now that Miss

Belknap bas announced her intention of renouncing Christianity and embracing the Hebrew faith there is no longer any objection to the wedding on the part of the May family, and the event will doubtless be one of the most brilliant of the social season. As there is no synagogue in Washington, the couple will be married in New York. In order to be received into the Jewish Church Miss Belknap must go before three rabbis, who will explain to her all the tenets of the faith she is about to subscribe to. Then she must give up her belief in the divinity of Christ and renounce the New Testament, and after that she must submit to the bath of purification. Miss Belknap is a charming young woman about 20 years old. She hns spent many years abroad, and her name lias been coupled with that of several young society men of Washington in the past in rumors of engagements.

MISS BELKNAP.