Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1915 — Took Task on Themselves. [ARTICLE]

Took Task on Themselves.

The simple character of the Russian peyaAht is illustrated by the* story of the fate of the Socialist. The Socialist arrived in a village to convert the inhabitants to his belief. He thought he would begin by disproving the existence of God, because if he proved that there was no God it would naturally follow that there should be no emperor and no policeman. So he took the holyimage and said, “There is no God, and I will prove it immediately. I will spit upon this image and break it into bits, and if there is a God he will send fire from heaven and kill me, and if there is no God nothing will happen to me at ■U " Then he took the image and spat upon it, and broke it to bits, and he said to the peasants, “You see God has not killed me.” “No," said the peasants, ‘*Qod has not we wilt” And they did.