Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — NEVER HEARD OF THE DEITY. [ARTICLE]

NEVER HEARD OF THE DEITY.

Baltimore Girl of Twenty Who So Testifies In Cpurt. That there should be anybody living in a city with more than 400 churches within Its precincts who knows nothing about God Is almost incredible. And yet. in a little alley that is not more than a minute’s walk from Baltimore street, an alley that it within a stone’s throw of one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the city, an alley that comes to an end opposite a Jewish synagogue, lives Emma Paul, the 20-year-old girl who was brought before Judge Wlckes in the Criminal Court Friday to testify against her mother, Mary Paul, and her mother’s brother, Hermfcn Wlnsel, and who declared she was in ignorance of the Deity. Questioned by the judge—to ascertain if she knew the significance of an oath—she declared that she had never heard of God and had never been to a church or a Sunday school. All she knew, she said, was her name and her age. After she had been searchingly questioned she said she knew she would be punished if she did not tell the truth, and her testimony was accepted.—Baltimore Sun.