Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — Religious Persecution. [ARTICLE]

Religious Persecution.

Religious percecut on still exists in Vicuna. A Methodist congregation was first formed there in IoH *. and after continuous interferen e it has been finully forbidden. For several years the Methodists have worshiped very privately, but about a year ago a police o fieer visited the pastor and demanded to see the ar iclesof his religion, fiherebe ug u c in the Wesleyan Church, the pu.*t r found a copy*of the twenty-five articles which Wesley chose from th* thirty-nine articles of the Church of England, and on the strength of the tweuty-second. forbidding the m iss as a bl&sphemous deceit, Methodist preaching was prohibited in vrieumt. The case was brought into the courts with the same result and the Methodist pastor dare not now opeu bis mouth. For asthma .‘-oak blotting paper in strong saltpeter water dry, and burn at night.