Not long ago a Presbyterian minister in Western New York whipped histhree-year-old boy to death, for refusing to say his prayers. The littlefingers were broken; the tender flesh was bruised and actually mangled;strong men wept when they looked on the body; and the reverend murderer,after having been set free on bail, was glad to return and take refugewithin the walls of his prison, to escape summary punishment at the handsof an outraged community. At the bare mention of such cruelty, every heartgrew sick and faint; men and women were dumb with horror: only tears and ahot demand for instant retaliation availed.
The question whether, after all, that baby martyr were not fortunate among