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The Opportunist’s Changing Religion

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 6, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 14.

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The Opportunist’s Changing Religion

A PLACE-HUNTER in Prussia, having asked Frederick the Great for the grant of some rich Protestant bishopric, the king expressed his regret that it was already given away, but broadly hinted that there was a Catholic abbacy at his disposal. The applicant managed to be converted in a week, and to be received into the bosom of the Catholic Church, after which he hastened to his friend the king, and told him how his conscience had been enlightened. "Ah!" exclaimed Frederick, "how terribly unfortunate! I have given away the abbacy. But the chief rabbi is just dead, and the synagogue is at my disposal; suppose you were to turn Jew."