Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 8, 1906

There is an occasional illustration of the cruelty of religious bigotry which indicates what will happen when the restraint of law and public sentiment is removed. The following paragraph from The Signs of the Times gives the particulars of one such case:—

Brother G. W. Reaser, president of the Southern California Conference, reports a sad case of persecution that occurred in connection with meetings held in Pasadena by Elder W. Simpson. A woman of unusually brilliant mind came to the meetings from night to night, and finally decided to accept the truth. She expressed her convictions to her husband, who is a strong Roman Catholic. He told her that if she became a Seventh-day Adventist, he would have her placed in an insane asylum. True to his threat, through the influence of a relative who is a strong Catholic attorney in the State of New York, he has had his wife placed in close confinement in an insane asylum. People in Pasadena, and others who are acquainted with the lady, are ready to give evidence that she was a woman of unusual talent, and perfectly sane in mind.