AN INFIDEL'S PRAYER.

Freethought Review, Volume II, Issue 13, 1 October 1884, Page 11

AN INFIDEL'S PRAYER.

The following extract from the National Reformer gives a few further facts relating to the story we published in our last. Perhaps the colonial papers which published the original would like to copy it:—ln the 'National Reformer' for May 25th (page 362) we quoted from ' The Christian' a story, professing to be taken from a paper called 'The Truth,' of an infidel young man alleged to have been struck dead while delivering a blasphemous prayer at a Young Men's Christian Society, date and place not given. It turns out that the paper called 'The Truth' is published at St. Louis, Mo., and is edited by the Rev. J. H. Brookes, who now professes to have had the information from the Rev. W. Staymaker, Presbyterian Minister, Pass Christian, Mississippi, who pretends to have had the story from Dr. T. N. Angin, of Birmingham, Alabama, who is supposed to state that the young man was a Dr. A. T. Jones, of Birmingham, and that the incident happened at Gainsville, Alabama, date not given. We shall be glad if any of our United States friends will enquire into the subject, and we especially bring it to the notice of the Boston Investigator' and the 'New York Truth-seeker.' We shall also be glad if Mr. H. L. Green will get some of his Alabama correspondents to look up the facts.