The police here yesterday dispersed a large gathering which assembled in the mission-house on Metropolitanska Street to listen to a lecture by Friedrich Pistol, a “meshumad,” (apostate), on “Pesach Among Jews,” after Pistol declared in the course of his lecture that since the time of Egypt Passover has always been for Jews a symbol of blood.
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