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...INNOCENCE OF PASTOR MÜLLER (156 pp.)-Carlo Beuf-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Corpse in the Ruins. Up to this point, The Innocence of Pastor Mûller, by Carlo Beuf, reads like a witty piece of European detective fiction. But by the end of the book it is clear that Carlo Beuf has written a fable of the age, in a manner as gay as Aesop's, and with a meaning just as grave...
Evil in the Mind. Author Beuf then lets an old acquaintance of Schiller, Pastor Mûller, complete the story and point the moral: Pastor Mûller, a man of great simplicity and directness, looks at Schiller's N-ray photographs and can see no more than is visible in ordinary ones. "You are too innocent," says a man of the world, who can see all sorts of strange shapes in them. "I can't say I'm sorry," the good pastor replies. "For my part I am quite satisfied with what I see ... In fact...
...some Iroquois caught some Hurons with two more of their Jesuit friends, gigantic Jean de Brébeuf and frail Gabriel Lalemant. Stripping their captives, they promptly set about pounding them with clubs, searing them with glowing irons, tearing out their fingernails. Father Brébeuf exhorted his comrades to bear up bravely. The Iroquois cut out his tongue. Father Brébeuf's eyes still sparked courage. The Iroquois gouged them out, dropped live coals in the sockets. They draped a red-hot necklace over his head. Then they scalped him, baptized him with boiling water...
Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Brébeuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...