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To make a proselyte of a Roman citizen, or to meet in private companies for worship, was unlawful. The persecutions by public authority have been said to be ten; but this number is too small if all of them are reckoned, and too large if only those of wide extent are included. The constancy with which even young women and children sometimes endured the torture, excited wonder in the beholders.
I have given some details as to Stewart's suffering under an English proselyte of Kant in my Studies of a Biographer. Jeremy Bentham, the patriarch of the English Utilitarians, sprang from the class imbued most thoroughly with the typical English prejudices.
These, especially the latter, were urged with every species of cruelty a mode of attempting to proselyte, evincive of human folly. Arguments totally diverse are requisite to enlighten the mind and produce conviction of a divine mission. With these came the apostles of the Lamb.
Christian baptism seems to have come from Jewish proselyte baptism: the proselyte was by immersion in water symbolically cleansed from sin and introduced into a new religious life, and such was the significance of the rite practiced by John, though his surname "the Baptizer" probably indicates that he gave it a broader and deeper meaning; he overstepped national bounds, receiving Jews as well as non-Jews.
He had throughout recognized the claim that all the counter-doubts had upon the reason, and he saw how effective he could make these if he were now to become their advocate. He pictured the despair in which he could send his proselyte tottering home to his lonely house through the dark.
When a would-be proselyte accosted Hillel, in the reign of Herod, with the demand that the Rabbi should communicate the whole of Judaism while the questioner stood on one foot, Hillel made the famous reply: 'What thou hatest do unto no man; that is the whole Law, the rest is commentary. This recalls another famous summarisation, that given by Jesus later on in the Gospel.
Just the same, I envy our girls. I wish I could go to Europe in the steerage, not being able to go any other way. It's a fortunate thing for us that our hired girls do go back home and proselyte for America, or else we would soon be jam up against the real thing in help problems. If, for any reason, the Swedish nation should cease contributing to Homeburg, we should have to do our own work.
See how her priests compass earth and sea to make one proselyte, how indefatigably they toil, how attentively they study the weak and strong parts of every character, how skilfully they employ literature, arts, sciences, as engines for the propagation of their faith.
"I'll turn proselyte, if she wishes it," said Hans, with a shrug and a laugh. "Don't talk nonsense, Hans. I thought you professed a serious love for her," said Deronda, getting heated. "So I do. You think it desperate, but I don't." "I know nothing; I can't tell what has happened. We must be prepared for surprises.
Had Bayle adhered to the catholic church, had he embraced the ecclesiastical profession, the genius and favour of such a proselyte might have aspired to wealth and honours in his native country: but the hypocrite would have found less happiness in the comforts of a benefice, or the dignity of a mitre, than he enjoyed at Rotterdam in a private state of exile, indigence, and freedom.
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