Show ASSAIL mm GHURGH I I Two Fierce Onslaughts Made By Methodist Bishops I I i DENUNCIATION VERY BIER I I Plnco Was the Meeting of the Gsncral Missionary Committee of Methodist Episcopal ChurchGreat Audlcnco I Was Present Addresses Were Applauded Ap-plauded ViporousJynnd No Attempt Was Made by Chairman to Check Demostr tons of Approval Bishop Goodsell Advanced the Attack J New York Nov irwo licVcc onslaughts on-slaughts or the church of Rome enlivened en-livened tha proceedings at todays sos sion of the general missionary coin mi lee On each occasion an audience which filled every part ofthe large auditorium au-ditorium in St Pauls Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church where the committee Is meeting l broke Intp applause and no I effort was made by the chairman to check these demonstrations of approval 1 ap-proval I r inu general committee which is I composed of all the bishops and leading I lead-ing divines In the Methodist church of I America has been in session dally I since Wednesdaw last Upon several 1 occasions during former sessions when reference has been made to anything pertaining to the Roman Catholic church the same spirit of defiance has been appiuonl Upon no former occasions occa-sions however has that church been denounced In terms so unciualllled nor i has the approval of the audience been given vent In so vigorous applause I GOODSELL MAKES ATTACK The first person to advance to the attack at-tack was Bishop Goodsell of Tennessee In the course of an address on the work of the Methodist Episcopal i church in arloua parts of Europe ho I had occasion t spCak of the work done In Italy and conditions obtaining there I J was In the recital of the latter that the bishop used such strong language against the church of Rome I IN NORTHERN EUROPE In northern Europe for Instance in Germany and the Scandinavian countries I coun-tries the bishop said we have made satisfactory progress though we have a great deal of Indifference and even opposition to contend with Statistics show that we have made as much headway during the first thirtyfive yours in Europe as we have In the same period in this country which offers of-fers a more congenial soil for our record STRUGGLE IN ITALY In southern Europe the conditions are somewhat different There the struggle has been harder There are I many who doubt whether we have done any work at all In Italy I the land I of superstition nnd priestcraft whether wheth-er we could ever hope to accomplish anything there in the face of the tremendous I I tre-mendous press of adverse thought i with which we are confronted the fact I I Is that we sent one of our workers Into 1 Italy He soon made up his mind that In Rome we had to do as do the Romans Ro-mans He began by training the young by taking them IntQ our schools and seminaries EXCOMMUNICATED BY POPE The work is slow but its value has been recently testified to by the pontiff himself who has honored us by excommunicating ex-communicating every one teachers and pupils alike connected with our Institutions In-stitutions of learning In his effort to preserve for himself the triple crown of papacy he has Issued a sweeping interdict In-terdict against the schools and everyone every-one passing through their gates This however has only made us more determined de-termined to wipe out a system which has created out of n former man of empire it cringing beggar with monkey and grind organ The applause which greeted this sally was deafening l THREW THE GAUNTLET The next speaker threw thc gauntlet Ito Ito I-to the church of Rome In terms as dIrect dI-rect and condemnatory as did Bishop I Goodsell This was Rev Dr C W I Drees who for a number of years has i 1 been Identified with the work of the i Methodist Episcopal church In South America and was appointed by the committee to take over the supervision of the work among the Spanishspeak ing nations on this continent Besides Bishop Goodsell he Is the only member mem-ber of the committee who In the course of his labor has come in direct contact with church the work of the Roman Catholic churchEND END OF SPANISH RULE In beginning his address Dr Drees made reference to the end of Spanish rule In this hemisphere and was roundly round-ly applauded He alI al-I was wise of the chairman to call the subject on which I am to speak the work a 7 the Spanishspeaking inhabitants In-habitants of America happily there is no longer a SpanishAmerica The last vestige of Spanish domination In this hemisphere disappeared l v hen the old Spanish battleship Maria Teresa In being towed to this country attur having hav-ing been wrecked by U guns laid her bones to rest on the sands of the Island which was the first territory discovered eredA A former speaker has said that a condition where half of the World is pagan and the other half Christian cannot can-not long endure The same can be said with as much truth of a state of affairs where Christendom is dhided into two great camp with Protestantism on one side and Greek and Roman Catholicism cism on the other The time is upon us when anew the qeustions which appeared ap-peared In the Protestant reformation will begin to agitate the world and demand de-mand to be pushed to their final Issue BITTER AGAINST PONTIFF After slumbering for four centuries these selfsame questions were awakened awak-ened through the lam act of Infamy of the pontiff In declaring himself Infallible Infal-lible Within twentyfour hours after lhat blasphemous declaration had been written on the triple crown of Rome the Prussian armies invaded Cathollo France Fortyfive days later Catholo I tie of Sedan was fought with Protestant Protest-ant Prussia the victor and twenty days only had elapsed when the united armies ar-mies entered the Holy City whore n the Pope held sway bringing with them carloads of Bibles Thu Pope lost hEr temporal power find since that day the I creed has been w weakening TALKS OF ALLIANCE The Roman church at one time held I sway everywhere hut now both that church and Spanish domination have fallen off their high pedestals When Spain Is arraigned the Catholic church should be arraigned with lhat power us I corespondent Ever since corespondcnt Isabella signed away the liberty of Isabela Pope theme has been an Illegitimate al j liance between statecraft and priest1 craft against human liberty and human hu-man progress The applause which followed this saljy was na tremendous ns it aa spontaneous 1 Dr Drees said In conclusion that the most promising field l among the Span ishspeaking population l > in America I vnfc opening In Porto Rico ndl Ilci l the committee to spint neither1 ox pense nor later to oust neithor that I II Islnnd f I Bishop Hnrfecll sppkt onx Africa 1 which lathis field He said In part 1eld He I We stand today In face of a revolt of the pagan world against Christian civilization pasan ilization In the far East Mohammedanism Mohamme-danism Is outnumbering the Christian religion in the number of adherents China has Just clammed her door In the face of Christianity Only a few days ago her representative stood In Carnegie Carne-gie institute in PIttsburg and boldly threw down the gauntlet to Christian culture In behalf of the ancient civilization I civili-zation of his people I GRAVE PROBLEM Half the world Is pagan the other I half Christian and our zeal and labor in the first year o f coming century Avlll decide whether we shall win or whether the Christian faith shall be deluged by paganism amid lay burled for centuries The greatest problem confronting us In Africa Is the native question The best statesmen In Europe Eu-rope are at present solving that quics tlon jnd the humane tendency of tnelr work lit I truly gratifying They all declare de-clare with one accord that the Dark calc Continent should remain Inviolate the home of the black racer race-r DOMESTIC Rev Dr Oldham reviewed the cart ious perplexing Cut Involving the domestic mission The chic among these < he said was the poverty and the Irick l of thrift which had become the heritage of a great portion of the Population of great cities and the indifference In-difference and oven the defiance met I with in the camp of labor where the church wins thought to be in conspiracy conspir-acy with the rich to keep the workingman I working-man down This was only to be overcome over-come by teaching the churches In limO cities that the whole city Is the ward ofcaeli Individual church I I u PROMISING FIELD Bishop Thoburn spoke of the work In I Southern Asiu and Bishop Cranston I Ill easlei portion of that continent The latter pronounced Korea perhaps the most promising missionary field in the t world In Japan progress is hindered hin-dered by the rationalistic teaching In the1 schools but the bishop said the field was nevertheless a promising one |