Show IN ROME ROIE I x President Charles W V Fall Fair batiks ass told that the tho Pope Popo could not receive him as 18 promised if IC ho car carried ried out omit his Intention or of 8 speaking In mho tho AmerIcan Methodist church at Rome for the reason that time tho Methodists Metho Methodists have l been active In among t the 10 Rome Homo stands stand It seems scenes toda today where pagan Rome stood on time the question of oC religious tolerance tol erance crance two thou ond years ago Pagan ln Rome Homo hud 1101 religious tolerance to n a very limIted extent Hut But It would not permit the tho Jows Jow e for instance to their religion among the Roman pagan And ItS as for tor the Nazarenes they were considered neither Jews nor pagans and therefore hud had no religious tights That the tho Roman church chunh has so for far In ht the progress M toward the tho liberation of oC man from old prejudIces Is a matter ot of regret Nor Is IsIl it Il entirely without cause for slon for the future For the question naturally arises what would como o of that which has beon gained during the thelong long centuries throuGh Innumerable sacrifices if IC the Roman on toler aneo anca and religious courtesy should hould again n become It Is only through hard effort that freedom has been gained The descent would ho bo boboth hoboth both rosy easy and swIft As wo understand It Rome Romo Is par particularly tlc larl severe against Protestants Her Hor view Is that the was apostasy Inspired by the evil ono The rh hope of oC Rome Home s that the state 1113 may some soma time become convinced of oC time Ule Justness JustneS ot of the doctrIne ot of anco end and adopt that policy ThIs Is entire entirely contrary to the tho American Idea ot of nonunion of oC church and state It isa Is Isa a wonder that the diplomatic counselors ot of his holiness did cUd not make some somo allowance for tor thIs difference on this occasion but that th they em emphasized emphasized the tho Roman attitude Was this thisby b by design Or w WS s It merely nn an acci accident dent |