New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-24
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
-. o.rtIo, III COUNTRIES.

,ocs,ors IN CATHOLIC COUNTRIES.
-, rur CONFERENCE OF BAPTIST MINIS
- >,onvRS METHODS OF THE ROMAN CAih-
oIC CHURCH. No.
rho Conference of Baptist Ministers OF new
xt ed vicinity held its weekly meeting yesteruaS q"
,he Ma, ,ers, Church, but the question, Is TUG
Rome the Beast OF the Revelation = Whch h g.,
,,Oned for consideration, was not olscuSeeu' ' -.
being fully occupied by matters when came pI,Ol NJ
7, ference Unexpectedly. After prayer oy inc NV w.
PiDn5 and the reading Of tho minutNs, the Rev. MI.
HOyt mere were few words whchlt vas important
should be san Baptist ChapS4at Paris
Permission given him to make he statemeh'"tter
tb sousson of the question before the meeting IIn
Rev. d. c. Potter whose paper of last week on on no
maldsm" contained statements TO which II was sup
posed Nr. HOyt designed replying, said he wOuu hot
listen TO IVY statements contradictory OF What nc hau
said last we unless he should have chance 10 reply
Permission wGS then granted MI Hoyt to make ms
statements at He said that there were assertions
In regard 10 the Baptist Chapel in Paris and the woIK
being done by IL which ought to be met The services
had well sustained there and last there were
nineteen baptsms, and twelve members wero received
by letter He thought this good work for lltH Da6
of seyeDty-twO meuDers. Over 5000 had ~Th nE,s
In Paris for the support OF the MISS naf Allied M he
regular services He said ne lad peeh suPlsei al WI
POtters remark tuat ne oluh no ~ Iisting ma
Spain, Italy aud France. " Nheret En-, ne salu tn9
ipnorapco Ilaty now stands on glorious threshold
ihanE God tpe Pope has been detnTOned. Now, Isay
whenever an apOstate churc1 shuts the door OF kuoWl
edge to srea mass OF toe people terc e very pace
for missions" He said tnat Mr.. Potter had SPOKEN OF
the WELCOME gwen 10y the Roman CathOnc Chircn 70
eoored people, and oil his hayng seen oiaSK anu NE
priests standing together. " am sorry ne saiu' .oI
any man, black whlte, who IS hOhish priest for
my own part. would as soon worship heathen hoi az
"a bit of dough-" He insisted upon 1t that just as great
courtesy shown in Protestant churches toward cOofod
people aud nstanced the TACT that at commencement AZ
Brown University last ear man as DiacA as oiacH
could be was CHOSEN class orator. .,.,.
Mr. P"tter obtained PERMISSION to reply lie sad tnat
he attended the baptist Chapel at Paris at one Ol the
regular services, aud saw only seventeen persons pres
ent He spoke III deience Of Wnat the k0man Catnoo
IL not of what IL did In FORMER
times 80" do not believe that the CalhOllc Chutch
blind Church," he said "she adopts methods auapiea
TO circumstances. Professionalism nowhere shows such
aggressive work as The Church Rome In PFOtesaht-
ism welcome Is not gwen TO colufed persons ny no
Fashionable churches. There are churches III winch
flshionaUly dressed cOlOred could not walk up
the aisle aud take seat In prominent pew ana own
II. Dissenting vOices) An perhaps she cOud I DI'
Hoyi's Cnurch, any BaptIst Church; but the bap-
tlst Church is the Church III this cyexcept III our
own ESTIMATION. cOuid name many Protestant cnufcnes
ter then spoke of the work TIE Roman Cahonc Chrch
IA doing in eOuh. He auded /: " We had better pe
cautious our statements Ihihss are NOT W Simply
because say they are true. never sa" q mah "O
A member in the back part OF the room asked the
speaker IL he believed Roman Catholics needed CONVEX
sion. Mr. Potter replied, with edinestness " 40 pc
eye that the great rank and e OF tue Roman Catonc
Church in Europe DeLeve that somehow Or otneI they
will be saved the blood Of CHRIST, ana DeneVe
that somehow other the great mass Ot them win ne
saved NV faith in Christ. took pans TO search aud
fluid out for sell, and found that Roman Cdthohcs
Worshipped Christ as we'll rs the Virgin"
The Rev Dr. COnant from the Committee on Library,
American Bible Union. when IL was said could be bought
for from $4,000. although IL cost from 500
ng and me formation Baptist Library Society The
report was discussed at leugtJ ana ADOPTED IL Was
ed that additional burden ought TO be ald
mn The churches but that the library should be es-
tablished 10y private Contributions, II at all