The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-29
BAPTIST MINISTER'S DISCUSSING CATE
OLICITY.
MINISTER'S REBuKING BROTHER FOR THE IN .
PREssIoNs HE GOT ABROAD

In the Baptist Ministers' Conference in New
York city last week, the Rev. DR.. Daniel C..
Porter of the Sixth Street Baptist Church, who
was in Europe last sun mer. spoke on the sub
4 ject, "The Roman Cath Ollie Church as SawIIt."
He had been bred to believe that the Church
. is sink of corruption, the right hand of Satan,
and the nightmare of history. He had learned
4 in rambling through the cstbedrals of Europe
that charity towards that Church is not o
crime. He had that that Church can
teach Protect ants many lessons. As to Roman
Catholicism Siog cut IL has but just begun
/ to live. L aormons congregations gather in the
cathedras. In that in Cologne he saw over
5000 persons. Similar sights he met in many
other ca'hedrals, The devotion of the wor-
shippers also was rtmarkao}e. Even the chill.
dren devont TIE wsy two children
one five, the other ssVeu years Of sge-d'pped
their tiny fingers in the holy wstar aud then
knelt before an altar, tooched him. n Ameri
can boy would have sNen that tie place was
vacant. then he would have given q wboopl
Before going away that boy would have looked
for something to spoil or snatch. L ;ug Hter.
Next, DR.. Potter noticed the CataoIicisy Of
2 the Roman Catholic Church. The courtesy
paid visitors and strangers in cathedrals is
admirable. American travellers stamp in
Aeathedral where worship is going on, even
passing b.tween priest and people. They
make hsatbers of themselves, and yet the
wors hiper does not complain. He only looks
sorrowfully at the intrnders, as If to say: al
wish you wouldn'sW AS for DR.. Potter,
church, You'd letter stop that o. ri
.OAll u Policeman! 1Uen LIZ fOLG6C saw U9aC
priests are vastly superior men. Travelling
on diligence with him were some students.
4they alighted to meet their tutor, priest, and
they all crowded around and kissed bin. In
sMilan, he cav jolly old priest ou a bench in
The open air teaohing some children how to
play chess. Fancy one of stiff cold,
Doctors of Divinity teaching game to chill
dren," exclaimed the speaker, and the brt tn. |
ern laughed.
Finally DR. Potter said that Protestant mis-
eions in Europe are not called for. He visited
The Baptist Chapel in PLTis one Sunday, and |
Pnly seventeen were present at tle hour of
Rorship. |
q Brother Simon ds said that he saw Europe two
years ego, and did not see what Brother Potter
bad eeen. He saw in the Cologne Cathedral q |
priest drunk while conducting religious GER |
asices. Brother Potter had seen crowds in St. |
Marks Cathedral in Venice, but not the great
e crowds in the great public 'piszzs on San
Jay when there wss circus open. 1t is worse
% wear a hat in q cathedral than to get
trunk and swear. The people worship the
beautiful oathedrals bat not God.
Brother Adams had been to France and
Ehought that there the Roman Catholic
Shurch was an insignificant and puerile thing.
brother j. d. Smith quoted Bishop No Q 1ade
s saying that the power of the Rom an Cstho-
.ac Church in Europe is losing ground, but in
america 1t is gaining Brother Borroughs said
hat he wished that Pcotestants had the indus
~ of the Romanists "Auen }" said deep, gut
Fnral voice. Brother Grimmel said that he
vas in the Cologne Cathedral eight years ago,
md shared Brother Potter's admiration. Yet
Brother Wayland Hoyt admired Brother Pot
ers Catholioity and frankne but was sorry
nat @ he had not looked little more deeply.
Then Brother Potter protested that the
eerely shown how the signs look that the
asser by.
The Rev, De. Thomas of Brooklyu proposed
nat the subject be discussed in the future
nder new form, viz: SIS the Roman Catbo.
cChurch the Beast of Revelation :"