St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28
BELATED INTOLERANCE.

JAMES RUSSELL. LOWELL once said,
when some topic was under discussion
that enlisted strong feelings on opposite
sides. that the nineteenth century
should surely have reached point
where it could develop light without
heat. SO eminent parsonage as is
Bishop VINCENT. of the Methodist
church, makes ample demonstration i'll
the Forum that, i'll the field of religion
at least, we have not attained the sep
aration OF light and sheat-the light of
Christ's injunction to love your neigh
Der as yourself, from the heat of in
tolerant distruSt and dislike of those
who differ with you.
Those of US who were youngsters
forty years ago, and made, by our dot
ing mothers, soiicitous for our spiritual
salvation, to attend with them on the
ministrations of the very devout and
sincere caretakers of the souls who sat
under them, can recall now the shud
de1S which shook their frames as the
minister pounded his desk and filled
the building to the steeple with his de-
shrined on the hills of Rome and
warned his hearers of the fell and deep
designs of the pope upon the inStitu-
tons of this land of liberty and
religious freedom. Some of us who
have made our little journeys into the
world since then have come to think
that those rantings belonged to an era
of bigotry happily passed away, or lin
gering only IN some obscure and be-
nighted nook where civilization and
progress had not widened the minds
and thought of men. 1t is with some
thing of a shock of surprise and dis
appointment that we read the article on
1.-The Pope in Washington" by man
who is not only bishop of his church,
but who has gained by his connec-
ton with the Chautauqua movement
reputation for liberality and tolerance
which he takes pains i'll this article to
remove.
He threshes over again the same old
dry straw whose grains were long ago
beaten out. The presence of SAToLLI
in this country as the papal representa-
tive threatens the safety of the republic.
He is the pope i'll America. He has the
power to dissolve the allegiance of
Americans to their country if the in
terests of Rome conflict with those of
the nation. The old, weary and weary
ing story is told again of the purpose of
the church to overthrow tine free-school
system of the nation and obtain for the
parechial schools a share of the school
fund, to be used III teaching its youth
the doctrine of papal supremacy over
the individual and the state"
To those, and their number is legion
and increasing, who have thrown off
the mummy wraps ill which creed and
dogma and sect have SWathed and hid
den the sweetness and humility and tol-
erance and love of the Christ, and who
can see that churches are striving, each
in its own way, to reach the same end,
the lettering of men, such articles as is
his of Bishop VINCENT'S ana the SIM
liar Illustrations of survival OF an intol-
Grant bigotry which has disgraced the
race, come to stir pity rather than
wrath. Pity that men protesting the
doctrine of Christ's love are SO little
touched by it; pity that they waste so
much energy in opposing others en-
gagged in the same work as themselves,
when there is dire need of all the force
and strength any and all of them can
command to prevent themselves from
being swallowed up in the growing in
diffarentiSm of the day,