Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

s-rrora have concurred IN the petition
80 eiqned IT by its officers. In Great
pr1,,fr this result was accompHsnsu
tLto0v nv q cooperating committee ap
..atrtod bv the American committee, W.
E,ane Darbv. IL. D.. being its elclent
cboirman \ number OF men In Great
Britain and ireland. prominent ID Chu i,..
or state. have associated themselves WIN
this committee, and constitute me AIni-
tration Alliance mentioned IN Tue 'e''''
below. .....,,e. ,,,rrr-p
To secure the cooperation OF tn'
churches on the Continent, the hAeou.INs
Committee requested and commissioner
DR. Darby 20 visit representatives. ol .n7
churches and organize cooperating com
1oittees He writes, Of date London, No
vember 18th. to the chairman u 'N'
Executive Committee:
"Daar DR.. CAMPBELL have spent from
ten or twelve days in Paris, running
The commission entrusted to me by your
committee
During that time I saw most OF the
prominent Protestant pastors togc'her
with number Of friends interested IN the
movement. and now have much pleasure
| In reporting the results.
NV first act on reaching Paris was 70
"a
uniting the matter before him, and ask
! inc him for an interview. i received no
ran'v from him, but this, l learn, was
| dus IN his absence in Rome. Everything
hoard pointed TO the importance OF
getting the Catholic Church to cooperate
| Ga peutionng the governments nrst OF al,
| esr.ecially ia Catholic countries SeNeral
| If the French pastors urged that should
Gee the Roman Catholic bishops, and get
them interested; that l should call upon
the prominent "vicaires,' and throush
them reach the higher members OF the
hierarchy. ,.,
Eve" they said. "are weak In point
| p numbers. the Catholics are strong
| Naturally they have more influence Win
the government II you want 10 reach
| the government, therefore, You must work
| through the stronger Church; that the
! Catholics lead the way, and the Protest
| ants. who sympathiZe thoroughly WIN
| vour purpose, will follow and back them
up" - cha
| This however, was by no means the
! unanimous opinion. one prominent pas
TOR who was cordially sympathetic win
our movement, as. indeed, with one ex-
| cention. all were, urged that we should
begin with the Protestants' because, ne
| argued. though they were numerlcahy
! weak they were morally strong; ana
| he thought that II the Protes'ants began
| the move the Roman Catholics would
| follow.
This difference OF opinion. with the pre-
,onderance OF the former view. arises
from the peculiar position Of the Protest
ant churches.
The weakness referred to viii be UNDER
stood when it is noted that while the
nonulation is about 100000. the Pro-
testants number about 60o,cco-barely over
! half a million.
ANTI-ENGLIsH FEELING.
There Is a very deep and bitter anti
rnrl,sh feeling also. and Protestant pas
tors are charged with being unpatriotic'
svmoathizing with the English, ana the
attack In the public press has even gone
90 far AS 10 affirm that the Protestant
,as,ors are the agents or Protestant
| England. A.. 81, a.. 49,.
tors whom | called upon. thoughtful,
statesman,ike man. said 1.-THE position Is
an exceedingly difficult one ana FRO.
tescants have TO move vefy carefully
only one pastor believed In war as
| good thing. and thought after the mas
sacre of the missionaries In China the
arst thing would have been to have