The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
Fierce Speeches By Two
Bishops.
End of Spanish Rule in America
Referred TO.

New York, November 10 Two fierce
onslaughts on the, Church or Rome enliv-
ened the proceedings at today's session OF
the general missionary committee. On
each occasion an audience which filled
Paul's NJ. K. church where the commit
tee is meeting, broke into applause and
no effort was made by the chair to check
these demonstrations Of approval.
8 The first person to advance to the at
tack was Bishop Goodseil of Tennessse.
In the course OF an address on the work
of the Methodist Episcopal church in va
rious parts Of Europe, he had occasion to
speak OF the work done In Italy and con.
ditions obtaining there.
I'm Northern Europe, for instance, in
Germany and the Scandinavian coun-
tries," the Bishop said, I'VE have made
satisfactory progress, though we have
made as much hsadway during the first
80 years in Europe as we have In the
same period In this country, which
offers a more copgenisI soil for our creed.
"In Southern Europe the conditions
are somewhat different. There the strug-
gle has been harder. There are many
who doubt whether we have done any
work at all in Italy, that land of super
stition and priestcraft, whether We
could ever hope to accomplish anything
there in face OF the tremendous pressure
OF adverse thought with which we are
confronted The fact is that we pro-
lected one of our workers into Italy. He
soon made up his mind that In Rome
ne had TO do as dothe Romans lie be-
gan by training the young, by taking
them into our sch ools and ssminaries.
',fhe work is sIow, but It's value has
been recently testihed TO by the pontin
himself, who has honorsd us by excom nu-
nicat1ng every one, teachers and pupils
alike, connected with our Institution OF
learning. In the effort to preserve for
himself the triple crown of papacy ne
has issued sweeping interdiot against
the schools and everyons passing through
their gates. This, however, has only
made us more determined to wipe out
system which has created out OF the
former man OF empire oringing beggar
with monkey and a grind organ"
The next speaker threw down the
gauntlet to the Church OF Rome in
terms as direct and condemnatory as did
Bishop Goodsell, This was the Rev. ljr.
q. W. Drees who, for number Of years
has been identified with the work of the
Methodist Episcopal church in South
America and was appointed by the COM
mittee to take over the supervision of the
work among the Spanish speaking ma
tions on Ehis continent. In beginning
his address DIR. Drees made. reference to
the end OF Spanish rule in this hemis-
phere and was roundiy applauded
1T was wise Of the chairman to call
the subject on which 1 am to speak the
work among the spanish speaking inhab-
itants OF America. Happily there is no
longer a Spanish America. A former
speaker has said that condition where
half OF the world Is pagan and the other
half Christian cannot endure long. The
same can be said with as much truth
of state of AFFAIRS whers Christendom
is divided Into two great CAMPS with
Professionalism on one side and Greek
and Roman Catholicism on the other.
The time is upon us when the questions
VIII .ch appeared in the Protestant rsfor-
nation will begin to agitate the world
and demand to be- pushed to their fnal
issue. After slumbering for four cen-
turtles, those self-same questions were