The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-20
METHODISTS BITTER
AGAINST CATHOLICS
DenunciatOry Statements Against the Church of
Rome Made at the General Conference.
Bishop and D9ctOr Make Radical Speeches and are Warmly
Applauded by the Large Audience.

old Spanish battleship Maria Teresa IN
being tOWed to this country after haV-
ing been wrecked by our guns. laid her
bones to rest on the sands of the ISL
and which was the first territory dis
covered.
"A former speaker has said that a
condition where half of the world is
pagan and the other half Christian
cannot long endure The same can be
said with as much truth of a state of
affairs where ChristendOm is divided
into two great camps with Protestant
ism on one side and Greek and Roman
Catholicism on the other. The time IS
upon us when anew the questions
which appeared in the Protestant re-
formation viii begin to agitate the
world and demand TO be pushed to
their final issue.
Attacks Doctrine of InfalIibility.
After slumbering for four centuries
these self same questions were awak-
ened through the last act of infamy OF
the pontiff in declaring himself infaIli-
BILE. Within twenty-fOur hours after
that blasphemOus declaration had been
written on the triple crown Of Rome,
the PrusSiau armies invaded Catholic
France. FOTty-fiVe days later the bat
tie of Sedan was fought with Protest
ant Prussia the victor, and twenty
days only had elapsed when the united
armies entered the Holy City where
the Pope held sway bringing with
them carloads of Bibles. The Pope
lost his temporal power and since that
day the creed has been weakening
The Roman church at one time held
sway everywhere, but now both that
church and Spanish domination have
fallen of their high pedestals. When
Spain is arraigned the Catholic church
should be arraigned with that power
rs
signed away the liberty of Spain to the
Pope there has been an illcgitimate al
lance between StateCTaft and priest
craft against human liberty and hu-
man progress.
The applause which followed this
speech was as tremendous as it was
spontaneous.
DR.. Drees said in conclusion that the
most promising field among the Span
ish speaking population in America
was opening in Porto Rico and adj
vised the committee TO spare neither
expense nor labor 10 GUST Rome in that
island.
Mentions WI Ting Fang.
Bishop HartzeH spoke on Africa.
which is his field. He said in part.
I'VE stand today in face of a revolt
of the pagan world against Christian
civilization In the fdT-e8St lI0ham-
mechanism is Outnumberiug the Chris
ton religion in the number of adher-
ents- China has just slammed her door
in the face Of Christianity. Only a few
days ago her representa- tive stood in
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg and
boldly threw down the gantlet 10
Christian culture in behalf of the an
cient civilization of his people.
Half the world is pagan, the other
half Christian ana our zeal and labor
in the first year of a coming century
will 6prFr7z hot e-4
whether the Christian faith shall be
deluged by paEanism and lay buried
for centuries. The SraVeSt problem
confronting us in Africa Is the native
question. The best statesmen in E.u-
rope are at present solving that ques-
ton and the humane tendency of their
work is truly gratifying They all de-
clare with one accord that the dark
continent should remain iuEiOlaJe, the
nome of the black race"
Rev. DIT. Oldham reviewed the Tarf-
Gus peTpieXing questions involving the
domestic missions The chief among
these he said. was the poverty and the
lack of thrift which had become the
heritage of great portion of the pOpG-
latiOn in great cities. and the indiffer-
ehce and even the defiance met with in
the camps of labor where the cEHTrch
was thought to be in conspiracy with
the rich to keep the working man
down This was only to be overcome
by teaching the churches in the cities
that the whole city is Jhe ward of each
individual church.
Bishop Thoburn spoke of the work in
Southern Asia and Bishop GTanSt0l Of
the eastern portion of that continent.
The latter pronounced Korea perhaps
the most promising missionary field I'm
the world. In Japan progress is him
deTed by the railroads.&c. teaching in
the schools, but the bishop said the
field was nevertheless a promising one