The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-20
FIERCE Attack ON ROME
METHODIST DIvINEs vIrUPERA-
TIVE IN EXTREME AGAINST <
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
TWO CAMPS CANNOT ENDURE
Says Rev. DIR. Drees I'm Speaking of
the Division of Christians Be
tween Professionalism and
Catholicism.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-two fierce on
slaughts on the church of Rome enliv-
ened the proceedings at todays session
OF the general missionary committee of
the Methodist Episcopal church On
each occasion an audience which filed
every part of the large auditorium in ST.
Paul's M. L. church, where the commit
tee is meeting, broke into applause, and
no effort was made by the chair to check
these demonstrations of approval
The hrst person to advance to the at
tack was Bishop Goodsell, of Tennessee
In the course of an address on the work
OF the Methodist Episcopal church in
various parts of Europe he had only to
speak Of the work done in Italy and con-
dltfons obtaining there. The bishop said:
In Northern Europe, for instance in
germany and the Scandinavian coun-
tries, We have made satisfactory prog
ress, though we have had a great deal
contend with Statistics show that We
nave made as much Roadway during the
nrst thlrty-tive years in Europe as we
nave In the same period in this country,
Whlch o1IerS more congenial soil for
our creed.
In Southern Europe the conditions are
somewhat different. There the struggle
has been harder. There are many
who doubt whether we have any right
at all in Italy, the land of superstition
and prlestcraft; whether we could ever
hope to accomplish anything there in
the face of the tremendous press of adj
verse thought with which we are con-
fronted. The fact is that we sent one
of our missionaries into Europe He
soon made up his mind that in Rome
we had to do as the Romans. We be-
gan by training the young, by getting
them into our schools and seminaries
The work is slow, but its value has been
recently testified to by the pontiff him
self when he honored US by
EXCOMMUNICATING EVERYONE,
teachers and pupils alike, connected with
our institutions of learning. In the af-
fort to preserve for himself the triple
crown Of papacy he has issued sweep
every one passing through their gates
This, however, has only made us more
determined to wipe out a system which
has created. out of the former man Of
and hand organ"
The applause which greeted this sally
was deafening.
The next speaker threw down the
gauntlet to the church of Rome, in terms
as direct and condemnatory as did Bish-
op Goodsell. This was the Rev. DR.. c..
w. Drees, who for a number of years
has been identified with the work of the
M q. church in South America, and
was appointed by the committee to take
over the supervision Of the work among
the Spanish-spealling nations on this con-
tinent. Besides Bishop Goodsen he is
the only member of the committee who,
in the course of his labor, has come in
direct contact with the work of the Ro-
man Catholic church.
In beginning his address DR.. Drees
made reference to the end of Spanish
rule in this hemisphere and was round
ly applauded. He said:
1t was wise Of the chairman to call
the subject on which I am to speak the
work among the Spanish speaking in
habitants of America. Ii ppily there is
no longer q Spanish America The last
Vestge. OF Spanish domination in this
hemisphere disappeared when the 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
island which was the first American ter
ritory discovered.
The pope lost his temporal power,
and since that day the creed has been
weakened: The Roman church at one
Doth that church and Spanish domina-
ton have fallen off their high pedestals,
When Spain is arraigned, the Roman
Catholic church should be arraigned
with that power as correspondent, Ever
since Isabella signed away the liberty
Hlegitimate alliance between statehood
and pr1aStcraft, against human liberty
and human freedom
DR.. Drees said in conclusion that the
most promising field among the Spanish
speaking populations in America was
opening in Porto Rico and advised the
committee to spare neither expense nor
labor to GUST Rome in that island.