The Washington weekly post., 1900-11-20
Two Sharp Attacks Made by
Methodist Diyines.
BISHOP GOODSELL CRlTICISES POPE
Recommendation of Teachers and Pupils
Caustic sally at New York Missionary
Meeting-Rey. DIR. Drees' Review Of
legitimate Aiiiance'' Of Church and state.

new 1OTk, NOV. B-INO HcICS Oh-
slaughts on the Church of Rome enlivened
the proceedings at tO-day's session OF the
Methodist general missionary committee.
On each occasion an audience, which hll-
ed every part of the large auditorium in
ST. Paurs Methodist Episcopal Church,
where the committee is meeting. broke
into applause, and no effort was made by
the chair to check these demonstrations
of approval.
The general committee, which is COM
posed Of all the bishops and leading dI-
vines in the Methodist Church of Ameri-
ca, has been in session daily since last
Wednesday. Upon several occasions, dur
ing former sessions, when reference has
been made TO anything pertaining to the
Roman Catholic Church, the same spirit
Of defiance has been apparent. Upon no
former occasion, however, has that
church been denounced in terms so un-
qualified, nor has the approval of the
audience been given vent in so vigorous
applause.
The person to advance TO the attack
was Bishop Goodsell, of Tennessee. In
the course of an address on the the work
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
various parts of Europe he had occasion
TO speak of the work done In Italy and
of conditions obtaining there. II was in
the recital Of the latter the bishop used
such strong language against the Church
OF Rome.
Progress of Methodism in Europe.
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 had
of i,,EF
position, to contend with. Statistics show
that We have made as much headway dur
ing the first thirty-five years in Europe as
we have in the same period in this coun-
try, which offers a 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 work at all
in Italy, that land of superstition and
priestcraft; whether we could ever hope
TO accomplish anything there in the face
of the tremendous press of adverse
thought with which we are confronted.
The fact is, that we sent one of our work.
ers into Italy. He soon made up his mind
that in Rome We had to do as the Rom
ans He began by training the young. by
taking them into our schools and semin-
aries.
Man of Empire Now an Organ-grinder.
"'rhe work is slow, but its value has
been recently testified TO BY the Pontiff
himself, who has honored us by excom-
municating every one, teachers and pupils
alike. connected with our institutions of
learning. In the effort TO preserve for
himself the triple crown of papacy he has
issued sweeping inteTdict against the
schools and 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 empire cringing beggar with a mon
key and grind Organ.'
The applause which greeted this sally
was deafening.
The next speaker threw down the gaunt-
let to the church Of Rome in terms as di-
rect and condemnatory as did Bishop
GoOdsell. This was the Rev. DR.. c. w.
Drees. who, for a number of years, has
been identified with the work of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in South America,
and was appointed by the committee TO
take over the supervision of the work
among the Spanish-speaking rations on
this continent. Besides Bishop Goodsell,
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
Roman Catholic Church.
oLon&er n Spanish America.
Tn beginning his address DR.. Drees made
reference to the end of the Spanish rule in
this hemisphere. and was rOundly ap-
pIauded. 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. Happily there is no
longer a Spanish America. The last yes
tige of the Spanish domination In this
hemisphere disappeared when the old
Spanish battle-ship Maria Teresa, in being
towed to this country, after having been
wrecked by our guns, laid her bones to
rest on the sands of the island which was
the first American territory discovered.
"A former speaker has said that a con-
dition where half Of the world IS pagan
and the other half Christian cannot en-
dure long. The same can be said with as
much truth of state Of affairs where
Christendom is divided into two great
camps, with Professionalism on the one
side and Greek and Roman Catholicism
on the other. The time is upon US when
anew the questions which appeared IN the
Protestant reformation will begin 10 agi-
to their final issue After slumbe-ing for
four centuries, the self same questions
We're awakened through the last act OF
infamy Of the pontin In declaring himself
infallible. Within twenty-fOur hours after
that blasphemOus declaration had been
written on the triple crown OF Rome. the
Prussian armies Invaded Catholic France.
Forty-five days later the battle OF Sedan
was fought. with Protestant Prussia the
victor. and twenty days had only 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.
Rome a. spain's sC0-respsndent.
"The Roman Church al one time held
sway everywhere, but now both thar
church and Spanish domination have fall
en- from their high pedestals. When Spain
is arraIgned, the Roman Catholic Church
should be arraigned with that power as
correspondent. Ever since Isabella sign
ed away the liberty OF Spain 70 the Pope
there has been an illegitImats alliance he
tween statecraft and prlestessft, against
human liberty and human progress"
The applause which followed this sally
was as tremendous as IL was spontaneous
DIR. Drees said in conclusion that the
most promising field among the Spanish
speaking populations IN America was
oDening IN Porto Rico, and advised ths
committee 10 spare neither expense nor
labor 70 Gust Rome IN that island
The afternoon session was devofed .,
the making OF appropriations for the work
among the various foreign-born populs-
tiOns in this country.
~ the night session the report Of fbs
committee or the twentieth century fhsrt-
- rFoSfVed