Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-20
ATTACK \ ! ON CATHOLICS
Methodist Missionary Meeting De.
velops . Sensational Attack on
Catholic Church.
Bishop Goodsells and Rev. Drees
Condemn the Methods Of
Roman Church.
Their Speeches Wildly Applauded
by the Great Audience Which
Heard Them.
Bishop Goodsell and Rev Drees


Heard Them.
slaughts on the Catholic church were
made at the session of the general mis-.
sionary committee. On each occasion
an audience which filled every part Of
the large auditorium in st. Paul's NJ e..
church, where the committee is meeting,
broke into applause and no effort was
made by the chair to check these demon
STATIONS OF approval.
The committee, which is composed of
all the bishops and leading divines In
the Methodist church of America, has
been in session daily since last Wednes-i
DAY. Upon several occasions during
former sessions when reference has been
made to anything pertaining to the Ro-
man Catholic church the same spirit Of
former occasion, however, has that
church been denounced in terms so
unqualified, nor has the approval OF the
audience been given vent in so vigorous
applause.
The first person to advance 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 ne had occasion
to speak of the work done in Italy and
conditions obtaining there. 1t was in
tol l,,tt
such strong language against the church
of Rome.
There are many who doubt whether
we have any work at all in Italy. the
land of superstition and priestcraft,"
said the bishop, whether we could
ever hope to accomplish anything there
in the fact of the tremendous press of
adverse thought with which we are
confronted. The fact is that we sent
one of our workers into Italy. He soon
made up his mind that in Rome we
had to do as they do in Rome. He be-
gan by training the young. by taking
them into our schools and seminaries.
The work is slow, but its value has
been recently testified to by the pontiff6
himself, who has honored us by exco,n-
municating every one, teachers and pu-
learning. In the effort to preserve for
himself the triple crown Of papacy he
has issued sweeping interdict against
the schools and every one passing thru
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 beggar with a
monkey and a grind organ"
The applause which greeted this sally
was deafening.
/ But the nssst speaker threw down the
gauntlet to the church of Rome in terms
las direct and condemnatory as did Bish-
Top Goodsell. This was the Rev. Dr. C.
w. Drees. who for number Of years
has been identified with the work Of the
NJ. r. church in South Africa and was
appointed by the committee to take over
/ the supervision of the work among the
i Spanish-speaking nations on this con-
tinent.
1 In beginning his address DIR. Drees
made reference to the end of Spanish
1 ruleSin this hemisphere and was roundly
applauded.
A former speaker has said that a
conditions where half of the world is
pagan and the other half Christian can
mot endure long. The same can be said
with as much truth of state of affairs
/ where Christendom is divided into two
lgreat camps, with Professionalism on one
lside and Greek and Roman Catholicism
4 on the other. The time is upon us when
anew the question which appeared in
A the Protestant reformation will begin ia
4 agitate the world and demand to be
4 pushed to their final issue. After slun-
I bering for four centuries, the self same
HEquestions We're awakened thru the last
1 act Of infany of the pontiff, in declarine
4 himself infalllble. Within twenty-fuuf
hours after that blasphemous declara-
/ ton had been written on the triple
crown of Rome, the Prussian armies In
Saded Catholic France. Forty-fiv days
'ilater the battle of Sedan was fought
with Protestant Prussian the victor. and
1 Twenty days had only elapsed when the
4 united armies entered the Holy city
4 where the pope held sway, bringing Will,
4 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 that church
i and Spanish domination have fallen
4 from the pedestals. When Spain is arr
raigned the Roman Catholic chuch
should be arraigned with that power as
correspondent Ever since Isabelle as
4 signed away the liberty of Spain to the
j pope, there has been an illegitimate alli-
lance between statecraft and priestcraf,
against human liberty and human prog
t3ress.''
The applause which followed this sal
lily was as tremendous as It was sponta-
\ neous.
DR.. Drees said in conclusion that the
most promising field among the Spanish,
lspeaking populations in America was
the opening in Porto Rico and advised
the committee to spare neither expense
nor labor to GUST Rome In that island.
WILL DIG THE CANAL.
!. Opposition 10 the Ntcaraguan Water.
h way Dying Out.
q Washington Nov. 20.-In the first yea,