Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-11-22
HURL Def AT POPE,
METHODIST MISSIONARY CONFER
ENCE IN WAR TEMPER.

Goodsell Strikes the Note of Opposition
and Rev. DR.. Drees Talks Even More
Rabidly--Throws Down the Gauntlet to
Roman Catholics.
New York. Nov. 2O-Two fierce on
slaughts. on the church of Rome en-.
livened the proceedings at yesterdays
session of the general missionary com
mittee. On each occasion an audience
which filled every part of the large
auditorium in st. Paups NJ. e. church,
where the committee is meeting, broke
into applause and no effort was made
by the chair to check these demonstra-
tions of approval.
The general committee, which is COM
posed of all the bishops and leading
diyines in the Methodist church Of
America, has been in session daily
since Wednesday last Upon several
occasions, however, when reference
has been made to anything pertaining
to the Roman Catholic church, the
same spirit of defiance has been appar-
ent. Upon no former, occasion, how
ever, 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 to the
attack was Bishop Goodsell of Ten
nessee. In the course of an address
on the work of the Methodist Episco-
pal church in Italy, he said: .The
work is slow, but it's value has been
recently testified to by the pontiff him
self. who has honored us by excom-
1nunicating every one, teachers and
pupils alike, connected with our insti-
tutions of learning This. however.
has made us more determined to wipe
out system which has created out of
the former man of empire a cringing
beggar. with monkey and a grind
organ"
The applause which greeted this
sally WAS deafening.
The next speaker threw the gauntlet
to the church of Rome in terms as di-
rect and condemnatory as did Bishop
Goodsell. This was Rev. DR.. C. w.
Drees, who for number of years has
baen identified with the work of the
M. e. church in South America. He
.said:
'"The time is upon us when anew the
questions which appeared in the Prot
estant Reformation will begin to agi-
tate the world and demand to be
pushed to their final issue. After
Slumbering for four centuries these
self-same questions We're awakened
through the last act of infamy of the
pontiff in declaring himself infallible.
Within "a hours after that bias.
phemous declaration had been written
on the triple crown of Rome, the Prus.
sian armies invaded Catholic France.
Forty five days later the battle of Sc
dan was fought with Protestant Prus-
sia the victor. and 20 days had only
elapsed when the united armies en-
tered the '.Holy City" where the pope
held sway, bringing with them car
loads of bibles. The pope lost his TEN
pOral power and since that day the
creed has been weakening.
'9rhe Roman church at one time held
sway everywhere, but now both that
church and the Spanish domination
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 of Spain to the pope, there has
been an illegitimate alliance between
statecraft and priestcraft against
human liberty and human progress.