The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-11-21
METHODIST ATTACK
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Bishop GoodseIl Calls the
Pope a Cringipg Beggar.

New York, Nov 19 Two fierce OF
slaughts on the church of Rome en
livened the proceedings at today's ses
sion Of the general missionary commit
tee. o. each occassioa an audience
which filled every part Of the large
aedisorium in ST Psul's NJ d church
where the committee is meeting, broke
into applause and no offors vas made
by the chair 70 check these demoostra.
.ieps.
The general com mittee. which is
composed of all the bishops and lead
ing dieines 10 the methodist church ol
Aner1ca has been 10 session daily sioce
last Wednesday. Upon several occa.
sicns during former sessions VIXEN ref
erepcc has been made to anything per
taiuiog to the Roman Catholic church
the same spirit of defiance has been ap-
pareEs.
The person to advance to the attack
today vas Bishop Goodsell Of Tenues-
see. In the coarse of 30 address on
the work Of the Methodist Episcopal
church. 10 vr,ous parts of Europe he
had occasion to speak of the work dsne
in Italy aad conditions obtaining there
I. was in the recital of the latter that
the bishop used such strong language
sgsios. the Church Of Rome.
In northera Europe for instance in
Germany and the Scandinavian coan-
tries." the bishop said. We have made
satisfa story progress, though We have
great deal of indifference aud even
opposition to coatend with. Statistics
chow that w0 have made as much
bsadway duriog the first IS years 10
Rn7ops as We have in the same period
in. this country, which offers more con
genial service for our creed.
''Io southern Europe the conditions
are somewhat different. There the
struggle has been harder. There are
many Who doubt whether we have sny
work at all in Italy that land of su-
perssititioo aud priestcraft Whether
we could ever hope to accomplish any
thing there 10 the face Of the tremendous
press Of adverse thought we are con
frooted With TIE fact is that we
scot one of our workers irto Italy.
He soon made up bis mind that in Rome
we had to 90 as do the Romans He
begsa by training the young. by tax
ing them ioto oar schoc!s aud seat.
paries
1.-The wc.k is slow ba5 its ya!as has
5eeo recently testified to by the poo'lf
biuseil'. Who has donored US by e2com-
mcoica;iag every one, teachers and
puei!s a;ike coooeoted with our iostlsu
t!ocs Of learning 10 the Effort to
prsser.e fo7 himself the triple crowu Of
oapscy lie has ;ssued sweeping inter.
serdics against the schools and every
one passing sacugh their gates. Tbs.
however. has enly made US more de-
termined to wipe ous system "5iob
has created out of tie former man OF
toe pise csingiog beggar With
monkey aud grind organ.
The applause wb;ch greeted this sally
vas deaiecicg
The ue1t speaker threw doau tae
gaua,Ie, TO the church OF Roue lp
teens as direct and condempatory as
did B!pbcp Goodsell This vas the Rev
Dr. S. W Deese, who for number Of
years tes been identified with the WORK
Of the Methods: Episcopal Church 10
Scu,h Amerior and was appointed by
the speaker to take over the supervision
Of the work among the Spanish speak
log o.tious on .bi, continent. He
said /:
"a forner speaker has said tbas
coed;,ioo where half of the world is
pagan aud the other half Christian
caonos endure long. The same can be
said ai,h as much truth of state Of
affairs where christepdom is divided
toto two great camps. with Protestant
ism Oh one side aud Greek and Roman
Catholicism on the other. Tne time is
upon us when anew the questions which
appeared iO the Protestant reformation
will begin to agi,ate the world add
demaod to be pushed 70 their 6oa|
issue After s'umberiog for four cen
turies ihe self same questions were
awakened through the last ac: Of iataoy
Of the portiff, in declaring himself
ipfalitle. Within "a hours after that
blaspbeuous declaration had been
v.itter 90 the triple orowu Of Rome
the Russian armies invaded Catholic
France. Forty Eve days later tho battle
of Sedan vas fought With Protestant
Pru,si,, the victory, and 20 days bad
ouly elapsed when the uoited armies
entered the Holy City, whore the pope
held sway, bringing With them cartosds
Of Bibles The pope lost his temporal
power. aod since that day the creed has
been weakening