The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
Bishop Goodsen Especially Severe on
the "Cringing Beggar with a
Monkey and Grind Organ.o
REV. DIR. DREEs ALSO CAUsTIC
BOTH SPAIN AND THE ROMAN
CHURCH HELD UP TO SCORN.
Alliance Between Statecraft and
Priestcraft n "Combine, Against
Human Liberty and Progress.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Two fierce on
slaughts on the Church of Rome enlivened
the proceedings at to-day's session of the
general missionary committee. On each oc-
casion an audience which filled every part
of the large auditorium in ST. Pauls Meth
odist Episcopal 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 general committee. which is COM
posed of all the bishops and leading d.
vines in the Methodist Church of America,
has been in session daily since last
Wednesday. On several occasions during
former sessions, when reference has been
made to anything pertaining to the Roman
Catholic Church, the same spirit Of de-
fiance hes been apparent. On no fomer oc-
casion, however, has that church been
denounced in terms so unqualified. nor has
the approval of the audience been given
vent in vigorous applause.
The first person to advance to the attack
was Bishop Goodsell, of Tennessee In the
course of address on the work of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in various
parts of Europe. he had occasion to speak
of the work done in Italy and conditions
obtaining there. 1t was in the recital of
the latter that the bishop used such strong
language against the Church of Rome. 'In
northern Europe. for instance, in Ger
many and the Scandinavian countries,
the bishop said. 1--WE have made satisfac-
tory progress, though we have had a great
deal of indifference and even opposition to
H. A. =.
made as much Roadway during the first
thirty-five years in Europe as we nave I'm
the same period in this country, which
offers more congeniaI 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,
the land of superstition and priestcraft-
whether we could ever hope to accomplish
anything there in the face of the tremen-
dous press of adverse thoughts 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 do the Romans. He began by
training the young, by taking them into
our schools and seminaries. The work is
slow, but its value has been recently tes-
tilted to by the Pontif himself, who has
honored us by accommodating 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 interdlct
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 monkey and a grind-organ."
The applause which greeted this sally
was deafening.
GAUNTLET THROWN DOWN.
The next speaker threw down the gaunt-
let to the Church of Rome in terms as
direct and condemnatory as did Bishop
Goodsell This was the Rev. DR.. C. w.
Drees, who for number of years has been
identified with the work of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in South America, and
was appointed by the committee to take
over the supervision Of the work among the
Spanish speaking nations on this CONT
nent. Besides Bishop Goodsell he is the only
member of the committee who, in the
course of his labor, has come in direct con-
tact with the work of the Roman Catholic
Church.
In beginning his address. DR.. Drees made
reference to the end of Spanish rule i'm this
and was roundly applauded
1T was wise of the chairman to call the
subject on which L am to speak the work
among the Spanish speaking inhabitants
of America. Happily there is no hanger a
Spanish America. The last vestige of
appeared when the old Spanish battleship
Maria Teresa, in being towed TO this coun-
try after having been wrecked by our guns,
laid her bones to rest on the sands of the
island which was the first American terri
tory discovered.
"A former speaker has said that condi-
ton where half of the world is pagan and
the other half Christian cannot endure
long. The same can be said with as much
truth of a state of affairs where Christen-
dom is divided into two great camps, with
on 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 VIII
begin to agltate the world and demand TO
be pushed to their final issue. After sum-
bering for four centuries these self-same
questions were awakened through the last
act of infamy of the Pontiff in declaring
himself infallible. Within twenty-four
hours after that blasphemous declaration
had been written the triple crown of |
Rome the Prussian armies invaded Catho- |
lie France. Forty-five days later the battle |
of Sedan was fought with Protestant Prus- |
sia 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. |
rhe Pope lost his temporal power and since
that day the creed has been weakening.
1.-THE Roman Church at one time held