The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15
WILL TOUR THE WORLD
sUNDAY-sCHOOL WORKERS TO VISIT
THE HOLY LAND NEXT YEAR.
VIII Hold Convention Aboard Ship
All Berths Already Taken-No New
American Cardinals Soon.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Great interest has
developed in the excursion of Sunday
school workers who are bound for the Holy
Land next year, and will hold world
convention at Jerusalem. The ship that is
to carry the American party. and is to sail
next April, already has almost all berths
filled. The convention proper is to begin
Immediately the ship sails. sessions being
held all the way across. The ship is to
call at some Mediterranean ports and is
to be joined by British section. A tour
of the world is to be made, and American
and British Sunday-school workers are to
give addresses in the East on methods, and
are to study missionary situations and pos
sibiIities for Bible study. The convention
in Jerusalem is to be held in tent, located
without the wall, and arranged to seat
1.4O0 persons. 1t will be, If the tent be
filed, the largest Protestant. and among
the largest Christian gatherings ever as
sembed in Jerusalem. Projectors of the
scheme are the special friends of the in
ternational Sunday-school lesson scheme,
| and the committee which puts that scheme
forward.
Roman Catholics who are best informed
do not look for an early addition to the
number of American cardinals. They rea-
lize the numerical standing of the United
States and also it's financial strength, but
difficulties inherited from the past stand in
the way of any early recognition of Amer
lean claims. For centuries the Roman
! character of the Catholic Church has held
the balance of power. 1t holds it yet, and
it will take many years to dslodge 1t. No
| body but an Italian can be chosen Pope.
The Sacred College contains, when full,
seventy members, after the traditional sew
enty disciples. The number cannot be in
| creased and nobody believes an attempt
will be made to increase Italy has thirty
eight of the sixty-fve-for the College is
never full. The two new cardinals just Gre
| ated raises the number to sixty-seven
France, Spain. Germany, Austria, Ireland
| all these must have their historical number.
| France might be reduced, but no other Eu-
| ropean country can be. So where are the
| American cardinals to come from? 1t is
| not and American Catholics realize that
1t is not question of having Archbishops
| Ireland, Ryan, Farley and others who are
able leaders. 1t is a question and is rea-
lized to be a question, of balance of power
in the College, and the inability to dislodge
that power from Italian hands.
| xxx
Safe Catholic leaders in this country also
realize and are pointing out the unwisdom
| of recent Attempts to couple the President
| of the United States and the national gov
eminent with Vatican plans. both in regard
to the st. Louis exposition and the Philip
pine situation, the school question in Cuba
and the creation of additional American
cardinals. The President and other gov
eminent officials have recently been COM
| PEELED TO deny, with emphasis, any part or
lot in Vatican affairs. Catholic leaders de-
plore the necessity for these denials and
they are taking steps, as is known, to sup
press the sending out of newspaper reports
| which would make 1t appear that President
| Roosevelt is concerning himself about the
management of Roman Catholic affairs.
These leaders have no real wish, they say,
| to make things appear other than they are,
and they have no wish to ignore the rights
of Protestants. Jealous they may be, but
they wish to recognize the rights of other
people and they are indignant that indiscre-
tons putting them in false lights before
the country. The administration is taking
no part in Catholic politics and really able
Catholic leaders do not wish it to do so.
XXX
The Rev. r. c. dillingham; the Hexton
| vicar, who Is coming to America again this
winter to make protest against forms of
| public worship observed in ST. Mary the
Virgin, New York; the Ascension, Chicago;
st. Marks, Philadelphia; the Cathedral,
Fond du Lac, and other places. is just now
in controversy with the bishop of Bristol,
England. and is figuring prominently in the
London Times. After a courteous corre-
spondence with the bishop of Bristol, and
against the latter's wish. the Hexton vicar
went to Bristol and preached in a Congrega-
tional pulpit. OF course he crowded the
church to hear him, and, of course he said
bitter things against ritualism in the
Church of England. He was forbidden by
the bishop of Bristol to come into his see
city and to preach anywhere, but he went
just the same. in spite of the fact Also
| that word was sent 20 his own diocesan
| who might had he been so disposed have
laid penalty upon him. Mr. Fillingham
says he is acting quite alone in England,
| and that the societies seem afraid to CO.
operate with him. He will, he admits, rep
resent only himself upon his visit to this
country.
| Reports from England are TO the erect
that conditions in the establishment are
| growing steadily worse. That is. they grow
| worse from the evangelical standpoint.
Ritualism Is increasing and controversies
are becoming more bitter. On the other
hand. the Episcopal Church in this country,
| I'm spite of the Rev. Mr.. Fillingham's
heated ideas, is not at all disturbed. This
is remarkable. in view of the very close
Affiliations between the communions in the
two countries. Inquiry among the most far
seeing Of Episcopal leaders brings the in
formation that not one of them is able to
discern ripple. Ritualism is not growing,
and the ritualists are less prominent In
| Episcopal Church councils than they were
five years ago. At any rate this is the testi-
mony on all hands. At the church congress,
just held. as at the bishops conference Of a
fortnight ago. the tendency Of addresses
was decidedly towards the Protestant
bodies; If not actual union with them. a
larger recognition of them in all possible