The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-14
HOT AIR METHODIST REBUKED.

The religious agitation which is now uppermost
in the minds of ALL the aity as we'll as the clergy.
will be productive of good in the end. 1t will show
the cause of decay in religious belief and the de-
crease IN church membership. Evangelicals are
eagued together to defend the sacred character of
the Bible, They bewail met only the agpostc ten
deney of the age but the infdelizng spirit of prom
lnent and popular ministers of religion
arious causes are assigned The lack of moral
training in our schools is given as the primary
cause, Baseball, golf and lawn tennis grounds have
more attractions for children and adults than the
Sunday school and church. The Sabbath means
recreation and amusement. Its sacredness is for
gotten. How to prevent this dissertation and re-
we the old religious spirit are topics discussed bv
ministers of religion, editors of leading journals
and presidents of colleges.
ball set in motion down grade goes freely
and rapidly to the end of the decIivity 1t requires
an effort to roll it back Whatever the cause. if is
clear there has been downward march in religions
belief, and very rapid one during the past de-
cade of years
The acrimonious feeling between different re-
hglous creeds have, in part ceased. This was
shown at the Methodist conference, now in session
at Los Angeles, when Dr. King, to whom we di-
rected attention once before, because of his intol
erance and bigotry offered a hot air resolution de-
nouncing the Catholic church According 10 the
press report, protests and cries of ''No no" arose
from the audience. One of the lay delegates in at
tendance, justice in an appellate court in one of
the Atlantic states arose and rebuked the disturber
IN language which meant, put in nut she'll mind
your own business" The object of Mr. Kings reso
luton was, Quoting the report) "the usual resolve
10 denounce the Catholic church because of IFS of
forts and sacrifices to educate her own children and
tram them up in the principles of the Catholic
faith"
This precious divine must be evidently behind
tne times' lie does not read the journals of his
own denomination. Many of these give the Catho-
TIC church her need of praise for the sacrifices
winch she makes for the moral training of her chill
dren ForNRev King s4eneft we will give him the
words OF George j. G. Colby, who is one of the
leading editors of New England journal The
writer says:
But there is Church that dates from St PETER
ana not Horace Mann. which makes religion an es,
eiua IN education, and that is the Catholic church
~ Whch teir mothers teach their faith to the infants
It the breast in their lullaby songs and whose broth
sE p ana priests sisterhoods and nuns imprint
marks the hardened glass; thew igran tbeir fait ~
i hn hearts when most plastic to the touch Are
,ie3 wrong are they stupid, they ignorant thar
hey found parocbal schools. converts colleges in
men rengon IS taught? Motif be worth more
nan a dog or the human soul with eternity for dura
ioh' IS OF more value than the span of animal exist
nee lor day. II they right then we are wrong.
ou uf1lah fathers We're wise, Their we are foolish
LOSING upon II as mere speculative question with
nelt poIcy they VIII increase; with ours thew will de-
vase Macaulay predicted the endurance of the Cath
~, rnurch tll the civilized Australian would sketch
ne, luns OF London from broken arch of London
lug " are no prophet but it does seem to us
na' oatnol1cs retaining their religious teaching and
,e our neaIhen schools will, gaze upon cathedral
Iossss an over New England when the meeting hons
? WI DC turned into barns. Let them go on teach
~ helr religion to the children and we go on ed-
,s our chlldren in schools without recognition
200 ana without the reading the Bible and they
~ plal corn and grapevnes the unknown graves
llyHloulh Pilgrims and of the Purtans Of Massa-
lusstls bay. and none will dispute their right of
ossessieh. we say this without expressing our own
opes or FEARS but as inevitable. from the fact that
aatsoeYer . man aewcth that shall he also reap"