The San Francisco call., 1910-07-17

from the Indian community, as white
iaborers and traders are rigidly ex-
cluded from the territory In two
schools the children receive good
elementary education; the girls being
especially trained in domestic branches
and house keeping. During the rainy
season there is night school for tine
adults.
Thus the oldtime calumny of the
lazy monks is daily and hourly cen
futed in every portion of our contem-
porary civilization or uncivilization, as
the case may be.
recent magazine article on the
Methodist missions in Italy, by Arch
bishop Ireland, indicates that, what
ever the rule about pugilists being un-
able to come back" to the ring, it does
not hold good in the case of intellec-
tual giants
The article referred to reminds one
of the series of Lenten lectures on "The
Crumbling of Creeds," delivered by his
grace a quarter of a century ago, when
the Minnesota legislators used to pack
the aisles of the st. Paul cathedral to
listen to the distinguished divine's elo-
quent periods and sledgehammer logic.
The board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church having called for a
more specific statement of facts, the
archbishop produces a startling array,
which, though drawn exclusively from
Methodist authorities, will doubtless
prove a revelation to many Methodists
themselves, who, as the archbishop de-
clares, on learning them will condemn
them as strongly and earnestly IS he
does At any rate the article is a lit
erary masterpiece in close reasoning
and cogent argument, showing an un-
expected familiarity with the subject
on the part of a Catholic preiate.
The Catholic chapel car. or Church
on wheels was originated in North
America through the efforts of the
Catholic Church extension society OF
Chicago a few years ago. And now
comes South America with Catholic
chapel boat. or floating church., con-
sisting of a steamboat modelled and
fully equipped as a portable church,
plying on the Amazon river, for the
purpose of carrying the blessings of
religion to isolated points, and revfv-
ing many of the early missions scat
tered along its route. This is an ap-
proved form of modernism.
yico Mantegazzi prominent Italian
liberal and far from being church
man, in a letter recently published In
Italy remarks, in part:
Some days ago | was walking along
the Xxx Settembre street, examining
books l stopped in front of show
case which belongs to the Methodist
bookstore. Some of the books thus
displayed have such titles as these:
Infamies of the Popes, Filth of the
.Pontiffs,, The Pope Must Be Driven
out and there are others like them.
Frankly, it strikes me as very natu-
raj that one in high authority should
think that the pope ought not to re-
ceive in audience those Americans who,
the day after or the day before, may
take part in meetings where such
topics may be treated
And from the moment when Roose-
veIt was unwilling to give the desired
assurances. is it not natural that the
Vatican should have signified its un-
Willingness to receive him? For this
very reason, perhaps, the city authori-
ties have seen fit to give special
character to the welcome and recep-
ton rendered to the former president.
They believed that they were enter
tanning an anti-clerical, and therefore
they must do more than is commonly
done in honor OF distinguished
guest"
Archbishop Glennon of ST. Louis,
speaking recently upon proselytism,
said in part:
.'The one who would, for instance,
offer with one hand the sandwich to
the dependent child, and with the other
nut into his pocket an anti-popery tract,
is not a charity worker. but a down
right criminal and should be punished
! by any decent code for the crime of
soul snatching We lock with horror
on the people who go to the cemetery
by night and take therefrom the bodies
of our friends who are sleeping.
'To my mind, 1T is more criminal to
! endeavor to rob the little children of
their faith, and to snatch from them
that which is their souls life, and
which. according to the Christian stand
ard at least, is worth much more than
their bodies.
am this matter / am pleading for the
integrity and the rights of all churches
and faiths; and we should be together
! in saving the children from the system
which by it's very nature must exploit
secularism and unbelief at the expense
of revealed religion and definite creed
There is a feeling in the minds of
some that the separation of church and
state means necessary hostility be-
tween them. Why this feeling should
, exist I know not, except it be the out
come of prejudice or ignorance of the
spirit of the constitution"
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