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BISHOP HARTz zELL
Ans WERS IRELAND
REPLY MADE TO ARcHBlsHoP's
CONDEMNATION OF METH
oDIsTs IN ROME.

ODlSTS in ROME.
Rome, Feb. 9.-The pope today
personally considered the gecent
incident involving former Vice
President Fairbanks. His holiness
said he regretted he had been un-
able to receive Fairbanks, but that
he would not depart from the pol
Icy adopted, as to do SO would APP
pear to give recognition to the dis
loyal interference of certain
Protestant denominations.
Hartzell Replies to Charges.
New York, Feb. Archbishop Ire
lands denunciation in Chicago yester
day of the work and methods of the
Methodist church in Rome, brought
about by the Fairbanks incident. Gre
ated q sensation in Methodist circles
here. Bishop Joseph G. Hartzell of
the Methodist Episcopal church, is
very familiar with the church's prop
aganda in Rome.
Discussing Archbishop Ireland's
statement he said last evening:
II hastily glanced over Archbishop
Irelands statement while coming up
l.
am not prepared to speak at length
upon SO remarkable a deliverance as
the archbishop's. am willing to say,
however, that Archbishop Ireland's
specific talk upon what he terms The
Methodist Association in Rome is un-
Just. In saying that means We're en-,
Itployed there which were not honor
able, he places himself in the light of
deliberately slandering the great board
Of foreign missions of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which has that work.
in charge-a board which represents
over 100000 of American people,
who are either commandments or at
tendants upon its congregations.
Methodist Work Is Praised.
"The Methodist Episcopal church in
Rome is exercising the right of relig-
ious liberty, establishing schools and
churches and doing general missionary
work among those who desire to re-
ceiye It's ministrations, because in new
and united Italy religious liberty is
now an essential part of the organic
laws Of the nation. It's work is open to
the world, and the methods and spirit
and Christ-like result of it appeal to
all who study them without prejudice.
Archbishop Irelands heated charge
will not deceive the American people
or the Protestant world The simple
facts are that the Roman Catholic
church accepts the presence of any
other church organization in Rome and
Italy only because it Is compelled to
do so by the law of the land. Another
well known fact is that, despite the
laws Of Italy. Rome does not believe
in religious liberty, and wherever it
has the power, forbids it.
"As one distinguished Jesuit writer
has said, 'Protestants believe in re
/ ligious liberty and therefore approve
4 Of It's being granted to all people,
while the Roman Catholic church does
not believe in religious liberty and
therefore is not at liberty to use its
influence for its exercise by people
outside its own communion or within
the communion beyond the limits Of
priestly Interpretation.
Regrets That Archbishop Spoke.
/ 81 regret very much that Archbishop
Ireland should have spoken so hastily
and with SO much spirit, and especially
that he has sought to cover up the real
issues involved in this incident In
which former Vice President Fair
banks SO nob1y stood for his right tc
address Methodist congregation II
Rome, even if in doing SO the pope
should see fit to give SO distinct az
ILLUSTRATION Of the seemingly unchange
4 able purpose of the Roman Catholic
church to refuse proper recognition O
all branches of the Christian church
outside of itself"
DIR. Joy, editor of the Christian Ad
vocate, said Of Archbishop Ireland'i
statement:
Neither the pastor of the American
Methodist church in Rome nor hi.
congregation will be displeased will
what Archbishop Ireland has salt
about them. They will welcome 1t as {
good advertisement. The Catholi'
church has shown dislike of our worl
in Rome. think, because Methodist
there have been more conspicuous
than any other American church" /"