The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-16

between Baptists and the Russian and
Roman churches are, in the judgment
Of Baptists. of pressing importance
One Of these is religious liberty in
Russia. Forty Baptist ministers, ma
tives Of Russia and laboring there, at
tended the Baptist Alliance at Phil
adelphia, at least two OF them out of
prison on bail. and have been followed
to this country by Russian spies. I'm
mediately upon their return to Russia
these ministers must 90 to prison, one
If them to exile, and the other to re-
peatcd personal tortures. Others Of
the delegation are likely to be arrested
Immediately they set foot on Russian
soil
Not Fighting Catholics.
The matter that will take President
Macarthur to Rome is liberty Of Bap-
fists in Spain and Portugal. and OF
Protestant citizens in Peru and Ecua-
dor. Baptists went into Portugal al
most before former King Manuel Of
that country reached his exile in Eng
land. 1t is denied by Baptist leaders
i'll Europe that they have any conten-
tion with the Catholic church. They
say their only purpose in Portugal is
to assist in the spread of the gospel,
and TO succeed III spreading it where,
as they say, the Catholic church has
failed. The American Bible society
has recently reported the burning OF
bibles and tracts In the streets of Peru
cities. 1t is not charged that Cath
olics did wrong, but that mobs, incident
to almost all countries, were carried
away by evil reports.
Baptists have now created what Is,
as they claim, the largest organization
in the Protestant religious world, the
greatest in numbers and widest reach.
ing in countries affected. Growths Of
Baptists in Russia, in the Balkans, In
Italy, and the Iberlau peninsula have
been rapid lately. SO have growths of
Protestants in western South America
1t is declared to be the conviction of
President Macarthur and of other
Baptists in the Alliance that personal
conferences not only with the car and
the pope, but also with prelates Of the
churches affected, can adjust good
many differences, They feel sure that
when honest purposes are realized by
both sides, most of the friction can
be done away with. Possibly even the
Baptist leaders can be kept from the
prisons.
The first president of the Baptist
World Alliance was the late Rev. DR.
Alexander McLaren, of Manchester
England, ana Unc second one the new
DR.. John Clifford Of London. The Rev
Dr.. Macarthur is the third president
and the first American to hold the po
sition.
Pope in Feeble Health.
The impression is growing that it i:
matter Of months, perhaps weeks
when it will become necessary to select
new head for the Roman Catholic
church. The pope's health is very
feeble and his death at any time woulc
cause no surprise.
| The best impression is that Cardlna
Rampolla will be the new pope.
| 1t Is unheard of that a nearly sue
cessful candidate at one conclav,
should be the successful one at fol
lowing conclave, but the Italian publ,
eagerly hope that such an unusua
thing may happen and Rampolla b.
chosen.
It will be recalled that Cardina
Rampolla would probably be pope to
day had it not been for the interpo
sition of Austria during the sitting o
the conclave OF decade ago, Thi
meddling was done at the instance o
Germany, and to head off the suppose
influence of France and the Triple Al
lance, For ten years Cardinal Ram
polia has lived a retired life, occupy
ing the famous palace which for cen