Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
ReU. Lansing b. Bloom Replies
To Criticism of Historical Sketch

The Editor Albuquerque MornIni
Journal
Last sunday morning YOU published
q long article from Fray Iephyrir
F.. EnRclhufdt. @. Il. M.. ln which al
I great length and with many lnnuen.
. does and imputed motives. he Criti-
clreH s0mo historical work which %
/ appearing in the new historical quar-
Itrrly "Old Santa Fc" FTay Iephyrin
would have your readers believe that
I the real object" In my "liHorv oi
New Mexico Under Mexican Admins
/ trHuon. lF2i-lk4g" Dr. 90 make "a
vicious attack on the Roman Catho-
ilc church and her missiounrlesn n
Fray Iephyrin had noted the outline
OF the study as presented In the first
issue ~ the quarterly be would have
seen that his church Is the subject
of only one chapter out of thirty
Indeed, Fray Icphyriu had ten chap
tcrH before him when he criticised the
one. and he carefully said nothing as
to q considerable part of that one
8ut enough Of this Men who
knew personally the time Of which /
write, and those who are really famil-
far with documentary records. rccug-
ni2c that the chapter attacked was
prepared with real reserve and that
10 is based upon records left by those
who themselves were Roman Catholic.
There are two matters raised hy
Frey HcphWin, however. that are uf
vital importance Go Now Mexico and
upon which l wish to write briefly as
Presbyterian minister
Dofpitc The meaning Imputed Go me
hE Fray Icphyrin, when wrote
"anY church. ! meant exactly thht-~
Prcsbytcrlau. Roman Catholic. Greek
Catholic. or any other I'm 1906 ]
heard thc Rev. Jesse l.. Mclaughlin
% Methodist missionary of Manila +.
J.. relate an experience which well o.
lustr1tea the missionary work of the
church.
said he II sent man named Mich
ulua IamOru one 0f our preachers
out about four or Eve miles from the
city. The man has q good voice. lt
Ig like "a bell. and you can hear IL four
or i've blocks They were singing FOR,
about ton minutes when policeman
came along and rushed the whole
company OF 70 JAN. We have % saying
iu the Philippines. that our converts
DO not have any backbone until they
have been In ioil about three times
"fhey did not have any regular JAN,
using instead the lower floor in the
house When they arrived
there. Nicholas said Well we are
here. ! guess we might as we'll do
and they began TO sing
The first verse ~ Nenrer MY God TO
Thee The policeman came down
stairs and said that that singing must
eoasc. and went back upstairs. Nich0-
ag said. 81 guess We might as Wen
have the second verse and they be-
gan 90 sing &C. The policeman came
down again iu hiEh dus"oh aud be 7
'gted them most vigorously. ANA haF-
ng cooled off. he went upstairs again. .
said. we will now have the
hlrd verse; Tile policeman came .
iuwn again aB they were starting in .
trongly ON the third verse This was
90 much for the policeman who .
iaid. lu anger. "Got out of hore and 4
90 right back TO America. don't .
want any paalm-ainging Methodists IN .
nv iall.H
"Ii was the time Of the military
'cgimc. when Nicholas arrived In
own. IL seemed aa if an the military
population was gathered IN the morn
nr service for mass Their chief Of
lcer was present and J. who was
With Zamora found him q hne speci-
men of American manhood. about six
Get ana three inches tall
II told him my mission. aud he
Ookcd up sQuarely in the face, say
ng. "Mr Mclaughlin. am sorry that
our mon were arrested last sunday
knew nothing about H. / ann "a Ro-
nan Catholic. ! was born and reared
u the traditions OF that church, and
suppose / shall die within her fold
}ut want 20 tell YOU that my heart
3 sick ana / am ashamed OF myself
md OF nay church when / see her
degradation in this country. We can
ak an wc want TO about putting In