The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-03-01
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the missionary fanatics refuse to see the
breakers ahead.
One peculiar feature of DR.. CAROLS re-
port is. the increase in the number of clergy
men.
Thus, the Baptists lost 80 churches, but
gained 366 preachers.
Is it any sign of anything, when denomi-
nation loses a church for every 10 new minis
ters!
Are the 36G new clergymen more than
equivalent in spiritual abundance, to the 33
churches that went out of commission?
And what's the matter, anyway, when there
IS an increase of preachers and decrease OF
breaches!
You may say what you will, but there is
no escaping the fact that congregations are
lacking, where churches have to close up.
Did you know that some parts of this
country are so solidly Catholic that a Protest
ant service is not tolerated!
The official organ of the Roman prelate,
Prindergrast of Philadelphia is named THE
Catholic Standard and Times"
In a recent issue, its correspondent in Rome,
Italy. writes of the Methodist Mission, operat
ing in Papasburg:
ACTUAL STATUS OF METHODIST MISSION.
When requested by a few Catholics to publish
information regarding Methodist proselytism in
Rome several persons pointed out that by doing
so | should only give Importance to a foreign
body which, though it has spent money like
water has gained no footing among the people OF
Rome But one reason suficed to make the writer
expose their doings by the Tber, viz, the ground
n b M,
Triple, D. D., before American audiences.
What is the actual status Of the Methodists in
Rome? 1t has status except the microscopic
made up by little band bought by money
and kind. You could put all the Methodists in
Rome into a submarine (omitting the foreign
staff - replied the superior Of the Irish Christian
Brothers school in Rome the other day when l
put him question this point.
What methods used by Methodists to in
crease their number? In their early years in
Rome they opened schools to teach foreign
tongues, which young Romans of both sexes must
know because of the tourist traffic. For while
their schools prospered. But soon the ground was
cut from under their feet. One fine morning saw
two other schools opened across the road, one
conducted by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin,
for girls the other for boys by four Irish Christian
Brothers, who had come from the land where they
make short sharp work of proselytizers and all
their works and pomps They came to render
innocuous Methodistic proseytism, and they sue
ceeded in doing so. Day by day the Methodist
schools declined, until at last you might hear
pin drop in them any minute of the twenty-four
hours of the day.
Then they attacked the poor! BY the bushel
dollars arrived from the United States, sent by
Jealous parties who placed credit in the reports
sent from Rome by well-paid missionaries.
This campaign continues ceaselessly. Presents
of money, employment asked for the out-of-work
or the too-lazy-to-work, payment handed to per-
to merely enter their edifCe on the Via Venti
Settembre during prayer, promises of subsidies
made to parents on condition that they send their
children to the Methodist religious services-all
these make up the spiritual" means used by such
Rev, B. NJ. Triple, D. d.
I call your special attention to the mention