Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-14
BISHOP NOT IN
FAVOR Of j. s.
MIIh~s4q 4qs:23 ~ IN
MEXICAN MUDIOiII::iii: {
Methodist Divine Says No
Sufficient Cause for Such
a Step Has Ever Yet Ap-
peared, in His Opinion,
WOULD WIDEN ABYSS
WITH SOUTH AMERICA
Intervention Would Mean a
Legacy of Hatredi Mis-
Sionaries in the Republic
Are Doing Excellent Work
sv MORNING IouasA, srse,.l ,s...o w,.r,

Des Moines, Ia, May l3.-The
apparent overthrow of President
Carranza of Mexico has been due
chiefly to personal reasons, he hav-
ing failed in making those personal
adjustments which were necessary
to hold the loyalty of his follow
ers Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell OF
Denver, said at the Methodist
Episcopal general conference to-
night He was reporting on condi-
tions in Mexico,
Bishop Mcconnell said that in his
charge of the work of the church
and recently returned from a trip
through that country He declared
that the revolution carried through
/ by Carranza and Obrtgon has been
successful in the sense that it es-
tablished the main principles for
which it was started, and conditions
had improved in Mexico in the four
years just past.
Bishop Mcconnell said that in his
opinion no sufficient cause for in
tervention by the United States has
ever yet appeared. "If Americans
have been abused in Mexico, Mex
leans have been abused in the
United States" he asserted.
Results of Intervention.
IF intervention comes, it will
bring to Mexico nothing but ply
steal benefit--better roads, better
sanitation better school buildings.
But the abyss between the Anglo
Saxon and the Latin mind will be
deepened, further effort at Chris
tian advance will be handicapped,
suspicion of the United states will
extend to the tip of Cape Horn and
q legacy of hatred of the United
States will be hequeathed to Mex
leo, in Bishop McConnelPs opinion.
He reported that on his last trip
to Mexico he found just twice as
many missionaries in the field as
when he first visited the field, and
that by cooperative agreement
among the various depomlnations
at work in Mexico, a scheme of di-
vision of territory has been de-
vised, and it being strictly adhered
to, so that there is no duplication
of Christian work.
Uclp Mexico Help Herself.
Bishop McConnell's plan for the
future is to help Mexico help her
self. ard to encourage Mexscans To
work out their problems in their
own way with self-support on the
increase. He stated that 1t is his
hone that the time will soon come
when, If advisable, all the Aperi-
can missionaries can go to some
other field, and allow Mexico toI
work as self-sufficing unit.
A determined effort has been
made at this conference to consolt-
date some OF the Christian advo-
Gates, which are the offic al or
cans Of the church and of whicn
there are now eight, published IN
different sections of the United
states However. after consldera-
HE debate and deliberation, the
committee on Book Concern has de-
termined to recommend to the gem
eraI conference that all of these
weekly papers be continued during
the ensuing quadriennial. All are
onerating at loss, which Is an
sorbed by the Methodist Book Con-
cern. .,o
Report Of the committee on epls-
conacv. recommending an election
Of fourteen bishops and establlsh-
ing seven new Episcopal residences
was presented to the conference TO-
day Action was deferred until to-
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