Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-09
ORGANIZE TO REVIVE
FUTILE CONTROVERSY

An organization known as Evan
gelical Protestant society, which seeks
to obtain as members 10000 Protes-
tant clergymen in the United States to
fight the Roman Catholic church, has
been formed in New York with Ed
ward c. Miller, a manufacturer, as
president, and several widely known
New York clergymen as officers.
The new organization is said to have
the cooperation of DR.. Robert Stuart
Macarthur, president of the Baptist
World alliance; Bishop William Burt,
of the Methodist church, Buffalo; DR..
David James Burrell in whose study
at the Marble Collegiate church the
first meeting of the organization was
held last December; DR.. John Roach
Stratton, Calvary Baptist church; the
Rev. Edwin d. Bailey, Brooklyn, who
is announced as the author of the So
ciety's constitution, and the Rev.
Oscar NJ Voorhees,, general secretary
of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Miller, the president, denies that
the organization is in any way con-
nected with the Ku Klux Khan or the
A. P. A. and says the main purpose
is to fight alleged encroachment Of
the Catholic church on American in
situations.
Must Make Pledges.
A list of the membership pledges
includes:
81 am willing to pledge myself to
use my influence to get a bill passed
in our state legislature to compel the
attendance Of every child at the public
schools up to the eight grade.
~ n
favor Of the demonstrating educa-
ton bill.
q am willing to send you prompt
information Of any movement in the
direction of raids on the city Or state
treasury by papal agents for sectarian
institutions-or utterances against the
eighteenth amendment or against any
ether of our laws or institutions.
81 am willing to subscribe for 9
copies of The Converted Catholic for
distribution among Roman Catholics.
This magazine is written for circula
ton among Catholics; each member
has an evangelical appeal based on CT
tations from the Catholic Bible.
81 am willing to get my pastor to
preach a sermon on Why | Am
Protestant"
The membership fee is $3.50, Of
which 81 goes to support the under
takings of the society, 81 for sub
scription to The Protestant and 80
cents for expenses in extending the
membership.
ut would hardly serve good pur-
pose to comment on many of the state
ments made by the organizers of the
society,"" said the Rev. Herbert G.
Noonan, president of Marquette uni
versity, when he was shown the state
| ment issued by it's founders. 1T had
| been thought that much of prejudice
and unreasonableness had been dis
posed of by the war-that the splen-
did way in which those Of all faiths
worked together proved the American
ism of every one.
''The pledge asking members to
sign to induce the state legislatures
to pass a law compelling attendance
of every child at the public schools up
| to the eighth grade is un-Amerlcan
and a direct attack on the constitution
which guarantees religious freedom.
81 have no comment to make on the
other statements. If men have so-lit-
| tie to do that they cease preaching
| Christianity and begin an attempt to
tear out Christianity from the hearts
of others with statements that have
been answered fully many times, 1t is
hardly worth while to dignity the eff
| fort with a reply."-Milwaukee Jour
nal