Evening star., 1926-05-28

morning session discussion of mission
fields by DR.. Andres Osuna, former
governor Of Tamau1ipas, Mexico. and
former assistant minister of educa.
ton of Mexico. who now IL executive
secretary Of the 1nterdenominationai
Evangelical Missionary Society.
"'There is a great deal OF confusion
in the minds Of American people re-
garding the religious agitation IN
Mexico" he said. Whereas 1t has
been said that there Ia religious perse-
cution, there is not the slightest idea
on the part of the government TO
curtail religious liberties"
Tracing the development OF the con
stitutional restriction against the
existence in Mexico Of political
church orga nization or of q church
orga anizatio that is made up oi
foreign leaders, DIR. Osuna said:
THE Mexican government is only
trying now to- enforce existing laws
TO control the political activities OF
the small group Of the hierarchy oi
the Catholic Church, or Of any other
church which may have similar pro
gram. There is no attempt to in
terfere with religious liberty at all
On the contrary. the government if
determined to protect the liberty OF
worship by keeping religion out OF
politics entirely so as to leave every
person free on matters pertaining Ia
human conscience"
Protest Meeting Held.
The fuhdamentalists held a protest
meeting last night at the Fifth Bap.
tist Church, which was loaned for the
occasion by Rev. John e. Briggs.
More than 400 fundamentalists, about
half of whom were members Of the
Baptist Bible Union, cheered denun
Citations of the modernists.
The organiZa ton decided not to
push at this convention a dema nd for
referendum to the membership OF
the individual Baptist churches
throughout the country on the Ques
ton Of immersion as a requisite OF
membership in the church, but deter
mined to take the war against mod
ernism back to the home churches.
The meeting was held Immediately
following the close of the session al
the Washington Auditorium, where
Rev. DR.. J. G. Massee of Boston made
the plea for an "armistice" among
the fundamentalists and moderniste
and a six month evangelical program
which today was indorsed by the con
tCIllIOus uO OulOh vi 6ditE0
ton last night declared unanimously
they would refuse to end their attacks
on moderisms. but no voice was raised
when the harmony" resolution was
voted on at the Auditorium this
morning.
Political Methods Charged.
The resolution adopted by the
fundamentalists last night charges
the modernist teachers in Baptist
educational institutions with obtain.
ing their positions "by political
manipulations to which even men Of
the world seldom descend" and pro-
poses that a campaign be waged to
purge" the missionary and the edu.
cational field of this "intolerable sit
uation.''
The resolution. which unanimousl
lists who attended the protest meet
out the Nation in order to "let the
folks back home know what Is being
done" 1t reads, in part:
Serious as 1t Is to set aside the
authority OF the Book, which com.
mands baptism by Immersion: deeply
injurious as it must prove to be to
dispense with our great biblical sym.
Dol Of death to sin, burial with Christ
and resurrection to walk in newenss
of life: foolish as seems the PROPOSE
ton to abrogate the necessity of an
act of obedience which has ever had
the signal favor of God resting upon
it.. yet. We have far greater occa sions
for our present grave concerns. -
Assails Educational Work.
we are compelled to call attention
to the intolerable situation in our en-.
tire Northern Baptist Convention's q
educational program. With the rarest
exceptions, by political manipulations
to which even men of the world have