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THE POPE AND EX-V-PRES. FAIRBANKS
Address Delivered Before the Current Events Class
of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, Sunday, Feb
ruary 13, .1910, at 10:30.
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N interesting and illuminating contro
versy has arisen, because of the refusal
of Pope Pius X. to give audience to Ex-
Vice-President Fairbanks. The ground
on which this refusal was based is that
the former Vice-President declined to
promise not to speak at a meeting of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which is
conducting successful evangelistic work
in Italy. The Pope, therefore, refused to grant an
audience to the former Vice-President. The doughty
Archbishop Ireland, with his usual forwardness, has
come into the controversy, and has published an ex
planation, which was intended to be a vindication,
to the effect that the Pope’s refusal was a protest
against Methodist “pernicious activities” in Rome.
The Archbishop perhaps is seeking a “red hat,” and
so is as always, the heroic champion in America of
the Vatican. The entire controversy is equally inter
esting and instructive. It shows that the Roman
Church, in its essential spirit, is as narrow, intoler
ant, and bigoted in the twentieth century as it was
in the middle ages. It is quite evident that if the
Roman Church had the power, Methodist and all
other Protestant ministers and churches would be
banished from Rome. The Roman Church forgets
that, under the new regime, there is civil and relig
ious liberty in Italy. She forgets that Methodists
and all other Protestant churches have just as much
right to make converts in Rome, as the Roman
Church has to make converts in America.
Pius X. was elected Pope, August 4, 1903, after six
fruitless ballots had been taken. His two leading
competitors were Cardinals Rampolla, and Gotti.
Rampolla had pursued a policy, as Secretary of State
to the Pope, which strengthened French sympathies
for the Vatican. He thus antagonized both Germany
and Austria. Pius X. was, therefore, elected Pope
virtually by the grace, or by the political necessities
of Austria.
Neither Statesman Nor Scholar.
He is narrow-minded and bigoted to a remarkable
degree. He will be known as the “Provincial Pope,”
who has never risen in knowledge and sympathy
above the narrow horizon of the average priest, per
forming his parochial functions in the mountains of
Italy, or among the inhabitants of the Province of
Quebec. Pius IX. was a statesman; Leo XIII. was
both a scholar and statesman; Pius X. is neither a
statesman nor a scholar.
Several things, however, are taught by this con
troversy which are immensely instructive. In the
first place, we have had a revelation of the intoler
ance of the Roman Church itself. We see that it be
longs to the middle ages, rather than to the twentieth
century. It is the foe of civil and religious liberty.
Medievalism, and not modernism, in politics, states
manship, and religion is its dominant characteristic.
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We have only to remember what its action was in
Italy when it was the dominant power; and what its
action is today in South America and other coun
tries where its power is unlimited, to discover its
hostility to all true liberty and progress.
The whole spirit of the refusal to receive the for
mer Vice-President of the United States, is directly
antagonistic to the spirit of American institutions.
This refusal shows that the Roman Church is unpro
gressive, un-American, and un-Christian.
Rome Fears Protestantism.
In the second place, the incident shows how the
Roman Church fears the presence of Protestantism
in Rome. It has given an immense advertisement to
the work of Protestantism generally, and of Method
ism particularly, in the “Eternal City.” Never before
has it been known that the Vatican so feared Pro
testantism in Rome. Methodism has now, not far
from the King’s palace, a building valued at $250,000.
There is here an audience-room for an American
church, for Sunday Schools, for the Epworth League,
for book stores, printing presses, and a Theological
School. Here a few years ago the great World’s
Sunday School Convention was held. Baptists, Meth
odists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians are doing
vigorous and successful work in the ancient city.
Next to this building, is Crandon Hall. In this hall,
270 girls were pupils last year. This work has a fac
ulty of thirty teachers. Since its founding, not fewer
than 1,400 young women have come under its influ
ence. Educated Italians recognize it as the foremost
school for young women in Italy. Miss Italia Gari
baldi, granddaughter of the great Italian patriot, is in
charge of another school of high character. There
are flourishing mission stations in Florence, Genoa,
Milan, and Venice, as well as in about a dozen other
towns. A vigorous work is carried on among Ital
ians in Switzerland in such towns as Geneva, Lau
sanne, Neuchatel Vevey, and Zurich.
The chief offending of the Methodist Church is
that it has been especially vigorous and successful in
its evangelistic work in Italy. Archbishop Ireland,
by thrusting himself forward as the American de
fender of the Pope, has unconsciously given unan
swerable testimony to the weakness of Romanism in
Rome, and to the strength of Protestantism under the
very shadow of the Vatican. It is amusing to see
how readily the Archbishop leaps to the defense of
the Medieval Pope and the Medieval Church of Rome.
Methodism especially, and Protestantism generally,
will take advantage of this situation to push their
work in Rome, with a vigor never seen in the past.
Unconsciously, the Pope is the instrument in the
hands of Divine Providence in exposing the weakness
of his Church, and the readiness of his former sup
porters to embrace a larger liberty, a freer Gospel,
and a diviner church than it is possible for the
Papacy, and its subservient followers and defenders,
to give to the Italians, or to any other seekers after
truth and God.
The Pope is Blind —“The Light Hurts.”
The Pope has put, in his impotent wrath, his angry
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imprimatur on the work of Protestantism in Rome.
Until he uttered his wail, and Archbishop Ireland re
sponded with his obsequious Amen, we did not know
how badly hurt the Pope is over the work of Pro
testantism in Rome. Things are widely different in
Rome from what they were when an honored mem
ber of Calvary Church did not dare have a religious
service in his room in his hotel in Rome, lest he
would be arrested.
We shall now see what other Protestants who visit
Rome will do. Will they bow before the Pope and
repudiate their own church? Or will they be true to
their country and their church, even though they
shall be denied audience with the Pope? It is diffi
cult to see why any self-respecting Protestant should
especially care to call on the Pope anyway. It is
impossible to understand how any man should call
on him at the expense of his duty as an American
and his principles as a Protestant. Ex-Vice-Presi
dent Fairbanks deserves and will receive honor from
all true Americans for his loyalty to his country
and his church.
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