Life — April 21, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“While there 1s Life there's Hope VOL. LY. APRIL 21, 191 No. M34 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY JOA Mivcneut. 27 Asti y 17 West Thirty-first Street, New Vork venerable to turn the world inside out, our Co to have himself, that! ve gone up to and straightway and to the world his given correspondence with the Rector of n Col result the Americ lege. The casily beat anything that Ana had done for ny moons is to be credited with shaking down Messina, It from a page to a page and a half of reading in our lead newspapers for unless it made ne-cent severa days and enormously pable of being amused and edified or mused petsons scandalized others Our Colonel sees bout do- ing good. We presume his remarks in Egypt did good in vat country, His deportment and disclosures in Rome can hardly fail to do good in that city. AM his natural. seemly Is to go behaviors have been and necessary, and adapted in the long run to promote good feeling toleration. He could not out asking to see the and religion go to Rome wit Pope. That polite, He would not could have been All upon the Pope under the conditions that the papal advisers named to him, That would not: have been dignified. He had to give out his correspondence with Mgr. Kennedy. He gave it out at the proper and natural time—the day of arrival in Rome. It had to be ex- plained why he did not call npon the not LPB * and that correspondence was the Nothing less would have or would have been fair to sides. And when the Rev. Mr tried to use him as an adver tisement of the Methodist Mission and club to beat the Roman Catholic Ch h stopped that short and did edingly well Pope, explanation answere both Tipple with he in so dot exe again We are very much pleased with the Colonel's behavior. No part of it was extraordinary or improperly nal. Mt effective. In sensa- was natural, polite, timely s relation to Mr. jc it was impressively prompt, bi d to be. If Cardinal Merry del and the Rev. Mr. Tipple had wn their business as well as our is there would not have news” from Rome. The slonel knew been all thi two clerical their jobs entlemen made messes of For that it is easier to ex- than the Cardinal, zeal in cuse the minister heeause while one expects Meth with confidence on their taste discretion. But a papal secretary ought to have all the kinds of gump- tions there are—the wisdom of the ser- ist ministers one does not count or their pent, the harmlessness of the dove. Cardinal del Val seems to have neither. ¥ ai Protestant Catholic countries in Europe were im pertinent and futile, but of late years that view has yielded somewhat to the persuasion that stich missions, if they x0 about their business wisely, may be We have read that in Spain Protestant mission American Roman think that missions to useful there are American for girls of excellent the MeCall thought to deserve it takes no. soaring think ¢ schools repute In France missions arc support, and flight of aug Methodists ing a field of profitable endeavor in Italy. Methodists did work of reform in Eng! helped effectively to make many rough places fa Good Methodists are mighty valuable people, in spite of their propensity to be arbitrary regula tors of their fellows’ habits ination to find emorable nd, and e y smooth. the rare perfection of deport the Italians who frequent this lan: stich abundance diss conjecture that there done in Haly in w geod American Methodists a hand to great courteous men and ¢ ods are some adyant: scourteou seldom useful anywhe Methodists missionary work, in Rome should be chosen with as much solicitude though they were going to Japan Catholic Church hh from Rem fear assault. from with from persons who fling epith or speak impolitely of its he difficw cted perhaps \ the gradual elimination of means of they are to the spread of general and spx knowledge and the growth of th hat there cither of truth, f perdition, have an exclu Nothing that is going on is more interesting t the thoughtful observer than the grad val adjustment of the Roman Catholic Church to life as it is and to knowl edge as it unfolds. It is an adjustment that seems not to be consciously fur thered by the present administration at Rome, though unconsciously they may be accelerating it to signal pur ies are cor force religious conservatic mainly internal a pression guarantees vation, or is no | erhuman indorsement. wonder a lite whether the enthusiasm of cighbor, for the climination retary Ballinger curately with discretion. In just now it unroils a new ont of Ballinger’s pa makes him out a rascal our marches ac every and each story These stories We got far enough some to be that Mr. B. bad for the place he fills, but these later stories are so saturated with hos tility that courteous readers want to hear the other s But Collier's is ina hard fight, and in a fight gingerliness is apt to be less esteemed than ginger. No doubt that’s how those Methodists feel in Rome are persuasive, but not convincing linger lieve was a choice comicbooks.com