Transcribed by Ann Selchick. Geo. THE NORTHERN NEWS, OCTOBER 9, 1897. STRONG DENUNCIATION OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. ____ In connection with the meetings of the Baptist Union a designation and valedictory service was held at Plymouth on Tuesday, when several missionaries who were returning after furlough, delivered brief addresses. Among the latter was the Rev. N. H. SHAW, who was working in Florence. He said a tremendous amount of ignorance existed in this country with regard to the religious condition of the people in Italy. It was a land without the Bible, about which large numbers of people in Italy knew nothing. Roman Catholicism was, he said, the most powerful engine ever constructed by satanic ingenuity for degrading, enslaving, and cursing nations and men. The people of this country should not be led away by the glamour of such names as MANNING and NEWMAN, who owned everything that was good in them to Briitish Protestantism. Dr. McLAREN was among the speakers at a public gathering in the evening. He said that the things which were going on in South Africa and on the North-west frontier of India laid a tremendous obligation on the English Christian community. We should see to it that Maxim guns and punitive expeditions were not our only method of making brotherhood with nations. He was glad that there was one Bishop - indeed there were two at least, for the Bishop of Manchester had spoken out on Armenia - who had not been entirely silent on what, he thought, was enough to revolt the conscience of all Christian people in the land. The Rev. W. L. WATKINSON, President of the Wesleyan Conference, preached the mission sermon. *****