The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-25
Missouri and Kans.s.

Missouri and Kansas.
CONDITION OF RELIGION AND MORALITY rHEREIN-
EXPULSION OF REV. Ma. srARR FROM MISSOURI.
The Rev Frederic Starr hsd at length an opportunity
afforded him last evening, OF procuring hearing the
subject Of the Godl. condition Of Missouri and Kansas
and explanation Of the cogent which hurried
his departure from that blessed region Of country The
following of his lecture appeared one
of the religious pspsrs:-
MlssornI AND KassAs.-Rsv Frederic Starr, who h..
rom bis home misonsr seia IL Platte county. Missouri
nns the Moral and Religion. ConditIon d Missouri
and Ksnss.n Mr. Starr jodcieus and reliable man
would know what prosecutions for
now endured In our own land Service 10 commence at
There being regular Sabbath evenings service at the
Tabernacle Mr.. Starr managed to have tolersbly
mersus audience to listen to his ecture-An audience
which under less favorable circumstances he could
hardly have been led to expect in this city
The proceedings were opened by the singing OF the
hymn Veni Creator. The Rev. Mr.. Starr then read
portion of the Sculptures, ard afterwards offered up
prayer
Another hymn sung, after the hat had bsen sent
around, and subsequently Mr.. Starr forward and
delivered address the "Moral and Religious Con-
dition Of Missouri and Kansas" He introduced by
the pastor OF the church, who endorsed his character
BE he pastor) said toat Mr. Starr gone to Pa,!e
county, Missouri to preach the gospel OF Christ and he
had consistently maintained that mission But he had
learned that there places this side of Tuscany
where man cannot Christ without molestation.
Because he had refused 10 prostitute his Christian
hood to the system Of slavery he had felt the fury of
aob and had been Obliged to quit his sphere Of action
The time had come whsa 1t to se whether
could could not Goo il this countrp.
Mr. STARR, being thus introduced, came forward and
said
It would be necessary for him. to night, to ention
the OF dfereat religious denominations; but he
wished be distinctly understood that the mention
OF these denominations absolutely necessary TO
proper Of the subject The first question
which presented itself was what of dsnomn atoms
were be found In Missouri? rhe fist the Roman
Catholic That denonns ton bad fifty Thousand mem.
beers in st. ous. In almost every town throughout
the State Of souri to be found Catholic churches
and schools Nine Of the finest lots in the city OF Lea
venworth bought before he left that city for the
Iurpose of erecting Catholic cathedral and nunnery
there. The next denomination was the Methodist Eps-
copal Church South which had divided from the Metno
dist Episcopal Chu CHI North the subject of slavery
They very powerful cody in the South, and are
very hostile to the Methodist Episcopal Church North
This church has about it great deal of advances and
having started out in perhaps good work continues
in it. That church was once hostile to slavery, but 1t
has charged ana BE- proaavery. He had recently
been told that's few ago. when the discipline Of
the Methd dist Epscc Chuch South being priatsd
in the city of New Yors the little word or was Chang
into the other little word anc -, that the rule
sEo OF this church shall engage In selling men,
women or chidren' was made to read "No me mber OF
dIen." He assured toat mem bers Of that church
would, after that, sell aud women without the
children and children without the women, and
in order this way 10 walk round the ritual Since
the separation of that chuI CHI from the church North,
although th-y lad made seine effort to educate the
slaves Sundays he must they had progress
ed backward. TIE ministers hold slaves themselves,
Wherever the has from the South either
churches other associations, the slaves have suf
ered BY the change The Methodist Church South when
1t divided tooh the etste Of Missouri almost entirely to
ITSELF although there were eight or ten churches still in
the State with the Methodist Episcopal Church
North; but six or eight OF their ministers have been
refused charter TO 'minary Of learning be-
1t belonged TO the Methodist Episcopal Church
North There were also eone sixty or seventy German
ceders. The acton weeks7ago, in Platte county,
forbidcing Methodist ministers North from preach
g there @ p Of being s.sssa 'ns
cond, had the ede,t of silenciug all but two
men, There are in Kansas some six or seven clsr-
gymen of the Methodist Church NORTH and tie decree
was aimed at them. The next eenomina alton tue
Baptist church, divided into two branches called ths
Missionary Bsptsts and the Old S,de Iron SIDE Bsp,iss
the hard shells These later fatslists. They Oh
ject to tmpersnoe societies If man 10 elected to be
e they say he will ss Sns not
bers Of the church therefore drunssrds In one
town alone he tod that in day there
to the refusal Of sending out missionaries They cay
II men are to be saved they will b, saved The same
quietly though few OF the churches South sin in
connection with the Baptist Church North Thsre
church, perhaps large the Baptist church THIS
church formed by Alex ander Campo H. scotch
man, who had the idea of forming csurch With the
same unity the Catholic church. This Canpbelist
communicates the United States. 1t is church cal
culsted TO CROWN fact 1t is omninm gd'hernm Of
CARDS religion in the South and West that could be
built up. When . man will confess that he believes
Jesus Christ is the Son Of God, and apply the seal
y,,a fo;@l, az 90 all hat IA
salvation He must Be baptiset which 10 inn ersed
That is the whole essence OF their doctrine
definition Of the tSon of God and yet every who
makes the declaration, and becomes immersed Is pro-
misee Paradise He conceived 1t to be the most ,fu
Its workings, and he knew that 1t brought tho
worst debsuchery in. it's train, not only to its mem
bsrs to all Christians who come in contact with It,
They tortured and carioatured the truths Of the gospel
taught that there such thing rs holy spirit,
RESULT Converts are immersed, that is all and after
while, fan back into their old sins That Is making
the Of very easy and therefore i
turned out All the ehurehss feel the effect Of that
throw open the doors to all sorts of per.
sons, who have not even professed that they
in the south a greater strife among religious
denominations than in the North and the Baptists
and Metz odsts are so anxious 10 keep up with the
formers, Campbests that they invite AL sorts Of
persons to come in and join their denomination. The
next CHI. rch order the Presbyterian church. d.
vided into three branches-ths old school, the new
school and the Cumberland school. The latter had
grown with great rapdty but the great trouble with
tested more desire to educate their servants
than any other pro slavery church In the South.
he Cumberland PIesby terian church lead every
thing in the United States in reference to getting up
emotional feelings They pray the oudest preach the
oudest shout the loudess and smack the oudes any
other church in the United States II the sncsrest
and energetic church ard numbers about 150 600
communicate The old and the schc ol churches,
just about what they in the North. They pro-
ceed slowly and grow slowly; but, they exert an i'm
mense influence throughout the South. The difference
Church is par excellence pro slavery church, while
the sch oil Presby teran church is aoens polcns
abohticpist church Those churches South which SYM
pathzed with the churches North which had been cut
of in the division, had instantly placed on their
shoulders the mantle of abolirionsm; and that word
abohtonifm ia darker in the South than all the crimes
in tie catalogue mulp Piled by ten. lie defined aboli
finn. In mot incl I'm