New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-31

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soDaie. in Lda, small o'5gngAu ms ''.'e y
commm icanfs aod "a scsols; receipts TOT Tue 'a''
two Yeas, &ll,5J7 Their Home Missionary So'ie'y
Employs 80 or 40 mtss'onarles
UsIr,RI,yIsn ~ ESGL.sD.-Thc LSad0E IHqH'-
rsr ssys that there 23e Unitarian congregations IN En-
gland including two free Christian churches, which
are decidedly Unitarian in doctrine. Beside these,
ttere are several churches which take no doctrnal
name recognize 10 theological creed, bat are toucded
on the principle OF open communion for all Chrst'ans
IL Wales there - UnitUian Congregations IN scot
lard q, and in Ireland making in all 'l4 Uni'auah
4, congregations in Great B'itsin and Ireland.
sourH AMERICAN PRrsrs A priest la.ely arrived
al me from South America with 10000 IL gold FOR
the establishment, Of school to educate priests for
South America.
A MIssIoNARY NURsEm The President OF the
Association OF the New.York Union Theological
Seminary states the remarkable fact that of the whole
number Of the Alumni, (4Os,) 90 have gone TO the
West, Al TO the south II To the Pacific Coast, and %
to the foreign field The proportion entering the
foreign field s increasing; last year was one sixth
Tgr AMERICAN BOARD OF FoREIGS Missions
The organ Of the Reformed Dutch Church OF this city
indu es in some ugubrous orebodipg. Of the destiny
of the great American Board account of IT. having
abandoned it, old and safe moorngs, and drifted uto
1.-The angry current OF sectional luminosity 1t thinks
that no prophsts eve il needed TO discern the rapid
advance of the hour when the y :. Presbyterian and
Dutch X. formed Churches will be compelled by the
mr., ssure of events To terminate their existing restions
with il. and that il is destined to become the
" CONGREGATIONAL Board OF Foreign Missions
Des. WAYLAyp AND WILLIAMs--In Tie Americdn
Pulpit, a work recently prepared We find the follow
il Q con parison made between two of the most emf
zen, divipes in the Baptist denominations "Dr.
WAY land although accomplished scholar, makes,
we presume, no preteDsion TO the almos, unlimited
rsnee Of erudi,ion which characterizes his younger
Contemporary. Dr. Williams, although vigorous
/" and original thinker, would readily yield the palm
to Dr. Wayland in respect to the power aud habits
" Of close logical reasoning and analysis. Dr. Way
land il a sound scholar, ard distinguished thinker;
"Dr Williams il a sound thinker, and distinguished
scholar. DIR. Wayland illustrates sparinsly from
history but always with great proprlety and effect;
"Dr Williams almost overwhelms us with the aflu-
ence of his historical illustrations. In DR.. Waylsnd
90 the metaphysical element predominatos over the
"rhetorical in DR.. Williams, the rhetorical and inn
" aginatve are more conspicuous.'
MISSIONS IN THE The Friend Of India esti-
mates the number Of converts to Christianity, at
"probsbly one hundred thousand in India ndtwenty
thousand more in Cey lon." II IS not yet fifty years
since Sidney Smith asserted, in The Edinburgh Re-
ritp, that there not the slightest prospect of
success for Indian Missions, and bestowed the most
mercess sarcasm on the whole scheme.
POPULATION AND BrBLEs-The population Of the
United States is 1000 900, making nearly
5000, 900 fames of these, it is believed more than
1000 600 are without the Bible.
EPISCOPAL APosToLIcAL SUccEsssos.-Bish Da-
t.4 III. o,,ol N.
says that the bishops of the church are not apostles
nor, strictly speaking successors of the apostes-he
latter had successors and not intended to have
any; not the nature Of their office to have sue
cessors--the dspensaion special, temporary, ex
raordinary and miraculous; they were to the church
what none have been since. TIE Protestant Church.
man Of this city also calls upon Episcopalans to east
"ihis fgment of salvation through apostolic sue
"cesion forever away. 1t is modern pretene and
"he further back ysu go the less you able to find
" any foundation or countenance for it,
CANCELLATION OF SABBATH SCHOOL PAPERs.-There |
are at least 4oo, 900 Ssbbath-Schooi papers Issued
monthly by the Sunday School presses amounting to
A. soc, 900 sheets year.
METHODIST MISSIONARY CoSTRIBUrIoys The
amount raised for Missions in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, last year. sl97, 973 being s3l ,i76 less
than during the year 1854. The average for each
member in 1854, was 90 cents and 2 mills in 1858,
25} ceLts The highest average was from the New.
England Conference, being SO cents mills the Gin
ounaii, 81 cents mills; the New-York East, Is oents
the Providence, 4oi cents. Then follows, being less
than 40 cents each the New-York, the Philadelphia,
the North Ohio, the Baltimore, ard the New-Jersey. |
RETURN OF A MIssIoYARY-rbe Rev. Cyrus Ham
lin is expected to pay visit TO his native country
soon He has been a Missionary in Constantinoplo
for ls years, where his labors have been very sue
ce@ful
The CAyoSRY OF ST. PAuLs, LoSDos.-It appears
tina. the Canonry of st. Paus vacated by the promo
ton of the Hon. and Rev Montague Viers, has been
bestowed by the Bishop of London not upon the cole
rated Mevill, as currently reported, but upon
Mr.. Gibbs vicar Of Christ Church, and late fellow in
the University of Cambridge. The large smolgments
till lately connected With the office have, however,
fallen into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commission
err, go that the dignity, financially considered, ID
merely honorary.
The jews IN JERUsALEh-It was lately stated that
the Jews declined to enter the court of the Mosque Of
Omar at Jerusalem to pray for raip on the ground
that they were ceremoniay unclesn and also becsusc
they believe that their law buried under the site
Of the Temple Mr.. Tregelles Of Plymouth, in let
ter on this subject, in The London Times, writes:
80 / want to ascertain in what manner this opinion
70 originated among the Jews, that their law was
" buried there. Is there any historical account Of
" any circumstance of the kind And if 30, when did
u this copceament take pace' These questions
= have some interest, because in dry shaft beneath
the Mosque Of Omar-the ancient site Of the Temple
= of the Lord-one skin of roll Of the Pentateuch
was found Through the kindness of Mrs. Leider
of Cairo possess this relic. 1t written in three
Z columns beginning at Genesis xii /, and going