New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-03

., ID, v.ars He stated that but four OF the Ba l,i>,
Churrh.s II The city ard vicinity rs,an the pl.,ors
they bad oigh; years ago.
sr,crs.yUL Boog.--The Questions on the
A.semblys Catschsm," BY the Rev. A. H. Baker
hav. nassed n rough more than 10000 impressions IN
,h;- country They have also been Introduced IN the
du;ch Islands and the Protestant Churches IN
Turkey. and have lately been translated INTO ARABIC
ACIyR1cVI CE,rIc.-The Rev. Dr. Magoon, IN
the introduction TO the Sermons of " The Modern
"Wlnf,ld," expresse. the opinion that good sing
ing IS ore divine than poor preaching. As'"' IL
fpeckirg Of I. miserable influence Of perverted and
proe,tuted architecture in churches, be adds: .fo
through The entire Christian wyld. and you vii nnd
that the moral power of any given congregation ~lH
he nearly in m inverse ratio TO the amount OF CUM
teeited in ,he place oftheir assembling and th
the stupidity Of their preacher will bear an exact pro-
"Iolton 10 the soft thickness aud ford osentaon OF
4" the pulpit decora iops"
CsiTARIAS THEOLOGICAL SExIS.RY.-The Rev.
Oliver Stesrns Of bingham has accepted his appoint
ment 10 the Board Of Instruction of the Meadville
Theological School and will become its presiding Off
Ger. He is TO enter upon his duties early in the
ing academic year.
A MISSIONARY Subtitle American Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions have decided upon
building missionary ship TO transport missionaries to
the numerous islands Of IN, Pacific to the westward of
the Sandwich Islands, known BY the general name of
" Micronesia, and they have issued an appeal to the
children and youth Of the country TO contribute the
money necessary to defay the expenses of consruc-
ton The vcsse will he a schooner of 80 tuns and is
estimated to cost $4,000. She is to be called the
Morning Star and viii be 70 the Sandwich Islands
pl,ing th.ncc, missionaries furnished, TO the
above mentioned islands. Many of the Christianzed
Sandwich I-landcrs willing to accompany the mis-
sionaries and the missionaries at the Sandwich Islands
urge the Beard to send such a vessel.
An EPISCOPAL IsNERsIoS.-Two or three Sundays
since as we are informed (says TIE Ner- York ErdM-
iney the rector of one Of the Episcopal churches in
Elizabeth, n. j.. christened child according to the
strict rubrc If the Church OF England: And Them.
"he shall Clip It in the water discreetly and warly,
Saving" etc. This recurrence to the original form
of the NAL lite is less common in that denomna-
ton among us than in the Anglican establishment,
where the revived rubnca strctness has led to dis
tptombing Of old stone fonts from the reccpacles into
which centuries of neglect had cast them.
The PoPE AID CARDINAL ASToSELLr-The
Papal official organ GH0rndlc di Roma, was recently
seized and confscated, after publication, for inserting
a speech Of Lord Palmerston on Italian sufering'.
The Pope it is affirmed, sanctioned the insertion and
publication under the idea that it, contents need only
be read to prove their naccuracy. Cardinal Anonelli
did not gairsay the fret process but being of diff
fient opinion to results gave orders for instant
seizure Immediately afterward.
EPISCOPAL EDrcATr0N AT THE SourH.-Bishop
Polk of louisiana has addressed lcttert to The Ner-
Orleans Data, covering circular addressed by Inn
10 the Bishops of Tennessee. Georgia, Alabama Ark
anssa, Texas Mississippi, Florida and the Carolna',
On the necessity of organizing system OF Southern
education, and building up Southern religious nsttu-
tions a. q part of general system OF defense.
The CHINESE AND CHRIsTIASIrY.-The Jesuts
once boosted that they had millions of converts in
China. A writer in The Utstm'nStcr Rer'cp thinks
that NM Hue and Goblet, and the existing rebellion
show what that amount of conversion was worth. He
adds: The late Emperor issued an edct against us
and our trade the ground that he owed 1t to his
people to guard them against the contagon oil a re-
" hgion so depravng to morals as the Christian Inc
"rebes who profess to possess Christianity IN Their
own remarkable fashion, say they do 1t because the
God Of the Christians makes his favortes powerful
" in war and nvulncrablc at sea- And he adds;
Such is Christianity in China, illustrated by the
recent American and European policy OF transport
"iug Coolies under deceptive conditions, to be vir-
starved and sufocated by the way, and thrown into
" the sea-"
INTOLERANCE IN TURKEY.-An affair which proves
that in Turkey the Turks not the most intocrant
has Just occurred at Harpout in Asia Minor. The child
Of an Armenian family some time since converted to
Protestantism. lately died, and its parents had it
buried in the Armenian Cemetery, the only one for
Christian. at Harpout As soon as the Armenian
Bshop was informed Of the fact he proceeded to the
cemetery at the head of the inhabitants belonging to
his communion, had the body dug up and thrown into
n peighboring field there to be devoured by dogs.
The Governor being apprised of what done, sent
guards 10 protect the body, while he made the most
energetic remorArance to the Bishop The Porte has
addressed q note to the Armenian Patriarch on the
subject, demanding the dismissal Of the Bishop, and
has sent orders to the Governor of Harpout to give
the Protestants piece Of ground for cemetery for
Themselves.
AGED CLERGYMES.-" Father Sawyer" of Maine,
as he is commonly callsd-alhough hundred years
end several months old, appears is not the odest
clergyman in New England The Maachostsr IN. H.
Anotcan reports that the Rev. Laban Ainsworth,
senior pastor Of the Congregational Church in Jafey,
New.Iiampsbre, Is now in his one hundred and third
year, having been born July IL, 1854. He is the old
est graduate of Dartmouth College, land probably the
Oldest clergyman in the country.
YALE TBEoLoGIcAL SENISARr-At the late Com
m.pc.ment meeting Of the Alumni was held, at
which resolution was adopted to raise sNooO for
the endowment of professorship and other pur'
pores TO lie determined hereafter report was read
by the Rev Mr.. Burlington respecting the attempt to
mite the East Wi,dsor and Yale semnaries. 1t sug-
ce.ted that the advantages expected OF such union
might be obtained by the removal Of the East Windsor
s. minary to New.Hayen, and yet preserve it entire
Dr. Taylor strongly opposed union Of the two school,