New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-26

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the pulpit. Tho Presbytery BY tie vote refused to
comply with this request, aud advised on the con-
trarv. a division Of the congregation. In order. how
ever. to save themselves from the suspicion OF dis
LOYALTY. the Presbytery unanimously passed reso'
Union affirming it 70 be "the duty Of all ministers,
in conducting the devotions of the sanctuary to pray
earnestly to God for bis help in this time oil trial,
that he wonld sustain our Government, that he would
give success to our armies, and that he would Hus'
trste the devices of our enemies"
The Methodist Episcopal Church South, which
has been among the foremost fomentsrS Of the Pro-
Slavery spirit in the Southern churches, has proba-
bly, suffered more from the progress of the Rebellion
than any other religious denomination. Their Book
Concern at Nashville has been closed. From Now
Orleans A Methodist chaplain Of the Union army
writes that he visited the office Of The Ner-Orean'
! Adpocate and Southern Methodist Book Depository,
and found the whole establishment closed and as des.
oate in appearance as bougha pestience had passed
over il. All the other Papers Of the church except
two have been suspended. Most Of tler churches
are without pastors or preachers, and the biSnols
do not know where to derive their support.
A very remarkable document respecting the rela-
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recently repubshed by the Tract Society Of this city,
ard by the United Presbyterian Board of Publication
Il is "Tbe Address Of the Old School Synod of Ken.
lucky" presented twenty years ago, by COM
uit,ee Of ten-tive ministers and five elders After
having considered " the system as II exists in Ken
lucky" the address proceeds to state certain elects
which spring naturally and necessarily out of such
system. Among these effects 1t enumerass. that II
deprayes and degrades its subjects; tina i. dooms
thousands of human beings to hopeless ignorance;
that il produces great cruelty and cenousuess that
it demorelizes the whites AS we'll the Blacks that
il draws upon us the Vengeance Of heaven. The
conclusion is, that it is the unq"estioHase duty OF
ercru Christian 10 use rigorous and immediate
measures for tie destruction Of he wAOle system, and
for the reRocoi Of all IT. unhappy cjeet', and 10 that
end plan Of gradual emancipation is proposed.
The Disorders Of Great Britain are not all in
favor of separation between Church and State.
or tho Pres6y leran Churches of Scotland, only the
United Presbyterigns reject an alliance win the
State on any terms, believing such al alliance to be
wrong and mischievous. The Church OF Scot sUd
accepts the alliance and the emoluments from tie
Stale, iatt Us they are offered. The Free Church
woud accept the aid Of the State on condition that
tbe Church should be left perfectly free AID self
reoulatiye. The Reformed Presbyterian, would not
accent an alliance unless the character Of the State
were proi-ssedly Christian, and the Church were
left perfectly free.
"A great majority Of tins Lower House Of the Aus
trian Parliament demands tie repeal Of The concorda'
of 1850, and the adoption Of the principle Of full re-
lgious liberty. la tho Tyro, where the Proiestanis
have hitherto been excluded from the right Of ao-
curing landed property, the clergy are making OK
raordipary elIorts cS maintaining The former iniol-
Grant ws; bat their demands will not he grantee by
The Government. The Mayor. and majority q the
City Council Of ImsIruck the capital Of tie Tyro',
have issued declaration sgsirsi he clerical ayla
ton.
i An article in Tic 81. Pe,riiTrg CoHf,uPorary
liberal monthly Of Russis which has recently been
suspended b. TIC Government Tor eight months, de
niandH the abrogacn ofthe laws which prescribe the
education Of all Children from mixed marriages be
tween a member Of the State Church and q membei
OF any other denomination in the doctrines Of th'
Russian State Church.
In Che Kingdom Of Holland the principle Of th'
separation OF Church aud Stste has been formally
} acknowledged by the Legislature and tie Govern
ment. A royal decree therefore abolishes the Min
is,ry Of Public Worship. and assigns ihe' ahairs Q
the Reformed Church, 10 ia rs obey concern tht
State, to the Ministry Of Justice, aud those Of th'
Catholic Church 10 the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs
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