New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-09
CHURCH AND STATE.

The United Brethren in Christ, denomination
which does not admit shareholders, are keeping up
their missions in kentucky. One Of their mission
sres in that State the Rev. William Blair, writes
from Adar County that his last round the mission
was more fatterng than the previous one. There
were large congregations good attention, and quite
good feeling in the meeting. The members gener-
ally are firm, and but for the Rebellion the Church
would do well. Mr.. Blair expresses the hope that
the Rebellion will close favoraby TO the cause of the
Church in Kentucky, AS well as in other Border
States and that the great evil which has brought
this core upon us may be removed from the nation,
and from the world forever. The protrscted meet
ings Of the United Brethren in Kentucky CON-
mence about the middle Of August.
Like the Bishop Of Maine, to whose patriotic
address we referred in The TRIBUNE week ago,
Bishop Lee of Delaware has emphatically con-
demned the rebellion ia bis address 10 the Annual
Episcopal Convention. The Bishop thinks that TO
keep back the plain testimony of Scripture upon great
questions of civil obligation and responsibility, when
the foundations of society and government are
threatened with subyerson, would be not to
declare the whole counsel Of God.
bishop Clark of Rhode Island made stirring
war speech d, the recent meeting IN Providence.
But for his grea. age, the B.hop remarked that lie
would enlist himself.
The PresJ y,criaa Banner, Of Pittsburgh, says
that DIR. Pumer is the only Professor in Allegheny
Seminary whose loyalty is doubtful. One Of his col
leagues, Dr. Wilson, made patriotic war speech at
the recent mass meeting at Pittsburgh.
Some Of the Churches Of Great Britain do no,
conrider it inconsistent with their profession of ANU
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Southern Shareholders. At the General Assembly OF
tbs Irish Presbyterian Church the delegate Of the
Old-Scbool Prcsbytenan Church Of the United States
expected TO secure their sympathy by reading the
Anti Slavery resolutions OF the General Assembly oil
1918. and the nots OF 1861 aud 1862, by which the
Old School Prc.byterian Church has awakened at
leas, some hope that she will yet. at some future
dny revert 10 her decided An,i-Slavery position of
former t,m,r But the Irish As emily did not seem
TO regard ii expeden, 10 express any satisfaction
with the progress Of Anti-Savery views al the pres-
cnt time. The address Of the American delegate
WAS received with decided coOlness Nothing was
aid in the reply thst might no. jurt as well have
been said 10 delegate from the Confederate States.
Perhaps their feeding upon royal bounty has
made them particularly anxious at this time to prove
their loyalty TO the aristocratc constitution Of En-
gland by marked display Of hostility to American
republoanifm.
On July 20 the Catholics Of Ireland celebrated
a, Dublin tho foundation Of the Catholic University.
The Irish Papers say that Dublin never Witnessed
a greater national festiyiy Nearly all the Bishops
Of Ireland were present, and come twenty from
abroad A considerable number Of members of Par
lament and depu,aions from every town of Ireland,
in most cases including the mayor and other town
officers, also attended. Archbishop Hughes of New
York preached sermon, in which he compared the
religious freedom Of the Irish Catholics in America
where they had no difficulty in ob,inng chaiters for
their colleges and universites-with their rill con
tnuing oppression at home, where the English Gov
eminent had Just refused them charter for the first
university they wished 10 found.
The French Government 10 the intimate ally
and patron Of tho Roman Catholic mission in the
pagan countries Of Asia and Africa. In China
the Imperial Government has granted the re.tora-
ton 10 the Catholic missionaries of a church ut
Shanghae which in former centuries belonged TO
them, and in Cochin-Chipa one Of the condi ions
which they make the conclusion of peace depend
10 the establishment Of full freedom Of religion for
the Roman Catholic converts. In China, IN conse-
quence Of this patronage Of France the Roman
Catholic church ia rapidly reestsblishing the power
which che had acquired in former times. In Pekin
at the last celebration Of tho Corpus Christi Festi-
val four Of the highest Mandarins bore the canopy
over the Host
Another American missionary has been mur.
dered in Turkey. The murderers Of the Rev. J.
Coping Lad hardly been captured, when the tee-
graph brought news to Cons,antinople OF the
sinstion Of the Rev. w. Merriam, al agent Of the
American Board of Missions stationed at Philip
popol. He had recently made journey 10 Consan-
tinople, accompanied by his wife, and had arrived
within nine miles OF PhIppopoli, when the little
party WAS surprised by brgands. The Government
Of the Sultan continues to show the greatest liber-
atty toward the Christian Acknowledgement
greater than most of the Christian Governments of
Europe show toward the dissenting denominations
but the fanaticism Of part Of the Aohammedan
population is greater and more uncomfortable than
formerly.
Russia is making greater efforts than ever before
to Cbrhtanize, and at the time, to Russanize.
the Asatic tribes which becoming subject 10 her
rule. 1t has just been announced by the Holy Synod
Of St. Petersburg that TRANSLATION Of the Bible into
the Morcha dialect has been lately completed aud
distributed among tho newly-baptzed Christians of
that race The Morchas are a tribe Of Tartar ma
iionality, belonging to the extensive family of the
Mordvires, whose teLts are pitched on either side of
the southerly ridge Of the Ural mountains. OF the
four tribes Of the Mordvlnes two have been entirely
Russianzed in the progress Of time and are already
converted into fit material for Cossack cavalry
There can be little doubt that all tho tribes of
Siberia and many Of Central Asia will be- in the
course Of time absorbed by the Russian nationality
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