The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-29
RELIGION AND POLITICS.
THE RELIGIOUS BEARINGS OF THE EASTERN
QUESTION.

THE RELIGIOUS BEARINGS OF THE EASTERN
QUESTION.
"Mohammcdanism was just scourgs upon tho
Creek Church for its schism aud apostasy from tho
then established Church, well for its bringing
subscrvcncy to tho potcntaes Of tho world" said the
Rev. W. W. Andrews last evening In beginning hts
lecture "Thc Religious and Prophetic Bearings OF
the Eastern Question" at tho Catholic Apostolic
Cnurcn Tho extraordinary growth OF the religion OF
MOhammcd well as The corresponding OF the
with the prophecy Genesis that the children OF
lshmacl would become mighty the face OF the csrth.
II has oulved IT'S time, however, and tho oppression
long exercised by II over tho Christians IN Turkey
and tho recent cructics committed In Bulgaria bavc
turned the eyes OF al Europe toward y, and
Latin and tho Protestant churches from their
apathy The Emperor Of Russia, who rules
common feeling of the people stands ready at present.
to p0unce upon the Turks as his prey aud to bcrae
IL, o0O,0 900 OF Christians change is at hand This
change Will not consist Ia the supremacy OF Russia
como suppose, or IN tho extension OF English CON-
merce, as others expect but IL will consist In iibcrat
under which u now languishes. This can be produced
solely. however, by supernatural Causes The move
ment may BE- begun by arihy potcntates by wealthy
capitalists, but God alono cdcctually WORK IL
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY.
at all tho civilized world Is tending toward demo.
cratic form of government" said Bishop Spalding, at
the Cooper Union last evening, ''thcn wo can best
the future Of the Catholic Church by tracing her
history under the institutions OF this country" He
then went to say that II the Church were perch
II could not be by persecution for such impossible
under liberal form OF government but by tho action
oil social INSTITUTIONS OF science and liberty and cduca-
ton, her enemies assert. All this we have
had In tho United States for the last 100
years, and yet tho Church has not ouy not
persisted. but has almost culousiy NO
try tho world had boon moro noerant to Catholics
thein this; tho Puritans would allow them In the
land the Virginans, enforcing the penal laws Of Eng.
land, would not permit them to know anything
havo anything and in Maryland, IN which they had
declared liberty 10 ALL when tho power was wrestcd
from them, the sumo tax was placed an Irish Cath
Ollie and slave. AZ tn Revolution they few in
number, feeble, condemned without rights and sink
ing into cthargy. Nor did the constitution better
them the least for IL left to the States the power
cnacting penal statutes against them, and this power
exercised II Jcicrson's secular
theory Of government that has obtained them any
rights in this country and 1t for this
reason that Catholics almost instnctivcly demo-
Gratis. But Notwithstanding all these disadvantages
and thor poverty and ignorance cngendcrcd by 200
years OF persecution, how wonderful has been the
progress OF the Catholics under Rcpu Bile In l75
they were but ono to one hundred OF the population
pers, and 1875 the property Of their Church Is val
ued 500 O00O 600 hundred years ago they had not
college or school in tho land and now they bavo
6526 Churches 80 theological Summaries, 63 colleges
and 256 academies. Certainly this to provo
cusivcly that democracy and Catholicism very far
from beng aniagonstic Protestant opinion would
hold