New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-12
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A SUCCESSFUL MISSION According to some
recent statements made in Paris the religious
propaganda in AMMAN has been singularly sue
cessful. For ecclesiastical purposes the country
il under two Wears apOstolic-one having
charge of the northern, the other of the south
ern division. In the former there are 81 french
missionaries, SO native priests, 362 catechlsts,
and $4,000 converts. There are In TINS az,
vision 475 churches three seminaries, with ~
students, and 504 schools or orphanages, with
COLO children. In the southern section there
are 73,4S3 converts, under 20 French and 90
native priests, and 161 catechists. These are
provided with 271 churches, two seminaries,
with 1873 students, and five orphanages, con-
sent vast success, when the frightful persecu-
tons of twenty years ago are taken into &C,
count The secret of much Of the influence Oh
the Catholic missionaries in the East is that
they establish orphanages from the commence
mrnt, and crowd them with the little walls
and strays that abound in great Oriental cities.
From their infancy these are then trained 10 De
priests and catechists among their countrymen.
UNIVERSAL RELIGIoN.-1he Madras Mail of
India, does not believe that o belief in the uni
versal eternal damnation of the heathen Is a
necessary incentive to missionary zeal. 1t has
often grieved us, it says, to see the attitude OF
young ecclesiastical persOnages and others VINO
ought to know better toward the sacred books
and the national usages of non Christian nations,
as if they were 10 much RI bbish to be shunted
ont of tho way as speedily as possible. The
growth of the comparative scences-philology,
mythology, religion, etc.-has tended to widen
the thought OF men and to create more intel
ligent public opinion on the relation OF man to
man the world o'er.' The moro the faiths OF
the world are known, and the deeper their doc
triDes are studied the more will they throw lgnt
on the religious nature OF man the more VIII
Truth; the more will Christianity be seen to lie
at the basis of all the religions of the past, and
therefore, tho moro imperative will be the
claims of the world at large on the blessings OF
the Gospel. As a consequence, the wider Will
grow the vision OF the Christian, and the more
sympathetic is he bound to become in respect TO
the feelings OF his fellows"
I. THE HIGHER CRITICISM DEAD.-The o.
server feels itself authorized to announce that
the Higher Criticism is dead and this is the
way in which it informs an expectant world OF
the fact: " An added egg cannot be further
spoiled it is impossible to slay the slain. II
there is anything deader than what is called
Higher Criticism it must be Pharaoh. lie went
after Moses and got overwhelmed in the sea.
He has remained dead ever since. All the
critics who went for Moses a year or two
ago, and thought they could prove that he did
not write the Pentateuch, hive perished III
deeper sea of criticism than the king OF Egypt
found. To the best of our knowledge there is
not scholar in this country of any pretension
to Evangelical religion who denies the Mosaic
authorship of the Pentateuch"
SUNDAY IN ST. LOUIS. a Probably no city in
the limited States,n says The Central Christian
Advocate, "has SO little reverence for sunday
as a religious institution as St. Louis. VIC nave
on orr statute books about the same Sunday
laws that other States and cities have, put no
person appears to pay the least attention to
them as u restraint on any one from doing Just
"a he pleases; and the police authorities evil
dently consider themselves relieved from all
obligation to enforce them. Visitors to the city
freely express their astonlshment at this con-
djtion of things and count IL disgraceful sur
render of American traditions OF moral culture
to the exactions Of foreigners and the low class
of politicians who bid Tor the support OF the
people who do not believe in religion. This Is
not an unfair statement OF the situation"
Fraternal relations were happily established
between the Anglican Synod of Huron and the
General Assembly of Canada. The Episcopal
Bishop, Dr. Hemuth, came into the Assembly
and made warm hearted and brotherly ad-
dress. Some of the Presbyterian Bishops were
sent over to the Synod with the salutati0ns of
the Assembly. The Presbyterian says that it
was not much for either OF these Christian AS
semblies to do, but it has been found very diff
cult to do it in the past, and in some places 1t is
still impossible.
The Bishop of Edinburgh will be among the
visitors to the next General Convention of the
Episcopal Church, which will take place in
October The Churchndn says: " He will be
welcome, not only as bringing with him new
evidence of the affectionate kindness of the
Church i'm Scotland toward the Church in
America, but as representing noble diocese
which has not long ago given proof OF its
vitality in the erection OF noble cathedral.
A village in Connecticut, with population
of SCO has six churches OF different denomin-
atons, each in competitive rivalry with the
others. This is by no means an isolated case.
In many places In the New-England States it is
almost as bad, and there are scores of places in
the newly.settled parts OF the West where
similar folly prevails.
The Primitive Christian and The Brethren
at Work, the only two denominati0nal papers
of the Dunkards in this country, have been
consolidated and will hereafter be published
under the firm name of the Brethren's Pub
fishing Company" at Mount Morris, Ill.
The Rev. DIR. Ever, OF this city, says, in The
Sunday Magazine that the title Protestant
Epscopal Cnnrch" applied to the religious body
Of that name is as absurd as II MASSACHUSETTS,
should dub itself The Anti Mormon Guberna-
torial State"
Under the head of @Sunday Services" st.
Louis paper recently had the following notice:
q Tho immaculate Conception SOdslity nine
will cross bats with the Christian Brothers Sec
ond nine Sunday, at pm"
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION
nr Eohart q Smvth ~ Andover nresident-