Show LEOS POLICY the NEWS has previously noted the movement which is on foot to various oriental christian tiong with their great water mater church whose capital seat ta Is rome borne and the bonfe conference deboo to be held in jerusalem this year it la is now learned that the pope has appointed an official to rep resent the vatican at this meeting one of the objects of the conference is to see eee what can be done by way of evening out the differences to in the liturgies liturgics of the various Christ christian IsM bodies and it is ig safe to say bay that if the pope can show himself somewhat liberal with donst donations lons ad generous hi allowing the leading prelates pr elates to retain th their tr prea eLt power the obstacles te is th the divergent rituals and doctrines doctrine will prove surmountable there are a great many different oh churches in the fast bast the most important one except the rotating roman Is in the greek with its various divi divisions sious s there to Is the branch that la Is governed by the must most holy archbishop of constantinople Constant lB 11 1 who has nasa a hard struggle ruggle et to keep the slavonic christians in the alexandrian branch le i governed by the blessed and holy patriarch of the great real efty of alexandria I antioch is the seat of the blessed and holy patriarch of the city of god P and jerusalem of the blessed bl eased and holy patriarch of the holy city of jerusalem of palestine syria arabia beyond jordan cans cana galilee and holy zion all these branches of the greek church which together with the russians und and greeks are considered orthodox might probably listen to reasonable propositions for a union with rome T hey all lecog preme authority ofa of a general council instead of the pope but the trouble Is 18 that there has bus not been such it a council held during the last years and nobody seems to td know how it can be convened a fact that leaves these theme churches practically without say any supreme authority at all it would there tore not seem impossible to convince their leading prelates pr elates who live in the midst of mohammedan it would be for their benefit to acknowledge eddeth th supremacy of rome theres the bus elan also the other hand would probably not yet be pre red tor the proposed union the they 90 akred 8 ve kings to command and need ao pope then there are the copts coats most numerous in egypt they are de descend ants ol of ancient christian churches to that country and claim to have abdo converted originally by mark whose goppel Is in still extant most 0 of johdos f the are independent but small sections have already joined rome generally they hate other christians with all 0 the to strength of ig ignorance Dorance and bigotry combined many of the oriental churches churche ii are af descendants of the thomas christians a sect which Is first found in india 1018 aney claimed to be the converts of WO the apostle thom thome e several wean attempt have at various times been made mr iw franciscans dominicans and J esufe to convert them to rome jomo and nd as early as 1699 1599 a union was partially 1 effiew which however was attain there can at present be no ff taototo tao teto to then joining jolting rome again the jeruham Jer ulam conference confer erce will be watched with great itt ii terRt Arest for should thie the pope succeed in uniting under his hia steptor those various vardoui churches urchea ob he will obtain an I 1 L in the vast turkish empire which way may perhaps halteh the day of its ito downfall in the efat |