, 1884-06-17
SUNDAY TOPICS.
News Notes of Interest Picked Up
About Town.
What Was Done At The Various
Churches.
Two Fine Discourses Preached BY
Visiting CIergymen.

Keefe's hall on Thursday evening.
Rev. G. n. Eldridge will fill the pulpit
at the Presbyterian Church next Sunday.
Services were unusually well attended
at the Methodist Church both morning
and evening.
Rev. j. Y. Cowhick assisted in conduct
ing the services at the Presbyterian Church
in the evening.
The Presbyterian church needs more
light in the evening. AS it is now it
looks altogether too dark.
The weather was excellent and every
BODY took advantage of the fact and went
riding or walking.
The young peoples meeting at the Con-
gregational church parlors was well at
tended as usual.
A.good many went out to the cemetery
to visit the graves of friends, as is usually
the case on Sundays.
The Congregational choir is constantly
changing to some extent in membership.
One or two new faces were seen.
Some parties going to church in the
evening were heard to remark, Wonder if
the herders will give us a seat ?"
The John +. Reynolds post monument,
erected on Decoration Day, has been
blown down and Is badly smashed.
Mrs. Charles Masten sang a very
beautiful selection at the Presbyterian
Church in the evening, which was highly
appreciated by the congregation.
The children of the Presbyterian
church are to meet in the church on
Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock for the
purpose of practicing for the concert.
The Presbyterian Sunday School, of
which Robert N. Heath is superintend-
ent, is in a lourishing condition and will
give a concert one week from next Sun
day.
The E~piscopalians are still minus a
tenor singer, but, as now constituted,
their choir is about all that could be
desired SO far as excellent singing is
concerned.
Several sail boats were abroad in Lake
Minnehaha, and a lady who was out walk
ing with some little children was over
heard to caution them not to $50 near the
shipping.
At the new Congregational Chapel
(Southside Church, Rev. j. Howard
Phillips held the first regular service that
has taken place there, and preached
both morning and evening to a good sized
congregation. His topic in the morning
was ''Perishable Riches" while in the
evening he preached from the text, When
/ see the blood l will pass over you"
Both ermons were interesting and in
structive. The attendance upon the Sab
bath school, of which DIR. Wyman is
superintendent, numbered seventy.
MR.. BROOKS REMARKS.
Rev. i. A. Brooks, of Denver, preach
ed morning and evening at the Presbyte-
rian church, in the place of Rev. Mr..
Chapman, who is in the East. In the
evening his text was Come and See
being the answer to the question Can
any good thing come out of Nazareth ?"
The speaker, after some preliminary OBJ
servation, went on to say that he admired
and respected skeptics-honest skeptics-
and he had often felt thankful that a
doubling Thomas had been given TO the
world, or rather that there had been such
Il person in the times of Christ. Thomas
would not believe that Christ had risen
until he thrust his hand into the wounded
side, and then he was convinced. Where
would the world have been to-day had it
not been for skeptics. To be skeptical is to
be of an inquiring turn of mind
and what would have become of the hui
man family, or where would the world
have been if the children, for instance,
had not been skeptical, had they not in
quired. And this reminded him that one
should
NEVER DECEIVE THE CHILD.
being told about Santa Claus, and he had
never recovered from it and never should.
Men did not think there was anything in
the reality of the religion of the Master,
but his advice to all such was to come and
see and they will find out for themselves.
They will ask you to explain how it is
that they can be saved and the world be
saved by the death of Christ. Said the
speaker 'Ifyon ask me to explain why it
is and how it is hat the blood of Jesus
Christ saves the world now, saveI it at
the time of His death and for forty cen.
turtles before his coming. Il
you ask me to explain the
the great mystery of the incarnation, !
will tell you frankly that 1 cannot do it.
| have labored in the pulpit for sixteen
years, but
UNDERSTAND NO lore ABOUT IT
now than | did when | first entered the
ministry" The gentleman then also
stated that it would be impossible for hin
to explain how prayer is heard anC
answered. Other things of a world!
character were also mysterious, such al
the telephone, the telegraph, but he die
not doubt their correctness. While al
things in reference to the plan o
salvation are wrapped in myster!
and are hard to explain, yet ther,
is a way in which it can all be understood
and that is in the language of the tex
Come and See" This sermon, of which
the forogoing 10 of coursa hut n NOR,