The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-22
CHURCH CHIMES.
Doings and Sayings in the
Religious World.
SERVICES IN CITY CHURCHES
Is Protestant Unity POssible-An
other View of Protestant Unity
A Miracle of Miracles.

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5AINrs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ
! Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor anC
| Charles W PenroSe, counSelors. Services
in the Tabernacle at 2 p. m. Evening
services in the various wards.
METHODIST CHURCH.-Rev. c. L. Libby
pastor. Services as follows: Sunday schoo
1T g. 40 a m Sermon at IL O'Clock am, by
DR.. Tiff In the evening at 80. The Pas
tor viii lecture on "The Duty of the Church
| to provide for the Social Needs of the Young
People" All young people are especially
| invited.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-HolyC ommun-
Ion OF am. Morning service with sermon
at II am. sunday school at 2 10 p M
Evening prayer and catechising at 3 30
Bible lesson at so m. Evening prayer
and sermon at 7.3o pm.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Public worship at
IL AIN. 7: 80 p m. and preaching by the pas
tor.iKev. r. G McNIece. Sabbath school at
II Is. Young Peoples meeting at 80. Subject
Of evening sermon: Some of the Peri S OF
GU City" Seats free at all the services
and strangers welcome.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. - The
Rev. J. b Thrall, pastor. Public worship
with sermon by the pastor at IL am. Sun day
school at II Is. Young People smeeting at
6p.m. Seats free, and everybody invited to
all services.
IS PROTESTANT UNITY POSSIBLE?
Practical unity will come about only
by the gradual assimilation of each
church to all the others, rather than by
any one church swallowing up all the
others. This process of assimilation
is going on now with greater rapidity
than we imagine. Many of the de-
nominational angles have become worn
away. There is tendency in all the
churches to hide away or ignore the
doctrines that more peculiarly differ
entiate them from the rest of Chrissen-
dom. Almost unconsciouSly to them
sels es the churches are finding the least
common multiple of their dogmstic
creeds, and are exhibiting this common
multiple instead of their own special
creed as the highest outlook of modern
Christianity. 1t is difficult for any ex-
cept very close observers to see it, but
there is a healthful readjustment of
thought going on in thu Protestant
world to-day. There is movement
downwards on the part of those denom-
nations which shot above the normal
line Of ESSENTIAL Christianity, and a
movement upwards on the part of those
denominations that fell below that nor
NAL line. And when they all meet, as
NEE: they will, on a common line, the
question of the reunion o. Protestant
ism will solve itself without the help of
any formal schemes of unity AS
organizations they will have outlived
their usefulness. But out OF the i'm
periShable elements, and vital truths
which ara to be found in them, there
and more catholic organization which
mil ~ nd Icfx OF
Of the human heart, and which VIII be
the earthly counterpart OF tnat house
not made with hands. eternal in the
heavens. james B. WATSON, in The
AndOUer RCUierV.
ANOTHER VIEW OF PROTESTANT UNITY.
If the old historic divisions of Pro-
testantism were healed tomorrow, new
questions would constantly arise that
would cause other divisions. This IS
inevitably SO; for the right of private
Judgment lies at the very foundation
of Professionalism, and in exercising
that right men must differ not only in
their views OF theology, but in their
conceptions OF religious trnth. And for
q long time to come those differences
will be embodied in special organiza-
tons. It may be as The AndOrer ReuieW
writer says, that the present divisions
OF Professionalism enfold no living
of the Christianity of this age,
and serve simply to emphasize and re-
call the theological differences of an age
that is past. If so, the denominations
will soon cease to perpetuate them and !
will fall into new divisions that will en-
Told some living thought of the age. /
And SO the process will go on from
generation to generation, SO long as |
men continue to think on the great |
problems of human life and destiny.
Of course there is q grievOus waste of |
thought and effort involved in denom-
Bot the waste is the /!
price which Professionalism pays for it's
piritual and intellectual life, and the
pest its leaders can do is to minimize it
~ cultivating q spirit of charity and
among the denominations
New York Tribune.
\ MIRACLE OF MIRACLEs
If we are baffied in trying to account
IN natural principles even for the idea
If Christ. how shall we account for
Christ himself? Is not His name above
very name? Where can we find one
% couple with it? Renan suggests st.
francis d ASSIST. Does not the very
mention of that name just show the
of the attempt? How dis
inct is the portrait painted in those
our artless records, the Gospels, and
ret how much fairer is it than the child
EN- of men! Who is not made to feel
hat Jesus is a man and yet above a
nan, brother and yet above a
,rother2 It is not only that Jesus
vas so remarkable in himself; If posi-
lie he was more remarkable in the at
aohment, the boundless devotion and
which he inspired.
Who else, at the highest stretch of such
covers, ever achieved the thousandth
,art of that most peculiar influence
which in all ages has belonged to Jesus?
It. Bernardo Sir Philip Sidney2
dartln Luther? John Wesley7 Why,
he very mention of their names in such
connection seems ludicrous. How re-
L arkable that the name of the carpen-
er's son of Nazareth is the one and
'ply name at which every knee has
'een constrained to bow, and every
ongue o confess In truth the
of Christ as the Son
# God and the Savior of man Is the
acknowledgement of q miracle COM
jared To which all other miracles sink
ntO the shade IF Christ was horn