The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-17
CHURCH CHIMES.
Doings and Sayings in the
Religious World.
SERVICES IN CITY CHURCHES
Marter With Ingersoll The
Nature of Sin-NOtes.
Divine worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows:

Divine worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATpER-pAY
SAIsTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus N.
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, counselOrs. Services
In the Tabernacle at 2 p. M, Evening
services N the various wards.
METHODIST CHURcH.-C L. Libby. pastor.
Sunday School at 40 q. nj. Preaching at IL
a. II. and 7.31 p. n. by the pastor Glass
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL-Holy Comnunc
ion att so am. Sunday school at @ AS q m,
Morning service with SERMON ct II a. m.
Evening prayer at pm,
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHuKcH. The
Rev. J. B. Thrall, pastor. Public worship
with sermon by the pastor at II =. m. Sun
day school at II 10. Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeayor at 6p m,
FIRST PRESAYTERILN. Public worship at
II @, N. and preaching by the Rev Charles
Fuller, of Gunnlson, Colorado. No preach-
ing in the evening. sabbath school at
Z %. Young peoples meeting at 6.45.
MR. SANKEY goes to England in MAY,
for a series of meetings TO be helo
through the country,
REV. ]. F. DIoEfE, Of the Scotch Pres
byterian church, of Detroit, has been
invited to take charge of the American
chapel In Paris.
The Salvation Army conducts 9,100
professions weekly through the streets
of the British Kingdom, or an average
of 1900 per day.
THE Western Unitarian Conference,
hni EhlpQpn N
favoring close relations between the
Unitarian Universalist and independent
churches, through yearly State con-
ferences.
EIGHTY Jews and Jewesses were bap-
tized recently III Christ Church, Mount
Zion, Jerusalem. Several other JEWS b
candidates are awaiting baptism. The
three daug hters OF Joseph RsbiI.owitz,
leader of the Hebrew Christian move.
ment in South Russia, have lately been
baptized.
THE OLD FAITH AND THE NEW.
We have been born into an age when,
ia the circles of literature and science.
there is a strong anti-dogmatic leaning,
a prejudice which may largely intercept
Il g action of judgment. Partly because
belief has it superStitions, and the de-
lection of these superstitlons opens the
fabric to attack, like breach Ia the wall
Of fortress. when. at given point, 1t
has been stuffed with uus ound material.
Partly because the rapiOi Y of the move
ment of the time predisposes the
mind to novelty. Partly because
the multiplication of enjoyments,
through the progress of commerce ana
invention. enhances the materiallsm of
life, strengthens by the forces OF habit
the hold OF the seen world upon US, and
leaves less both of brain power and of
heart power available for tie unseen.
Enormous accretion Of wealth is no more
deprived of its sting now than it was
when st. Paul penned his profoundly
penetrating sdmonition to Timothy
And when, under the present conditions
it happens that the environment of
personal association represents either
concentrated hostility or hopeless diver
sity in religion, there may be hardly
3 chance for firm and measured belief.
What We find to be troublesome, yet
from some inward protest are not pre-
pared to wholly reject. We like to sim
plify and reduce; and the instances Of
good and devoted men who are averse
to dogma, more frequent than usual in
this age, are powerful to persuade US
that in Tightening the cargo we are
really securing the safe voy age of the
ship. About dogma We hear dispute
but the laws of high social morality no
speculation is disposed to question.
Why not get rid of the dip1table, and
concentrate all our strength on grasping
the undisputed9" We may, by little
Wrestling, quote high authority for this
recommendation. "Whereto we have
already attained let us mind the
same thing. And if in anything
ye be otherwise minded, God shall re-
veal even this unto yeu.'' 1t is not
difficult to conceive how, under the
action of causes with which the time
aR2Unds, pure and lofty minds, wholly
guiltless of the intention to impair OK
lower the motive forces of Christianity
may be led into the snare, and may
even conceive a process in itself de-
structive to be, On the contrary. con
sentative and reparstory. When
we speak Of renounoing Christian
dogma, what is it that we
mean. The germ OF Il as a system
lies in the formula, "Baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Hely Ghost. This
was speedily developed into the sub
stance of the Apostles Greed; the creed
which forms our confession of individ-
ual faith, in baptism and on the bed of
death. Now, belief in God, which
forms (eo to spsak} the first great limb
OF the creed. IS strictly dogma, and is
on no account to be surrendered. \ y
The chasm between deity and the hui
man soul, over which the scheme of re-
demption has thu w, 9 bridge, again
yawns beneath our tea all Its breadth
and depth. y The trt in rude out
line is surely this: That ;, Zen the Cos
pei went out into the world, the great
est of all the groups of controversies
which progressively arose within It's
borders, was that which concerned tbs
true nature of the object of worship
That these controversies ran through
the most important shapes, which have
been known to the protesting church
of later years, and through many more
That they rose, espee ally in tue fourth
century. to such height, amidst the
| conflict Of councils p pes and thsolo-
gians, that the private Christian was
| too often like the dove wandeEins
over the waters, and seeking in vain {
resting place for the sole Of his foot
! That tie whole mind and heart of th'
church were given, in their whol
strength, and through a heightened pc