The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14
The New York Tribune ON
Rented PeWs.
ON BUTTON HOLE PERSUASION.
A New Mode of Conversion-Interest-
ing Notes OF a Religious
Nature.
Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows:

SAlN1S-SdlJ Ldh0 GlhhG VI LlOu, AuS US u
Cannon, president; Joseph Z. Taylor and
Charles ". Penrose, eounselors. Meeting
will be held in the Tabernacle at o'c.ock,
and in the Ward meeting houses in the
evening at the usual hour.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy Com
munion at $50 am. Sunday school at 9. 45
a. m. Morning prayer and sermon at IL
a. m. Bible class at 80 m. Evening
prayer and sermon at z 81 p m.
FIRST Observation-Disclosures worship at
Ii M, and preaching by the pastor, Kew.
X G. McNieCe. Sabbath school at 1925.
Young peoples meeting at 6 80. At 7.SO
Union meeting in the Church between the
Baptist, Congregational, Methodist and
Presbyterian Churches. Seats free at all the
services and strangers welcome.
METHODIST CHURCH.-C. L. Libby, pastor
Preaching at II a. m Subject, character
grown, not made" Young Peoples meet
ing at 630p pm. Union service in the inter-
ests of the american Bible Society in the
evening at the Presbyterian Church.
The Southern Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Board has under new appointment
eleven men aud thr-e women, and ex
poets to increase it's missionary force
the present year to twenty-five workers.
REV. WILLIAM KINCAID, DID,, late
District Secretary of the American
Beard, has been appointed secretary of
the Home Missionary Society, to ill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
DIR. Barrows.
THE Upiversslist General convention
meets in Chicago Wednesday, October
9th. The great questions to come be-
fore the session are, the adoption of
creed, and plan of biennial sessions, and
the Japan mission.
TIVE Romanists have less than 1000
church edihces in the United STATES !;
the Baptists nearly 1000; the CUngre-
gationalists, 1900; Presbyterians,
13, 600: the Protestant Episcopals. 500,
and the Methodists, Al 900.
THE Gospel Wagon workers il the
city of Washington have had most
successful summer campaign. Multi
tudes in the neglected. parts OF the city
have heard the gospel gladly, and many
have turned from their evil ways and
united with ChristiRn churches.
AMERICAN Protestant missionary So
cieties have in all the world 99S sta tons,
30t8 out-statlons, 9l2 male missionar-
les, 1.092 female, Z AIS native helpers,
1 093 churches, 159 2l6 communicates,
of Thom II 494 were ADDED last year.
The receipts Of the societies were So 508,-
295.
TID1NGs from Kolapoor, India, say
that the manifestations of joy on the
part of the native Christians IN seeing
Mrs. r. G. Wilder and her daughter
among them were wonderful. The
ladies were ahsent in America for thir-
teen years, but Miss Grace Wilder, who
Was her late fathers able assistant in
conducting the Missionary ReVseaV, still
talks Mahratta Cor Marathi) like a ma
tive.-CbriStaGn at Work.
Nor all wagons are fitted to run in
the same ruts. Not all churches are
fitted to run in the same grooves. I'M
itation, which is sometimes a meas of
success, may be also means of failure.
Why should church adopt the second
hand method or some other society
when it can do first hand work of it's
own? Here, as everywhere, the duty
that lies nearest should first be consid-
cred. The fulfillingof that may reveal
duties that are more remote.-Chrjstian
Register,
THERE never was time in the mod
ern history Of our church when the
ministers. as whole, wer; devoted
and so enthusiastic, or when they were
SO ready to declare that Methodism
does not exist for the sake of the minis
tiers, but The ministers for the sake of
Methodism. The new spiritual move
ment has already exhibited many en-
couraging features; but not one of
them is more promising than the steady
rising of the standard of ministerial
qualification, both intellectual anG
moral.-The Methodist Times, London,
England.
Button HOLE PERSUASION Our
churc es are about to enter upon new
campaign for winning souls. As Chris
tians, we believe that all who are out Of
Christ are ia imminent peril. We pro
TESS to desire above all Things the saliva
ton of sinners. Yet how little there is
of the urgent pleading, the untiring eff
fort, il trying TO win men from the
power of Satan to God, which political
partlsans show in seeking to persuade
men to their way of thinking. The SIM
pie truth Is, the great body of our
church members are altogether too
tinid in pressing the truth home upon
the hearts and cGnsciences of sinners.
There is such thing, to be sure, as
zeal without knowledge" in approach
ing the unc0nverted, but so, alas, is
there far TOO great reucence in address,
ing them. We venture to say that all
the harm ever done by over-zealous
brethren is as nothing compared with
that which has resulted from letting
opportunities for personal effort pass
unlmproved. W. trust 100 much to
long range shooting-to sermons end
prayer me citing talks. They have great
value; we would not depreciate them.
But they need to be followed 10 by
hsnd-to hand encounter. by button
hole Observation-Disclosures (Bdptist.)
RENTED PEws.-There is nothing that
tends to create among the poor SO
pluch prejudice against the churches
as the system of renting pews; nor can
there be anything more directly op-
posed to the first principles of Chris
Iianity. It's the rented pew that keeps
rich and poor apart in the churches
The lines of class distinction are drawn
wherever money is paid fer seats in that
Jerusalem which is from above, but is
not free. The poor are made TO feel
that religion. after all, is very much of
q luxury, and that they can not afford
it. Here the Episcopal church of this
CITY is setting noble example to other
religious bodies. Upward Of one-nalf
of the houses of that body are already
free churches, and the movement is
making rapid progress. One other