The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-01
CHURCH CHIMES.
Doings and Sayings IN the
Religious Weird.
f INTEREST TO ALL.
Public Worship - bethlehem The
EaEly Apostles - Feast of the
GIrcumcision-LOc. IL and General.
Divine services wiI be conducted IN

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the various churches today as follows
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAl
SAISTS.-Salt Lake Stake of Zions Angus M
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor an'
Charles W. Penrose, counselors. Service
IN the Tabernacle at 2 pm. Evening ser
vices in the various wards
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH :
Fourth West Street, between First anC
Second South r. w. Blohm, minister, Ser
vices 1T IL am. and at z pm sabbath sehoo
Immediately after morning service. Scan
diu6vian services at 4 p N. Everyb0d!
cordially invited. -
METHODIST MISSION Sunday School a
1pm in the Eleventh Ward Mission Chapel
Preaching by the pastor at $50. Everybody
welcome.
ST. MARY's CATHEDBAL-HolyC ommun
ion at a IN. Morning prayer and baptism
at 9. IS m. Litsny, sermon and Holy Com
munlon at IL am. sunday school at 4e
pm Evening prayer and catechikiue al
3Sopm. Bible lesson at 6 30p.m. Even,
In prayer and sermon at 7.S0 pm.
METHODIST CHURCH.-C. L. Libby. pastor.
Preacning at II a m. Unto service in
SUNDAY choHl at 40 m. Reception of
members at the morning service The week
OF prayer wilt be. observed as follows: Mon
day evening, at the Presbyterian Church
Tuesday evening. at the Congregational
Church; TnursGay and Friday evenings, at
the Methodist Church
FIRsT CoNeREGATIeNAL CHURCH - The
Rev. J. B Thrall, pastor. Public worship,
with New Years sermon by the pastor, at IL
am. Sunday school at IL l5. Young Peoples
on account of union service in the Presby-
terrain Church Seats tree, and everybody
welcomed at all services.
THH ANNUAL meeting Of the First Congre-
gational Church and Society, Rev. B.
Thrall, pastor, will be held in the audience
WpdnaadQu evening
at 30 O'Clock. There will be sociable,
music, refreshments, brief reports and cleo
ton of officers. ALI who are in any way con-
nected with the church and society are cor
diaRy invited.
FIFTY years ago the Scriptures were
circulated in 40 languages; now tn y
are circulated in $50.
THE total amount of the late Peters
Pence collection, taken up in the New
Yo-k archdiocese as Jubilee Offering
to Pope Leo Kill, was $37, $500.
LETTERS from English missionaries at
Chagga state that the chief, Mandara,
is tOlerating parties of slave-traders in
his country, and that these slave
traders are eager propagandists of Mo-
hRmme0anism.
Dr. BAUMANN. of the Church Missi u
oIS COCtCtyi ISOcutly dSASU we'll
known Brahmiu in Calcutta il he ever
read Bible. The man looked at him,
and then slowly replied: II have read
the New Testament eighty-three times
and the Old twenty-seven."
II is now decided that next summer
there shall be held in London, great
Catholic congress of lay and clerical
delegates from all English-spsaking
communities in the world. Preliminary
meetings were recently held, at which
three main subjects for discussion were
suggested, namely! the attitude of the |
Catholic Church toward education in |
general; whether it is possible to ar
range for greater cooperation of he |
laity IN the work of the church, and to |
consider what steps should be taken |
for the diffusion OF Catholic literature |
among the masses.
A MAJORITY of the standing commit
tees and of the bishops having given
their canonfcal consent to the conseora-
ton of the Rev. Abel Leonard as bishop
Of the missionary jurisdiction OF Nevada
and Utah, and &c Tie conservation of the
Rev. James Steptoe Johnston as bishop
of tae missionary jurisdiction Of West
efn Texas; the presiding bishop has
0mmunlCased the testimonials" of the
Rev. Mr.. Leonard to the bishops of
Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri; and
those Of the Rev. Mr.. Johnston to the
bishops of Alabama, Kentucky and
Michigan. The conservation OF Dir.
Johnston ia appointed for the Feast of
Epiphany; that of Mr.. Leonard is not
yet determined.-The .Living Church,
ReceRber Gath.
THERE was opened in Brooklyn. N.
Y, on the 18th of December, 1887. q
Methodist Episcopal General Hospital.
which when completed according 10
plans, will cost a million or more of
dollars. Already there has been exS
pended On the grounds and Ibe CON-
pletioH of one wing over $500, 600,
$400 900 of which were given by George ;
/. Seney. 1t is founded on very liberal
basis, as shown by the following extract Y
from the dedicatorial address, given ~ s
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Episco-
pal church: Dearly beloved, it is meet
and right that houses erected for the {
relief OF our fell Jw beings should be es-
pecially set apart and dedicated to that
sacie ed Use. For such dedication we
are now assembled. With gratkude,
therefore. to Almighty God, who hath
agnslly blessed his servants in their
holy enterprise of erecting this struc-
ture. we dedicate it o the glory Of God |
for the tender, wise and Gevout care of '
ali sick and suffering who may be re
Ceived yithin its walls. We dedicate
this pavilion as part of the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital, to bs open to Jew
and GENTLE, Protestant and Catholic,
h, athen and iaidei, al on TIE same
terms"
AT the pIacs in Bethlehem EleTe it
is beliyed that Jesus YVES born rssre
now stands a church, the. CT lrcn If
the Nativity. DIR. Geikie, in his new
book, entitled 1.-The Holy Land and
the Bible" says IN connection with
his visit to this church and its unspeEK-
ably sacred chapel beneath its eastern Z
end, . fifteen silver lamps burn in il
night and day, lighting up the painted )
marble which epcrust it, and in the .
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