The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-23
CHURCH CHIMES.
Interesting Sunday Reading
for the Masses.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES TODAY.
Notes From sectRrian PAPERS and
Eminent Diviues-The Heatheus
and Christianity.
Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows;

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER.DAY
S tINTS Salt Lake Stake OF Zion, Angus M
Cannon, president; Joseph e. Taylor and
Charles ". Penr0se, eounselors Meeting
will be held in the Tabernacle at . O'Clock,
and in the Ward meeting houses in the
evening at the usual hour.
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL-Holy Com
muniOn at a. m. Morning prayer and
sermon at IL a. m. Sunday school at As
pm. Evening prayer and instruction at
5 sop m Bib;e class at 6.15 m. Even
ing prayer and sermon at 7.30 p m.
METHODIST OHURCH-C. L. Libby. pastor
Sermon to children in the morning, at II
o'clock. Sunday school and Young - pe,pie's
meeting as usual. BIT 73O pm. the pastor
Will speak on the Misrepresentation of
Christianity made by infidels, and especi-
ally by Dr. York on last Sabbath evening.
free-thinkers invited to attend.
The Independent will be 40 years old
on December 9th.
ELIZABETH Taller, of Marion. Mass,
bequeaths $4,000 to religious and
benevolent enterprises.
MICHAEL DoHERTY, of Philadelphia,
| left 81 900 each to six institutions OF the
Roman Catholic church.
THE late Mrs. Betsey Bradley, of
New Haven, lett her estate of $500 600
TO the Seamen's Friend Socie ty and St.
Paups church.
REV. J. MILLS KENDREcK, D. D., of the
diocese of Southern Ohio. has been
elected to the bishopric of New Mexico
and Arizona.
FoRTY-TWo years last Sunday the Rev,
r. S. Storrs, D. D., entered upon his
duties as pastor of the Church of Pill
grims, in Brooklyn.
The Leading event in Baptist annals in
Louisville, KY, is the gift of $50 600 by
Mrs. J. Lawrence Smith to the theologi.
| cal seminary in that city.
A FUND of $40 900. whose interest is to
| assist in the support of public worship,
has been left to the church at Milton
n. H., by the late Mr.. Lewis II. Mute, a
native OF the town.
THE average contribution per mem
Der by CongregatiOnalists in 1888 was
S14j. The amount given BY the Pres
byterlan membership averaged $l.24
each for the same period.-Tbs Congre-
gatioBaJiSt.
Iowa College is raising fund for es-
tabliShlng a missionary alcoVa in the
library, in memory of Miss Hister A.
Hills, graduate of the college, who
spent twenty-five years 10 conspicuous
missionary service in India.
In London, England, there has been
instituted a Methodist sisEerhood. No
VOWS are impose1, the only request
made of those who join being Jhat they
give three months notice of any inten-
ton to Withdraw, so that the work
may not suffer.
A dirty, ragged carpet, m arked and
dingy walls, dusty paws, ooowebbed
corners, weedy yard. tumbled down
fence, ETC., show that lazy Christians
inha5it the region round about and
that the voice OF the sluggard is heard
in the land.-Lutheran Evangelist.
The millions OF pages of Sabbath lit
erature sent into thu States and Terri
torias of our country during the past
year under the auspices of the Sabbath
observance department of the w. CT.
U. have contributed greatly to arouse
the public conscience.-PeGrtO Of Days.
THE board OF directors of the Ma
tional Catholic University have elected
the Rev. ? J. Garrigau, OF Fitchburg.
Mass, Yice-rsc5or. The rector, Bishop
Keane. sails to-day, bearing to Rome
the plans and statutes of the institution
to the Pope for his pproVal.-MaU and
Express.
THE mission Of the Sandwich Islands
cost the American Board $500 900 in all,
while the trade, which of course goes to
the benefit of the commercial commu-
mtg, amounted st the end of sixty
years to about $16,000,0l0, with a clear
profit annually of more than S810,OO0,
christian Advocate, Nashville
The American Home Missionary So
ciety has sent out q special appeal. The
society was instructed at the annual
meeting, whenever its receipts were in
arrears, to borrow the money to pay its
missionaries. Just now il has been
Obliged to borrow $10J 900. The appeal
should be listened to.-The lndepen-
dent
A REQUEST of $1O0, 600 has been mada
to st. Paul's parish, San Diego, Cal,
in the will of George s. Heating, de-
CEASED. This is the largest amount yet
bequeatEed to any church in CalifOr-
MIA and the only one of any size to q
parish. Only the income is to used,
and the principal, TO b. known as the
Heating fund, is to be kept entire.
THE year 1882 is the centenary year
of the Catholic Church as an organized
body in the United States. On Novem-
bsr 6, 1889, the American hierarchy was
FOUNDED Oy the creation OF the bIshoprlc
OF Baltimore, and the appointment
thereto of ths Right Rev. John Carroll,
Jesuit. The centenary of that event
will be celebrated in Baltimore.-The
Pilot (Catholic).
THE number of Tamil Christians con-
nected with the Lutheral mission has
risen from 400 to 1900. What are
these IA 900 Christians compared with
the 100000 TamIs who are yet
hsathens? How dark is still the night
of heathenism in those millions of
heather souls? Yet the rate of increase
-tenfoid in forty five years-is most
gratifying. OF these rates Of increase,
Canon Taylor, in his article, The
Great Missionary Failure takes no
account whatever. He computes how
many thousand years, ct the present
absolute animal increase, it would re-
cure 10 overtake even one years ad-
oIt'en to the population. But ne entirely
passes over the fact, shown by Sir
William Hunter, that from 1872 to 1881