The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-22
Notes ON Current Religious
Topics.
TO BE HELD TO-DAY.
Echoes from the International Mis-
sionary Conference in London
Or. Thompson on Missions.
Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows:

SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ |
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and |
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. Preaching at II a. m. and at D m. |
by Rev ". A. Hunter, of Ohio, who is the |
principal of Salt Lake Seminary for the /
coming year. Sunday School at close of |
the morning service.
FIRST PREsBYTERIAN.-Publia worship at
II a, m. and preaching by the pastor. r. G.
McNIeee. sabDath schpol at II 25. Young
peoples meeting at 6.45. Seats free and 1
strangers welc ONE to all these services.
ST.. MARKS CATHEDR1L.-HolyC ommun-
ion at 80 am. Sunday school at 9 As a m. |
Morning service with sermon at IL a IN. |
Evening prayer at pm,
ECHOES F1oM THE INTERNATIONAL MJs-
sIcNARY CONFERENCE IN LoNpoN.
The conference opened WITH business
like aims and represer tation which.
in respect of numbers and variety of
experience, inadequate to the fearful
treatment of the important subjects ii
had to consider. The missionaries
present have come from al parts OF the
world, but tie larger number of the So
cieties represented, besides the English,
are conferred in the United States and
Canada, while many are en- the CONT
nent of Europe. The American dele
CATION is a remarkable strong one, nnm-
bering $50. Similar conferences, though
on a smaller scale, have been held in
this country and elsewhere, but this one
conceded with and marks the centen.
airy of Protestant missions. 1t is
great thing that, as the result of the
labors of a century, our missionaries
can point to three millions OF converts;
but at this rate of increase the kingdom
of God will not so much as keep pace
with that of the heather population.
Just now the nations of the remote east
are attracting a special measure of at
tention. From Japan our newspapers
publish intelligence that tbs idea
of adopting Christianity as the public
national religion is occupying the
attention of some of the leading spirits
of that country. Their notion of
Christianity appears to be that it is a
form OF Civilizations complexity of
outward observances and habits; a |
which may be put on as one |
puts on a shirt-A. view which they
did not derive from Protest
ant missionaries. The state of China |
awakens an interest in which painful |
elements mlngle. Our government |
compelled an intercourse which has |
proved training for that versatile and |
initiative people, and for twentJ years
they have been pouring out of their |
ports faster than Europeans have !
poured into them, and see King homes
and work among those whom formerly
they avoided as barbarians. The scope |
Of the conference is the measure of
progress attained in comparison with
he expectations INDUCED in By early
1t has Teen computed that
leathens and Mohammedans make up
|, 040, 900 OF the population Of the globe,
and that to these, Protestauts send cut
i,230 messengers of the Gospel, of
whom 600 are ordained missionaries.
and $500 women. This would
give $4,000 souls to each man and
woman, If they were distributed in
equal proportions, as they are far from
being. Besides these, p OF native con-
verts are employed as eYaggelists anu
2 800 are ordained pastors Of native con-
gregat ons. The money raised annually
Tor carrying on Protestant missions iu
all parts of the world is little under
e $50 900. With these personal agencies
aud this large expenditure, supple
mented by the Bible and religious tract
societies, We can show not moro than
100000 Of converts from heathenism
and MobammedaDism. But, of course,
It would be irrational to present these
converts as the total result of Protestant
enterprise; indeed, if we
we're to do so the very outside world
would correct and rebuke US. Cruel
customs have been abolished; popular
education has been introduced and ad
VanCed, and extended to the weaker
sex; the lower grades of the population
lave been raised, and the excuses of
caste feeling mitigated. Christian prin
,iples have Deen recog nized in new laws,
and higher standard of moral conduct
s becoming familiar to the PEOPLE.
to the young .-NOncOn fOrmist
Ind. }, London, England.
THE seniority of the American Board
among foreign missionary societies in
The United States must be the only oc-
,asion of my being called upon. l am
happy to respond ID behalf of numerous
delegates from beyond the sea dele
setes representing specifically various
besides gentlemen APP
pointed as delegates-et-large and who
represent differ mt parts OF the country.
Various occupations and positions are
represented in the person of these
friends from beyond The ocean-busi-
ness men, the army, foreign embassy,
editors, authors, clergymen, the execu-
tive of missionary boards-many like
the waves we came over, one like the
sea. Among those offic ally present are
representatives of women's boards of
missions, of which there are in
The United States thirty FIVE, with
many thousards-I speak with
put ggeration-many thousands OF
auxiliaries. Your salutation, my lord,
was listened to by Priscilla as well as
Aquila, by Tryphena and Tryphosa
and the beloved Persis. There is one
point on our globe where British landed
possessions and the United States
approach one another within q few
hundred feet. An avalanche of water
But on the vast volume
Of spray, rising like a cloud of iu-
cense. have seen a bow spanning
the chasm-one end resting on one
side. the other erd on the other side.
Neither nation may claim monopoly
OF the beautiful arch Each may see
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