The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-09
Religious Services to be Held
in the Various Churches.
INTERESTING SUNDAY ITEMS.
Moral and Religious Training of
ChiIdren-The Creation-Miss
siona not Failure.
Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches TO-DAY as follows:

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Charles W. Penrose. eounseIors. Meeting
will be held in the Tabernacle at o'c. ock
and In the Ward meeting houses in the
evening at the usual hour.
METHODIST CHURCH.-C. L. Libby, pastor
To day is observed as the centen NAL of the
death OF Charles Wesley, one of the found
ers OF Methodism. Only his hymns will be
snng and sermon on How and Why has
MethCdism succeeded" will be preached at
IL IN. Evening subject Are Christ's
witnesses sufficient to establish the truth
fulness of christianity"
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL.-Holy Com.
munion at a. m. Morning prayer and
sermon at II a. m. Sunday school at 2 As
p m. Evening prayer and instruction ut
$50 p m. Bible class at 6 Is p m. Even
ing prayer and sermon at 80 m
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH The
| Rev. J. Bra1nerd Thrall, pastor Public
worship. with sermon by the pastor, at IL
am. Sunday school at 12.15. Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor at
SPIN. Seats free. and everybody welcomed
at all services.
ELDER WILLIAM NJ. PALMER will lecture
In the Thirteenth Ward meeting house on
Monday evening at 80 o'clock Subject
| First Principles of the Gospel and the
Organization OF the Church"
THE membership of the Congrega-
tlonal Sunday schools in New England
in 1887 was 242 603 The average at
tendance was SO per cent.
RABTNowIJH, the Jewish Christian, is
| reported as saying that his house of
prayer Is crowded every Sunday by Jews
thirsting to hear the word of God.
In 1880 the Catholic population of the
United States was sc, 0C0; is now about
ten millions, or two hundred times the
number it was tifty-eight years ago.
Catholic ReUiew.
MEXICO Is Christian country, yet
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, says that in Mexico 8, 00U,-
600 have never seen copy of the Holy
Scriptures.
THE bishop o. Maine has the smallest
revenue of the Episcopal bishops, it be-
ing but 81 300 per year. The bishop of
New York has the largest, SO, 900 per
year.
THERE are atIwol k in:the evsnge,ization
of India ten bishops of the English
Church, with large numbers of cate
chists, schoolmasters, and other efi-
cient agencies.
ONE hundred years ago the Presby-
terrain Church consisted of 178 ministers
and $4,000 communicates. The last
minutes show that there are now 1854
ministers, 6.446 churt hes, and COG, 757
commandments.
CANON LESTER, at Litchfeld, England
is training band of evangelist bro
thors' to preach in Africa. They are
to be uniformed-that is. wear course
brown frocks, with cord around their
waist, and carry Bibles in their hands.
From the presbyterial reports it ap-
pears there are in the Synod of Balti-
more three. presb teries, 123 ministers,
125 churches, 1894 commandments,
"A 1856 Sunday school members, and
total contributions S43S ,652, including
special offerings to the centennial fund.
Bishop Schereschewsky has completed
the work of revising his Mandarin
version of the Old Testament. He has
now begun the work of turning the
Mandarin version into easy Wen-i,
work which he regards as very impor-
tant to the evangelizing of China.-The
LiUing Church.
One of the most efficient of mission
workers is woman in the mission of
Mongzai, Burmah. She never breaches
nor ever appears even on a public plat
form. She is content to see her teach
ing reproduced in the native helpers
she has taught.-Presbyteriam Banner.
The fusion of the Presbyterian
family o. churches in Japan-Presby-
terial, Reformed, Congregational
fully consummated except as to the
formal ratification by the parent bodies.
The new name will be the ''UHited
Church of Christ in Japan" It's mem
bershiP (nativel is about 5000.
THE Christian Inquirer (Bapt) says:
I'VE may have little patience with
Romish ecclesiastlcs in their assaults
on our public school system, but pro-
test against goddess education is not
to be sneered at. Under the old dis
pensation parents were required to in
struct their children in Gods law, and
there is the abiding duty resting on
them to bring up their offspring in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord
But how few Christians are really con-
cerned for the right moral and religious
training of their children! If they are
qualified to mingle in society with
credit, and if they are proficient in
enterprise and trade, the most of parents
seem to be satisfied. These are i'm
portent things, but an education which
does not have for its groundwork the
knowledge and love of Gods will is
miserable failure"
THE Bishop of Manchester CDR.
Moorhouse) said at the recent English
Church congress:
"Living men have heard it affirmed
bv the so-called friends OF revelation
that God could not rightly be called the
creator of the world unless it were &C.,
kpowled that He made all things by
sudden acts of discontinuous energy.
And even in recent times the same class
of men have been found hardy enough
to declare that the creative power can
no longer be regarded as divine, if it
should be proved that it has operated in
the multiplication of species by the
method of gradual evolution. Refec-
ton has, l trust, convinced most of US
of the folly of such precipitate inferen
ces-nay, has led many to the conclu--
sion that the method of development,
with its simplicity of plan and richness
of adaptation, is one more agreeable to
the idea of omniscent wisdom than that
of sudden, miraculous interferences."
ARE MISSIONS A FAILURE?