The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-08
CHURCH CHIMES.
Are Anarchy and Atheism
ContemporaneOns?
INGERSOLLISM AND ANARCHY.
where are the Young MeG4~A bFie'
Practical Address on the Subject
Religious Meetings To-day.

Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DA1
| SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus M.
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, counselors. Services
| In the Tabernacle at p. m. Evening
services in the various wards,
| FIRST PREsBYTERIAN.-Public worship at
IL a. N. and preaching by the pastor. r. G.
| McNiece Sabbath School at II %. Young
peoples meeting at 6.45.
ST.. MARKS CATHEDRAL.-Holy Commun
ion at 80 am. Sunday school at 9. As Am.
| Morning service with sermon at ii N.
Evening prayer at a pm.
INGERsoLLIsM AND ANARCHY.
Mr.. Ingersoll does knowingly weigh
with false scales. He weighs the Bible
with false scales and he knows it. He
knows that while he puts the follies
and vices of its historical characters
on one side of the balance, he does not
put its excellent teachings ard the
sublime heroisms and holy example of
its noble men and women on the other
side. He weighs the history of the
| Church and the lives of the Christians
/ ullH Will ldlSc SCulSSg duu LIZ
knows it. He knows that he has so
adjusted his estimate of everything
connected with religion chat few faults
are made to outweigh sll the holy lives
and all the farr-eacising benevoEences
OF all the self-sacrifcing and oonse-
Grated men and women in the world,
| Not long since, the Tribune of this city
said that it is not immigration in
general which is endangering our in
situations, but the atheistical horde
coming from Central Europe. But
what difference is there between in
porting atheists and raising them up at
home? How much worse is the in
fxence which made these hordes
atheists in Europe and the literature
| which keeps them atheists when here
and also adds multitudes of others to
their ranks? And, in the long run, is
there as much harm in the Bohe milan
/ papers, which are TIE organs and dis
seminators of atheism in the wards of
Chicago, as in the North american
RevietU, which has become the organ Of
atheism for the country at larger The
bold, bl sphemOus utterances Oh Colonel
lngersoll are of a character 20 delight
the heart of every anarchist in the
land. In fact there can be no worse
anarchism than that promulgated in
the doctrines that men are not respOn-
sible for their opinions, that they have
no contrci over their thoughts, and that
make acts good or bad" Destroying
the forms OF organized society is bad
but destroying all the principles OF
moral agency is infinitely worse. This
is chaos irremediable. When Mr..
Ingersoll succeeds in making the world
believe that millions have rejected
Christianity because of its cruelty"
and that for the same reason it should
be rejected by all; that "all the subjects
of redemption are the opponents Of
civilization;" that the marriage relation
should cease with loVe-the open gate
of all free love; that no man can think
anything but what he does think; that
the Church is the princiL al source of all
evils, and that the God of our fathers
is monster, he will have accomplished
what the Feuerbachs, Bakunins, and
Spies have labored and died in vain to
effect. So far Ingersollism and anarchy
have had somewhat contemporaneous
history in this country; whether the
one wave will continue to follow the
other out upon the stormy sea of the
future remains to be seen. But one
thing is certain, anarchy can not get
along without atheism-Chicaqo Id
UGnce (CongregationahS0.
WHERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN2
One has only to walk along the streets
of any considerable town or village on
a pleasant Sunday to satisfy himself
that large portion of the young men
are out-of- doors; he has only to go into
almost any church in the town to
satisfy himself that Only small pro-
portion are inside the church. Who is
to blame? Without attempting to dis
tribute the blame impartially and
eouitably between all the parties-the
young men. their parents, and the
churches-we are inclined to lay the
larger share of it on the
churches; to ask the question which
the young men ask more or less con-
scioUsly, What are the churches do
ing for the young men? What either
to attract, to educate, or to develop
them? 1t is familiar fact to all travel
ers that in Roman Catholic countries
the worshipers are chiefly women. 1t
IS getting to be an equally patent
fact to Protestant America. And
it is one of serious import. It
OuRul W ndh0 every minister ask QlIn-
self what is lacking in his preaching,
and every church ask itself what Is
lacking in its administration. The
minister who thunders from his pulpit
denunciations of modern unbelief, who
tells his hearers that evolution is
atheism, and that he who doubts
the historic character of the story of
] onsh and the whale rejects the gospel,
is far more apt to make the young man
who hears him reject the gospel and
accept the title atheist, than to make
him accept the story of Jonah and
the whale and reject evolution
We presume that this article
will be read by not few ministers who
look out on Sunday morning upon a
congregation from which young men
are conspicnously absent, but who
dread to speak their hearts fully in the
pulpit on some modern living ques-
tons. lest they shall offend a bald
headed deacon or silver haired
mother in Israel who does not
want her wine poured out of new
bottles. That the preacher should be
tender of the silYer-haired mother and
respectful to the bald-headed deacon is
very true. But let him not pay so
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