The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-27
Sayings and Doings in the
Religious World.
SERVICES IN CITY CHURCHES.
the Methodist Church-Making
Religion Attractive-NOtcs.
Divine worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows

| cannon, president; Joseph h. 1ayiOr enO
| Charles W. Penrose, counselors. Services
| in the Tabernacle at 2 p. m. Evening
services in the various wards.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL.-Holy Commun-
ion at 80 am. Morning prayer, sermon
! and holy communion ar IL a m. sunday
school at 9 As am. Bible lesson at 80
p N. Evening prayer ana addr, SIS, a ser
vice in the interests of the Iron Cross Guild,
at s pm.
METHODIST OHURcH.-C. L Libby, pastor.
Sunday school at9.40 a m. Sermon by the
pastor st Il o'clock. on account OF the
memorial services at the Walker Opera
House there will be no evening services
| FIRST PREsBYTERIAN.-Corn Second
| South and Second East Streets Public wor-
ship at II am. and preaching by. the
| pastor, r. G. McNiece. Sabbath school al
1925. Young people meeting 81 As
Union services at 7.45 in the Walker Opera
House.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The
Rev. J. b. Thrall, pastor. Pubic worship
| with sermon by the pastor. at IL am.
Sunday school at II 10. Young peoples
meeting at pm. Union Memorial Ser.
vice in Walker Opera house at m.
AN Anti-Sunday Travelling Union has
existed in this country for about six
years. 1t has about 5000 members.
THE great missionary conference. to
be held 10 Exeter Hall, London, June 9th
| to 10th, will be q council second in i'm
portance to none since the day of Pente-
cost.
ST. PAUL's Cathedral, the handsomest
| church in Buffalo, was wrecked on the
10th INST, by an explosion CT natural
gas, followed by fire. The loss is about
100000.
BISHOP WILLIAM G. DoANE. of Albany,
n. Y, has been chosen as select
preacher for the commencement exer-
cises of Cambridge University, England.
this June.
IT is stated that nephew of the late
King Cetawayo, after six years. in Swe-
den in theological and other Studies,
has gone back to carry on mission work
in his native land.
THE cathedral at Ulm, which is large
enough to take in rs, 900 persons, will b
completed in 1889 1t was begun in 1877
as Roman Chuch, but has been Pro-
testant since the reformation.
A MOVEMENT is now on foot to estab-
lish in Bethany, the home of Lazarus,
a home which shall be the centre Of
Christian work among the 500 inha bit
ants, who are now sunken in squalor.
Cardinal Gibbons and thirteen arch
bishops meet in Baltimore early in June
to decide what the attitude of the
church shall be toward the knights of
Lobor, the American Federation of La
Dor, and the Anti Poverty society.
THE Episcopal Diocise of Missouri
began its session at st. Louis on Tues
day last. The principal business pro-
posed was the division of the diocese,
aud the Rev. Abel Leonard, bishop of
Utah, was prominently mentioned for
the new bishopric.
THAT ANswER.-What influence has
the synagogue on tie religious princi-
Piles Of its worshipers? Does it inspire
spirituality, does 1t enforce and main
cain strong public opinion? Does it
rear as faithful Hebrews the thousands
of intelligent young Israelites that pass
through the schools of the land? Does
it preserve any attachment to Israel's
past, any hope of Israel's future? Is
it as cemetery only, for the dirge and
the kaddish. that it is supported, and
often at too costly rate; or is it liv-
ing, teaching temple of the LordP The
answer can not be long delayed. There
is growing up a new generation who
know not the party-calls of decades ago,
but who yesrn for Ju 1aism that shall
mean something and do something
Jepish Messenger.
MANY METHODS.
Paul did not limit himself to one
method of preaching the gospel. but in
every way and by all means he sought
to win men; in the synagegues on the
Sabbath days, and in the market places
between the Sahbaths; publicly, when
many were assembled together, and pri-
vately, from house 20 house sometimes
with mastery argume IS, and sons
times with renderest entreatles and
many tears Would it not be well for
US to intimate this earnest spirit, and
seek by every means and by all means
to via men?-Words and Weapons.
LONG Or SHORT SERMONS.
We DO not think there is any need to
occupy a specified time. Still less should
preachers talk against time. If they
have nothing to say let them say it and
be done. But, if they have solid biblical
instruction to impart, and are bent on
applying the great principles of the
gospel to all CUES ions that affect the
present and eternal interests OF men. it
is absurd to expect that their sermons
shall be warranted not to exceed twenty
minutes in length. Men should 60 to
service not for amusement, but for
stimulus and instruction; not for self
qualification, but tor the worship of
God. And this primary end must
never be made econdary.-British
Weekly.
MAKING RELIGION ATTRACTIVE.
All the popular measures adopted by
our non Catholic brethren in making
religious exercises attractive, might
well be used by ourselves with much
benefit to religion and to congregations
1t is certainly not un-Catholic or ire
ligious to utilize the pleasant and beau
tiful in religious matters. One feature
that might be added to some of our
churches with propriety and benefit is
an attractive sermon by competent
prescher. All of US are not so eager to
be enlightened that we can listen with
profit to a mere formal sermon delivered
| by poor speaker. Sinners and can-