The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14


CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DA
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake Of Zion, Angus NJ
Cannon, president; Joseph E.. Taylor anC
Charles w. PenrOse cOunSelOrS. Meeting this
afternoon at o'clock.
ST. Marks CATHBDRAL.-Holy communion a
7:30a.m. Morning prayer, litany and sermon q
II am. Sunday school At 2:45 pm. Evening
prayer and instruction at $3.50 pm. Bible class
at $3.50 pm. Evening prayer and sermon at 7.3
pm.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.-The Rev
J. Brainard Thrall, pastor. Public worship a
II am, with sermon by the Rev K. @. Nc
Niece, d. d. Sunday school at l2:i5. Young
Peoples Society of Christian EndeaVOr at
pm. Seats free at all services, and public cor
daily welcomed
METHODIST CHURCH.-NO. Al L. Third South
street; Rev. C. L. Libby, pastor. Preaching at
II am. and 7:4j pm by the pastor Sunday
school at l2;l5 pm Young peoples s.I, meeting =;
evening" "What is eternal life and how OBJ
tainedy a cordial invitation is extended to
all.
CHARLES ELLIS viii lecture in Temple CT
Honor hall (Oyer DeSeret bank entrance on Fir I
O'Clock. Subject: 1.-THE Unitarian, Felix Adler
and other liberal movements" Ladies and
gentlemen are invited.
Dr.. PierSOn estimates the money annually
raised for carrying on Protestant foreign
missions at about Sill 100000.
In Union theological seminary at Hamp
den-Sidney, Va, fourteen young men have
signified their willingness to go as mission
aries to foreign lands.
The Soudan is said to have been almost
totally neglected by PrOtestants as field
for missionary effort. 1t has population
of about 60, 100000 people.
Ninety-five per cent OF the students Of
Franklin college, New Athens, Ohio, are
protesting Christians. SiXty-fve per cent.
- h.. %, 1f 1a hnvr
tered the ministry.
Princess Eugene, of Sweden, is paying
the expenses of a missionary house for the
Lapianders in the northern part of Sweden,
over two hundred miles north of the Arctic
circle.-ReIigiOuS Herald.
During the past year, the net gain of new
churches in the United States was 6 1874 !;
of ministers, 4,505; and of members,
ia, S64. On an average, therefore, seven
teen congregations were gained each day,
twelve ministers, and ., 100 members.
The managers of the building fund of the
Temperance temple of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union, in Chicago, have
issued 100000 worth of stock in order to
facilitate the collection of the $500, 900
necessary for the structure.
The article in the new constitution of
Japan guaranteeing freedom of religion is
as follows: Japanese subjects shall,
within limits not preiUdicial to peace and
order, and not antagOnistic to their duties
as subjects, enjoy freedom Of religious be-
lief"
At the meeting of the Wesleyan confer
ence in Sydney, on February It'll it was
officially reported that there were !, 49,
church members in Samoa, 21,170 in Fiji
749 in the Friendly islands and 5S4 in New
Britain.
A writer in the AdUGnce says: "a friend,
a Methodist by faith and profession and
somewhat unsOphisticated by training, has
lately found it eXpedient to worship at the
Episcopal church. She has come home FIRE
quently from the service, and uttered her
mellow indignation against these church
people for calling themselves so often mis-
cradle sinners OF course she says, if
they want to be sinners, and miserable
sinners into the bargain, they may be, but
l am not one of that sort. am redeemed
10y Christ redeemed pow l am reminded
by her earneStneSS to ask If the Methodist
church does not make more eminent than
we Congregational the doctrine of pres
ent salvation! And are not the MethOdiSts
at once wise and ScriptUral in such an
emphasize
YOUR MONEY AND YOUR LIFE
is the demand made upon every Christian
The life must be given first and the money
naturally goes with it. There is no COnSe-
Grafton of one without the conservation Of
the other Moreover, there is no cOnSecra-
ton of ones self to work at home and with
holding of ones self from work abroad. 10
be sure, man may never go beyond his
native country, and yet he may be true
foreign missionary; his life as well as his
money may be devoted to this cause. 1t is
also true that some who may think they
should go abroad are greatly mistaken, and
are called TO stay at home and serve God IN
America But all this does not affect the
principle; every Christian, by reason Of
the fact that he is a Christian, must be a
foreign missionary at heart If he is a
Christian he cannotignore any of his Lords
commands, and the last and most imperative
command is to go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature. This
command was not given to a few disciples.
1t is for all Everyone must go or send.
Upon every soul is laid the obligation to
give his money and his life for the evangel-
ization Of the WOrld.-The Golden Rltle.
RATIoNALIsM.
The Christian Leader Univ )says: every
system, philosophical or religious, is tied to
its own logic, and sooner or later must
come out where its premises require.
Rationalism, for example, refuses to admit
that God has disclosed himself to men, ex-
cept in general laws and natural processes.
will not otherwise disclose himself. All
that man knows or ever can know of God
is what he finds out by searching. God, on
his part, makes no sign. The conclusion
forced on the mind with Overpowering
weight is that if this be true account of
the facts, no man has ever found any other
God than that 'unknOWable energy which
appears equally in the whirlwind and in the
flight of a bird. To worship such God, to
pray to him, to conceive of him as having
any personal relations with mankind or any
interest in them, is so illogical that few
men continue long to practice these obsolete
forms after they have taken the full mean
ing of the new profession. This explains
why it is that Rationalism uniformly
empties its devotees of religious interest
and earnestness, after little; extinguishes
their enthusiasm for everything but debate
and criticism, and leaves them only the
remnants of piety and trust that may yet
cling to them from their former faith in a
real God and true revelation"
PERSONAL RELIGION.
ANY religion may be national and institu-
t:onal, 1t may become rooted in a state,
and in the traditions and customs of a peo-
pie, but, if tits a living, effective religion, it
must also be personal. 1t must bring its
motives to bear upon the individual con-
science 1t must touch the heart, kindle
the emotions, loose the pinions of hope IN
seal the blind eyes, unstop the deaf ears.
Religion is the life of God yelling up in the
soul of man. There are those who seem
to use religion as a passenger uses a boat,
whose only thought is to get to some desti-
,,afior, ON f,a other side md who does NOT