The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15
CHURCH AND CREED.
The Services at the Various
Churches To-day,
VITAL FORCE OF CHRISTIANITY.
The IdOlatry OF Neutrality-suspicious. and
Christianity-The Work Of the Various
Churches Catholic Schools.


Divine services will be held in the
various places Of worship to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATrER-DAY
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake OF Zion, Angus NJ.
Cannon, president; Joseph Z. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, counSClorS. Meeting this
afternoon at O'Clock.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-The Rev.
j. Brainard Thrall, pastor. Public worship
with sermon by The pastor at II am Sunday
school al l2:l5 Society OF Christian endeaVor at
SIP. m. Seats free and public cordially invited.
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 7:30 q. M. Sunday school at 9:45 q. II.
Morning prayer and sermon at IL a. m. Evening
prayer and sermon ut 7:30 pm. Prayers
daily through the week at 9:l5 a. m.
ST PAUL's CHAPEL.-Ministration of the holy
communion at II q. N. Sunday school AZ 1890
p. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 30 p. m.
FIRST PREsBYTERIAN-Publi worship at Il
am and preaching by the pastor, Rev. r. G.
McNiece Sabbath school at 1850. Young
peoples society at $50 Strangers welcome to
all these services and seats free.
METHODIST CHURCH-41 East Third South
street. Class meeting at 10 a. m. Preaching at
IL am. by the pastor, Rev. c. l.. Libby sun
day school at 1915 pm Young peoples meeting
at $50 pm. A cordial invitation to all services.
PHILLIPS CONGREGATIONAL CaURCH-Cor
ner of Seventh East and Fifth South streets.
Rev. John e. Hurlbut, pastor. Divine services
beginning at II a. m. and1. p. m. Preaching by
the pastor. Sunday school after morning ser
prayer meeting every Friday evening at 1870
o'clock. The public are cordially invited
There are forty nine Jewish synagogues
in New York city.
There are forty seven organizations en-
gagged in the eyangeliZatiOn of the Jews,
with 81 workers and 1875 stations.
Cheerfulness may be cultivated. Con
tentment does not always come OF nature,
but it does always come of grace. Pray
for it; but practice what you pray for.
Some prayers help to answer themselves
Western Christian Advocate.
The Colorado Methodist conference, re
Gently is session at Colorado Springs, en-
braces sixty churches, with 6,4S8 members
and SS3 probationers. The value of church
property is S773,S o7. The collections Cor
missions reached s., OPS.
It is said that there is a larger proportion
of the boys and girls of New Jersey than of
any other state in the Union who go to
Sunday school. II appears by statistics
recently taken that there are just about
$4,000 children in the l ,997 Sunday schools
of New Jersey.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of Iowa
reports: Clergy, Al; lay readers, Is; par
ishes, 49,; missions, So; communicates.
6,007; combinations, 500; contributions for
religious purposes, S147, 260.26; value of
church property in the diocese, s., 27I, 725.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Mississippi reports: Clergy, 81; lay read
ers, p; churches and chapels, co; con-
tirmed during the year, 2S2; communicates,
2,6S2; Sunday school teachers, 259;
scholars, Ito; total contributions
reported. 1874, 1905; value Of church prop
erty, SSGi,74O.
A wise man will turn adverse criticisms
and malicious attacks to good account. He
will consider carefully whether there is not
in him some weakness or fault which, al
though he never discovered, was plain to
the eye of his enemy. Many men profit
more by the assaults of foes than by the
kindnesses of friends.
Rev. Merensky, superintendent OF mis-
sions, and for number of years mission
ary in Southern Africa, gives the following
statistics of missions in Africa: There are
at present in that country $50 evangelical
mission stations. The members of the
churches number 1000 souls; 10000 chill
dren daily attend the evangelical schools.
The annual increase of evangelical Chris
tians is $4,000 Within the last five years
The God who is revealed In the Bible is
there shown, alike by its history and by
positive declarations to be God of infinite
love and at the same time God of infinite
righteousness, exercising neither attribute
in any way that supercedes or interferes
with the most perfect and complete action
of the other The Bible serves the two.
fold purpose of o dictionary to define God.
and biography to record his personal his
tory in dealing with the children of men,
New York Independent,
Ask the first man you meet who denies
the miraculous because the advanced
scholarship of the world is against it, d" how
much of that scholarship he is acquainted
with, and how 1t IS enabled 10 establish an
infinite negative. If he IS wise he will give
you no answer. The fact is the world of
scholarship overwhelmingly testifies in
favor of the miraculous, and has something
else to do than go about prescribing cumul-
atoms for Almighty God.
A "Guide to the Churches of London
shows that the number of metropolitan
churches has increased between 1888 and
1889 from S2S to 1.016 Altar Yestments
are now the rule in SO churches, as against
81 in 1888; altar lights in 119, as against CT
in 1888; and the Eastward Position in
500, as against S04 in 1883. In the same
period the number OF churches inwhich the
communion is celebrated in the evening has
decreased from 2S9 to 273.-Church Rertew
Professor Huxley says in his last article
in the Nineteenti Century, on "Agnosticism
and Christianity:'' "There is no code of
legislation, ancient or modern, at once so
Just and so merciful, so tender to the weak
and poor, as the Jewish law'' This is
strong testimony, from an unexpected
source, to the superhuman origin of that
marvellous law. For, taking into the &C
count the character of the Jews, and the
age in which the law was promulgated,
could anything have been more improbable
than the evolution of such law from such
a peorle!-ETdmiRer
1t will doubtless be surprise to most of
our readers to learn what immense sums
the Roman Catholics have been drawing
from the national government for their
Indian schools. The whole amount received
by the Congregationalists for their schools
among the Indians the past year was about
So3 COO But the following figures taken
from the Dakota Catholic shows how much